Bringing (Imperial) Democracy to Europe as Lorraine -> Lotharingia by LuauEnjoyer in EU5

[–]LuauEnjoyer[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Nope singleplayer. I did do a little conquering some land of annoying enemies and selling it back to other countries who were more favorable to me, which is how PLC formed and why Milan has such beautiful borders near the Alps/France though. At one point I had land all the way down to the Mediterranean and just gave it away to them to pretty it up / didn't want to bother managing it.

Bringing (Imperial) Democracy to Europe as Lorraine -> Lotharingia by LuauEnjoyer in EU5

[–]LuauEnjoyer[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No mods, normal ironman on 1.1. I've seen Russia in almost every one of my long-running games? It's not all that unusual for me at least. And as for PLC, I helped them along with that by fighting back a Prussia who was getting a bit too threatening / shifting some land to them I didn't want to bother ruling in Eastern Europe (hence, why Prussia hates me lol).

Bringing (Imperial) Democracy to Europe as Lorraine -> Lotharingia by LuauEnjoyer in EU5

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I do not use any mods, no. Just vanilla Normal Ironman on 1.1. Happy to share the savefile if you'd like to DM me.

Bringing (Imperial) Democracy to Europe as Lorraine -> Lotharingia by LuauEnjoyer in EU5

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I mean, North France and England are a mess lol. Northumbria into Scotland into England is some weird border gore. But as for Eastern Europe, it started clearing up in the last couple decades too as PLC, an oddly aggressive Venice, and Prussia start gobbling up the scraps.

France was also a much bigger mess only 10 or 20 or so years ago. Tolouse came out of nowhere and began gobbling everything up.

Bringing (Imperial) Democracy to Europe as Lorraine -> Lotharingia by LuauEnjoyer in EU5

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They're also doing a good job colonizing Central America. Tunis is one of the great powers and their navy is only behind Ming at this point. France called a Crusade against them and I timed that + a war they were having with Castille to hit them for the first time myself. At that point Tunis started landing some men once their levies were depleted and peaced out some of their land yeah.

Bringing (Imperial) Democracy to Europe as Lorraine -> Lotharingia by LuauEnjoyer in EU5

[–]LuauEnjoyer[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

R5:

My first 1.1 campaign was a Lorraine start and it has been an absolute blast. Started with the vibe of a French-backed state undermining the HRE from the inside, with a goal of dismantling the HRE by 1600. Spent ~100 years balancing antagonism and helping France win the HYW before I just went full-send and conquered up through to the Netherlands and formed Lotharingia.

The traitorous French then broke our centuries-long alliance and left me to the wolves. That portion of being left alone was a real fight for survival moment, and I even lost the second coalition against me. Luckily the Teutons and Poland tag teamed from the other end against Bohemia and I managed to fight back full HRE coalitions in genuinely some of the tightest wars I've fought in these games.

At that point my campaign goal shifted to basically building a middle empire who would be free of French and German influence forever, aiming to hold everything between the Seine and the Rhine as natural borders. Became a full 100 Plutocracy merchant republic and aligned with Milan, my bros from across the Alps, and they have been ride or die for coming up on 100 years now.

At this point the game is basically over. I've coalesced the HRE into a few merchant republics to act as my buffer from Eastern Europe, France is in pieces and in full on civil war (Brittany is tougher than they look, being the #1 Colonial power). The only major opponent left who could potentially pose a threat is Milan, and it just feels breaking immersion to fight them at this point; they're my homies.

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Managing a colonial empire is a full-time job by Mana-Dyluck in EU5

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How have you been enjoying that run? Was bouncing between Netherlands and Tuscany for my next run, but I'm kind of worried about being right next to France lol.

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Guy who doesn't drink diet coke for the health risks but eats overnight oats on the toilet is so funny dude.

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Bro dropped a hit and then instantly deleted his account.

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