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So im thinking of switching country, anybody interested in playing OE?

FINALLY WE ARE GOING TO PLAY!! Will be totally awesome!

OK! Here is the standing after the first session!!!
year is 1530

ohhh i think i might get back on IRC just to beat u guys like in the old days ;)

Lyko, if u want in u can take Poland =). We would ofc fix it up a bit for u before we start xD

No AARs yet? Augh, I know you like 'em! ;)

i think i need 15k extra gold to make up for being surrounded ;)

Wow, I definitely want to play.  I used to play Hearts of Iron....

He can have some Osi provs :))

Hirgon, start learning and you can play with us in the future! Just search for the game at the pirate bay and you will find it. There is alot of seeders there so it should go fairly fast. Then you get the latest patch, voila! Now you can play without CD with us.

and maybe some slider improvements depending on how many years u guys played in total.

and if someone could let me download the saved game would be awesome so i can se what shape it's in:)

Alright guys, from now on I'm going to update this little baby :D

http://www.europa2.ru/cgi-bin/league/league.cgi?action=show&league=ic&season=Valkyrie.net%202008a&game=XI&yearsave=1530&lang=eng

DONT FORGET - WE ARE PLAYING TONIGHT!!!

Are we doing anything about the likely state of 'forced decline' turned on?

Everyone should show up on irc before the game, by the way.

Oh, and the inheritance of Lithuania happens between 1567 and 1572, in other words within this session if we get started when we're supposed to. Provided the 15 (?) % chance that the AI chooses the other option doesn't happen, of course.

I was going to make a post where I whined about colonisers being too strong because you forgot about the settings, but as far as I can tell "Goods mod", "Manpower boost" and "Tax boost" are all default to ON.

Anyway, is it actually possible to change settings mid-game, other than actually editing the game file? If it's possible, I'll just copy exactly what we had (or should have had, some stuff got messed up) for the last game.

1. Exposed European COTS: ON
2. Exposed Asian COTS: OFF
3. Common Primary Culture: ON
4. Extra Cultures: ON
5. Extra Cores: OFF
6. Merged North German Minors: ON
7. Southeast Asian Nations: ON
8. Hardcore Pagans: ON
9. Treaty of Tordesillas: OFF
10. No Free Lunch: OFF
11. No Forced Decline: ON
12. No Dutch: ON
13. Dutch At Start: OFF
14. Slow Exploration: OFF
15. Early Governors: OFF
16. Equal DP Sliders: OFF
17. Spain & Ottoman Boost: OFF
18. Religion & Culture Mod: ON
19. Goods Mod: ON
20. Weak Persia: ON
21. Tax Boost Mod: ON
22. Manpower Boost Mod: ON

Actually, ignore that. I'm pretty sure stuff like that comes from "history", which means it won't affect anything. In short.. I'm not sure.

1. Exposed European COTS: ON
2. Exposed Asian COTS: OFF
3. Common Primary Culture: ON
4. Extra Cultures: OFF
5. Extra Cores: OFF
6. Merged North German Minors: ON
7. Southeast Asian Nations: OFF
8. Hardcore Pagans: ON
9. Treaty of Tordesillas: OFF
10. No Free Lunch: OFF
11. No Forced Decline: OFF
12. No Dutch: OFF
13. Dutch At Start: OFF
14. Slow Exploration: OFF
15. Early Governors: OFF
16. Equal DP Sliders: ON
17. Spain & Ottoman Boost: ON
18. Religion & Culture Mod: ON
19. Goods Mod: ON
20. Weak Persia: ON
21. Tax Boost Mod: ON
22. Manpower Boost Mod: ON

http://www.europa2.ru/cgi-bin/league/league.cgi?action=show&game=XI&league=ic&season=Valkyrie.net%202008a&lang=eng&yearsave=1582

There's the stats for the last session.

We have to talk about the peace rules..

My suggestion for the force peace rule -3stab and 99 warscore. You can add a cpl of years also if u want.

and u are allowed to stabhit if u ask for the provinces u demanded in the beginning of the war.

