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My Ideas Guy run. This is the first time I've really tried the 'Zanzibar as end node' strategy, and it was ludicrous just how much money I was making with just East Africa, Indonesia and about half of India. I managed it with a distinctly unoptimal build, I didn't have any real economic ideas in my set, and picked Norse of all things as my religion.

I started in Roggeveld with dev efficiency and colonists as my traditions, and immediately colonised Cape while using my 6/6/6 ruler to buff up my starting province to fund it. After spreading through South Africa and setting up a colonial nation in Brazil to get the institution, I basically just went straight for the gold of Zimbabwe and then Indonesia. After securing Malacca I stared moving on Aden and India, and that was enough.

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Is that grey thing in Asia Chagatai?
 

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Is that grey thing in Asia Chagatai?

Yes, they were doing pretty well for themselves. There were a few other interesting things in the parts of the world I never stuck my fingers into, like Crimea not just surviving, but thriving, and Denmark managing to integrate Sweden but not Norway.
 

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My 1.22 game as Orissa into Bharat doing "Foremost Servitor of Jagannath" achievement. With hindsight I should have picked exploration ideas as one of the first idea groups, as I had planned at the start (ended up as my 6th group). It would probably have saved me 50-100 years, and a few wars against those French 9 morale, 115% discipline troops.

The South American bordergore is credit to Portugal, I just couldn't be bothered cleaning it up. Mantua was emperor for a long while, while Austria was under a PU with France. Mantua is the one controlling most of Italy, while Netherlands is thriving for a change, and generally being annoying with their Abolition of slavery, and level 8 forts. Apart from a quick war for 4 provinces in Central America I had nothing to do with Castille who have their capital in Tlingit (Alaska), France took care of them before I landed in Europe.

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That legend among legends wasn't much of a legend in my opinion, considering I had Quality for a long time and was sitting on 80-100 Army tradition for the last 100 years.
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My 8th and fastest WC as Castile -> Spain -> HRE and first time One faith showing that Spain is best country to do it with. Last WC was with Austria in which I revoked in 1560 and still wasn't able to get one faith.
Steps:
Got granada relative easily because aragon went to war with tunis making Granada without allies to fight with.
Married burgundy and got inheritence
Backstaped Portugal when it tried to defended England and became soon a long term vassal till I revoked
Colonize game which went easy after that
After getting aragon PU I started to invade Africa, feeding aragon the most developed provinces till he had 32 (max for forming Spain)
Invaded India and Indonesia.
Because Ottoman also came in Indonesia relative early (before 1600) I couldn't expand there anymore due to AE so focused again on Europa
Took out France relative easily when most of his army was in Africa fighting.
Became HRE emporer after religious league. With a huge Bohemia as ally we made short work of the remaining protestant nations.
revoked in 1680 and then WC was done in 86 years.
 

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My 8th and fastest WC as Castile -> Spain -> HRE and first time One faith showing that Spain is best country to do it with. Last WC was with Austria in which I revoked in 1560 and still wasn't able to get one faith.
Steps:
Got granada relative easily because aragon went to war with tunis making Granada without allies to fight with.
Married burgundy and got inheritence
Backstaped Portugal when it tried to defended England and became soon a long term vassal till I revoked
Colonize game which went easy after that
After getting aragon PU I started to invade Africa, feeding aragon the most developed provinces till he had 32 (max for forming Spain)
Invaded India and Indonesia.
Because Ottoman also came in Indonesia relative early (before 1600) I couldn't expand there anymore due to AE so focused again on Europa
Took out France relative easily when most of his army was in Africa fighting.
Became HRE emporer after religious league. With a huge Bohemia as ally we made short work of the remaining protestant nations.
revoked in 1680 and then WC was done in 86 years.

Great colony names!
 

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My attempt at Timurids-Mughals on the current patch, dlc up to Rights of Man. First I won the war against the uprising vassals and took a chunk of their land (cause you have cores there) and I took my Ajam cores back. Then I pushed into Delhi, formed the Mughals and mostly focused on India first. Only after that did I turn west to engage the unbreakable Ottoman-French

Aragon held almost all of Iberia for quite some time (expelling Castile to a few islands in southeast Asia and 2 African provinces though they did hold onto Alaska and California from there). Aragon had a PU over that Poland, they were my allies, as was Austria. Together we fought the Ottoman-French alliance and it repeatedly ended with my allies losing land as the Turks focused on them, letting my armies push deep into their lands and defeat them. Thats how the Ottomans took Vienna even as the Mughal west border was a stone's throw from Constantinople eventually. France crushed Aragon and Poland broke out of the union so I allied them later.

By the 18th century things got rather ridiculous. At one point I had 90% ahead of time penalty on military tech and the Ottomans were still a level ahead of me. I had broken their empire in two near Syria, hoping to make the whole south overseas. Even with that the Ottomans had insane amounts of troops (close to 400k) Eventually a war in the mid 18th century saw me victorious, occupying the entire Ottoman Empire and France. I let their war exhaustion skyrocket, then made peace hoping they would collapse from that. France faced a major revolution with a ton of rebels, but somehow they beat them back, restored the Ottoman alliance I had broken and the status quo was back.

