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[Bralia]

The Ottomans are scaring me. They're too big to fail.

Have you seen, on youtube, the multiplayer game that Diplexheatedhd had? The guy playing the Ottomans ended up with way more than that, to the point that everyone was afraid of him. That Ottoman Empire also controlled all of India, and extended into South Africa.

Wow, that MP is an impressive looking game. I think I'm going to watch that game after I'm finished watching Shenryyr's Brittany game.

[Marcurix]

The Ottomans are scaring me. They're too big to fail.

Ah. Kind of like my one Byzantine game in EU 3, I looked over the Caspian sea and saw China.

[Sdaeriji]

The Ottomans are scaring me. They're too big to fail.

Bohemia is doing some interesting things in that screenshot.

[United Marxist Nations]

Have you seen, on youtube, the multiplayer game that Diplexheatedhd had? The guy playing the Ottomans ended up with way more than that, to the point that everyone was afraid of him. That Ottoman Empire also controlled all of India, and extended into South Africa.

Wow, that MP is an impressive looking game. I think I'm going to watch that game after I'm finished watching Shenryyr's Brittany game.

I've seen the whole thing; love some of the banter that they go through later in the game.

[Bralia]

The Ottomans are scaring me. They're too big to fail.

Bohemia is doing some interesting things in that screenshot.

That was the result of a crusade upon Crimea. My goal of having Russia swoop in and take Crimea when it was weak failed. . Or at least it hasn't come to fruition yet . . .

[Sdaeriji]

Bohemia is doing some interesting things in that screenshot.

That was the result of a crusade upon Crimea. My goal of having Russia swoop in and take Crimea when it was weak failed. . Or at least it hasn't come to fruition yet . . .

I also notice that you're using the New World randomizer. How is it?

[Bralia]

That was the result of a crusade upon Crimea. My goal of having Russia swoop in and take Crimea when it was weak failed. . Or at least it hasn't come to fruition yet . . .

I also notice that you're using the New World randomizer. How is it?

Way more interesting and greatly more fun. I never knew that I was sick and tired of playing with the old New World until I started playing with a random New World. Sure, things will look unnatural, but the break from the normal Paradox routine is refreshing.

It took me a while to accept the new style of being a colonial overlord. Damn near every single time my colonial nations declared war against another great power's colonial nations, I would end up forcibly dragged in. And every time that happened, all of the work I'd put into relationships all across Europe ended up getting destroyed. An untold amount of alliances were broken over the past 200 years. I eventually gave up actively trying to restore alliances.

To show you examples of just how destructive my colonial nations were, I suggest taking a look at Cosmopolitaine Peru. Note the portion of it that you see in the 3rd screenshot. Just about all of that bit used to be a Portuguese underling. Looking at the 4th screenshot, see that piece of Great Britain there? A lot of the territory south and east of that used to be Spanish and British underlings. You can still see the last bit of British Guyana just waiting to be wiped out. Also, check out my 3rd screenshot again. See that little bit of Miami there? Miami was one of the greatest Native America tribes I've ever seen in a Paradox game. It was easily 10 times larger than what you see there. Then Cosmopolitaine Columbia happened. CC took vast swaths of Miami territory with each war it waged. CP and CC are the great colonial success stories in my game. French Canada was the biggest slump. It never took Exploration ideas quick enough before Floride gulped up the rest of the Canadian region's territory.

[Registug]

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let me tell you of story of ceska
one day as ceska was stop polish menace, germany say "hey ceska give hungary independence"
"wat no" ceska say
england say "ceska is menace" and back germany
rossiya doesnt like ceska much, but hate sauerkraut worse, so rossiya backed ceska in crisis
the last of great power, dutch, is sitting on fence, so ceska give dutch an offer
"hey dutch if you join ceska in glory of war, you can has Hannover region from krauts"
"yeah alrite l0l" said dutch
but then suddenly germany say "woah man, we dont want to have war with dutch, here dutch take Hannover region"
and then the dutch had Hannover region and ceska was very confused as german army very outnumber all others combined

[The Jonathanian States]

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let me tell you of story of ceska
one day as ceska was stop polish menace, germany say "hey ceska give hungary independence"
"wat no" ceska say
england say "ceska is menace" and back germany
rossiya doesnt like ceska much, but hate sauerkraut worse, so rossiya backed ceska in crisis
the last of great power, dutch, is sitting on fence, so ceska give dutch an offer
"hey dutch if you join ceska in glory of war, you can has Hannover region from krauts"
"yeah alrite l0l" said dutch
but then suddenly germany say "woah man, we dont want to have war with dutch, here dutch take Hannover region"
and then the dutch had Hannover region and ceska was very confused as german army very outnumber all others combined

Oh god, that France.
That Greece, that British-North Africa.
Romania, Wallachia and Moldavia....
Dat Denmark.

[Omorov-Nier]

I just got DH. Installed Kaiserreich, obviously.

