I am interested in how you moved your capital to the Americas. It is a great idea, basicaly for anyone, but how to pull it off?
you can declare on the natives without a CB, conquer a province.. but you can't core it because it's not in range, and you can't move the capital there normaly because that requires a core (the tooltip says). So how did you do it Sir?
EDIT: do you somehow have to lose your current capital? how is that possible?
There is no need to lose your capital. If you have fleet-basing rights from a nation you can use their "coring" range. Since I vassalised Shawnee, I was therefor able to core any province next to them. Once I had my core, I moved capital.
This is a painful update. Pictures first, then explanation.
The war with Spain went well, very well in fact. You could even say it went perfectly. I had them down on their knees and I was able to get exactly what I wanted without costing me too much of anything. I released Castille as a Pagan vassal, ripping the guts out of Spain while at the same time giving me a powerful ally that I could later integrate.
Or so my feeble understanding led me to believe. Well no, it seems that once a nation ceases to exist, it stops teching too, so the Castille that I had released had even worse technology than I had. Well my future plans were to do exactly the same to Guyenne and England but they too would have pathetic tech and be no help in future wars so...yeah.
Never mind though, I soldiered on. I rushed the "counter revolution" idea" so I could become a republic and ensure I always had a ruler with good ADM while also preventing loss of stability from royal deaths. I encountered the Noble Republic of Cyprus. Yes, they'll do, but damn, I need a land border to get the CB. Not a problem, I'll sell them one of my Iberian holdings. I declare war and they have powerful friends, but I don't care, they remain war leader in a counter-revolution war so they quickly make peace, turning me into a noble republic.
Okay, I become a noble republic
with one point of republic tradition. Okay, that does make sense, I'll just have to maintain it by making new leaders every year, not much of a drawback.
Except that I was very close to annexing Shawnee, and when I did an event popped up costing me 10 republican tradition. This put me back to a Despotic monarchy with a worse ruler than I previously had and 0 legitimacy. Sensing my weakness, Spain declared war, resulting in the total loss of Castille.
I decided a do-or-die war with Ming would sort things out. I declared war on them with no CB, planning to vassalise them, get all of their former lands back and then integrate them, but I feel that it is too little to late. The rebels are there on purpose: if I let them collapse me I can revert back to 0 stability and 0 War Exhaustion at the cost of 50% taxes in some select provinces which isn't too bad because I am still dripping with thousands of ducats and make plenty from trade, but I really feel that I should take the lessons learned and start anew.
A much more aggressive start is in order.