Where the heart is, extended. Had a pretty easy time with the achievement and since I had managed not to cripple myself, felt like going a bit further.
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Where the heart is, extended. Had a pretty easy time with the achievement and since I had managed not to cripple myself, felt like going a bit further.
Every time i visit this thread it makes me not want to play EU4 anymore 
Seriously, all those OPM WC's!
Seriously, all those OPM WC's!
Orthodox achievements. I guess I need another game as Pskov.
TIL: stacking morale bonuses makes you extremely dangerous early-mid game when battles are more important than sieges, arguably. Defensive, Russian ideas, DotF, advisor, etc. make you a monster.
TIL: stacking morale bonuses makes you extremely dangerous early-mid game when battles are more important than sieges, arguably. Defensive, Russian ideas, DotF, advisor, etc. make you a monster.
In 1584, king Jaime III de Trastamára died without his heir coming of age. Queen Marguerite de Valois ruled in his stead as Queen-regent. Though she would only rule for 18 months, her reign would have world-changing consequences as Spain utilised her familiy ties to lay claim to the throne of France. War raged for 10 years, on land and sea in Europe and the Americas and was fought by 3 Spanish rulers, but ultimately Madrid was victorious.
And then the Trastamára and Valois family lines would die out and in 1604 king Felipe IV de Avis would rise to power in Spain. Proving just as much of a scheming backstabber he wasted no time launching an invasion of Portugal to seize his homeland. And so we come to the situation below.....
By the way, yes that is Austria holding Bohemia in a union as well. I think I'm starting to get the hang of playing in Europe now
And then the Trastamára and Valois family lines would die out and in 1604 king Felipe IV de Avis would rise to power in Spain. Proving just as much of a scheming backstabber he wasted no time launching an invasion of Portugal to seize his homeland. And so we come to the situation below.....
By the way, yes that is Austria holding Bohemia in a union as well. I think I'm starting to get the hang of playing in Europe now
Florence - Tuscany - Italy - Revolutionary Italy - Revolutionary Roman Empire. Borders may break your eyes.
AI Ruthenia !
Sorry, but that's what strikes me the most in your Game of Thrones run... ^^
I finally went for an African Power run that was not interrupted by a new patch.
While it's not totally over, I'm surprised by how easy it was. I planned on doing a lot of cheesy stuff but nothing was necessary and I played it very casually so far. I planned on going really ham into India and Indonesia to get some good money, but that was not needed at all as gold Zanzibar node are just too good, even without conquering India. Also really surprised by how much money inner Africa can generate once you spam manufactories and have prosperity everywhere (I finally got Live Long and Prosper just a year ago).
So far pretty much every war was smooth. Spain could have been a real trouble with Defensive, offensive and their insanely strong ideas, but I attacked them while they were already fighting France and they were totally unable to manage a two front war also taking place on both sides of the Atlantic and they just randomly moved 20k stacks in Africa while 80k men were lost in Brazil getting about 0 warscore. Portugal was a joke the entire game as Spain kicked them out of Europe, and France and England only held one province in Africa so I just did a regular conquest and waited for ticking warscore and war exhaustion.
I just broke my longstanding alliance with the Ottomans as they are the only remaining target. With Austria and Blobemia as allies, I should beat them. I can spam 100k gold worth of mercs anyway, so well...
I had not played Kongo since Institutions were introduced and they are now ridiculously strong in player's hand. They have a perfect spot around their capital to develop institutions with Grasslands and a CoT, and a free opening into Brazil to get Colonialism the normal way. I caught up in miltech around tech 11 and in others around 13, and I was ahead of my African neighbours pretty much the entire game, even those starting with Feudalism like Kilwa or Ethiopia. Common rivalry with Ethiopia means free alliance with the Ottomans as well if you play the diplomatic game properly. And all this gold everywhere....
I have 100% Tariffs with New Kongo so I gave them everything in South America and they have 0 Liberty Desire. They are massive :
I am also trying to spread the Fetishist faith, even if that's insanely slow with this amount of missionaries. I'm one cult short of Hoarder, either Hindu or Buddhist.
