Forming France from Cyprus

[Northernwwater]

Has anyone done this? I noticed there is a Cypriotic decision to form France from Cyprus. It seems to me that to do this it is basically a World conquest because by the time you had destroyed France from Europe France must of moved it's capital to one of it's colonies. No?

 

[ChloePech]

Its just because they are in the French culture group dude. Britanny, Provence, The Knights and Burgundy can do the same.

 

[GRWalker]

This is possible because the historical rulers of Cyprus in 1444 were actually French, so Cyprus begins with French as primary culture.

Other such historical and potentially abusable trivia:
Montferrat shares the same dynasty as Byzantium.
Athens has Italian as primary culture (actually used that to get the Carthago Delenda Est achievement)

 

[Manic Eskimo]

I'm sure people have done world conquests with Cyprus so I'd assume they've formed France.

 

[Northernwwater]

This is possible because the historical rulers of Cyprus in 1444 were actually French, so Cyprus begins with French as primary culture.

Other such historical and potentially abusable trivia:
Montferrat shares the same dynasty as Byzantium.
Athens has Italian as primary culture (actually used that to get the Carthago Delenda Est achievement)

How did you get the 100 devastation. I started to do this with Florence and gave up because the devastation accumulation is so slow !

 

[GRWalker]

How did you get the 100 devastation. I started to do this with Florence and gave up because the devastation accumulation is so slow !

I used scorch earth (instant +5 devastation every 5 years) and made sure to let the loot bar re-accumulate in order to re-loot (actively looting also increases devastation). Still took a very long time to reach 100 devastation.

 

[Northernwwater]

I used scorch earth (instant +5 devastation every 5 years) and made sure to let the loot bar re-accumulate in order to re-loot (actively looting also increases devastation). Still took a very long time to reach 100 devastation.

I thought the owner of the province could only scorch the earth not the attacker?

 

[GRWalker]

It has been changed when devastation was introduced; you can now scorch earth on land you don't own (you have to be occupying it IIRC).