Can't join the HRE, you'd need your capital in it, and you can't move your capital into the HRE. Guess I'll try making some friends regardless, but I can't imagine it'd be hard to have them stick around. As far as Christianity goes, I was hoping I'd be able to convert, but no such option has presented itself.
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Europa Universalis IV |OT| A Game of Blobs
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Can't join the HRE, you'd need your capital in it, and you can't move your capital into the HRE. Guess I'll try making some friends regardless, but I can't imagine it'd be hard to have them stick around. As far as Christianity goes, I was hoping I'd be able to convert, but no such option has presented itself.
thequickandthedead
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How long did it take you guys to learn the ropes for your first Paradox game?
I think it took me about three games of euiii to learn it, more or less. Two as Brandenburg and one as Manchu.
Latest Ironman game, Ethiopia:
It's pretty awesome, at one point fairly soon into the game, Ethiopia gets a small event chain with regards to Portuguese explorers rounding the cape in search of Prester John. In the first of the two events, you need to select to honor the Portuguese explorer, in the second you need to choose for Portugal to give you military aid against the Mamluks. Not only will this give you various combat bonuses that will aid you in defending against Mamluk incursions, but it will also give a massive relationship boost with Portugal. Explore that way quickly enough (and settle something near their colonies in West Africa), and it's quite possible to get an alliance, which will generally safeguard you from further Muslim threats and allow you to westernize in peace. (outside of the shitty events).
Yemen, Oman, Sind, and Kathiawar are vassals.
It's pretty awesome, at one point fairly soon into the game, Ethiopia gets a small event chain with regards to Portuguese explorers rounding the cape in search of Prester John. In the first of the two events, you need to select to honor the Portuguese explorer, in the second you need to choose for Portugal to give you military aid against the Mamluks. Not only will this give you various combat bonuses that will aid you in defending against Mamluk incursions, but it will also give a massive relationship boost with Portugal. Explore that way quickly enough (and settle something near their colonies in West Africa), and it's quite possible to get an alliance, which will generally safeguard you from further Muslim threats and allow you to westernize in peace. (outside of the shitty events).
Also, that Austria...geez
Ethiopia seems like a really fun nation to play, in a great position to do everything. And damn that is a scary Austria for only just over 100 years in, wouldn't want to be France in that situation.
I spent a long weekend with EU3 alternating between restarting a game as England and reading tutorials before it "clicked".
I spent a long weekend with EU3 alternating between restarting a game as England and reading tutorials before it "clicked".
Ethiopia is a great nation to play, I was surprised with how much more fun it is than it was in EU3. You being annexed isn't quite the foregone conclusion that it was there. Yeah, that is a monster Austria, and it's only grown since. And it's emperor, and is about to pass the fifth reform. :X That said, things have gone well for me too! I have annexed vassals Yemen and Oman, took what was Hedjaz (and vassalized Najd in a later war), managed to create Syria as a vassal from Ottoman and Mamluk lands in separate wars thanks to the aid of my Muscovite and Iberian allies, and I've been colonizing in Indonesia. The best thing though, is that at one point, my ruler died without heir, and I got a new king from the Avis family (Portugal's royal house). Naturally, I waited for Portugal to have no heir, claimed their throne, and managed to force the issue in a war (thank god Spain wasn't allied with them at that point though).
Edit: That said, I do sort of miss having the Solomonic dynasty on my throne
It happened to me as Tuscany for the Switzerland throne. Luckily I had France as an ally and a lot of money, so fighting against the rest of Europe paid well in the end.
wind? :-o
Hari Seldon
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Those new trade routes from America look interesting. There is no real point in colonizing the Americas as long as you plop down a monster blob of trade ships in that one Atlantic trade zone. At least that is what it looks like with screen shots.
Anyone fire up the expansion and try a Native American game yet?
Anyone fire up the expansion and try a Native American game yet?