Sorry, but that's what strikes me the most in your Game of Thrones run... ^^
I finally went for an African Power run that was not interrupted by a new patch.
While it's not totally over, I'm surprised by how easy it was. I planned on doing a lot of cheesy stuff but nothing was necessary and I played it very casually so far. I planned on going really ham into India and Indonesia to get some good money, but that was not needed at all as gold Zanzibar node are just too good, even without conquering India. Also really surprised by how much money inner Africa can generate once you spam manufactories and have prosperity everywhere (I finally got Live Long and Prosper just a year ago).
So far pretty much every war was smooth. Spain could have been a real trouble with Defensive, offensive and their insanely strong ideas, but I attacked them while they were already fighting France and they were totally unable to manage a two front war also taking place on both sides of the Atlantic and they just randomly moved 20k stacks in Africa while 80k men were lost in Brazil getting about 0 warscore. Portugal was a joke the entire game as Spain kicked them out of Europe, and France and England only held one province in Africa so I just did a regular conquest and waited for ticking warscore and war exhaustion.
I just broke my longstanding alliance with the Ottomans as they are the only remaining target. With Austria and Blobemia as allies, I should beat them. I can spam 100k gold worth of mercs anyway, so well...
I had not played Kongo since Institutions were introduced and they are now ridiculously strong in player's hand. They have a perfect spot around their capital to develop institutions with Grasslands and a CoT, and a free opening into Brazil to get Colonialism the normal way. I caught up in miltech around tech 11 and in others around 13, and I was ahead of my African neighbours pretty much the entire game, even those starting with Feudalism like Kilwa or Ethiopia. Common rivalry with Ethiopia means free alliance with the Ottomans as well if you play the diplomatic game properly. And all this gold everywhere....
I have 100% Tariffs with New Kongo so I gave them everything in South America and they have 0 Liberty Desire. They are massive :
I am also trying to spread the Fetishist faith, even if that's insanely slow with this amount of missionaries. I'm one cult short of Hoarder, either Hindu or Buddhist.
Well, an update on a more definitive state, still imperfect but I probably won't wait until everything is done. So let's imagine some gaps are filled.
I got Hoarder and African Power.
I procced my Golden Age right before declaring on Ottomans for extra morale, so it was quite straightforward. I did another war with them to clean up the borders of mighty Kongarabia. I had not mention it but I have the Osmanoglu dynasty, a shame I had to kill my relatives. All the mess I did there led to everyone destroying their poor empire. Russia took huge amounts of land and forced them to release Wallachia and Albania which results in atrocious bordergore. Tabarestan also jumped in, and they took the provinces necessary to form Persia! So we have an AI formed Persia, even if they had a little bit of help.
I just helped my good friend Austria to secure a Personal Union over England. Spain had it, but Austria contested and I joined. It was a tough fight vs Spain and Russia, with complete naval inferiority, but we managed to do it. Good job Austria.
I am in the process of turning the entirety of South America into New Kongolese land, and that would require another war against Spain and quite a lot of colonizing still. But owning Africa and South America makes a lot of sense and nice borders so I don't want to push it further, and I don't want to wait for the 20 years it would take to finish that process, so I leave it here.
I am also in the process of turning all of Africa to Fetishist, but that's really slow with 2 missionaries only so let's imagine I did it as well.
As everything is now peaceful and stable with prosperity everywhere and over 100 ducats of gold income every month (), I proclaimed that all African people were equal and free, and should not bow and serve the inferior races of the white men.
As a consequence, there is only one slave producing province left in the world, Caffa.
I recommend playing Kongo, pretty easy and relaxing, and a strong goal of turning history upside down and making Europe the Third World.
I got Hoarder and African Power.
I just helped my good friend Austria to secure a Personal Union over England. Spain had it, but Austria contested and I joined. It was a tough fight vs Spain and Russia, with complete naval inferiority, but we managed to do it. Good job Austria.
I am in the process of turning the entirety of South America into New Kongolese land, and that would require another war against Spain and quite a lot of colonizing still. But owning Africa and South America makes a lot of sense and nice borders so I don't want to push it further, and I don't want to wait for the 20 years it would take to finish that process, so I leave it here.
