Europa Universalis 3 - Page 100

On February 08 2013 02:36 Simberto wrote:
Ok, Transsylvania has the most retarded start in the game. You are a vassal, and the golden horde never accepts any form of tribute. You sliders suck major balls too, you can't even trade at all. So basically, you need to first get rid of the vassalisation by hungary without them slaughtering you, THEN you need to somehow convince the GH to accept tribute instead of just eating you, and if you have somehow managed to do that, you can start actually doing stuff.

On February 07 2013 09:51 Madkipz wrote:
I have been trying to play as Transylvania because of Dracula, but it is very hard to get beyond a 4 state province after absorbing Wallachia through puppeteering into a demanded annexation just outright annexing them. I once managed to make puppets out of both Naples, Sicilily and gained control over Greece, but lost the game because I became mired in debt to the point of no return.

Anybody have any tips? I play on the normal settings with divine wind and I'm not using any addons.

On February 08 2013 04:25 Caller wrote:

oh hey, pskov here, the russian opm that teutonic order always gets a free conquest belli on

On February 08 2013 04:26 LuckoftheIrish wrote:


If you get into minor wars through alliances or whatnot, if you can extract even a few ducats it's quite useful since your trading sliders are terrible. Having a Master of the Mint around to help minimize inflation from minting is super important too. In those situations I also try to get Military Drill quickly then focus on land tech to maintain some kind of equilibrium against superior numbers. You just don't have the sliders to try to focus on economic or tech ideas. Minor nations with bad sliders have to be really opportunistic, take every advantage to win wars against rivals and threats, absorb or vassalize other minor nations quickly and focus on building powerful military.

On February 08 2013 04:28 LuckoftheIrish wrote:


Pffft. Bar. OPM, rich, productive province, links the northern half of Burgundy to the southern half (assuming the 1399 start etc), Burgundy has a free conquest causus belli. That's the nation I've had by far the most unpause into restart situations with.

On the other hand, they're super fun to play, IMO, since if you can not die on the first day you're playing a monarchy in the HRE with probably the best sliders in the game.

On February 08 2013 05:42 LuckoftheIrish wrote:
Doesn't change much, since Bar starts with 22,000 troops a maximum of two provinces away. It doesn't matter if Burgundy gets the shit kicked out of it, since you start with no alliances. You get DoW'd and annexed within the first month. Whatever happens to Burgundy after that doesn't matter since you're not around for it.

On February 08 2013 04:45 Simberto wrote:


A MoM is not cost effective on Transsylvania. For a MoM to be cost effective, you need to have a ratio of at least 1:1 of ducats/inflation, which means you need to have a monthly income of at least 10. Otherwise he does not pay for himself. Remember that the additionally minted money needs to exceed the amount you pay for the MoM.

The main problem i have had with my TS starts so far is that i was unable to convince the GH to accept my tribute after they bordered me, and they either vassalised me or simply ate me. I think this is the most important thing you need to achieve. After you have done that, you can do the typical small nation stuff. Any ideas how to make the GH accept your tribute?