But this can also be hard to reach, because what if the defender wins the war? what is he allowed to stabhit for? as he didn't demand anything in the beginning.

mkay.. don't think the defenders think of demands when attacked as they are usually not prepared and think they'll actually lose:)


but anyways.. where shall we write AARs ?:D

RUSSIA 1492 - 1582

Unifying the Rus
At the start of this era I command over the Grand Duchy of Muscowy, a backwater country in the outskirts of Europe - but surely soon to be major player on the world scene. I was but the humble servant of the Grande Duke Ivan III Veliky and he conveyed to me what it was that he wanted: Land, gold and more serfs. All this, with the intent to claim a crown of his own! I immidiatly began working towards this goal.



My first step was to free the russians who lived under the fist of the heathen horde of the mongols. The teutons promptly declared war and we took this opportunity to expand towards the baltic sea.
In just a few years Muscowy had expanded considerably, and in 1520 the kingdom of Russia was formed, with me as the right hand of the king.

The free plains
In 1495 a man called Ivan Lyapun took off from Moscow with five thousand men bound on a jurney to survey the vast territories to the south and the east of the ural mountains. Initially, the thought was to find the source of the mongolian scurge with the intent to launch an attack and destroy them for good. Instead, Ivan found out that the mongols who had been plagueing Russia where only a remnant of a former empire, now already in ashes.
But he had an adventuring spirit and continued his excursion eastwards untill he met.... Someone else... At the border of the lands of these "Manchu" he erected a trade station. This was the beginning of something grande.


Continued expansion - inward and out.
In the following years the Russian realm was stabilized, a short war with Polan-Lithluania awarded Russia with another 3 provinces. Pskov, Georgia, the last parts of the Golden Horde as well as a part of Crimea where joined with the motherland. An extensive work was made to convert minorities, ugrians, balts and mongols to the true and pure Orthodox fate. To those who didnt comply an option was made to join the pioneers who where expanding the empire to the east and to the south.
By 1582 Russian colonizers of all colours had reached as far as the Malacca peninsula in south east asia.
 


A setback of great proportions.
In 1560 a huge disaster afflicted Russia, Swedish forces invaded Kexholm, Ingermanland, Estland and Livland. The Swedes had been mustering their forces and marched in over one hundred thousand men into the ill prepared Russia. They demanded Ingermanland, the Russian centre of trade and utterly vital for the motherland. Naturally, their demands where declined, and aroun 150 thousand men where conscripted throughout Russia. The war was costly for both sides and dragged on for six long years until Russia finally yielded in dec 1566. Tens of thousands of young men lay dead in the fields and it was aparent that the ill-equipped Russian forces under inept leadership just didnt have any chance versus the Swedi*beep* was six years of Russia bleeding.


Epilogue
During the years after the humiliating defeat versus the swedes Russia was licking its wounds. Administration was effectivised, new colonies claimed. But the inept army was still not properly funded. With many natural enemies envious of the huge area under Russian command, can Russia prevail? Can the Swedes, Ottomans and Poles, all hungry for Russian blood, be dealt with - militarily or by diplomatic provess?
And to what use has my monarch decided to ally the paganic Chineese?
All of this - and more - will be revealed to you in my next weeks edition of this Russian AAR.

The empire of england. 1492 until now.

I killed aztecs and incas on my own. 100% my effort.
Masturbated and annexed the scots.

In the future i might make a serious AAR.
Nice intel from Augh tho:D

French AAR from 1492 to Now.

Killed lots of AIs
Got ruthlessly ambushed by Osi, lost one province.
Ruthlessly ambushed Osi, took three provinces.

I'll make a proper AAR for the next session. I just need to remember to take screens.

RUSSIA 1582-1619

Really not much to report.

• Sold Kexholm, Estland & Livland to Sweden
• Sold Khmer, Irradway and Malacca to Ottomans
• Converted the last heathens
• Made it through Russias worst period(events with +10 revoltisk, sucky events, and sucky monarchs) with flying colors
• My grip over asia made stronger(and I now get 4.6 colonists/year!)
  
• Upped my trade income
  
• Catched up in milisci.
• Constructed 8 military manus(done in 3 months)

Heres the game.

Heres the latest patch.

And here is the wiki where u can learn how to play =)