France-> Roman Empire

[ElGranCapitan]

France can beat Ottos 1vs1 quite easily..while it's true that the otto troops are slightly better, France has better generals and more manpower

Ally some useful people and then declare the no cb, when the Surrender of Maine fires your allies will do all the work for you. If you are lucky they might even invade the Isles. You focus on the Ottos

Return Byzantiums cores and take something on the other side of the strait so you don't need a navy, from England you take British provinces if you control a fort (because a) it means you can move your troops before declaring and ignore naval warfare and b) you can take your cores in the second war with reconquest cb for less AE)

Improve relations with Wallachia, the Beyliks and whoever you piss off by taking stuff from Britain

 

[ThatRabidPotato]

Resurrecting this thread, because I've almost done it, but I've hit a bit of a stumbling block.

As you can see in the attached screenshot, I've almost got all the required turf in 1727, and am far and away the strongest power in the world, to the point Ming is setting their status to Threatened vis a vis me. You'd think, that with all this power, mopping up in Europe would be easy. It isn't. Literally every single country that borders me is in a coalition against me (except my vassals Tunis, Georgia, and Lorraine and Hungary my ally). Bohemia, the Emperor, is a particular pain in the arse, mustering over 100k men. My manpower pool is a lot smaller than you'd think with an empire this size, and in three previous coalition wars Bohemia has consistently managed to pop in and out of the fog of war, hammer an isolated stack of mine trying to make headway through the maze of forts that is Germany, and disappear. Last two times I've lost half again as much men as the coalition and ended up peacing out for a lot less than I'd like. Is there any thing I'm missing to break this coalition up, or do I just need to git gud?

 

[Sfan]

You should not let coalitions happen. Taking it a bit slower is usually the way to make it faster in the end.

 

[ThatRabidPotato]

You should not let coalitions happen. Taking it a bit slower is usually the way to make it faster in the end.

IDK how you're supposed to do these mega conquest runs if you aren't racking up the AE.
Regardless, I did it! Probably not remotely impressive to the people who can do the Three Mountains blindfolded, but that is the most conquering I've ever done, and I feel like I learned a lot for future playthroughs.

 

[Badesumofu]

France can one-tag without ever having a coalition form against it. Managing AE is really key to the early-mid game. The atwix guide is really good on that.

Regardless, getting Mare Nostrum is a solid achieve and a great learning experience. Gratz.

 

[Sfan]

I One Tagged regularly without coalitions, it's about stacking BROT and dodging coalitions by playing around truces, and by spreading AE.

 

[True_Heir_of_Rome]

In some instances you can use threaten war to keep people out of a coalition. It does generate some AE, but it creates a truce. If all you need is a couple years to get things under control it comes in handy.