choose who to reform with?

[bradles0]

I am inca, I currently border the colonial nation of New Castille (in mexico) and some completed portugese colonies (in argentina)

Castille has 14/14/14 tech, but has not embraced printing press
Portugal has 14/14/13 tech, but HAS embraced printing press

BUT I can only reform with castille, and not portugal, even though printing press is worth WAY more than 1 miltech. Do i just have to wait for Portugal to get mil-tech 14 and it will switch to reform from portugal instead of New Castille, or is there a way to change it manually?

 

[Foefaller]

If any of the nation cores in Mexico are still there, I'd release one of them as a vassal and give them all the provinces bordering New Castile so you can reform with Portugal, and then re-integrate them.

 

[bradles0]

If any of the nation cores in Mexico are still there, I'd release one of them as a vassal and give them all the provinces bordering New Castile so you can reform with Portugal, and then re-integrate them.

Better plan, but same general idea of "remove the border". Gonna conquer New Castille.

 

[Zohtun]

Better plan, but same general idea of "remove the border". Gonna conquer New Castille.

Careful. Remember, New Castile is likely ahead of you in technology so they could probably dominate you. Especially if Popa Castile shows up (while it's unlikely, it -can- happen and if it does you're going to be in for a bad time)

 

[Foefaller]

Careful. Remember, New Castile is likely ahead of you in technology so they could probably dominate you. Especially if Popa Castile shows up (while it's unlikely, it -can- happen and if it does you're going to be in for a bad time)

Actually, I like his plan. If the CN is newly formed, it probably has something like 5 units tops, while an Inca that controls both Mexico and Peru can field at least 5x that. Overwhelm with sheer numbers.

 

[Zohtun]

Actually, I like his plan. If the CN is newly formed, it probably has something like 5 units tops, while an Inca that controls both Mexico and Peru can field at least 5x that. Overwhelm with sheer numbers.

Oh, I wasn't condemning the plan, it's a solid plan. I simply felt that as a fellow player I should be responsible enough to remind our OP here to remember to factor in the danger in full and not assume that because they've been able to smack around all the other natives that they'll be able to handle the Europeans by default.

That said if they've got an overwhelming numerical advantage and Castile is busy with some other nation, then by all means. The plan would work.

 

[atwix]

I am inca, I currently border the colonial nation of New Castille (in mexico) and some completed portugese colonies (in argentina)

Castille has 14/14/14 tech, but has not embraced printing press
Portugal has 14/14/13 tech, but HAS embraced printing press

BUT I can only reform with castille, and not portugal, even though printing press is worth WAY more than 1 miltech. Do i just have to wait for Portugal to get mil-tech 14 and it will switch to reform from portugal instead of New Castille, or is there a way to change it manually?

wait until colonizer took 15/15/15 AND printing press. you get 80% of their tech, so 15/15/15 will give you 12/12/12. anything lower and you lose out on loads of monarch points, army morale etc due to not getting oh so important mil tech 12 or not getting printing press (and then you need to develop it)

another tip: prefabricate 100 spy network in coloizer BEFORE reforming. use your monarch pool to tech up with dip tech 9 -30% tech reduction cost at 100 spynetwork AFTER you reform. Keep a monarch pool at around 1000 i all catgeries for that until you reform.

 

[bradles0]

Oh, I wasn't condemning the plan, it's a solid plan. I simply felt that as a fellow player I should be responsible enough to remind our OP here to remember to factor in the danger in full and not assume that because they've been able to smack around all the other natives that they'll be able to handle the Europeans by default.

That said if they've got an overwhelming numerical advantage and Castile is busy with some other nation, then by all means. The plan would work.

middle of the 30 years war right then, castille was VERY busy.

1650 update: I have full annexed both Castille and Portugal, and so now i have two colonial nations, as well as a smattering of african provinces.