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axeil posted:That has to be one of the more challenging achievement runs I've done. I was close to annihilation a few times but managed to pull it out. France grabbing half of Spain really delayed me and made things a challenge. Plus the War of Polish Succession I had was some of the most fun I've had in an EU4 game. Anyone else here ever do Albania or Iberia? According to the Steam stats it's a rarer achievement than a world conquest (0.5% have a world conquest, 0.4% have Albania or Iberia). I did it a while back, yeah! We both ended up becoming HRE, too. Very fun achievement! Skanderbeg is so, so good.
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PleasingFungus posted:I did it a while back, yeah! We both ended up becoming HRE, too. Very fun achievement! Haha yes he is. Wonder if everyone who's ever done this has become HRE. Seems like if you get big enough you're a natural "outside" pick if the emperor pisses off all the electors, which seems to happen all the time now. Oh and the 30 years war failed to happen for me too. If I hadn't seen all the changes they were gonna make to Africa in the next patch I'd do Congo for my next run, but those changes seem to be way more fun. I've never done a game in Asia. How is it/any good achievements to try for if you start in Asia? edit: Saw you also did "First Come, First Serve" agree with you that the middle of that is incredibly boring and tedious. The end is a lot of fun though. axeil fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Feb 22, 2016 |
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axeil posted:Haha yes he is. Wonder if everyone who's ever done this has become HRE. Seems like if you get big enough you're a natural "outside" pick if the emperor pisses off all the electors, which seems to happen all the time now. You should try "great Perm" Doing that right now, and it's a fun run, except for their terrible ideas set
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 03:49 |
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axeil posted:If I hadn't seen all the changes they were gonna make to Africa in the next patch I'd do Congo for my next run, but those changes seem to be way more fun. I've never done a game in Asia. How is it/any good achievements to try for if you start in Asia? The Buddhists Strike Back is a real rough start (rougher than Albania, for me), but a good challenge. Manchurian Candidate is fun. I hear The White Elephant is good, but haven't tried it myself?
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 04:09 |
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Yeah, Buddhists is very fun. Tricky part is the first 10 years or so, but once you get rolling it's tough to lose. My game saw me go through 14 out of 15 years of regency, only to get called into a war against Bahmanis, my only neighbour at the time. I was promised land, pulled my weight, received nothing, and was left with a 15 year truce.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 05:04 |
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I'm playing my first proper game in India and while it starts out as a thunderdome it coalesces into blobs really quick. I started out as Gujarat because I like their trade focused ideas and they aren't big from the beginning. After about 120 years, I've formed Hindustan and its basically just me, mega-Malwar, Delhi and Bengals left in India. And I'm going to crush Bengals soon enough to get their delicious centres of trade.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 06:09 |
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I've started as Brandenburg, converted to protestant and formed Prussia. Joined and won the League Wars, and got voted emperor. However, there is barely any Imperial authority ticking in. Many small starting OPMs don't exist anymore, but in particular, there are no more free cities, and I cannot make any more due to the -50 "is a monarchy" penalty for the OPMs I release. What can you do in such case?
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 06:38 |
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Playing as Bohemia with a medium fleet protecting some Baltic trade, I somehow discovered Japan. Is that just a random event for anyone who has any kind of naval presence?
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 06:50 |
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Flip Yr Wig posted:Playing as Bohemia with a medium fleet protecting some Baltic trade, I somehow discovered Japan. Is that just a random event for anyone who has any kind of naval presence? If you discover any Japanese province (including through map spread), you get an event that discovers Kyoto for you. OperaMouse posted:I've started as Brandenburg, converted to protestant and formed Prussia. Joined and won the League Wars, and got voted emperor. If you can get them to have a Threatened opinion of you, they'll accept. So butter them up, get them to max relations and friendly, then set your relations with them to hostile.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 06:52 |
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PittTheElder posted:Yeah, Buddhists is very fun. Tricky part is the first 10 years or so, but once you get rolling it's tough to lose. If you don't have a permanent -5% discipline from bad karma, as you more or less had to before they flipped the way karma works, you're basically playing easy mode. :P
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 07:11 |
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YouTuber posted:Ok, so Aztec and the nations around it play entirely different from normal European EUIV. I take it the goal is to vassalize all 5 around you and feed them the remaining states then reform out to a functional society? You can pass one reform every time you accumulate five vassals. When you do, you'll lose some stability and release all of your vassals. Even if you pass all the reforms, you'll need to continue this cycle of force-vassalising and/or humiliating and then releasing your neighbours in order to stave off the Doom counter (although I suppose without the requirement for five of them, you could annex a few of them) until Europeans arrive allowing you to reform your religion to no longer require human sacrifice. On that note, you can't possibly hope to compete with Europeans, no matter how much tech you advance. So I would say that the best way to utilise your one advantage (the enormous amount of monarch power you'll generate due to Aztec leader stats) is to pour it into development. I haven't actually tried that, it's just what I've thought of. TacticalUrbanHomo fucked around with this message at 07:16 on Feb 22, 2016 |
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PleasingFungus posted:If you don't have a permanent -5% discipline from bad karma, as you more or less had to before they flipped the way karma works, you're basically playing easy mode. :P I took one look at that pre 1.14, and just said nope.
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cool and good posted:It's really easy as Japan. Enforce peace on anyone attacking without allies and annex them. I'm still new enough that I didn't even know that was a thing that I could do.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 07:49 |
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Arrath posted:I'm still new enough that I didn't even know that was a thing that I could do. Yeah that's a good (if gamey) little tactic to annex a few of the aggressive daimyos while you diplo-annex all you can. Once you have about 2/3 of Japan of course you can just crush everyone without diplomatic nuance.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 08:07 |
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The Ceylon achievement seems like just what I need while we wait for the next patch. Not much going on in India, after all.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 08:14 |
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The worst part about Japan is the conversion event not always firing, have fun trying to get that achievement. Do we have any news on new achievements next patch?
