About 80 years, the first one I took was in southern Turkey. The ottomans had been more or less destroyed by the Timurids so I they were an easy target.
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About 80 years, the first one I took was in southern Turkey. The ottomans had been more or less destroyed by the Timurids so I they were an easy target.
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My 1st game of DW (on very hard) -very much enjoyed the changes and challenges. Never once got into a war with Ming, and kept alliance for 300 years.
Europe sure turned out to be a mess. France was once big, until they got kicked out of Europe. Britain and Scandinavia are the two strongest European nations. Finland only exists because I forced Scandinavia to release them.
My 1st game of DW (on very hard) -very much enjoyed the changes and challenges. Never once got into a war with Ming, and kept alliance for 300 years.
Europe sure turned out to be a mess. France was once big, until they got kicked out of Europe. Britain and Scandinavia are the two strongest European nations. Finland only exists because I forced Scandinavia to release them.
If you already Greek, change faith to Orthodox. And you can form Byzantium and get it cores.
up to the Urals and then conquered west. The Finland bit was my only play in Europe, other then holding them back, or kicking out of Asia and East Africa. Also colonized east Australia, Samoa and Tahiti, they never paid off in the end, though none of them had good resourses. Samoa was a debacle, because I hadn't killed off the natives the process went on for a long time.
It's certainly an option, and one I considered at the start. There little point in doing so now just to get cores on Naxos, Cyprus, Crete, and Kaffa.
There's a couple of problems with taking this route as the Knights, however, aside from the most obvious - why play the Knights to form Byzantium, when you can play Byzantium and re-create the empire in a fration of the time it takes you to conquer a second province as The Knights.
The first problem is that in order to succeed as The Knights, you need to become a trading power. Infamy gives you a significant penalty to your compete chance, and if you get too much infamy your economy will tank (8 infamy, the full cost of annexing a 1-2 province minor, was enough to cause me to lose all my merchants in Lubeck, the largest CoT, even with full free trade and both trading NI's.) To form Byzantium, you need to conquer Greece. Greece will likely be owned by Christians and Orthodox countries, which will probably be infamy intensive and slow going. If Greece is still owned by the Ottomans, it probably means they're too strong for you to take on. It's usually far cheaper, infamy wise, to expand against the Muslims and Hordes in Anatolia.
The second problem is that in the long run, staying Catholic is a stronger option. Once you convert Anatolia to Catholic, you start to have a decent chance of becoming Papal Controller. If you can carve up the Balkans into a number of small states, you can force convert them to Catholic, then annex them later via excommunication wars for low infamy. Being Papal Controller also saved me from facing a combined Austria/Bohemia mega-blob.
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Current date, 1567.
You think i still got time to eat the rest of the world?
Oh, does anyone know who i am btw?
EDITED: answer is ryukyu.
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Oh. Blast. Those colors are somewhat close, though . . . worthy try for not bothering to check, though, I say. XP
Right!
But it isnt fair to spam more than one answer to the question.
EDITED: Forgot to change the name of the screenshot file. That was an easy one!
Trying hard to get that achievement indeed!
I tried Najd before, but i didnt have enough missionaries to convert the world.
It was so frustrating.
I tried Najd before, but i didnt have enough missionaries to convert the world.
It was so frustrating.
Experience? I am imploding with revolts!
I got more than 500 divisions and more than half of them are stationed killing rebels.
Current date, 1567.
You think i still got time to eat the rest of the world?
Oh, does anyone know who i am btw?
EDITED: answer is ryukyu.
Impressive. Have you westernized at all yet?