For fun, I added in a mod of New Zealand in 1399 which was in the special 'kiwi' tech group, with 1000% research efficiency. That was a fun game.
Sounds easy....
For fun, I added in a mod of New Zealand in 1399 which was in the special 'kiwi' tech group, with 1000% research efficiency. That was a fun game.
Seems like it is time to switch to Death & Taxes mod... Play as Lorraine and form Lotharingia.Enjoying a game now as Holland...cherry-picking the best provinces in the game (annexed Thrace, Rome) and then invading Russia to do a cultural shift to get the advantages of Dutch wealth and colonization power but Russian assimilation of Tartars and Kazakhs in Siberia...Move capital to Moscow to hold a bigger empire without so many distant overseas penalties...lol
Scotland is awesome but way overpowered...just fight the English in perpetual war and you get +50% tax bonus and a free stack of cavs and infantry every couple years...better than being the Emperor. WAY to easy to go for WC as Scotland.
Brandenburg for Prussia...or Teutonic Order...but both are pretty easy with good tactics. Forming Kingdom of Prussia and uniting Germany - cool.
Anything in HRE...or even outside HRE, it's not too hard...just vassalize 3-4 electors and you'll become emperor forever...
A lot of good stuff in Italy, many high-value provinces...but there are not as many Italians as Germans, Russians, French... I prefer something with other cultures for world domination potential...although really any culture is viable between colonization and the opportunity for cultural shift if you move your capital...I tried Scotland, conquered Holland, got Dutch culture, formed Netherlands, then invaded Russia and switched to Russian culture...so really you can become about anything with any western culture, lol. I just prefer Catholic because of the opportunity for BB reduction with cardinals...forming a Catholic Russia is cool.
France, England...just too easy...newbie countries.
Russian minors are cool but have competing demands...you need high narrowmindedness for missionaries to convert Horde provinces...but innovativeness to change to Western tech...and not a lot of hope of colonizing America/Africa...and Orthodox religion is somewhat limiting.