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From looking that the ruler name, I'm guessing that that one of the Indian Muslims colonized it (Bengal?)
Malacca colonized Australia. It was quiet interesting to see. I don't think I have seen a free Australian nation in my games, especially not sunni Australia, so the flag was new to me.
I started out as Holland, and then I just dismantled the HRE and ate some of it. It is really easy to make the map. Just follow this tutorial, i take no credit.:
Switzerlake done
Spain and Saxony are under PU (Saxony having a 25% chance of getting inherited before accounting for Annexed Vassals, OE and that my current ruler is a babbling buffoon, planed to inherit them as they happen to be Elector) and Croatia is Vassal (and so is Ferrara, but only because i had to get rid of the Province Ferrara to not have any ports) and are the Emperor of a fully Protestant HRE (well... Austria is the only non-Protestant in the Empire)
Last war was against Ottomans, and i captured everything south-east of Ersekujvar (26 provinces, 6 of them to Croatia) ... got a 42% Admin Efficiency (Absolutism to its current max, Age Ability and one tic of Tech) and full Diplomatic (for the -20% province cost) so provinces are surprisingly cheap to take, core and control ... could probably continue for a bit, but given that i reached my target and the new patch is out ... I probably won't bother.
My Knights run through.
All things considered, could have done better, the "Liberty, Egality, Fraternity" event halted me for years, not worth taking as an already sprawling empire.
Also could have taken much, much more using vassals/client states, but i started as a tiny OPM island, wanted to see what I could do on my own.
Turns out 15 papal points a year helps a lot!
All things considered, could have done better, the "Liberty, Egality, Fraternity" event halted me for years, not worth taking as an already sprawling empire.
Also could have taken much, much more using vassals/client states, but i started as a tiny OPM island, wanted to see what I could do on my own.
Turns out 15 papal points a year helps a lot!
Me?
If so 18 million restarts... For once that's not really that much of an exaggeration, Austria, Poland to rival Ottomans but not rival each other, Poland to get the PU.
I waited for Ottomans to declare on Byz, they hit the Byz forces and chased the shattered army into Morea. Declared on Byz, sat 1 troop on Constantinople allowed Ottomans to siege through me. Already had troops waiting on ships to cover off on all the rest of Byz/Athens land. Ottomans fought the war, I took the land.
Only at that point, with a diplo rep advisor, 'threatened' by the Ottomans and built upto 5 over force limit could I get an alliance with both Poland and Austria.
From there fabricated on Candar, the 2 province purple guy on the north coast of Anatolia, took him out fairly easily but it allowed me to breach the next sea tile and fabricate on Georgia.
That's where my game turned, peaced out for 7 provinces of Georgian land with no coalition forming. From there consolidated my position in the Caucuses, Shirvan, Gazikumukh, Circassia, Crimea, waited for shadow kingdom and sniped the Genoa provinces in the area too.
For reference, the mountains of the Caucuses are an amazing strategically defensive position, throw a fort up in Abkhazia or Mingrelia both mountain provinces and you can chew through the Ottoman manpower pool with relative ease.
After that ate my way through what was left of Quara, Taberestan into the Persians making sure every fight with the Ottoman was a defensive one, a fight where I avoided contact as much as I could, fleeing north past the Caususes whilst Austrian/Polish forces headed for Edirne. Once Edirne had been taken my 30 odd mothballed gallies along with my trade ships were ready to block the straight. Even if allies pushed into Anatolia and got smashed they'd have somewhere relatively safe to retreat to. It helped that the Ottomans had eaten all the way upto Austria and half of Hungary at this point, plenty of forts for war score.
3 Defensive wars later the Ottomans were done really, the main threat turned to be Russia. By then I was strong enough for offensive wars with the help of a newly formed Commonwealth.
Game ended with me just trying to cut my way into Vijaynagar, but with no client state/vassal feeding going on I couldn't really take that much each war.
Looks impressive, and it's a lot of land but they're big, empty provinces.
TL DR; Eat around the Ottoman.
PS: Knights can raid, its boarderline OP in the beginning...
