Given that the year is 1533, I doubt he has that many men...

That is true.

The maximum I have ever had in Crusader Kings 2 was somewhere more than 100,000 troops. And that was after reforming the whole Roman Empire with all their lands.

The largest army I have controlled in EU3 was about 400,000. And in Vicky2 the maximum I had was 3,000,000 as the Qing.

Update of my Austro - Hungarian empire. I have finished the game. final screenshots and a short summary. Around year 1850 I finally managed to increase my infamy to + 2.50 / year and that was a green light for start to annex my vassals, one after another. Of course some countries were in my way, so i had to annex them in the aggressive way. I annexed (in both peasful and war ways): Transylvania, Swiss, Golden Horde, Serbia, Bosnia, Poland, Croatia, Krakow and others which i don't remember right now.. Anyway, the biggest fight before the end of the game was against Lithuania for the southern lands of Lithuania. They had glory times, occupied two thirds of the Finland, had access even to the black sea, so even though Lithuania is my real live homeland, i could not do nothing

one of the biggest fights

Texas in Europe Some interesting facts: California declared independence under Mexico, England declared independence in 1921, even tough Great Britain still existed..Venice,Castille had'nt any lands in Europe since the 1600's , so they became North American countries, some of South American countries had their provinces in Africa, Ming had its province "Ming Europe" in South-East Europe.

The last day of the game: 31st, December, 1929. After final wars with Lithuania and Ottomans (I was in alliance with France since ~1530, my record )
zoom out. as you can see, Great Britain has collapsed...Muscowy never became Russia nor Soviet Union..

Great Britain has collapsed in North America too. They moved they capital to this continent. I occupied a lot of venetian provinces in the southern part of the continent. USA never became big country, 10 more years and Utah,Quebec,Texas and Canada would finish up Great Britain. (last 100 years i left my provinces in other continents to give me income and dealt with Europe)

Glory to the Holy Roman Empire! I was the emperor from the beginning til the end (except once time when Naples was). I made reforms and cancelled elections in late 19th century, so nobody could be a danger for my anymore.

Armies. For the long time i was the first, but keeping in mind that France was my best friend, i didn't need bigger army, because I had 0 wars with Ming in this game..

that vertical line is when i became Austria-Hungary.. it always happens when country changes its name or making 1 country from 2. So, Austria-Hungary was the biggest country in the world (with all colonies in all continents)

Income. 2nd biggest in the world after Ming


some statistics


that's all... now i gotta decide with which country I should start new game...

* peaceful **life . sorry for double post, but i cannot find how to edit my post :/

DominusLT said:

* peaceful **life . sorry for double post, but i cannot find how to edit my post :/

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You can edit your posts once you reach 25 post count.

Nice empire there. I have a question: How many men are in your army in total?

Because in Victoria II, by the 1860s Austrian armies (both mine and AI's) have about 1,800,000 men standing ready, and about double that number of reserves. Just wanted to see the condition of the same timeframe in EU3 game.

General Maximus said:

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Nice empire there. I have a question: How many men are in your army in total?

Because in Victoria II, by the 1860s Austrian armies (both mine and AI's) have about 1,800,000 men standing ready, and about double that number of reserves. Just wanted to see the condition of the same timeframe in EU3 game.

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thanks as you can see in one of the screenshots, total is 693 000. I could have had many more, but i had no need.. when i had bigger wars, France usually showed up (as you can see, they had 2nd biggest army). So It was enough.. about 450k men in Europe, 80k in North America, and others in other continents

I could form Austria-Hungary right now, but...

A : I feel the decision is overpowered in its current form. Historically it came about bregrudgingly after a crushing defeat, not after Hungary was first reconquered.

B : I loose out on decisions to form Germany.


As for my military, I have 11 Corps of 15,000 men totaling 165,000 men. 7 of those corps, 105,000, are facing off against a similiar number of Turkish counterparts in the Balkans. 1 corps is in Italy. 1 Corps is in Hungary. 1 corps is in Croatia. 1 corps is on Bohemia. Each Corps has 4,000 cavalry, 8,000 infantry, and 3,000 cannon-supported infantry.


Anyway.........




