Is One Faith possible?

[Orkonkel]

I started this campaign after the last expansion was released (but before the Japan patch) and recently picked it up again. My goal is One Faith (though one tag would be nice as well), and I chose the Ottomans as my starting nation. I neglected Europe for a long time and only started making incursions into Christian lands some 50-70ish years ago. This is my current progress:

So I have ~150 years to go, sitting at Absolutism 95 (I skipped Court and Country due to the ten years waiting period for the disaster not seeming worth the 5 extra Absolutism, perhaps this is a mistake?), and basically just need enough time to core/convert the world. Financial and military supremacy was established in the previous century, now it's just about utilizing my resources in the most efficient manner possible. I've not been vassal feeding much since I feel I am more efficient at coring land myself, and I'm constantly at 100% overextension. About to unluck imperialism CB, though the lack of spread of discoveries has been rather annoying. Just got Exploration idea and getting ready to explore the unknown.

Religious mapmode:

Essentially, I can skip most of Africa entirely (save for the Kongo area and Mutapa) as well as the East Indies and still get One Faith, so for now I'm mostly waging war against Europe, the New World, and the remnants of Ming/Japan.

How do I finish this in time? Anyone got some tips/advice?

 

[Sfan]

The run looks excellent, what you need to finish it is vassals, especially vassals with strong conversion strength.

 

[Iferius]

One-tag should not be too hard. One faith requires some vassals with conversion bonuses, so check what you can release right now or what you can vassalize soon

 

[bly08]

Finish colonizers asap so you can help CNs convert. Otherwise looks good.

 

[Bouchart]

My biggest obstacle with my One Faith run were the colonies so they should be your priority. Also keep in mind that Client States take Humanist, and are unlukely to convert stuff on their own.

I take it you Unified Islam?

 

[Sfan]

He seems to be doing an excellent job with the colonizers, that's why I think the run is 95% won. It's barely more than half of the game, and a third of the Americas is already converted, and almost everything except Europe too.

 

[gia257]

most uncolonized land will get automatically converted so count that in (eg the tengri blob)

if you have a russian core on the edge you should release that (not vassal, return province) so they colonize for you

do not take a whole cn territory, only grab 5 to 10 provinces and leave the original enemy cn alive so they still colonize for you, eventualy fully annex the master and you will have two or more cns per region

i dont see enough missing work not to one faith withouth vassals, focus on heathens, see if you can wc later, for onetag you have to move to the americas soon? or youll have to conquer the entire americas from your cns again

 

[Sfan]

But you don't need uncolonized provinces, unless this was changed last patch, so I don't see why you talk about those Tengri Siberian provinces or CN which should colonize...