If so 18 million restarts... For once that's not really that much of an exaggeration, Austria, Poland to rival Ottomans but not rival each other, Poland to get the PU.
I waited for Ottomans to declare on Byz, they hit the Byz forces and chased the shattered army into Morea. Declared on Byz, sat 1 troop on Constantinople allowed Ottomans to siege through me. Already had troops waiting on ships to cover off on all the rest of Byz/Athens land. Ottomans fought the war, I took the land.
Only at that point, with a diplo rep advisor, 'threatened' by the Ottomans and built upto 5 over force limit could I get an alliance with both Poland and Austria.
From there fabricated on Candar, the 2 province purple guy on the north coast of Anatolia, took him out fairly easily but it allowed me to breach the next sea tile and fabricate on Georgia.
That's where my game turned, peaced out for 7 provinces of Georgian land with no coalition forming. From there consolidated my position in the Caucuses, Shirvan, Gazikumukh, Circassia, Crimea, waited for shadow kingdom and sniped the Genoa provinces in the area too.
For reference, the mountains of the Caucuses are an amazing strategically defensive position, throw a fort up in Abkhazia or Mingrelia both mountain provinces and you can chew through the Ottoman manpower pool with relative ease.
After that ate my way through what was left of Quara, Taberestan into the Persians making sure every fight with the Ottoman was a defensive one, a fight where I avoided contact as much as I could, fleeing north past the Caususes whilst Austrian/Polish forces headed for Edirne. Once Edirne had been taken my 30 odd mothballed gallies along with my trade ships were ready to block the straight. Even if allies pushed into Anatolia and got smashed they'd have somewhere relatively safe to retreat to. It helped that the Ottomans had eaten all the way upto Austria and half of Hungary at this point, plenty of forts for war score.
3 Defensive wars later the Ottomans were done really, the main threat turned to be Russia. By then I was strong enough for offensive wars with the help of a newly formed Commonwealth.
Game ended with me just trying to cut my way into Vijaynagar, but with no client state/vassal feeding going on I couldn't really take that much each war.
Looks impressive, and it's a lot of land but they're big, empty provinces.
TL DR; Eat around the Ottoman.
PS: Knights can raid, its boarderline OP in the beginning...
First and last 1.20 game for "The Fezzan Corridors" achievement:
Don't really feel like continuing this, so I won't. Game was conquer Djerid via mission before getting warned by Tunis > conquer Touggart when Tunis declared so they couldn't act on their warning > conquer Tunis with a bunch of loans and Tlemcen help, then the rest. France, Russia and Milan are allies. Ottos were for a long time but they just wanted my land so bad they couldn't hold it together despite 90 trust. They were, of course, going to get ravaged if I continued
Don't really feel like continuing this, so I won't. Game was conquer Djerid via mission before getting warned by Tunis > conquer Touggart when Tunis declared so they couldn't act on their warning > conquer Tunis with a bunch of loans and Tlemcen help, then the rest. France, Russia and Milan are allies. Ottos were for a long time but they just wanted my land so bad they couldn't hold it together despite 90 trust. They were, of course, going to get ravaged if I continued
It took me two entire minutes to spot Ethiopia on the map when I noticed you were fighting them ^^.
Master of India! It was honestly surprisingly easy. Some hours earlier I thought it was pretty much impossible...
World.
Note lots of independences. All of them from Portugal. California is independent too. Also notable: Kutai, Yemen, Yao, Kilwa, France BLOBBING HARDDDDDD, and pretty strong Shirvan which for most of the game wasn't in actual Shirvan... Also, Poland didn't conquer any provinces before 1590. Then they got alliance with France and union with Lithuania and started blobbing. Bremen formed Hannover, but was eaten shortly after.
Yeah.......
Pretty much no surprises here, except for strong Shia because of Shirvan (more like Shiarvan..ha..ha..ha)
And some nations were really triggered after my conquest.
And diplo map at the end.
btw. That France was my bestest ally ever, from 12 November 1444 to 2 October 1778.
