[QUOTE=Achilles123;27781141]Yeah, I fear the might of the Holy Roman Empire too.
I had the good fortune of Burgundy annexing Hainaut, and then later when all hell broke loose in England, I managed to snag Leinster. Afterwards, when England was occupied with something else, I took a province from Brittany. Then I was able to start colonizing pretty early, due to my good trade abilities and naval tech.[/QUOTE]
I thought I was doing pretty well until everyone started to gangbang me. I had 5 merchants in all CoTs I could find, and eventually created my own. I had the mad cash. Then England comes in and starts kicking my ass, but then I managed to pay them off, with my massive wads of ducats.
Is this as slow paced as HoI or is it a bit faster?
It is much, much faster gameplay. You can't really even compare them to be honest.
For most European countries at the start of the game in 1399, getting a government tech ASAP is your best bet, because then you unlock your first NI.
When trying to choose between getting a production or a trade tech, if none of them unlocks anything like a new building or monopolies or something, check what kind of income gives you more gold, and get a tech in that income, I mean, it's better to get an extra 1% in production if it gives you 20 gold rather than trade if it gives you 15 gold.
I played like 30 minutes as some Irish clan starting with an L.
I manged to unite Ireland, and got scotland to invade lower England.
This game is impossible.
I started as England, and all went well for like 3 months. I was on the verge of making Scotland my vassal when out of the blue, France attacks me.
So does Scotland. After a 2 years long war where I lost all my holdings in France, and I took over all of Scotland, all of the sudden my entire country started revolting against me.
I also went bankrupt trying to quell the rebellions.
After I couldn't fight anymore Wales broke away and France invaded me and I decided to fuck it and quit.
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;27785267]Is this as slow paced as HoI or is it a bit faster?[/QUOTE]
HoI isn't slow paced. The only time it is slow paced is during the first few years prior to the war. After that, it's war - and war isn't slow paced.
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;27818186]This game is impossible.[/QUOTE]
Psssh I'm doing well
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Maybe something was up with declaring war 3 months into the game? If you still owned Calais that could be what gave France a reason to attack you as well
My main problem was keeping my populace happy.
My entire country revolted and took me over.
[QUOTE=Frayyyy;27818698]Psssh I'm doing well
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Maybe something was up with declaring war 3 months into the game? If you still owned Calais that could be what gave France a reason to attack you as well[/QUOTE]
Yes. France will constantly harass England until it has all the European mainland provinces controlled by them back. Imo, give them up. This will allow you to slash your military spending, as you will only need to maintain a smallish army to fend off rebels and the Scottish.
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;27818854]My main problem was keeping my populace happy.
My entire country revolted and took me over.[/QUOTE]
Stability. Keep it high as possible. Not only does it keep people happy, but it also increases the amount you make from tax.
The first thing I do is start pumping money into my stability.
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;27818854]My main problem was keeping my populace happy.
My entire country revolted and took me over.[/QUOTE]
Need to keep your stability, legitimacy and prestige as high as possible. The lower they are, the more negative modifiers you have towards civilian happiness.
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;27818186]This game is impossible.
I started as England, and all went well for like 3 months. I was on the verge of making Scotland my vassal when out of the blue, France attacks me.
So does Scotland. After a 2 years long war where I lost all my holdings in France, and I took over all of Scotland, all of the sudden my entire country started revolting against me.
I also went bankrupt trying to quell the rebellions.
After I couldn't fight anymore Wales broke away and France invaded me and I decided to fuck it and quit.[/QUOTE]
Two words: War Exhaustion
I've been playing again despite DW breaking my old saves. It's a hell of a lot better on my new computer, an uneventuful year on maximum speed takes maybe three minutes instead of 15. One long session and it's already 1525, it also means it's not a chore waiting for badboy to decrease.
I'm playing as Denmark, not got a whole lot done mind you. I inherited Norway, early on took the islands in the Baltic which I then lost to rebels supported by England and the other to the HRE, who also robbed me of Orkney and completely wiped everybody off the British Isles forming GB by 1480, owning large chunks of North Africa, Northern France and Croatia. I've not been able to do much expanding apart from two provinces from Sweden because of the damned Germans and their massive chumnetwork and Sweden being best friends with The Hansa (Holy shit powerful and rich and require regular bribes to stop them from murdering me), Austria and Breat Britain.
However, Castille invaded Britain and took a good chunk of England, allowing one of the Italian states to take Ireland entirely.
I had a game where I was at war for 100 years straight. From 1400-1506.
I lost, but France was a smoldering ashpile by time I was done with it.
Fuck, I'm trying to play Whole World mod, but it randomly freezes after 5-7 minutes of gamplay.
