The Great Northern War

[Enemy of the State]

The year is 1700, Northern Europe. The Swedish Empire is at it's height, virtually being unchallenged in the Baltic, controlling large areas on the shore of the Baltic sea. King Karl XII is a young and talented king, hoping to further expand the borders of the Swedish empire. In the East, Russia rises. Peter I, Czar of Russia is reforming the army and trying to make Russia into a more European state. To accomplish this, Russia must secure herself a piece of the Baltic. Peter takes a gigantic army to invade Sweden's Baltic provinces, will this massive army be victorious? West of Sweden, Frederick IV hopes to defend Denmark from the Swedish empire and perhaps reclaim areas in Southern Sweden. Saxony also joins the war for some reason I cant remember.

Right, my favorite war. I'm obsessed about it, it was pure awesome. Why not have it in EUIII? To actually give the Swedish a chance as Sweden was alone against a zillion countries, only Saxony, Denmark-Norway and Russia should be playable. Or maybe Saxony replaced with Poland-Lithuania, although that might make it a bit unfair again. (Amazingly Sweden managed to knock all besides Russia out of the war in a matter of months)

The game begins in 1700 and we only need 4 players. We could play once or twice or maybe more if the players agree a week. I'd like a very skilled player to be Sweden. Russia has a massive army in the beginning, but it falls apart rather quickly because of attrition. Sweden has a very good army. I'm not sure about Denmark-Norway and Saxony. I'll be Russia as I'm probably the suckiest player there is and will fail horribly at it, don't be surprised to see Swedish troops marching in Moscow a few months after the game begins

What about the time though? I'm Eastern European Time and I'd like it to be in the day. So this game is probably more suitable for Europeans. We can discuss it if we have the players together and find a time that suits everyone

The players:
Russia- Estlander
Sweden- Scottishranger
Denmark- King Edward III
Saxony- Ferrets

[removeduser_487563287433]

I will take a bash with Saxony.

[King Edward III]

I'll be Denmark.

Lets gang up on Ferrets, Estlander. ^_^

[scottishranger]

If this game is still up, I will be Denmark-Norway.

[King Edward III]

Denmark is taken.

[Mr Longbowman]

I haven't played for ages and even if I installed EU2 I would get completley destroyed. But if you are a player short you can ask me and you get a nation to destory that is not the AI. However my EU2 is weird and when I try to start it the screen turns black and nothing happens. If you want me and you know soemthing that can fix this you can count on me.

I don't care which faction I am by the way but Sweden is fairly powerful so I maybe woulden't lose so easy but if you want to have a game were Sweden can face of 3 other nations ( as really life ) I'm not the man

[Enemy of the State]

I haven't played for ages and even if I installed EU2 I would get completley destroyed. But if you are a player short you can ask me and you get a nation to destory that is not the AI. However my EU2 is weird and when I try to start it the screen turns black and nothing happens. If you want me and you know soemthing that can fix this you can count on me.

I don't care which faction I am by the way but Sweden is fairly powerful so I maybe woulden't lose so easy but if you want to have a game were Sweden can face of 3 other nations ( as really life ) I'm not the man

We play EUIII not II.

If this game is still up, I will be Denmark-Norway.

Taken already I'm afraid, go with something else. Oh wait, you can only pick Sweden

[Mr Longbowman]

We play EUIII not II.

I got EU3 to but I haven't got it installed

I am a even worse player on that though so you might want to stick with a AI player but if you wan't somebody you can discuss ( and bully ) I will gladly be with.

Just give me some time to train first

[Enemy of the State]

Well if Scottishranger is okay with being Sweden, I'd pick him first because he posted sooner.

And as you said, you're not very good. I'd like a good player playing as Sweden, it will be a hard fight.

[King Edward III]

No one wants to play as Sweden cause Russia's just going to steamroll them. :X

[Enemy of the State]

No one wants to play as Sweden cause Russia's just going to steamroll them. :X

But I suck!

[King Edward III]

But I suck!

You can't really loose when you start with almost 100k starting army.

[William the Bastard]

This appears to be Estlander's excuse to steamroller a Human player.

What you should do is mod the file a little bit giving Sweden a better chance of survival. You should give them better tech levels than the Russians and better leaders (of course). No point in anyone playing as Sweden if they know they shall be dead within the year.

[Enemy of the State]

How about I just delete half of my army in the beginning? Or 3/4?

[scottishranger]

Ok, I could be Sweden. As much as i pains to me to fight against the Peter Aleevich Magnus.

This time, there will be no Poltava! You will only hear the echoes of Narva!

[Enemy of the State]

Great, but we need to decide on a time and date. We have 2 Brits, an Estonian and an American. It's inevitably going to be very early of very late for at least 1 of us.

As for the date, would tomorrow be too early? Perhaps Monday or Tuesday? When is everyone available?

[Edelward]

Eventually Russians just could not threw they low quality army on Baltic only.
In fact their Tzar got himself defeated by Ottomans near Crimea .

[King Edward III]

Great, but we need to decide on a time and date. We have 2 Brits, an Estonian and an American. It's inevitably going to be very early of very late for at least 1 of us.

As for the date, would tomorrow be too early? Perhaps Monday or Tuesday? When is everyone available?

I'm avaliable whenever.

[Enemy of the State]

Unfortunately Ferrets has informed me that he can not play. We are going to cut Saxony out then. It will give Sweden a better chance anyway.

[Marku]

i can play all day(but only up to 11pm) on wednesday, friday, sat & sun and half days on monday tuesday and thursday. being a student is great