Looking to start up a new game with Majapahit. This is my first time playing outside Europe. Any tips would be welcome. 
BTW I have all the DLC including AOW.
BTW I have all the DLC including AOW.
Majapahit Tips?
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My path has always been:
1.) Attack Sunda
2.) Allied Kutai (so they don't get attacked by Brunei)
3.) Fabricate claim on Luwu+Makassar
4.) Attack Luwu+Makassar
5.) Fabricate claim on Brunei
6.) Attack Brunei
7.) Focus your trade in Malacca so you can justify trade conflict against sumatran power or malayan power
Also, check your Sumatran and Malayan neighbour all the time and ensure them not grow too big...
A Sumatra nation that has all of its neighbour provinces is pretty terrifying (mostly due to gold in Pagaruyung province, might want to make that your priority target)...
Even worse situation would be a unified Sumatran allied with unified Malayan (such as Malacca that has conquered Kedah and Pattani), the only force that forced me to restart...
Humanism is good idea group if you want to conquer fast without increasing autonomy (even reduce it almost as soon as you conquer them)...
Religious also good if you don't want to forge claim or justify trade conflict, especially against Ternate and Tidore because you have no neighbouring province with them and they are too small to have enough trade power to justify trade conflict...
Expansion or Exploration also necessary because most of the region is colonize province, but you can take them as second or third, but remember that later you get them the more land available for European to colonize...
Anyway, once you finish do this, you've ensure the archipelago as yours, can formed Malaya, and the rest is up to you...
But I think my strategy isn't the best one because there are people that have done a lot more much faster...
1.) Attack Sunda
2.) Allied Kutai (so they don't get attacked by Brunei)
3.) Fabricate claim on Luwu+Makassar
4.) Attack Luwu+Makassar
5.) Fabricate claim on Brunei
6.) Attack Brunei
7.) Focus your trade in Malacca so you can justify trade conflict against sumatran power or malayan power
Also, check your Sumatran and Malayan neighbour all the time and ensure them not grow too big...
A Sumatra nation that has all of its neighbour provinces is pretty terrifying (mostly due to gold in Pagaruyung province, might want to make that your priority target)...
Even worse situation would be a unified Sumatran allied with unified Malayan (such as Malacca that has conquered Kedah and Pattani), the only force that forced me to restart...
Humanism is good idea group if you want to conquer fast without increasing autonomy (even reduce it almost as soon as you conquer them)...
Religious also good if you don't want to forge claim or justify trade conflict, especially against Ternate and Tidore because you have no neighbouring province with them and they are too small to have enough trade power to justify trade conflict...
Expansion or Exploration also necessary because most of the region is colonize province, but you can take them as second or third, but remember that later you get them the more land available for European to colonize...
Anyway, once you finish do this, you've ensure the archipelago as yours, can formed Malaya, and the rest is up to you...
But I think my strategy isn't the best one because there are people that have done a lot more much faster...
First thing to note is that tech will cost alot more, meaning that you will likely not get much ahead of time like you often get with western tech, this mean that basicly every monarch point you spend not on tech will slow your tech down, naturaly this don't mean that you should not forgo everything for tech.
Westernization should be a priority, getting western tech group will save alot of monarch points in the long run and also give the nice thing that if you also get expansion ideas you get a very powerful cb on every indian, nomad and chinese tech nation in asia allowing for some really easy expansion.
To get contact with western tech nations getting exploration early is a good idea, the colonist may be used to found colonies in asia.
If you are used to get asian nations as protactorates, as an asian nation yourself you can instead make other nations vassals as long as your not western tech.
Westernization should be a priority, getting western tech group will save alot of monarch points in the long run and also give the nice thing that if you also get expansion ideas you get a very powerful cb on every indian, nomad and chinese tech nation in asia allowing for some really easy expansion.
To get contact with western tech nations getting exploration early is a good idea, the colonist may be used to found colonies in asia.
If you are used to get asian nations as protactorates, as an asian nation yourself you can instead make other nations vassals as long as your not western tech.