The best advice not listed in the OP is to keep your paws off North Africa and patrol dem waters around Lisboa. Those nasty berbers can make a quick work of your income and manpower that should be spent on colonial expansion.
A walkthrough for "The Navigator" achievement
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I keep getting wardeced by Morocco and it ties up my economy and focus too much.
Is there any good tip for keeping Morocco off your back?
When should you start cape verde colonizing? 1460? Ideal time to start explore past South Africa cape?
The one time I was fairly successful I had revealed India Sea but by then it was too little too late. Only 4 years left to grab islands.
Is there any good tip for keeping Morocco off your back?
When should you start cape verde colonizing? 1460? Ideal time to start explore past South Africa cape?
The one time I was fairly successful I had revealed India Sea but by then it was too little too late. Only 4 years left to grab islands.
As a general rule you should activate GE few years after 1500 so it will be active during two development efforts - for colonialism and printing press.
The thing is this is an achievement that require you to finish BEFORE 1500. So it doesn't matter when you active golden age. Ideally earlier the better especially before you start tech up and unlock exploration/expansion.
Just defeat them. You can be 1 loan below bankruptcy in 1500 for all that matters and you've got a mountain fort. Cancel the alliance with England, ally Castille, put some troops into southern Iberia and win hill battles.
And you should start... asap?
The achievement has no other requirements. All you need is to go south and colonize until one day you're in colonization range of India, which instantly gives you Goa and lets you colonize that dirty little island. And that colony doesn't have to be finished either way. Just needs to be started.
Hire a colonization advisor if needed.
Also note that if you ally castile, and disable join offensive wars, if they form spain, that button gets.. You will be called in offensive wars unless you disable that again.
learned the hard way.
learned the hard way.
The best way to prevent getting declared is to forge a stable net of alliances. Identify the countries with the strongest diplomatic links and join their ranks. For Portugal more specifically, you usually want to drop England, and if France allies with Aragon you may want to switch out Castile for them as well. On the African side, Tunis is a valuable ally, as you plus Tunis can easily crush any offensive alliance Morocco can bring.
A secondary concern is your own military power. You don't need to over-invest; just keeping a standing army and not falling behind in military tech should be enough in this part.
As for the time to colonize Cape Verde, I did it in 1464 and got the achievement in 1493, so I think it's safe to say 1465 is a reasonable benchmark.
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Well I just had a very strange start. Tlemcen was diplomatically isolated so I sign an alliance with them. "Promised" them rich and land against Granada. Pulled Morroco into it without mark them as Co-Belligerent since that would also pull Tunis into it.
Tunis always seem to "loves" to rival me so I never could manage an alliance with them so they ending up declaring war on Tlemcen while I was still fighting Morroco. I said screw my reputation and declined CtA. Got tangier and 200 Admin MP (mission reward) and humliated Granada in a single peace treaty. Which only made it super-easy for Castile to take Granada since they lost alliance with Morroco.
The reason why I declared early is because their king had 1/2/6!!! There is no way I could keep up with that. So I declared while they were still mil 3 and finished the war still at mil 3. Since I have a truce for 10 years I was able to keep up just fine.
Also I had to dis-inherited my heir because it was 3/0/3.... Really? ZERO diplomat skill?
As for my current alliances. It is now papal (one of tunis rival), Castile (just won a defensive war against Aragon), and England. That it. Not much else I can do unless I drop alliance papal and convince savoy to drop aragorn alliance. They are also another tunis rival. The good news although is that Castile and England both rival France. It doesn't matter if Aragorn is allied to France, which they are. I don't think either England or Castile will be in trouble anytime soon.
Edit: Ugh another low diplomat heir but at least passable. 5/2/6. I am more worried about "the hunting accident"...
Tunis always seem to "loves" to rival me so I never could manage an alliance with them so they ending up declaring war on Tlemcen while I was still fighting Morroco. I said screw my reputation and declined CtA. Got tangier and 200 Admin MP (mission reward) and humliated Granada in a single peace treaty. Which only made it super-easy for Castile to take Granada since they lost alliance with Morroco.
The reason why I declared early is because their king had 1/2/6!!! There is no way I could keep up with that. So I declared while they were still mil 3 and finished the war still at mil 3. Since I have a truce for 10 years I was able to keep up just fine.
Also I had to dis-inherited my heir because it was 3/0/3.... Really? ZERO diplomat skill?
As for my current alliances. It is now papal (one of tunis rival), Castile (just won a defensive war against Aragon), and England. That it. Not much else I can do unless I drop alliance papal and convince savoy to drop aragorn alliance. They are also another tunis rival. The good news although is that Castile and England both rival France. It doesn't matter if Aragorn is allied to France, which they are. I don't think either England or Castile will be in trouble anytime soon.
Edit: Ugh another low diplomat heir but at least passable. 5/2/6. I am more worried about "the hunting accident"...
Update.
I manage to finish this one off BARELY.
I started colonizing cape verde by 1465. Slightly later than I liked. Started to explore past South Africa cape by 1480.
I manage to finish off colonizing Diego Garcia by 1496 January 1st. It was the only way to get core range for a no-CB on Ceylon in time.
Did one extra colony in South Africa when I should have gone to one of the islands on the way to Diego Garcia instead. Would have saved me from making a mistake and lot of time.
I did end up with 15 corruption but who freaking care lol. An important thing to remember you can go up to 10 corruption with golden age and it won't cost you extra MP. For the first war with Morroco I pushed to 10 corruption to pay off all loans but by then I had 3 age objective completed so I could just pretend the corruption wasn't there and slowly paid it off down to 4. Then spend tons of money for more transport and attrition and all that in India. But by then you don't need to spend anymore MP so feel free to spam corruption/loan to max.
In the end it worked out. I kind of lucked out on Ceylon because all of India is one powerbloc everywhere else. I thought having Maldive as a vassal which would let me gobble one of the minor nearby. Nope they were all allied to Vijayanagar. I did the peace treaty while those minors were still under fog of TI hence the mistake.
I manage to finish this one off BARELY.
I started colonizing cape verde by 1465. Slightly later than I liked. Started to explore past South Africa cape by 1480.
I manage to finish off colonizing Diego Garcia by 1496 January 1st. It was the only way to get core range for a no-CB on Ceylon in time.
Did one extra colony in South Africa when I should have gone to one of the islands on the way to Diego Garcia instead. Would have saved me from making a mistake and lot of time.
I did end up with 15 corruption but who freaking care lol. An important thing to remember you can go up to 10 corruption with golden age and it won't cost you extra MP. For the first war with Morroco I pushed to 10 corruption to pay off all loans but by then I had 3 age objective completed so I could just pretend the corruption wasn't there and slowly paid it off down to 4. Then spend tons of money for more transport and attrition and all that in India. But by then you don't need to spend anymore MP so feel free to spam corruption/loan to max.
In the end it worked out. I kind of lucked out on Ceylon because all of India is one powerbloc everywhere else. I thought having Maldive as a vassal which would let me gobble one of the minor nearby. Nope they were all allied to Vijayanagar. I did the peace treaty while those minors were still under fog of TI hence the mistake.