Europa Universalis 3 - Page 76

On November 16 2011 15:50 Yurie wrote:


Have you tried to verify game files integrity under the properties -> local files for the game?

If that doesn't help, standard advice, update drivers, sound, video and so on. (I got a CTD yesterday, no clue why.)

Edit, btw why does War Exhaustion go up into the 20's in ~one year of war where I win ~20 battles and lose 3 without going below half manpower at any time?

On November 18 2011 04:11 turdburgler wrote:


war exaustion is a static effect, by which i mean having a massive army take 10% attrition dmg gives less than a tiny army taking 10% attrition. in the late game you get war exaustion pretty quickly even if you win the war convincingly

On November 18 2011 22:56 Pewt wrote:

I assume you mean a larger army gives more?

Anyhow, the easiest way to avoid mass WE is to just not pile up armies except in fights.

On November 19 2011 03:42 RvB wrote:


I don't think it's sad you can't influence your ruler as a monarchy, incompetent rulers is something countries really had to deal with and with personal unions monarchies are already powerful enough. Republics need atleast some advantages over monarchies.

btw I read a really wel written AAR I reccomend it to you all

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?562965-The-Red-Lioness-of-Holland&s=81d851a056fc53e37addee10148c188f

On November 20 2011 08:15 Pewt wrote:

Indeed. Republics are bad enough already, no need to make Monarchies stronger.

On November 20 2011 17:54 Simberto wrote:


I was in no way implying that. I know quite well that that is one of the main advantages of republics, while PUs are the main advantage of monarchies. That does not make a stream of 3/3/3 monarchs any less infuriating. However, i would strongly disagree with republics being bad. Especially an Administrative Republic as a trading nation is very, very good.

On November 21 2011 11:19 Blondinbengt wrote:
I'm currently playing a Holland game where my only European provinces, at around 1550 are Holland+Zeeland and Iceland that decided to join me completely at random.

I just allied with Burgundy pretty much the second my PU with Hainut broke off and that alliance held for 100ish years, when they cancelled it I was lucky enough to get a new alliance with England instead and so far that has deterred any Burgundian aggression it seems.

So I've been free to colonize like crazy, just got an event called ''Overextended'' or something like that because I'm expanding too rapidly which is really annoying :S

I also had some of the most crazy luck with technology events I've seen in EU3 so far, I started the game with a rank 5 Naval Reformer (or what the guy that gives naval technology investment is called) and I think I got 2 or 3 of those events where your technology investment great person writes some work of great importance that gives you 15.00 more investment in his technology for like 5 or 10 years. This resulted in me having The Azores, Madeira, Cape Verde, The Canarias, Bermuda, Manhattan, Curacao, Jamaica, Fernando Po, St. Helena and 3-4 more African colonies before any other country even had a single overseas colony.

On November 21 2011 11:40 Fruscainte wrote:


Well, the turning point of the game when I was especially greedy came when I had all of Burgundy's provinces conquered with Excommunication. France/Austria got them first, and I merely left soldiers on the conquered provinces and took them back after France/Austria were done respectively and just took it all in like a year. I had to make a choice. No matter what I was taking Utrecht since it was necessary for forming The Netherlands, however, the choice between releasing Flanders (or whatever they're called) or taking Antwerpen was where I had the issue.

If I released Flanders or whatever, all of Northern Burgundy is replaced with a country that I will have an alliance and royal marriage to. Basically a pretty darn strong ally to protect my ass throughout the game.

HOWEVER

If I took Antwerpen, I could destroy the CoT and make my own in Holland and make mad bank. So I took Antwerpen from them and left it at that, it was all I -could- do with 100% warscore. And made bank did I indeed. Got my CoT worth in Holland up to like 1.5k ducats and my income skyrockets monthly and yearly. It was really what helped me reach the ridiculous amount of money I was making by the end of the 1400's. However, that greed gave Burgundy a Reconquest CB on me and left them just as damn strong as they were before. I took a gamble and it bit me in the ass.

I should have just released Flanders and tried to vassalize them peacefully and took Antwerpen, again, peacefully throughout many years.

And if you're asking why did I want to take Antwerpen in the first place. Well, it was my nearest CoT and it was worth only like 250 ducats. You need the nearest to be worth something like 500 ducats before you can make another CoT in one of your provinces. So I had to destroy it so Lubek would be my next closest and I could make a CoT. If it was worth <500, I would have just left it be and made my own on my own time.

On November 21 2011 19:34 Velr wrote:
Or just send spies upon spies so they would not recover for centuries (and some Minor eventually breaks off)? (Thats how i tend to deal with Austria if i won a war but can't or don't want to split them).
I assume the Burgundian armies have been dead/non existant before you made peace?

On November 21 2011 21:17 RvB wrote:
I always play on low aggression so this might not work but what I used to do is colonise very quickly and then move my capital to the new world when I can. Then whenever Burgundy attacks just let them occupy your provinces in Europe they can't ever reach your colonies anyway so after a while they just white peace you. :D