How to do a world conquest?
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I believe they just have to occupy it for a certain period of time
Does it defect to them or do you have to demand it in a peace deal?
And do you need to send colonists?
It just defects some time after you occupied it. For more basic question like this you can just use the EU3 Wiki (or try it out): http://www.paradoxian.org/eu3wiki/Main_Page
Ryuku world conquest is only really possible in version 5.0, you have to exploit a few things that were patched.
It was a pain in the ass, since Japan Daiymos are broken. Took me all summer a few years back.
I'm pretty sure the Ryukyu horde WC was done in 5.1. That being said, any WC with Ryukyu is an insane undertaking.
I don't believe you need any exploits. Unless you count religion change on bankruptcy an exploit. And religion change still works AFAIK
Yes, and it doesn't cost any diplomats (or colonists). That's why GH and Timurids are such good choices for WC
What is DS? Can you even take CAD? I think the optimal is to take military drill first and then quest of the new world (instead or in addition if you manage to get to Gov 9).
On that I agree
In other words just as irrelevant.
But they need colonists to colonise empty provinces, and don't they need to westernize to be able to beat the European blobs?
Your leader (or the curia) will stay your most important infamy reduction source for most of your game. While an embassy gives only 0,4 infamy reduction and a diplomat gives at max 0,3, your leader can give you 0,9. And if you get 50 years of a DIP 9 king, its amazing for every WC try, while a long reign of a DIP 3 king will really screw you up. You shouldn't dare to call that irrelevant.What is DS? Can you even take CAD? I think the optimal is to take military drill first and then quest of the new world (instead or in addition if you manage to get to Gov 9).
On that I agree
Furthermore, you should pick Church Attendance Duty quite early, especially if you run into an early overextension. Ofc MD is first, but you shouldn't pick QotnW until quite late in the game and instead eliminate (or PU) all the usual colonizers. If you eliminate them early enough, nearly nobody will find about America. If you PU them, you'll just get their colonies and (like everybody else) their knowledge of the world some time later. If you however discover every province in the Americas, you probably won't be able to take them all, till the other countries get informed about them. And then you'll have to deal with countless small colonizers, who you're not able to PU all...
Let's say on average you're using 2 diplomats per year for infamy burn (it still leaves you with 4+ diplomats for other purposes). Even with simple 5 province burn it's 10 infamy. In practice you should try to do it more efficiently and after the burn factories are established 20 infamy burns becomes common. In comparison to those 10-20 infamy per year, curia and ruler don't make much difference.
If you do fast WC, there's no late game and permanent overextension is given. With GH and Timurids you are unlikely to get to the second NI slot, so you would have to swap for QotnW. In any case, others learning about your discoveries is not a concern because there is not enough time for the discoveries spread.
Actually, hordes can't colonize, but they don't have particular needs to colonize empty provinces - there are ways to jump over using spies. There is no need to westernize to beat Europeans, but you need to westernize for ships and QotnW. Fortunately, there is that Mughal decision
Concede territory/release nation, in 5 years reconquer again. It's that consequent DoW + Annex that uses up diplomats.