A simple question

[Main_Brain]

Much better Income now.
Its 1668 BTW.

[Heresson]

Impressing.
When it comes to me, I stopped my Byzantine game,
it was becoming boring, and played a bit as Granada;
I conquered entire Castille and crippled Aragonia.
Later, I had a rest, and concentrated on converting everything into Muslim faith.
But I have a problem. The tax money percentage got stucked, and I can't continue the game until one tells me how to change that.

[Nikolai]

Double-click on the slider, then it will unlock.

[Heresson]

DEFINITELY I should've read the instruction...
Thanks! That was another (too) simple question I guess.

[Comrade Tribune]

Originally posted by Main_Brain Jupp but the Graphics are boring and without Fog the Framerate is really crappy

Not to mention all those idiotic NPCs.

[Heresson]

Well, I had a very bad situation in my Grenadian game.
Entire Christian Europe (the greatest might is Lithuania,
stretching from Ural to Adriatic Sea) declared war on me
after I annexed another big part of Burgundia.
I had a nice war with it, Switzerland and Savoi earlier)
Additionally, I was attacked by my southern Muslim fellows, Marocco and Algeria, and I was still engaged in war against Mamluks.
I managed to come out of it succesfully, but it was very very hard. I lost, not once, most of my French posessities (first to Hessen, which I managed to conquer later, however, and later to Meklemburg and Bretagne), half of Spain was lost to Aragon, my African posessities to local Muslims... But I bought some out of war, and everntually;
-reduced Bretagne is my vassal
-reduced Marocco is my vassal
-I am finishing the conquest of Algeria right now
-I liberated Tunisia from the Mamluks
-I reduced Aragon to Sardinia and their capital
-I built a nice fleet
-I annexed Burbonia, which dared to cancel its vassality towards me.

My loss is that my vassal, Navarre, lost Champagne to the bad French.

I have an alliance with one Indian civ, but no call them for wars. As soon as they let me down, they attack me,
I learned.

[Heresson]

I'm in a strange situation. I don't want to lead too many wars, so if someone attacks me, I usually buy him out of war. Especially that once Switzerland was annexed by Burgundy, I am cut off from one of my provinces.
I have lost some of my trade points, but brought Olinda in Brazil to a status of a city. My vassal, Marocco, is going in my traces and built a trade point on two of mine destroyed ones. I'm at war with Portugal; I captured their capital again, but my fleet is definitely not strong enough to beat them at the sea and their colonies are out of hand. Suprisingly, it is very loyal to its ally, The Dutch, whose two cities I'm sieging. They have a medium fortress, and are supposed to be captured in a half of year, but the siege lasts for years now. I just can't sign a separate peace treaty with Portugal, somehow. I have +20, but even if I demand +2, they don't want it. Of course, they propose me peace treaty, and some money, but I just can't resign of destroying the Dutch.
Yet, I converted two Dutch-speaking provinces.

[Jules]

Question about negotiating peace

In my Grand Campaign game as Muscowy, I established a military alliance with Ukraine. Not too long after, Lithuania (joined by Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Siebenbürgen, and Teutonic Order) declared war on Ukraine. They requested my help so I joined in. Later I wanted to negotiate peace with Lithuania, the enemy alliance leader, but I was only able to do it as a seperate peace rather than as leader of my alliance. I could however change Lithuania between alliance leader and seperate peace. Is it because Ukraine was attacked first that I can't negotiate on their behalf?

[Havard]

Yes. In war the alliance leader is the attacker/attacked country.

[Jules]

Nationalism revolt risk question

Thanks, Havard; that clears up a few things for me.

Regarding nationalism revolt risk, I only seem to be getting this from provinces I've captured from Golden Horde, nowhere else (and I have captured a lot of territory from others; I've been quite the warmonger up to this point ). My question is: where does this nationalism revolt risk come from? The only provinces I've taken from the Horde have been Orthodox religion, Russian culture.

