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On August 04 2011 09:20 fush wrote:Show nested quote +On August 04 2011 03:41 Skilledblob wrote:ok tested it and it works fine with hamachi the important thing is that everybody has the right checksumm number. That is a 4 letters combination which you can see in the bottom left of your screen next to the version number. for the 5.0 version it should be OUMN for the 5.1 version I had BJLT it looks like the 5.1 patch messes up this combination all the time and changes it randomly so I'd propose that we use the 5.0 patch to play multiplayer. If your checksumm combination is not the above combination only reinstalling the game might change it back to the right one. So for a nice multiplayer session I'd propose saturday evening CEST for a game. This way the americans can play with the europeans and everybody has decent times. would be perfect if we can gather around 6 and more players so we can take the bigger european countries and have some fun  i seem to get BJLT all the time on 5.1.
BJLT is the correct checksum for 5.1
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On August 04 2011 13:02 KtheZ wrote:Oh my god if you guys start playing I would love to join Edit: Show nested quote +On August 04 2011 11:03 Tewks44 wrote:
I'm new to the game and have a few questions. I'd like to play as England because they're easy and because I'm of English descent so I guess there's some sentimental value as well. I'm wondering what my first steps should be.
Here's how I started on my first try. I saw that I had a causis belli on a vassal state of france that started with an A (sorry I can't remember the name). I saw that france was quashing rebellions so I figured it would be a good time to take it. I raised an army of around 11,000 and invaded. Things were going well until France came out of nowhere with an army of like 19,000 and stomped me. Basically I don't know what to do because I'm left with a rag tag army, and a war I'm going to lose and that's not a good way to start, so I'm wondering if you guys have any tips/pointers. Thanks Yeah when you get to bigger powers rebellions are usually nothing at all. I currently am playing a game as England where I am at war with France, and they are at like 18.00 war exhaustion, with revolts all over the place, and still have several roaming 13-19stack armies that crush every landing attempt I make. Basically, don't screw with the big countries. I haven't played a ton yet, but even if you get into a losing situation, you can just secede a small portion of your country (although that's the worst case scenario) or end up paying them some money. One time I was Morocco, and Castille warred me....... And later demanded 5 ducats with like a 50% warscore against me LOL (as in I was getting my ass handed to me by a coalition of france portugal and castille, along with me at war with algiers beforehand)
Yeah I guess I'll stay away from the big dogs and try to pick fights with scotland, brittany and burgundy.
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My England strategy involves only defending English continental provinces if it's possible, and then just cancelling missions until I get the ones that grant CB's and cores on Scotland and Ireland. The missions that grant cores are powerful, since this is an advantage you'd normally have to wait 50 years for.
While Scotland and Ireland are pretty poor provinces, they're safe on the Isles with you. Eventually France _will_ declare war on you and go for those continental provinces. Either fight tooth and claw (with a lot more than 19.000 guys), or just give them up one by one in peace settlements. In any case, France will not be able to land on the Isles since you start with 30 warships.
If you want to, it's certainly possible to give France a good beating, however. You're going to need the Military Drill national idea and A LOT of guys. Seriously. England has a good economy so don't stop recruiting until you run out of manpower. If you run out of money, do a little minting but not too much. Then just ship them over the Channel, however many at a time you've ships for, and start sieging the crap out of the French. Remember to use your general, and that cavalry is much better than infantry, for everything but storming castles, which you shouldn't really be doing anyway. Oh and don't leave your entire army in one province, they'll take attrition.
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On August 04 2011 13:30 beef42 wrote:
My England strategy involves only defending English continental provinces if it's possible, and then just cancelling missions until I get the ones that grant CB's and cores on Scotland and Ireland. The missions that grant cores are powerful, since this is an advantage you'd normally have to wait 50 years for.
While Scotland and Ireland are pretty poor provinces, they're safe on the Isles with you. Eventually France _will_ declare war on you and go for those continental provinces. Either fight tooth and claw (with a lot more than 19.000 guys), or just give them up one by one in peace settlements. In any case, France will not be able to land on the Isles since you start with 30 warships.
Yeah this is basically what I did. I already have the entire GB mainland except I took scotland by force and dont have cores on it (QQ)
Fighting tooth and claw with France is sooooo hard omfg.
Like with all seriousness, I land with like 30 stack of troops and get crushed by HUUUUGE french armies....
I'm only left with 3 provinces of Brittany in the mainland, QQ
Not to mention my infamy went sky high from crushing and annexing Ireland/Scotland.
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Yes, France loves to take Military Drill and she starts with a good general. You've got to match her on those two things.
