Mamoulian War

Finished adding more content to me new site about my EU game https://sites.google.com/site/mamoulianfh/letsplay/europa-universalis-page2 Parts 2 and 3 complete with pictures

I ended up home with stomach problems during last few days, so I have decided to redo the few things I have written here about my playthrough of Europa Universalis and add few of the pictures as well. I made a google sites web page, where, I have corrected few mistakes in chronological order of events and possible made few new, but yeah, **** happens It should be now much corresponding to the reality Anyway, if you'd like, feel free to check it out https://sites.google.com/site/mamoulianfh/letsplay/europa-universalis Only the first part is rewritten yet. Feel free to leave here some insights if you wish. Unfortunately, I do not know how to enable commenting on the site for other people, without allowing them to edit whole page. If any of you have experience with it, please let me know, how to allow it. Thanks

I have EU2 as well I will play it later this year, because I have still pretty big backlog of games. And I really wanted to start with the oldest game The biggest thing I like already about EU2 is that you can choose from big number of countries compared to 8 in EU1. I will have to do lot of thinking before starting this one

Then I think I have made the right choice to start from the oldest one The learning curve should not be so steep as well, like if I would start right away with newer games

Haha, no worries I never played any Paradox game except CK1 for a brief time So it was big unknown for me. Once I have seen all of their older games for sale on GOG, so I decided to give it a try and start from the oldest And I am having a blast!!!

Manual says, that in EU 1 the Major Powers cannot be annexed (in Grand Campaign, Turkey is one of the Major Powers), so I would presume, that it is impossible to occupy their capital as well. Turkey is the only Major power which I have come so close to their capital, so I was never that close to victory over them.

Europa Universalis kind of LP Part 8 - Day 10: I started to play today, hoping that I would continue to build up my army and infrastructure, but almost immediately after the last peace-out France declared war to Spain, and Austria as a good alliance member, joined the fight as well. Spain was in Alliance with The Papal State and The Knights, so having the troops in Naples, I have attacked immediately The Papal State. After a while I have conquered the Apulia province and started moving to the Rome. Right after that, Turkish alliance and alliance of Netherlands declared war on me, too. First thing I have done, was defend against numerous Turkish troops and slowly retaliate Netherlands troops while they were sieging my provinces. Netherlands this time had sent in my way all of their troops, and I was for the first time outnumbered. Thankfully I had almost 4000 Ducats saved, so I built two big armies in Bohemia and Austria immediately, which pretty much saved my ass big time. After few struggles with Turks and their allies I besieged The Cyclades and Morea and offered them peace for both of these provinces. Having lost almost all of their land troops and some ships, they had no other option than to accept. With one of the enemies gone, I have let some troops to look out for rebells and moved all of my remaining troops, except one in Italy, against the super-big Netherlands army, which was ransacking my northern provinces. They already conquered three of them Meanwhile my Italian troop was helping out with sieging Rome, and after a few months, The Papal State was crushed, with Apulia going to me and Rome going to France. I was hoping to get both of them, but sometimes your plans are prone to fail I tried to go against The Knights as well. Their only province was on Rhodes Island was heavily fortified and there was almost no food, which meant that almost immediately after starting the siege, I lost half the my army and caused them almost no harm. I decided to retreat and after a while Spain offered me peace for 250 Ducats, which I rather accepted. With Spain out of the way, it was time to go all out against Netherlands. Thankfully France have weakened them a little bit near their borders, so I was able to rebuild all of my lost troops and sting their big army. With big casualties on both sides, I was able to destroy them and after another few months I got back all of my lost provinces as well. I spent more than 4000 Ducats to be able to recover from big loses, which Netherlands caused me. And I think, they lost almost as much. Both of us ended up really decimated, so this time, the only option I had was to offer them white peace and pay Denmark 250 Ducats to immediately cease fire, because they were allied with China, which was causing big havoc in my colonies on Malay peninsula . All in all, I think I have lost more than 150,000 soldiers in this war!!! Well time of peace arrived again, and in January, I got pretty big financial boost, because during this war, in my colony of Malacca was formed new very rich Center of Trade. This helped me with rebuilding some troops. I have checked the Relation standing with Venice and decided to give it little bit of boost as well. I was lucky and got up to 200 again. I checked them on month later, and to my surprise, the game offered me the option of diplomatic annexation, because they were my vassals for very long time. Little bit afraid I offered them to become part of my Reich, and they accepted. With this deal, seven Venice provinces have joined me. Spending big money on keeping good Relation with your allies is really worth it in this game. During this war I was also able to upgrade Singapore colony to city, and 500 natives, still living there have became citizens as well. I built small army there as well, to be more ready for defense, if China decides to harass me again. I also sent another 100 colonists to Phuket, and after arriving there, I have successfully founded one more colony in South East Asia. My personal goal of getting Turkey out of Europe has been fulfilled. The still have in Europe province of Thrace, but because it is their capital, the game does not allow to conquer it The plan for now, is to rebuild all of my armies, and to try to get as long peace as possible, because all the ex-Venice provinces will be prone to rebellions. It could be little bit hard this time, because after this annexation, I got into negative Relation with France, which might cause me some troubles in coming years. They grew pretty powerful in last few wars. Thankfully my Relation with Scotland, Spain and Denmark is pretty high now, so hopefully I will not be forced into all-out war again, like last time.

