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[New Sapienta]

Ireland is suprisingly powerful in Vicky 2.

But alas, all that strength is wasted on the UK....

Seriously, has anyone managed to bring the UK down from it's #1 spot?

One time France was able to nab south west England.

It was a fucking ridiculous alliance though, UK, The Netherlands(a great power) and tiny allies vs. Prussia, Russia, Spain, and France.

I was Austria and was neutral during this war.

[Bralia]

Dang, Ireland, you can mobilize a massive force. I should have kept up a larger home force . . . this is going to be a long war . . .

/Vicky 2, APD

Is my homeland kicking ass and taking names?

You're Irish? . Not doing too well, no. I'd actually just built an entire fleet of ironclads with the Irish provinces, so my blockade was already well set-up with a minimum amount of fleet movements. After I realized the size of the force I'd be facing, I ordered my every state to build up a massive force (For some reason, I forgot that I could just mobilize an army. >.>). I baited a few of their armies to the Isle of Man and wiped them out. They were actually rather tough, because their ragtag, newly built fleet harassed my blockading navy just long enough to give them a good dig-in bonus. It was shortly after taking out those 90K troops that I realized that I now had the power to take Belfast. And after taking Belfast with an army of 170K+, I stopped playing because I had to go to sleep. . Hopefully, I will bring about the reunification tonight.

Ireland is suprisingly powerful in Vicky 2.

But alas, all that strength is wasted on the UK....

Seriously, has anyone managed to bring the UK down from it's #1 spot?

I pulled it off easily with France. . The AI sucks at gaining prestige. I doubt I'll ever be able to score a #1 military score, however, with any country.

[Wolfenium]

Currently on a CKII game as the Armenian count of Darson, Alexiad start date. Just thirty years on, my liege, the Duke of Armenia Minor, had barely fought off a holy war from a duke of Rum, with a LOT of aid from me, and his 12 year old female heir is now trying to survive against two separate attempts by the dukes of Rum, one of which is the same duchy that I fought off earlier. Needless to say, My goal for a Miaphysite pentarchy is going to crash and burn...

[Ayreonia]

You rock, woohoo.

I found another bug related to unifications: all my provincial decisions are gone. All of them.

Try moving your national focus (if you have one, it depends on your version history.) Otherwise do as ^ suggested and wait out the year

Nothing works.

MY CANAL PROJECTS. MY FUCKING CANAL PROJECTS. ALL GONE.

I think I'll curl up in a ball and cry.

[Chestaan]

Ireland is suprisingly powerful in Vicky 2.

But alas, all that strength is wasted on the UK....

Seriously, has anyone managed to bring the UK down from it's #1 spot?

I have, but I was playing as China...

[Napkiraly]

Just bought Crusader Kings II. What's a good place and level to start of at for a newbie? King, Duke, Earl? England, France, HRE, Denmark?

[Wolfenium]

Just bought Crusader Kings II. What's a good place and level to start of at for a newbie? King, Duke, Earl? England, France, HRE, Denmark?

Start as a Duke or Count in Ireland. It's a good way to learn the mechanics of the game and the only real foes you have to face are rival Irish counts and by extension, England and Scotland.

[Napkiraly]

Just bought Crusader Kings II. What's a good place and level to start of at for a newbie? King, Duke, Earl? England, France, HRE, Denmark?

Start as a Duke or Count in Ireland. It's a good way to learn the mechanics of the game and the only real foes you have to face are rival Irish counts and by extension, England and Scotland.

Thanks for the tip, I heard playing as Sweden or Denmark is also not too shabby.

Looking at the HRE, it's best I stay away for awhile.

[Onekawa-Nukanor]

Start as a Duke or Count in Ireland. It's a good way to learn the mechanics of the game and the only real foes you have to face are rival Irish counts and by extension, England and Scotland.

Thanks for the tip, I heard playing as Sweden or Denmark is also not too shabby.

Looking at the HRE, it's best I stay away for awhile.

I also suggest Scotland. Its the faction I bite into first (mainly because I played them through the tutorial) and isn't to hard on you. And I choose King, but that is because I wanted ULTIMATE POWAH.

Except for the Minimum Crown Authority part, and the minimal feudal levy part,,, Oh at the start how exciting it was to have an army of two thousand.

[Napkiraly]

Thanks for the tip, I heard playing as Sweden or Denmark is also not too shabby.

Looking at the HRE, it's best I stay away for awhile.

I also suggest Scotland. Its the faction I bite into first (mainly because I played them through the tutorial) and isn't to hard on you.

Thank you for the tip also.

