Prussian Master of India

[botho]

Can it be done? Garjat is my vassal, I have just landed in Bengal (took them from Pegu)
Bahmanis is allied to Ming and Jaunpur, Jaunpur allied to Transoxinia as well. I'm not sure...
Yarkand is a tributary of Ming, so that might only be possible at the very end.
Shame no European country landed there earlier (me included)

 

[schondetta]

If you have offensive, quality and at least 130 disc than you can do anything

 

[Kergan]

67 admin to core Gauda in 1729??? That's insanely high. It looks like your absolutism is way too low. It should be 100 by now - the higher it is, the higher your admin efficiency. (I'm pretty sure if I try to core that in my current Italy game at around the same date it would be 30ish at most.)

 

[PhoenixG]

looking at his at his admin eff. he should have around 54 absolutism. Bit on the low side. Go hindu for another 5% discipline

 

[botho]

my absolutism was too low, but the coring cost was not a problem actually. the problem was not getting enough land with imperialism CB. i could take only very few provinces before reaching 100% warscore (imo). but i have to be honest, i am not too familiar yet with absolutism and admin efficiency.
i got in a regency council at around 1810, i was able to declare war in 1818 instead. couldn't core them all, i've had to break truces and use my admin points. i'm not sure i would have made it even without the regency though.

i'm thinking maybe i lost a lot of time taking provinces of not co-belligerent provinces. i used it to declare on yarkand(tributary) and bahmanis (ally) of ming, so i'd declare on persia and other countries to get them in.
but in the end i didn't expand soon enough, west africa and cape were all colonized when i arrived near newfoundland (who was already huge) - i had not planned on trying master of india when i started. the game was fun, but missing out on 10 year suckssssss

 

[PhoenixG]

my absolutism was too low, but the coring cost was not a problem actually. the problem was not getting enough land with imperialism CB. i could take only very few provinces before reaching 100% warscore (imo). but i have to be honest, i am not too familiar yet with absolutism and admin efficiency.

Well that is what admin eff does. It reduce warscore/overexention for each dev you take. So higher is better. But taking stuff from no co-bel also double the warscore cost. So yeah