Even faster Irish unification - 1 Jan 1401
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I have made another run with slightly different strategy - I think this is close to optimal.
Yeah, this is what I did, except that I sold provinces rather than fighting scotland. If you got curia controller on day 1 and only good events (good luck with that) you couldn't beat my method (with the same method) by more than maybe 2-4 months, though, so it definitely isn't going to compete with a january formation.I got a big improvement from switching the order of doing things - now I took all loans while I still had all provinces and I took war taxes as well (before I was afraid of raising stability costs due to war exhaustion, but it doesn't matter that much) and I have held any stability gains until all wars were often (and I was minting and annexing minors one by one to prevent stability gains). So when everything was set I had plenty of stability gains cached in. And then spending cash for stability gives increase immediately, so you don't have to wait until the end of the month.
Yes, that would seem too luck dependent. I think my approach is relatively repeatable - only need luck with a mission draw and slider move. Everything else should work every time.Yeah, this is what I did, except that I sold provinces rather than fighting scotland. If you got curia controller on day 1 and only good events (good luck with that) you couldn't beat my method (with the same method) by more than maybe 2-4 months, though, so it definitely isn't going to compete with a january formation.
It's difficult. The key is to withhold stability upgrade until your are small, but take loans while you're big and have war taxes running. Minting just the right amount is important - you need to have just over 1200 for optimal results.I tried a fastest Ireland unification, but how do you get both the money and the stability to move your capital to Ireland that fast? I managed to lose enough provinces to culture shift by 6th January 1401 (would have been faster but my enemies were idiots), but I was nowhere near stable or rich enough to move capital. I tried just full minting and taking loans, and I managed to just do it at the end of 1400, but that was without declaring war on anyone.
It would take a lot of real time to do it fast. Maybe if I can figure out a way of doing it without too much micromanagement...alexti, when are you going to go for fastest WC?
I think that in 5.1 GH was the optimal choice - perhaps doable before 1500. In 5.2 I am not so sure. Horde strategy relied on manpower quite heavily, so it might be not so great anymore. Ottomans became more attractive though. With their ridiculous military advantage in the early game they can conquer at will without ever running out of manpower. Unfortunate, they do run out of diplomats very quickly. Though I don't think one need to go to extremes to best the current record.Well in my opinion fastest WC can be only made with either GH or Timurids.
They don't have that much advantage over Europeans (not anything like Ottomans do), so while they win they take considerable losses - in 5.1 it didn't matter, but in 5.2 the danger of running out of manpower is a serious issue. And, of course, having to fight TSC doesn't help.Well GH also have superior troops, and early on you just need to avoid fighting ottomans too soon(they have good troops), and conquer europeans before they are ready to defeat you.