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On August 04 2011 13:36 KtheZ wrote:Show nested quote +On August 04 2011 13:30 beef42 wrote:
My England strategy involves only defending English continental provinces if it's possible, and then just cancelling missions until I get the ones that grant CB's and cores on Scotland and Ireland. The missions that grant cores are powerful, since this is an advantage you'd normally have to wait 50 years for.
While Scotland and Ireland are pretty poor provinces, they're safe on the Isles with you. Eventually France _will_ declare war on you and go for those continental provinces. Either fight tooth and claw (with a lot more than 19.000 guys), or just give them up one by one in peace settlements. In any case, France will not be able to land on the Isles since you start with 30 warships. Yeah this is basically what I did. I already have the entire GB mainland except I took scotland by force and dont have cores on it (QQ) Fighting tooth and claw with France is sooooo hard omfg. Like with all seriousness, I land with like 30 stack of troops and get crushed by HUUUUGE french armies.... I'm only left with 3 provinces of Brittany in the mainland, QQ Not to mention my infamy went sky high from crushing and annexing Ireland/Scotland.
As a new player DO NOT try to hold the continent, it is far too hard. You can check out AAR's of other players and see what they do to get ahead of the AI (or abuse it)
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?360-EU3-After-Action-Reports-(AAR)
On the EU3 forums you will find a very good community that is willing to give you tips and help about what to do in any cituation
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IF you want to take the continent, then you need to have a good start with France OR as Austria as the emperor 
I am sure that some über skilled EU3 player can win with smaller nations, but most can't!
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I had a successful war with scotland. I then had a good war with burgundy and scotland, but I lost a province to France during the scuffle with burgundy. Now I'm facing rebellions with 4,000-6,000 troops, probably 1-2 a month, for some reason my economy can only support around 5,000-6,000 troops and things are looking bad. I have no idea why my economy is doing so awful, and I have no idea why I'm facing such an absurd amount of rebellions.
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On August 05 2011 02:21 Tewks44 wrote:
I had a successful war with scotland. I then had a good war with burgundy and scotland, but I lost a province to France during the scuffle with burgundy. Now I'm facing rebellions with 4,000-6,000 troops, probably 1-2 a month, for some reason my economy can only support around 5,000-6,000 troops and things are looking bad. I have no idea why my economy is doing so awful, and I have no idea why I'm facing such an absurd amount of rebellions.
It could be negative stability,
but the rebellions sound like War Exhaustion!
Go to the troop maintenance tap and look for a number just above the ship maintenance, which might be red in your case.
War exhaustion rises during war and is a big factor in rebellions!
You can only lower war exhaustion by peace!
The economy is a little more tricky. Might it be that the CoT that you usually use are close to you because of the war ?
or you could get a Master of the Mint and begin minting some!
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On August 04 2011 20:05 Ramong wrote:IF you want to take the continent, then you need to have a good start with France OR as Austria as the emperor I am sure that some über skilled EU3 player can win with smaller nations, but most can't!
I was watching a Let's Play of a dude who played Brandenburg, on very hard difficulty and random lucky nations. It was amazing watching him go from 4 provinces to creating a vast empire.
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On August 05 2011 05:18 e4e5nf3 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 04 2011 20:05 Ramong wrote:IF you want to take the continent, then you need to have a good start with France OR as Austria as the emperor I am sure that some über skilled EU3 player can win with smaller nations, but most can't! I was watching a Let's Play of a dude who played Brandenburg, on very hard difficulty and random lucky nations. It was amazing watching him go from 4 provinces to creating a vast empire.
I don't doubt the fact that there is much better player out there! :p
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On August 05 2011 05:20 Ramong wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2011 05:18 e4e5nf3 wrote:On August 04 2011 20:05 Ramong wrote:IF you want to take the continent, then you need to have a good start with France OR as Austria as the emperor I am sure that some über skilled EU3 player can win with smaller nations, but most can't! I was watching a Let's Play of a dude who played Brandenburg, on very hard difficulty and random lucky nations. It was amazing watching him go from 4 provinces to creating a vast empire. I don't doubt the fact that there is much better player out there! :p
He could use a bit better resolution though. But that is just nitpicking.
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On August 05 2011 02:21 Tewks44 wrote:
I had a successful war with scotland. I then had a good war with burgundy and scotland, but I lost a province to France during the scuffle with burgundy. Now I'm facing rebellions with 4,000-6,000 troops, probably 1-2 a month, for some reason my economy can only support around 5,000-6,000 troops and things are looking bad. I have no idea why my economy is doing so awful, and I have no idea why I'm facing such an absurd amount of rebellions.
like someone mentioned, it sounds awfully like war exhaustion. how long has the war gone on and how long have you been collecting war taxes? of course when you're facing rebellions, it's due to an increased revolt risk, and as the revolt risk goes up, your tax/trade income goes down in said provinces, which probably explains your weakened economy.
