This is my guide to the Big Blue Blob Achievement: ( Things in Bold letters: Important || Things Underlined: Very important )
To make the game easier and make best use of this guide you have to make sure of two things:
1- Burgundy isn't rivaled to you
2- Castille and Aragon don't ally each other
-First of all: Send alliance offers to: Castille and Burgundy they'll be your power block to prevent coalitions from attacking; And break the guarantee on Scottland right away
Also don't spend any points on Diplo and Admin tech - You'll need them, and more than you might think
-Second you'll have to attack England, grab all the mainland [ Except for Calais ] and Pale ( It doesn't have a fort anymore )
-Immediately after use Castille to attack Aragon( You can promise land, it won't be 100% peace offer anyways, and you have to do it before they get the union )
-You can let Castille do all the work while you attack Ulster to control half of the straight for Scottland
- If your truce's up and if it looks like Castille can handle it on it's own, attack Scottland and grab *everything* except for their Capital; If not, go help Castille do this step right after.
-Get 3 of the low development provinces south of Naples, 2 of the Aragonese Islands on the mediterenean ( They're low development and Castille won't have sieged them ) and fill the rest with land for Castille - You don't want to backstabb them
-Now use your diplomats to fabricate Claims on Norway ( They have some islands adjacent to you ) and the Serbian region ( That's why you needed those 3 provinces on Naples )
-Attack Denmark with Burgundy's help [ Or without it, if Sweden is disloyal ] And take iceland, the islands,and bordergore your way into Muscovy/Novgorod/Livonians
-Now you should have a coalition with the British Isles and Muscovy - ally Poland now that you're as close to preventing it as you can
-Now you'll have to move your capital to Scandinavia to be able to core everything: Wait for the FULL CORE on the Norwegian Province to finish, sink all your points and click the button to move your capital
-Now Attack Serbia/Bosnia/Venice and grab as much low dev as you can without triggering a huge HRE coalition, you don't have to do this all at once, you'll have time to attack them at least twice - But don't be a slowpoke either
-Annex an easy Novgorod if you can ( On all my 3 tries Muscovy didn't eat everything ) - Including the stuff unconnected on the north that's hard to see
-Re-Attack Scandinavia before they can join the coalition!!And grab as much low development in the north as you can
- Now you just have to count your provinces and annex as much as you *need* on either Venice and/or the Livonian order, if you kept your allies in line there should be no coalition, and if there is one and you already have enough provinces - Hire Mercs to protect the land so that it can be cored.
This is the *short* video with the timelapse and the exact provinces you'll need:
BONUS: If the inheritance fires, it'll make your job easier, but it isn't a requirement, on mine I got the inheritance after I already had all the provinces, so it just made it 2 years-shorter
Special Thanks to @Quaade who incentivated me to do the achievement and gave me Hoi4 after he lost the bet
What do you think? Did you like the strategy? Did it work for you? Would you have done something different?
Please comment below!
To make the game easier and make best use of this guide you have to make sure of two things:
1- Burgundy isn't rivaled to you
2- Castille and Aragon don't ally each other
-First of all: Send alliance offers to: Castille and Burgundy they'll be your power block to prevent coalitions from attacking; And break the guarantee on Scottland right away
Also don't spend any points on Diplo and Admin tech - You'll need them, and more than you might think
-Second you'll have to attack England, grab all the mainland [ Except for Calais ] and Pale ( It doesn't have a fort anymore )
-Immediately after use Castille to attack Aragon( You can promise land, it won't be 100% peace offer anyways, and you have to do it before they get the union )
-You can let Castille do all the work while you attack Ulster to control half of the straight for Scottland
- If your truce's up and if it looks like Castille can handle it on it's own, attack Scottland and grab *everything* except for their Capital; If not, go help Castille do this step right after.
-Get 3 of the low development provinces south of Naples, 2 of the Aragonese Islands on the mediterenean ( They're low development and Castille won't have sieged them ) and fill the rest with land for Castille - You don't want to backstabb them
-Now use your diplomats to fabricate Claims on Norway ( They have some islands adjacent to you ) and the Serbian region ( That's why you needed those 3 provinces on Naples )
-Attack Denmark with Burgundy's help [ Or without it, if Sweden is disloyal ] And take iceland, the islands,and bordergore your way into Muscovy/Novgorod/Livonians
-Now you should have a coalition with the British Isles and Muscovy - ally Poland now that you're as close to preventing it as you can
-Now you'll have to move your capital to Scandinavia to be able to core everything: Wait for the FULL CORE on the Norwegian Province to finish, sink all your points and click the button to move your capital
-Now Attack Serbia/Bosnia/Venice and grab as much low dev as you can without triggering a huge HRE coalition, you don't have to do this all at once, you'll have time to attack them at least twice - But don't be a slowpoke either
-Annex an easy Novgorod if you can ( On all my 3 tries Muscovy didn't eat everything ) - Including the stuff unconnected on the north that's hard to see
-Re-Attack Scandinavia before they can join the coalition!!And grab as much low development in the north as you can
- Now you just have to count your provinces and annex as much as you *need* on either Venice and/or the Livonian order, if you kept your allies in line there should be no coalition, and if there is one and you already have enough provinces - Hire Mercs to protect the land so that it can be cored.
This is the *short* video with the timelapse and the exact provinces you'll need:
BONUS: If the inheritance fires, it'll make your job easier, but it isn't a requirement, on mine I got the inheritance after I already had all the provinces, so it just made it 2 years-shorter
Special Thanks to @Quaade who incentivated me to do the achievement and gave me Hoi4 after he lost the bet
What do you think? Did you like the strategy? Did it work for you? Would you have done something different?
Please comment below!
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