ZearothK posted:

Antinumeric posted:

Is it possible to remain independent as Navarre in EU3? Every time I play as them I almost immediately get conquered. Any tips?

Re-start until Aragon gets a vassalize mission on you, lose the war, use your fantastic sliders to get ridiculous trade income, rush Quest for the New World (switch ideas when you hit Naval 7), make a colonial empire. If Castille is winning (and failing to properly annex Aragon), you should have an easy time getting independence in the mid 1550s and even grabbing some provinces, otherwise wait a bit more. Then murder some Americans, some Africans, some Indians, some Southeast Asians. By the 1600s you should be in position to conquer your way into France and/or Spain.

Works in Vanilla and MiscMods, not EU3+, as that places additional limitations on colonial efforts and trade. You really can't pull this off without exploiting game mechanics.

telcontar posted:

There's only so much they can do without access to the game code. Also he wasn't complaining about uncivs specifically.

Even if it's not particularly fun I would say it's still far more interesting than in vanilla, since there's a bunch of new events and decisions specifically for uncivs.

Rudi Starnberg posted:

PDM is for vicky you know right? Whereas that sounds like eu3 you're talking about.

Graham Gremlin posted:

I just can't think of a way to model a bunch of Germanic tribes wandering around the map in a way that's easily presented to the player and actually enjoyable to play.

Koesj posted:

Turns out that after reaching lake Ladoga and taking Leningrad they somehow hit a snag: they hadn't called the Finns to arms so the little strip of land from Viborg northeast was being blocked by a dogged Soviet resistance one province deep and wide. With ample room for maneuver further up north, what does the AI do? Transfer a total of around 300 brigades of troops as an expeditionary force to neutral Finland and fail to have them join the war.

Jean Pony posted:

Perhaps I was unclear. Westernization is a two-step process. First you reform the government which brings the tech speed up to par and then you reform the military which gives you western units. Both steps are decisions with some requirements. For military modernization the requirements are:

Western tech group
Not Western military
Stability = 3
Centralization vs. Decentralization -5 or below
Have a ruler with administrative skills of 7 or more
Nation is not under the effect of Resisting Western Influences

After you've reformed the government but before you've reformed the military you will get events like merchants/peasants/nobles resist western influences. Now you get the choice to either ignore them and suffer worse and worse effects or you can listen to them, lose 2 prestige and get a 10 year modifier called resisting western influences. While that modifier is active you cannot reform the military. So get your affairs in order: max stability, max centralization and an adm 7 monarch. Until then: resist western influences!

Kainser posted:

There is a difference between plausible alternate history and "hey, this sounds cool!" alternate history.

John Charity Spring posted:

Yeah, I'm in the position with Sunset Invasion where I don't want to use it in my own games because it's a little bit too goofy for what I want from CK2, but I like the fact that it exists.

Cynic Jester posted:

So I was durdling around in my China game, waiting for a truce to run out so I could conquer Johore for the last RPs I needed, and then the Heavenly Kingdom revolt happened. They had no units, so I sieged down everything and got 25k RP out of it because it seems to be based on population. Don't mind if I do.

China is absurd though, after I westernized, I had 100 battalions. My limit jumped to 758, which seems excessive. Oh, and being 3rd in Industry off the back of my single level 10 cloth factory in Beijing. I then queued up railroads in every province. The world is in a death spiral due to lack of steel and lumber. I reckon I'll be done with level 1 railroads in 5-10 years.

BillBear posted:

I thought the Jomsvikings were some holy order you couldn't play as in CK2? How will that work out. Hell they never even came around for me.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

What would you want the nomads to be? Giant cavalry armies that are killer on the plains, are better at looting poo poo, have an easier time of building up army tradition, are better able to bounce back after a war, and have free conquest CB's seems pretty different from most other states. Really, they sound kinda like a land-oriented version of the Norse of CK2, which certainly isn't the worst thing.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Reply to a thread on the Paradox forum about whether there's any reason to NOT kill off the natives, now that there's no population stat:




I'm so happy that this thread exists.

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Marxism requires the utter elimination of the owning class, some one fifth of the total population at the bare minimum. In many regions half the population.

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Are you denying the genocidal nature of marxism?

NihilVerumNisiMors posted:

Usually you have to wait until the Emperor gets involved in an even bigger war so he'll ignore your transgressions.

Baronjutter posted:

I find the fact that you are always behind in your chosen specialty not a good overall design. If you're going merchant then you'll be wanting to have high naval tech, trade ideas, and trade buildings, but those all come out of the same pool, which makes specializing results counter-intuitive. A merchant nation should nationally be top in merchant related things, not falling behind.

If dip related buildings gave a tiny boost to dip points it might help. Or if the tech system was totally gutted, leaving the points for buildings and ideas. I like the idea of these points but I'm not liking the results.

ChrisAsmadi posted:

Coalitions are annoying as poo poo, and it makes no sense that Hungary and Muscovy would spend about 100 years and hundreds of thousands of men defending Yemen.

At the very least, there needs to be a "Force Out of Coalition" peace option, because right now you've gotta sit and do nothing for years until they finally decide to leave it.

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DrSunshine posted:

It'd be nice if there was a more dynamic way of gaining and losing them, or changing the rate at which they are gained, to give it less of a feel of simply waiting around to be able to do anything.

SeaTard posted:

There are huge periods of sitting around doing nothing in ck2 as well, unless you've decided to conquer the known world. EU4 is a very different game, but it has about the same ratio of doing stuff to waiting as CK2 does.

Fintilgin posted: