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[Edelward]

I'm now on even harder campaign :
have taken Ceylon with only two starting provinces .
Of course,it'd be right to say that AI never would launch 10th. invasion on island so player can defend it ,at least.Yes,but they ,as Buddhists,have only religious enemies as neighbors.It somewhat more sophisticated though:they can married into Indic.But since I was attacked by some Muslim ally of Maldives,also Muslim,and their retreating troops stepped on my capital ,without fort,several times before I noted with horror that my prestige
is like *-50*no one would not like me and even my allies did not allow me military access.Or religious brothers,in Indo-China, refused married which led to further decline of Prestige.Embarrassing.
So, the situation was crappy.First idea(and only ) had to be 'Commerce',fortunately there excellent CoT in Bikar,North of India,having 1200-1500d to share,in the beginning its best cot ,imo.When I saved around 400+ducats ,I changed idea on 'Quest for NW'explored some islands in Indian ocean-Bourbon,Mauritius etc and South Africa -Cape ,Karoo,Roggweld.
Then I'd to change idea again to 'Colonial Ventures' to get some colonists.
Of course,if you have tiny country changes,'to get back to +3',in stability may take 6-8 years ,but the more provinces you have the more difficult it is to get back to max stability.
One thing I've learned though - with negative stability merchants'd be eaten down if you don't send them.
Despotic Monarchy has blastedly cheap Generals
1 to 3 in comparison with Feudal Monarchy.Even price for troops I think differs,
Not sure what led to troops getting cheaper.Maybe limit cap bigger on Feudal Monarchy something
So it would be like that
Despotic Monarchy:
Cheap Generals Explorers 17-18 Ducats only!
Troops are lesser and so they are more expansive to maintain.
Feudal Monarchy :
Expansive Generals and Explorers 55-60 Ducats
Troops are cheaper to upkeep.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Of course,if you have tiny country changes,'to get back to +3',in stability may take 6-8 years ,but the more provinces you have the more difficult it is
get back to max stability.

Tell me about it, if I suffered a stability hit on my Iraq campaign, I would have never made it up. Investing 36,000 a year to go from -3 to +3 would have taken me a little over 250 years.

[Spart]

Yay, I finally got the Prussia event working properly. Started as Mecklenburg, colonized a bit and concentrated on trading, then kicked some Brandenburgian and Teutonic ass and formed the lovely little nation of Prussia. Just finished a war with Poland receiving 3 provinces to unite the Prussian landmass. Pommerania happily accepted our offer of annexation. Now I'll just relax for a while and build the most badass army in the world.



Yes, once again Europe is turning out to be quite different. Sweden was partitioned, Italy was formed and England simply can't control it's own island. Finland is being harrassed by the evil Novgorodians.
Well, the Ottomans are still getting closer and closer to Vienna.

[Lamanz]

Are you going to form Germany if possible?

[Spart]

Meh, not anytime soon I think. Although the event would probably fire when I diplo-annex Saxony. Right now Saxony is more useful as a vassal with it's decent sized army.

[Edelward]

I've tried Teutonic but found my too powerful catholic neighbors(Pol-Lit) to be too aggressive
*Well, the Ottomans are still getting closer and closer to Vienna.*Closer to Wienna - check my pic in post ¤646-then you'd see them quite near Wienna indeed
But it is interesting that you could form Prussia

Tell me about it, if I suffered a stability hit on my Iraq campaign, I would have never made it up. Investing 36,000 a year to go from -3 to +3 would have taken me a little over 250 years.

I'd try some Greek island next campaign .
Getting the superpower one day
One thing though stability advisor might trigger +3 stability event

[LSJ]

I just downloaded a full-map mod. It gets rid of all PTI and replaces it with provinces, as well as reshaping a few, and adding many more countries. Now I'll actually bother conquering Africa.

If it works... when I loaded the game up it had some graphics errors...

[Lawrence of Arabia]

I just started a new campaign as Korea, currently it is 1462



Trying to swallow up as many provinces I can before Ming gets them, while still trying to stay in their good graces. I hope I can eventually ally with them.

[LSJ]

I fixed the graphics errors in the mod now, and started a game as France. Now that all of Africa is conquerable, I can have French North Africa. I just hate my dark blue empire being contaminated with white blots of untouchable land.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

I take it you're not playing your Japanese or Iraq game anymore?

[Edelward]

Africa has a big prob
Many provinces don't have MP
Or rather they have manpower-0

[Lawrence of Arabia]

The same problem exists for North and Central Asia. For example, as Korea, I only have 18,000 manpower from ~14 provinces. Most of my manpower comes from the Korean peninsula.

[Radmun]

What is this a game?

[Edelward]

Which makes Feudal Monarchy and National Conscripts as things to consider.

[ccllnply]

What is this a game?

Oh dear God

[Spart]

Goddammit I hate European politics! Damn Bavarians try to exploit my goodwill.
To make things even more complicated, Austria is both at war and allied with Netherlands (pic). So If I go against Austria (that is occupying Netherlands btw), Netherlands will DoW me?
Well guess who ain't taking that stability hit..?

[LSJ]

I stopped with the Iraq game after I got some sort of issue where I my leader became a general, died, and I never got a new one. Not even a regency council... and when someone offered me a royal marriage the game crashed. XD

As for the Japan game, I satisfied my needs by taking over all eastern Asia, southern Pacific, and western North America. I don't like total domination though. Just like in the TW games I wont continue with a game after I take 60% of the provinces. Because it becomes too easy...

[Edelward]

To @Spart -Wow, Blasted !
You can see possible stability punishment
I don't see the modifiers for stability drop in my game!
Is it feature in NA ?
As a conservator to core I must first get tired from EU3 before I'd consider buying NA
Anywhere next buy should be DeusVult for me.

[Kizzang]

I stopped with the Iraq game after I got some sort of issue where I my leader became a general, died, and I never got a new one. Not even a regency council... and when someone offered me a royal marriage the game crashed. XD

As for the Japan game, I satisfied my needs by taking over all eastern Asia, southern Pacific, and western North America. I don't like total domination though. Just like in the TW games I wont continue with a game after I take 60% of the provinces. Because it becomes too easy...

I am the same way.. There really is no point to me at that point.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Goddammit I hate European politics! Damn Bavarians try to exploit my goodwill.
To make things even more complicated, Austria is both at war and allied with Netherlands (pic). So If I go against Austria (that is occupying Netherlands btw), Netherlands will DoW me?
Well guess who ain't taking that stability hit..?

I would either decline to help Bavaria or cancel access and the royal marriage and then help Bavaria.

-7 Stability hit is not worth it.