I tried great khan in 1.7, but gave up due to the boredom of breaking Ming into millions of pieces.
So for 1.8, I am reforming and westernizing, so I can just protectorate it in 1 war.
I started by vassalizing Crimea on day 1 (tribal feud gives like, 10 AE max). They never allied Ottomans.
I then vassalize Ryazan and Circassia. I probably should have left Circassia alone, since I didn't integrate them until much later (not accepted and wrong religion).
I ally Ottomans (probably was unnecessary, they never helped me anyway).
I vassalize Kazan (Nogai took a few provinces earlier so they were small enough).
Meanwhile Muscovy ate Novgorod in 2 wars.
I take admin ideas first to reform. Meanwhile I annex Crimea, Kazan, and eat the rest of Nogai, while releasing Sibir and Khazak, vassalize them, and eat them too. Basically integrate all Tatar-related and Sunni areas to minimize revolts. Then I westernize.
Man, do I miss the tribal conquest CB... having to fabricate claims and get lots more AE is not appealing. But now I at least get better units.
I attack Muscovy and feed stuff to Ryazan, and take a Novgorod core and release it as a new vassal. I take humanism for my 2nd idea, and start integrating Circassia.
I attack Lithuania, who is still in a PU under Poland while they are busy fighting off Austria. Ottomans help me here at least. Takes forever to get any warscore with a conquest CB, but I take Poldava and release Chernigov. Poland forms Commonwealth... this won't be easy.
So now I can feed and reform Novgorod, and Muscovy is as good as dead. I can feed Chernigov most of my achievement objectives. I might even just take a Lithuanian province and release Lithuania. I really need a new CB for taking asia though... should I go expansion or religious? Should I bother with exploration to colonize Siberia? Having 3 admin ideas in a row is really painful... been on admin focus from day 1. I'm highly considering dropping administrative ideas altogether, getting some refund, and taking expansion over it.
So for 1.8, I am reforming and westernizing, so I can just protectorate it in 1 war.
I started by vassalizing Crimea on day 1 (tribal feud gives like, 10 AE max). They never allied Ottomans.
I then vassalize Ryazan and Circassia. I probably should have left Circassia alone, since I didn't integrate them until much later (not accepted and wrong religion).
I ally Ottomans (probably was unnecessary, they never helped me anyway).
I vassalize Kazan (Nogai took a few provinces earlier so they were small enough).
Meanwhile Muscovy ate Novgorod in 2 wars.
I take admin ideas first to reform. Meanwhile I annex Crimea, Kazan, and eat the rest of Nogai, while releasing Sibir and Khazak, vassalize them, and eat them too. Basically integrate all Tatar-related and Sunni areas to minimize revolts. Then I westernize.
Man, do I miss the tribal conquest CB... having to fabricate claims and get lots more AE is not appealing. But now I at least get better units.
I attack Muscovy and feed stuff to Ryazan, and take a Novgorod core and release it as a new vassal. I take humanism for my 2nd idea, and start integrating Circassia.
I attack Lithuania, who is still in a PU under Poland while they are busy fighting off Austria. Ottomans help me here at least. Takes forever to get any warscore with a conquest CB, but I take Poldava and release Chernigov. Poland forms Commonwealth... this won't be easy.
So now I can feed and reform Novgorod, and Muscovy is as good as dead. I can feed Chernigov most of my achievement objectives. I might even just take a Lithuanian province and release Lithuania. I really need a new CB for taking asia though... should I go expansion or religious? Should I bother with exploration to colonize Siberia? Having 3 admin ideas in a row is really painful... been on admin focus from day 1. I'm highly considering dropping administrative ideas altogether, getting some refund, and taking expansion over it.
