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So this is the point i feel i should stop, and so i present you: The Grand Daimyo of Oda AKA "Better Than Prussia"! Behold the empire and its literal million of the finest troops in the world! (In neat 40k stacks, just as usual)
Its good to have so much successful countries in this world - my Power Projection stays at 100 since 1550! Even Yarkand had about 120k troops - that is, before i wrecked it
Note that is also me in Egypt, since i wanted to stage a large-scale naval invasion and disrupt a then-successful Ottomans with dropping a 200k of finest troops to its rich clay. Also, because i wanted to build Suez channel to open up a naval route to Europe. But on to more pressing matters. What's that country in the Baltic? It is Prussia, right? Let us see.... OH SHI...
I don't have any play in this! The Holy Roman Empire was actually formed by an AI (Austria), and it also PU'd a rather large Russia! And guranteed a 1560-dev Ottomans and 2k-greatpower score Portugal Over 4k greatpower score for an AI country! Never seen it get any higher!
Now on to another interesting observation of mine: in this game, the AI seems to be so much more keen on development!
Making 22 ducats from a single state? Said state having over 100 development? Considering i never developed it myself? Woah.
As a bonus, dat morale! I shoulda picked some +morale policies too for an even further overkill! Still stackwiping equally-sized Russian stacks in 3 days of battle
I didn't bother taking a screenshot of my ideagroups, since its the standard boring Exploration-Admin-Religious-Quantity, followed by stacking the rest of military ideagroups.
Now 'scuse me, i'm gonna start my next campaign as a daimyo again, but as one of those hipster ones
Little update 30 years later, seems to be in the bag. Am at 7967 development up from 4871 development in the last screenie. Have not been at 99% the entire time but it seems to be fast enough with 90 absolutism.
So, I tried a game with Qara Qoyunlu (patch 1.23.1). Last time I tried that, around the time corruption was introduced, I never managed to go anywhere. My country, a horde then, was litteraly falling apart below me.
This time... I survived the first years by allying the Timurids, then I ditched them when I made Ajam my vassal. I eventually (miraculously) allied the Ottomans during 200 years. They broke the alliance and I allied Spain and Prussia.
Then, the onslaught begun. You have the result. The green and pink countries in the Balkans are my vassals, as well as Taungu and the purple and brown countries in Indochina.
First successful game as a horde, and it was the easiest game I've ever played. Horde ideas + tribal conquest cb + razing everything = a great time. Never took admin ideas or influence ideas, never purchased mercs, and didn't even have to take out a single loan all game. Was absolutely drowning in monarch points, despite at one point being three institutions behind and keeping up in all three techs.
I should say, this was deliberately not a WC attempt. I set myself rigid western borders early on, and only later - in 1669 - did I start to move past them, when I realized that Asia was gone and I didn't have any way to generate horde unity. In retrospect, I could've probably done a WC by that point, but I figured I'd save it for a run that was actually trying to do it from the start. Got seven achievements though, the most I've got from a single game in about three years. So that was nice.
Probably the ugliest It's All Greek to Me run ever; but past a certain point of power; I dislike blobbing for blobbing's sake. I could have been much larger had I really desired it; and cleaned up borders; but I really didn't feel like fighting Ottomans another 5 times to do so. I took back Constantinople and Greece as a whole however. Wallachia is my March.
It's also now my rarest achievement [And according to Steam; the 12th rarest in the game. Three Mountains is more common...] That title used to be Queen of Mercury.
This was done on the Persia Patch; I wanted to finish the achievement.
Venice -> Greece. I also got A Protected Market and Tear Down this Wall.
I remained a true Catholic; since Venice gets a good permanent modifier that they don't lose on tagswitch which gives them +1 missionary strength and +2 yearly PI. A huge part in me getting Protected Market; simply by pressing the Pope Button. Almost-free loans also helped out early with a -2 interest event that lasts absurdly long that Venice gets; plus Pope Button.
Seriously; if you can stack PI; Catholic can be absurdly strong. I mean; I have 100% Mercantalism; most of the Pope Buffs; and 9.5 TotTF.
Venice node is stupid rich. I could have got the other CoT's and monopolised it; but Austria and the Pope were my friends; and the former protected Milan [And later the Swiss] and the latter protected Mantua.
It was a pretty fun campaign getting set up. Things went my way early with Ottos DoW'ing Albania and losing; freeing Byzzie land that I ate; just enough to form Greece later. I jumped my growth with some tactical Show Suepriority Wars against the Mamluks; and eventually; once they were weaked enough; sniped Alexandria and that region from the Turks to block them, and allow me to go down and secure trade interests in the Gulf of Aden.
From that point on; it was basically mindless blobbing. Which bores me quickly.
I want to share my newest Silesia achievement run:
It may not be the most impressive of empires, but do take account of my personal unions:
None of the personal unions came naturally. I was an aggressive claimant for Denmark against a weak Lithuania; I claimed the thrones of Hungary and Tuscany and went to war to seize them; and Austria was under a union with Tuscany which I helped to secure against France in a succession war. These screenshots were taken right after the war for the Tuscan throne ended.
Some story about the early game: I struggled a lot at the start of this run. Although I got independence early with support from Poland and Hungary, I could not win a war against Bohemia and allies alone, and there was no other way for expansion. I needed to develop my few provinces and wait until Hungary was finally available for call (which happened in around 1500) to break the stalemate. After that, Poland was destroyed by Hungary, and I took one third of the commonwealth in multiple wars to finally take off.
Over 4k greatpower score for an AI country! Never seen it get any higher!
