On January 23 2015 02:35 RvB wrote: That makes sense. So when can I expect them to arrive?
In most my games the AI is quite bad at getting in india, and even worse at routing indian trade. This might not be all the AI's fault though, since even as a human player trying to play a historical Portugual it's not easy to have a good presence there by 1530.
They'll probably arive sometime in the 1600s, maybe 1700s.
My last few games were in southwest Asia and I saw Europeans show up in the early 1600s. I was doing some Stupid Colony Tricks every time though, so they might get there a bit quicker with less colony blocking. If you own land in the Indian subcontinent you should be guaranteed a fight. The AI takes its free-claims-in-India missions very seriously.
The tutorials help a lot, and the wiki even more. I generally have it open in a tab when I'm playing. For a relatively easy start, can't go wrong with the big three - britain for a safer, more isolated (at first) experience, france for powerbase and experience with vassals, and castille/spain for fun with colonization and access to the mediterranean.
What have you done in your ten hours?
I started as Castile twice, first time was fairly short and I got crushed by my neighbors because I did some stupid stuff. My second try is still running and going way better so far, I got a good portion of northern Africa and some colonies overseas, though France crushed me cause I was way out of position and I stopped playing since it was late anyways. I'll see if I can salvage the situation from one of the autosaves. Though I won't be too sad when I have to start over, I'd do a lot of things differently (presumably better).
I'll just keep playing with the wiki open
Yeah. The general rule I've followed in my Castile games is avoid anything above your northern border, specifically because of France. I've had alliances with Britain and stuff for insurance, except then when France decides it wants to cross the channel and you get dragged in to help, it's a lot easier for them to fuck you over than it is to fuck Britain over. Or otherwise they're weak enough where you need perfect coordination to beat the doomstacks.
But I'm only starting out, so maybe I'm just not good enough to run with the situation. My Byzantium game is only going as well as it is because of lucky alliances and my rivals getting dragged into wars at very opportune timings.
hmm. You can cut the emperor down in provinces. That makes people less likely to vote for him. Alternatively feed emperor tons of provinces in peace deals, this will give them lots of aggressive expansion and make electors hate him.
In other news, its ON:
With France on Austria's side this will be difficult :D
This is my second attempt at a kurland ironman game. First one I made the mistake of taking a couple provinces poland wanted and my 150+ relationship alliance turned to -120 something hostile and they murdered me in the first 30 years. This one is going a lot better and its finally time to push into Europe, the commonwealth will finally be a burden no more!!!
Also "this dynasty".
No PU's yet but fingers crossed. All dlc no mods.
Few funny pics that have happened this run. Luxemburg wrecks France + Show Spoiler +
TIL that if you let your subjects do all the fighting in your wars you get the Cold War achievement. Playing as Japan, set Ryukyu as a target for one of my vassals and he did all the fighting and besieging. And I got the achievement!
What is restoring the Pentarchy actually supposed to do? Not the prestige + missionary bonus, the other thing.
I'm asking because I rushed the Mamluks as Byzantium, got the five provinces (or the three that I didn't own) and converted them all to Orthodox, and the northern half of the HRE and Castile + Aragon suddenly turned orange when I checked a few days later. I waited till October (restored pentarchy either late August or early September) to see if more provinces would turn, but nothing changed.
That's really odd. It's not like religious rebels could spawn there. Force religion could have been used on the minors, perhaps by Muscovy? I'm not even sure if the AI uses it though. Especially Poland and Spain converting to orthodox is really weird.
Does the AI make a strategical decision to convert to orthodox for the decreased cost for raising stability, now that the Curia is gone? :D
On January 25 2015 07:51 Bojas wrote: That's really odd. It's not like religious rebels could spawn there. Force religion could have been used on the minors, perhaps by Muscovy? I'm not even sure if the AI uses it though. Especially Poland and Spain converting to orthodox is really weird.
Does the AI make a strategical decision to convert to orthodox for the decreased cost for raising stability, now that the Curia is gone? :D
Poland is PU'd under Russia, so I think that's how they got it.
Perhaps it's whoever still has cardinals left? That would make AI converting to orthodox for stability plausible, although I couldn't figure out how they did it when I tagged France or Portugal to see if I could do the same.
I checked some provinces in the Hansa and Castile, and it just says they converted to Orthodox on August 15, 1579. I converted the last of the five on August 2, so somewhere in there I apparently restored it. Castile's history just says a few provinces converted to Orthodox, and then the King went over. The weird thing is they're under Portugal in a PU and Portugal is still Catholic. Portugal's history has no mention of the conversion.
I love the AI. As soon as I declare on the Mamluks to get some coastal land so I can core Judea, Austria is without its reliable bodyguard, me, and gets invaded by Lithuania and Hungary. Upon which the Aquileans quickly jump into Hungary to get some quick land. Upon which what's left of Milan declares on Aquileia to get more provinces to make even more boats.
Castile got the event where they straight up inherit Portugal.
Breaking apart a heavily blobbed Brandenburg is a pain. Sat on them at 20 war exhaustion, permasieged them and waited for nationalist rebels to pop. Managed to make them lose 11 provinces in a 27-year war. Would have been more if my PU junior Austria didn't kill a bunch of rebels:
Compared to Brandenburg, France was a piece of cake. Econ/quality, econ/offensive, religious/quality policies really helped.
Started as Tuscany, allied myself to Milan, France, and Austria. Had help from both France and Austria in taking over Italy before they inevitably went to war. Sided with France and went to war with them all the time, building up a perfect relationship, helping me take out Venice and Aragon. Then immediately after France annexed Lorraine they break our alliance and have a hostile attitude >.< Hate how this game does crap like that lol.
Now I'm left with Lithuania, Transylvania, and Bohemia on my side. Against that super France...
EPT
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