Paradox Games VI: Cuckolding Habsburgs since 1076 AD

[Bralia]

Ninja Muslims

Japan DLC confirmed?

Japan DLC confirmed.

[Alvecia]

Japan DLC confirmed?

Japan DLC confirmed.

Oooooh.
Japan's one of my favourite countries to play, I'll be looking forward to trying this out.

[Herbandua]

I hate Ottoblobs

[Bralia]

Uuuuuuuh . . . okay . . . I wasn't expecting to actually pull this off . . . contingency plans. Yes, this'll do. This is the first time I've ever actually done this.

[The Norgan Alliance]

Japan DLC confirmed?

Japan DLC confirmed.

Darn you got me really excited there

Now I'm just moderately excited

[Ifreann]

Uuuuuuuh . . . okay . . . I wasn't expecting to actually pull this off . . . contingency plans. Yes, this'll do. This is the first time I've ever actually done this.

Do it. An English king must rule France.

[Eol Sha]

Japan DLC confirmed?

Japan DLC confirmed.

Sweet. Can't wait to see the Shinto mechanics.

[Imperial Idaho]

Japan DLC confirmed?

Japan DLC confirmed.

Paradox is now allowing us to force people to commit seppuku...

[Ifreann]

Japan DLC confirmed.

Paradox is now allowing us to force people to commit seppuku...

But only if they've been dishonourable.

[Imperial Idaho]

Paradox is now allowing us to force people to commit seppuku...

But only if they've been dishonourable.

Bah, allowing yourself to become a vassal is dishonorable enough in my eyes.

[Ifreann]

But only if they've been dishonourable.

Bah, allowing yourself to become a vassal is dishonorable enough in my eyes.

I don't think that the daimyos really have a choice in the matter.

[Ithalian Empire]

Bah, allowing yourself to become a vassal is dishonorable enough in my eyes.

I don't think that the daimyos really have a choice in the matter.

That's there problem.

[Altito Asmoro]

Japan DLC confirmed?

Japan DLC confirmed.

Considering the previous Manchu improvements and now Japan, I'm expecting some sort of Asian-centric DLC.

[Nekotani]

Japan DLC confirmed?

Japan DLC confirmed.

For a second, thought that Japan was getting a CK2 DLC, which would've made me practically sling my wallet into Paradox's face.

[Transoxthraxia]

Japan DLC confirmed.

For a second, thought that Japan was getting a CK2 DLC, which would've made me practically sling my wallet into Paradox's face.

Why? I'm terrified of an Asiatic expansion for CK2, since as it is the game already runs like shit even with the optimization on my computer, and I don't exactly have a bad build.

[Altito Asmoro]

For a second, thought that Japan was getting a CK2 DLC, which would've made me practically sling my wallet into Paradox's face.

Why? I'm terrified of an Asiatic expansion for CK2, since as it is the game already runs like shit even with the optimization on my computer, and I don't exactly have a bad build.

It's not possible to cross from Asia to Europe with such long lines of supply, though.

But considering Rome - China had relations in the past, possible enough.

[Eol Sha]

Why? I'm terrified of an Asiatic expansion for CK2, since as it is the game already runs like shit even with the optimization on my computer, and I don't exactly have a bad build.

It's not possible to cross from Asia to Europe with such long lines of supply, though.

But considering Rome - China had relations in the past, possible enough.

CK2 is set during the age of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta.

[Altito Asmoro]

It's not possible to cross from Asia to Europe with such long lines of supply, though.

But considering Rome - China had relations in the past, possible enough.

CK2 is set during the age of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta.

Yes, sorry about that. I'm not terribly familiar with CK2's setting and timeline, I have it but it's too confusing for me.

[Eol Sha]

CK2 is set during the age of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta.

Yes, sorry about that. I'm not terribly familiar with CK2's setting and timeline, I have it but it's too confusing for me.

