Early Game Hungary

[scoopdjm]

The year is 1451. The Hapsburgs have been spurned (though we still maintain a strong alliance.) I have successfully defended Albania from the Venetians (even taking Venice itself and dissuading the Ottomans from getting involved.) And my heir is 11.

Unfortunately, not only did I have to take out a loan which I cannot repay. I am lagging behind on technologies because I was pumping all my power into development in an attempt to up my tax base enough to maintain a positive cashflow with the starting armies/navies.

I'm hemorrhaging cash (okay, like -3.00 ducats per month), about to be in the red money-wise from having to repay the loan, and am not sure what strategy to employ in balancing technologies and development.

What do I do?

 

[ElGranCapitan]

Delete all forts (except maybe 1 at the ottoman border)

 

[CharlieMRCR]

A good way to pay back loans is war. Rob some nations of their treasury. Haven't used this in a while, but I believe you can look at the ducats a nation has from the ledger.

 

[netherlink]

With your goldmine developed and kosovo conquered you should not have any money issues.
If you don't have kosovo yet (and neither the ottomans ) you should grab it ASAP.

With Venice your trade income should start getting quiet good, at least better than in my last Hungary game, so i don't really see where all your money is going.
Hunyadi has some nice stats, so you must have developed quiet a lot to fall behind in tech, which confuses me even more about your money issue.

Did you fix the Estate situation? The Nobility has some good provinces you don't want them to have. BTW, are you abusing the Estates as they want to?

If you intend to keep alliance with Austria you will have the problem that your realm is separated on the land route to Venice, that's a little bit unfortunate, because otherwise you could delete all your transports.

Anyway, conquer Balkans, look for a good opportunity to get Krakow and a foothold in Bohemia. The more you conquer there early, the better, since they get that coring cost increase. And you'd really like that 3rd goldmine

You should manage to get all that done until ~1480, then you can start to migrate to Italy where the money grows on trees

Well, first things first: get the goldmines running!