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EUIII

After a few more wars, I abolished the Ottoman Empire. All of Asia Minor is now mine, except for the southern coastal provinces, which my former ally, Novgorod, controls. In the west, I got into an epic war with Hungary and crushed them utterly, taking their Balkan provinces after Serbia and Montenegro had revolted. The Magyar rump became my vassal.

All my provinces have been reconverted to Orthodoxy and Greek culture is making inroads in the Turkish east.

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I finally gave in and bought it. I figure that with all the enjoyment I got out of the pirated copies of EU2 and HOI I got from my friend when I was 13, paying them $12 for EU3 plus the two expansions wouldn't be too horrible.
 
Im not buying it. I DLed it from two different places. Usually, I have no problems with this sort of thing, but I cant figure out how to install it. Ill have someone come over and take a look at it.
 
That's a good choice, honestly. Some people fall in love with Paradox after playing one of their games, and some people get turned off by the shitty interface and steep learning curve and never play a grand strategy game again.
 
Serbia has been annexed and westernisation has begun! The Mamelukes conquered Novgorod's Anatolian possessions, so the stage has been set for a battle royale between our two empires. Egypt has vast armies. My stability's still recovering from westernising, and I'll need to build up some armies, but afterward...
 
Okay, just bought the Complete Edition. 28 Euros. This better be good.

Now, someone tell me what to do, what to expect and how not to fuck up! Please!
 
ctmelvital said:
Okay, just bought the Complete Edition. 28 Euros. This better be good.

Now, someone tell me what to do, what to expect and how not to fuck up! Please!
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EU is really hard, especially when you're learning. As FBI has said, the curve is steep as all hell.

I'd recommend to try playing a few short games jumping around to play different countries with different styles to get the varying aspects of the game down. Spain for colonisation, Venice or Mecklenberg for trading, the Ottomans for outright conquest, maybe. Once you understand the mechanics and interface, pick a country and stick with it.

Don't declare war if you're in negative stability, keep inflation low, and if you're on the sea, maintain a strong navy. The AI tends to dogpile you if you slip up.
 
Wow, this is shite. Not only does it have an insane number of technical glitches but the very first thing I actually tried to do - i.e. the first trial - doesn't work. It tells me to send an army from one province to another. Except I don't own the province where the army supposedly is. WTF?
 
The problem is that in EU3 original, Altmark did belong to Brandenburg, but Magdeburg has been introduced since then. I guess it didn't occur to them to update the tutorials.
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Wow, what a bunch of retards. :lol:

I guess the only conclusion is: "Fuck the tutorials."
 
You figure they'd have that fixed by the time they put out the second expansion.

At least if it does suck I can take solace in the fact that I only payed a third of what elvital payed for his copy. :D
 
Wow, this is some insanely buggy shit. There's no way for me to change the difficulty setting. It's just not there under game options. Holy fuck this is bad.
 
My game got an obnoxious glitch that made it unplayable (at least that campaign). My manpower froze at 3,800 and rose by 1 a month, with reinforcements never arriving, so my armies were screwed. I stopped playing after conquering all of Syria, Arabia down to Medina, and Alexandria, Damietta, and the Delta in Aegyptus. I vassal-annexed Hungary and conquered the Crimean Khanate.

After that campaign, Empire Total War came out so I switched over for a while and conquered the entire world in 1790.
 
It's always the shitty, buggy games produced by obscure foreign companies that I end up falling for. I loved Clear Sky despite the fact that it crashed on me every 20 seconds and took forever to figure out, too.
 
Playing on "very easy" as Castille in something like 1433. Currently at war with France, Venice, Naples and a couple OPM. Have eliminated the Ottoman Empire, The Mamlucks and all the North African countries. If I figure out how to post screenshots, I'll do it. :bergman:

France may turn out to be a bit annoying though. :(
 
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