I put the capital to Judea to reduce my diplomats voyage time and increase the likelyhood to get RMs with european powers. I chose the way through crimea because it was easier/faster. The Ottomans were really big and I had already vassalized-annex Qara Qoyunlu, so I was already right at Crimea's borders.how did you carve path to HRE then? I assume africa---> into qara qinlyu-->georgia-->crimea-->wallachia west to ancona? Edit: saw you put capital in Judea. And why go around black sea? The province east of izmir connects to the ports north of them, you can reach HRE without going around black sea. Or was a fight with ottomans too hard then (assuming ottomans took karaman, where the province belongs to)?
I theorycrafted your approach months ago, but i didn't think of the "feed vassal a core to integrate them near portugal colony in jolof" strategy then, and i thought back then it was bit too tedious to attempt then. and unsure outcome, since they were in middle of patching 1.4 to 1.7....
Some tricks for WC and conquest you gotta learn on forumI used this vassal feed core trick to avoid the coring cost bonus on north africa. Just sell your OPM vassal one cored berber province (i used an elector vassal for this
Thx for sharing strategy. I'll post result of my one tag savoy world conquest soonish after coring the last scrubs.
P.S.: Don't you think "sunset invasion" is harder achievement then 3mountains with current mechanics? As you said, 3M is tedious, but never hard if done right..
Concerning vassal feeding by using the "accepted culture" trick (by selling a OPM such a culture): Nice trick, but i'm not sure if it helps you outside of europe when doing a 3M. As you need to convert the province first, you need to make sure, that you're at peace after having converted. In a 3M you will be at war nearly all the time, so this needs really good peace timing (could be usefull on a few high BT provinces though).
Comparing the difficulty with the "sunset invasion": I must disagree, 3M is probably much more difficult: Aztecs have a much easier start, much less to achieve (conquer a few provinces in europe, no need for HRE, no need for Asia and Africa) and the only disadvantage they have, is their tech group. Of course this rating depends on what you define as "difficulty". IMO the by far most difficult task was to adapt and to improvise. As large country, you don't have to improvise alot. You just follow your "greater plan" and conquer one province after the other. As small and weak nation, however, you have soo many things to consider to succeed and as Ryukyu you feel weak for a really long time. i.e. after i westernized, subjugated all the steppe nomads and ruled over huge parts of Asia and Africa, i felt like finally being THE superpower in game, which may dictate all wars and compared myself in the ledger...just to find out, that France still had 4x of my max. manpower (not to mention their much better troops). Even blobbed Ottomans was stronger than me. As Ryukyu you will always feel weak until you've revoked and this, imo, makes it hard. You always have to adapt, you always have to pay attention to rivalry & wars and how/when you may achieve an easy victory without too heavy losses and one single mistake/coalition war may ruin your whole game.
