Can someone explain this?
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I'm bordering their only province.
Paradox and their 'testing'
God dammit. Even with AoW's improved AI via objectives, France's army is still dumb as shit. They had a stack of 16 sitting in a province adjacent to a battle where one of our alliance's army was defending against a slightly larger (piece of fucking garbage) Habsburg army. This war will probably be the end of my Hessian game. Current peace is releasing Cologne and ceding more provinces than I care to give.
I have the votes to become emperor too, but the (again, spawns of Satan) Habsburgs are immortal. If I'd become emperor during the war, Austria would've lost its force limit and succumbed to massive debt. But nope.
I'll just go fuck myself.
Going to start a Bavaria one where it is my sole goal to annihilate the Habsburgs.
for a game that's more geared toward mp paradorks sure are bad at actually making eu4 mp work properly with a bunch of people
my son is 37 years old and still hasn't boned his wife.
I have half a mind to accept one of the few dozen "Your daughter in law seems to be attracted to you." to do the job for him, god damn.
[QUOTE=LtKyle2;46393829]my son is 37 years old and still hasn't boned his wife.
I have half a mind to accept one of the few dozen "Your daughter in law seems to be attracted to you." to do the job for him, god damn.[/QUOTE]
If he's just sitting at your court it might be because courtiers stop making children when there's already a ton of people at your court (iirc).
[QUOTE=Kljunas;46394105]If he's just sitting at your court it might be because courtiers stop making children when there's already a ton of people at your court (iirc).[/QUOTE]
I gave him a fief after he kept bothering me about it and over several years he didn't even touch her.
Ugh. I think I'm giving up on playing in the HRE. If you expand, Austria tries to bully you into giving the provinces back. If you give them the finger, eventually a coalition pops up against you, and someone'll end up DoWing you and suddenly everyone at your doorstep. If Lithuania didn't cop out I would easily be able to win this war, but at this rate Bohemia, Poland, and myself are fucked.
I also seem incapable of breeding decent rulers, whereas Austria and some small OPMs are able to pump out gods.
What they did to the Ottomans in Art of War?Now their forces are almost unbeatable, I can't play as Byzantium anymore. Even their fleet got buffed.
[QUOTE=Kefirman;46405863]What they did to the Ottomans in Art of War?Now their forces are almost unbeatable, I can't play as Byzantium anymore. Even their fleet got buffed.[/QUOTE]
Their economy is so much more advanced now, too.
[QUOTE=Kefirman;46405863]What they did to the Ottomans in Art of War?Now their forces are almost unbeatable, I can't play as Byzantium anymore. Even their fleet got buffed.[/QUOTE]
Because they don't want a nation that historically bites it hard a few years into the game, hence why every time there's a strategy to survive as them Pdox terms it a "exploit" and nerfs it all to hell. They don't believe it should be possible to play as them cause their survival is not part of their "vision".
You know, the nation that people payed money for a flavor dlc.
I've seen AI Byzantium, Pre-AOW survive a few times without my intervention.
[editline]4th November 2014[/editline]
I did a Hands off game last week with random lucky nations. I saw North African nations colonize a little bit in South America and Asia, it was great.
I just don't like it when people complain that Byzantium was totally capable of fighting off the entire Ottoman empire; They were already at death's doors and the only reason why the Turks didn't steamroll them so fast is because, essentially, they were the ones allowing their existence for such a long time.
The Byzantium also held Turkish princes and would threaten to release them if the Sultan attacked, the prince would then cause some major problems for the Sultan if he decided he was the rightful Sultan.
But yeah the Byzantines were fairly fucked for some time by the time EU4 rolls around, Paradox is VERY generous if anything.
[QUOTE=Trebgarta;46408459]I don't know what princes you are talking about, but the only civil strife happened when Byz was still alive was in 1402, when Bayezit the "ligthing" got captured [SP]and caged , FYI[/SP] by Timur, his sons started it.
Where a prince from the court of Byzantium happened to raise a claim too. That one was Mustafa the Pretender, and was only one of several princes, Suleyman was a more major actor than Mustafa. The winner prince was Mehmet Çelebi, when he defeated the others in 1413. For 11 years, Ottoman State was divided, and in an [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Interregnum"]Interregnum[/URL]. No land was lost in the Balkans AFAIK, which was better protected because Ottoman Empire was always about the Balkans, whereas some Beyliks were resurrected in Anatolia.
Other than that, I don't know what you are talking about.[/QUOTE]
Eh, I was reading Osman's Dream when I came across something referring to Ottoman princes residing in Byzantine courts, I am almost certain the Emperor at the time used this opportunity to threaten the Sultan by funding the princes. I could always be wrong of course but that bit always stuck out for me.
Also, wasn't the final conquest against Byz started because a Prince managed to convince the Ottomans that he was in fact being tortured as a hostage?