[Jules]

Behold my domain!

[Nikolai]

You get nationalism in any province you get, if it's not a province you have a CB shield on. (CB shields is those shields you have on some provinces in the diplomatic mode, if you didn't know.)

[Jules]

War in the Crimea: strange happenings

In accordance with my "Big Brother"...er, I mean "Good Neighbor" policy towards fledgling Orthodox states, I created an alliance with Georgia and Ukraine. Later Ukraine declared war on the Papal States, which somehow managed to get a hold of the province of Crimea. A coalition of Italian city-states sides with the Pope; Georgia and I tag along with Ukraine, hoping to finally rid the region of the Italian presence along the northern coast of the Black Sea (which belongs to me by divine right! )

Georgia is the first to move in, bypassing the rebel-controlled province Kerch (owned by Genoa) and attacking the Genoan army in adjacent Kaffa. They lose. By this time, I had captured Crimea from the Papal States. But instead of retreating towards home, the defeated Georgian army is now marching through Crimea, and is still doing so many months later. My troops are suffering attrition because of this, and I'm wondering how it could be taking them so long to move through the province? So I save the game and reload as Georgia.

Imagine my surprise when I find their movement path going into Terra Incognita to the northeast and exiting in Georgia to the southeast. Does the AI treat all of Terra Incognita as a single province? And how can they even go in there without a conquistador or Level 31 land tech?

Just thought I'd share this seeming oddity with you.

[Heresson]

Strange, but I don't know.

When it comes to my game,
after long sieges,
I managed to;
-crush southern India and anect most of it
-almost complete islamisation of my catholic and protestant provinces
-cripple Austria
-subdue Lithuania
-subdue England, Scotland and Puritans
-subdue Genoa, destroy Hospitaliers and Cyprus
-destroy Mamluks, and after taking most of it, subdue
Persia
-subdue Nowogrod (which has annected -how?- Denmark) and later Russia
-colonise quite some points, esp. in Africa
-subdue 1-province-left France
etc.
I used to have a big alliance with Oman, Uzbek Khanate, Delhi and Caliphate (another joke of hist. accuracy), but now I have it only with Uzbeks (stretching from Black Sea to Indian Ocean) and as big Delhi. None of my allies wanted to be my vassal.
My next pray shall be Turkish-Oman-Chineese alliance.

[Jules]

The Empire of Russia

Update:
So after figuring out that my allies were trying to send their troops into provinces they hadn't discovered yet, I dispatched diplomats to exchange discoveries with them. Both Georgia and Ukraine agreed. Georgia was probably the most useful ally. Their army moving northeast through Crimea finally figured out they couldn't get home by marching around Terra Incognita, turned around and went back the way they came, laying siege to Genoa-owned Kerch. By this time I had obliterated the Genoan army in Kaffa and made a successful siege, then sent Mihail Glinski (my only siege engineer) with a few thousand cavalry and helped the Georgians finish off Kerch. Meanwhile, Georgia sent its navy into the Black Sea and defeated a few small flotillas of Italian ships, presumably preventing Italian reinforcements from landing in the Crimea. Didn't have a big enough victory score to demand all three provinces, but I was able to force the Papal States to give up Crimea. Yippee, I have a coast now!

In late 1516, the Reformation came. Bremen, Saxony, and Sweden are the first nations to switch to Protestantism by 1520. Sweden is significant because their military alliance with Novgorod is now vacated, and that was the only thing keeping me from finishing them off. I will probably force-vassalize them and try to diplo-annex later. I've really been trying to bring down my badboy from all my early conquests. I had over three decades of peace until Ukraine attacked the Papal States out of the blue.

Finally on January 19, 1520 I had the "Empire of Russia" event. Of course I took over the Byzantine mantel. Now we'll see what wonderful historical events are in store for the freedom-loving Russians (serfdom is almost non-existent now).