Three Kingdom Total War, Hypes and Worries

In January 2018, Sega announced the release of Three Kingdom Total War in Fall 2018, the first official total war series with the background in ancient China. As a fan of the Total War series and Three Kingdoms games, I have many hypes and worries about this game when it releases. 1. The game described…

The Uncommonwealth Achievement

The Uncommonwealth Achievement is about having Lithuania inheriting Poland. There can be two ways of getting this achievement, one is getting it peacefully but Poland has to have less than 14 provinces. The other way is to take some important provinces from Poland. Either way, MAZOVIA MUST DIE….I meant this vassal must be annexed, have…

Revolt of the Three Feudatories in EU4

Background story: Revolt of the Three Feudatories (known as 三藩之乱 in Chinese) was a civil war in the early Qing dynasty. Historically, this war lasted for around eight years from 1673 to 1681. It started as Emperor Kangxi trying to revoke privileges from three powerful lords. He saw these three lords are holding too much…

Forming Netherlands as Holland

Holland is one of the Dutch minors inside of the HRE and under personal union of Burgundy at 1444. The first step of Holland to form Netherlands of course is to get independent from Burgundy. Even if Burgundy won’t annex its personal union juniors, the Burgundian succession events will be an instant lose for Holland, as…

Chapter Ten: Affairs in Asturias

As Jarl Rathbarth commanded, Rie and her warband sailed to Asturias to negotiate with the Asturians to convince them to switch alliance from the Saxons to the Danes. If they join, not only they won’t be raided and the Vikings will raid Andalusia, the Spanish’s arch enemy at that time until the reconquista is finished.…

Lanfang Republic, how much can you do in 42 years?

Lanfang is a playable nation in the late game at Europa Universalis IV. It is playable at January 1778. At the same time, the game ends at January 1821, so there are only 42 years of game play left. It started as a one province minor at the Pontianak, Borneo. Its Sunni neighbor Brunei always…