Started a game as Canada trying to retake the home isles. The Australasian Fedderation suffers a german coup and joins Mitteleuropa. The Second American civil war starts and I use the opportunity to seize Alaska and New England, obviously. I get lucky and the Pacific Sates decide to join the Entente. Meanwhile, the second Weltkrieg starts in Europe: British and French commies against the german empire and puppets. I used this to my advanntage by declaring war on Mittelafrika to regain my colonies. Then France annexes Germany.

Fuck.



This French blob is one of the scariest things I've seen in my life.

[The Huskar Social Union]

So started another campaign in Game of Thrones Mod for CK2 with my own custom Dynasty called Lockhart. Picked Aegons invasion as my starting date and put myself in charge of Last Hearth in the North as a vassal of the Starks as i wanted to start in a more, quiet and isolated place for once. The invasion went just as i thought it would so i did not pay that much attention to it, the Targaryens land and smash everyone who goes up against them and took over all 7 kingdoms.

My First Character, a man called Yoren became the Castellan of Winterfell which was pretty cool, though he got sent all over the north improving relations with this lord and that. I moved at a slow pace, building up the farms and towns over the years to get some more tax income, then focusing on increasing my light infantry levy. Eventually fabricated some claims that allowed me to take over the Island of Skagos as well as one of the mountain Tribe holdings to the west which have remained under my control ever since. Things went by in the north peacefully, the south was a whole other idea, constant civil wars and all sorts. Aegon died at the age of 35 due to poor health, his son Aenys, died after he was rendered incapable in battle at the hands of Orys Baratheon. His brother Maegor then died of stress a few years into his rule, the current ruler is now a queen named Laena "The Laughing Dragon" and she does not fuck around, smashed the Westerlands, Reach and the Stormlands in one big war, reclaimed the Stormlands and the Vale and went to war with the free cities half a dozen times. She is also married to a member of my family, though it is a matrilineal one, it was necessary to see the continuation of the family line, they were in a bit of a bad spot with no heirs available, most of them died fairly quickly, though they are safe now.

Yoren got into the 60s before he became infirm and died, he was succeeded by his son Halys Lockhart who was married to one of thew Starks though no where near as good, he claimed the smaller island next to Skagos though, further expanding my domain, he died a natural death at 50 and was succeeded by his son Morgan, who is my current character. Recently there was a massive war in the north where the Houses Bolton, Flint and Karstark attempted to dethrone the Starks from Winterfell, myself and the Manderly's were the two main loyalist houses supporting the Starks. I had a total of 6k men which i bolstered with around 5k mercs and hit the Bolton armies early on before they could regroup whilst the Starks dealt with the flints and the main bolton army to the south. I then turned my attention to the Karstarks and managed to defeat their smaller armies easily and lay siege to their holdings as the entire west of the north rose up in support of the boltons, though they did not have enough men to defeat us, especially when i spammed more mercs at the end which tipped it in our favour allowing us to win. Now House Bolton is practically dead with its last member at the wall and the dreadfort is now under control by a member of my dynasty which is sweet.

Currently, i control these territories. My cousin controls the dreadfort, all my soldiers are dead with 200 levies left. My economy essentially crashed because of those mercenaries, most of whom are also dead, however marrying off some (i.e. about 20) of my more distant family members allowed me to recover some of that gold loss through dowry's. Starks are almost extinct, though i sent off my first born son in a matrilineal betrothal to the current stark head, their survival serves my interests at the moment and i am also playing the diehard Stark loyalist card with this House.

Casterly Rock was briefly controlled by a member of my family though he is dead now.
Tyrosh was annexed by Lys.
The Baratheons control the reach and the stormlands.
Houses Lannister, Tully, Greyjoy and Arryn are dead.
House Darry Controls the Riverlands.
Martells no longer control Dorne.
The wildings have united as one force under a king beyond the wall, though they have not done anything... yet
Ton of stillbirths for the family... which is quite sad, but the Black Stag of the north lives on.

[The Blaatschapen]

March of the Eagles on steam sale. Is it worth it, or should I go wait for a Vicky to be on sale?

[Omorov-Nier]

March of the Eagles on steam sale. Is it worth it, or should I go wait for a Vicky to be on sale?

MotE is like EU4 Lite with better multiplayer. At this price, though, is worth it.
However, I must say that Vicky 2 is worthier of your money, even though it is not on sale.

[Shaggai]

The Ottomans are scaring me. They're too big to fail.

You can beat them. You're France. Get Austria to work with you against them, try and ally with someone else, it's all fine. As long as you keep all your armies in the same province and besiege the crossing points, you're fine. If you're enough of a naval power, you can hold the crossings indefinitely and get enough warscore from those provinces to get a good peace.

[Paketo]

this is good

i have reunited the 5 bishops and the catholics are now a heresy. Still on the first king as well, bastard is like 78

[Emilio Aguinaldo]

As a history nut, WC playthroughs disgust me.

