Paradox Games II

[Shaggai]

New England is restored! Now to fix my borders...

[The Jonathanian States]

New England is restored! Now to fix my borders...

I'm not sure if you'll be able to, but having annexed Hudsonia the AI pagans of the Maritimes may consider you powerful enough to be their liege.
IIRC Caribou is de-jure NE so they definitely should accept you.

[Shaggai]

New England is restored! Now to fix my borders...

I'm not sure if you'll be able to, but having annexed Hudsonia the AI pagans of the Maritimes may consider you powerful enough to be their liege.
IIRC Caribou is de-jure NE so they definitely should accept you.

They consider me powerful enough, but they've refused to accept the Reformation and there are only two independent Occultist counts in the Maritimes.

[The Jonathanian States]

I'm not sure if you'll be able to, but having annexed Hudsonia the AI pagans of the Maritimes may consider you powerful enough to be their liege.
IIRC Caribou is de-jure NE so they definitely should accept you.

They consider me powerful enough, but they've refused to accept the Reformation and there are only two independent Occultist counts in the Maritimes.

They refuse to accept the reformation? SMITE THE HERETICS! MASONRY FOR THE MASONTHRONE!

[Reatra]

The year is 1593. Tír na Ceiltigh has occupied all of Genovese Greece, Italy, and Levant. Spain is still diplomatically isolated, and with the truce with the Celts only five years from expiring, they are desperately looking for any powerful ally to support them. But with Russia too far away, Brandenburg and Austria vassals of the Celts, and France their most loyal ally, it looks like Spain will soon join the ranks of England, Portugal, The Hansa, and Naples as European nations subjugated by the Celts. The Celts will soon be able to finish their conquest of India, and with the Great Wù Dynasty slowly fracturing is looks as if the Middle Kingdom will soon be an extension of the Celtic East Indies.

The entirety of South America and most of the North is Celtic, with the only other European nation being a small French colony in the Falklands.

The Celts have been pushed around for too long. France will soon become a vassal, and the Celts will not stop until they have achieved world domination.

[Shentong]

How do I disable the tutorial?

[Shaggai]

They consider me powerful enough, but they've refused to accept the Reformation and there are only two independent Occultist counts in the Maritimes.

They refuse to accept the reformation? SMITE THE HERETICS! MASONRY FOR THE MASONTHRONE!

First I need to reclaim all of de jure New England. There are still a few Ursulines in part of it. Speaking of the Ursulines, I defeated another of their Crusades for Hudsonia. By the time that the next Crusade timer runs out, I'll have started to incorporate Hudsonia into New England.

[Akksum]

I got master of india! (Converted it all to)

Religious map mode:

Trade Map Mode:
India: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824457
Spain: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824521
Political map mode (Of India): http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824282

World map: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824313

World Religious map Mode: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824404

[Shaggai]

I got master of india! (Converted it all to)

Religious map mode:

Trade Map Mode:
India: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824457
Spain: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824521
Political map mode (Of India): http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824282

World map: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824313

World Religious map Mode: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824404

Remove Portugal.

[Akksum]

I got master of india! (Converted it all to)

Religious map mode:

Trade Map Mode:
India: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824457
Spain: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824521
Political map mode (Of India): http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824282

World map: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824313

World Religious map Mode: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824404

Remove Portugal.

Nah, I got over 150k men stationed in spain, and about 120k stationed in India. If I need to they're gone. But its fine right now. I got largest navy by about 4x they got.

[Bralia]

Either executing him serves a strategic purpose, or it does not. If it doesn't, money is always good. If it does...well, that's where things get interesting.

Well... i kind of did it for the lols really..

and it there is no ransom option on him, only let go or kill. And one of his kids already died like a day after i captured her so that leaves four, three boys and one girl. And then the other earl, and also a bishop. Those two ill probably sell.

I guess killing them all could throw the duchy of Strathclyde into anarchy for a bit, could lead to some fighting between different claimants. That could serve my purpose if i decide to strike into southern scotland.

Do it!

I got master of india! (Converted it all to)

Religious map mode:

Trade Map Mode:
India: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824457
Spain: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824521
Political map mode (Of India): http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824282

World map: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824313

World Religious map Mode: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824404

How did Lebanon get so huge?



Meanwhile, some early-game madness in EUIV. I don't think this game even understands the concept of the "Holy Roman Empire". If you thought France doesn't care when Austria is the Emperor . . .

[Akksum]

Well... i kind of did it for the lols really..

and it there is no ransom option on him, only let go or kill. And one of his kids already died like a day after i captured her so that leaves four, three boys and one girl. And then the other earl, and also a bishop. Those two ill probably sell.

I guess killing them all could throw the duchy of Strathclyde into anarchy for a bit, could lead to some fighting between different claimants. That could serve my purpose if i decide to strike into southern scotland.

Do it!

I got master of india! (Converted it all to)

Religious map mode:

Trade Map Mode:
India: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824457
Spain: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824521
Political map mode (Of India): http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824282

World map: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824313

World Religious map Mode: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =388824404

How did Lebanon get so huge?



