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Waaaauw !!! This AAR really got my interest, well done sir :)

I have been thinking on doing an AAR for a time now but I still didn't plan anything yet because I feel that I should read more succesfull AAR's before I start my own. This one really gives me the kicks to start one as well.

Definitely subscribed ;)
 

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Daimyo wc ist still on the list as Skoty do not have the balls. :p :D

To be honest I am quite tired of south east Asia region and beating Ming everytime as I've playing in this region for quite a while and conquered the World from the east multiple times. I wanted to try something different this time.

May switch back to catholic and snack the crown from austria. :D

Sounds like a plan, eh? :D

Prussian Nahuatl One Faith ? Awesome ! ;)

I'll be staying Protestant, due to bonuses to discipline (+2.5%) and morale (+5%), and +15 improve relation is also nice ;)

Waaaauw !!! This AAR really got my interest, well done sir :)

I have been thinking on doing an AAR for a time now but I still didn't plan anything yet because I feel that I should read more succesfull AAR's before I start my own. This one really gives me the kicks to start one as well.

Definitely subscribed ;)

Just start writing ;) I'll be following you.

Isn't it pretty much impossible to do a one-faith with one of the pagan religions since you get so few missionaries?

Actually I take that back, there was a reddit post about a Mayan one-faith. You need to use a ton of vassals with religious ideas. Apparently he annexed and released Najd like three times.

With strategies described in that reddit post it should be possible to do one faith with every religion in the game.
 

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4. Eastern expansion

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After period of stabilization of Prussia and religious tension it's time to get rolling again. Trier just have lost all alliances is ready to be integrated with Prussian low countries.
Although no excessive amounts of AE were gained during last 10 years full annexation will provoke a coalition so this war will be used to fulfill one of the age objectives - we force Trier to convert to Protestant faith and this also converts their capital to Protestant before it's taken by us which results in no need for religious conversion of province Trier.


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Lithuania lost all alliances and their troops pose no real threat so this war is merely a landgrab. As for idea groups - filing religious and then finishing administrative is short term goal. Religious will come first as it's one of the age objectives, then admin will be finished for -10% cost of administrative technology (it will save us 600*0.1*17 = 1020 admin points in a way towards admin tech 27, usually in WC games no further admin technology is unlocked due to being useless for WC to finish).


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Bohemia, Poland and Lithuania are truce locked so there's no real danger of coalition. In addition peace treaty with Lithuania pushes us past 50 prestige and we fulfill mission to improve our prestige which was taken after we've switched religion and took 100 prestige hit.


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I wanted stackwipe :(


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Hungary started its own war against Poland thus we can not take Polish land on the border with Hungary which is a bit unfortunate. However this peace treaty still denies the wealthiest land in central Poland which will be later taken by us.
And again, this is a peace deal which pushed our AE towards absolute limits as any additional province would result in possible coalition.


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Alliance with Ottomans means that we'll be able to use them as our attack dog in upcoming league war. However they're still allied to our rival Muscovy.


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Technology 11 unlocks first type of manufactories and immediately 4 are built in order to strengthen our economy.
World conquest revolves also around straightening your economy as much as possible to prepare for final push once administrative efficiency kicks in.
First 150-200 years are really more about preparation and strengthening economy. Things like securing important trade nodes (Cape and Zanzibar), building manufactories in right places expanding into strategic directions to allow future AE spread should be done instead of mindless blobbing.


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Livonian Order will cease it's existence and also OPM Riga which will be annexed, although it's not cobelligerent as members of trade league will join and fighting exactly 144 OPMs in not funny at all. However the peace deal will have to wait until few gifts are sent and also for tick of the year as Muscovy will have exactly 50 AE with us after the peace, but next year it will be just 47 due to improve relations.


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Call to arms for our ally Hungary against Florence, Aragon and our rival France seems like an excellent opportunity to force France to annul its annoying alliances if they accept a separate peace.
Before accepting call to arms several French provinces are marked as vital interest so AI knows that we want to receive provinces in peace deal.


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Hungarian block does have numerical superiority and Prussia also brings quality.


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I love new artillery barrage thing - first siege tick and we already start at 14% progress. Together with maxed artillery it makes sieges go incredibly fast.


