Patience and choosing a colonial Idea early on.How did you get that many colonists?
Patience and choosing a colonial Idea early on.How did you get that many colonists?
Wooooooo, the capital of Aachen is now in the Sinai Peninsula!
The main portion of Aachen (still says "Aachener Asia", but I imagine that will change come next month):
The ancestral homeland is looking lonely
Full size images here, here, and here.
I practically begged my neighbors (in Europe) to go to war with me so that I could get rid of the one province (Koln) that was attached to the old capital, but they just wouldn't take the bait. And nobody wanted to buy it, I couldn't release it, etc. Finally I got a trade dispute against Burgundy, and so went to war with them and then intentionally lost. I've got a core on Koln, though, and I intend to take it back
Well fiiiiiine...One-upmanship time!!!
Here's my colonial Korea, 1605:
Wooooooo, the capital of Aachen is now in the Sinai Peninsula!
No! It really should be Jerusalem!
Why Sinai?
Here's my Colonialist Korea, 1660:
I started out by colonizing Taiwan and Hokkaido, then the wastes North of Manchuria, which I proceeded to annex with Japanese help. I continued the colonization efforts in the North, and am now securing the most that I can get from the overextending Barbarian hordes. Then, I went into colonizing the Pacific Islands and South-East Asia. Soon, I'll be able to get Alaska before the Castillians work their way up from California.
I am very eager to get Westernization done though, before the Europeans start picking on me.
Started in 1393.
Or you can lose a war on purpose , say to Algiers , and offer to release Cologne in the deal , if they still got their core on it
I play with a mod which stretches game play out all the way from 1399-1821 to 11-2010 (albeit with a lot of bugs.)How? Is there some way to start earlier than 1399?
Phase one of my empire is complete.
I turned the Ottoman Empire into a pure Gazi state - conquering and converting into Europe, then releasing converted vassals behind me to keep infamy down, owning just the frontline provinces, plus Constantinople. The Castillans must have been mighty surprised to find a new Muslim reconquista starting from the north just as they were taking over Granada.
All of Europe has been converted and is my vassal, with Brunswick being my northern border and Poland my eastern. Then, I moved my capital to Granada and formed Al-Andalus.
Cologne's core on Koln is long gone - I removed it long before this insane dream of moving to the Middle East was hatched. I couldn't release it, I couldn't convince anyone to buy it. I potentially could have given it away to the Emperor as unlawful imperial territory, since I didn't have a core on it, but you're not allowed to do that if the Emperor is at war. Which he was. For, seemingly, ever. I got a core on it before the Emperor was at peace.
So then I thought my only option was war. I didn't have any casus belli on any of my neighbors, so I insulted them all (including the Emperor) down to -200, but they wouldn't bite. I even left the Empire and then put Koln (but not my nation) back into it, so that the Emperor would definitely have a CB on me. Still nobody bit. For years. It was like they were all scared of me and my armies that were all thousands of miles away from them.
Finally Burgundy issued a trade ban on me, which gave me a CB on them, which I happily took.
Even then, they've got like 18000 men sieging Koln, get it up to like 87%... and then they just leave! Ugh.
Thankfully some vassal of Burgundy's - Utrecht, I think? - marched a thousand guys in and finished the job.
Surely you could have left the empire - thus taking Koln out of the empire - and then sold the province? The reason no-one will buy it is because it would be unlawful territory.