Ideas will likely stay the same as when you started the game, so you're good on Russia. I loaded up my Sioux game from an earlier version of CoP just now, and I still have generic ideas there rather than the default native ideas they added later. Things like colonial nations will change when you load up with the patch, in that nations with a bunch of colonies in the new world will suddenly see colonial nations form when they take the game off pause. The provinces that were added will also appear (like those in the 'Oregon trail' part of the map, as well as a few other scattered ones in North America and East Africa)
So, we are looking for fresh blood for a new MP game:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=97181279&postcount=1185
Feel free to join
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=97181279&postcount=1185
Feel free to join
Does anyone know how I can get this mod to run?
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?747662-random-old-world
Its a lua file that changes the heightmaps, from what I can see. But I cant get the LUA file to actually execute. I downloaded some lua exe files but it doesnt seem to do anything.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?747662-random-old-world
Its a lua file that changes the heightmaps, from what I can see. But I cant get the LUA file to actually execute. I downloaded some lua exe files but it doesnt seem to do anything.
Hari Seldon
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I had limited time last night but I tried playing as the Apache because well I love the Apache historically. The migrate stuff is pretty cool. I'm trying to migrate from the desert into the lush California lands, where I will then expand (since once you get more than 1 province you cannot migrate).
Edit: Forgot to say the one asshole AI tribe had the same idea and kept blocking my migration. So I took them over but left them at 100% warscore in order to block them from migrating haha.
Edit: Forgot to say the one asshole AI tribe had the same idea and kept blocking my migration. So I took them over but left them at 100% warscore in order to block them from migrating haha.
Thanks! Will try later.
I did the *exact* same thing as the Sioux
. Delicious Californian lands, and then move to the Gulf of Mexico to border Euros.And after westernizing kicking all the Euros out of the new world, glory to the greater Sioux empire
So, what's the strat for fighting off Europe as a Native? Cause I'm getting my shit pushed in.
I'm Iroquois, that giant green blob. I lost a chunk of Canada to Portugal in our first war and I'm like "okay, I can manage this." and Reformed off of France. A few years later, Portugal gets all up in my grill again, but this time they're bringing along Castille and Great Britain for the ride.
I was still reeling from the devastation of the last war (depleted manpower, only 30 units left) but I thought I could handle Portugal alone. Now, I'm not so sure about my long term prospects.
I'm Iroquois, that giant green blob. I lost a chunk of Canada to Portugal in our first war and I'm like "okay, I can manage this." and Reformed off of France. A few years later, Portugal gets all up in my grill again, but this time they're bringing along Castille and Great Britain for the ride.
I was still reeling from the devastation of the last war (depleted manpower, only 30 units left) but I thought I could handle Portugal alone. Now, I'm not so sure about my long term prospects.
As I'm playing the Iroquois in a multiplayer game and am in the pre-Euro phase of things, I'd also like to know how this works for this version of CoP that doesn't have deeply exploitable bugs
. Rather urgently .ThoseDeafMutes
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Damn, CoP out of stock on GMG. Just as my euros finally got converted back into AUD and dumped into my bank account
Yes, event. You have to get lucky though, and if you're as big as Haly is, it's going to suuuuuck, but you obviously still really want to to take out that awful colonial conquest casus belli.
Were I to do it all over again, I would not waste any time trying to conquer the Aztecs and Beeline for the West Coast instead.
I would also not try to engage Europe in any sort of conflict unless I'm Reformed at the very least.
Playing Iroquois is really fun though. I had 5 Colonies going at my peak so I was totally expanding Civ-style.
I would also not try to engage Europe in any sort of conflict unless I'm Reformed at the very least.
Playing Iroquois is really fun though. I had 5 Colonies going at my peak so I was totally expanding Civ-style.
A while ago I talked about having single player challenges in EU4. I never really got around to it, until now!
The Hohenzollern's seem to be a bit confused. They are convinced that the large landmass they see on their map is Prussia! Obviously some silly cartographer has made a terrible spelling mistake. You have been tasked with correcting this egregious oversight.
THE RULES:
- You will play in Ironman Mode
- You will turn Random New World off
- You will start as Brandenburg in the very first bookmark (Rise of the Ottomans)
- You must form Prussia, and remain as Prussia.