[Onekawa-Nukanor]

I also suggest Scotland. Its the faction I bite into first (mainly because I played them through the tutorial) and isn't to hard on you.

Thank you for the tip also.

If you lucky like me, Norway will defeat William which if my game is anything to go by quite the war. That has caused almost 200 years of turmoil where England is, with is split mainly into 3 powers. The Kingdom of England/Norway (always back and forth between these two), Duchy of York and Ducky of Bereford.

Its highly amusing to watch, especially as that left Ireland wide open for me

[Napkiraly]

Thank you for the tip also.

If you lucky like me, Norway will defeat William which if my game is anything to go by quite the war. That has caused almost 200 years of turmoil where England is, with is split mainly into 3 powers. The Kingdom of England/Norway (always back and forth between these two), Duchy of York and Ducky of Bereford.

Its highly amusing to watch, especially as that left Ireland wide open for me

"The year twas 1350, the 40th year that the great Scottish hordes swept across Europe towards Baghdad, bringing with them weird musical instruments and grotesque but delicious sheep stomach as dishes"

[Wolfenium]

If you lucky like me, Norway will defeat William which if my game is anything to go by quite the war. That has caused almost 200 years of turmoil where England is, with is split mainly into 3 powers. The Kingdom of England/Norway (always back and forth between these two), Duchy of York and Ducky of Bereford.

Its highly amusing to watch, especially as that left Ireland wide open for me

"The year twas 1350, the 40th year that the great Scottish hordes swept across Europe towards Baghdad, bringing with them weird musical instruments and grotesque but delicious sheep stomach as dishes"

And then the Mongols came...

[Onekawa-Nukanor]

"The year twas 1350, the 40th year that the great Scottish hordes swept across Europe towards Baghdad, bringing with them weird musical instruments and grotesque but delicious sheep stomach as dishes"

And then the Mongols came...

In my game the Mongols have done, well, fuck all. The Seljuk Turks beat of the first invasion pretty well, and the Golden Horde has been stalled by the various Russian states.

[Napkiraly]

"The year twas 1350, the 40th year that the great Scottish hordes swept across Europe towards Baghdad, bringing with them weird musical instruments and grotesque but delicious sheep stomach as dishes"

And then the Mongols came...

Canonically they came much earlier.

[Wolfenium]

And then the Mongols came...

In my game the Mongols have done, well, fuck all. The Seljuk Turks beat of the first invasion pretty well, and the Golden Horde has been stalled by the various Russian states.

Wow, how'd that happen? Did they spend all their doomstacks fighting Cumania, or did the AI just plain sucked?

[The Huskar Social Union]

Is my homeland kicking ass and taking names?

You're Irish? . Not doing too well, no. I'd actually just built an entire fleet of ironclads with the Irish provinces, so my blockade was already well set-up with a minimum amount of fleet movements. After I realized the size of the force I'd be facing, I ordered my every state to build up a massive force (For some reason, I forgot that I could just mobilize an army. >.>). I baited a few of their armies to the Isle of Man and wiped them out. They were actually rather tough, because their ragtag, newly built fleet harassed my blockading navy just long enough to give them a good dig-in bonus. It was shortly after taking out those 90K troops that I realized that I now had the power to take Belfast. And after taking Belfast with an army of 170K+, I stopped playing because I had to go to sleep. . Hopefully, I will bring about the reunification tonight.

But alas, all that strength is wasted on the UK....

Seriously, has anyone managed to bring the UK down from it's #1 spot?

I pulled it off easily with France. . The AI sucks at gaining prestige. I doubt I'll ever be able to score a #1 military score, however, with any country.

Indeed i am Irish, hazzah! And even though it looks grim for the forces of the emerald isle. I am pleased with the fight they seem to be putting up, i take it they just launched a mass revolt on the island to try and gain Independence while you were engaged elsewhere. Also if possible would you post a screenshot of the war?

[Napkiraly]

Mwahahahahahahahahah! Die rebellious baron, die!

[Bralia]

You're Irish? . Not doing too well, no. I'd actually just built an entire fleet of ironclads with the Irish provinces, so my blockade was already well set-up with a minimum amount of fleet movements. After I realized the size of the force I'd be facing, I ordered my every state to build up a massive force (For some reason, I forgot that I could just mobilize an army. >.>). I baited a few of their armies to the Isle of Man and wiped them out. They were actually rather tough, because their ragtag, newly built fleet harassed my blockading navy just long enough to give them a good dig-in bonus. It was shortly after taking out those 90K troops that I realized that I now had the power to take Belfast. And after taking Belfast with an army of 170K+, I stopped playing because I had to go to sleep. . Hopefully, I will bring about the reunification tonight.


