I recommend MEIOU. Total overhaul of graphics and everything else. I try to love Magna Mundi but I guess it's the vanilla graphics and map that turn me off. MEIOU has a beautiful and very detailed custom map.
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Eastern European cavalry remains ahead of Western until around the end of the 1500s, but Western infantry will pull far ahead by then. You'll begin to catch up slightly during the 1600s, and won't be totally uncompetitive by 1700, but it's still an uphill struggle. Westernizing during the 1500s is usually the best option, if you can manage it, but if you've taken a ton of horde land, you can probably swamp any other country by sheer numbers, regardless of tech disparity.
Forced religious conversion (within the same religious group) may be an option, by declaring war on the HRE Electors and then demanding conversion in the peace deal, but I'm not positive if Orthodox countries get that option. Playing an Eastern tech country, I find it beneficial to become an HRE member early in the game, due to the ability to inherit other HRE countries as cores, but by around 1550-1600 I want to be OUT of the HRE, because the penalties for holding illegal non-core HRE provinces get to be problematical. I'd say it's probably counter-productive by this point in your game.
Normally, I end up quitting most of my campaigns after around 1600 because it's just more of the same tedious routine over an ever-expanding area. Settling the New World just means more area to garrison, and more revolts.
Wallachia, 1576.
One question. Can I go til the end of time or eventually the tech gap will stop me? I currently recruit western units from Metz and some Polish land I got, and I can get more western provinces to recruit more western units, but will it be enough?
I beat once a decent alliance of Bohemia, Prussia, Poland, Brandenburg, Naples, Savoy, etc., and some minors, and it was easy. I tried Austria and I lost, but I didn't really try. They do have small land and lot of armies and they concentrate approximately 70k per battle. My armies are severely depleted, currently 900k reinforcements needed.
I think of getting full America colonies and see if the money will balance the current tech gap. (I spammed armies from approximately 1430 til now. I still got way better cavalry than the West. )
I wonder if I can vassalize all the electors and get them convert to Orthodox and maybe they will vote me emperor. (I have one elector vassal and orthodox but infamy is too high , they won't vote. ) Maybe as emperor, with some bonuses, I can get Austria out of cards and then reach France et al.
PS. Actually, I KNOW that I can keep this style but it is fucking boring, and I cannot find a way out of spamming armies and declaring wars. It is a spiral of spamming armies. my best and only strategy is that, after a war that contains most of Europe against me, I keep occupied lots of provinces in order to get the switch allegiance event, and I got bored.
I will update you in 1776 if possible.
I recommend MEIOU. Total overhaul of graphics and everything else. I try to love Magna Mundi but I guess it's the vanilla graphics and map that turn me off. MEIOU has a beautiful and very detailed custom map.
Stability is clearly a problem, as anything below 0 is going to cause a lot of revolts, reduced income, and occasional negative events, while 0 isn't a whole lot better. Depending on his Innovative/Narrowminded slider setting and prosperity of the individual provinces, recovering stability at that size could take years for a single point.Your stability is low (with the size of your empire it must take ages to recover) and so must be your morale.
You lack 900k men and to the AI it means you're weak, regardless of the number of troops you still actually have.
And last but not least your Infamy is so damn high everybody there is feeling free to DoW you, which must be exhausting.
Yes, I know what infamy does.
I never go dishonorable scum, but unfortunately my game style requires constant conquests in order to offset the costs of the ridiculously big armies I field. Also, it is a strategy in itself to try to weaken the main powers with constant wars and territorial chipping. I cannot afford a French Empire even on very easy. I had bad experiences with a too big France. (In my current game, France conquered half of Portugal, almost all Aragon and a serious amount of Castilian regions, and I had to urgently wage a war on them before they would have managed to be my neighbour.) That goes for Austria too. Being Emperor, defender of the faith, makes Austria a bigger monster than France. And, unlike France, IT IS already next door to me. The easiest games I had playing Romanian kingdoms were when I beated Austria very early, stopping their rise to a massive Central European Empire. I simply cannot afford to let them get big. Waging war with Austria and maybe 20 more German kingdoms is totally not fun.
I do not conquer regions for the hell of it. I must do it, with this game style, and I will explain why in the next paragraph.
The massive issue and the source of this cycle is that Romanian kingdoms start in a laughable region, impossible, with neighbours so strong that the first 10 minutes of the game I just look at the map and wonder where to attack. By the time I conquer only a few provinces (not linked to my land) in order to get from level "non existent" to level "look, a minor neighbour", infamy is already 10 or 20. My neighbours are, in random order, Poland, Hungary, Ottomans and a few Balkan OPM who are either vassals of Ottomans or guaranteed by Venice and God knows who else. I do not have diplomatic options between Hungary, Poland and Ottomans. The difference between me and them is ridiculous. I do not have a port, good kings or money. So the start is a race to get all the Balkan provinces I can get in order to be able to eventually field a 10-14k army. Then I try to attack either Poland and Hungary. (Ottomans will destroy me if I attack them that early. Especially that I cannot cross the straits). Trying to attack Poland or Hungary means a Ridiculous amount of reload and ragequits.
There is a point after I get a victory with Poland or Hungary, where I am relatively stable money-wise (i. e. not bankrupt lol) and I COULD stop spamming armies, but the catch is that I totally need Horde land in order to be able to field early on game some Horde Cavalry units. That steppe cavalry is the only thing that is competitive in my region. The only issue is, Horde has massive armies, so I MUST spam armies to beat them.
I explored options for a different start in a Romanian game, but yet I did not discover them (Btw, Wallachia is the only independent kingdom at start game. Other 2 are vassals, if my memory is right. Anyway I prefer Wallachia for the proximity with Dobrogea.)
Kovax is right. End game is tedious, very boring and IF you happen to have the problems I have, well, it is even annoying.
I will try to continue this game with a massive attack against France to see how that works.
Cheers.
Why don't you try the magna mundi mod if you don't mind the vanilla setup? Definitely someone correct me if i'm wrong, but the MM mod isn't cosmetic, just a huge amount of new events mod?
I couldn't compete with @Yersinia but still have sth. to show. But I have a problem with WE and rebels.
I was a bit carried away after the last TSC and charged into Castillian TI, which resulted in some WE which caused revolts in newly acquired French provinces. These in turn required larger units which in turn raised WE even higher. rebels taking courage from reduced troops in the area took up arms in Russian lands as well, which further escalated the situation. Now things are spiraling out of control with my two problems feeding into each other and leaving me helpless. I may have to restart if I cannot control the situation. and remebering the last two TSCs frighten me more than almost anything.
It's 5.1 btw.