EU III

[Tropicarno]

I am a avid player of Eu III Proberly on of my most Fav Games ever created for the Pc Gameing Platform

I am Eager to see if anyone else in the forum plays such a game and if so what is your Fav Faction? and Possibly your Strategys

[Sun Aut Ex]

I'm playing EU3HttT right now. I use a random number generator to pick a country at random. Right now I'm playing through as Annam.

[Schwabenreich]

I've played a lot of EU3, I've been playing since the Napolean's Ambition expansion, and pretty much started my games with every expansion and occassionally the patches. Tried most of the big mods, a lot of little ones. I have possibly 900 hours of gameplay on EU3. My favorite factions tend to be, Teutonic Order, Bavaria, Sweden, Lübeck/Hansa, Moldavia and Ottoman Empire. Though I've had a lot of fun games as Muscowy, Korea, Japan and other Deutsch or Scandinavian states, and as Milan. I've played a few Hungary games but for some reason I never get far before I lose interest or load a different save.

[Tropicarno]

Hmm Nic Selection My Favs incluide Venice,Hungary,France (Altho way to over powered) and Ocassionally the Byzantines I always like to play far but like you i get very bored so i tend to play online alot with my freinds which seems to work alot better when you are constantly thewted by your Opponants

[Sun Aut Ex]

The best thing is building an empire out of a tiny state, and vassalising your powerful neighbours.

[Tropicarno]

yh thats Very Satisfieing Lol I do it as Venice I have created italy out of Venice but then the MASSIVE ottoamans and French Warned me (Very Angry Sad face)

[Dennisov]

I still haven't switched from EU2 to EU3, which expansions do you have, from the four, I only have Napoleon's ambition, without that one I found the game seriously lacking, perhaps the other three bring it up to the level of EU2.
As far as factions go, I love playing Savoy in EU2. Playing EU3 I got really annoyed with a retreating army doing their retreating behind my front line. Ugh, having to hunt them down and chasing them all over my land, so annoying!

[Tropicarno]

Yeh i have Na and In Niomie and not Httt yet but i will soon altho i have played it and its very good You still have the army Chaseing but thats Ok with me cos it gives me the chance to Utterly Anialte a Countrys Ability to fight me, Take the Inicitive Kinda Thing It also adds things like National Desistions such as Forming Germany,Prussia and Italy Reforms westerniseing and altho the Ability to make Religius Reforms to i love it

[Schwabenreich]

Hmm Nic Selection My Favs incluide Venice,Hungary,France (Altho way to over powered) and Ocassionally the Byzantines I always like to play far but like you i get very bored so i tend to play online alot with my freinds which seems to work alot better when you are constantly thewted by your Opponants

Ah, I tend to prefer Milano to Venice, because its more militarized, in the Holy Roman Empire, and is a monarchy. I also prefer Burgundy to France, because of its starting provinces and an Anti-french sentiment (hey they've ruined my games for me with their haxness, its fun kicking away their chances to blob nice and early) and for the Balkans I tend to play the Romanians, Hungarians or Ottomans, Though I've been tempted to play Byzantine, if only because it seems in HTTP they are in such a position to make a comeback, like, those hell nice casus bellis. Would be fun reviving the Roman Empire in that sense. Playing with friends is nice as long as they don't betray you, me and a friend of mine were playing a Sweden, Muscowy game, and taking and selling each other provinces to get away from infamy, it easily helped us expand more then either of us would accomplish by ourselves, was really fun. On the other hand, one time I was neighbouring a human player and he out of no where threw his treasury up high, inflated like crazy, and just declared war on me XD

[Tropicarno]

Well i Like Venice cos there Navy is very Important and When fighting the Ottoamans its Easy to Eradicate them But yeh Milan is good but Venice Userly is able to Beat them Early on Unfortuntly

On the other hand i Love Multiplayer I do keep my Deals but im a Very Agressive player and if i want something i will DO all i can to get it all in all im a Fun person to play with but dont expect Relations to stay sweet all the time especilly if we fight over something Similer

[Salandriagado]

I'm playing England, trying to take all of Europe without annexing anything, whilst colonising the entire eastern American coastline.

[Schwabenreich]

Well i Like Venice cos there Navy is very Important and When fighting the Ottoamans its Easy to Eradicate them But yeh Milan is good but Venice Userly is able to Beat them Early on Unfortuntly

On the other hand i Love Multiplayer I do keep my Deals but im a Very Agressive player and if i want something i will DO all i can to get it all in all im a Fun person to play with but dont expect Relations to stay sweet all the time especilly if we fight over something Similer

What has always appealed to me about Venice is how rich it is, in my games its normally richer then Genoa, and has nicer provinces then Genoa. At the same time, I tend to play Lübeck for a similar motivation (wealth).

I'm a naturally defensive player, just, building up, trying to unite my culture group or neaten up my borders, at the same time however I recognise that that would be a weakness ultimately, so I remind myself to be an oppertunist and attack whenever I have a good casus belli going for me. Once I get big late game I start invading without casus bellis.

I'm playing England, trying to take all of Europe without annexing anything, whilst colonising the entire eastern American coastline.

Ambitious, I'm assuming you're using a lot of claim thrones? Or just vassalising everything?

[Tropicarno]

I find Conquering the Brittish Isles without Annexing Mighty Hard?