I pulled it off easily with France. . The AI sucks at gaining prestige. I doubt I'll ever be able to score a #1 military score, however, with any country.

Indeed i am Irish, hazzah! And even though it looks grim for the forces of the emerald isle. I am pleased with the fight they seem to be putting up, i take it they just launched a mass revolt on the island to try and gain Independence while you were engaged elsewhere. Also if possible would you post a screenshot of the war?

I already finished the war last night. No screenshots were taken, sorry. .

It was definitely a mass revolt, but I was simply not ready for their strength. I never thought I would need to defend my home territory with more than 100K or so troops. Also, those blasted Irishmen stole the army I produced on their island! . That army was produced purely with British troops! I make sure of that with ALL of my armies around the world. And yet they still stole it somehow!

Anyway, to the war: I'm sorry to say that the Irish war did NOT go well for them from there. . I'll give you a visual of how it went: I moved the army I used to take Belfast down to Armagh. That baited one of their smaller armies (39K) to Belfast and I proceeded to chase it around Ireland until I stack-wiped it. I did the same thing to another 39K army. Their last army, a 108K army remained. It was occupying Belfast since I'd left it open to attack because stack-wiping was a more important goal. The dig-in bonus wasn't enough to save them from over 300K soldiers descending on their position. The stack-wipe took longer than usual, by my armies got it done. For some reason, they weren't manufacturing new land units, so I had no more resistance and I easily took the rest of Ireland from there. Their submarine-commerce raider navies actually made my blockading navies worried, considering they gained strength with each province I took . . .

[The Ruivan Empire]

In eu3 what happens if I dismantle the holy Roman empire?

[Bralia]

In eu3 what happens if I dismantle the holy Roman empire?

The HRE territory becomes fair game for anyone. No more benefits. No one gets penalties for owning their territory anymore, plus, the emperor-ship is dissolved, so no more hard fight with Bohemia or Austria. Act quickly if you want those OPMs, the larger powers will eat them up.

[Czechanada]

Start as a Duke or Count in Ireland. It's a good way to learn the mechanics of the game and the only real foes you have to face are rival Irish counts and by extension, England and Scotland.

Thanks for the tip, I heard playing as Sweden or Denmark is also not too shabby.

Looking at the HRE, it's best I stay away for awhile.

Castille isn't bad either.

[Sardakhar]

"The year twas 1350, the 40th year that the great Scottish hordes swept across Europe towards Baghdad, bringing with them weird musical instruments and grotesque but delicious sheep stomach as dishes"

"And the Mohammedans looked upon it, and lo! They despised it with great passion. By the millions, they set for east, eluding the hordes of Bruce and Dunfermline and their terrible culture. Lands ravaged, the lords of Baghdad to the great mountains around Chomolungma, and to east they disappeared, those infidels. Through Cathay, to the Great Sea and the Islands of Cipango, very far they went. Come nine and forty winters, the Year of Our Lord, 1399, the 14th of October, and the lord of Lancaster was King of England. In the halls of Westminster, the news was spoken..."

My King, those fools!

Iroquois has collapsed!

They could not even fight a proper war.

Their armies have been routed and their cities reduced to smouldering ruins.

They have no choice but to give up all occupied territories and submit to the Mohammedans to achieve peace.

Fast forward to 14 July 1789... when the Christian nations did not trust each other in their fight against the revolutionary onslaught and turned to the infidel.

New Emperor elected

The Holy Roman Empire

The electors have elected

Abu Ja'far Abdullah Al-Amrika Pamunkey ibn Mahmud Powhatan As-Saffah Al-Amrika of Baghdadian America

as the new Emperor. The new lawful sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire has promised to protect the rights of the states

as Emperor.

[Glasgia]

Ignored you guys completely and decided HOI3 was too tempting. After learning the game mechanics on the demo, I've taken the helm of the Italians.

Starting in 1938, I declared war on Yugoslavia in early October. Comitting three armies, and the legendary "Truppe d'Albania", I landed the Albanians in the south while the 6th and 2nd pushed from the north. The northern line was pretty contested, forcing my line a single province forward, and from Zadar Gariblodi's corp moved to take three provinces. I was kinda pissed with the slowness of the advance, so I was happy enough when the Germans moved an army down to attack from their border. Though technically it was actually my army, Guzzoni leading an expeditionary force I'd given to buff up their borders and make the allies think twice, the Germans allowed me to take Ljubljana. With troops in two of their major cities, Gariboldi having taken Split, I was fairly confident I could finish the war by the next year. Striking a final blow, the 7th landed in C and took Belgrade, Belgraod ingame, and Skopje unnoposed, forcing surrender when I took Zagreb in the north. On the 6th November, 1938, Yugoslavia was annexed into the Italian Empire.

