Your most beautiful moment in any Paradox game

[Ältester der Motten]

For me it has to be this:


Finally Weltgeltung. <3

[hellheaven1987]

Boring, I have been Holy Roman Emperor for 100 years for my Austria campaign.

Beautiful moment?? I guess it was when France finally agreed to be my vassal (under Louis XIV) when I wasted nearly 1k of gold and 20 years on them.

After that Austria rocks!!!

[Cúchulainn]

When I inherited Ming.

I love the **** ups that can happen in EU3

[hellheaven1987]

Ya, the inherit thing is quite fun.

I remember I have once inherited Sweden as England; completely WTF to me.

[Spart]

Yeah, inheriting poor, large nations can really ruin everything.

My most beautiful moment in EU3 was when I was somewhere around 1760 in my British campaign and France had become ridicilously strong, cutting my north American colonies in half and harrassing everyone in Europe. They had an army of over 300,000 men while I had ~80,000 and too little manpower. So I managed to gather a nice coalition against them with Prussia and Netherlands and DOWed the Fench suckers. Prussians and Dutch got steamrolled while my more disciplined troops sacked Paris and nearby cities. France went bankrupt and collapsed, thousands and thousands of rebels were spawning everywhere and pretty much every nation that had cores in France declared independence. Their war capacity drops to 0 and I get all of their American colonies.

[Ältester der Motten]

Beautiful moment?? I guess it was when France finally agreed to be my vassal (under Louis XIV) when I wasted nearly 1k of gold and 20 years on them.

After that Austria rocks!!!

It's something special for me to be Emperor as Hesse, not just to be Emperor. ;P
And Austria sucks (I mean, it's Austria! ), though that vassalization must have felt great.

[Atterdag]

When my elite Nationalist Chinese armour and infantry divisions broke the Afrika Korps at El-Alamein and chased them all the way to Tunis, then pocketed them and at last annihilated them.

[hellheaven1987]

Nationalist Chinese armour... Now that is interesting.

[Freelancer]

when i took new york as tannu tuva lol kiddin when i took thye last free province in europe

[zznɟ ǝɥʇ]

When my Serbs somehow held the front against the Austrians, allowing for reinforcements to push those bastards back. If you want a game where one wrong move ends it, try WWI with Ricky as Serbia. Damn, son.

[John I Tzimisces]

Ehh the Serbia/Yugoslavia campaign ain't that bad. The austrians are so pressured by the other powers (aka, they're gonna invade russia, doesn't matter if there's armies in the way or not, and they need to guard the Italian border.).

For me it was probably playing through CK through HoI2 as an Armenian state. I started as the county of Suenik and somehow survived up until the 50s. After a colossal war with Japan and Russia (japan held most of Asia), I ended up splitting all of Asia up in Satellite states of various strength. "Armobloc"

[Carach]

wish i could play my games thru everything.

My vicky austrian campaign wouldnt export to hoi2 was like corrupted or something.

And there isnt a decent converter for any game to EU3 either or vice versa so sux

[The Super Pope]

Taking France as Germany in the 1914 mod for HoI2 after about a month of war, while securing alliances with the British Empire and Russia

[zznɟ ǝɥʇ]

Ehh the Serbia/Yugoslavia campaign ain't that bad. The austrians are so pressured by the other powers (aka, they're gonna invade russia, doesn't matter if there's armies in the way or not, and they need to guard the Italian border.).

You forget I'm terrible at anything Paradox, my friend. I must have a learning disability or something.

[LSJ]

Definitely me sitting around as Sicily, then learning that I just inherited the Swedish Empire...
That was so unexpected. And it was beautiful, until the hit the fan.

Russia, Denmark, and Poland Dow'ed me.

I could have conquered Italy had it not been for my inheritance. Sure, a mass of land is nice, unless you have no cores on it, no soldiers or navies stationed in it, and a bunch of hostile expansionist empires with claims on it.

That ruined my Sicily game...

[hellheaven1987]

Lol, it seems Sweden is the curse of EU3.

I have seen France got DoW by everyone after they inherited Sweden...

[Gavmundo]

Nothing amazing for me but becoming King of England with Richard of Aquitaine known after as Richard I As I say not a great feat but still a favourite. A more interesting scenario was John of Meath becoming King of England after assassinating all in his way Lackland? I taught them for name calling

I'm talking Crusader Kings of course

[Atterdag]

That. Felt. Sooooo good.

[Fabolous]

The first time you WC, without turbo-annexing or anything gamey, in EUIII is glorious.

[Sebdeas]

Winning a war were Russia surprise attacked me as Germany.
All my troops were west and had to race to Poland. Through superior tactics and technology I took Russia's part of Poland.

Extremely lucky and satisfied with that one.