Suggestion for One Faith achievement

[Fede92]

Hi everyone,

I am considering a run to obtain the "One Faith" achievement. In your opinion, which is the best country to complete this challenge?

 

[nephilim2k]

Any Sunni nation - as long as you force convert Najd, Portugal and Spain who will be conversion machines for new world and old!

 

[necro84]

Morocco into Andalusia to make all the colonizers Sunni. You can convert Portugal, Castille, Leon and Asturias and make them colonizing vassals. After that take French coast, Britain and Ireland. You can convert Asia and Africa using TCs, all colonies will be Sunni so only Europe needs to be converted

 

[we need a jagellion]

Somewhere on Reddit, @lambda x.x said that the best thing one can do in a one-culture run (and therefore, a one-faith) is to conquer fast, and I couldn't agree more. The faster you conquer the world, the more time you have left to convert it without stressing about modifiers like "religious zeal." With the addition of monuments, religious conversion has become rather trivial. So my advice is to pick a country which can conquer the world the fastest.

And I would advise against Sunni. I am currently in the middle of a Turkish one-culture attempt with the Ottomans/Caliphate, and Sunni feels underwhelming (and Sunni Ottomans were a mediocre pick for this tbh). I did a Hindu Mughals one-faith earlier, and it was much easier due to CCR stacking from Mughal traditions, Hindu monument, and the personal deity (75% CCR total). Hindus also get access to Buddhist monuments, which provide several missionaries and missionary strength bonuses — you can get something like 28% missionary strength (the trick to get Buddha is to not select a personal deity for a new ruler. If you don't select a personal deity, the game will eventually give you an event where you can pick Buddha). I also attempted a Byzantium one-faith Orthodox run and quit the game in late 1700's just because I realized I couldn't core/annex everything on time. The problem wasn't the conversions but the rate of conquest. As far as the achievement, I did it a couple years back as Austria. Again, the bottleneck of conquest was resolved with vassal feeding and one-click HRE integration.

If this Turkish one-culture doesn't pan out, I plan to do a run as Castile. You can kill all the colonizers early and reduce the potential heretic provinces in the colonial regions, and you can secure expansion routes with no-CB Byzantium and just 2 ideas from Exploration to land in Africa and SEA. Then you can form Sardinia-Piedmont and Italy for admin efficiency and CCR, which, again, speeds the rate of conquest. Any Christian denomination would work. It probably wouldn't be too hard to even become Hindu Italy, but I am not that great of a player and it's too much work for me.

 

[necro84]

You don't need one faith for one culture. Tengri nations can convert culture without converting religion. You can check by using console, just integrate any nation as Oirat. Just stay horde for the whole game to reduce development after conquest and get mana for converting cultures to make it quicker

 

[we need a jagellion]

You don't need one faith for one culture. Tengri nations can convert culture without converting religion. You can check by using console, just integrate any nation as Oirat. Just stay horde for the whole game to reduce development after conquest and get mana for converting cultures to make it quicker

This is an exception, but it still falls under "conquer faster", since you need to control provinces to culture convert them (never forced culture on PUs, so maybe there are some exceptions there).

 

[Guibou]

I did my one faith with mughals. It offers 3 things : fast conquest (both from idea and missions tree), a stong religion for one faith and the accepted culture thing gives you a +2% conversion that others can't have (unless you want to micro states and culture but that would really be mana intensive). It was back in 1.29, so now with TC all over africa/asia that convert for you and monuments I think it would be easier. One thing to note, back then colonies didn't convert and the settlement growth was bugged so I spent the last 30 years killing my own colonies to convert their capital. Now it's fix.

Their's some words for a Spain into HRE one faith but I thinks it's boring. Can't stand playing spain anymore. Take explo + religious and deus vult your way into africa and SEA and let PU Portugal colonised the new world, while working your way up emperorship. Stop reformation before it's start and balkanise everything from Britany to Perm. Vassal swarm to finish off the sunnies.

I heard that if you release client state they now can take your religion and idea so it might be good to research on that, I never bothered with them so it would make the run even more trivial.

One faith was my third WC, so if you got experience on WC then I think you can acheive it without too much struggle. It's a good idea to make a post here when you're about half way, I made one because I knew I was missing somethings but couldn't point it out, got all the help I needed from folks here. One crucial thing they pointed out is that I was missing DotF for half the game because I turned off the notification. Good luck

 

[beaver79]

Sunni Mughals unless you are really good at revoking and stopping the reformation in the HRE. You get something like 8 missionaries after building all the monuments and propagate religion can convert everything that isn't Christian or Muslim.

