Is EU3 fun yet?

[garbon]

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[Viking]

I just watched the BBB get assraped. A Full Size France with all of Modern France's provinces except Provence, Avignon, Lorraine and Brittany. France annexed Savoy and got itself Excommunicated. The next 20 years was spent at war with Castille, England, Aragon, Austria and Finally Me Burgundy. France was reduced to 6 provinces (the Valois core around Paris).

I'm coming to the conclusion that there is a problem with Infamy/Threat/War Exhaustion.

[DGuller]

I just watched the BBB get assraped. A Full Size France with all of Modern France's provinces except Provence, Avignon, Lorraine and Brittany. France annexed Savoy and got itself Excommunicated. The next 20 years was spent at war with Castille, England, Aragon, Austria and Finally Me Burgundy. France was reduced to 6 provinces (the Valois core around Paris).

I'm coming to the conclusion that there is a problem with Infamy/Threat/War Exhaustion.

I actually think that the new Infamy system is working very well.  Any country that over-reaches is going to be gang-banged given half the opportunity, just like it should be.  It makes the expansion much more political in nature, rather than just be a mindless warfare.  What does need to be fixed is AI's reluctance to accept peace deals that would shoot its Infamy sky high. 

[jimmy olsen]

All Hail Tim, Emperor of the Holy Roman Protestant Empire of
Milan, King of the Portuguese Kingdom in Exile, King of Wallachia,
Heir to the Throne of the Scandinavian Empire and Liege Lord of
Venice.

Anno Domini 1711

[Caliga]

Tainted.    Wonder if it's too late to get a refund on HTTT.

[jimmy olsen]

Tainted.    Wonder if it's too late to get a refund on HTTT.

Why hallo there Captain Buzzkill.

[Habbaku]

Where's the fun in world conquest?  I guess I don't get it.  I always try to play my games of EU 3 in a semi-roleplaying fashion where my king is merely out to inherit a neighbor or crusade against the Mooninites rather than to see how much I can break the game open.

I tried a game where I played Austria in an attempt to form the HRE.  Ended up getting all the reforms and creating the HRE in 1504 or something.  After that, the game was just boring, as I knew no one would be capable of realistically opposing me and I no longer needed any alliances.

[ulmont]

Where's the fun in world conquest?

I did it once, just to prove to myself that I could.  There isn't much fun, though, since the rebels become your primary annoyance relatively early in.

[crazy canuck]

Where's the fun in world conquest?

I did it once, just to prove to myself that I could.  There isn't much fun, though, since the rebels become your primary annoyance relatively early in.

If I am going to go for WC I change the culture spread to speed up assimilation so I dont have to bother with that.  If you are going to break the game go all the way.

[Barrister]

I don't know how you guys can do a WC, doesn't it get boring?

In my Byzantium game I'm somewhat stuck because I'm at a point where the Timurids always DOW me.  I think I can survive, but I just don't really feel like waging a massive land war...

[Viking]

I don't know how you guys can do a WC, doesn't it get boring?

In my Byzantium game I'm somewhat stuck because I'm at a point where the Timurids always DOW me.  I think I can survive, but I just don't really feel like waging a massive land war...

Sucker the timurids all the way to the bosphorus without taking any provinces, basically let their doom stack chase your doomstack. Once your doomstack reaches edirne close the bophorus with the fleet. The timurid doomstack with the timurid 6.6.2.6 leader will siege one of the local provinces. Once the Timurid doomstack is reduced to 15k men, attack it with your 20k doomstack and chase and wipe out. At that point WE will be killing the timurids, 40 regiments attritting at 10%. They can't last more than a year before WE is at 20%. Then invade and take the Turkosemitic provinces they have in the peace agreement.

[ulmont]

I don't know how you guys can do a WC, doesn't it get boring?

Yes, which is why I've not done it all that much.

[DGuller]

I don't know how you guys can do a WC, doesn't it get boring?

Very, it's impossible for me to keep playing once I become the clear top dog.  I am making one last try, as Russia.  So far I've pretty much conquered and converted most of the Muslim lands, all the Russian lands, and made deep inroads into Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and it's 1590. 

Since I haven't smashed any Western European countries yet, and it'll be a while before I can do it without Infamy, I'm hoping that one of them would prove to be a challenge.  I also want to make it the end of the game for once, just to experience the 17th-19th century dynamics.  For now I'll just continue milking the Holy War for another 60 years, snagging myself another 90 or so provinces in Asia, and leave European be.

[Barrister]

I don't know how you guys can do a WC, doesn't it get boring?

In my Byzantium game I'm somewhat stuck because I'm at a point where the Timurids always DOW me.  I think I can survive, but I just don't really feel like waging a massive land war...

Sucker the timurids all the way to the bosphorus without taking any provinces, basically let their doom stack chase your doomstack. Once your doomstack reaches edirne close the bophorus with the fleet. The timurid doomstack with the timurid 6.6.2.6 leader will siege one of the local provinces. Once the Timurid doomstack is reduced to 15k men, attack it with your 20k doomstack and chase and wipe out. At that point WE will be killing the timurids, 40 regiments attritting at 10%. They can't last more than a year before WE is at 20%. Then invade and take the Turkosemitic provinces they have in the peace agreement.

Should work.  In the provinces I can see they have a lot of troops, but it seems like I could just top him, but when I'm reminded about how many provinces he has in Persia...

Slightly worried about my Georgian provinces though - I inherited them a few years back.  But I should be able to retreat back to Constantinople...

[jimmy olsen]

Where's the fun in world conquest?  I guess I don't get it.  I always try to play my games of EU 3 in a semi-roleplaying fashion where my king is merely out to inherit a neighbor or crusade against the Mooninites rather than to see how much I can break the game open.

I tried a game where I played Austria in an attempt to form the HRE.  Ended up getting all the reforms and creating the HRE in 1504 or something.  After that, the game was just boring, as I knew no one would be capable of realistically opposing me and I no longer needed any alliances.

It just kind of happened, my infamy's never gone above 18.4, I've just gotten incredibly lucky. I made friends with France and they joined the Empire and became an elector. They had conquered the caucuses and the northern middle east so when I made the empire in 1618 they came with it. I also inherited Great Britain in 1647.