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This battle probably determined the outcome of war ar French side lost all initiative they had and their stacks dispersed into several smaller ones which were hunted and exterminated.
We also lost alliance with Ottomans as they've decided to rival Austria, on the other hand we can attack them with holy war and take their land, but their assistance in league war is now uncertain (I'd say it's still likely to happen that they will join Protestant league due to their rivalry).


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Swedish war for independence - no thank you Denmark, I won't join as I want Sweden to be free (to be annexed).


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Another routed French stack wiped and the sieges are progressing well.


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Our monarch decided to die and the 2/5/5 took the place with excellent heir.
Emil, you're banned from participating on any hunt.


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In the end Separate peace is not signed, but France have lost their fort in Rethel and is still at war with England, Scotland (reduced to a 3 province minor), Sweden, Muscovy and remnants of Lithuania.


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Wipe of Milanese army, however the AE prevents us from taking Milan so in the end their treasury is pillaged and they're forced to pay us war reparations.


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Goodbye Poland.


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We're currently in war with Lithuania and recently freed Sweden, which is forced to annul all alliances after Stockholm is stormed.
However our eyes are on bigger prize.


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Another big chunk of land, without any coalition danger due to distance of Lithuania to other HRE countries.


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Prepare for a blitzkrieg Russia as you're no longer protected by a Ottoblob. With -20 due to Ottoman attitude towards Russia it's quite possible that alliance won't get renewed after the war.


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Russian armies are busy in Asia helping Ottomans against Timurids so we're having easy time besieging their forts.
Land tech 12 is taken with unlock of new units - free shooter infantry is taken due to their offensive capabilities and as maxed offensive is needed for a stackwipes.


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This battle is just a minor setback, Russia have lost 2 times as many troops and the casualties will be easily replaced by mercenaries with +5% discipline from ages perk.
Our units are quickly consolidated, losses replaced by mercenaries and do form a bashing stack.


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Go home Russia. o_Oo_O


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WIPED :cool:


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Another wipe, and this is not even Prussian space marine final form.


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GET THE HELL OUT OF MY LAND!


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We're allowed to take 127 development because of -25% warscore cost against different religions perk.
It's a pity that Novgorod have lost its cores as they make an excellent vassal for feeding and they also take religious ideas. In the end Karelia is released and fed everything with exception of Ostrov.
 

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Nice wipes :D
 

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a super empire in the East...
 

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Not quite Florryworry levels of insanity, but well worth the read. Subbed!
 

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What's your planned idea group order? Will you be taking innovative and quality for the infantry combat ability policy? I am very interested in seeing how you'll be able to accomplish WC even with what most consider a sub-par idea group as innovative.
 

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Can't wait to see England Germanized.

I got and idea for an optional goal - convert all of British Isles region to Prussian culture.

What's your planned idea group order?

I've already taken all required groups for WC, in my opinion only part of influence and admin ideas (e.g. in admin you really need just adaptability), the others are just comfort ideas (e.g. religious, humanist).
Influence and admin are both so powerful due to total reduction to monarch points needed for blobbing and their policy, these are 1st tier and necessary.
Then comes 2nd tier - religious, humanist, they both help you to contain religious and rebel problem and the first one provides a nice CB to the ones which are not hordes.
Both offensive and quantity are also sitting at 2nd tier, but both can in the end be resolved by having strong economy, which is accomplished by with help of 1st tier idea groups.
Diplomatic is nice to have but is really useful in last 50-70 years for the -20% province warscore cost.


This leaves 4 slots open (5th one will be unlocked too late).
Quality - self explanatory, provides immediate boosts to army efficiency
Offensive - 20% extra siege ability, 5% discipline, extra FL, better generals, self explanatory
Economic - mediocre group at its best but it unlocks 2 great polices (+5% disc and +10% artillery combat ability)
Innovative - trash group but unlocks +20% combat ability for infantry, together with +1 leader siege and +10% siege ability policies

We can even add exploration to the mix just for the lulz and Prussian states of America.
 

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5. The Intermezzo

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Given the fact we've been busy elsewhere our AE in HRE has decayed - a lot. Enough to eat Brunswick, which is one of the countries with ridiculous amount of aggresive expansion toward us and is threatening us with possible coalition start.
No-one bats an eye for poor Brunswick.