Meanwhile, some early-game madness in EUIV. I don't think this game even understands the concept of the "Holy Roman Empire". If you thought France doesn't care when Austria is the Emperor . . .

Ottomans went into a civil war, Lebanon nationalists were able to occupy all of Syrian cored lands, while Poland, and Austria ripped their way through. Mamluks got independence to die 50 years later.

[Bralia]

Do it!


How did Lebanon get so huge?



Meanwhile, some early-game madness in EUIV. I don't think this game even understands the concept of the "Holy Roman Empire". If you thought France doesn't care when Austria is the Emperor . . .

Ottomans went into a civil war, Lebanon nationalists were able to occupy all of Syrian cored lands, while Poland, and Austria ripped their way through. Mamluks got independence to die 50 years later.

I have a feeling that Lebanon is going to disappear, too. The Ottomans are absolutely relentless when it comes to reconquest.

[Nationstatelandsville]

After moving files around, I've finally got After the End to work.

Currently playing as the Rust Cultist Tycoon of Michigan and am about to move on Detroit, and I stand to inherit the duchies of Burning River and the one surrounding Pittsburg.

Pittsburgh.

There's an "h", you bastard!

[The Jonathanian States]

They refuse to accept the reformation? SMITE THE HERETICS! MASONRY FOR THE MASONTHRONE!

First I need to reclaim all of de jure New England. There are still a few Ursulines in part of it. Speaking of the Ursulines, I defeated another of their Crusades for Hudsonia. By the time that the next Crusade timer runs out, I'll have started to incorporate Hudsonia into New England.

Heh. I occupied them during the Hudsonian Holy War for New York which they joined. I'd guess it was quite a surprise to them.
Also, their Abbess-General, or whatever her title is, multiple times attempted to convert stronkest England before the reformation.
One of the times it was a female cardinal...

NOW CRUSH THE HEATHENS! SMITE THE HERETICS!

[The Archregimancy]

I've recently started a game of CKII as the Petty King of Connacht, and my sole long-term goal was to unite Ireland.

I'd managed to make a little headway, and had united three counties under my ruler, when the Pope called the first Crusade of the game.

For much of the Crusade, I was second behind England for my war contribution by about 5%; reasonably impressive given the small size of my demesne, but I didn't really see how I was going to overtake England given their much larger contribution to the Crusade.

Except I just about managed to do just that, finishing as leader of the Crusade by just 2%, and founding the Kingdom of Jerusalem under a ruler who's now become Tadg, King of Jerusalem, Duke of Jerusalem and Connacht.

And no one's more surprised than I am.

The only problem now is that King Tadg only has daughters - five of them (he did have a son, but the drooling imbecile was assassinated by Tadg's own father some years back rather than risk letting him gain title to the family holdings). He even divorced his first wife in the attempt to have a son with a second wife; still no luck. And his eldest daughter (matrilineal marriage, of course) also only has daughters....

Problem since solved the easy way....

King Tadg embraced hedonism and has managed to father a couple of sons on his depressive second wife.

He even managed to fight off a jihad called by the Sunni Caliph when the latter failed to drag the rest of the Seljuk state into the war, and unexpectedly found Gwent falling into his domains when the Duke of Galilee inherited the latter.

Meanwhile the Seljuks and Fatimids are fighting each other for control of Syria, so I'm likely safe there for a little while at least (assuming Tadg can stay alive until his eldest son turns 16).

So a little breathing space to build up some strength, try and chip away at the rest of Ireland, and generally stabilise the unexpected formation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem under the Dukes of Connacht. I doubt I can hold on to Jerusalem in the long term unless the Seljuks and Fatimids exhaust each other so much they fracture into constituent realms, so the main goal for now remains the formation of the Kingdom of Ireland.

So, some 300 years later....

The Irish Catholic Kingdom of Jerusalem controls much of the Eastern Mediterranean between Aleppo and Cyrenaica, and all of the east coast of the Red Sea down to Yemen.

The united Kingdom of Ireland was given independence a century or so ago, but Jerusalem still holds all of Wales (only because all but two provinces of Wales are actually under the control of my most powerful vassals, the Dukes of Galilee - so granting proper Welsh independence is tricky).

Under the combined onslaught of the Catholic monarchs of Jerusalem, Leon, Navarre, Aragon, and the HRE and the Orthodox Ilkhanate, Sunni Islam has virtually disappeared - to be replaced by Yazidi and Zikriti sects.

Shia Islam is still hanging on, largely because the Fatimids have had some success against the Yazidi Almoravids; but their territories are reduced to North Africa and the inland deserts of Arabia

England and France are a single kingdom controlled by the Godwin family, though the different inheritance laws (primogeniture in England, gavelkind in France) lead to occasional renewed disunity in the Godwinite state. A strong, united Scotland controls the north of Britain.

Islam has been expelled from the Iberian peninsula, with Aragon winning the battle for peninsular unity (though since Leon was once in the lead, who knows; the situation is highly fluid).

The Yazidi Seljuk dynasty still controls a wealthy region of Mesopotamia, despite being sandwiched between Jerusalem and the Ilkhanate, but a civil war has split the state.

