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[Rex_Nex]

That is the best part of giving military access. Especially against countries that declare war regardless. Like, say, starting as Navarra and immediately giving access to Aragon & Castille, and hoping they hold off on their attacks long enough for you to ally one of them. The other declares war and BAM! -5 stab

[Flying Dice]

Georgia survived? How did they manage that?

Absolutely no idea, but their original territory is around the same size as Bohemia/Austria now and they've got a blob of similar size in Central Asia. Their borders have been completely stable for around 60-70 years, except for a recent Ottoman province that they took. I'll post a map later.

[Flying Dice]

Here we go. The light blue blob next to the Ottomans is Georgia, as is the one in central Asia and the patch in Russia. But yeah, look at how much France got fucked up. England is going to need some heavyhanded abuse to get it cut down to size. Oh, yeah, and that's Muscowy, not the Golden Horde.

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[Karlito]

As long as we're posting images of Glorious Spain

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Dividing my attention between the continent and the New World will probably hurt me later, though by then hopefully I'll have formed the HRE

[Tarran]

Did I hear images?

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Behold, Dahan, Empire of (modern day) China, Indochina, Korea, Eastern Siberia, Australia, Philippines, Sulawesi, New Zealand, a buttload of random islands, and so on. Koch and Tibet are PU partners. The year is 1692. The mod is MEIOU.

I'm pretty much the leader of tech, have a crushing income 4 times the next highest, have the largest army in the world, the largest navy in the world, and the largest number of provinces in the world.

Also featuring: Weird Turkey, Large Croatia, Large Armenia, Kalmar Union, Meh Great Britain, Russia, Egypt, Mega Kanem Bornu, Mega Fez, Large Mutapa, Living Ethiopia, Large Timurids, a broken New World, Austria and Turkey in the New World, "Turkish Papal State" in southeast South America, still living Blue Horde, Shitting-it's-pants Cuzco, and Germans (Braunsweig) in the Kola Peninsula because the Kalmars couldn't be arsed. Oh, also, Papal colony with Somali culture in Lakshadweep for whatever goddamn reason.

If you're wondering, yes, I made a lot of no-CB wars. At this size and this income, it doesn't really hurt. I've also never broke the Infamy limit, and don't plan to.

My next targets are definitely Cham Pa and Qin, because they make my empire look ugly. I'll get around to the OPM Shan (see: east of mainland Bengal) eventually. Tidore and Bacan are in the same boat. Bengal is also a target and I've got a Conquest CB from a mission.

And this is possibly the first game I got this far without any reloading at all.

[Micro102]

Playing as Spain, I have pretty much complete control over the new world. But I feel that it is a waste to only be collecting tariffs from them, and I can't move my capital there. Any creative ideas on how to turn the world into a machine that will give me godly power?

[Flying Dice]

Damn it, Georgia is being a massive pain now. Genoa keeps spamming spies at me, and they happen to be allied with Georgia. They also happen to have a second province adjacent to Georgia. I've got a CB allowing for full annexation, but if I want to annex them, I have to siege that crappy, podunk province in the middle of nowhere, which means I've got to deal with roughly 80,000 screaming Georgians with >10% attrition rates wrecking my troops. I've got a province there that I took from Genoa earlier, so I might be able to soak them in a defensive war, but they're inevitably the alliance leader, so I can't make a side-deal with them. Taking that province in an earlier war cost me something like 65,000 casualties and I broke the war off right then because I didn't have the forces on hand to deal with the Georgian stack.

Also there's the whole bit about the alliance cascade bringing every European state that isn't Denmark, England, France, or Burgundy into the war on Genoa's side. I mean yes, that 2k+ ducat COT is a wonderful prize, but I wouldn't even be considering it if they weren't stirring up trouble in N. Africa and Iberia while I'm busy locking England out of the New World.

[fivex]

Playing as Spain, I have pretty much complete control over the new world. But I feel that it is a waste to only be collecting tariffs from them, and I can't move my capital there. Any creative ideas on how to turn the world into a machine that will give me godly power?

Move your capital to an island in Europe first.

[Micro102]

Playing as Spain, I have pretty much complete control over the new world. But I feel that it is a waste to only be collecting tariffs from them, and I can't move my capital there. Any creative ideas on how to turn the world into a machine that will give me godly power?

Move your capital to an island in Europe first.

I've invested quite a lot in original Spain, and was wondering at what point it would be worth moving my capital to the new world. I already have all of my land connected (from Inca to Huron) and have been colonizing everything.

[Flying Dice]

My current campaign... on one hand, I've successfully sealed North America off, from the westernmost part of Hudson Bay to the coast of Mexico. I own the entirety of the Caribbean, and am starting on sealing South America. I've got cores in the Caribbean as well. The only foreign shipping I've seen was a small multinational group that presumably sank after trying to return across the Atlantic. It's only 1549, so all is well on that front.

On the other hand, there's Europe.



So then:
-Georgia and the Ottomans are stable states.
-Ohgodohgod you can't see how big Muscowy has gotten in this little snippet.
-Austria, Bohemia, and Prussia seem to be enjoying themselves. No worries on that front.
-France is down to two provinces. I guess I might have spy-spammed them a bit too much.
-Naples has ceased to be a concern.
-The third largest navy in the world belongs to Free Normandy. Following, naturally, myself and England.
-Speaking of England...

Unfortunately my badboy is a bit high and I'm busy munching on Central America, so I can't really knock them down a few pegs at the moment.

[Dutchling]

 

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[Catastrophic lolcats]

Poland can into Poland?
That's worse than the events I was getting as the Papal States where the Pope was mad at me for not attacking Heathens when I was.

Been playing a bit of EUIII after pretty much leaving it for CKII. Forgot how annoying the wars are, damn cascading alliances! I've been playing Death and Taxes (mostly because it was the only mod I still had installed) as Venice. Wanted to try a trade merchant empire with high innovation and religious tolerance. Instead due to a whole bunch of happy conquest events and a powerful alliance with Austria I'm well on my way to uniting Italy. 
Playing a united Italian naval power might be quite fun, even more so now that I've taken Gibraltar. All aboard the colonist train!

Also does anyone know if vassaling the Pope does anything (I've long since forgotten)? I vassal-ed him after getting a subjection mission (bug?) and it doesn't seem to give me any more Papal influence or anything.

[Dutchling]

You can easily make him have an opinion of 200 of you, which makes you immune to excommunication and increases your papal influence.

Lithuania actually stayed in a PU with me after I made peace with them. Strange.

[Rex_Nex]

Last I checked, junior PU partners can only declare war on their senior for freedom, so that makes sense. If they win the war, they break the PU. If they lose, they don't. I think white peace counts as "winning".

[Dutchling]

Lithuania somehow managed to sphere Silesia, so when I attacked Silesia they declared war at me. They never left the PU though, even though I 'lost' the war (I gave the some territories of my vassal).