And Well Venice is Massively Wealthy which allows me to Build up a Huge army very Nicely, the only problem is the Republic Government type :/ WHich means all your leaders are old so if you get a good one he will die off pretty qiuck. but if you get a crap one he can be voted away Very Qiuck

Also there Navy just Pawns anything in Italy giving them a huge Advantige plus they own a Cot which is always good

[Schwabenreich]

I find Conquering the Brittish Isles without Annexing Mighty Hard?

And Well Venice is Massively Wealthy which allows me to Build up a Huge army very Nicely, the only problem is the Republic Government type :/ WHich means all your leaders are old so if you get a good one he will die off pretty qiuck. but if you get a crap one he can be voted away Very Qiuck

Also there Navy just Pawns anything in Italy giving them a huge Advantige plus they own a Cot which is always good

Yeah, though I have a trick to beat the AI Venice's navy. What I do is, I run a ship around, the other side of Italy, Venice's navy goes to chase it.. then bam! Rush my men over before it can get back, surprisingly I've been doing that since IN, and it still works for me.

[Tropicarno]

Yeh but the Ai are Just Stupid!

Maybe we should play a Game together sometime Altho i would like abit of Help with Fegging INflation annoys the hell outta me

[Segmentia]

I played the demo for HttT quite a bit. I would usually play as England and try to stay out of affairs of mainland Europe until I had a large fleet and army. Then I would go to war with France (Usually as Austria was at war with them also). Unfortunantly, the demo time limit would usually run out before I could defeat them.

[Lietvos]

One of my favorite games of all time too, especially with one of the player mods like Whole World. I play various different games, Portugal is one of my favorites as is Poland, Bohemia's great for land empires. Also, despite the game's name, you should try some countries other than European ones - Uniting India especially can be an interesting goal.

[Tropicarno]

England are a Amazeing side i just ont like that France Pawns em :/

And Yeh Portugal are good but i prefere Europe its just a more Intresting place to be at that Time, Plus many more Nations to ANNEX!!! >:D

[Schwabenreich]

Yeh but the Ai are Just Stupid!

Maybe we should play a Game together sometime Altho i would like abit of Help with Fegging INflation annoys the hell outta me

I tend to not build troops if I can't keep my inflation 0, the exception to this is Magna Mundi and MEIOU where sometimes that is impossible. I often get bank first national idea, just so I can put up my treasury without taking on inflation, though I hear the national bank isn't what the pros use.

One of my favorite games of all time too, especially with one of the player mods like Whole World. I play various different games, Portugal is one of my favorites as is Poland, Bohemia's great for land empires. Also, despite the game's name, you should try some countries other than European ones - Uniting India especially can be an interesting goal.

India never rly did it for me, everytime I start a game in India I normally stop playing in a few ingame years. I can't keep it up. Though I've played just about everywhere else, except Oceania (Whole World Mod wise). I've played a few Portugal games, but I always, screw it up somehow, like either, I get stuck not being able to do anything, or even fund my colonies, or I just get attacked by Morroco or Spain, either way early game, I'm screwed. Always wanted to play Bohemia though, take the Jageillon nations, and then like, move my capital to a Deutsch province to asismilate away from Czech, and maybe unite teh HRE as them (something I've only done as Bavaria and Austria at the moment).

[Tropicarno]

Well I Enjoy playing it so Much Im always Looking out for other Players to Join me in a Game Should be Very Intresting The more Players the More bloody it becomes

[Schwabenreich]

Well I Enjoy playing it so Much Im always Looking out for other Players to Join me in a Game Should be Very Intresting The more Players the More bloody it becomes

How do you claim provinces? I tend to go by a hierarchy. For myself the main priority is culture group, though sometimes I disagree with how the cultures were placed, for example MEIOU made Ingria Russian, to my dismay, when at the time I have confidence that it would in fact, be the native peoples of the finno-ugric culture. Magna Mundi also has annoyed me with how it identifies the Frisians and Swabians, sometimes they get it right, then next version it seems all wrong to me. Secondly, I then go by nice shape, say, you're Moldavia, and you really want Dobregea or Silistria to fix your border, you're damn right I'll take it and the other bulgarian/crimean provinces to get a nice shape I want. Thirdly I have historical claim, for example, I am playing Austria, you're damn right I'll want Hungary, 1 for being Hapsburg, and 2 to make a similar thing to Austro-Hungary as historical. Though they're examples and I tend to make exceptions particularly in the interest of mutual exchange and friendship, conceding the right of others to claim provinces I would want.

[Zephie]

i Like medieval 2 =D

[Schwabenreich]

i Like medieval 2 =D

Same here, but gameplay wise I preferred Rome TW. Currently I've been powering through the kingdom campaigns for M2TW, doing well as Norway in Britannia =D

[New Wallonochia]

I tend to play as minor European states, usually Scotland, Brittany or one of the smaller German states like Hessen. I'll usually set minor goals for myself, I tend to try just to survive and make a few colonies in North America as Scotland or Brittany and as German states I try to unite Germany.

I did play once as the Iroquois and managed to prevent all European colonization of North America, but it was incredibly boring until the Europeans started showing up.

[Tropicarno]

I Love the Total wars Strategy Gameing is the way forward so much more fun then Fps and Hey i bet fighting the Colonials was very fun