Corporate_Jew_Master
Arcane
Eh, really can't play at 3 speed. I don't wanna catch myself alt-tabbing 80% of the time.
Plus. game is now leaving the 'war every 2 years' period and entering the 'lul too many big states for constant war'.
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Grand Strategy All Codex EU4 MP
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Eh, really can't play at 3 speed. I don't wanna catch myself alt-tabbing 80% of the time.
Plus. game is now leaving the 'war every 2 years' period and entering the 'lul too many big states for constant war'.
Krash
Arcane
I'm up for Sunday. We need one or more replacements for Jew, if anyone's interested. His country Burgundy's probably strongest of the lot atm, though religious unrest + peasant war + overextension + some nasty Netherland event at the same time did a number on it. I fear it might turn into France+low countries eventually, and we know how poor those places are. AI Castille's in an all right position too, though they'll have to fight Portugal for granada (yes portugal snatched it, hillarious).
My dear Poland can (and eventually will) into space, got good military ideas and finally some manpower. I've chosen to go for defensive cause I'm a coward and offensive because monster blob plz. Religious will be nice for relations and converting eventual orthodox, sunni and protestant future conquests.
Just waiting for Marieburg to fall into my hands so I can form PLC!
Hoping for maybe a player war or two next session so we get to really sweat. Since there are less and less minors to eat off I think it might come soon. There are already areas of contention such as baltic trade, HRE nomming and maybe northern Italy? Exciting, stay tuned. And oh god that monster AI ottomans! So happy not to have them as neighbors oh wait I do!
From now on I think we'll try to stick to speed 3, unless in a critical situation.
My dear Poland can (and eventually will) into space, got good military ideas and finally some manpower. I've chosen to go for defensive cause I'm a coward and offensive because monster blob plz. Religious will be nice for relations and converting eventual orthodox, sunni and protestant future conquests.
Just waiting for Marieburg to fall into my hands so I can form PLC!
Hoping for maybe a player war or two next session so we get to really sweat. Since there are less and less minors to eat off I think it might come soon. There are already areas of contention such as baltic trade, HRE nomming and maybe northern Italy? Exciting, stay tuned. And oh god that monster AI ottomans! So happy not to have them as neighbors oh wait I do!
From now on I think we'll try to stick to speed 3, unless in a critical situation.
Hungry Hungry Hungary 3: the taste of salty fish.
This session started with me not being in problems for once - with a stable country and up to par with technology, even with some small manpower reserve. I used this opportunity to crush Venice and remove them from the pool of important nations.
First Venetian war was me and Naples against Venice and a coalition of small German and Italian minors. I beat their armies in the field but Naples bled out and started calling for peace very soon - having some internal issues and no manpower. This is why despite having won a victory and now only having to siege my enemies I had to peace out for only two provinces, Naples didnt get anything as it has not actually sieged anything. I say it was a huge waste of an opportunity to finally eliminate Venice and its allies and perhaps even unite Italy.
Second war came as soon as I was able to redeclare war, this time I didnt rely on any help from my allies and didnt even call them in. I single-handedly beat Venice and its allies taking this time three provinces - two in Dalmatian coast and one in Bohemia. This war wasnt hard and I'm pretty sure that if Naples joined we could finally partition Venice. Unfortunately Naples had huge issues with a massive Urbinese revolt forcing it to take 12 (!!) loans to hire mercenaries - once again Naples was in no position to fight.
After the second war a huge coalition of German minors and Serbia formed against me, unfortunately it was aided by the Ottoman Empire that soon declared war on me. This was the toughest war up to date due to overwhelming Ottoman forces pouring endlessly from the south and beating me and my allies even on the offence when outnumbered 2 to 1. Ultimately I only managed to stall for long enough to get out of the war with a concession of defeat. It wouldnt be so easy if the AI knew how to properly siege war goals. At the same time a coalition with Venice also declared war on me but it was easily beat once the Ottoman threat has passed. Mantua also wanted to get in the action and declared war on Naples but that ended badly as they were able to finally expand.
Ultimately however my position at the end of the session is way worse than at the beginning. My gold reserves have been depleted and spent on mercenaries, my good 4-4-4 king died leaving a stupid regency with 5 in useless for me diplo, my manpower is gone again and my religious untiy has never been lower - reformation continues hitting me very hard. I have also dropped to -1 stability due to some random events and my king dying unexpectedly. I am slowly bleeding money too due to cessation of church functions event and negative stability.
Honestly I am not sure if I'll ever feel "powerful" at the rate this goes.
This session started with me not being in problems for once - with a stable country and up to par with technology, even with some small manpower reserve. I used this opportunity to crush Venice and remove them from the pool of important nations.
