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Pellaken

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Hello and welcome to my Holland AAR and the first and placeholder post.

What to expect:
I will use maps, text, jokes, images, and rage comics to tell the story of me playing Holland from 1399 to 1820 or my death.




DESK OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: "Episode 1" The start at first (link coming soon) -- posted as a 'cliffhanger'

(I have all the images and stuff from the game, I just need to make it 'funny' before posting)
 
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day one

Starting Map:
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And so we begin our journey as Holland to take over the world. First things first, we need to um. Take over the world. I think. Though I'm not quite sure. You see, I am not very good at this. Games I mean. You see, this one time, I was Germany, in a WW2 sim, and I managed to get invaded by Poland and lose the war before October of 1939. But that's another story for another time. Right now we need to focus on Holland.



No, not Mr. Holland. Holland, the country, the nation of Holland. Geeze you guys.

Okay, so we are Holland.

So we need to decide what we are going to do. Now, I've read some strategy books. They have told me that "The best defense is a good offensive" so I decided to be as offensive as possible. That means insulting the first person I see.

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You'll also note that I sent a gift to Burgundy. The discussion went quite like this:


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After this, and discovering a traitor in our midst, we decided to call it a day


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So to recap, here is a world map!

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TODAY'S SECRET PHRASE:
I'm so old I remember Sliders back when it was good TV!
 
Very good stuff! I remember a friend of mine ranting and raving about Sliders when it was on TV, but I refused to watch it; I've got it on Netflix and might give it another shot, though.

Keep up the good work!
 
Nice start, my friend. Enjoying this already :D
 
And to answer the question about why all my AARs revolve around hurr durr doing stupid mistakes...

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Tru story

90+ screenshots useless >.<

Oh well. Fortunately for all of you I'm lazy, and never posted beyond the first day. We'll just have to pretend it all flows together. Time to start again.



Would be funny if this was not the THIRD time I've done this >.<


(I was in 1437 FTR, so no huge loss)
 
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My settings:

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Now here is the Superfunhappytime interactive bit! (so long as you guys are quick enough)

As you can see I've set for Random lucky nations. The game gave me these:
BYZ
BOH
LIT
TEU
TUR
MAM
NOV
POR

Only one of them Portugal, is a "traditional" strong power. Some of them border one another, or, overlap with their growth. Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire, for example, or, the OE and the Mamluks. Novgorod can form Russia and thus be a big nation. I'd thus like to change this. Nations that I think should be lucky are:

LIT (Lithuania)
MAM (Mamluks)
VEN (Venice)
GOL (Golden Horde)

(These 4 for sure)
and the following:

BYZ (Byzantium)
NAP (Naples)
BOH (Bohemia)
PRO (Provence)
POR (Portugal)
BRI (Brittany)
MNS (Munster)
DAN (Denmark)

But I can only pick 4 of these
I think: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...-than-8-lucky-nations&p=14637988#post14637988
So this is where you guys come in! You get to help me pick which 4!

Here are my thoughts on them:

Byzantium: I'd like to see them do well. I think we all would.

Naples: With their leadership over Provence (PU or Vassal) they could do double duty over there. Could become colonial.

Bohemia: Replace the Austrians as the central leader of Europe.

Provence: With no lucky nations in the area (France, Castile, even Burgundy) Provence could cobble together it's own little Empire.

Portugal: This would give me a clear rival on the colonial scene.

Brittany: Could do double duty doing some of what Provence and Portugal would do as noted above.

Munster: Create a strong Ireland, possibly become a colonial power.

Denmark: Could become a Colonial power, or, depending on what the Hordes do, a land power!




If nobody suggests, or, only very few do, my 4 are BYZ, NAP, BRI, MNS
 
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LIT
MAM
VEN
GOL
BYZ
NAP
BRI
MNS

These shall be our lucky nations! In the event one of them is destroyed, I will manually change the tag to these nations in this order:

PRO
DAN
BOH
POR
 
Good news everyone! I'm back up the same date when I deleted the files.

I should also note that in the event that we run out of nations to be lucky, I'll just stick with the random ones assigned, unless I think that another specific nation would make for an interesting experiment.
 
Update:
I have 312 screenshots (plus a few world maps) totaling near 2 GB. I've just passed 1700. I'll begin updating once I'm done the game which I expect in the next 24 hours.
 
I said I'd post my screenshots ;)

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Also, I'm done! So things begin once I start funnyfying everything.