After the integration of Hungary into the Austrian realm, a group of Transylvanian noblemen from the Banat approached Ferdinand III on conditions for integrating Transylvania. Hungary had been in open rebellion against the Austrians, and while the conflict was internalized to a large extent the fact that Protestants were mostly responsible gave Ferdinand an idea. Similar to how the Croatians had been pacified; giving away Hungarian nobles' lands who opposed Austria to the Croats, the same was repeated for Transylvania. On March 30 1540, the Concordant of Brasov united the Duchy of Transylvania with Hungary, and thus the Austrian Realm. Now Ferdinand III looked towards his last independent, nominally anyway, vassal, Serbia. Serbia had been reduced to a shadow of its old self, and was entirely reliant on Austrian support. On June 22 1542 the Austrians again declared war on the Ottomans, driving through what was once Serbian Territory to the Agean Sea. Tied by the ability to only integrate so much land, and only wanting to give the Serbians so much, the treaty which ended the war only returned the western areas of the old Serbian Kingdom. The Serbian nobility was granted tracts of land from the Ottoman conquerors, and the island of Corfu was drawn into the Austrian sphere. In Italy Ferdinand saw the opportunity his father had not been able to seize. French intervention in Sicily had forced the Austrians to act. After the French took Palermo the Austrians received word of a French plot to cause the Duke of Modena, as Modena was in a personal union and not a direct vassal, to defect to the French with his city. The Austrians forcibly integrated the city on June 29 1545. On May 1st 1550 the island of Ferdkonig, southwest of Portugal, was officially annexed into the Austrian crown. Austria was eager to claim some of the riches of the new world for itself.

I hate to sound rude, but it's painful reading your big walls of text. Could you perhaps break them up into smaller paragraphs next time?

I am more then sure you are the Emperor with that size.I say go for forming HRE or dismantle the HRE to form Germany easier.AH is underpowered compared to Gross Deutschland or a unified HRE.

One German nation for the German people.

If you go for HRE/Germany you can turn some of your lands into vassals to have a nice buffer and then concentrate on an France and colonies.

Vassals are nice since they give you 50% of their taxes and their provinces don`t slow down your research speed.

I guess you can go with production since you are a big land power and if you do that you can ignore trade entirely and put the slider at zero, this will free funds for the other branches and together with the money from vassals you can build yourself a nice technological lead.

I`m starting to like this game more and more.

Lord, help me. The Roman empire in my convert game is getting more scary by the day.



New Years Eve 1518 Anno Domini. I ended up becoming emperor, much to my dismay. Right now I'm just insulting electors so they don't vote for me next time, and openly letting the many heresies devour Catholic Europe from within. So far plentiful of them have converted and began started voting for each other this way. Which I find very lovely, since it means I can finish the historical feud between the lords of Brunswick and the Imperial kaisers by dismantling the Holy Roman Empire once and for all!

I really ought to make a event for that or something, if only for meta reasons alone.

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Kamikaze470 said:

Lord, help me. The Roman empire in my convert game is getting more scary by the day.

New Years Eve 1518 Anno Domini. I ended up becoming emperor, much to my dismay. Right now I'm just insulting electors so they don't vote for me next time, and openly letting the many heresies devour Catholic Europe from within. So far plentiful of them have converted and began started voting for each other this way. Which I find very lovely, since it means I can finish the historical feud between the lords of Brunswick and the Imperial kaisers by dismantling the Holy Roman Empire once and for all!

I really ought to make a event for that or something, if only for meta reasons alone.

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That's what you call 'Revenge of the Romans'.....in an unusual way.

Seriously, how come did they spare those states in Anatolia? Are those owned by Spain?

General Maximus said:

That's what you call 'Revenge of the Romans'.....in an unusual way.

Seriously, how come did they spare those states in Anatolia? Are those owned by Spain?

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Yup, the Spaniards obtained the Anatolian crown in one of their latter Crusades back in CK2.

It puzzles me too, they have(had?) cores on plenty of provinces, no reason I can see why they haven't conquered it yet.

Kamikaze470 said:

Yup, the Spaniards obtained the Anatolian crown in one of their latter Crusades back in CK2.

It puzzles me too, they have(had?) cores on plenty of provinces, no reason I can see why they haven't conquered it yet.

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As I had said many months ago, THIS would have happened if any Iberian dared cross my lands. Helping the Spaniards was one of the main reasons I could get my empire this big:





I was allied with Castille. They were facing a Jihad, so I decided to help them out without joining their war. At this time, I was the old and battered Eastern Roman Empire with nothing except their starting territories and Levant coastline.

I sent my 20,000 strong army to Iberian peninsula and quickly took a Muslim minor. Then the Andalusian Sultan died in battle against Castille, so the nation broke apart into many one province minors. I relentlessly took all of them before Castille could. And then I went on to conquer more Muslim states around the area. Suddenly I found myself owning half of Iberia. I converted it and used the manpower from the area to bolster my conquests in the east. And then Africa. And then the Italians and HRE. And then France. And finally Britain.

You still should secure the est of the lands at your side of Rhine and Danube. The new "grant independence" option should help you shape the borders better.

Or maybe you'd like to put the planned Elbe river border in instead.

The Kybrothilian said:

You still should secure the est of the lands at your side of Rhine and Danube. The new "grant independence" option should help you shape the borders better.

Or maybe you'd like to put the planned Elbe river border in instead.

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I used the grant independence option to a great extent when conquering. But the house rule I used for this game was that I will conquer full duchies. The only exception is that sprawling long province in Morocco, my vassals keep conquering it but it makes my border look weird and was not a part of Roman Empire. So I keep giving it independence.

Requesting another challenge for me to do in EU3 singleplayer. Will post results.