First Venetian war was me and Naples against Venice and a coalition of small German and Italian minors. I beat their armies in the field but Naples bled out and started calling for peace very soon - having some internal issues and no manpower. This is why despite having won a victory and now only having to siege my enemies I had to peace out for only two provinces, Naples didnt get anything as it has not actually sieged anything. I say it was a huge waste of an opportunity to finally eliminate Venice and its allies and perhaps even unite Italy.
Second war came as soon as I was able to redeclare war, this time I didnt rely on any help from my allies and didnt even call them in. I single-handedly beat Venice and its allies taking this time three provinces - two in Dalmatian coast and one in Bohemia. This war wasnt hard and I'm pretty sure that if Naples joined we could finally partition Venice. Unfortunately Naples had huge issues with a massive Urbinese revolt forcing it to take 12 (!!) loans to hire mercenaries - once again Naples was in no position to fight.
After the second war a huge coalition of German minors and Serbia formed against me, unfortunately it was aided by the Ottoman Empire that soon declared war on me. This was the toughest war up to date due to overwhelming Ottoman forces pouring endlessly from the south and beating me and my allies even on the offence when outnumbered 2 to 1. Ultimately I only managed to stall for long enough to get out of the war with a concession of defeat. It wouldnt be so easy if the AI knew how to properly siege war goals. At the same time a coalition with Venice also declared war on me but it was easily beat once the Ottoman threat has passed. Mantua also wanted to get in the action and declared war on Naples but that ended badly as they were able to finally expand.
Ultimately however my position at the end of the session is way worse than at the beginning. My gold reserves have been depleted and spent on mercenaries, my good 4-4-4 king died leaving a stupid regency with 5 in useless for me diplo, my manpower is gone again and my religious untiy has never been lower - reformation continues hitting me very hard. I have also dropped to -1 stability due to some random events and my king dying unexpectedly. I am slowly bleeding money too due to cessation of church functions event and negative stability.
Honestly I am not sure if I'll ever feel "powerful" at the rate this goes.
Corporate_Jew_Master
Arcane
I dealt with all those, everything is back up. Only issue is the 500 core cost for paris, which remains uncored.
But but mah colonies.. Wich nation should i take then? Was thinking about something in the netherlands/flanders region, but burgundy owns pretty much everything there i guess.
Aragon is alive and kicking, not in PU and Castille isnt the strongest. Could be fun. Also Muscovy could be salvaged and there a few playable nations in HRE - it all blobbed nicely. Finally we could ask Mistakes to release a dutch nation for you and you could play that.
Yeah dutch would be good, might be a bit weak though and get eaten by Burgundy.
Merkwürdigliebe
Arcane
...but ...but with out England who is gonna help me genocide the Russians?
Vaarna_Aarne
Notorious Internet Vandal
I can pick Muscovy and provide highly (in)competent fifth column assistence in return for certain... Concessions.
Sweden and the dutch nations can fight AGAINST GB on the sea!
Merkwürdigliebe
Arcane
So almost like some sort of Bolshevist revolution bringing down the Russian empire from with in? Thank you merchant, you are my greatest ally.
Vaarna_Aarne
Notorious Internet Vandal
Fixed.
Krash
Arcane
A horde would certainly be a sweet addition
And redscum, if you want to play Netherlands all you have to do is choose Burgundy and release, right?
And redscum, if you want to play Netherlands all you have to do is choose Burgundy and release, right?
A horde at this point in time would be an exercise in frustration. Every single enemy west of you would be higher tech more ideas and better units than you and you would lose the early advantage hordes have. A war with, for example, player led nation or OE would be extremely one sided and devastating.
Hordes are only playable right from the first start date. You have a window of maybe 50 years to propel yourself forward enough to stay competitive.
Hordes are only playable right from the first start date. You have a window of maybe 50 years to propel yourself forward enough to stay competitive.
Our host could just load the save, release Netherlands, tag switch to Burgundy, free Netherlands, save and put this save for our game without even unpausing the game.
Yeah i know, just a little bit of extra work. But if it's ok by you guys 
Krash
Arcane
Np I'll fix it. You'll get a lot of naval fun vs pretty much all the big colonizers, like the GB you set up yourself. :D
So, time for next game is 20:00 GMT+1 Sunday. Be a little early, at least 15 min so we can discuss a bit and set up the game. I might be a min or two late since I have business to attend to out of town.
So, time for next game is 20:00 GMT+1 Sunday. Be a little early, at least 15 min so we can discuss a bit and set up the game. I might be a min or two late since I have business to attend to out of town.
Vaarna_Aarne
Notorious Internet Vandal
Corporate_Jew_Master
Arcane
Oooh, I don't think so. Perkele.
Krash
Arcane
Didn't know there were skyscrapers in Finland when the mongols were around.
CrimsonAngel
Prophet
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I will be there.
Will try to make it in time!
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