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On December 29 2011 06:35 Euronyme wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2011 06:12 Ulfsark wrote:+ Show Spoiler +On December 29 2011 04:57 Fruscainte wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2011 04:50 Ulfsark wrote:
Just picked this game up, is it possible for the aztecs to sail to europe? For Irony's sake I want to conquer Europe as the Aztects, I know that it will be hard but I want to try it.
Is it at all possible? Yes, but it's really hard, lots of waiting (~200 years sometimes) and luck plays a HUGE factor in it. In Vanilla DW, Aztecs have a modifier that they basically always have to be at war or they get revolts fucking everywhere, so it's really silly. You basically have a shitty Tech Group where when if people come to your land immediately with New World, you will 100% die because 100k of your troops will lose to like 5k of theirs. You essentially need to sell a province ASAP and send them all your gold to get rep up and Westernize ASAP so you can change to Despotic Monarchy and they don't get free CB's on you. Anyways, since you're new to the game, don't play Aztecs. Play Castille. Don't play the tutorial, it's ass. Castille is a great starting nation, however. Thanks! I started my first playthrough as Novorgod but the golden horde is pretty annoying. Think I should install the Death and Taxes mod as a new player? Or would it be better to just stick to vanilla for now? I think I have a basic understanding of the game already, I have played for about 10 hours. Save it until you feel vanilla EU3 is boring and predictable.
This is the main deal here. Until you know the ins and outs of EU3 vanilla and feel like it's just a grind it's so easy and predictable (on very hard), you should not even begin to think of mods. And that should easily be a few months, honestly.
Just enjoy the game, and when it stops being fun, worry about that shit. But as long as you're having fun, who cares? 
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On December 29 2011 06:00 gameguard wrote:
does the game have korea? if so, how viable is it for a new player?
Yes it has Korea, I am not sure how they play out as I am new myself.
I would say at the beginning just play whatever you like to get the basic controls down.
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On December 29 2011 06:55 Ulfsark wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2011 06:00 gameguard wrote:
does the game have korea? if so, how viable is it for a new player? Yes it has Korea, I am not sure how they play out as I am new myself. I would say at the beginning just play whatever you like to get the basic controls down.
Playing whoever you like can really fuck you over 
I made post about it on the previous page. Castille for first game, Portugal for colonization, France for Vassalation/Land Combat, Austria/Bohemia for HRE mechanics, Teutonic Order if you want a real challenge for a newer player.
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Is there any way I can look up my current cassus belli?
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Two ways
Open up the panel where you can construct buildings and shit and go to the "military" tab on the top. Click "next" on the bottom now until you get to a page called "Casus Belli" and it shows who you have a CB against, and who has one against you.
The simpler fashion is to simply click on the nation in question, press declare war, and see your options on the right side for that specific country.
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Can't you see most of your Casus Bellis on the main nation page as well? Simply by clicking the large icon in the top left and checking the area in the bottom left.
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Thank you sir. You have helped me immensely. Playing as Castille now. Almost annexed Aragon but I didn't notice they had 1 province left in the Mediterranean.
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On December 29 2011 07:56 Fruscainte wrote:
Two ways
Open up the panel where you can construct buildings and shit and go to the "military" tab on the top. Click "next" on the bottom now until you get to a page called "Casus Belli" and it shows who you have a CB against, and who has one against you.
The simpler fashion is to simply click on the nation in question, press declare war, and see your options on the right side for that specific country.
You can also click the tab where you see what religion you are and so on. There's a list there to the left with all your alliances, all your royal marriages, your CBs, etc etc.
If it's a reconquest CB (the best one), just press Y to bring up a core mapmode, and you'll see if you have cores outside your controlled lands.
CBs are otherwise usually fairly easy to keep track on. Read what's included in the CB before you declare war, and remember that the annexing and province capturing part of the excommunication CB only works for countries of the same culture group.
Never declare war with one of those trade CBs or diplomatic insult a shit like that. You'll just end up with massive infamy if you try to take any of their lands, and infamy is satan in eu3.
That's the biggest tip anyone can give you. Never get high infamy. Even at like 20 all countries will rapidly start losing relations with you, and it'll make it tougher diplomatically.
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Never get high infamy, but never not be losing infamy.