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I don't understand how anyone is able to stand up to big powers.... Like with all seriousness, I was playing as the Teutonic knights, waging small wars against a few tiny neighbors... WHEN SUDDENLY POLAND WARS ME and then Lithuania, Novogrod, and moscovy all come and screw me over royally. It's like my 15 stack army against 150 stacks total. Then poland jacks like 5 of my provinces and I dont understand how you can stop him from re-warring me and doing it again (this is like the 3rd time poland warred me)
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get bohemia to ally you and you are safe from poland.
They wont attack you unless you have no allies or only weak ones
but often it is just random which countries poland and Lithunia attack. Sometimes they go for the ottomans sometimes they go for muscowy, sometimes they die. Depends a lot on what the other countries do
what worked for me as Teutons was allying Muscovy and Bohemia, I then attacked some smaller countries and waited until the Golden Horde was attacking Lithunia. Then I attacked Lithunia and started splitting it up and taking provinces.
Bohemia kept me safe from Poland and allying Muscovy helped with Lithunia
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On August 05 2011 06:14 Skilledblob wrote:
get bohemia to ally you and you are safe from poland.
They wont attack you unless you have no allies or only weak ones
but often it is just random which countries poland and Lithunia attack. Sometimes they go for the ottomans sometimes they go for muscowy, sometimes they die. Depends a lot on what the other countries do
what worked for me as Teutons was allying Muscovy and Bohemia, I then attacked some smaller countries and waited until the Golden Horde was attacking Lithunia. Then I attacked Lithunia and started splitting it up and taking provinces.
Bohemia kept me safe from Poland and allying Muscovy helped with Lithunia
yeah the problem is that whenever I look for alliances, they all seem almost impossible, and the only good way to increase prestige is to go to war (right?)
I guess I was just unlucky, because Muscovy simply wouldn't honor its alliance with me... EVER.
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God I love this game. Haven't played it in ages though. Was really angry when Hamburg disappeared from Divine Wind as a starter, loved playing as a OPM in that area...unlocking it isn't the same 
It's actually not too hard to take Europe, even on the harder difficulties and starting with a OPM, as long as you corner trade early along with carefully vassalizing. Then you just pile on smaller nations while paying off the larger ones. Some nations like The Knights are almost impossible though.
Has anyone here managed a full campaign with the harder native tribes? I don't know how they play in Divine Wind yet
Oh and anyone new to the game having lots of problems, be very very careful with your reputation, and keep and eye on weak nations who lack strong allies who you can declare war on (in Europe this normally involves waiting until there is a weak Emperor). Also making Masters of Mint with the new system in DW that allows you to make your own great men is a good way of minting money for upgrades when you have cornered trade but have a really small empire.
Such an awesome game!
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Just bought it on steam for £5 after reading the first few posts on this thread. Excited at the prospect of playing it! Hopefully can play my home countries of Scotland and China(Hong Kong) :D Japan n Korea would be cool too!
Dl at 60%!
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On August 04 2011 20:05 Ramong wrote:IF you want to take the continent, then you need to have a good start with France OR as Austria as the emperor I am sure that some über skilled EU3 player can win with smaller nations, but most can't!
![[image loading]](http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/2726/granadam.jpg)
The first 3 years is the only hard part, to be honest. You just need to take a shit ton of loans, a shit ton of Mercenaries, and really good micro against the Spaniards taking out their building units until Morocco/Algiers decides to help, and you just get 100% war score on Castille, take their territory and fuck their treaties/cores up and whatnot, and you're good to go.
No cheats used. Being muslim = free CB on EVERYONE and 1 infamy per territory.
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On August 05 2011 06:24 KtheZ wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2011 06:14 Skilledblob wrote:
get bohemia to ally you and you are safe from poland.
They wont attack you unless you have no allies or only weak ones
but often it is just random which countries poland and Lithunia attack. Sometimes they go for the ottomans sometimes they go for muscowy, sometimes they die. Depends a lot on what the other countries do
what worked for me as Teutons was allying Muscovy and Bohemia, I then attacked some smaller countries and waited until the Golden Horde was attacking Lithunia. Then I attacked Lithunia and started splitting it up and taking provinces.
Bohemia kept me safe from Poland and allying Muscovy helped with Lithunia yeah the problem is that whenever I look for alliances, they all seem almost impossible, and the only good way to increase prestige is to go to war (right?) I guess I was just unlucky, because Muscovy simply wouldn't honor its alliance with me... EVER.
Alliances with countries also depends on your other allies.
So if you want a strong ally like, Bohemia, then you should consider dissolving your other alliances.
It seems that a country won't ally with you if your other allies are a enemy of this new country you try to ally, or and enemy of their allies :p
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