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Oh what! This is absurd. Well, I hope the region remains Muslim despite it all.
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Aug 10, 2011 05:12
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What? I cannot believe how fast that was haha. Is the Crusade going to war against the Mongols?
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Aug 12, 2011 01:29
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Cyrai posted:I just realized a Paradox LP with vast potential for comedy and chaos: Poland in EU3 with goons taking the place of Poland's Sejm. For those unfamiliar with the Sejm, it historically had power over legislation, taxation, budget, treasury matters in general, and foreign affairs. From the 17th century onward, Sejm sessions required unanimous votes on all decisions. No session of the Sejm could run longer than six weeks, and if they couldn't reach a unanimous decision in the six weeks, the entire proceeding was declared null and void. This is a terrible idea. You just know that some jerk will spitefully declare "liberum veto" if he doesn't get that he wanted.
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Aug 14, 2011 20:28
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Oh, but we just got a decent ruler again. 
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Aug 18, 2011 22:54
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Wow. Our dynasty actually died out? I'm not fully registering this haha.
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Aug 19, 2011 21:48
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Islamic reformations and waves of fundamentalism will be fascinating to incorporate into the LP. Perhaps sacrifice stability for increased probabilities of conversions or additional manpower?
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Aug 20, 2011 05:33
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Wiz posted:1) Did Timur die during his first military campaign? 1. No. 2. No. 3. Yes. 4. Yes. 5. No.
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Aug 20, 2011 21:36
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Wiz is just a great LP-er. I didn't expect this to be back so soon.
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Sep 25, 2011 22:35
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I have to say, most of the fun I am getting from this thread is from reading the other goons. I'm often the spaz in real life, so it's just funny from this end. Unless we go for some ridiculous votes (say, ally ourselves with Japan, help modernize them, and then decide to diplomatically drop them in favor of rural and divided China right before a world war), then I see great things for Azerbaijan in the future.
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Oct 1, 2011 01:14
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 A Honestly, I think B is more in line with our narrative, but C is just awful.
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Oct 2, 2011 10:19
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I really wonder how Asia is going to turn out. We have an interesting world set up.
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Oct 2, 2011 22:40
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No craziness please. I don't know if I want our size to be much bigger than that of the Ottoman Empire of our timeline; we don't need to rule a quarter of the known world to have fun. Anyways, did anyone expect the Golden Horde to last this long? This is a surprise to me; I mean, they actually grew after the result of the war too.
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Oct 4, 2011 02:53
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Can we singlehandedly take on Persia?
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Oct 5, 2011 21:25
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A: Administrative Monarchy B: National Banks Is 7 inflation that bad? I never played Paradox games before. But screw it, I'm voting this way regardless because I'm bored of tolerance and defensive warfare.
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Oct 6, 2011 00:57
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I just took a look at world map, and oh wow, the New World is developing nicely. Oh, and on a side note, we should try to expand first down to reunite the Arabian Peninsula and then westward to consume Turkey and play a more crucial role in major wars and all that. The fascination with Pretty Borders have taken me as well. Snipee fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Oct 6, 2011 |
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Oct 6, 2011 01:07
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Oh boy. The middle east is just too stable.
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Oct 7, 2011 15:45
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I really want to see us move back towards forming Arabia. Our unique religion has not been as big of a role in EU3, and it is just a shame.
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Oct 7, 2011 22:30
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Um. Are we going to try and claim the Black Sea like Serbia did in their LP? I did not expect us to expand north considering Russia is so close and all.
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Oct 8, 2011 04:27
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i81icu812 posted:Sure, the desolate islands in the rear end end of nowhere that had multiple abandoned settlement attempts is already taken. Let's go settle the uttermost part of the earth instead! In this timeline, there was not much of a dark ages, and every nation seems more advanced and well off. I can believe the rapid expansion in the Americas.
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Oct 8, 2011 05:23
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Pacho posted:Inca's holding up. Why do they keep my hopes up of a Native nation surviving until Vicky? Speaking of which, Wiz, which Native nations decided to modernize and which didn't? Although I can believe that this alternative Europe had expanded this far this fast, in our timeline, it also took a number of extraordinarily lucky circumstances for Europeans to be so successful. Pacho posted:It's really not that rapid I'm looking more at North than South America. The 13 colonies never got that far west until almost 1800. Snipee fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Oct 8, 2011 |
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Oct 8, 2011 05:30
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BlackJosh posted:Mazula wasn't really much of a democracy spreader. Jadakal was full of pretty much puppet regimes by the epilogue if I remember right. They also dropped nuclear weapons on civilian centers. I think Mazula just ended up looking so progressive because Germany ended up fascist out of contradictory and poor choices by our ridiculous Reichstag.
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Oct 9, 2011 07:57
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Contingency Plan posted:That's how I would have voted if I hadn't been away with no access to the internet at the time. The failure to destroy Mazula City, I think, was an important reason why Germany ended up the way it did after the war -- that misguided act of compassion proved Germany lacked the necessary fortitude to be a global hegemon and, sensing weakness, Germany's puppets and allies began to drift away from German influence. This is frightening. I mean, similarly, I think the Soviet Union could have hung on for a few more decades with hard line militarism, oppression, and all that, but it wouldn't have made the world a better place. Not even for most of the people in the Soviet Union. That said, I would have voted for bombing their capital just because I would have been in the heat of the moment. I was out for blood. The fact that our government could and did hold back truly was a shining example of the morality in monarchism.
