AAR vote.

[Nightwing]

Hey guys. This will be my first AAR ever, and I'm asking you guys to vote on which one!

I don't consider myself a particularly good EU3 player, I've never formed the HRE or Italy or done a WC or any of that, but I'm interested in Roleplaying a country as to how it was at that time with sliders and the like, so without further ado, here are your choices, complete with overall goals!

1: Castille.

Played it about 50 times, never gets old
Goals are the generic ones I set myself, act as a Catholic crusader, narrowminded serfdom etc, form roughly Spains real life empire with some deviations and obtain Spanish-and catholic-supremacy in Europe and the new world.

2: England.

Not played this one much. Aims will be to obtain the entire north/west coastline of france(if I can) and to carve out an empire in the Historic places-india, australia and especially Canada and Eastern america. Not too sure about religion and what kind of sliders to go with for this one, you can make some suggestions yourself if you guys want to

3: Ottoman Empire.

Not played this one much either.
Goals will be to conquer up to Vienna in direct territory, dismantle the HRE, control all of NA and the Med, and in particular, all territory around the Black Sea(the Black sea is our sea If I get enough demand for it I'll try and conquer India too, because there is no originality in these choices whatsoever.
Sliders will be as you'd expect, free subjects and innovative being stand outs.

4: France. (Told you there was no originality)

The Classic here.
I'm aiming to first of all gain all territory in frances historical borders, as well as gain territory in Italy(corsica, milan and MAYBE naples), catalonia(northeasternmost spain) and eventually get to the borders of Napoleons empire at it's height. Sliders are as you'd expect, centralised serfdom for the most part.

5: Poland

Something I've tried to play and failed.
Territorial goals will be to conquer all territory between Berlin and Moscow, ensure it's all Polonised(culturally Polish) by the end of the game, become HRE and(this is my favorite bit) establish a 'wall of vassals' on my eastern borders. I may or may not go for Polish brazil
Government will be Noble Republic(With max centralisation) for the most part and the sliders will be as you'd expect otherwise.

6: Naples.

Probably the one with the lowest chance of success.
Goals will be to form italy, conquer libya and tunisia and then.....I don't know. Whatever I like! i may recreate the roman empire, go for an overseas empire or do all sorts of things, but this is the oddball of the group.
Sliders will be free subjects, centralisation and probably slightly naval.

And there's your choices everyone! You have one week to decide, but now it's time for the ground rules.

-No reloading like I do in every other SP game, if I lose a war I lose it.
-Only one cheat allowed(the kill heir cheat, only to be used on MYSELF and to be used sparingly to change dynasties if they get old, if I kill a bad heir and get an amazing one after, I am obliged to kill him off too.)
-No gaming the system.
-Roleplaying shall be used shamelessly to justify what would normally be bad decisions, slider moves or bad events.
-And all the other generic rules I cannot be bothered to remember.

If there's enough demand for something specific to happen, I shall do my damnest to make it happen.

I would also like to thank blklizard, who's intro format I have borrowed and who inspired me to give the choice to the AARlanders like this.

Finally, I am not an especially good writer, and since exams are going on at the moment, updates will be irregular.

And that's all folks!

Note: This is using the 5.2 patch.

 

[adalephat]

Choose Naples or the Ottomans!

Hey, this sounds fun, may I suggest either the Ottomans or Naples?

Naples:

Forming Italy in vanilla is not that hard. Most important thing to do is to not just weaken states (because then they tend to be guaranteed by everybody) but conqquer them as a whole. I am sure you would have fun by creating a Mediterran empire. Optionally you could go for Jerusalem too.

Ottomans

A very good choice, you could get all the Horde lands and keep Siberia Muslim, uniting all the turk/mongol peoples. There are a lots of nation-specific missions too.

Personally Id go for Ottomans

 

[aniuby]

Let me begin by saying that first, you should probably concentrate on your exams if you're still busy right now, as AARs take quite a bit of time and effort if you want to do them well, and they are also a massive distraction from anything else important you might need to be doing. It's better to update less frequently and demonstrate effort and care, rather than rushing out updates or worse, having multiple AARs with rushed updates of limited quality.

Anyway, I think you're best off playing as Poland. All the other countries you've picked currently or have recently had AARs written about them, and most are really too large and 'easy' to attract interest from the board, except Naples. Which is why Naples would be my second choice - but I still think you could do with choosing another nation that hasn't been played recently, as there's currently another Naples AAR on the forum. You didn't mention your settings as well, though I don't imagine being on Very Hard would make the overly large countries very much more difficult to play.

In contrast, the last Poland AAR was Derahan's Polandball AAR which is currently on hold, so I think you could fill that niche. Poland also presents some early challenges such as westernisation and having to deal with the Horde and the Emperor, without being too difficult to simply survive. You will have a hard time trying to turn every single province from Berlin to Moscow Polish, however! I'd also rather you didn't use the cheat at all so you can say you played without cheats - I really don't see the point of trying to change your dynasty name by force.

Lastly, this may not be a consideration if you're actually asking around for opinions on what to play, but you should feel free to choose what you like most and just disregard what I say if it's inconvenient =)

 

[ATBKING]

Im with Aniuby on this one. There were two Castilles going on and one just ended.

In the past two weeks about three Englands have started but not put out another chapter since. You could try that.

Dont do an Ottomans, Buddha got that one covered.

Not alot of People do french AAR's. Well Pewt did, but his was a multiplayer. You could do that one.

Your best bet at finding readers would be a Poland AAR. I'd love to see that!!

A Naples AAR is currently being done so I wouldnt recommend that either.

Moral of the story,

1) Poland
2) France
3) England

 

[thek826]

In order from what I want to see the most to what I want to see the least:
1) England
2) Poland
3)Ottomans

(I don't want to see Castille or France equally)

 

[blklizard]

I inspired someone to do something? I find that hard to believe, lol. Anyways, I would want to see Poland.

 

[Seelensturm]

Ming

 

[unmerged(37198)]

clearly poland ball out of those options, fun to play, and its still a bit of a challenge to get everything right and functional

 

[ATBKING]

Ming

HAHAHAHAHA!!! I dont remember that option.

 

[Seelensturm]

HAHAHAHAHA!!! I dont remember that option.

My bad. I didn't look through the options, just voted what came to my mind.