RUS. Just Rus'. Who needs the Asian half anyway? For the possible future game I'm tempted to not pass the Urals at all, since all the fun happens in Europe. Gotta finish this one first, though, to see what I can get [culture converted] by 1820.
RUS. Just Rus'. Who needs the Asian half anyway? For the possible future game I'm tempted to not pass the Urals at all, since all the fun happens in Europe. Gotta finish this one first, though, to see what I can get [culture converted] by 1820.
Kathiawar, normal settings.
Tribal government + trash tier starting ruler makes the start painful. Coring everything in Asia and dealing with the rebels is also, but at least I had the bodies to spam assaults to get things done more quickly. The only salvation for a westernized nation in Asia is access to the overseas expansion CB, which I applied liberally.
Did you get inspiration from me, or what? I remember our little chat about Kathiawar
Can you post your national ideas, and your general strategy? I am curious.
I had a few goes with them, but I didnt have time to do more than 20 years.. had an ok start with a bunch of vassals and shit.
Exploration --> Aristocratic --> Administrative --> Expansion --> Offensive --> Religious --> Quantity --> Diplomatic (throwaway late pick).
General strategy was to hit Gujarat almost instantly for my core + vassal them, IIRC I took a province near Bahmanis to fabricate on them also, and used missions to boost MP while working Bahmanis (dragging in Vijay, which prevented Vijay getting anything) and the Rajputs. I then finished westernizing a bit before 1550.
This was my strategy, especially with vajayjay, but I went after those muslim dudes with hindu provinces hard and fast, while picking up 2 hindu vassals for troops. That starting ruler really blows.. Why didn't you go for reforming your government first? With admin as your third idea group seems late for reforming government, especially if you wanted to use admin to core stuff earlier.
I was really surprised. You went exploration and aristo as your 2 first.. I would never have considered them. Any reason why?exploration especially seems silly, especially when you say colony hopping is not a good strategy.
what map mode did you use for this game?My first Ironman game so far
Ukraine and Persia are my vassals.
A few interesting things happened, first of all I didin't get any jannisary events .
Spain managed to PU both Portugal and France, which was a bit annoying when I got into a succession war over Algiers with the Mamlukes... and forgot that they were in a coalition against me. With Spain (also Venice and the Papal State).
Only won because I sent a force to take al-Djazir while they were focused on attacking the Balkans, when my manpower eventually ran dry I had accumulated enough warscore to get the PU.
They the PU over france some time after that though.
Thirdly I kept getting religious civil disorder events, despite having ~114% unity, and since it passes a few months later i keep getting free stability.
Bonus picture: Tired of Iberian Hokkaido?
Cause Tibet is predominant, thats why
How many other human players were there?
But congrats nevertheless. Did you use low supply mountains to kill Ming?