Welcome to my first AAR. After completing several world conquests and palying for about 2.7k hours, I feel like a new challenge.I will playing as the Japanese Daimyo Ando. My ultimate goal will be very difficult so I will set two slightly easier ones first. My three goals are:
I have only completed a single one faith before, as catholic Lithuania. Playing as a Shinto nation will certainly be a step up. The 3 missionaries that I will have will not be enough so I will be using extensive vassal feeding. This synergies almost perfectly with the shogunate government. As my vassals won't occupy diplo slots, I will be able to have an unlimited amount of small vassals converting my land. However, there are two issues with this. The subject interaction to convert your subjects doesn't exist for daimyos, so I will have to convert at least half of their cores dev before releasing them. The second issue is that I will already need a lot of diplo points to culture convert. I might have to release some of the vassals and core their provinces myself.
As the ultimate aim of this campaign is a one culture I will need to stack culture conversion modifiers. Religious ideas (-25%), enlightenment (-25%), religious-influence policy (-20%) and Shinto (-15%) add up to 85%, which is why I will be playing as Ando. They have another -15%, which will let me reach the cap of -90%. No formable nations have reduced culture conversion, so I have to start as one that does. The alternative of using the reduction from parliamentarian debates is to dependent on RNG for my liking. I will stick to my original culture (Togoku), as it feels wrong to switch to Manchu. In order to save up enough diplo points, I will start conversion and cancel it before it reaches 10%.
I've been toying with the idea of starting this campaign for the last half year and have finally decided that it's time. I will be playing on the current patch (1.25). I'm quite terrible at storytelling, so this will be sticking to the more technical side of trying to accomplish my goals. Any input/advice is welcome.
- World conquest
- Shinto one faith
- One culture
I have only completed a single one faith before, as catholic Lithuania. Playing as a Shinto nation will certainly be a step up. The 3 missionaries that I will have will not be enough so I will be using extensive vassal feeding. This synergies almost perfectly with the shogunate government. As my vassals won't occupy diplo slots, I will be able to have an unlimited amount of small vassals converting my land. However, there are two issues with this. The subject interaction to convert your subjects doesn't exist for daimyos, so I will have to convert at least half of their cores dev before releasing them. The second issue is that I will already need a lot of diplo points to culture convert. I might have to release some of the vassals and core their provinces myself.
As the ultimate aim of this campaign is a one culture I will need to stack culture conversion modifiers. Religious ideas (-25%), enlightenment (-25%), religious-influence policy (-20%) and Shinto (-15%) add up to 85%, which is why I will be playing as Ando. They have another -15%, which will let me reach the cap of -90%. No formable nations have reduced culture conversion, so I have to start as one that does. The alternative of using the reduction from parliamentarian debates is to dependent on RNG for my liking. I will stick to my original culture (Togoku), as it feels wrong to switch to Manchu. In order to save up enough diplo points, I will start conversion and cancel it before it reaches 10%.
I've been toying with the idea of starting this campaign for the last half year and have finally decided that it's time. I will be playing on the current patch (1.25). I'm quite terrible at storytelling, so this will be sticking to the more technical side of trying to accomplish my goals. Any input/advice is welcome.