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Post by Minnesotaball on Nov 20, 2017 3:18:38 GMT
Went back to previous version. I decided to play Aragon to form italy by culture shift. Currently like 1560 and I have castile as junior partner, and I own all of southern Italy and starting to permeate into north. I noticed ottos are passive so I might drive for Egypt. Is this a good idea? Could use its trade node to colonize Indonesia, as I have no care for new world. One issue is I want to integrate castile with form Spain decision. But I always get average claim heirs, you need 100 legitimacy to do the decision, so I cannot integrate them. I might just have to expand into north africa and drive for Egypt, as Savoy as a a## and allied with super austria. And Florence allied france. So I can only attack Venice, but AE hurts. Egypt island colonial empire it is. A long post this one was, just needed to rant
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Post by Desophaeus on Nov 21, 2017 6:00:13 GMT
Went back to previous version. I decided to play Aragon to form italy by culture shift. Currently like 1560 and I have castile as junior partner, and I own all of southern Italy and starting to permeate into north. I noticed ottos are passive so I might drive for Egypt. Is this a good idea? Could use its trade node to colonize Indonesia, as I have no care for new world. One issue is I want to integrate castile with form Spain decision. But I always get average claim heirs, you need 100 legitimacy to do the decision, so I cannot integrate them. I might just have to expand into north africa and drive for Egypt, as Savoy as a a## and allied with super austria. And Florence allied france. So I can only attack Venice, but AE hurts. Egypt island colonial empire it is. A long post this one was, just needed to rant There's a couple of problems...cultural shift to an Italian culture will render you ineligible for the Form Spain decision (I think), so it's impossible to form both Italy and Spain from the same country in the same savegame progression (in seperate saves, it's possible). Two, the provinces in Egypt sucks (except for Alexandria and Cairo). So, even if I was playing a major Muslim power (aka the Ottomans) I would rather to annex only the northern coastline (plus other bits like Sinai and Cairo) leaving the southern 2/3 to the Mamluks to linger as a weak little country, either as my vassal or just left out alone in the dark. Unlike Victoria 2, for Europa Universalis III (or IV), Africa is mostly dirt poor and not worth the money spent colonizing/annexing. Until you get machine guns in Victoria, stay away from Africa unless you want it for a specific purpose like RP or a world-wide conquest, or rarely a specific resource and nothing more than that. |
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Post by Minnesotaball on Nov 21, 2017 12:59:24 GMT
Went back to previous version. I decided to play Aragon to form italy by culture shift. Currently like 1560 and I have castile as junior partner, and I own all of southern Italy and starting to permeate into north. I noticed ottos are passive so I might drive for Egypt. Is this a good idea? Could use its trade node to colonize Indonesia, as I have no care for new world. One issue is I want to integrate castile with form Spain decision. But I always get average claim heirs, you need 100 legitimacy to do the decision, so I cannot integrate them. I might just have to expand into north africa and drive for Egypt, as Savoy as a a## and allied with super austria. And Florence allied france. So I can only attack Venice, but AE hurts. Egypt island colonial empire it is. A long post this one was, just needed to rant There's a couple of problems...cultural shift to an Italian culture will render you ineligible for the Form Spain decision (I think), so it's impossible to form both Italy and Spain from the same country in the same savegame progression (in seperate saves, it's possible). Two, the provinces in Egypt sucks (except for Alexandria and Cairo). So, even if I was playing a major Muslim power (aka the Ottomans) I would rather to annex only the northern coastline (plus other bits like Sinai and Cairo) leaving the southern 2/3 to the Mamluks to linger as a weak little country, either as my vassal or just left out alone in the dark. Unlike Victoria 2, for Europa Universalis III (or IV), Africa is mostly dirt poor and not worth the money spent colonizing/annexing. Until you get machine guns in Victoria, stay away from Africa unless you want it for a specific purpose like RP or a world-wide conquest, or rarely a specific resource and nothing more than that. I already culture shifted to Neapolitan and decision to form spain and Italy are there, also picked up art of war and common sense in sale yesterday. |
