I don't care where you go, but you can't stay here...Go home, Zhou, you're drunk.
I'm suggesting you conquer China. Someone's gotta get them out of this bar.
I don't care where you go, but you can't stay here...Go home, Zhou, you're drunk.
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MEWAT. Unified Islam, that +5% missionary strength for Indian Sultanates is nuts.
Why is your Cordoba landlocked?
Nice seeing both Rev. France and a unified HRE. And that odd black hole in China again.MEWAT. Unified Islam, that +5% missionary strength for Indian Sultanates is nuts.
Trying to get Triumph for Italy, but damn coring duration is already 10 years, even after I made three large vassals. Doesn't seem I'll be able to recreate the roman empire =(. This game was won when I destroyed France's armies and rebels devoured it.
My Swedish Empire with a 1530-something start, sporting the best army in the world winning almost every battle for the past 200 years no matter the odds. In the last 100 years none of my neighbours were strong enough to be a threat, which if I had been more aggressive and not been forced to fight a revolution would have allowed me to expand almost without bounds.
Europe, Sweden dominating the north and the Baltic is essentially a Mare Nostrum. I went to great lengths to deny Russia sea access which demolished their economy in the last 100 years. I fought a coalition of Russia, Bohemia, Saxony, Austria and Great Britain plus others several times with only occasionally Netherlands and Ukraine on my side (sometimes Ukraine was against me, too). I won every time, 160% discipline and 6 point-generals have a tendency to achieve that. The Commonwealth was dissolved between me, Bohemia and Ukraine - I roleplayed this as I could have taken all of Poland myself but I decided not to and shared it with my neighbours. The Commonwealth had been on my back constantly since it formed and I had to slowly chip away at it over the centuries to obtain that nice coastline.
Austria was much bigger previously, owning the netherlands and what not, but lost it all in several coalition wars before growing stronger again by eating Switzerland and parts of Germany. The Ottomans are a paper tiger, in one coalition war they sent ~200 thousand men up to fight me in Prussia and I killed them all in four battles. They are behind Persia in tech which hasn't done them any favours in the past century. Spain suffers the same problem despite inheriting Portugal and her colonies.
Asia is very interesting, the Mongols are divided in only two factions, the Kazakhs and Oirats, Kazakh even formed the Mongol Empire at one point before imploding giving way to the Kazakhs again. I don't know how the Mughals were so successful, they aren't really strong in the 1530s when I started (do they even exist?) but they certainly did well here. Hindu is pretty much gonners by now. Persia is looking really cool, holding their own versus the seemingly superior Ottomans thanks to better tech.
North America, colonisation worked really well, Spain and France are just dominating though. I'm surprised that the natives still hold out, I think the Europeans just left them alone. Spain owns all of South America.
Ming formed Manchu I guess, or did Zhou/Shan rise up and then form it? I have to check that out. Japan is really impressive having owned Russia in a few wars due to Russia's palpable tech (15 mil tech in 1800). Surprisingly much like what happened 100 years later.
And the ending picture. 5th largest army but still unthreatened hegemony over northern and central Europe. France is quite powerful but I have beaten them consistently as well. To be honest it got a bit boring after a while as I was simply not threatened by anyone.