Gaming 1836 - The Europa Universalis 4 Experiment (Hands-off) - Map & stats in second post - Final Map and Stats update - Timelapse video

As I mentioned, I just ran the same game through again to 1836, to see how deterministic the starting position was. The results were actually quite interesting. I'll spoiler both the brief summary and Europe & World maps, since this is not canon. There can be only one.

Stobzilla and Grib were again two of the first to get killed. Dan, PSV, Walrus, VeevaVee and Vidyoyo were dealt with one way or another, and KirkDuyt was pretty small.

On the other hand, the two undisputed superpowers of the last game, hobbers and Solius, didn't have the same game. hobbers actually got killed pretty fast, and Solius never got his start on Crackers, which means he never got in a position to attack North Africa, and never betrayed BD (who played the Organic Potatoes role, facing a decline at the end). altodevil was also a strong power last time, but this time he got killed, and Welsh Wonder had a good game instead. RedSky was in a personal union under adexkola instead of Solius.

Denis79 survived and then sone, and AnotherLondonManc didn't get involved in North Africa but still got involved in Anatolia and Greece. Dr. Dwayne survived, Tiber survived. Shakesey, one of the victims of the real timeline, actually did really well. Bizarrely, Tuscany conquered most of Italy (killing both P-Nut and VeevaVee), and Poland did really well too. I definitely did not set this up thinking any historical countries would do anything in Europe, and that's how the real game turned out. Not sure why this was so different like that.

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How is CK compared to EU? Surely there can be no other game like EU4

CK is similar, but more character focused. You effectively play as a dynasty rather than a nation, and each character will be much more fleshed out with traits and stats, and will develop over time.

It’s not uncommon in CK3 to end up trying to plot to kill your own brother, to take other his lands. Or to deliberately exile one of your sons to make sure that the better child will be first in line to take over as your heir; you play as one character and when they die, you play as their heir.
 
As I mentioned, I just ran the same game through again to 1836, to see how deterministic the starting position was. The results were actually quite interesting. I'll spoiler both the brief summary and Europe & World maps, since this is not canon. There can be only one.

Stobzilla and Grib were again two of the first to get killed. Dan, PSV, Walrus, VeevaVee and Vidyoyo were dealt with one way or another, and KirkDuyt was pretty small.

On the other hand, the two undisputed superpowers of the last game, hobbers and Solius, didn't have the same game. hobbers actually got killed pretty fast, and Solius never got his start on Crackers, which means he never got in a position to attack North Africa, and never betrayed BD (who played the Organic Potatoes role, facing a decline at the end). altodevil was also a strong power last time, but this time he got killed, and Welsh Wonder had a good game instead. RedSky was in a personal union under adexkola instead of Solius.

Denis79 survived and then sone, and AnotherLondonManc didn't get involved in North Africa but still got involved in Anatolia and Greece. Dr. Dwayne survived, Tiber survived. Shakesey, one of the victims of the real timeline, actually did really well. Bizarrely, Tuscany conquered most of Italy (killing both P-Nut and VeevaVee), and Poland did really well too. I definitely did not set this up thinking any historical countries would do anything in Europe, and that's how the real game turned out. Not sure why this was so different like that.

3kPvJGn.jpg

401kEXS.jpg
:lol: Did I die or did I once again survive as one tiny province?
 
As I mentioned, I just ran the same game through again to 1836, to see how deterministic the starting position was. The results were actually quite interesting. I'll spoiler both the brief summary and Europe & World maps, since this is not canon. There can be only one.

Stobzilla and Grib were again two of the first to get killed. Dan, PSV, Walrus, VeevaVee and Vidyoyo were dealt with one way or another, and KirkDuyt was pretty small.

On the other hand, the two undisputed superpowers of the last game, hobbers and Solius, didn't have the same game. hobbers actually got killed pretty fast, and Solius never got his start on Crackers, which means he never got in a position to attack North Africa, and never betrayed BD (who played the Organic Potatoes role, facing a decline at the end). altodevil was also a strong power last time, but this time he got killed, and Welsh Wonder had a good game instead. RedSky was in a personal union under adexkola instead of Solius.

Denis79 survived and then sone, and AnotherLondonManc didn't get involved in North Africa but still got involved in Anatolia and Greece. Dr. Dwayne survived, Tiber survived. Shakesey, one of the victims of the real timeline, actually did really well. Bizarrely, Tuscany conquered most of Italy (killing both P-Nut and VeevaVee), and Poland did really well too. I definitely did not set this up thinking any historical countries would do anything in Europe, and that's how the real game turned out. Not sure why this was so different like that.

3kPvJGn.jpg

401kEXS.jpg

Wow, that is quite different. Shakesy and Crackers living it up large, and Igor.
 
As I mentioned, I just ran the same game through again to 1836, to see how deterministic the starting position was. The results were actually quite interesting. I'll spoiler both the brief summary and Europe & World maps, since this is not canon. There can be only one.

Stobzilla and Grib were again two of the first to get killed. Dan, PSV, Walrus, VeevaVee and Vidyoyo were dealt with one way or another, and KirkDuyt was pretty small.

On the other hand, the two undisputed superpowers of the last game, hobbers and Solius, didn't have the same game. hobbers actually got killed pretty fast, and Solius never got his start on Crackers, which means he never got in a position to attack North Africa, and never betrayed BD (who played the Organic Potatoes role, facing a decline at the end). altodevil was also a strong power last time, but this time he got killed, and Welsh Wonder had a good game instead. RedSky was in a personal union under adexkola instead of Solius.

Denis79 survived and then sone, and AnotherLondonManc didn't get involved in North Africa but still got involved in Anatolia and Greece. Dr. Dwayne survived, Tiber survived. Shakesey, one of the victims of the real timeline, actually did really well. Bizarrely, Tuscany conquered most of Italy (killing both P-Nut and VeevaVee), and Poland did really well too. I definitely did not set this up thinking any historical countries would do anything in Europe, and that's how the real game turned out. Not sure why this was so different like that.

3kPvJGn.jpg

401kEXS.jpg

I hate this reality.
 
Died I'm afraid. I think the games prove your position was quite dangerous, but then I did sort of carve out a spot for you where I could.
Makes sense! It was slap bang in the middle of a lot of activity with little route to escape.
 
I did a thing. It's nothing big, just a timelapse video. Don't ask me how long it took me to get the years in.

Okay I'll tell you, it took a long time. I haven't tried to make or edit a video since I was making CS frag-movies with my pirated Sony Vegas when I was 14.



There's like 30 people who searched for something EU4 related and ended up watching this video, presumably with no idea who any of you people are. There's also 5 people who got it in their recommended list. Those 5 must have been watching a lot of Paradox timelapse videos. There are a lot of them out there, to be fair.

I tried adding a link to the thread in the description, but YouTube wants me to send them a picture of my official ID before they'll let me. It's like they don't trust random people on the internet anymore.