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My Venetian trade empire from 1.11. Nothing impressive, but I like it, it was a fun playthrough. The empire collapsed due to an unfortunate colonial war with Spain and Portugal, where my all-galley fleet stood no chance against their galeons. Nonetheless, I'm satisfied. I had Constantinople, Dalmatia, Egypt, Crimea and surroundings, the Amazon basin, Panama, Kongo and some other random provs. Serbia and Makuria were vassals.
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Did a quick Malacca > Malaya run for the Spice Must Flow achievement (1.13 beta). My other goal was to get the achievement in as little in-game time as I could.
The big limiter was ADM power, which is necessary for the required provinces but also for ADM 5 to get exploration and colonise those last 3 Sumtran provinces. I had ADM focus on from day 1 til the end. Thankfully you don't actually need to complete the colonies to form Malaya, so I saved a lot of time by recalling my colonist as soon as he arrived and sending him on to the next province. I took 2 provinces on Java that I didn't actually need for the decision, so I could have been several months quicker (or I could have avoided coring them). Besides that though I think I did everything I could to get the achievement as fast as possible given the ADM generation I rolled across several monarchs.
The big limiter was ADM power, which is necessary for the required provinces but also for ADM 5 to get exploration and colonise those last 3 Sumtran provinces. I had ADM focus on from day 1 til the end. Thankfully you don't actually need to complete the colonies to form Malaya, so I saved a lot of time by recalling my colonist as soon as he arrived and sending him on to the next province. I took 2 provinces on Java that I didn't actually need for the decision, so I could have been several months quicker (or I could have avoided coring them). Besides that though I think I did everything I could to get the achievement as fast as possible given the ADM generation I rolled across several monarchs.
My White Elephant run. Nothing spectacular at all.
This was a rough one. The First 50-100 years, I spent constantly fighting low manpower, because, whenever I attacked an Indochinese minor, some others would take the opportunity and attack my back. The second century was not very eventful, but Ming gobbled up some of the provinces I needed for the achievement. Problem 1: Ming didn't fail at all (doesn't seem to happen much in 1.12, does it?), instead becoming a behemoth (Korea is a vassal):
Problem 2: Ming liked me. And none of Ming's enemies seemed to like me. To top it off, Ming, for the longest time, had an alliance with France. So I had to figure out how to defeat them on my own, and wait for a moment where France wouldn't support them. I decided to westernize to close the technology gap between the highly advanced, but Chinese-group, Ming and myself. Getting ahead far enough to defeat Ming's superior numbers took me more than a century, and even then, it was a brutal and very close war. It didn't help that Majapahit (who played the ever-popular role of backstabber) attacked me while I was engaged with Ming. I made them pay for that: before the final war, Majapahit had owned half of Sumatra. The yellow province on Sumatra isn't Spain, by the way, but Pagarruyung, a protectore of Great Britain.
Once I had defeated Ming and Majapahit in my last war, I converted and cored the provinces, and got the last development points to make myself an empire. I left it at that.
Lessons learned: It would've been a good idea to take Humanism early. I ended up with lots of unaccepted cultures, and struggled with money and unrest for a long time. Also, I don't think I'll ever play a Buddhist country again. Karma management is so horribly painful... it feels extremely limiting and punishing.
This was a rough one. The First 50-100 years, I spent constantly fighting low manpower, because, whenever I attacked an Indochinese minor, some others would take the opportunity and attack my back. The second century was not very eventful, but Ming gobbled up some of the provinces I needed for the achievement. Problem 1: Ming didn't fail at all (doesn't seem to happen much in 1.12, does it?), instead becoming a behemoth (Korea is a vassal):
Once I had defeated Ming and Majapahit in my last war, I converted and cored the provinces, and got the last development points to make myself an empire. I left it at that.
Lessons learned: It would've been a good idea to take Humanism early. I ended up with lots of unaccepted cultures, and struggled with money and unrest for a long time. Also, I don't think I'll ever play a Buddhist country again. Karma management is so horribly painful... it feels extremely limiting and punishing.
The Great Khan run. Took me almost to the end (damn China with alot of development). Roleplaying a true Khan, ended the game in a climactic coalition war.
Snatched Stockholm a month before game end as a result.
Snatched Stockholm a month before game end as a result.
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My Orissa->Bharat game. Best I could do...
Made a quick jump to South America so I can westernize but with this new patch everyone gets western and there are so few nations behind in tech that I wonder if it was worth it.
Menagde to get India and Indochina, and almost all Pacific islands. Portugal still holds Hawaii and maybe one or two more. Australia is my colony.