Who should I go for next? The Czechs have joined the allies, making German expansion a bit more awkard. However, it's tempting to try and take allied ports in North Africa, so I can isolate the rest of their troops and restore the Western Roman Empire before Poland or another country bordering us axis joins the Franco-Czech-British. However, at the moment Albania seems the easiest nation. If I did, I'd like to try and do it with only my Albanian troops, as the only troops I've seen from them is a single theatre HQ retreating. Considering I'm the only nation they border with, I'm confident they won't have too many troops hidden away. Other options are Greece, going with the Roman thing; Hungary, as they also border the jerries for a nice pincer attack; and Romania, for some vital oil supplies.

[Ostroeuropa]

Ignored you guys completely and decided HOI3 was too tempting. After learning the game mechanics on the demo, I've taken the helm of the Italians.

Starting in 1938, I declared war on Yugoslavia in early October. Comitting three armies, and the legendary "Truppe d'Albania", I landed the Albanians in the south while the 6th and 2nd pushed from the north. The northern line was pretty contested, forcing my line a single province forward, and from Zadar Gariblodi's corp moved to take three provinces. I was kinda pissed with the slowness of the advance, so I was happy enough when the Germans moved an army down to attack from their border. Though technically it was actually my army, Guzzoni leading an expeditionary force I'd given to buff up their borders and make the allies think twice, the Germans allowed me to take Ljubljana. With troops in two of their major cities, Gariboldi having taken Split, I was fairly confident I could finish the war by the next year. Striking a final blow, the 7th landed in C and took Belgrade, Belgraod ingame, and Skopje unnoposed, forcing surrender when I took Zagreb in the north. On the 6th November, 1938, Yugoslavia was annexed into the Italian Empire.

Who should I go for next? The Czechs have joined the allies, making German expansion a bit more awkard. However, it's tempting to try and take allied ports in North Africa, so I can isolate the rest of their troops and restore the Western Roman Empire before Poland or another country bordering us axis joins the Franco-Czech-British. However, at the moment Albania seems the easiest nation. If I did, I'd like to try and do it with only my Albanian troops, as the only troops I've seen from them is a single theatre HQ retreating. Considering I'm the only nation they border with, I'm confident they won't have too many troops hidden away. Other options are Greece, going with the Roman thing; Hungary, as they also border the jerries for a nice pincer attack; and Romania, for some vital oil supplies.

Your goal should be to seize the Suez canal and put an end to the British involvement in the middle east, then move through north africa. This will make it incredibly difficult for the brits to survive. France always falls and becomes Vichy which gives you time to knock out the Brits before Free France takes over the african bits.
If you manage that, vassalize Iran (It makes a nice corridor into the soviet areas.) and invade India/Burma and the eastern British colonies. This should force the British to surrender the moment any force lands in the UK. (The British will hold out even if the UK falls provided either the middle east or India remain under their control.)
I'd push for Pakistan and India to become independent and join the Axis. You may have time to assist the Japanese in their war against China before the inevitable war with the soviets, which could go either way.
If the USA joins before you manage to conclude the war with Britain, you MUST defeat them before they manage to link up with the UK and the soviets join in.
USA with UK as a landing base + USSR = Over 50% of the worlds resources and research points, and industry.

If you have any time to spare, try and get some South or Central american states into the Axis or your vassalage. (They have resources, and will distract the americans as well as provide a landing base.)


I'm partial to playing Mexico and going communist myself you can get away with expanding all the way to Panama while gearing up.
When the spanish civil war happens, try and make sure the republicans win if you can. (It will help immensely.) and spend a while bringing them into the commintern while stacking up troops there for the inevitable confrontation with the axis. With good preparations and coordination, you can have a totally communist europe (Bar the united kingdom.) and be poised to seize panama and defend grimly against the americans.
When the war inevitably breaks out, let the europeans fight the British empire, you are taking on America
Seize Panama and hold the line in the north while expanding and vassalizing all of south america.
Seize hawaii if you can, and all the pacific bits (This will mean east soviet forces will island hop their way to reinforce you.)
Then it's just a matter of waiting it out until the Americans collapse.
With proper intervention and immediate planning, Mexico can become a major power by the end of the game. (Provided you are willing to sell every scrap of freedom you have in exchange for sweet soviet oil and precious metals.)

Reinforce the northern border heavily and prepare a strike force to take Panama when war breaks out. As