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[Ianwubby]

Angevin Empire run!

I started this run mainly with the goal of getting One Night in Paris + Anglophile, and whatever other achievements I could manage alongside it. I'd initially wanted to play properly until the end date, but I kind of hit a mental wall around ~1750, and played till 1778 mostly at speed 5 just to finish out a few last achievements.

In general, I was fairly bogged down in Europe through this whole game, hence the somewhat underwhelming colonial situation in India & Indonesia, but overall I'm pretty happy with this.

Holdings in Asia:

And a close-up on Europe, plus the tooltip showing all of the personal unions. There was some pretty heavy savescumming involved for a few of the personal unions - mainly for Spain+Naples, Austria, and Bohemia - but Commonwealth and Scandinavia came through fairly naturally. Other than them, Wolgast, Saxe-Lauenburg, Prussia, and Goslar ended up with my dynasty without any involvement from me! So they were easy to nab, and that made 10 for Atwix Legacy.

The ugliness in Anatolia comes from me realizing pretty late in the game that Mare Nostrum would probably be possible - I would barely have enough time before the end date to integrate Spain and Naples, and I would have to release and attack Austria for some of their lands - so I started rushing to grab the other required provinces, but I stopped short when I realized I'd also need to do the release+attack gambit for Commonwealth, and have another war with Persia for their Black Sea land, and I just didn't have it in me. It'd be more fitting to do a Byzantium run for Mare Nostrum+Basileus anyway.

And finally, all of the achievements earned in this run! I definitely swerved out of my way to get a few of these, but I mean hey, I need to get them from somewhere. My only annoyance here is that my flipping Anglican ruined my chances of obtaining Brentry, as the HRE remained Catholic in this game, and I realized too late to really do much about it. So, I guess I have another Angevin game at some point in my future.

 

[_christoph333]

Nahuatl Roman Empire

Started as Naples and converted around 1510 before i could start the blobbing. I allied France and Poland (not PLC) before conversion and managed to hold them for the whole run, well until it was time to eat France. As Italy i got 30 % warscore cost reduction vs other religions (10 % mission, 15 % Malta, 5 % Divine Rights) on top of the 20 % general reduction from Diplo ideas, which was definitly helpful and fun. My royal family was the most competent i ever witnessed in the game, ALWAYS with no exception giving birth to 14+ mana kings. I basically complained about having too much often and spent it randomly.

Not sure what else to say. It was pretty straight forward looking for gaps in the 250 year perma-coalition of Europe and North Africa plus Ottos. In the end i just attacked it for the last british provinces in France. I could have expanded way more into different areas in the world, but i felt mostly fine with finishing my personal goal. Replaced Exploration ideas right after becoming nahuatl and barely used the colonist from religious reforms.

If i feel like it im probably going to annex Ottos and Songhai for a more beautiful boarder.

Missionaries still busy!

This is the state in 1497, cored provinces in West Africa and along the way up to homeland, so rebels could jump to Naples.

Cheers!

 

[Austregisel]

By His Most Excellent Majesty William the third, by the grace of god, of the Anglo-French Union, Emperor, defender of the faith &c, &c, &c.​

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[stevieji]

By His Most Excellent Majesty William the third, by the grace of god, of the Anglo-French Union, Emperor, defender of the faith &c, &c, &c.

Your William III looks an awful lot like Charles II (not a Plantagenet).

Goodness only knows what mods you're running.

 

[Austregisel]

Your William III looks an awful lot like Charles II (not a Plantagenet).

Goodness only knows what mods you're running.

EU4 doesn't have character models like Project Caesar to use xD so my only choice for a ruler was between the King of England or France in 1641, and use the name of the ruler and family in the game, the mod is MEIOU&Taxes 2.60.5

 

[Rexillarius]

Venice, Italy to the Roman Empire!

A thousand ships to serve SPQR!

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Roma Invicta!​

 

[Korsjan Rīkis]

My 105th EUIV run: England -> Great Britain.

As you can already see, I abandoned France (except for Calais) and chose the historical path by forming Great Britain and going colonial, instead of forming the Angevin Empire. I also chose the historical outcomes for other events, like during the War of Roses and the English Civil War, where I became a Commonwealth for a while.

I started the campaign by giving up Maine to France (I know that I could have sold it, but I didn't want to abuse it), released Normandy as a vassal and sold one of the Gascon provinces to Navarra.

Now I could fully focus on the English Civil War and subduing the rest of the British Isles. I made an alliance with Austria to keep France in check, while I forced Scotland to become my vassal. After that I slowly conquered the Irish minors one by one and prepared for colonisation.

I set up the first colonies in Newfounland and Jamaica. After they had grown enough to become Colonial Nations, I also set up the first base in Africa - Gold Coast from where I planned to reach the riches of the East Indies.