Got some late game northern provinces/colonies.
My world is full of powerhouses.
Made a quick jump to South America so I can westernize but with this new patch everyone gets western and there are so few nations behind in tech that I wonder if it was worth it.
Menagde to get India and Indochina, and almost all Pacific islands. Portugal still holds Hawaii and maybe one or two more. Australia is my colony.
Got some late game northern provinces/colonies.
My world is full of powerhouses.
my korea game it's not as blobby as others in this thread but it's something
EUROPE:
AMERICAS: portugal was a beast at colonizing
Client States: Patna-wizardo 2.0-wololo-indochina
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Well, it's harder to blob as Korea compared to hordes. You would've made Kim proud 
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That's not that unusual in 1.12, but the IA was nerfed severely in 1.13
Ah so there was something wrong with the IA. I think this will proably end badly for Austria.
Thought I'd share me messing about with OPM's, wich 75% of the time ends in disaster, not this time thou.
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My first WC as Ottomans in 1747. ver 1.12 default ironman setting.
achievement!
world map
achievement!
world map
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I don't think the AI bothers to increase IA to the point where everyone will accept becoming a vassal/ part of the HRE, just tries to get most of them
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Most likely they were rivals (very normal rivals, bohemia/austria) and in that case they will not vote of the reforms, so they get removed from the HRE once the provilegia is revoked. And since it was an AI reforming the HRE he for sure didn't tried to avoid such rivals in order to maintain the HRE together.
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I played as France to gain achievements: "Big Blue Blob", "Better than Napoleon", "The Rising Sun". Side effect is "All Your Trade Are Belong to us" - I didn't plan it. Many times I had to restart.
AI difficulty - medium. I didn't have hard difficulty, because quickly form a coalition. I was allied with Austria, Aragon and Genoa. Target of expansion: British Isles (vassalization Munster and attack other Irish country and Scotland), Scandinavia, Novgorod and Muscovy. On the conquered territories I increased autonomy and cored quickly provinces. I tried to take the most cheapest provinces to overextension was below 80 % (sometimes below 100 %). When I had a war with Burgundy I conqured provinces from HRE, because I expected that king of Burgundy dies and I didn't want to conquer provinces, which I could inherit.
In 1499:
Later I conquered Moscow (it was easy), Scandinavia, Berlin. I continued conquest England, Spain and Portugal. I vassalized Brittany and Livonian Order.
In 1626:
Next targets of expansion was Naples and Balkans to approach Vienna. Other targets: Japan and India. Unfortunately I didn't conquer India. Maybe next time. Yes, my vassals were England and Portugal.
In 1783:
The summary:
Europe:
Provinces in Africa:
India:
Japan and Philippines:
Siberia:
Score:
Subjects (plus Portuguese Mexico):
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In my next game I played as Hungary. AI difficulty - hard. I was allied with Austria, Bohemia (which was emperor). My targets: vassalization and annexed Ragusa, Serbia, Bosnia and Wallachia, conquest Dalmatia and Istria from Venice and expansion on Balkans and fight against Ottomans. Main target was conquest Austria but earlier I had to well prepare.
I dismantled HRE. My vassal was Netherlands and therefore I had provinces in Africa.
AI difficulty - medium. I didn't have hard difficulty, because quickly form a coalition. I was allied with Austria, Aragon and Genoa. Target of expansion: British Isles (vassalization Munster and attack other Irish country and Scotland), Scandinavia, Novgorod and Muscovy. On the conquered territories I increased autonomy and cored quickly provinces. I tried to take the most cheapest provinces to overextension was below 80 % (sometimes below 100 %). When I had a war with Burgundy I conqured provinces from HRE, because I expected that king of Burgundy dies and I didn't want to conquer provinces, which I could inherit.
In 1499:
Later I conquered Moscow (it was easy), Scandinavia, Berlin. I continued conquest England, Spain and Portugal. I vassalized Brittany and Livonian Order.
In 1626:
Next targets of expansion was Naples and Balkans to approach Vienna. Other targets: Japan and India. Unfortunately I didn't conquer India. Maybe next time. Yes, my vassals were England and Portugal.
In 1783:
The summary:
Europe:
Provinces in Africa:
India:
Japan and Philippines:
Siberia:
Score:
Subjects (plus Portuguese Mexico):
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In my next game I played as Hungary. AI difficulty - hard. I was allied with Austria, Bohemia (which was emperor). My targets: vassalization and annexed Ragusa, Serbia, Bosnia and Wallachia, conquest Dalmatia and Istria from Venice and expansion on Balkans and fight against Ottomans. Main target was conquest Austria but earlier I had to well prepare.
