African Power - What am I missing?

[Hodge_Hodgson]

After several attempts I'm finally on to get the African Power Achievement, however the menu is saying I am one province short despite owning all of Africa. Could anyone tell me which province I'm missing? Is Malta or St. Helena counted as part of Africa for some reason? Thanks in advance.

 

[cuendillar]

St Helena does count for Africa, as do all islands around Madagascar as well as Diego Garcia. Canaries and Madeira are European. You can sort this province list by continent to check which ones are needed.

 

[PhoenixG]

The island south of Maldives also counts as Africa.

Also you can check it with the region map mode.

 

[Vetgirig]

Also Gazze (the gaza strip) is part of Africa - often missed by people.

 

[durbal]

Use the Continent mapmode to see what you need. Don't use Region mode and cross reference with the wiki since some regions are split between continents.

 

[PhoenixG]

Eh, there is no Continent mapmode. Only Area and Region. Both can be used to check the area, region and continent.

 

[durbal]

Eh, there is no Continent mapmode. Only Area and Region. Both can be used to check the area, region and continent.

Oh yeah that's right and that's why I remember it being confusing. You need to check each province individually and don't take it for granted that because a province is in the same region as another that they're on the same continent.

 

[RaffeRaffen]

Going to highjack this thread since you got your answer.

I'm attempting African Power as well (3rd attempt), and I felt like I was close for a while but now I'm unsure if I can make it. This is the situation in 1749:

Funj is a vassal. By my calculation I'm missing 44 provinces with a combined development of 320. That in itself I don't think is a problem. The problem is the Ottos and their provinces, which are 36 provinces with 266 dev. Spains 4 provinces are no problem, and I reckon I can take St Helena off the Brits easily enough (forgot St. Helena was African when I took two islands from them 5 years previously).

The Ottos are currently destroying Russia (+84 warscore):

OK, so to the gist of the problem. I was stuck in a war against Otto, the brits and a huge Jaunpur earlier in the century, where I, the Commonwealth and Hungary managed to not lose through pure attrition. And I grabbed 3 Otto forts in Africa, broke their alliances with Britain, Jaunpur and one other Great Power. I planned to attack Ottos using Commonwealth and Hungary as cannonfodder, but Commonwealth just broke their alliance and made me a rival. Ottos are now allied with Algiers, Brandenburg & Malacca, which basically means they are alone. I'm allied with Hungary, Baluchistan and Ming, but Ming is a new one and will most likely not join any war. Troop and ship numbers are as follows:

My initial plan is to attack Algiers with imperialism CB and have Otto as Co-belligerent. Quickly overrun Algiers for ticking warscore, rush Ottos remaining african forts. Block the straight at the Red Sea and fight in Egypt. If Ottos bring too many troops, then fall back behind lvl 8 forts in the desert, and leave their manpower to drain before reengaging. Then peace out Algiers by taking Otto land and leaving Algiers intact, and hopefully rince and repeat when truce is over.

Is this a viable strategy? Have I left myself too much to do to get all provinces in time?

 

[PhoenixG]

imo the moment when Ottoman declared the war against Russia, you should jump on Ottoman. Ottoman can never use all his troops on both front, so you already miss that chance.

The strategy is viable. If you can full occupy Algiers and hold it for 5years, you can take 100% WS on Ottoman. Although it will be expensive, consider on your side nobody has manpower. Although I don't know how good your economy is to heavily rely on mercs (well you need to since you basicly have no manpower)

 

[CoolSpin]

with all the gold in Africa I don't see that as a problem

 

[RaffeRaffen]

I wanted to jump Ottos when they declared on Russia, but I was fighting revolutionary Portugal for the rest of their african lands, and was worried about fighting 2 fronts. Also Russia really is a shell of their former glory. The constant rebels keep draining manpower sadly, and I've been trying to save up for the last institution, so trying to save on finances while at peace.

I should be able to afford 30-50k mercs, especially if I downgrade one advisor. Also Ottos has 140k mercs or so now for some reason. Guess they can afford them.

I'm guessing the Ottos will split their forces between Hungary and me, and drain a lot of manpower in Hungarian mountains. But they'll overrun them reasonably fast. Ottos do have a tendency to form doomstacks that are way bigger than the supply limits of most of my provinces, which is a blessing and a curse at the same time.


Not sure if I should postpone integrating Funj for now. I can get dip rep + 10-12 easily enough, which makes integrating them quite fast. It's estimated at 6 years for the last 65 % (372 development). That is with -3 dip rep from integrating Mali though.

 

[RaffeRaffen]

Oh, and I just noticed they only have 15k artillery. And 170 k mercs. I guess the rebel-mayhem I inflicted on them the last war really did make them struggle. Might be a perfect time to attack them now

 

[PhoenixG]

in that case I doubt Ottoman has 225.000 manpower

 

[RaffeRaffen]

No idea what they are doing tbh:

 

[Robert de Bruce]

Hm, could it be Ottos are in serious debt? So few artillery I only see when their whole army was wiped and they needed to fill up their ranks fast. If this did not happen one or two years ago it is maybe because they cant afford rebuilding all the artillery. Having less mercs would allow them to build arti back ofc, but maybe the AI cant calculate that? Check their income and treasury on the statistic country info panel (first one).

 

[Cookiepie]

You can simply run your nation into the ground (a ton of loans, debasing/corruption, and so on) to win the war, and it should be no problem. This fact, combined with the ai always getting bored if the war drags out, essentially always means that the player will win a war if the nations are of anywhere near comparable size. If you have a better army quality none of this is particularly necessary though, you can simply outmanuver/stackwipe them repeatedly, especially if they run almost no artillery.

With that said, unless you plan to fight multiple fronts you seem to have am excessive amount of artillery atm.

 

[PhoenixG]

Hm, could it be Ottos are in serious debt? So few artillery I only see when their whole army was wiped and they needed to fill up their ranks fast. If this did not happen one or two years ago it is maybe because they cant afford rebuilding all the artillery. Having less mercs would allow them to build arti back ofc, but maybe the AI cant calculate that? Check their income and treasury on the statistic country info panel (first one).

I doubt it, or Otto wouldn't field that many mercs.