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 08:44 |
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This is interesting, some dude's RNW generation bugged out and applied it's climate generation to the Old World
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 11:25 |
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Odobenidae posted:This is interesting, some dude's RNW generation bugged out and applied it's climate generation to the Old World lmao, get hosed india
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 11:27 |
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Odobenidae posted:This is interesting, some dude's RNW generation bugged out and applied it's climate generation to the Old World What happens when India vs Pakistan goes nuclear.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 11:42 |
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axeil posted:Haha yes he is. Wonder if everyone who's ever done this has become HRE. Seems like if you get big enough you're a natural "outside" pick if the emperor pisses off all the electors, which seems to happen all the time now. My run was from a few DLC back, but I stuck with Orthodox on the grounds that most of my early expansion land was Ortho. Kinda cut me out the HRE. e: my old post on this, may be a little outdated Obliterati posted:Attempt #150: success!
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 11:49 |
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New MEIOU version got released. Still runs like poo poo.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 12:05 |
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Friendly Humour posted:New MEIOU version got released. Still runs like poo poo. why do map modders always put in those dumb loving oasis provinces disconnected from everything around it?
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 12:32 |
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ThePutty posted:why do map modders always put in those dumb loving oasis provinces disconnected from everything around it? They think it makes their maps look 'realistic'
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 12:54 |
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ThePutty posted:why do map modders always put in those dumb loving oasis provinces disconnected from everything around it? who cares about things like "playability" in a video game map! i need to realistically depict the world, even if it results in things that make no sense in a game!
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 12:56 |
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Odobenidae posted:This is interesting, some dude's RNW generation bugged out and applied it's climate generation to the Old World - The eastern halves of continents get additional moisture. The larger the landmass, the greater this effect. - The above moisture moves in an east-west, southeast-northwest, and south-north direction from the sea and unto land. The more southerly the source of water, the more moisture is transported. - Hitting a tall mountainous area dumps most of the remaining moisture in the area in front, leaving a large rain shadow. Would, if calibrated right, basically fix Asia in the model. (Assuming you included grasslands and poo poo.) On the western side, you'd just have to: - Add a band of moisture from 40 to 70 degrees, centered around 60 degrees and trailing off at the ends, moving east from the western side of the continents. - Same rules for mountains apply. And Eurasia would basically be fixed. Calibrating would just be a matter of putting in a world map and checking to see if it looks anything like the real world. ThePutty posted:why do map modders always put in those dumb loving oasis provinces disconnected from everything around it?
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A Buttery Pastry posted:This is a very prejudiced view. presented without comment edit: actually i only just noticed all the tiny provinces along the coastline god drat Hefty Leftist fucked around with this message at 13:58 on Feb 22, 2016 |
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ThePutty posted:
Those are actually oasis' that connect to each other like in CK2. It's not the dumbest thing about it though. HRE is a literal clusterfuck of provinces smaller than your dick.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 14:03 |
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Bedcause obviously cities should be tiny provinces unto themselves
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 14:05 |
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Well you see one day in 1642, $city in $province was an exclave of $nation, so it should be a separate province to simulate that.
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Jeoh posted:Well you see one day in 1642, $city in $province was an exclave of $nation, so it should be a separate province to simulate that.
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You should inform them of the political situation between Switzerland and the HRE around that time and ask them to model that in game, then watch them come up with an even worse map. Edit: I think some of the city states/provinces in the lower lands would apply to that too
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Tahirovic posted:You should inform them of the political situation between Switzerland and the HRE around that time and ask them to model that in game, then watch them come up with an even worse map. I sure hope that HoI4 will accurately model Baarle-Nassau
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 16:31 |
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The province borders of Trois-Évêchés are my aesthetic.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 17:03 |
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YF-23 posted:The province borders of Trois-Évêchés are my aesthetic.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 17:11 |
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Coastal exclave provinces like Macau and the ones in that mod are good because they mean I can spread my imperialistic embrace without having to leave behind ugly borders all over the world.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 17:11 |
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It is 1560 and I'm a little bit proud to have already blobbed as much as I have, starting as Gujarat. The little orange guy at the bottom is my vassal Jaffna and Afghanistan is also my vassal. Thanks to the Hindustan decision I have perma-claims on the rest of India and while Delhi is allied to The Ottomans they are also conveniently allied to Bengal. So when I go and eat Bengal I'll have Delhi annul their alliance with Ottomans. Malwa might look impressive but thats just because those Tibetan/Himalaya provinces are huge. I took Trade, Quantity and Religious so while my troops might fight like dirt I have a lot of them. Don't really know if there any achievements I can try and go for except the 100% mercantilism one. Maybe the one about owning Cape, London, Ottawa and Hong Kong or whatever it was.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 18:23 |
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Koramei posted:Coastal exclave provinces like Macau and the ones in that mod are good because they mean I can spread my imperialistic embrace without having to leave behind ugly borders all over the world. If you really want to model that, it seems like a much better approach would be to have some (MEIOU-like?) 'trade post' system that lets you establish exclaves in arbitrary coastal provinces, rather than having a set of pre-defined, weird, and hard-to-click on historical city-provinces.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 18:28 |
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I'm: the long Egyptian province, the West Bank, all of the Sahara, and the Cyprus DMZ.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 18:35 |
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You should be able to paint a small dot of your color on a foreign province as a trade exclave or something. That would be awesome for peace time gameplay/diplomacy stuff. Plus it can account for things like Macau, the Latin trade posts in Greece, Genoa in the black sea etc.
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