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[Ishoss]

meh i took over pretty much the entire world except south america as the germans in my campaign. it got pretty boring and repetitive when it became clear absolutely nobody could put up a decent enough fight

Heh, am far from that good. I lost Britain () to the Swedes ()

I have gotten my revenge though, as I annexed Finland and Swden and am currently fighting Norway... On the Asian front me and Japan have finally beaten the crap out of everyone, but the Americans have invaded their home islands and have opened a front in Mandchuria. (For the second time.)

Great Britain, Venezuela, USA, Mexico, Liberia (...) and some other annoying countries are helping Norway... And my manpower has hit rock bottom.

A d-day now would be retaliated with about 8 infantry divisions and 8 tank divisions... Hardly suitable.

Krigsmarine is a whole other story, currently researching jet-CAG's and I have the second biggest carrier force in the world. Festnung Europa will hopefully be defended by my navy!

[hellheaven1987]

Hey, how to take picture from both HoI2 and EUIII??

[Augustus Lucifer]

Got bored with my Pskov game, will come back to it later. Now playing a Sicilian game because I wanted to try something different. Haven't had much time to do anything last few days much less play EU, but my goal for the campaign is to have as many sovereign nations as possible and to only own land that isn't the only domain of any sovereign nation, with the exception of Italy, since I will need the infrastructure.

Also going to go for the most freedom related sliders and ideas(ie Bill of Rights, Scientific Revolution, Religious Tolerance, Free Subjects, Innovation, et al). Should be interesting, not used to vassalising and freeing nations, I'm usually a very bad boy, so being super-pacifist is going to be a challenge .

[Lawrence of Arabia]

IN is horrible for expansionists...damn rebels



Japan, 1513. If I were 114 years in playing as Japan on NA I would be near the Middle East by now. Instead, I'm mopping up Ming slowly but surely.

I remember Iraq ~1670 in NA...

[Augustus Lucifer]

In is horrible for expansionists...damn rebels

Japan, 1513. If I were 114 years in playing as Japan on NA I would be near the Middle East by now. Instead, I'm mopping up Ming slowly but surely.

Is it just me or is Chaghatai.... big?

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Is it just me or is Chaghatai.... big?

For being Chaghatai -- definitely.

[Savage_Swede]

If the Papal State is removed. Another one is automatically created. Usually Riga and Utrecht are likely to become Papal States because they are theocracies. I\ve seen Salzburg become Papal before.

Hmm, i seem to remember that the Papal States as a faction would still disappear, but another faction would sort of shelter the pope, maybe hand him a province, but not letting the Papal States take over everything! That bastard got a whole empire dumped in his lap! xD

looks liek ur pretty much at the endgame swede..nobody can really stop u now.

Sadly, yeah. It's awesome to know that i can just take on the world and come out on top, but at the same time, any hint of a challenge is gone with the wind. But i kinda want to continue playing since i've never been this successful before lol.
Maybe i'll just conquer spain, england and greece and call the campaign complete and start with something new. The Byzantine Empire perhaps. I got pretty used to being Bohemia's and Poland's early on in my German campaign, so i think i hopefully can handle the Ottomans

[ajm317]

The Byzantine Empire perhaps. I got pretty used to being Bohemia's and Poland's early on in my German campaign, so i think i hopefully can handle the Ottomans

I'm playing a Byzantine game right now. It's been surprisingly easy. The Ottomans are busy with the Timurids at game start and virtually any province around you that you conquer already has a Byzantine core. Once you get going, there's no waiting for 50 years to get full census tax, and no revolts.

I took on the OE with only 3 provinces and won by blocking the land route from Turkey to Greece with a fleet. From there it just snowballed.

[Ishoss]

May I present to you, the final solution to the "Jew problem"



And end game:

PS: Is there any rockets I can mount nukes on, or is it only possible on strategic bomber?

[LSJ]

My glorious empire in 1414 AD.



I gained 4 provinces in a war lasting far too long against the horde... they started off not liking me and decided I was an easy opponent. Despite their armies outnumbering me I kept on, recruiting more regiments to defend the fatherland.

Eventually, they were in a bad position, with their armies at the other end of their nation, allowing me enough time to rampage across their western provinces and capture some good land.

It was brutal and challenging but I now have a stronger position early (including one COT), which is key to protecting against Ming later on.

Now I just need to ride out the rest of the ten or so years full of constant revolts from my incapable ruler, WE, etctera...

Totally worth it though.

[Aonghus G. Friedhold]

Stepped away from the colonization policy and moved towards a European expansionist policy, multiple successful wars, gaining a good amount of provinces, and large garrisons on all cores and borders, now just fighting rebels until I gain cores, when I'll move on into Turkey.

[LSJ]

Here be a story...

I'll start it off with a LOL!

Just after I added land to protect from Ming, guess what happened?

Ming attacked!

The frontier provinces gave me time to organize a defence, but I got steamrolled by the Chinese war machine and their 18,000 strong armies - that's twice as large as my entire military, all in one army - they had a dozen of those.

So I got pushed all the way back to my capital city, where I kept my 9 regiments plus some merc units, which would do no good should one of those 18k stacks come along... which was inevitable.

FORTUNATELY I was gauranteed by the Golden Horde, Timurid Empire, Mameluks, Kazakhs, and allied with Nogai. Wtf was Mr. Ming thinking?

