Final Chapter: A Tale of Three Buddhas
Hey, it's about time for the triple one faith part to conclude, so let's not waste any time and get to it!
Now that we're the masters of the world, we don't need the military bonuses anymore. Goodbye, 10% discipline...
Finishing up our final annexations.
Goodbye, 15% AE
Ok...
We've done it! We've finished a Theravada 1 faith*!
*Aside from Kotagede for the missionary there...
... and London for the missionary there, too.
Now, some might say this isn't a REAL one faith. But honestly, it's not the big of a problem for me to try and get tengri or hindu zealots to rise up, and as long as I have a fort next to the province, I'd be able to complete the 1 faith in full AND keep the missionaries by letting them reconvert the respective provinces. And even if that's not good enough, I'm going to colonize every last province, making each 1 faith after this require more provinces than the last. So I think that's a fair compromise.
Next up, Mahyana!
And you know what, we've been red all this time, let's become the NEW Mongol Empire!
And our first order of business is to completely clean up the map!
Gonna be easy.
Super easy, even.
I really don't like Spanish Alaska...
Let's make it MONGOL instead
Like so.
Let's finish S.A!
Another continent completed!
Time for one last trip down undah.
G'bye, mate.
Ah, yes, the funky religion screen from the past, broken by adding in Alcheringa. Either way, we've converted about 300 provinces so far.
But, we can go faster. Now that there's no on left to pillage and raze, I think we need to embrace our spiritual side...
Eh, not important.
Who cares.
NOW THIS, THIS IS THE REAL SHIT! More missionaries speeds us up CONSIDERABLY, since 1 missionary = 12 provinces converted per year.
And because it's thematic, why not go divine ideas?
New heir, cool.
Eh, admin points aren't useful. Heck, points aren't useful anymore.
Hmm, this might be a hard debate to pass...
BUT WE DID IT, REDDIT! Uh, I mean, PDX FORUMS!
Spreading nicely throughout the world.
We have so many points, I wanted to see how long it would take to culture convert our capital. Yeah, not happening, at least not like this!
Conversion machine going strong!
Less than 100 points for tech. Lunacy, absolute lunacy.
As if there was any doubt as to where it would spawn. I DID, however, have to move my capital to a NA coal province and concentrate dev there for it to spawn. And it's WAY past when it should have spawned, too!
*sad Napoleon noises*
Eh, let's take it, embrace it all!
Peasant rabble? WE DON'T CARE, JUST TRY AND FIGHT US!
And now, with only 3 provinces left (London, that Indonesian one, and Beijing for the old buddhist religion to get the missionary. Once again, internal coding quirk triggers that modifier for only Theravada), we've finished OF #2!
LOOK AT IT!
IT'S SO PINK!
Proof I'm not lying.
LAST ONE, LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Down to 65% unity. Surprisingly high, actually.
Alright, let's move our capital again. Middle of nowhere, USA, sounds good to us!
And this is when I learned of ANOTHER bug in the code. Basically, if you try and repeatedly concentrate dev to your capital, the game won't let you without a cooldown period. BUT, if you exited and relaunched the game, that cooldown period wouldn't exist, so you could open-concentrate-exit-repeat and make a MEGA capital in no time flat if you wanted to!
I like llamas, so let's have one in our country!
OH, not a llama, you meant a monk. Well, I GUESS that's ok, too....
No more golden era for us. But really, DID it actually end, though?
KEEP ON CONCENTRATING!
New heir again.
HALFWAY THERE!
Last heir of the game.
ALMOST! WE GOT THIS IN THE BAG!
And with Khanbaliq (Beijing) converted...
Vajrayana...
ONE FAITH IS COMPLETED!
And you know what, to celebrate, no more slavery! As a treat!
True Blue Empire.
Genghis can SUCK IT, MY MONGOL EMPIRE WAS BETTER!
And it's one faith, too. So the only real problem internally that could show up would be cultural issues. But...
We've been working on that for some time, too!
Not a one culture, although it's DAMN close. IDK if you remember, but there was a separatism bug going on then where no matter how long it's been since it was conquered, the "separatism" modifier wouldn't go away, even after ticking into the negatives. Meaning you couldn't convert the culture there.
BUT, I did manage to get all but 3.5% of the world to become oirat culture! And the ones I didn't, it's just a matter of time.
Lotta cash to splash.
Just a LITTLE over our GC.
Mongol can into space!
The last bastion of outsider culture in the old world iirc. And even then, not for long.
Province list. SUPERKHANBALIQ IS MASSIVE!
Endscreen stats.
Some stats I found interesting. 257 kills by us, seems kinda low. But that GOD of a general, I don't want to forget him!
And here is Superkhanbaliq. So many houses, you can't even read its name!
THIS IS WHAT PEAK PROVINCE PERFORMANCE LOOKS LIKE, YOU MAY NOT LIKE IT BUT HERE IT IS!
You can even see it from SPACE! 2248 dev in one province in the middle of nowhere, absolutely perfect.
And that's it! We did it, after a lot longer than I thought, I've finished ANOTHER AAR! Gonna be going on a vacation for a while, but I do have another AAR idea already cooked up. Might be short, might not be, we'll see. But for now, I gotta go! Hope you enjoyed this wild ride!