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Oct 9, 2011 18:33
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FadingChord posted:We have that completely cut off by controlling entrance to the Sea of Azov, but Clausewitz doesn't really simulate geopolitics well enough for that to be as big of a deal as it was in real life. What's more important is that our Crimean provinces, when cored, will allow us to terrorize our rivals in Armenia with strategic naval landings throughout their territories! Unless something major changed, I wasn't aware we even had a navy.
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Oct 10, 2011 07:03
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Proposition Joe posted:Because if there is one thing the Balkans is known for, it's its technological innovation. Warring States Period and the competition between Greek city states apply though. Maybe make it a 50% chance of happening?
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Oct 11, 2011 00:56
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The turn back into our Muslim brothers and sisters would have made sense if our country still cared about religion, but we have been going TOLERANCE for decades now. A skeptical ruler too. Oh god, I hope we can push back the Russians when our time comes.
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Oct 11, 2011 07:08
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Wiz posted:It's not about religion though, it's about politics. The politics of not fighting 80k Persians while the Russians are busy in Qurighar. How are our relations with Russia right now exactly? It's not too awful I hope? I am just worrying that we lost our opportunity to further expand our territory now that our entire northern border is at risk.
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Oct 11, 2011 07:14
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i81icu812 posted:Looks like Zhen finally took Yunnan and knocked Dali out of the picture. They still have a ways to go to claim the major population centers along the coast though. I wonder how much success Zhen could have converting the population if they won. Hui Muslims should already be present throughout China at this point even before the Zhen invasion in really small numbers and they have managed to resist assimilating remarkably well to the present day. Forced mass conversion of the entire country can only end in revolt, so they probably have to go with either to top down ruling class converts model or glom Mohammed and the book together with 'Chinese folk religion' and call a day. No pork would sure make Chinese cooking different! I cannot imagine this happening. Chinese folk religion is as polytheistic as it gets with idolatry central to many of its rituals. It's incompatible with Islam in too many ways. I can understand the two coexisting side by side with tolerant leaders, but I do not see the two converging.
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Oct 11, 2011 23:17
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 Because I don't want to die. I'm hoping that they might be too busy recovering from the plague to declare war against our cowardly leader, but oh my Muhammad.
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Oct 12, 2011 04:02
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Wiz posted:They didn't get the plague. We got the plague. It's a provincial event, not a country/worldwide thing. Well this sucks.
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Oct 12, 2011 04:10
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AgentF posted:SHALL WE TOLERATE OUR OWN DOOM?! When they write the history books, remember that you were all warned.
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Oct 12, 2011 08:31
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I'm going to be honest and say that some of my private reasons for voting A was because I thought the people screaming for B were getting obnoxious and because I felt as if it would be pretty awesome for us NOT to have a National Bank. Islam and all that. 
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Oct 12, 2011 17:00
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Can someone make a strong historical/role-playing argument for B? I just don't buy it.
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Oct 12, 2011 23:58
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Viola the Mad posted:Azerbaijan's place as a center of culture and and intellectual advancement, as well as its strong tradition of tolerance, has allowed new ideas and ideologies unthinkable elsewhere to flourish. In a country where different ethnicities and religions have peaceably lived side-by-side for decades, folks are more amenable to the idea that all people are created equal. These ideas have even spread to members of the noble classes, who are likely to be even more worldly than then their commoner counterparts. The occasional intolerant king has only driven home the point that it is necessary to preserve in law these God-given rights in order to protect them from the vagaries of misguided rulers. But why are the lower classes suddenly so angry? Our country is perfectly stable and content right now. There is no urgency. It would make more sense if there are food riots or we just lost a war or if we're overtaxing the subjects or something, but I don't see the radicals showing up while people are still happy. Furthermore, the bourgeoisie have little or no reason to support the rights of the lower classes. If the ruling elite could get away with just ceding rights to the growing merchant class, then they would. Note: I know that this is moot, but I feel like this is an interesting conversation regardless.
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Oct 13, 2011 06:41
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Wiz posted:I know you're just joking but if anyone is in doubt, this is never gonna become a legislative LP. Not even like in the Hohenzollern factions?
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Oct 14, 2011 01:00
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Morrow posted:We should make Syria like us again. We tried this game several times. I think just coexisting is good enough. We should look into expanding into Persia though.
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Oct 23, 2011 01:32
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NO PERSONAL UNION. This country will go up in revolution before something so outrageous is carried out.
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Oct 26, 2011 00:03
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NihilCredo posted:I like the idea of going Noble Republic, but it's worth pointing out that changing the laws of the kingdom right before a foreign ruler would inherit is 100% pure War of TAG_ADJ Succession material. At the very least it would be proper for us to take a huge relations hit with the Mughals, putting us in an awkward position with Persia. This would be the best part. I want to see the war with Persia, and the less allies we have, the more exciting it will be. You can do it, Wiz!
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Oct 26, 2011 20:42
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I just want to point out that our country is loving amazing. We have done a pretty good job of not loving this up. Granted, I don't think we control much more than 5 or 10% of the events in the game, but I'm still proud of Azerbaijan. Also, the reason we would end up in war with Persia regardless of our succession crisis is because we hate each other and because we have a mission against them.
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I don't think we're as troubled as everyone thinks. If there is just one war that goes right for us, then we're back in business. Look at the time we neutered Armenia. Also, if this aristocracy paves the way for a communist revolution, then this will be the best LP in all of the internet.
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