EUIII

[Dual]

I've been playing a game as Castilla. In 1492 I annexed Aragon (plus Sicily) while conquering Granada. I wasn't expecting the annexation to work, so I got a bunch of unhappy provinces. Nationalist rebels started popping up almost immediately.

Well, in 1493 I put together an expedition and discovered the new world. Two of my regiments were shipwrecked on Cuba after a storm took the initial fleet.

Over in Spain, all the Iberian Aragonese rebels were put down as they came up. Unfortunately, Sicilians started rising on Sicily, where I didn't have any army to speak of. Rather than bother trying to defend the island, I released them as a vassal. The Aragonese nationalists managed to take and hold the Baleares until Aragon reemerged.

Over in America, I landed a small conquistador force and fucked up the Mayans, Aztecs, and Zapotecs. I completely annexed all the land of the Mayans and Zapotecs but left the Aztecs with one remote province as my vassals and took all their gold. Of course, massive nationalist armies started rising up all over central America, and it took a lot of work to put them down. As soon as I could, I started attempting to convert them so as to stop their allegiance to the native states, but it has been a long process. Now, 40 game years later, I've converted most of the provinces, although the Maya are still the dominant culture in Honduras and Guatemala, the Zapotecs still rebel from Mixtec, and the Aztec patriots still have two or three unconverted provinces. Unfortunately, once I took care of that little problem, Castillan peasant rebels started causing trouble in central America. Hispaniola fell entirely to peasants and has yet to be regained.

Over in Spain, a few decades before, I started picking apart Portugal, until I got them down to only Lisboa and made peace, taking everything. They've got a bit of a colonial empire going, still. I've got to deal with their patriots revolting against me like five times a year.

In Georgia I landed a colony early on and went on a rampage, destroying and annexing the Creek before having a little colony war with Portugal, seizing all of their north American holdings in Florida and Alabama. I managed to convert all the southeast provinces relatively quickly, and have been slowly advancing north, stealing native provinces, converting them, and holding the new line in the meantime.

 

[FBI parte due]

Is nationalism really that bad in EUIII? I haven't gotten around to pirating it yet, but in II it was only like +3 revolt risk or something.

 

[Conchaga]

This is relevant to my interests.

Continue.

 

[Dual]

France kept DoWing me as Castilla and invading with their legions of vassals. I simply couldn't defend myself against their overwhelming manpower. I got tired of it and eventually started a new game as England in 1399.

Starting out I got a CB on Scotland from a border dispute, so I invaded and vassalised the Picts. About fifteen years later, I managed to diplo-annex them, so England covers the whole of Great Britain, although the Acts of Union haven't popped up yet.

In Ireland, I got a CB on Ulster and vassaled them, same story as Scotland. I peacefully vassaled Munster in the south shortly before they conquered Conaught, leaving only Leinster on Eire with political independence. I'm trying to annex Munster.

Meanwhile, France kept DoWing me over Calais and Gascogne. I managed to put down Brittany and vassalised the Breton king, henceforth a duke. France kept DoWing at every opportunity, and of course crushed my armies on the field every time because of vastly superior manpower. I eventually ceded all my mainland provinces and released Brittany just to avoid dealing with their shit.

Currently building a surplus of gold while researching new techs and waiting to get Quest For The New World (should be in about 40 years; it's 1440 now) at which point I'll begin colonising the Maritimes in the west while another fleet plants colonies along the African coast (that island off of Nigeria, the cape) and conquer Ceylon. From their, either India or China await. Fuck France.

 

[Conchaga]

Get some good screencaps.

 

[FBI parte due]

When you get tired of that, there's always the Byzantines.

 

[Conchaga]

Any other games like this you guys play?

 

[Dual]

The Total War series. Rome (and Rome: BI) are the best. The new TW, Empire, is coming out in March.

 

[Dual]

England update:

My Burgundian allies were whittled down to just the province of Antwerp by their neighbours. Antwerp happened to be my most valuable CoT. Brabant, strengthened by inheriting Oldenburg, DoWed Burgundy so I, of course, joined in. Before I even landed my troops, however, Burgundy had been annexed. This left me in some dire economic straights as Antwerp was now closed to my merchants and my economy was in the red. I sent over about twenty four regiments to battle the insane strength of Brabant, incredible if only for their state's small size. After a long, hard war, their armies were destroyed and their provinces occupied. In the peace, I made the Brabantines release Burgundy, with only Antwerp, and Oldenburg as independent states. This new Burgundy quickly became my diplo-vassal, giving me half of Antwerp's tariff income.

In 1465, I conquered Leinster and diplo-annexed Munster, giving me complete control of all the British isles, with the notable exception of Norwegian Orkney. In 1473, under Mary I, England formed Great Britain, and all were overjoyed.

I got QFTNW and promptly colonised the Canaries and Madeira.

Meanwhile, the Navy of Cornwall was exploring beyond Iceland. The coast of Greenland was discovered before a small conquistadorial army landed on Labrador. The coast was explored, new colonies planted, and Greenland was given a penal colony soon after.

On the trade front, my merchants dominate just about every CoT I have access to now, with the exception of Paris, which has a perpetual embargo on me. I founded a CoT in London, too.

 

[Kitty]

EUIII

I just googled it. Its like Civ, right?

Dual makes it sound fun. Links to no money down copiable version?

 

[Dual]

EUIII

I just googled it. Its like Civ, right?

Dual makes it sound fun. Links to no money down copiable version?

Only a million times better. Try searching the torrent sites; my current version comes from Vuze.