Ok, thanks for the quick answers I will think about creating account then. Now that I started to play more on PC again, I might find it useful

Ok thanks, just one more question. Do you know if I publish some images on imgur, can I add more of them later to the same link without account?

Thanks for the website, wondering if they sell some stuff in here as well :-/ we'll see about it.

Europa Universalis Part 7 - Day 9: And again, I decided to upgrade infrastructure as much as possible and continue in pushing Turkey out of Europe. The war was this time very short, but as before, as soon as I started to attack Turkey, Denmark and Poland-Lithuania declared war on me. Meanwhile I was producing some more colonists as well, so to focus more on the colonization attempts, I decided to make fast peace, first with Turkey (I got Obrudja and Rumelia as a compensation) and then with Poland-Lithuania (I got Bessarabia from them). The latter peace was kind of bad-managed from me, and I regret now to go for it so fast. Because trying to Podolia province as well, would help me little bit more with logistics of my troops when waging war with Turkish-Crimea alliance. Well I still have to push for three more Turkish provinces, so I believe, that as soon as I declare war on them again, I'll be attacked by Poland again, and I could get this province later. Right after that I signed peace with Denmark and England again, and everything went back to normal. Put some money into upgrading the relations with some countries and I reached maximum level for Trade research. While I was in war I accumulated 300 colonists, which I put into good use, and upgraded Malacca colony to small city and colonized Kuala Lumpur province. This two province are trading in Spices, which is one of the best priced commodities in EU, so the boost which I got into my Center of Trade in Naples was pretty significant. In the comming years I put more colonists into Kuala Lumpur and built amongst others manufactories, one in Malacca as well, which in the end made the population there more comfortable to live Well it ended up as little bit shorter update, but there is no need for wall of text every time Anyway, I wanted to add some screens as well, but somehow the function of adding attachment to my Obsidz account is disabled Well, I will have to use some external service then, but making one more account at another website, sighs... I am losing track of all of my accounts already... EDIT: any recommendations for a solid website, which I can use for my kind of Let's Plays, which will not require me, for signing in with them, to give them all the private details of my whole family and all of our cats and dogs?

well, i was used to keyboard/stick combo, so i would not be afraid of that even now but what does the CH abbreviation means?

I have proper flightstick somewhere, but it is almost as old as me. It was made for Game Port (

I'm happy to hear that, though I think I have to buy a new controller for it Do you know by any chance, if it is possible to fly with Xbox or PS3 controller, or it is waste off effort as flying with keyboard?

Keyrock, you are the most funded guy about Space Sims around here Can you please tell me little bit about Independence War 1 and 2? I have never played nor seen it, and it is now on GOG sale. I will probably not buy it this time of year, because I spent a lot on gaming lately, but some insights on these games would be welcome. Thanks.