I dismantled HRE. My vassal was Netherlands and therefore I had provinces in Africa.
Thought I'd share my recent Russia game. Before you check the screenshots, I have to say I did fix borders with console after I deironmaned the save, but not as much as you might think from first impression.
Glorious mother Russia feat. client states, insane Ming, France and GB and some prettiest borders I've ever seen post Common Sense. French borders are absolutely natural, the only way I interfered with them is kicking France out of Italy. France PU'd Portugal earlier and has been biting land of struggling Iberians all game long. That's how they got the northern Africa and entire Iberian Peninsula.
GB lands in dutch region are a gift from me for standing with me against countless coalitions. Hooray for occupation transfer!
Ming was twice as big as it is on the screenshot and even now has bigger army than I do.
Sphere of influence.
Surprisingly, Sunni Islam is almost extinct.
Culture mapmode. I have to say, Religious + Russian NI + Religious+Influence policy means 65% discount for culture conversion. Not too shabby. Although some Chinese and Buryats simply won't give up separatism ideas.
Successful Great Britain is successful.
I understand how implausible this looks, but I only did two things here. First - I tagged as GB and diploannexed 5 native OPMs. GB didn't feel like conquering them thus spoil the borders. Second - I integrated all the CNs when I tagged as GB, so they instantly reappeared with original borders.
Rest is absolutely natural. GB has conquered its land in New World from Iberians midgame and France late game. Spanish were constantly at war with France, so they stood no chance. France was/is three times as powerful as GB on land, but AI can't handle naval stuff, so everytime France declared on GB, they never managed to occupy anything thanks to British fleet. In return, GB never managed to land on the continent, so they occupied all the colonial stuff and got it in a peace deal in multiple wars.
Britain has about 200 force limit, France has almost 3 times as much. French AI feels its advantage and keeps declaring, but fails to do anything when it comes to naval stuff.
No matter what I did, Persia has never become rich.
AT is easy and rewarding in 1.13.
Trade screen. GB is outperfroming me on this for obvious reasons. Not too bad otherwise.
Common Sense Gold changes are very handy. I'm also slowly falling in love with new manufactories.
Future is bright for Romanov dynasty.
Endscreen. GB's fleet and trade and Ming's standing army really make it look like I underperformed.
I also thought it would be fun to turn my birthplace into City of Cities. It's really neither arctic nor mountains (hills at best). I almost feel bad for such impractical use of mana.
Glorious mother Russia feat. client states, insane Ming, France and GB and some prettiest borders I've ever seen post Common Sense. French borders are absolutely natural, the only way I interfered with them is kicking France out of Italy. France PU'd Portugal earlier and has been biting land of struggling Iberians all game long. That's how they got the northern Africa and entire Iberian Peninsula.
GB lands in dutch region are a gift from me for standing with me against countless coalitions. Hooray for occupation transfer!
Ming was twice as big as it is on the screenshot and even now has bigger army than I do.
Sphere of influence.
Surprisingly, Sunni Islam is almost extinct.
Culture mapmode. I have to say, Religious + Russian NI + Religious+Influence policy means 65% discount for culture conversion. Not too shabby. Although some Chinese and Buryats simply won't give up separatism ideas.
Successful Great Britain is successful.
I understand how implausible this looks, but I only did two things here. First - I tagged as GB and diploannexed 5 native OPMs. GB didn't feel like conquering them thus spoil the borders. Second - I integrated all the CNs when I tagged as GB, so they instantly reappeared with original borders.
Rest is absolutely natural. GB has conquered its land in New World from Iberians midgame and France late game. Spanish were constantly at war with France, so they stood no chance. France was/is three times as powerful as GB on land, but AI can't handle naval stuff, so everytime France declared on GB, they never managed to occupy anything thanks to British fleet. In return, GB never managed to land on the continent, so they occupied all the colonial stuff and got it in a peace deal in multiple wars.
Britain has about 200 force limit, France has almost 3 times as much. French AI feels its advantage and keeps declaring, but fails to do anything when it comes to naval stuff.
No matter what I did, Persia has never become rich.
AT is easy and rewarding in 1.13.
Trade screen. GB is outperfroming me on this for obvious reasons. Not too bad otherwise.
Common Sense Gold changes are very handy. I'm also slowly falling in love with new manufactories.
Future is bright for Romanov dynasty.
Endscreen. GB's fleet and trade and Ming's standing army really make it look like I underperformed.
I also thought it would be fun to turn my birthplace into City of Cities. It's really neither arctic nor mountains (hills at best). I almost feel bad for such impractical use of mana.
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