Well, the original game stretched from 1066 to around 1444. Battuta traveled from Morrocco to China in the mid to late 1300s and Polo journeyed east during the mid-1200s.

I understand that feeling. I couldn't understand how to play the game, myself.

[The Huskar Social Union]

CK2 is set during the age of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta.

Yes, sorry about that. I'm not terribly familiar with CK2's setting and timeline, I have it but it's too confusing for me.

Playing in Ireland can be a good way to get used to it, its often recommended as a starting location for new players.

[Ithalian Empire]

Yes, sorry about that. I'm not terribly familiar with CK2's setting and timeline, I have it but it's too confusing for me.

Playing in Ireland can be a good way to get used to it, its often recommended as a starting location for new players.

My first game was as a Swedish Jarl in the Viking Age start. It was fun, and then I died and quite because I was turned into a OPM because of gavelkind.

[Eol Sha]

Won't need the armada. There's a science ship right there; it'll take care of it. If Half-Life has taught us nothing else, it's that scientists are excellent at taking down alien monstrosities.

"Give this man a crowbar, he shall save the Human race"



Also poll suggestions you secretly sunni denizens of the paradox thread.

Favorite Stellaris Ethic

[Altito Asmoro]

Yes, sorry about that. I'm not terribly familiar with CK2's setting and timeline, I have it but it's too confusing for me.

Playing in Ireland can be a good way to get used to it, its often recommended as a starting location for new players.

I don't get it either. Ireland is easy, but still hard.

Playing in Ireland can be a good way to get used to it, its often recommended as a starting location for new players.

My first game was as a Swedish Jarl in the Viking Age start. It was fun, and then I died and quite because I was turned into a OPM because of gavelkind.

OPM stronk

[The Huskar Social Union]

"Give this man a crowbar, he shall save the Human race"



Also poll suggestions you secretly sunni denizens of the paradox thread.

Favorite Stellaris Ethic

Oh that could be an interesting one, yeah ill do that.

And ill give three options for it, as you can select up to three in game.

[Bralia]

And so it has been done. It was actually disturbingly easy to control France. Like . . . seriously . . . it should NOT be this easy to subjugate a nation that's your equal or better. Once my relations with France stabilized, there was barely any liberty desire at all. Support Loyalists was probably active for 5% of the time, right when I first acquired the union.

A Short and Choppy Timeline of Events:

- Allied Castile
- Refused to surrender Maine
- Called in Castile on the grounds of promising land
- Surprisingly stackwiped a French army
- Threat of War of the Roses loomed
- Went to the peace deal expecting to take provinces
- Castile said they didn't want the province they had marked as desirable, which I would have been more than happy to give
- Flipped my lid at Castile for ensuring that I would send a peace deal that would ruin our trust and alliance
- Opened final tab . . . "force union" . . . *stared at option with raised eyebrows, I'd forgotten this was possible*
- Pressed the union, took some money, ruined my relationship with Castile and hooked up with Aragon and Austria almost immediately after the war ended
- 50 years of unopposed rule later (1497), integration starts immediately after being allowed
- Influence ideas (-25% diplo-annexation cost and +2 diplo rep were acquired with reasonable haste of the course of those 50 years)
- Expected finish date in 1527-8 at maximum reputation
- Got an awesome Parliament issue that reduced annexation cost by an extra 15%
- Finished in 1523
- Glorious victory

- Subjugated Desmond sometime after the French union and fed him Ireland (I was seriously out to make Influence ideas worth my while)

I've abandoned Europe, I've conquered them to oblivion, and now I've eaten them in a personal union. I've officially done every possible option in the English-French conflict. With this experience under my belt, I'm willing to declare England a supremely easy nation to play. England would make for a good second campaign for a newb to EUIV. Any fear I've ever had of France is officially gone. The reputation that France has built up in the community isn't relevant anymore, the English-French conflict is well balanced. Both sides have an equally easy path to victory in the player's hands.