Even now that I've taken Constantinople the Ottomans are still the most powerful nation on earth. Something is seriously wrong here. Do note below that my army sizee should be 350-400k but I just came out of a devastating war against Ming. I couldn't beat F**** Ming. I had closse to 400k men but disbanded some armies that were never going to reinforce.

Once I got set up as the Mughals I ran permanently with mercenary infantry, regular cavalry and artillery. Later I even made some of the cavalry forces mercs as I simply couldn't take the losses and even with max merc in my standing army and a near full mp pool, Ming still bled me white. Yes, really they forced my to white peace whilst I occupied half their nation. A better example of Operation Barbarossa you can't come up with. Was I wrong to use cavalry into the late game because of the Mughal cavalry bonus???

Regarding the income comparison: remember the Ottomans held most of the Constantinople node for most of the game and I only took control of much of that in the last few decades. Oh how different this could have been had I been able to break the Turks in the first decades............

(p.s. don't worry about Morocco, thats just Ashanti kicking their ass again)

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Was I wrong to use cavalry into the late game because of the Mughal cavalry bonus???

Yes. Cavalry is pretty weak later on and shouldnt be relied on heavily unless you are on a special position. (massive cavalry strength, or using banners)
 

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Yes. Cavalry is pretty weak later on and shouldnt be relied on heavily unless you are on a special position. (massive cavalry strength, or using banners)

Ok, even with cav bonuses like mughals theys not worth it lategame. Thats good to know.

I remember doing it effectively with poland before, but of course you can pump their cav combat ability to well over 50%, i had kinda forgotten how high they could go.
 

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This is my run as the Ottomans in 1.24.1. It has been my first big ironman run since I bought EU4.
Quite easy, but I had a lot of fun! I could have conquered more lands with hindsight, but I was in love with my borders and I spent the last years only adjusting them and doing world police. I also unlocked many achievements even if it wasn't my goal. I will never forget the greatest war I've ever fight in EU side by side with Russia against Austria (with PLC as junior partner), Scandinavia and Ming, that joined this war between great powers. Can't wait to start another run...

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The rest of the world in 1821. In North America, a great Canada became independent, in Europe, GB annexed Aragon and Brittany survived and colonized Oceania and Indonesia! Vijayanagar was a lot bigger but Ming and Persia managed to grab its lands. Ming never collapsed, and they always had more than 60 mandate.. they start losing it the last 30 years reaching 0 mandate a couple of years before end game.
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My Austria into the HRE game, all that really changed from here to the end date was the removal of the Castilian pocket, annexation of Northern Portugal and the acquisition of Castile's Siberian Colony and more or less all of the small isolated islands in the pacific, (Don't ask) which I tried to use to get "The Rising Sun". (Didn't work and led to the aspiration for liberty disaster triggering in 1820, due to my first truce break all game.)

In general though I think I did OK for a first HRE emperor game, managed to get a lot (Around 14-15) achievements and learned a great deal about loans, the HRE and personal unions. Also learnt that the AI fears a vassal swarm HRE so much that coalitions will never attack you, and any that are formed fall apart in at most a couple of years. Was also neat to see the AI actually manage to colonize places. A good 65-70% of Africa was under European or Ottoman control at one point. (Aragon even managed to control and convert most of North Africa.)
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Third Way achievement as Mzab. Truly a horrific start, but at least Feudal Theocracies can now make royal marriages. Didn't blob hard enough in the 1500s and 1600s, so cut it pretty close, Najd converted the last Sunni province in 1817.
 

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This is my failed attempt at Mare Nostrum as Milan/Italy. I was so close to getting it, but that very late PU over France and a slow mid-game ruined it.
Though it isn't that bad since I have never done any Mare Nostrum before and haven't gotten used to the rate I was suppose to expand at yet.
But since this took me hours to do, I'm showing it on here anyways. :'-)

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Finished this very frustrating Korea Choson One run. I made the mistake of taking over the mandate. The permanent claims over all of China were pretty nice, but it at a certain point I was touching other blobs on all sides. My mandate never got above 50, played a long time with 0 mandate. constant rebels, no mercenaries and worthless soldiers made me just quit multiple times to return a few days later. I've never used as many forts as this game, prosperity and devastation became unbelievable important. In the end I got the achievement, but I'm staying away from the mandate for some time. Maybe a nice challenge for a few of the better players on here, a Ming run with 0 mandate for the whole game? :)
 

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I managed to pull off the Gold Rush achievement with a couple of years to spare.

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I don't like horde gameplay that much. I feel like I'm always struggling to keep my head above water, and I almost had that Tribal disaster thanks to my mismanagement. From here I'll get Pyramid of Skulls since Samarkand is size 34 for some reason. And a few other horde achievements.
 

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Leaving my 1.22 Ragusa game here, guaranteeing Ottomans, France and Russia. For the first time ever (i think) I kept my allies from the beginning to the end without backstabbing any of them (Milan and Papal state, abandoned Spain just before the screenshots because I couldn't be bothered to fight yet another war for them). I allied Lithuania after the first couple of Ottoman wars, and started feeding them Ottoman and Russian land. Formed Croatia in the end just ot get the Krabater Achievement.

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