I have probably never been richer in any of my runs than I was now, making 15k ducats monthly with a huge global empire with the following colonial nations:
Canada
13 Colonies
Mississippi
Cascadia
British West Indies
Honduras
British Guiana
East India Company

My allies: The Netherlands, Hungary, Songhai.
My vassals: Normandy, Norway.
And many trade protectorates in Africa and Asia.

I have never seen one of the OMPs between Khmer and Champa ever being successful. Rhade actually was here without my involment, it has Champa and Dai Viet as vassals (they conquered them and then released them).

 

[klingonadmiral]

(Ro(Man)Chu)

I wanted to do Triple the Rome with the EoC first strat. I started with Jianzhou because I'm more comfortable with them than I am with Oirat. Consolidated Manchuria rapidly, and in 1452 started my first war with Ming. However since I'm a bit rusty it took me until ~1515 or so to finish up China. Since I also could not from Qing I kept my capital in Jilin which allowed me to abuse TCs in China.

My wars against the Russians started around 1620 or so, and would take a century to finish up. Around 1710 or so I flipped to Catholic, which majorly screwed up my economy. However once I fixed my trade setup and got furnaces up my economy rapidly fixed itself. 1k income in 1740 still are nothing to write home about though. Would probably be more like 1.3k if Astrakhan were less of a meme node ...

Anyway, since the HRE (and the world in general) went super-blobby this time around I was not able to go for the elector vassalization strat, instead having to opt for traditional diplomacy to become HREmperor. With Saxony holding the imperial throne, I used wars with Poland to slowly feed their lands to my allied electors, while keeping Saxony allied between these wars so that maybe they'd decide to vote for me.

The end of the campaign was super anticlimactic though: Saxony broke to Revolutionaries, turning them into a republic and thus making me the frontrunner in the election.

 

[Sukramo]

Dawasahir->Arabia>The Caliphate complete mission tree->Desert power achivement (1000 dev in Arabia).

Kinda fun?

 

[ChildishUsername]

Bohemia into Great Moravia run. Went Hussite for the Veritas Vincit achievement.

Pretty fun run, Bohemian missions are kinda busted, plus the fact the Ottos will ally you means that you can pretty easily get your mission tree PUs on Hungary and Poland (Lithuania!) before turning on them and overwhelming them with sheer numbers. I thought getting Veritas Vincit was going to be hard, and I didn't realize until afterwards that I'd almost screwed it up by making so many of the Princes Hussite (you have to get a Protestant League victory, which you're not in control of because you're Hussite and thus cannot lead the League AND at least one surviving Elector has to be Protestant in order for the Incident to fire). I also thought I'd lost out because I had a regency when the League War and the Incident ended but thankfully the Electors were re-established and after some improving relations I got the Emperorship. Then it was just a waiting game to annex Poland to finalize the Great Moravia achievement.

I am a bit disappointed I could get "The Bohemians" since you explicitly have to be Bohemia for that one... even though you can get a cosmetic rename in your mission tree of "BOHEMIAN Commonwealth" that can still be used after you form Great Moravia...

 

[klingonadmiral]

Tatarstan ...

... Gold Rush

I gotta say, I LOVE this map color. Less so the Golden Horde's ideas though, Kazan ideas rule. Campaign's not done though, there's still more Horde achievements for me to get. Probably not KHAAAAAAN, but I'll graze my Horses and There Khan only be One should be easy to get.

Oh, and before that I played an Oirat -> EoC Yuan game

Now could I have picked up the two achievements I want to get in my current run by just forming the Mongol Empire in the end? Well, yeah, but I want to do them properly. Unreformed all the way!

 

[EU3NOOB]

Koreans and Manchus are the bestest of friends (because I killed all the unfriendly Manchu)!​

This is a game as Goryeo in the MEIOU & Taxes 3.0 (latest Alpha) mod. In this game I made a concerted effort at securing Manchuria.

Currently it is 1390 and Manchuria is secure! Now I merely need to integrate my vassals over the next 50-ish years and begin converting the Manchus into good little Koreans. Once Manchuria is properly integrated, I plan on expanding into Japan, probably during the mid to late 15th century.

 

[rasp01]

World Conquest as non hord or hre at 1640:

 

[GeneralNoob]

Rate my reversed crusade.

The idea was not to take anything from any muslim country and solely and only conquer christian provinces. My capital is Rome and about half my country is turkish. Adana is basically the city of world's desire (making +15 ducats from there alone and has 87 development, but Rome is a close second with 77 development and almost 14 ducats).

I had some aegan islands as well, but gifted it to the Ottomans to keep the alliance. I am also on my way to become an economic hegemon.

Surprisingly enough, the world is at relative peace. There is no war happening in India, SEA, Africa and even the war in China mostly stopped. Aside from my crusade in Europe, not much is happening in Europe either due to alliance boxes.