Europa Universalis Part 6 - Day 8: I have used the long lasting peace to build up my research and province infrastructure and of course build more troops at the Turkish borders. I have also put a lot of money into improving the relations with my allies, and Spain and Venice to the maximum, so I can be sure they would not attack me, if someone declared war on me. During time of peace the Military alliance expired, so I decided to take a lead and form the alliance again, but this time, I have invited Venice as well and made the current alliance with France, Portugal, Scotland and Venice one of the most powerful in the world. Unfortunately despite having very high relation with Scotland, I was unable to turn them into my vassals We'll see how it will go in nest few years. In the end, I have decided, that I want to push them out of Europe. After building up, I declared war on them, and immediately attacked 3 of their provinces. After a while, I conquered Bujak and Hellas, so I moved few more troops to Bulgaria, but before conquering this province, Netherlands and Hanseatic League and their allies, including Poland-Lithuania and England declared war on me as well. I have left some soldiers next to Turkey started big production of armies in Bohemia and Austria and slowly moved my armies to the north. This time, I decided to not attack Poland, and just defend my provinces. I moved all my armies in the west into three provinces of Hanseatic League. Meanwhile I have conquered Bulgaria and Turkey offered me peace in exchange for Bujak and Bulgaria, which was promptly accepted from my side. I have left only one smaller army there to sort out rebellions and moved forward to push against Hanseatic League. After a while I have conquered all of their provinces and ended war with another annexation. Right after that, I have paid 250 Ducats to their Danish allies to end the war. They accepted, so I moved all of my remaining troops to Netherlands. After conquering two of their provinces, they offered me Hessen for peace. One more province in my Reich Just to be sure to not get again into endless rebellions from war exhaustion, I have peaced out with England for 250 Ducats as well, and that meant end of another successful war for Austria. During the war I have reached maximum technology level for Infrastructure, so now I have more money to spent on Trade and Army upgrades In the coming time of peace, I was able to upgrade my colony in Gambia to small city, and I was successful at forming a colony in Malacca (part of current Malaysia). Unfortunately Austria produces only 100 colonists per year, and not all of them are successful at expanding colonies, so it will be long time until I will be able to achieve my current goal of colonizing Malaysia and Singapore provinces.

From GOG: "The White March Part II automatically becomes available to Expansion Pass owners as soon as it is released this Winter."

I wish GOG would bring the X-games to their web I am so much disappointed about what turned out out of everything promised :/

I might have one. I'm waiting to see if they are releasing the expansion as a download for the physical disk version. If they do, I can give you my key. I don't think they will do that I would love to have that as well, but unfortunately, I completely missed that expansion was available as an add-on