I am also in the process of turning all of Africa to Fetishist, but that's really slow with 2 missionaries only so let's imagine I did it as well.
As everything is now peaceful and stable with prosperity everywhere and over 100 ducats of gold income every month (
), I proclaimed that all African people were equal and free, and should not bow and serve the inferior races of the white men.
As a consequence, there is only one slave producing province left in the world, Caffa.
I recommend playing Kongo, pretty easy and relaxing, and a strong goal of turning history upside down and making Europe the Third World.
Consulate of the Sea run i kept aragon ideas it was quite fun :3, trade was over 2.1k maybe could increase it a bit after fighting last overextension
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After countless tries since the achievement was introduced, I finally got a lucky start. Once you get going, that's extremely enjoyable, as Bengal clearly is an insanely profitable tradenode and a perfect place to spawn institutions.
So, you thought the spirit of Animism could die out so easily? Fools! Our Animal Kingdom will spread far and wide, all over India.
Ane once that's done, we will become the first Animist Emperor of China! Oh wait, no. Ming actually has quantity, forget it.
We will try anyway.
So, you thought the spirit of Animism could die out so easily? Fools! Our Animal Kingdom will spread far and wide, all over India.
Ane once that's done, we will become the first Animist Emperor of China! Oh wait, no. Ming actually has quantity, forget it.
We will try anyway.
Nice, I'm actually doing the same run currently with the same goal of becoming EoC and I have to agree it's very fun. Though, can animists actually get extra missionaries from anywhere? Conversion is really lagging behind with 2 missionaries, and I think you need 100% unity for max absolutism from C&C without using up the golden age.After countless tries since the achievement was introduced, I finally got a lucky start. Once you get going, that's extremely enjoyable, as Bengal clearly is an insanely profitable tradenode and a perfect place to spawn institutions.
So, you thought the spirit of Animism could die out so easily? Fools! Our Animal Kingdom will spread far and wide, all over India.
Ane once that's done, we will become the first Animist Emperor of China! Oh wait, no. Ming actually has quantity, forget it.
We will try anyway.
Well, I will probably ignore max absolutism strats as I won't blob. I don't see the point of blobbing past a certain point if you won't WC, and I probably won't WC as I was really slow in my early game expansion and I won't take humanist until pretty late (I'm only at Admin 10 at the moment, with Religious and Admin ideas completed).
I failed several runs, including a promising one, because I've been too agressive, so I played this one very slowly. I'll probably be happy with owning China, India, Indochina and Indonesia in the end, and converting as much as possible to Animist. And 80ish absolutism is enough for that.
If you want to stack admin efficiency, I assume you want to blob. Therefore, keep in mind you can form Yuan via culture swap to have free claims over China and the best idea set of the game. Then flip to Bengalese culture and Hindu and form Bharat right after to get free claims over India as well and keep the best religion to blob without converting, as with Humanist and Hindu you'll always have positive tolerance of heathens, and everyone will be heathen. As a blobbing Manipur, that's what I'd do, but I don't see the point of always playing the same campaign.
I failed several runs, including a promising one, because I've been too agressive, so I played this one very slowly. I'll probably be happy with owning China, India, Indochina and Indonesia in the end, and converting as much as possible to Animist. And 80ish absolutism is enough for that.
If you want to stack admin efficiency, I assume you want to blob. Therefore, keep in mind you can form Yuan via culture swap to have free claims over China and the best idea set of the game. Then flip to Bengalese culture and Hindu and form Bharat right after to get free claims over India as well and keep the best religion to blob without converting, as with Humanist and Hindu you'll always have positive tolerance of heathens, and everyone will be heathen. As a blobbing Manipur, that's what I'd do, but I don't see the point of always playing the same campaign.
Well, you can form Yuan/convert to better religions as anyone, but that's not really the point... Anyway, I just fired the golden age as it matters less now that benefits from absolutism cap at 100. Makes eating China faster if nothing else.