Ideas: Diplomatic - Economic - Quantity - Exploration (reached India around 1600 with mission to conquer Girnar - province from Gujarat, who was TPM at the time. I also vassalized them.) - Defensive - Administrative - Offensive - Humanist.
At the end had nice 300k infantry, 120k cavalry and 180k Artillery.
Also, just to please your eyes
World.
Note lots of independences. All of them from Portugal. California is independent too. Also notable: Kutai, Yemen, Yao, Kilwa, France BLOBBING HARDDDDDD, and pretty strong Shirvan which for most of the game wasn't in actual Shirvan... Also, Poland didn't conquer any provinces before 1590. Then they got alliance with France and union with Lithuania and started blobbing. Bremen formed Hannover, but was eaten shortly after.
Yeah.......
Pretty much no surprises here, except for strong Shia because of Shirvan (more like Shiarvan..ha..ha..ha)
And some nations were really triggered after my conquest.
And diplo map at the end.
btw. That France was my bestest ally ever, from 12 November 1444 to 2 October 1778.
Ideas: Diplomatic - Economic - Quantity - Exploration (reached India around 1600 with mission to conquer Girnar - province from Gujarat, who was TPM at the time. I also vassalized them.) - Defensive - Administrative - Offensive - Humanist.
At the end had nice 300k infantry, 120k cavalry and 180k Artillery.
Also, just to please your eyes
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My 'Mare Nostrum' run.
I started out as Castille with the goal of hunting down all the Castille-Spain related achievements and I achieved them all but halfway through the game I became a little too powerful after I succeeded several crusades against the Ottomans. So.. I saw an oppurtunity to restore the Roman Empire in the name of the Spanish Empire !
I started out as Castille with the goal of hunting down all the Castille-Spain related achievements and I achieved them all but halfway through the game I became a little too powerful after I succeeded several crusades against the Ottomans. So.. I saw an oppurtunity to restore the Roman Empire in the name of the Spanish Empire !
My ironman Iroquois from a while back. 1819 I just had finished my last war against Mexico that gave me areas of present day southern USA and northern Mexico. Was naturally dealing with some rebels due to overextension =)
Byzantium was always my Everest and now that she's been climbed I feel an entirely undeserved sense of achievement. Challenging, regent filled and with rulers that made me want to side with the Turks.
My Mare Nostrum campaign beginning as Byzantium ends and my next achievement search begins.
In the end though, Rome is Eternal.
A game as Mongolia to get the 'The Great Khan' achievement:
Close to a World Conquest, but unfortunately I got greedy and got too much oe.
Development
Achievements, Just needed one province for the achievement, however it was uncolonised and I couldn't get a colonist (I'll probably load up the game and delete all my ideas to get this).
A screenshot before rebels.
More screenshots:
Close to a World Conquest, but unfortunately I got greedy and got too much oe.
Development
Achievements, Just needed one province for the achievement, however it was uncolonised and I couldn't get a colonist (I'll probably load up the game and delete all my ideas to get this).
A screenshot before rebels.
More screenshots:
A Tartar steak ala Korea (Choson One + Turtles All the Way Down run)
Why the steak? Because the capital is hiding in Papua. To have all Asian TC land as TCs. And to have income.
Unholy income.
Why the steak? Because the capital is hiding in Papua. To have all Asian TC land as TCs. And to have income.
Unholy income.
My game as Karagwe, for the Victorian Three achievement. At first, I planned to stay low and pacific, but at some point it's just too boring and you've got to war your neighbours. Got myself almost all of Africa and the whole Americas in the end.
You people never cease to amaze me:
"I'll have a nice relaxing game to reach the tech limit."
>conquers three continents
Also that is a terrifying Korea @Silverbow, how'd you get the production income so high?
"I'll have a nice relaxing game to reach the tech limit."
>conquers three continents
Also that is a terrifying Korea @Silverbow, how'd you get the production income so high?
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I'm germany, this was on my Brandenburg>Prus>Ger run, the Pink blob to the east of me is my client, the russian republic and the greenish strip that divides france is my client. Ive also got Norwayx and the Netherland as my clients.. Also, look at gazikumukh!
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