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    Icon12 Re: Most unhistorical thing you've done or seen happen?

    Not much, other than Savoy taking over large tracts of India and the American interior. Oh, and Louisiana staging a successful invasion of the motherland. Minor factions are fun to play.

    And has anyone else noticed that in the beginning of the game, the position of Stadtholder of the United Provinces is held by William III of Orange's evil twin? I understand that he has to be a separate character for gameplay, but at least make the portraits look the same...

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    Historically the pirates never attack the war fleets. They pick lone trade ships and Spanish Galleons instead.
    Another unhistorical thing is ALL pirates around the world disappeared once somebody took control of Trinidad and the Leeward Islands. We should destroy Antigua and Trinidad to stop the Somali pirates!
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    maratha make colonial in american morroco conquered portugal, spain, france and britain.

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    Morroco are giving me grief also - playing as the ottomans and they have conquered the barbary states and portugal. I'm secure to strike back at them now though...
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    In my last game as Prussia I watched in awe as Savoy declared war on France and proceeded to chew through all their defenses to conquer Paris.

    (Of course I came to Frances aid by war dec'ing Savoy and taking all their Territory....Paris included ;D )



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    There are many cases and examples I had in 2.100 hours of ETW ....

    Marathes and Mughals making a navel landing in America with conquering provinces ... also madein Europe.

    Bavaria conquering complete Germany, Netherlands, France and Spain .... the same done by other minors too as Westphalia or even Hungary conquering haf Russia.

    But the most unhistorical thing existing in the game are the steam vessels. ETW starts in the year 1700 and officialy ends 1800. In these 100 years not a single Steam-Warship was build or even used! The first Steam.Warships dated of 1840!
    So hell knows what CA thought about implementing such SciFi stuff in the game ....

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    Quote Originally Posted by ♔Mandelus♔ View Post
    There are many cases and examples I had in 2.100 hours of ETW ....

    Marathes and Mughals making a navel landing in America with conquering provinces ... also madein Europe.

    Bavaria conquering complete Germany, Netherlands, France and Spain .... the same done by other minors too as Westphalia or even Hungary conquering haf Russia.

    But the most unhistorical thing existing in the game are the steam vessels. ETW starts in the year 1700 and officialy ends 1800. In these 100 years not a single Steam-Warship was build or even used! The first Steam.Warships dated of 1840!
    So hell knows what CA thought about implementing such SciFi stuff in the game ....
    To be fair it's not completely crazy... for example if you had an earlier industrial revolution then perhaps steamships would have been around earlier. I mean IRL the first steam vessels were late 1700s. Just imagine if that was pushed back 40 years with your immense empire endorsing steam. I'm more annoyed by the Marathas and the fact that there is no 7 year war, 13 year war, etc. but instead it's the actual 100 years war.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Amberon View Post
    To be fair it's not completely crazy... for example if you had an earlier industrial revolution then perhaps steamships would have been around earlier. I mean IRL the first steam vessels were late 1700s. Just imagine if that was pushed back 40 years with your immense empire endorsing steam. I'm more annoyed by the Marathas and the fact that there is no 7 year war, 13 year war, etc. but instead it's the actual 100 years war.
    Well, sorry but I must disagree. Yes, the first steam vessel was build 1783m but this was a little small boat and even the vessel of Fulton at 1809 was small and no comparsion to a Steam war ship in frigate style!
    Even when there are only some decades in history between the first Steam Warships of 1830/ 1840 and the official end-year of ETW, it is like giving a SciFi technologie and as comparsion it is for me like giving the US in a WW2 game the M1A2 Abrams tanks ... there are also only about - to 4 decades difference between end of WW2 and the final development and release of the first Abrams in the beginning of the 80's.

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    A massive alliance of minor nations, comprising of Genoa, Greece, Malta, and Georgia (which controls the Caspian already!) taking out the ottoman empire in five years, then all declaring war on each other simultaneously. Genoa somehow managed to win, despite the fact that it had been pushed to Corsica by savoy a long time ago. Only slightly more likely than Malta managing this.

    Then Genoa invaded India. And won. helped by the fact that I controlled the eastern coast (United provinces), but still.

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    Great Britain becomes a Protectorate of the USA.

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    I'm playing as Sweden and those ing Marathas just felt like getting on a ship, sailing south around Africa, north to Europe, east through the English Channel, across the North Sea and landing an army in (Swedish) Denmark, capturing it, and then getting executed for being a band of idiots.

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    Quote Originally Posted by English Total War Gamer View Post
    Great Britain becomes a Protectorate of the USA.
    Yes... Unhistorical...

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    Default Re: Most unhistorical thing you've done or seen happen?

    Maratha taking over India? ok.
    Maratha doing a sea invasion on the Iberian Peninsula and taking over Portugal AND Spain? not ok!

    Inuits take over New England and New France.

    Pirates.... conquer Moscow????

    Courtland as a protectorate of Poland. 20 turns later, Poland, or more like what is left of it, is a protectorate of Courtland.

    Georgia owning Pakistan, then emerging Mamlukes... then Ottomans... and THEN.... taking over India. HOLY ! Me playing as Russia.... survived only because I was ally to it. (Final score was Russia = Europe, Africa, Russia, and America's. Georgia = Greece, Asia Minor, Middle east, India)
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    Default Re: Most unhistorical thing you've done or seen happen?

    maratha is invading united province...
    russia captured tunisia

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    Quote Originally Posted by Amberon View Post
    Yes... Unhistorical...
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    Default Re: Most unhistorical thing you've done or seen happen?

    Quote Originally Posted by Amberon View Post
    Yes... Unhistorical...
    Not entirely, the USA seems to cover Britains ass like crazy now-adays...


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    Quote Originally Posted by penquin11 View Post
    Not entirely, the USA seems to cover Britains ass like crazy now-adays...
    I really need [/sacrasm] tags...

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    Default Re: Most unhistorical thing you've done or seen happen?

    Everything about the Marthas is automatically unhistorical. Seriously, orange death is insane.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EmberFlame View Post
    Everything about the Marthas is automatically unhistorical. Seriously, orange death is insane.
    Their fun though, its nice to have a dominant indian power to fight
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    I had to register just to reply to this thread because I think I've got a winner (well it makes me laugh anyway).

    Great Britain selling New York to the Mughal Empire after forming an alliance with United States who had gained their independence in Boston after overthrowing the Tyrannical Iroquois government there. This was all NPC action, meanwhile I was living it up as the United Provinces with control of everything west of the Rhine (excluding GB & Ireland) in Europe, everything south of Georgia in the Americas, and the entire lower half of the Indian subcontinent. My point there being that this game rarely holds up to any sort of historical accuracy.

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