With the new patch there was a nice line in the patchnotes saying that Granada also gets its own set of ideas.
So I thought I give it a try.
Turned out to be a mess... I played like 50 games, all failed at least in the second war. From there on it got even worse as I am now the #1 enemy of Castille, Aragon, Portugal (which seems to be always allied to England) and France.
My allies should be also very strong as there are Marocco, Algiers, Tripolis and Tunesia.
Now when it comes to war I noticed that the AI alliances perfectly harmonize with each other. They give all their troops under one command and steamroll the crap out of me. Having to fight 3 different 8-12k armies is managable but fighting one 25k army is just not possible with Granada.
I also noticed that in contrast to the AI alliances the Player alliances are much more idle. I am yet to see an army landing at my coast to support me, while the AI/AI coalitions always do this.
There seems to be a handicap for the player on this. Combined with the fact that you face at least 2-3 armies on your own with your - god knows why - outdated troops which cannot win a battle even when outnumbering the enemy 3:1 it seems to me that this task is clearly impossible.
I know there are tactics like migration. I also tried this. This is also impossible as the first revolting Rebels crush your army in a matter of seconds.
While I understand the aggressiveness from the bordering nations like Castille and Aragon I cannot understand while all of Europe unites against a tiny 3 province Granada.
One more thing I tried was (after finding out how the console works on a laptop) cheating. Whenever Castile and his gangbros declared war on me I switched tag and disbanded all their armies just to try how that might work.
Result is withing 10 days they replenish their army buy hiring mercanaries. Apparently the AI (often called "Skynet" - which i understand now why) is working so damn effectively that this Ryuku WC guy can go hide as the AI knows much better about all exploits and how to crush you with that.
Result is me being here and asking for any advice on how to survive as Granada without cheating and eventually starting a colonization game as them in the new world. I'd also love to see screenshots of people who managed to do this
So I thought I give it a try.
Turned out to be a mess... I played like 50 games, all failed at least in the second war. From there on it got even worse as I am now the #1 enemy of Castille, Aragon, Portugal (which seems to be always allied to England) and France.
My allies should be also very strong as there are Marocco, Algiers, Tripolis and Tunesia.
Now when it comes to war I noticed that the AI alliances perfectly harmonize with each other. They give all their troops under one command and steamroll the crap out of me. Having to fight 3 different 8-12k armies is managable but fighting one 25k army is just not possible with Granada.
I also noticed that in contrast to the AI alliances the Player alliances are much more idle. I am yet to see an army landing at my coast to support me, while the AI/AI coalitions always do this.
There seems to be a handicap for the player on this. Combined with the fact that you face at least 2-3 armies on your own with your - god knows why - outdated troops which cannot win a battle even when outnumbering the enemy 3:1 it seems to me that this task is clearly impossible.
I know there are tactics like migration. I also tried this. This is also impossible as the first revolting Rebels crush your army in a matter of seconds.
While I understand the aggressiveness from the bordering nations like Castille and Aragon I cannot understand while all of Europe unites against a tiny 3 province Granada.
One more thing I tried was (after finding out how the console works on a laptop) cheating. Whenever Castile and his gangbros declared war on me I switched tag and disbanded all their armies just to try how that might work.
Result is withing 10 days they replenish their army buy hiring mercanaries. Apparently the AI (often called "Skynet" - which i understand now why) is working so damn effectively that this Ryuku WC guy can go hide as the AI knows much better about all exploits and how to crush you with that.
Result is me being here and asking for any advice on how to survive as Granada without cheating and eventually starting a colonization game as them in the new world. I'd also love to see screenshots of people who managed to do this
