Grundius said:
European conversion? Nah. I say take it all! You already own a large part of Africa, most of the Middle East and dominate the Balkan. The world should not be so hard to take, should it?
No it would not be too hard. But Im now back at work (fulltime) and my keeness for this game has plummeted. I just find it very, very difficult to continue when Im so powerful and when it becomes so easy, I said to myself before I started "just do it, continue to fight, conquer and convert", I had the best intentions to finish it when I started. I had played 30 years after the last update(annexed Benin and Hedjaz, converted all provinces to Sunni) and not a single country declared war = very dissapointing. So I wont say Im abandoning it yet, just putting it off for now, aawww Im just kidding myself, what the heck, Im abandoning it.
dsk said:
Your tech costs must be insane
Tech costs as of last post =
Land 11 = 4154
Naval 4 = 9745
Trade 3 = 33018
Infra 6 = 50842
I wouldnt call them insane
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Mr. Capiatlist said:
Bavaria is looking very big.... (relatively anyway)...
Those diplo annexes, they must have driven your BB up and your relations down! That was a lot....
BB did go up considerable, but I consider it the best chance of success with those diploannexation simply because "Süleymân I Kanuni" is such an excellent monarch DIP = 8, MIL = 9, ADM = 9 and gave me such a high chance of success.
binTravkin said:
Would like to hear more about it.
Venice Hypertech Boring as, didnt complete, got some more years to add-probably will never do.
binTravkin said:
Also, diploannexing Tunisia was not the best way.
I have also reminded to myself when playing - "1 shield province - diploannex, >1 - take away with war!"
The only exception is for countries which actually have only 1 or 2 provinces which are your cores - then diploannexing is the option then.
Actually for a perfect low-bb game you should avoid getting a province for more than 1BB.
Yes, diplo annexing Tunisia wasnt the best way, I did make a couple of mistakes with BB. It would have been cheaper BB wise, to have had an ally who wasnt a vassal annex those 3 countries in the balkans, then for me to boot from alliance then DOW and take the said provinces.
And I agree with the perfect low-BB game, except the Ottomans must annex Byzantium.
binTravkin said:
Very good way to accomplish that is use an insult.
Just make sure you have -200 relations with that nation and then use the insult.
In case it didn't work, see if it has more powerful alliance mate and insult it..
If you still don't have success of being attacked, try not building troops for some time (while fighting some wars), that way they'll look at you as "weak".
I think Ive tried this in the past with the insulting and it didnt work. I didnt do the weak looking way, I know it works, just didnt think about it.
P.S - Right now I just plan on playing(subbing) MP once a week. Hopefully I can join a new MP game soon and actually start and finish some sort of AAR.