Am I on track for One Faith?

[RadRussian]

There's a Ming with 350k army, larger than mine, so it will take a while to break him down.

There's only Animist in Americas. I'm going to finish off India and switch to Africa. Do I have enough time? I've recently done WC so I'd have enough time for WC but one faith...

 

[Sfan]

I'd say that this is going to be really tense, but you can probably do it with the proper vassals. Who do you have?

 

[RadRussian]

I'd say that this is going to be really tense, but you can probably do it with the proper vassals. Who do you have?

 

[atwix]

i dunno, in my one faith i always conquered as fast as I could convert with 5-6 missionaries, never going below 90-95% religious unity.

that might be a good lead.

if you can't, you gonna have to use vassals that take religious ideas when released, or force vassalise nations that got it and force religion.

revolutionary cb is great for that. you can force vassalise big nations and force religion at once sometimes.

tip: release najd, novgorod and other nations with missionary bonuses and feed them non trade company land. beeline them to muscovy if needed. releasing manchurian hordes is also good idea; they take religious also.

 

[Sfan]

That's what I was about to say. I hoped you had Novgorod all over Russia. And yes, get Najd, they are literally the best at converting. And get Ajuraan if you can to feed them Eastern Africa.

 

[Dante Hidemark]

Najd, Byz, Novgorod, Ajuraan... Are there more suggestions for religious vassals? I just started my own One Faith run as France.

 

[PhoenixG]

India: Tibet, Orissa, Viji
Indochina: Lan Xang, Ayuttaya, Dali
China: Maoi
Indonesia: Brunei

Might be lot more, but these are top of my head.

 

[petertju]

You can also give land away to your European vassals, than you can just look at who has religious ideas.

 

[PhoenixG]

Ah now that I think of it, because all your vassals are HRE prince. You do NOT want to get vassals outside the HRE, they'll go instant disloyal due the funky way how they calculate the strength comparison.

 

[Kergan]

You might pull it off if you grab a few Arab nations with Religious and missionary bonuses.

In particular: Convert all Najd cores to Catholic, and then release it as a (Christian) Vassal. It'll have 2 bonus missionaries, +2 missionary strength, and Religious more often than not. Feed it most of China and build many churches to speed things up.

There are a few other nations with a bonus missionary or stronger missionaries, but nothing comes close to having Najd around.

 

[Sfan]

There is no "more often than not". Vassals are always released with the same ideas, depending on Tags. And Najd always has religious.

 

[Kergan]

There is no "more often than not". Vassals are always released with the same ideas, depending on Tags. And Najd always has religious.

Interesting. Best I'm aware it's weight-based. Is there any file I should be digging into to min-max who I vassalize?

 

[TheMeInTeam]

If you build cathedrals in advance of converting and keep missionaries going full time you can convert 500+ provinces yourself still, on 4 missionaries (assuming you go revolutionary).

Subjects that don't have positive tolerance of the religion in a province will convert. If you build cathedrals, even non-religious subjects contribute decently. Client states will work if you make them republics (no tolerance from legitimacy, will convert), but nations that take religious are better.

revolutionary cb is great for that. you can force vassalise big nations and force religion at once sometimes.

It is also the only CB in the game that can force religion on heathens in peace deals, which allows you to emergency bypass religious zeal.

Most Somali nations release with religious. Miao does in China, while Shun will convert since it doesn't take humanist. Malacca can handle Indonesia, same with Brunei. Mutapa takes religious for that group. West Africa only really has Songhai, but you can just convert that.

India similarly has few that take religious (Vijay will), so if not using Vijay then pick a Hindu that doesn't have +50% core cost or +3 heathen tolerance like Gwalior or a South Indian like Madurai/Venad/Kochin...or just use Catholic client states there, make room for cathedrals before giving them land and then build them so they get ~7-9% conversion strength on accepted culture (2 base, 2-4 from decisions, 3 from cathedral). For North India you can use Nepal.

 

[Sfan]

Interesting. Best I'm aware it's weight-based. Is there any file I should be digging into to min-max who I vassalize?

Nations pick idea groups based on that link, but when you release a nation they are instantly released with predefined ideas. I had a file with the full list but I lost it, some people might still have a list. Maybe @atwix .

 

[atwix]

Nations pick idea groups based on that link, but when you release a nation they are instantly released with predefined ideas. I had a file with the full list but I lost it, some people might still have a list. Maybe @atwix .

@Kergan

click this link to view/open/download the excel files with all historical ideas nations pick when put on map by releasing or by rebels.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/myno6rfnjaip90d/EU4 historical ideas.xlsx?dl=0

 

[RadRussian]

Alright, give it to me straight, should I restart?

Ming has 333k army and and 160k manpower, it will take really long time to drown him in merc blood.

 

[Shaddd]

Plenty of time, with use of vassals.

 

[Sfan]

You're good to go, especially if all of New World is catholic. You just need to use vassals to the maximum extent.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Why spy network when you have spread rev CB? Use improve relations to keep vassal annexation train going to help with conversions.

 

[Eviota]

Micromanagement and never above 3 speed Also, did you pick the policies increasing Missionary strength, are you already capped-ish ?

I don't know exactly know what's the most cost-efficient, but the higher, the better, especially with higher developed provinces. Don't say restart, remember Reman's words - Given that you first need to WC before OF :
"After 1687, you explode" - in conquest ofc, or something like this. So you will need to be converting everything everywhere while bashing the last big players. GL !