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Post by Desophaeus on Nov 21, 2017 13:02:29 GMT
Oh okay, but what happens after you form one of them, Minnesotaball? I think the other decision will disappear (not sure). |
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Post by Minnesotaball on Nov 21, 2017 13:03:54 GMT
Oh okay, but what happens after you form one of them, Minnesotaball ? I think the other decision will disappear (not sure). We will have to see. Taking remaining italian provinces will be very hard, as they have very strong allies. Then the super alliance of poland Ottoman and France. |
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Post by Desophaeus on Nov 21, 2017 13:26:36 GMT
Oh okay, but what happens after you form one of them, Minnesotaball ? I think the other decision will disappear (not sure). We will have to see. Taking remaining italian provinces will be very hard, as they have very strong allies. Then the super alliance of poland Ottoman and France. I played as the Golden Horde. Fought TWELVE different alliances at the same time. During my worse Tribal Succession Crisis, I was constantly DOWed by everyone else who has at least one border with me in the whole world. And on the top of that... the rebels all over my provinces outnumbers me or my enemies.  I'm not sure how much more I can take lol, but after playing as them, normal rebels don't even scare me any more. |
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Post by Minnesotaball on Nov 21, 2017 21:20:57 GMT
Playing Malacca and it is great, can Spawn institutions with common sense
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Post by Minnesotaball on Nov 22, 2017 13:41:11 GMT
Just formed Malaya, slowly colonizing Australia and other islands in Indonesia. The Malacca trade node is so rich. I am at around 700 development
Attacked Kilwa and believing their troops to be inferior, my local forces were defeated, however I rallied forces in Sumatra and retook my colony and took all of kilwa gold mines. Europeans are also starting to show up in the Indian ocean. I will need to hurry to colonize Indonesia, as it is not for sharing. Doubt I could win a war, possibly if I get the 100+ ships I could. Will post a screenshot later.
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Post by Minnesotaball on Nov 22, 2017 22:40:06 GMT
Now a naval supremacy race with Spain, as they are making moves for the moluccas. Currently my navy has more ships, the war will be determined on who wins the naval war. Making 25-30 ducats a month so ship costs are no problem. Spices and tea got a price boost to help me even more.
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Post by Desophaeus on Nov 22, 2017 22:52:11 GMT
Now a naval supremacy race with Spain, as they are making moves for the moluccas. Currently my navy has more ships, the war will be determined on who wins the naval war. Making 25-30 ducats a month so ship costs are no problem. Spices and tea got a price boost to help me even more. Naval ideas would've been helpful. Idk which would be best in EU4, but for EU3, it's definitely "Press Gangs", pretty much the best first naval idea to pick up. The second one would be "Seahawks" |
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Post by Minnesotaball on Nov 23, 2017 0:09:33 GMT
Nobody would be able to realistically take over the other, distance makes sure, Spain might have a good army, but trapped in a jungle province with 4% monthly attrition, they won't last. France also hates Spain, so if Spain sends a majority of army/navy, France will declare war, so they are also limited possibly. I would be fighting with every asset possible. If I won I would take all Spanish and Portuguese islands.(Portugal is not a problem, their navy is nonexistent.)
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Post by Minnesotaball on Nov 23, 2017 3:29:01 GMT
Don't know if I should colonize mexico or east Africa. Just not sure because of distance from malaya to Mexico, well I do have hawaii
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Post by Minnesotaball on Nov 24, 2017 0:36:52 GMT
Looking at Manchu and when your horde unity drops too low does a rebellion wanting a new leader spawn? Is that it?
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Post by Desophaeus on Nov 24, 2017 3:05:38 GMT
Looking at Manchu and when your horde unity drops too low does a rebellion wanting a new leader spawn? Is that it? eu4wiki.com Try it |
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Post by Minnesotaball on Nov 24, 2017 3:12:08 GMT
My plan to keep it up is go west until ming collapses. It might happen soon, as ruler and heir are getting old, just need negative stability for collapse.
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