Form Hindustan as Ryukyu.

Overtake all of China as the Mongol Khanate.

Pat89 said:

Form Hindustan as Ryukyu.

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I'll try this one, as you were first. I've also heard that the Mongol one is very difficult and mostly relies on luck, reloads and more luck so I'm not really that fussed about doing it.

sooo...after a great success with Austria-Hungary i decided to try something completely different. Aztec. I wanted to get away from Europe for a while...
Year 1440. Start (as i noticed later,i had to start from 1359 in order to have better technologies when europeans come.... that was a big mistake..

My "big" world..

and Castillians came to our lands... with double higher technologies...i had no chances to defend my lands,,,

soon after this screenshot Aztecs have been annexed by Castille....



so...anybody have an idea how to survive with primitive countries after europeans come? at least until it possible to westernize technologies...

DominusLT said:

so...anybody have an idea how to survive with primitive countries after europeans come? at least until it possible to westernize technologies...

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Since you're playing vanilla and not MEIOU (Which I always play)

Try to get top adviser, get some tech, and wait till West comes to you. The hardest is holding your ground till you westernize. Get their WE high, do not lose your armies so that you recapture lost lands, scorch earth....and hope that don't bring doom stack and get white peace at best

I played as Aztecs two years ago. I defeated the Portuguese (who came first) and then the Spanish.

The key is to have a huge army. The Europeans simply cannot take so many Aztec warriors all at once. My stacks were almost always exceeding 60,000 even though it sucked up manpower. Another factor is to have as high-level ministers and generals as possible, especially ministers that replenish manpower.

And as Arbitrary Crusader said, go for a white peace.

In that game, I westernized 40 years after the end of my war with the Spanish when they colonized my neighbouring provinces. But then they got a casus belli against me just after I was trying to keep up with 1600s technology. They overran me within three months.

thank you guys. currently I am in Europe again with Byzantium, but after it I still wanna come back to South America.. or even Africa. I survived first attack of spanish with Aztec..and lost just few provinces, but after 20 years they attacked again and again... another thing, is it possible somehow to get colonists with Aztec? in that case it would be possible to make a reserve colony where it would be possible to move my capital in case europeans destroy my minor lands.. ?

DominusLT said:

thank you guys. currently I am in Europe again with Byzantium, but after it I still wanna come back to South America.. or even Africa. I survived first attack of spanish with Aztec..and lost just few provinces, but after 20 years they attacked again and again... another thing, is it possible somehow to get colonists with Aztec? in that case it would be possible to make a reserve colony where it would be possible to move my capital in case europeans destroy my minor lands.. ?

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There is no way to get colonists unless your COT borders the sea. Since that method is absolutely beyond player control, you're essentially relying entirely on luck when it has to break down and move somewhere else.

That's the gist of it in vanilla. I'm not very fond of D&T, so no idea there (that is what you're playing right?).

Kamikaze470 said:

There is no way to get colonists unless your COT borders the sea. Since that method is absolutely beyond player control, you're essentially relying entirely on luck when it has to break down and move somewhere else.

That's the gist of it in vanilla. I'm not very fond of D&T, so no idea there (that is what you're playing right?).

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Yes D&T. I find this mode best for me. clever AI, more realistic game

I can't even survive as Ryukyu, this could take some time.

Before I got Divine Wind, I used to survive as Ryukyu and in fact conquered southern Japan all by myself.

But since DW, I have not been able to attack anyone except the Vietnamese. And even then I barely avoided defeat by getting white peace.

The main thing is your navy. Build as many ships as you can, and use ministers for earning cash fast while still focusing on navy. The key is to play defensively, attack an enemy and let him try to get troops to you, throwing his fleet down the drain.

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I can't even survive as Ryukyu, this could take some time.

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Yeah, Ryukyu's next to impossible because every expansion possibility is cockblocked by day 1 alliances (Brunei and landlocked OPMs even) and it's only a matter of the time before the Japanese Shogun gets missions to annex you.

Since you can't get a big navy without already adding more to a already buckling treasury, and Ming is restrained by their Faction system, you're dead.

so..i started to play with Holland. and it's actually very interesting. I have few provinces, so easy to defend, Holland is very advanced in leveling up technologies, also as you can see in left upper corner how many trade centers i have occupied my biggest fear was and still is France. 100 years have passed but i still managed to avoid war with France,when everybody around was fighting with them and losing. Currently my strongest ally is England. Was Spain also,but i had to choose in which side fight.. I also have few vassals



I could not survive with Aztec here, so i came with Holland and started to make my own "Aztec" i think it was first time ever when i am the first who goes to New World



and for the end of this post. weird thing happened. After Spain's war against France, there are Galicia, Portugal, Aragnon, CASTILLE and SPAIN at the place where just Spain was before the war... and even more funny that Castille is allied with France now so Spain gonna have to fight their own kind soon..

Ah finally someone with my homeland.