Europa Universalis Part 5 - Day 6: On Friday, just before my vacation, I decided to launch the game for an hour or so. After doing some upgrades to my infrastructure, I noticed, that Turkey is starting to amass pretty big army in Bulgaria. Looking at that, I decided to do a preventive strike against them. Unfortunately, my former friends decided to dishonor our alliance So I used this opportunity, to join French/Portugal/Scotland alliance right away. I few regiments of soldiers into Turkish provinces of Bulgaria and Macedonia, and this was, when Lorraine and Poland-Lithuania decided to join the heathens and declared a war to me as well. I put all of my western troops to attack Lorraine, which now consisted of only two provinces. And I put the rest of the troops, which were closest to the north, to defend against Poland-Lithuania. Unfortunately I had not enough, so quickly I have lost the province of Kustrin, but I was able to defend Silesia. Thankfully my new French friends helped me a lot against them, and I was able to recapture Kustrin. But, just before I recaptured my lost province, my former allies (Netherlands/Hanover/Brandenburg) with the help of Hanseatic League decided to declare war on me as well I called French to the rescue again, and I have slowly started to lose and win some of my provinces. First thing I have done, was peacing out with Turkey, so I would not need to defend on three fronts. While defending against Poland, I captured Bulgaria and Macedonia from Turkey, and decimated most of their armies. So they offered me peace with Macedonia included. I planned to capture at least two or three provinces from them, but the sudden twist in war, forced me to peace out with them ASAP. I had to accept this peace, if I did not wanted to lose the war against my former allies. The second thing, which I have decided, was to crush Lorraine. After few months, I completely destroyed their armies, captured both of their provinces and after this, to annex them. Meanwhile French and Netherlands had lot of clashes, and because I was not directly threatened by them, I decided to go against Brandenburg. First French captured one of their two provinces. French got this province as an offer for peace, and then I was able to capture their capital for me, which meant one more province in my empire through annexation. French and Netherlands were still struggling against each other. Because Hanover was spamming me with peace offers demanding 250 ducats from me, I decided to push against them and Hanseatic league. After a while I was able to annex Hanover and their two provinces and started to push against Hanseatic League. In this moment Venice declared war on me. The war started to last much much longer, than I have planned in th end. Soon the war exhaustion would lead to lot of my provinces starting to rebel. Seeing that Hanseatic League has crazy good fortifications, I decided to offer them 250 Ducats for peace and attack at once at three fronts, and hope to end this war before to much rebellions break out. I put all my money into building armies in Austria and Bohemia provinces, which brought me 32,000 infantry units each two months. Because meanwhile some luck was on my side, Spain decided to declare war on Poland-Lithuania as well, and this meant, that I had easy prey in north east. French captured Krakow and Western Pommerania, I was able to recapture Kustrin and capture Western Prussia. This was when they decided to offer us peace and we gladly accepted. All captured provinces got their new rulers. Meanwhile French and Netherlands decided to peace out because both of them were loosing loads of troops without capturing each others provinces. The war exhaustion started to break out in my territories, so I put two big armies to Netherlands, three assigned to Venice and one to travel around my Reich and clear out the rebellions. Soon I captured Kleves and Hessen from Netherlands, and they offered me Kleves in exchange for peace. After thinking this through for a while, I rather decided to accept the offer and stop pushing for them. Hessen would be much better choice, but the rebellions started to erupt more often. Now I was at war with Venice only, so I put the remaining troops from Polish and Netherlands borders to go against rebellions and continue to push against Venice. I slowly pushed against them, but because they still had pretty big armies, they did not want to accept any kind of peace. Thankfully I had still lot of money to produce troops in Austria and Bohemia, so after a while I was able to capture three of their provinces. After this they finally decided to offer me peace and with it the provinces of Albania and Mantua. The war was not over yet though. I was still at war with Algiers and Persia. Lot of my provinces were rebelling, so I rather decided to offer them some Ducats for peace despite their almost non-existent troops. Waiting for automatic white peace after 24 month of non-aggression would cost me much more Ducats, because of all the rebellions. The war was finally over and slowly all of the rebellions calmed down. I wanted only to push heathens little bit more out of Europe, but half of Europe decided to turn against me. I ended up with 10 more provinces, completely destroying three nations. It means that I have very few enemies now, but I did not wanted to wage war against European nations anymore. Well at least I was able to win this war, before losing to much to rebellion. Time for bed and vacation Day 7: After four days I came back home and started for my game for 40 short minutes. I noticed that Turkey lost their merchant outpost in Gambia, because they all died out due to attrition, so I used the opportunity and sent out my colonist there. I was successful, and now I control my second colony I sent few more hundred colonists to Dakar as well, and formed an army there, just in case. The rest of the time, I have put some money into relationships with Spain, France, Scotland and Portugal. Upgraded as much of my provinces as possible, started to sent out merchants to various Center of Trades (out of which I own three), to recoup some of the financial loses during the war. And build up big army near Turkish borders. I do not want to start another big war again, but before I started out playing EU, I set my goal to unite Austria-Hungary and to push Turks out of Europe. The first goal I was able to achieve in 1566. Meanwhile I was able to become the most powerful nation in the game which was really unexpected from me, but I still would love to achieve this goal before the game ends in 1792. I have still 120 years to go. Good game!