[I]Pissing [B]me OFF.[/B][/I]
What does the whole world mod do?
Because the game already includes the whole world.
I like how in my Portuguese game; after defeating the French in 1429 they gobbled up some of their old vassals for more land after they were reduced by peace treaties and allied-sponsored rebel uprisings. So now they're actually larger than they were prior to the war had began. I guess people weren't lying when they say France is the strongest nation in EU3, heh.
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[QUOTE=Uberman77883;27886540]What does the whole world mod do?
Because the game already includes the whole world.[/QUOTE][url]http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?363614-*Whole-World-Mod*[/url]
Any good ways to force a cassus belli on a country you don't like?
As England I always try hard to fuck up France with stacks of tens of thousands of troops, but they always die.
Any tips for killing France?
Do you have good leaders that command these doom sticks, good technology/discipline/moral that's superior to the French?
You could try getting chummy with Burgundy and Brittany, and have them attack France from both sides while you sail your men in from the north. You might also want to try Castille/Aragon, they're not too friendly with France either.
Shits going down in Piedmont.
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There was a 2k Spanish army in Nice but they're a bunch of pussies and ditched me, thanks Castille you're the best.
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Divine Wind. Worth installing? I just see people saying that it doesn't change much everywhere. Mods also seem to be incompatible with it.
If not, then should I put any mods on Heir to the Throne? If so, which one's really recommended? I see a lot of different propositions in this thread, but can't decide between them.
I didn't buy Divine Wind and I don't feel like I'm exactly missing out, although I would imagine if you want to play as Japan it wouldn't be a bad idea to pick it up
As for recommending mods I would agree with OP and say that Eastern Tales is awesome
The new map is very nice, though some of the new buildings are a little (read: extremely) overpowered.
I can't remember what's new. Manufacturies? THey're damned powerful but also damned expensive. When I built my first and only one so far the province it was in was conveniently seized by rebels during construction and then invaded by Castille. I managed to keep it though, fortunately for my treasury.
I wish I still had HTTT installed rather than divine wind so I could play that eastern tales mod.
HTTT + Eastern Tales it is.
EDIT: oh my fucking god it starts in 5 AD fuck yeah I can play the incas while fucking up all my neighbours without the fucking Europeans barging in woohoo
P.S. does it get rid of permanent Terra Incognita?
I remember playing as portugal once and before I unpaused it I engaged war with Granada with the casus belli "Holy War"
Apparently Castille didn't like that at all, they engaged war on me with NO Casus belli so their stability got fucked.
England didn't like that, so England came down and took castille down while on the bottom rebels were popping up, nationalists and pretenders (Funded by me) Along with Galician nationalists in the top (Funded by me, Again.).
As the war went on, I ended up targeting and capturing the coast line on the top as england started to fuck it over along with the pretenders and nationalists.
Soon after england occupied Granada (But didn't annex.) and Castille, leaving a 100% for me. So I figured it out, capturing the four coastal provinces I occupied (Along with Castille's CoT, YAY!) I ended up being happy about it.
As soon as it was 1405 (When the war ended with the righteous acquisition of Castille's coastline) I occupied Granada after england left, ending it up so Castille is fucked and cannot compensate for it's loss and having no army, Eventually Galicia broke off in which I (in a hurry) vassilized it so that it can connect to the upper coast.
At 1409 something interesting happened, Aragon attacked Castille, taking over two landlocked provinces and going back into a truce.
In the 1410-1420's there were recent and happy times ahead, the trade technology I invested in paid off and I was hurrying on my way to colonize north america's atlantic region, As I done this I entered into an alliance with Aragon (Fucking Castille over MORE.) and explored downwards hoping to find some good colonies, being the first I did! In the 1415-1420's I ended up massing "Demand Annexations' on Galicia in which they finally succombed to the joy of being part of Portugal! :v:
In the end, Castille is majorly fucked as their CoT is owned by me so I can kill their economy at any time, along with most of their ships can be blockaded through the small strait.
Is it only for me that this game is like most other new Paradox Interactive games? (Really Buggy)
I've got all the expansions and the latest patches, but at some events it just stops responding.
I've tried reinstalling but it didn't help much. Oh well, I'll just have to make it autosave more often.
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Also, am I the only one who doesn't give a shit about colonizing and that stuff? I focus mainly on my country and it's neighbours.
Okay, can someone explain something to me? I'm playing as Burgundy, and I was elected emperor (woohoo, fuck you bohemia/austria) but for some reason I gained six or seven provinces without doing anything. Which I suppose wouldn't be a bad thing, but it gave me Estland, all the way over in Sweden, which you can probably bet is a little difficult to maintain [I]from western europe.
[/I]Anyone have any ideas?
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