Did you develop for institutions? The Bengal area has some great land for development, I developed each of the provinces in the North Bengal state for Renaissance-Colonialism-PP, and I never really lagged behind in any tech. Developing Koch for PP probably cost me less than 1000 points in total after moving capital there (first few levels of development cost 5 points with all the modifiers, lol). I didn't really have any outstanding rulers aside from a 6/6/2 Johan from the Lux Stella event, either. Also, I just noticed I've been a tribal monarchy all this time instead of tribal despotism (really, best government in the game? I mean, why would you ever want to reform the government?).
Did you develop for institutions? The Bengal area has some great land for development, I developed each of the provinces in the North Bengal state for Renaissance-Colonialism-PP, and I never really lagged behind in any tech. Developing Koch for PP probably cost me less than 1000 points in total after moving capital there (first few levels of development cost 5 points with all the modifiers, lol). I didn't really have any outstanding rulers aside from a 6/6/2 Johan from the Lux Stella event, either. Also, I just noticed I've been a tribal monarchy all this time instead of tribal despotism (really, best government in the game? I mean, why would you ever want to reform the government?).
Some countries have an easier time doing it than others. Being Emperor of China + form an Indian tag requires a lot of cheese from pretty much every country, and less cheese for Manipur as it stands in between and has a religion that allows to become Emperor of China, and that you should ditch anyway for Hindu if you want to expand rapidly and stay stable because Animist is the worst religion in the game. I don't want to do so, but just in case.
I developped them in Bengal Delta, Gauda and Barind. 3 Farmlands, one cloth province, all neighbouring, perfect area to do so. Koch is Grassland only so that's slightly less good, but it also depends on your expansion. I personally got Bengal before Koch, as I was allied with Assam and could not get to Koch. So I made Gauda my capital, and Bengalese is my primary culture.
As a Golden Era also gives -10% power costs, I keep it for the lategame rush, but that's also because I won't fire C&C.
And yes, Tribal Despotism is godlike.
Since I posted first pictures, my inner nature took over and I started to blob in every direction and create atrocious bordergore, but well...
I developped them in Bengal Delta, Gauda and Barind. 3 Farmlands, one cloth province, all neighbouring, perfect area to do so. Koch is Grassland only so that's slightly less good, but it also depends on your expansion. I personally got Bengal before Koch, as I was allied with Assam and could not get to Koch. So I made Gauda my capital, and Bengalese is my primary culture.
As a Golden Era also gives -10% power costs, I keep it for the lategame rush, but that's also because I won't fire C&C.
And yes, Tribal Despotism is godlike.
Since I posted first pictures, my inner nature took over and I started to blob in every direction and create atrocious bordergore, but well...
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Well, I didn't mean that literally anyone can do it, I just meant that if I'm doing an achievement run that requires an Animist Manipur, I might as well stay so. Religion is a bit over-emphasized anyway, you can eventually pick humanism + offensive as any religion and keep 100% RU with next to no rebels and finish a one-tag or whatever well before 1800. Animist does really suck at converting, though.
Also, Bengal Delta and Gauda are both tropical for +15% development cost, so Koch and Nasirabad (grasslands and produces cotton) actually beat them in base cost. I also really liked taking advantage of the -50% development cost in capital for a 6 dev province.
As for golden era, I figured it's probably best used against Ming anyway and I think I'll stop after conquering and converting China (well, maybe Korea and Japan as well...).
Well I'm dumb, I was certain that all this area was tropical, but as it appears there are temperate jungles in Assam, an interesting combo.
And I totally agree with the idea of Manipur, it's just that you mentioned Absolutism stacking and I don't bother with reaching 100 instead of 90 unless I WC.
And I totally agree with the idea of Manipur, it's just that you mentioned Absolutism stacking and I don't bother with reaching 100 instead of 90 unless I WC.
You see, that the Kongo is 'easy and relaxing' makes me not really want to play EU4. A nation like that shouldn't be a walk in the park, and it suggests something in the game is off
Pretty much. Not nearly enough stuff actually happening. It's not realistic, nor is it fun gameplay-wise for nation to just become static and easy for nothing.