Sooo, after several months of "Run away! Run away!" on my part, my allies came pouring in through my country like a sea of red (ironic reference to Korean war...). Now the Ming got a fair challenge - 30k stacks of Arabs, Steppes men and Indians against their numerous 18k stacks of China men. All my land was returned to my control, and the Timurids, who got there first because they were closest, occupied a fair chunk of northwest China!

Ming offered peace - a white peace, which I accepted because while I wanted Ming to pay, the Timurids will inevitably turn on me some day (giving them land on both sides of me is not a good idea), and apart from some cash (ie 25 ducats, which is 25 more ducats than Ming would agree to unless I get a 40% warscore... cheap bastards ), I could receive no benefits from any peace deal.

Afterward, I had to fight off hordes of rebels from a tribal succession crisis, which resulted in all but two provinces being taken over. Luckily I forced the Oirat Horde to remove their cores in a previous war and no one has cores on my lands, so nothing came of it before I took back my lands, one by one.

I'm still fighting rebel armies of 3000 men with armies of 1-2 regiments more men in my newly conquered lands, but after my experiences I don't hate it any more!



No point in posting my empire though because nothing has changed since last time.

[Pious Agnost]

May I present to you, the final solution to the "Jew problem"



And end game:

PS: Is there any rockets I can mount nukes on, or is it only possible on strategic bomber?

A National Socialist Israel? Interesting... Anyway, you can mount Nukes on ICBMs and that damned rock with only 500KM range which I can't recall the name of

[LSJ]

This is 1462 AD

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Rampaging against the Oirats was so easy and I got nice land out of it.

After conquering their lands a bunch of the map was revealed. I only saw a few parts of west China, but now I can see the whole thing to Japan.

When I saw it I was amazed - Ming is defeated! And Qing lives in its place... As well, the Timurids are stronger than ever, Brunei has a nice east Asian empire, Spain is taking over North Africa, and Naples owns Italy. And its only 1460.

When I saw Tibet conquering west China with ease, it made me wonder what was going on, but I didn't expect this.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

This is 1462 AD

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Rampaging against the Oirats was so easy and I got nice land out of it.

After conquering their lands a bunch of the map was revealed. I only saw a few parts of west China, but now I can see the whole thing to Japan.

When I saw it I was amazed - Ming is defeated! And Qing lives in its place... As well, the Timurids are stronger than ever, Brunei has a nice east Asian empire, Spain is taking over North Africa, and Naples owns Italy. And its only 1460.

When I saw Tibet conquering west China with ease, it made me wonder what was going on, but I didn't expect this.

I think your long war with the Ming had a devastating effect on them...I wish that would have happened to me.

[Aonghus G. Friedhold]

The end game Empire of Naxos:



To take Naxos from a tiny, one island nation to the largest empire the Earth has ever seen was quite honestly one of the most enjoyable experiences, as well as one of the most frustrating, I've ever played. Of course, what it doesn't show is that my inflation is at around 50, i'm living on loans, my manpower is in the crapper, and nearly all of my provinces ar rebelling or controlled by rebels. I was saved my the end game, because I predict that by 1840, I'd have been faced by 50+ new nations, and I would have collapsed and lost.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

The end game Empire of Naxos:



To take Naxos from a tiny, one island nation to the largest empire the Earth has ever seen was quite honestly one of the most enjoyable experiences, as well as one of the most frustrating, I've ever played. Of course, what it doesn't show is that my inflation is at around 50, i'm living on loans, my manpower is in the crapper, and nearly all of my provinces ar rebelling or controlled by rebels. I was saved my the end game, because I predict that by 1840, I'd have been faced by 50+ new nations, and I would have collapsed and lost.

How did you do all of that in one day playing IN. My suspicion runs rampant. I just don't know how you were able to keep the nation together up until that point.

[LSJ]

I think your long war with the Ming had a devastating effect on them...I wish that would have happened to me.

I looked at the save game history and a month after signing a peace treaty with me, Ming was attacked by Brunei-Korea-Japan-Manchu-Aceh alliance. I bet the war with me gave Ming awful war exhaustion and ruined their savings, not to mention their armies, thanks to the Timurids, so when the "East Asian Alliance" came over they got steamrolled!

No armies to fight back with, very little money, rebels everywhere... I'm guessing that's what happened.

So their ill-thought-out invasion plan to capture Chatagai resulted in their total defeat.

XD

I wish I could claim it was my responsibility, but it was mostly the Golden Horde and Timurids who did it to them - I only had 12k men total and two provinces when their armies came to my aid. Two provinces that would have lasted about two more months, at most, before being captured.

I'm astonished that for once guarantees on me were actually very helpful. They saved my life from becoming a vassal of China.

[Aonghus G. Friedhold]

How did you do all of that in one day playing IN. My suspicion runs rampant. I just don't know how you were able to keep the nation together up until that point.

1. I have no life, from pretty much my last empire post to that one, I nearly never stopped. Also, I nearly always left rebels to their , almost all those provinces where taken by rebels, I only ever fought rebels that would bring a new country. It was pretty much a slow build up until the late 1500s-late 1600s, then I just declared war, fought people, broke treaties, etc. My stability went 200 years without going above 0. It was really a terrible way to play, as in real life, it would have collapsed by 1600.

[Enemy of the State]

May I present to you, the final solution to the "Jew problem"

I can imagine it now, the Final Solution being introduced to Hitler. Lets give them their own state and ask them nicely to move there!