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by participants you mean states and not soldiers right ?
if thats the case i got 2 more
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/455159125736909551/4CC9238FACFD44C1AFD0A59FADEBF809BC9F9572/
Hm. This might be true in some cases. Mind pointing out some specific examples first, though?
Actually that was only the conclusion for a very short period of time.
No, unfortunately. But if it was you would surely be a winnerHow about Coolest Prussia, is that a catagory?
I mean this wasnt using the HRE... this was conquest! It must be worth something.
Alright, though I haven't looked at the formation requirements yet.
Well, I suppose that sometimes people just get lucky with the game codes. I think this is fine to have.
Hm possibly. If someone could look it up in the most recent patch that would be cool. I'm not very good at figuring out such things.
Really? How so?
Yes, exactly right.
Sorry, but I don't think this is a very good record. Were there not sieges that sat at 100% in EU4? Perhaps I am not understanding what you are submitting correctly, though.Highest siege percentage. I've not seen one higher than this before.
Unfortunately, I believe that you were looking at the sea battle record and not the land battle one. Sorry.Apparently I got the highest WE from a single battle in my first EU4 game.
Also maybe there should be a record for most participants in a battle.
Very nice! You should be known as the manpower master from now on!I set out to break the old manpower/army numbers and the obvious choice was Muscovy in 1.3.2.
General strategy/short AAR:
The general strategy was the standard Orthodox HRE with all the 1.3.2 cheese available. Making blobs release countries since they kept the cores. Having a ton of diplomats and bunching wars to save on dip with culture convert. Releasing countries at the end of a war cycle for the AE reduction. Perm, Nizhny Novogrod, and Livonian Order were my staples for a nice -210 AE. Orthodox HRE to go from being elected to revoking the privilegia in less than 45 years. Using the HRE to stay small since AE scaled with size in 1.3, to stay allied to France and off its rival list until I was big enough, and to make the 500% OE at the end of a war cycle manageable. As well as coring outpost provinces like Lika and Navarre to deal with European fighting and not having to walk all the way back to Russia every time.
The weird cores seem to be a problem unless you realize the rules. You shouldn't annex after a certain point unless you could release it within the month. Realize that core timers get cut in half if you release the country. This meant releasing countries and vassalizing the original (with truce breaks and massive OE if needed) was the way to go. Don't have a vassal for more than 50 years if you want to release it as a HRE vassal with all its cores. Keep cores alive by fighting with countries. I would often ally a country to declare war on another just to get cores to reset another 50 years. Finally, even if you do everything right, there are going to be situations where you will need to sell a vassal back its original provinces, so double and triple check the available cores when adding them to the HRE.
I didn't get any PUs (though in one of my earlier tries I PU'd a France that had already PU'd and integrated Portugal), but got lucky in other ways. I didn't have any terrible leaders and overall they were definitely above average. With some heir management, I avoided regencies altogether, some by mere months. Won 3 of the 4 'send for a medicus' events, and the one I lost, I actually got a better heir. Ming didn't explode before I got there. The Timurids did explode, but did in stages so it was fighting and resetting cores until I vassalized it at the last second. Burgundy became a decent colonizer. I was able to coax Denmark along until it integrated its PUs for easy and AE free core returns. And finally, I got a high admin ruler for when I westernized before 1550.
Setbacks were relatively minor. I was unable to secure Provence before France took it which caused me to have to integrate Castille and Portugal and have all their provinces (thus lots of AE scaling) until I could integrate France much later. I was also helping Poland along so it could form the Commonwealth (to release and feed Lithuania), but right before it reached Admin 10, Poland's 20 year old king died somewhere in Crimea (which didn't even have an army at the time) and lost the PU on Lithuania. I should've hit the colonizers asap or at least gotten them into more wars with France. GBR and Portugal got a bunch of colonies away and required a couple extra wars, OE and dip taking a lot of colonies, and a truce break to come under under control. And Castille? Listen, and understand. Castille is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until the world is colonized. Surrounding the capital and taking all its ports won't stop it.
I didn't think that there would be enough time to colonize everything since I released countries so late, but I underestimated their desire to spread across the globe. I also went around and put soldier on places where the AI is going to colonize to prevent natives from spoiling the AI's progress so it ended up being a complete WC. The last large war cycle took place around 1770 and I finished the WC by annexing Albania.
Ending screen + ideas
TLDR: Complete WC with all 1419 provinces cored and Orthodox.
Throughout the game I had tried to spend excess military power on the first 3 levels of army buildings, especially in my colonies. I never had a lot of land of my own until the end, but it did make a noticeable difference. I spent about the last 50 years worth of monarch points on buildings and teching when needed. I increased my base manpower by almost 2 million and force limit by 300 from buildings built AFTER passing the last reform.