2 beta patches later and eu4 mp is still a pile of wet donkey turds, thank johan
[QUOTE=Trebgarta;46409643]Nah. It was because Mehmed II wanted to do something big, like conquering Constantinople, the best defended city of the era.
Mehmed II originally cam to throne in 1444, when he was 12, as his father simply let him take the throne and abdicated. Being oppurtunistic, Christians formed another Holy League, consisting of several states, most notably including Hungary and Poland. Seeing this, Mehmed appointed his father as the head of the armies. There is a famous quote of him doing that, "Either you take the army's command because I am the Padshah and I order you so, or because you are the Padshah and it is your duty to do so. ". Then his father, Murad, crushed the league at Varna. (This is where the Polish king died, and because of that Poland starts the game as an interregnum.)After that , Murad continued to rule the country.
When Murad died in 1451 and Mehmed took the throne at the age of 19, he felt the need to live up to his father's name. Many Christian rulers in those years believed that the death of Murad rendered the Ottoman State weak, and thus Mehmed felt the need to restore that prestige. As actions speak louder than words, conquest of Constantinople was the best course of action. Starting from the day of his taking of the throne, for 2 years on full throttle, he prepared for that.
[B]TL;DR:[/B] Nope, Prestige businesses[/QUOTE]
Yeah, Mehmet saw himself as a Caesar or Alexander reborn and wanted to earn the title [I]Fatih[/I] aka conqueror. He wanted to succeed where his ancestors had failed for the last millennium.
That's why he attacked. Never heard about this whole torturing princes business.
I had an awesome leader named Ceaser, fucker died within 2 years.
[QUOTE=Captain Kep;46406447]Because they don't want a nation that historically bites it hard a few years into the game, hence why every time there's a strategy to survive as them Pdox terms it a "exploit" and nerfs it all to hell. They don't believe it should be possible to play as them cause their survival is not part of their "vision".
You know, the nation that people payed money for a flavor dlc.[/QUOTE]
I started a Byz game a few days ago it was easy. Get gud.
How do you guys pick your nations in EUIV? I'm in the middle of a reasonably successful Bavaria game where France and I just stomped Austria, but I've been reading a lot about Poland/Commonwealth around this time and suddenly I want to abandon my Bavaria game and start a Poland one. :v:
been streaming CK2 for a while, come watch me get torn apart by holy wars and rebellions as I try to become the first Jewish Queen of Serbia at [url]http://www.twitch.tv/erectorbeast[/url]
Suddenly, i'm the king of Norway.
I have no idea how that happened.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/xKr8SJb.png[/IMG]
I knew Dalaskogen was full of money, but that's a bit extreme.
CK2 really brings out the dark side in me, sometimes I will just refuse a good ransom money from a vassal just to throw in the oubliette for opposing my rule.
"I wish I could torture people and keep them in my prison, they fucking deserve it for ruining a good chance to attack (nationnamehere)"
and
"Why can't I kill my drooling imbecile of a son, jesus"
[QUOTE=Black;46415316]CK2 really brings out the dark side in me, sometimes I will just refuse a good ransom money from a vassal just to throw in the oubliette for opposing my rule.
"I wish I could torture people and keep them in my prison, they fucking deserve it for ruining a good chance to attack (nationnamehere)"
and
"Why can't I kill my drooling imbecile of a son, jesus"[/QUOTE]
The unofficial tagline is "I thought I was a good person."
Ahaha fuck I got such a weird game.
Asturias is gone, Muslims have complete control of Iberia and are pushing into Frankish lands. The first crusade happened decades around 910 and pushed back the muslims. Western Europe in general looks like a tornado went through it.
Bavaria declared a Holy War on me when I was defending against some punk trying to take a holy site me(Poland). All my levies were busy seiging said punk.
"Well shit, what do I d-" "MY LIEGE, I HAVE RALLIED 8,900 YOUNG POLISH WARRIORS DRAWN TO YOUR CAUSE WHO WISH TO FIGHT FOR YOUR HONOUR."
Cool. Raised my vassal levies and and I had a 10k doomstack raiding Bavarian lands. They were pretty eager to end their Holy War.
Oh hey, some other guy is besieging my coastal provinces, but I got no one t- "MY LIEGE I HAVE RAISED 8,900 HOLY WARRIORS WHO WISH TO FIGHT FOR THE SLAVIC FAITH."
Awesome. Poland remains the eastern superpower. I'm playing on the latest beta so did Paradox do a patch where Hungary finally loses their 30k deathstack? Because soon after forming Hungary they took a few lands then a bunch of civil wars started happening and Bulgaria was bending them over the table. One I take another holy site from Ruthenia I'll build up moral authority and Poland will be the head of the slavic faith!
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;46415735]The unofficial tagline is "I thought I was a good person."[/QUOTE]
Pretty much every single CK2 player plays like Tywin Lannister.
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