That's my philosophy.
By the way, Prestige is more important than some people think
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On December 29 2011 08:10 Fruscainte wrote:Never get high infamy, but never not be losing infamy. That's my philosophy. By the way, Prestige is more important than some people think
And even more so in D&T. It helps a bit with everything you could say
Negative prestige is really bad though.
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Is there a good way to decrease infamy?
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On December 29 2011 09:12 Ulfsark wrote:
Is there a good way to decrease infamy?
If you're Catholic, control the Vatican. Having a lot of catholic provinces increases the chances of a cardinal from your nation entering the curiae upon the death of a cardinal. Each cardinal gives you a monthly infamy reduction. So, a good basic strategy is this: force annex a lot of your enemies, make them catholic with missionaries, and then burn the infamy off with your cardinals.
Also, there are good anti-infamy advisers around that help that don't care whether or not you are catholic.
Another note, a good way to keep from getting a lot of infamy is to 1) avoid fucking with the HRE if you can and 2) if you can't avoid it, or you want to fuck with the HRE, either become the emperor (if you are in the HRE) or immediately force any provinces that you get from the HRE to leave the HRE. The "unlawful territory" event infamy hit can stack up very quickly if you have a lot of HRE territory.
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Awesome thanks I sent a few missionaries out already. The annexing is what gave me the infamy to begin with lol.
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Honestly, dont worry about it. As long as your infamy isn't in the red, you shouldn't worry about the adviser in my experience. In Orange is when you need to stop taking shit and just cool off for a few years. However, paying for a 6 star adviser to reduce it is completely unnecessary unless you're red. Also, pro tip, in the early game: Use all of your magistrates on "Commission Painting". It basically lets you get 6 star advisers super easily until you start building shit.
Also, if you take an HRE province that you don't have a CB on or any claim on, remove it form the HRE in the decisions area, otherwise you're going to take a stab hit and lose a lot of tax and rep with the emperor and shit.
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Just a little note there. You need to be below 0 rep with the emperor and outside the HRE to make a province leave the empire.
You'll lose 100 rep with the emperor for doing this, but it's clearly worth it.
Annexing to get cardinals is worthless as you get less influence the more infamy you got, so you'll probably end up on +-0 anyway. Focus on the embassy instead -0.40 every year for 50 years.
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dont know why u keep telling him to play castille, he will do it wrong and get attacked by france and die in 1650 or so ;p
"omg wtf how come he can afford 300k doods to my 50k wtf nerf france 5 star generals everywhere fml fml fml"
learn to defeat the blue blob you must
ive said it 100 times already austria is the best country for noobs. people love being your friend, you can stumble your way into being the emperor which makes u unkillable, not that any EVER attacks you. you have relatively weak neighbours both inside and outside the hre the list goes on. even castille has to put up with the wrath of france eventually
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Hey man I have a royal marriage with France and annexed Granada! As well as most of Portugal (France declared war on them) and I have most of Aragon.
I am having a lot of fun with Castille.
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On December 29 2011 10:12 turdburgler wrote:
dont know why u keep telling him to play castille, he will do it wrong and get attacked by france and die in 1650 or so ;p
"omg wtf how come he can afford 300k doods to my 50k wtf nerf france 5 star generals everywhere fml fml fml"
learn to defeat the blue blob you must
ive said it 100 times already austria is the best country for noobs. people love being your friend, you can stumble your way into being the emperor which makes u unkillable, not that any EVER attacks you. you have relatively weak neighbours both inside and outside the hre the list goes on. even castille has to put up with the wrath of france eventually
It's not hard to remain bros with France as Castille. Castille is the best all around starting because you have a solid navy, solid trading power, easy land combat in the form of heathens in Northern Africa and advanced in Portugal, along with ridiculously good economy from taxes. Austria is too easy. Losing teaches you more than steamrolling in this game imo, but to each his own.
On December 29 2011 10:37 Ulfsark wrote:
Hey man I have a royal marriage with France and annexed Granada! As well as most of Portugal (France declared war on them) and I have most of Aragon.
I am having a lot of fun with Castille.
Great job!
Try some holy wars against the heathens to your South, Tangiers is a fucking awesome province if you could take it.
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EDIT: Fuck my life I fail.
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