The Holy Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire are powerful and united, though both now have elective monarchies.

Abyssinia and Jerusalem border each other in southern 'Egypt', though the African state is currently recovering from one of a sequence of terrible civil wars.

Ruthenia controls most of 'Rus'; Lithuania controls Lithuania proper and almost all of 'Finland'.

Poland and Hungary control much of central Europe, though the HRE has been chipping away at a Kingdom of Bohemia that became independent while I wasn't looking. The HRE also controls parts of far southern Iberia and north Africa.

There has been little change in the borders of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway for centuries.

Ancona, the Papal States (recently regaining independence from the HRE), the Kingdom of Pisa, and what's left of the Kingdom of Sicily control central and non-Byzantine southern Italy.

Looking forward to taking this over to EUIV eventually.....

[Arkolon]

Screenshots, Reg?

[The Archregimancy]

Screenshots, Reg?

Behold, Europe & the Med in 1368 - though note that Scandinavia is in far more turmoil than I remembered, with Norway apparently disintegrating. I'd also forgotten the split between Nubia and Abyssinia. The rest of my description is broadly accurate, though.

[Wolfenium]

Screenshots, Reg?

Behold, Europe & the Med in 1368 - though note that Scandinavia is in far more turmoil than I remembered, with Norway apparently disintegrating. I'd also forgotten the split between Nubia and Abyssinia. The rest of my description is broadly accurate, though.

How'd you manage to hold out? Who'd you start out as?

Edit: ah, never mind. Saw the previous post.

[The BranRiech]

Not much love for Victoria 2 around here, is there.

This was an interesting development of the WW2 scenario with the Victoria Ultimate mod. I started the game as Yugoslavia, and since Germany was quickly gobbling up all the world-powers at the time, I somehow ended up getting the sphere over the rest of the Baltic states, and was able to form the Federation of the Danube. One quick communist revolution later left me as the only communist government left on earth, and a super-inflated Germany sitting right above me constantly stuck in civil war.

[Bralia]

Screenshots, Reg?

Behold, Europe & the Med in 1368 - though note that Scandinavia is in far more turmoil than I remembered, with Norway apparently disintegrating. I'd also forgotten the split between Nubia and Abyssinia. The rest of my description is broadly accurate, though.

*snippety*

A remarkably well consolidated world. As a Border Whore, I mostly approve.

Not much love for Victoria 2 around here, is there.

This was an interesting development of the WW2 scenario with the Victoria Ultimate mod. I started the game as Yugoslavia, and since Germany was quickly gobbling up all the world-powers at the time, I somehow ended up getting the sphere over the rest of the Baltic states, and was able to form the Federation of the Danube. One quick communist revolution later left me as the only communist government left on earth, and a super-inflated Germany sitting right above me constantly stuck in civil war.

Vicky 2 simply isn't talked about much. There are people aplenty who will engage at the sight of another Vicky player, though. Like me! Very impressive accomplishment, indeed.

[Mefpan]

Not much love for Victoria 2 around here, is there.

This was an interesting development of the WW2 scenario with the Victoria Ultimate mod. I started the game as Yugoslavia, and since Germany was quickly gobbling up all the world-powers at the time, I somehow ended up getting the sphere over the rest of the Baltic states, and was able to form the Federation of the Danube. One quick communist revolution later left me as the only communist government left on earth, and a super-inflated Germany sitting right above me constantly stuck in civil war.

Reich in permanent civil war, you say?

Move up, smash fascist beast for glory of ludicrous titoism.

[Arkolon]

Not much love for Victoria 2 around here, is there.

This was an interesting development of the WW2 scenario with the Victoria Ultimate mod. I started the game as Yugoslavia, and since Germany was quickly gobbling up all the world-powers at the time, I somehow ended up getting the sphere over the rest of the Baltic states, and was able to form the Federation of the Danube. One quick communist revolution later left me as the only communist government left on earth, and a super-inflated Germany sitting right above me constantly stuck in civil war.

My computer borked when I bought CK2 and EUIV in a sale. We're not sure what happened, but neither of them play anymore despite many, many uninstalls and reinstalls. Anyway, point is I am only left with Vic2, so it's all I ever play. Always happy to chat about it! I've never played till endgame, though, cos I usually get caught up in a mess before making it far into the 20th century. Any other impressive feats?

[The BranRiech]

Reich in permanent civil war, you say?

Move up, smash fascist beast for glory of ludicrous titoism.

Myeh, at this point in the game (The 60's) The Nazis have nukes (As do I) and I'd rather not get caught in a costly war with them. They've still got a competent military, but it's just preoccupied dealing with Russian uprisings and such.

[Mefpan]

Reich in permanent civil war, you say?

Move up, smash fascist beast for glory of ludicrous titoism.

Myeh, at this point in the game (The 60's) The Nazis have nukes (As do I) and I'd rather not get caught in a costly war with them. They've still got a competent military, but it's just preoccupied dealing with Russian uprisings and such.

How do nukes work in a game like Victoria 2 anyway?

Never managed to wrap my head around it.