Monday, May 24, 2010

Europe Universalis 3: Heir To The Throne



Europe Universalis 3: Heir To The Throne is a fantastic strategy game. The gameplay is about countries in the world try to survive. Survive? From what? Of course from other country that wants to conquer other counntries. The appereance is improved since the last Europe Universalis. Europe Universalis 3 use more 3D graphic. You can see the screenshot in the left. The gameplay is so simple. Conquer all province of all countries. But its not easy job to do or maybe will make you frustrated.
Okay, I will explain you the game. When you start the game (in the menu game), you will see list of history (episode), you can choose episode you like. Each episode is different in year start of the game and the history depends on which country you choose in that episode. The different between the first Europe Universalis and Europe Universalis 3 (Heir to The Throne is an expansion) except appereance is the aggressive of all countries. I remember when I played the first EU with Austria, I can conquer half of middle Europe and get more than 100 Victory Point. We get victory point from finishing missions or winning a war. Victory Point (VP) is changed in EU3. In EU3 it's called prestige. In EU1 VP is not decreased each year, in EU3 it is decreased each year. What is the use of prestige point? The bigger prestige you have, the more your country well known and positive diplomatic result you get.


I divide diplomatic result into 2. Positive and negative. Positive means our offer accepted while negative means rejected. The diplomatic result itself is depends on many factors. The factors are your country reputation, religion, relation, etc. Your reputation is getting worse if you declare war to other country without a reason (Casus Belli). There are conquest casus belli, trade casus belli, etc. For example, Trade Casus Belli is because other country rejected your merchant to trade in their Center of Trade or maybe embargoing you. Then when you want to declare a war, there will be an option, choose Trade Dispute (Trade Casus Belli will be a reason for us to declare a war). What about religion and relation? Religion and relation is connected.

For example, I recently playing (until now) with Sweden. At the first, Sweden is Catholic country and of course will have good relationship to other country with same religion. But when I change my religion into Protestant, my relation with other Catholic countries greatly dropped. The relation range is +200 to -200. +200 strong good relationship, -200 so bad relationship. But dont think if you have +200 relationship with a country, every diplomatic offer will have positive result. It's so hard for me when I'm playing with Sweden try to have an alliance with other country. Why? Different religion. If you have a same religion with a country, you will have more chance to have an alliance with the country. Alliance is so important especially for a small nation or growing nation. When I starting play with Sweden, I create an alliance with Denmark and Norway to protect me from Russia. Sometimes I think it is good to play with Russia but I was wrong. Russia has great manpower and income but the problem is neighbour country Ottoman Empire. Russia is an orthodox while Ottoman is Sunni religion country. Earlier game with Russia, Ottoman will declare war on you very soon with their alliance. Russia has weak alliance with small nation. It is hard to create a strong alliance because neighbours country have Catholic faith. Alliance offer will be rejected. A small nation will be protected if has strong alliance with big nation such as Austria and France.





Conquer all nation is not an easy job. Sometimes you have to be so tricky. When I'm playing with Sweden, I always look for a chance to attack Denmark. When is the time? When they are in war with other country, I declared a war to them with no reason cost for 2 stability. (Stability is like a reality in every country. Max stability is +3 and min -3. Good stability will result in better income.) And I can conquer some province of Norway and Denmark. Your reputation greatly dropped from honourable to tamished. But you can recover your reputation each year (10years maybe) of course with no war or helping alliance. Its hard for me to play with Sweden since I change country religion from Catholic into Protestant. I have no alliance and has to be aware of country declare war on me.

Just be carefull when you declare a war. Maybe other country will interfere and will bring you down with their alliance since you have bad reputation and casus belli with other country. You have to watch your money when declare a war. If you create massive number army, your income will greatly reduced (minus). It is the cost of having massive army. But I dont really understand about the calculation of the cost. Maybe if you conquer rich country, your income will not greatly reduce.

EU3 is not an easy game but its so fun to try. Its a challenge for me to conquer all countries in the world.

Download Europe Universalis 3 Complete Torrent here.
Or download Europe Universalis 3 Heir To The Throne complete directly
Europe Universalis 3 Part 1
Europe Universalis 3 Part 2
Join the two files using hjsplit. Thanks.

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