The manpower bonus is crazy. With Russian NIs, Orthodox, Quantity, Offensive, Aristocratic, and an advisor, Russian provinces had a base level of 368% manpower efficiency and 438% in places like Moscow where I had all the military buildings. The rest of Europe, Asia, and Africa had 335% base and 405% built up. Even overseas different culture provinces were at 285% baseline. I have overseas different culture provinces with no buildings with 481 manpower. I have Russian colonies with 1K base manpower but the first 3 army buildings with 471 manpower. I have 47 provinces with over 2000 manpower. The multiplier is so high that it would've been more monarch point efficient to build the barracks (third army building) than a conscription center (sixth building, 25% efficiency increase + 2 force limit) on everything. Yes, literally everything. Even in a province with 11k base manpower (the highest I had), accepted culture, AND a manufactory. I would've, too, except I wanted to increase force limit as well. Even the Agricultural Revolution events were worth over 100 manpower a piece.
As for the raw numbers, they're insane. 6123K base manpower. That's 71,249 a month in reinforcements. With the 'Excellent Year' event giving me 308K manpower per time, I went up to 9022K total manpower. I really was hoping to see if it could go 5 digits.
Army numbers are equally insane, thanks to Russia's dirt cheap infantry and 50% force limit NI. I ended up with an army of 3165K troops and a force limit of 3004. I think the Mints I built with my last Adm points put me over the 3 mill barrier. I also had a force limit advisor that died relatively early in 1805 which could've made this even higher.
Here's the manpower mode map. Yellow is 200+. Dark green is 500+. Lighter green is 1000+.
edit: Well crap, I realized I forgot to change my government before passing the last reform so there's 10% efficiency I missed. That's probably ~250k base manpower.
Kurland and Semigallia owned and cored, Adm Tech at 10, Protestant or Reformed religion and at peace. Available for Riga or the Livonian Order.
It'd be pretty easy for The Livonian Order the real difficulty comes in the speed you can get to adm tech 10 and how quickly you can make your country experience the protestant reformation. Also surviving next to the Lithuanians (who hate you) and the Russians.
Edit: Also I found out recently that there's also Egypt and Bukhara.
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I think not having an iron-man requirement for this is extremely silly. This is way too easy to cheat on.
How are you suppose get to adm tech 10 to form italy in 1505.
Here's a picture of my progress in Feb 1505.
http://i.imgur.com/Sahr2RZ.jpg
Here's a picture of my progress in Feb 1505.
http://i.imgur.com/Sahr2RZ.jpg
Highest trade efficiency:
I'd also suggest deprecating existing records for highest trade income and total income, Paradox nerfed trade income long time ago and it's no longer possible to get incomes of that size.
If you decide to do this here's my 1.6.1 entry for these records.
I'd also suggest deprecating existing records for highest trade income and total income, Paradox nerfed trade income long time ago and it's no longer possible to get incomes of that size.
If you decide to do this here's my 1.6.1 entry for these records.
Highest heretic tolerance? The beauty of the new patch is that it means having this much tolerance makes secularisation fully possible. In the 1500s.
...I find it extremely funny that you have more heretic tolerance than tolerance of the true faith.Highest heretic tolerance? The beauty of the new patch is that it means having this much tolerance makes secularisation fully possible. In the 1500s.
It's probably back from 1.1 when Tuscany had 2 universities at start, there were -10% tech cost advisors, Tuscany's NI was -10% cost instead of -5%, and plutocracy was -10% instead of -5%. They also had the -5% from Innovative and there wasn't any increase over time. So that's -35.8% cost from your pic, which would put it just 8 mp over the point cap. They would've still needed at least 1 event -tech cost event, but it was certainly doable in earlier versions.
You can still cheat quite extensively in ironman, just a bit less than normal due to no console. Save scumming though? Easy to do if you want.
Lithuanian traditions give +4 heretic tolerance, so they could have their heretic tolerance at 10, or 12 if they get a revolutionary government.
I'm super anxious. As pomerania its 1491 and I nearly have admin tech lvl 9 and there is 80 something % reform desire. I just need to be protestant and have lvl 10 admin tech. Think I can make it?
I didn't see it posted and thought it might be interesting to have the following:
Highest amount invested into a cardinal and he dies before he gets into the curia.
Highest amount invested into a cardinal and he dies before he gets into the curia.
At some point in time I will make a new records section and retire some of the old record holders.
durvas answered your question pretty well I'd say. Keep in mind that I may institute a new section with this record in it as well.
Well, this topic was addressed for the first couple pages of the thread, and most people felt that they did not want an ironman requirement. Having trust in people's honesty is alright, I'd say.
Thanks for the info. I added in Bukhara and Egypt to the records.
I thought about it, and I think this record is more of a strange screenshot than anything. It does not really merit a new record I believe
Yes, it has been added.
Once again, sorry for my lateness in replying. I will try to be more punctual during the summer, but I will be gone for two weeks from today, so please be patient until I get back. If you have anything comments or complaints or whatever about what I've done then post it her in the thread or private message me.
Still glad to see people posting those records!
Most prestige from peace deal - 2180. I used some interface mods and I don't know how it suits your rules.