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Our 2/5/5 king has decided to pass in relatively young age so electress-consort will reign for a year till Emil takes over the throne. Sweet 15 admin points per month gain is incoming.
Other than that, printing press spawned in Catholic Austria in a Catholic province, but due to splendor perk (+50% institution spread in true faith provinces), we'll be able to obtain printing press quickly.


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Immediately as Sweden comes out of the truce it gets DoWed, shortly after Denmark joins the fray and attacks Sweden too.


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Fall of diplomatically isolated Sweden is imminent and a quick peace deal is made. Most of the obtained provinces are fed to Karelia.


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Ottomans did the mistake of breaking alliance with us so they will serve as our primary holly war target for expansion into Sunni land as spreading the AE gain between different religion blocks is one of basics of avoiding coalitions.


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Not the Ottomans, but Moroccans are causing bigger pain to us, as they keep landing their armies in northern Germany and also beat our galley fleet so the dreams of naval supremacy in the Mediterranean are gone.
One stack however did the job and their routed army is wiped next day.


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For a brief moment Ottomans managed to resiege their capital back, but their stack is routed and our siege starts before garrison should replenish so after two siege ticks Constantinople is secured once again.


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Sure, just keep sending small stacks to Edrine, they'll be wiped from the face of the earth.


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Another attempt of Moroccan landing, they get beaten once again and after retreat towards to Wismar the stack is wiped in Lüneburg.


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With sunken fleet there's no hope of passing Bospor strait so a pace deal is made. Annoying alliance with Morocco is broken and 73 development is secured.


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Lithuania is reduced to OPM landlocked inside Russia.


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Russia is still recovering from previous war and our truce with them is over, but first, additional heathen land will be taken.


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War against Crimea was a simple landgrab and in the end 79 development is exchanged due to ongoing coring provinces taken from Kiev, which was released by Lithuania after their defensive war with Crimea.


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Forming of religious leagues is a sign for us to break our alliance with Austria, for no apparent reason.


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Due to being in dept Russia was not paying their border forts so 3 of them are immediately taken without any garrison to protect them and sieges in Moscow and Smolensk are progressing fast due to artillery barrages.


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Russian armies are engaged in unfavorable terrain in Tikhvin as they've started venturing into our vassal territory. Enemy armies do have a bit higher discipline due to zero militarization of the nation and discipline advisor dying. However our morale is a completely different story.


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Most of the provinces are fed to Karelia and annexation process begins as they've reached 250 development.


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With help of splendor bonus printing press is now widely adapted through whole country and the cost for institution embracement was pushed to negligible numbers.
There was no need for teching during last years (last techs were taken with 3% penalty) so the printing press could spread naturally and the money was invested into cloth manufactories.


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This time our aggressive expansion won't prevent us from taking rich Italian provinces as it seems that our AE decays faster than we can add to it.


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-25% idea cost with additional -5% from Protestant aspect of faith pushes us towards -30% cost for purchasing ideas and additional group was just unlocked.

Now here's the question:
Exploration seems tempting as only France is actively colonizing and Prussian states of America is something I'd like to see
or Quality for more stackwipes?


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Who've just taken over Protestant league leadership? After seeing that Ottomans and France have both joined the league it got much stronger than their Catholic counterpart and the possibilities of AI league leader declaring war in incorrect time increased so we took over.


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But before starting the war, Prussia left the HRE and Emil was crowned Emperor. Cultural union over Germanic culture was gained among other bonuses.
But this was for more than just immediate bonuses from becoming empire, but all will be revealed in time.


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Bring it on Austria!
This war will be far from real challenge as it's number 1,2,3 great powers against 5,6,7 and Protestant side has more than double of troops Catholics have (that's even when English armies counted in - but we know how bad AI is with naval invasions).
 

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Mmm, exploration is tempting, but this AAR promises to be the ultimate in stackwipes - so if I were to get a vote I know which way I would cast it :D
 

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go Prussia!
 

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I mean, more money means more armies means more stackwipes, but better armies also means more stackwipes...but it's way easier to stackwipe native armies than European armies...decisions, decisions.