Part 4 - Day 5: After two days break, I continued again. From the start it looked pretty peaceful session, but that changed after two years or so. Netherlands decided to attack France, and I have decided to join the fight. At the start it looked pretty fine, we were pushing French and Polish coalition and Netherlands got few of their provinces, I attacked Poland, and was solving rebellions in my new provinces. Then Turkey attacked me, and after few struggles, I got two of their provinces and crushed a lot of their soldiers. Turkey decided to offer me Moldavia in exchange for peace, so I gladly accepted. While the war was still waging, I decided to take advantage of it and declared war to Lorraine-Baden alliance. I have put big armies there, and in few months, I have annexed Baden. At this point, the war, looked pretty in favour of me, but somehow French amassed very big army and attacked my Helvetia. Unfortunately my armies were pretty decimated, so as soon as France offered me white peace, I had to accept, else I would lose this war In the coming month, lot of my provinces started to rebel from war exhaustion, so I decided rather to end the war against Lorraine as well, even though I would be able to destroy them, even with the tiny army which I had left. If I did otherwise, I would lose few German provinces from rebellion The war in the end was success for me, but failure for Netherlands. I was able to get two new provinces, and finally get ahead of Spain in Victory Points. Unfortunately, France has risen in this war to power, so now, I really have to think about leaving behind Netherlands-Hanover-Brandenburg coalition and try to befriend French-Scottish-Portugal alliance I really do not leave behind my allies, because they helped me a lot in last few wars, but in the next war, we might get overwhelmed by the new formed French alliance Decisions, decisions... 140 years to the end of the scenario.

More about the new crowdfunding site fig. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/08/new-crowdfunding-site-lets-backers-share-in-eventual-game-profits/ The idea of backing the game and be able to get something out of the profits seems intrigued. I can say, that I would risk/invest much more money on Pillars and Torment, if that would be the case when they started their funding campaigns...

And another EU gaming session behind me Part 3 - Day 4: After small break I took another gaming session. This time it really looked to be boring session. The plan was to do some research and build some manufactories and fortifications, and rebuild my army. Before I was able to rebuild it, the Royal Marriage with France expired, and right away, they attacked me together with Poland-Lithuania and Genoa. Right after that, all other big powers started to wage war against me, except Spain. I was just happy that Poland-Lithuania was pretty decimated, because never-ending revolt in their realm, but with France it was another story. They have amassed really big army this time. First I was able to take two of their provinces, but after I had to move some soldiers to war against Turkey, they took it back and with the help of Genoa, they took two of my provinces as well. If I wanted to win this war, I had to prepare working plan. First I concentrated all my available soldiers on Poland-Lithuania and Turkey. I conquered one Polish and one Turkish province. Unfortunately it was not enough to accept my peace offers. I had to attack another province in each of the empire. After some struggles, Turkey offered me Galicia and Poland-Lithuania offered Wallachia in exchange for peace, which I gladly accepted This solved all the trouble in the east, so I left just few soldiers to solve local rebellions, and started to prepare for France and Genoa. Meanwhile the game after 36 months of inactivity offered me some white peace with few countries, which waged war against me, but were to far away to do anything. Only power, which could make some trouble for me was Denmark, because they had pretty big navy, so I decided to accept the first peace they offered me, and pay them 250 Ducats. After getting peace with most of the countries, I got back one of my provinces occupied by France and took Genoa province. But to completely annex Genoa, I had to conquer Corsica as well. That looked like trouble, because they had pretty big army blockading my harbours. I risked it and took all my ships into the sea, which was enough to push their ships away. I had to patrol the sea around Corsica for few months, until it was safe enough for disembarkation of my troops. After a while, I conquered Corsica as well, and with it, I have annexed Genoa Republic. With the annexation, I got all of their remaining ships, which helped me a lot in the remaining war against France. Unfortunately, lot of my provinces started rebelling, because of war exhaustion, so I made a final move to take back last of my provinces, which were occupied by France. And right after that, I rather offered them peace, which they accepted. War was finally over, and I gained another four provinces to my realm. This one was so far the hardest to win, because France had much bigger army than I had. Thankfully my allies helped me lot. Alliance with the Netherlands was really good choice! The year is 1632 and only 3 Victory points behind Spain now But again, I will take day or two break from the game

Well, and people were rolling eyes, when I was bashing DRMs here in few threads

Yeah, I hate that as well. This is still happening for lot of my games, which I haven't played for more than 10 years... "Thankfully" the industry came into stage, that most of the games released in last 5 years are easily to forget about :D