- To complete the challenge you will hold every province that both Prussia and Russia hold in the December 31,1820 bookmark, including Alaska
The challenge will end May 1st, this should give the students among us our spring breaks and a bit of time after exams to complete the challenge. (I'll come up with a new challenge for the summer)
There will be three tiers of victors. Gold, Silver and Bronze.
Bronze: Complete the challenge
Silver: Complete the challenge and convert all of your provinces to Protestentism
Gold: Complete the challenge and convert all of your provinces to be Protestant and Prussian
Within each tier players will be ranked according to how quickly they completed the requirements of that tier (based on date within the game). Please post photographic proof of your accomplishments in this thread (you can press f11 to take a screenshot in-game).
Good Luck!
PS. If you have any comments, questions or concern's please voice them!
Welcome to...
...the United States of Shoshone!
Norway and England are my Allies. Zapotec and Maya were released during Westernization to take off some pressure and, after Westernizing, are being re-Cored. I have my sights set on Brunei and I'm also considering taking over what little territory Norway has. Creek is also another option. After that, I don't know. Might head south to pick a fight with Portugal/Castille, or maybe help liberate their Colonies.
Somehow, Japan has an assload of Trading Power in the Mexico node, which makes no sense whatsoever. I'd fight 'em but they're allied with Russia of all people.
...the United States of Shoshone!
Norway and England are my Allies. Zapotec and Maya were released during Westernization to take off some pressure and, after Westernizing, are being re-Cored. I have my sights set on Brunei and I'm also considering taking over what little territory Norway has. Creek is also another option. After that, I don't know. Might head south to pick a fight with Portugal/Castille, or maybe help liberate their Colonies.
Somehow, Japan has an assload of Trading Power in the Mexico node, which makes no sense whatsoever. I'd fight 'em but they're allied with Russia of all people.
Interesting challenge, I happen to be playing as Brandenburg right now heh. But the way I play EU4, I am never going to complete that. I role play too much and thus never end up creating crazy empires like that
It might be a bit too much to be honest. Other challenges will be easier.
I've been thinking that maybe a better thing to do instead of running challenges for only a certain amount of time is to leave them open ended. This way instead of trying to win an event we can compete to place higher on a leader-board maintained for each specific challenge. And this way we could have multiple challenges devised by various people.
Wow, so 13 of us picked EU4 as our game of the year and it is the 3rd highest game on GAF by points per appearance... so proud!
Nice
. Well-deserved praise if you ask me, easily the best release Paradox has ever done. I think I still find Victoria 2 to be a more impressive design, but its state at release really doesn't hold up favourably to EU4's launch.Hmm, I must have missed the thread otherwise that's be 14. Bit of a rubbish list this year too.Wow, so 13 of us picked EU4 as our game of the year and it is the 3rd highest game on GAF by points per appearance... so proud!
Or, you know, just use the existing 'empire' government form I guess, which only Byzantium has by default. (And I suppose some nations imported from CK2)
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
I sort of want it to just be "Kaiser", regardless of who forms it.
Ack, forgot to vote!Wow, so 13 of us picked EU4 as our game of the year and it is the 3rd highest game on GAF by points per appearance... so proud!
I'd definitely put EUIV as my GOTY last year. It's definitely my single player GOTF.
thequickandthedead
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Just started EU4 for the first time after playing Victoria 2 for the past month. It really annoys me that they did away with the diplomatic points system in favour of the diplomat system (although I haven't played EU before so maybe it was always that way). Still navigating my way round the game, Victoria 2 feels a bit more simple and straightforward tbh.
That's an opinion I haven't heard before. I suspect that you'r simply not as used to EU4 yet as you are to Vic 2. EU4 certainly seems more friendly and easy to get into from my perspective.
ThoseDeafMutes
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So my colonial subject, Newfoundland, ended up getting its own protectorates. And if you declare war, you go to war with your colonial nation. Time to submit a bug report.