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Do not antagonize large alliances, as that may also contribute to a swift demise.

Well duh...
I'm not a complete moron.
Gonna wait until France stops guaranteeing Scotland then jump them when they have only a few allies.

purplefood wrote:Well duh...
I'm not a complete moron.
Gonna wait until France stops guaranteeing Scotland then jump them when they have only a few allies.

Your scared of France?

A sizeable fleet ably handles whatever they may toss at your island sanctuary.

Maybe stop getting into long expensive wars?

Henners91 wrote:Maybe stop getting into long expensive wars?

But that is payday for me. The moment someone wants to play "Stare Across the Channel" means I get all that nice war tax income for the next umpteen years as my foe engages in senseless wars for a generation and I get to pilfer my fellow countryman's wallets to build up my infrastructure and army.

Henners91 wrote:Maybe stop getting into long expensive wars?

There's no such thing as a long expensive war with France.
I'm not scared of France bu it's more trouble than it's worth a lot of the time.
Everyone and their mum is allied with France.

The biggest trick I've learned from playing Europa Universalis is to be more passive.

Seriously, a good percentage of your game should be starting at the screen and doing nothing, letting your bank account grow, and your economy to expand. By constantly going to war, even if you win, you end up with an Empire too large to manage, stability problems, and the entire world plotting your demise.

Play for the long game. Expand slowly, grow your economy, and don't go attacking everyone. EU is NOT a game where you can actually conquer the world. The world is too unforgiving to allow for that.

That's why I love playing Holland. It's a big waiting game, while you beat everyone to colonization because of your insane economic power. Just get yourself a fat ally to keep Burgendy away and your set.

purplefood wrote:

Henners91 wrote:Maybe stop getting into long expensive wars?

There's no such thing as a long expensive war with France.
I'm not scared of France bu it's more trouble than it's worth a lot of the time.
Everyone and their mum is allied with France.

Did you observe your war exhaustion and inflation?

What's a good choice for 4th Idea with holland?

Already have:

National Bank
QFTNW
National Trade policy

Hmm...Overseas Viceroys to increase income. So long as you have no stability or military issues, go for making your economy bigger and stronger.

Right so who'd be up for a game tonight? Preferably more than one person.

Joey wrote:Right so who'd be up for a game tonight? Preferably more than one person.

I'd be interested, although the time zones make it a bit hard to coordinate.

Steam name= WarOne

WarOne wrote:

Joey wrote:Right so who'd be up for a game tonight? Preferably more than one person.

I'd be interested, although the time zones make it a bit hard to coordinate.

Steam name= WarOne

Added. I can't actually play on Steam but we can talk.
Should be alright with Americans since I go to bed about 6am, which will be about 1am for East Coasters.

Hah, I didn't even know other people played this game!
If anyone wants to add me on steam=angryhuffy

Well I should be able to for a couple of hours, but at what time?

Some time I guess.

MY game crashes on MP for some reason...
Gonna be getting some new bits and bobs for it so i should be able to play it some time.
I have figured out what went wrong last time and have become much better at economic doohickeys.

purplefood wrote:
I have figured out what went wrong last time and have become much better at economic doohickeys.

It's all about the CoTs and getting the rich provinces...

For ~1700AD as Ottomans that's actually pretty tame...
Did you Westernise?

WarOne wrote:

purplefood wrote:
I have figured out what went wrong last time and have become much better at economic doohickeys.

It's all about the CoTs and getting the rich provinces...

It wasn't...
I mean it was because of money but it was stability that it came down to.
Prestige, succession and culture are really useful if you can keep them going without too much troble.

I'll be on around 6 tonight (UK time)

I will be around...at some point. Depends if i'm battling in the evening or not.

Be there... or else....

Or else Soladrin will annex you.

Or at least insult you..

Soladrin wrote:Or at least insult you..

And give me a free CB?
Soon I will inherit all of the Netherlands!
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
See the might of the Dutch army...

That is extremely silly, we don't even have that many windmills left... Their pretty rare these days...

Soladrin wrote:That is extremely silly, we don't even have that many windmills left... Their pretty rare these days...

You sold them for clogs?

Those go pretty much hand in hand on the rarity scale.

Both are just tourist traps these days