Jihad achievement
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Block Russia. North and Eastern Africa + most of Asia is roughly 500 provinces, not counting colonization.
Your biggest roadblocks are the somewhat tough start, Ottomans, Russia, coring costs, and expensive peace deals.
Your biggest roadblocks are the somewhat tough start, Ottomans, Russia, coring costs, and expensive peace deals.
The wiki says that i must have 500 provinces, the steam says that i must have asia and europe, which one is the correct? Btw any advices to the game start?
500 provinces and 100% religious unity.
For the start, what I usually do:
Before unpausing kiss up to the Mamluks to get a RM and alliance (they'll turn domineering towards you early, but good relations will change them to friendly/cordial). Rival Haasa and immediately declare war (take the stab hit. check if you get a mission before declaring war to take them over for a free CB to avoid stab hit).
What Haasa does now dictates how you proceed. Sometimes they won't get any allies. Good, just take them over. Sometimes they will ally QQ and pull them into the war. You might want to restart as you probably won't be able to take on QQ. Sometimes they will ally Oman and pull them into the war. This isn't bad. With many loans and mercenaries you should be able to beat them both and get Oman as a vassal as well as Haasa. I haven't seen Haasa ally with Yemen or Hedjaz.
Afterwards start fabricating claims on Hedjaz and Yemen (and Oman if they're not yours yet). They will eventually go to war against each other. Tackle the weakest and vassalize them (you might want to wait for them to finish their war so you don't get dragged into their other war, though if their other enemy is weakened too you can keep going). Once you have the hole arabian peninsula as vassals, Mamluks as ally, and probably also Ottomans as ally (this is a strain on diplo points, I know), start working your way up through the hordes towards Muscovy. You want to block them off. This might be tough if Lithuania decides to turn Golden Horde into a Protectorate.
For QQ you can take some Iraqi provinces (and Persian ones if possible) and release them as vassals. Then feed them the rest of the Iraqi provinces before you annex Iraq. You can keep Persia when you tackle the Timurids to feed them all those Persian provinces.
For the start, what I usually do:
Before unpausing kiss up to the Mamluks to get a RM and alliance (they'll turn domineering towards you early, but good relations will change them to friendly/cordial). Rival Haasa and immediately declare war (take the stab hit. check if you get a mission before declaring war to take them over for a free CB to avoid stab hit).
What Haasa does now dictates how you proceed. Sometimes they won't get any allies. Good, just take them over. Sometimes they will ally QQ and pull them into the war. You might want to restart as you probably won't be able to take on QQ. Sometimes they will ally Oman and pull them into the war. This isn't bad. With many loans and mercenaries you should be able to beat them both and get Oman as a vassal as well as Haasa. I haven't seen Haasa ally with Yemen or Hedjaz.
Afterwards start fabricating claims on Hedjaz and Yemen (and Oman if they're not yours yet). They will eventually go to war against each other. Tackle the weakest and vassalize them (you might want to wait for them to finish their war so you don't get dragged into their other war, though if their other enemy is weakened too you can keep going). Once you have the hole arabian peninsula as vassals, Mamluks as ally, and probably also Ottomans as ally (this is a strain on diplo points, I know), start working your way up through the hordes towards Muscovy. You want to block them off. This might be tough if Lithuania decides to turn Golden Horde into a Protectorate.
For QQ you can take some Iraqi provinces (and Persian ones if possible) and release them as vassals. Then feed them the rest of the Iraqi provinces before you annex Iraq. You can keep Persia when you tackle the Timurids to feed them all those Persian provinces.
Seems that i finally had a good start. Right now i'm allied with The Mamluks, and have The Hassa and Yemen as my vassals, should i expand into Africa or Asia?
Asia definately. The few African nations shouldn't provide you much difficulty later on, while a snowballing Russia will be a huge PITA if you let them grow too big.
If i declare war against QQ The Mamluks will join me, i'm thinking that it could be a good idea.
QQ and their allies together have 21k army.
I and my vassals have together something around 12k.
The Mamluks have 33k army.
What do you think? I'm thinking in declare war against it to vassalize Oman and get some Iraqi provinces
Relying completely on The Mamluks army could be risky and I love risky stuff so go for it! 
Half the time I try Najd, QQ or Mamluks DoW me in the first year. I had a couple good runs which involved allying the Mamluks and then later the Ottomans and then taking basically the entire middle east and expanding into Persia/Timurids. I don't think its practical to ever take apart the Ottomans just because they make for such a good ally against Russia/the Timurids.
I too am doing a Najd game. Here is the link to the thread I opened some days ago: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...chievement&p=16774769&viewfull=1#post16774769
It contains useful information for anyone seeking to get the Jihad achievement.
It contains useful information for anyone seeking to get the Jihad achievement.
A little update:
I'm allied with the Ottomans, i want westernize ASAP so i'll get Kazam to block Russia from expand and epand into the Mamluks territory so i can westernize from Naples.
I'm allied with the Ottomans, i want westernize ASAP so i'll get Kazam to block Russia from expand and epand into the Mamluks territory so i can westernize from Naples.