[Paketo]

As a history nut, WC playthroughs disgust me.

the map being one color doesn't seem right to me

[Olivaero]

this is good

i have reunited the 5 bishops and the catholics are now a heresy. Still on the first king as well, bastard is like 78

Moar possessions in the Levant are needed

[Paketo]

this is good

i have reunited the 5 bishops and the catholics are now a heresy. Still on the first king as well, bastard is like 78

Moar possessions in the Levant are needed

yes, but they always have those 15000 man stacks which i have to combine my levies to defeat. i have to wait for my levies to replenish before more conquest

[Dakran]

Just downloaded the Modern Day mod for VICKY2.
Not sure what ill do as of now, but it shall be grand.

[Paketo]

well fuck, Queen of Greece declared civil war on me to put my brother on the throne and i had no choice but to accept because the other 3 kings were with her

[Bralia]

The Ottomans are scaring me. They're too big to fail.

You can beat them. You're France. Get Austria to work with you against them, try and ally with someone else, it's all fine. As long as you keep all your armies in the same province and besiege the crossing points, you're fine. If you're enough of a naval power, you can hold the crossings indefinitely and get enough warscore from those provinces to get a good peace.

I'm not as good of a naval power, that's a part of the problem. I designed my early/mid-game fleets to patrol trade nodes. Heavy ships were too costly to maintain. It's only now that I finally have a behemoth of an economy to fully support fleets whose sole purpose is to crush other fleets. I only have one such fleet right now, it's not capable of taking on the full force of the Ottoman fleet. Nor the British fleet. So far, my greatest naval accomplishment was picking off a single "small" fleet of 31 British light ships while their main fleet was off in unknown waters.

[Dakran]

Thus far it's 2000 and two nations have reverted back to communism. Bulgaria and Uzbekistan, while I as Austria am going to collapse to it any time now, and reunite the Austrian Empire under a Communist government.

[Shaggai]

You can beat them. You're France. Get Austria to work with you against them, try and ally with someone else, it's all fine. As long as you keep all your armies in the same province and besiege the crossing points, you're fine. If you're enough of a naval power, you can hold the crossings indefinitely and get enough warscore from those provinces to get a good peace.

I'm not as good of a naval power, that's a part of the problem. I designed my early/mid-game fleets to patrol trade nodes. Heavy ships were too costly to maintain. It's only now that I finally have a behemoth of an economy to fully support fleets whose sole purpose is to crush other fleets. I only have one such fleet right now, it's not capable of taking on the full force of the Ottoman fleet. Nor the British fleet. So far, my greatest naval accomplishment was picking off a single "small" fleet of 31 British light ships while their main fleet was off in unknown waters.

Meh. I won a few wars against the Ottomans, with the help of Austria, without being able to hold my own against the Ottomans in naval combat. The fleet doesn't matter that much, as long as you keep your armies all close enough together to help each other. I suggest letting the Austrian armies go first, though, so the Ottomans target them and you're sure of their help. The AI is kind of a jerk when it comes to that.

[Bralia]

I'm not as good of a naval power, that's a part of the problem. I designed my early/mid-game fleets to patrol trade nodes. Heavy ships were too costly to maintain. It's only now that I finally have a behemoth of an economy to fully support fleets whose sole purpose is to crush other fleets. I only have one such fleet right now, it's not capable of taking on the full force of the Ottoman fleet. Nor the British fleet. So far, my greatest naval accomplishment was picking off a single "small" fleet of 31 British light ships while their main fleet was off in unknown waters.

Meh. I won a few wars against the Ottomans, with the help of Austria, without being able to hold my own against the Ottomans in naval combat. The fleet doesn't matter that much, as long as you keep your armies all close enough together to help each other. I suggest letting the Austrian armies go first, though, so the Ottomans target them and you're sure of their help. The AI is kind of a jerk when it comes to that.

Um . . . yeah . . . about Austria. Believe it or not, the Austria you see there is only a shell of what it once was. It only took one short session to see them get blown up. Prussian armies annihilated Austrian armies and naturally, vultures swooped in and picked Austria apart. I'm pretty sure Aachen only had one or two provinces before they waged their war. You know you're in bad shape when an HRE minor can kick your ass. Milan, Switzerland, Tuscany, Baden, the Ottomans, they all ripped chunks away from Austria.

When I saw the shape that Austria was getting in, I decided upon a new strategy. I'm going to let the HRE burn. Let the Ottomans come. I'll be ready. I've been gearing up to take them on, toe to toe. I have 200K troops stationed there in my mainland and I have the force limits to support three more armies. 275K human-guided soldiers should be more than enough to handle 300+ AI-driven Ottomans. Also, I've abandoned the idea of having light ships in my smash-tastic navy at all, they just get picked apart too fast. Ottoman navy (53HS, 64LS, 54G, 44T), I'd like you to meet my navy of over 100 Threedeckers. And I only say over 100 because I'm not sure where I want to stop. I think I have room for up to 200 heavy ships. My navy will be the greatest force to ever sail the seven seas . . .