Update:

Colonisation proceeds apace. Greenland has a thriving colony while Labrador and PEI each have full cities. Almost all of the eastern Canadian seaboard is mine. My conquistadors (the Army of Cymru; how far they've come...) made a venture into Huron territory and seized Ontario before making peace (in exchange for 1500 ducats, lmao).

 

[Conchaga]

www.torrentz.com is your friend.

 

[Dual]

After about three more hours of playtime:

The Reformation broke out in 1503 so I've been putting down religious revolts and reconverting my heretical provinces. In North America, colonisation reached Massachusetts and Connecticut before my shipping range ran out. At that point, I ran into as far as I know the first other European colony: Castillan Manhattan and Delaware.

Huron made the mistake of DoWing me. I took half their provinces, all their ducats, and made them my vassals with the rest. Most of the Great Lakes provinces I took from them have been converted, with the exception of originally Iroquois Oneida.

Africa's been a major theatre of operations for Britain. We colonised cities in Arguin and a few other provinces between Morocco and Mali before joining a crusade on Algiers, which had previously taken all of Morocco's territory except Marrakesh. The Algiers/Ottoman war didn't accomplish anything, but before our white peace, I conquered and vassaled the remnants of Morocco proper.

After the peace, my formerly crusading Army of Scotland headed south to Mali. I DoWed them and quickly swept through their domains, occupying and crushing all of their armies. In the peace I took 2000 ducats (OMG) and their two coastal provinces, giving British West Africa a contiguous strip of five.

Next, it was time to send some good men to make progress towards India. While the Scottish army was busy fighting the standard rebels in West Africa, the Army of Cornwall (only six thousand men) sailed past on their way to Nigeria. Once there, I conquered both Hausa provinces and took their chief ally's capital before demanding the Hausa and some gold for peace. Success. With some missionaries they became English cultured and Catholic, and with a new level of naval tech, I was able to colonise that one island and Cameroon.

Spain was embargoing me so I founded a new CoT for my African possessions in the Canaries. How's that for economic warfare, huh?

 

[ctmelvital]

So, how good is it? Worth 28 Euros?
I think I downloaded this at some point but couldn't really figure it out...

 

[Dual]

Definitely.

Expanded into a few colonies in the American south, took the Bahamas, Cuba, colonised Nicaragua, vassaled the Maya, colonised south Texas and fucked up the Aztecs, who only had two provinces. I acquired my third CoT (Mexico) from them. Now I've got five counting my vassals (Burgundy and Huron).

Destroyed Benin and Kongo; took some coastal provinces and gold from them. I've run into a Turkish colony in subsaharan Africa. The game's on.

 

[Dual]

I keep getting provinces randomly converting to Orthodoxy. =/

Conquered some Inca land, all but the last of Huron's provinces (got my fourth CoT, Niagara), colonised the Cape of Good Hope, landed a conquistador army in Swahili land on the east coast of Africa and annexed Mombasa and a more southerly territory. After my ships repaired in the harbour, I explored the ocean to Ceylon, brought my army over from Mombasa, and conquer/vassaled the island: The first step in my quest to conquer India.

 

[Dual]

I got tired of Britain so I started a new game in 1399 as the Roman Empire. Of course, the 15th century is just a bit past Rome's glory days, so it took a few attempts to survive the first few years.

Eventually I managed to blockade the Sea of Marmara and with the help of a noble's veto event, got like 20 stacks and curbstomped the Ottoman imperial army in the Balkans then went on to occupy the rest. My navy kept the Turks in Asia while I used a few tactics to lower their stability, eventually causing pretenders to rise in their eastern provinces. I used a spy to launch another revolt in Anatolia and then invaded from Thrace. In the peace, I managed to wrest most of the Balkans from the Turk, giving Rhomania a fighting chance at survival.

Oh, and I'd already annexed all the Latin principalities in Greece.

The local theatre after my war of liberation.

World map.

 

[Kitty]

I DLed it last night, but havnt installed it yet.

Any must know tips?

 

[FBI parte due]

What's that big blue mass in the Caucasus? Is that Georgia not getting crushed for once, or is that one of the Turkic tribes?

 

[Dual]

Yeah, that's Georgia.

Hungary has expanded to encompass all of the Balkans that I don't control and is likely to be a problem. The Turks are allied with the Golden Horde, which is doing really well and shares a border with me on the Danube, which is obviously a problem.

Venice took Janina/Epirus from the Turks during my first big war with them, and a bunch of Greek Nationalists rose up and took control of the province. I was hoping they'd revolt to me, but the Turks had converted them to Islam - The Sultanate of Greece! Needless to say, I quickly conquered and reconverted the upstarts.

In my next Ottoman war, I took the rest of Bulgaria and Albania, leaving the Turks with no European possessions. Score. Next up:

The Turks are allied with the Golden Horde, which is doing really well and shares a border with me on the Danube, which is obviously a problem.

I managed to get only the Ottomans into a war by DoWing their vassal, Karaman. Before this I had already annexed Trebizond, which I of course had a core on. Cyprus had revolted to me too. I moved in from four directions: Trebizond in the east, Thrace to Bithynia, Adrianople to Bursa, Rhodes to Antalya. After a good war, the Ottomans were crushed and I occupied all of Asia Minor. In the peace, I took all I could: Sinope, Bithynia, Konya, Smyrna, Antalya (well, my allies, Novgorod). I'm currently in the process of reconverting them.

This left the defeated Turks with a line of provinces from Bursa (their capital) on the sea to Anatolia, Angora, Sivas. They annexed Karaman and Candar afterward, giving them some replacement revenue, but I'll just take them in our next war.

Rhomania is reborn!