 

[holyvigil]

Hi everyone,

I am considering a run to obtain the "One Faith" achievement. In your opinion, which is the best country to complete this challenge?

Who did you do your WC run with?

You should be fairly good at WC when you attempt one faith.

Castile is the best. All your subjects have to convert for you. No dumb Sunni conversion blocking. You can shield Catholics and declare on heathens day 1. You have the most powerful faith by Dev and it's also the most strongest in terms of mechanics. You can block the Ottomans by no cbing Byz and taking out the Mamluks. Early access to Alhambra t3 is a must. You can colonize without ideas and get to multiple continents easy for AE spread. Keep Castilian ideas.

Get DoTF and Ignore protestants. Catholics should deal with most of them without your intervention. In fact ignore Europe for the most part until you have nothing else left.

 

[iClipse]

I did my run as Provence -> Jerusalem -> Sardinia -> Congo -> Aksum for max warscore cost reduction + 100% reduced integration cost. Germany as last nation is probably stronger than Aksum.

Went quite smoothly, although a colony had an event that turned a catholic province protestant which lost religious zeal only in 1819. Close one.

 

[Fede92]

Thank you all for your suggestions.
I did only one world conquest with Mughals. Unfortunately, it was too late to convert the whole world. I see that they are includere among the suitable countries. Therefore, I think that I will use Mughals since I have already experience in using that country.
I will wait until the next update, in order to avoid having my run broken.

 

[grisamentum]

I'm not sure about "best country", but the nice thing, I think there are actually plenty of viable ways to do it (absent events like iClipse mentioned). Normal Tengri horde where you just keep conquering everyone is totally viable, especially because it puts you very far ahead of the time schedule. I did mine as Catholic Austria and almost ran out of time, but I was honestly being very lazy for much of the game because I was primarily going for AEIOU and hadn't really thought about the One Faith aspect. But all the colonizers were Catholic, which is a major advantage to doing any One Faith attempt.

If you're Austria (or Spain->Emperor, or GB->Emperor) you have a much much simpler time doing it than any Sunni nation. Sunni One Faith is of course viable (hell, Florryworry is doing Alcheringa One Faith right now, they are all "viable"), but I think Sunni is a step harder than any Christian one faith simply because the Christians are creating more stuff for you to go convert in the New World. Obviously they don't do a perfect job of converting everything to Christian but it's less work than converting literally all of it to Sunni or making a really concerted effort to kill Iberia, England, and Norway as early as possible.

 

[Josar]

I did my one faith as Austria, unfortunately I had to release and reconquer my colonial nations so they would stop using colonists to develop.

 

[iClipse]

I did my one faith as Austria, unfortunately I had to release and reconquer my colonial nations so they would stop using colonists to develop.

If you're playing on the latest patch (non-beta) there is a subject interaction to make them stop promoting settlement growth. Worked quite well when I tried. They immediately remove all colonists when you active the interaction.

But in patches some time ago it was an issue, I agree

 

[Aeroclub]

I just did it as France by early 1700-s (despite this country not having any religion bonuses and actually having some penalties due to their NIs that prevent you from getting the +2 missionaries from counter-reformation). I was actually very intimidated by it seeing how many provinces have been added to the game recently, but in the end it was much easier than it seemed, if you understand WC minmaxing dynamics. So, you can pretty much do it with whomever you want.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

And I would advise against Sunni. I am currently in the middle of a Turkish one-culture attempt with the Ottomans/Caliphate, and Sunni feels underwhelming (and Sunni Ottomans were a mediocre pick for this tbh).

Hordes are the runaway top tier choice for WC type games simply because they can do it faster/easier. Razing will even help conversion speed a little bit, too.

I didn't realize you could get the Buddhist monuments with Hindu though, that's a game-changer since it should let them get enough missionaries to be functional. -75% CCR is a hell of a drug.

I find it hard to believe that the Ottomans wouldn't be a relatively easy pick, or that Sunni isn't one of the easier religions to convert everything, though. Sunni Ottomans can shut down colonizers going too wild, make a ton of cash early in the campaign, and can leave most TC land to the auto-conversion mechanic. Sunni also gets lots of missionaries and strength, so churning through land directly once you have it should be straightforward, too. This should be easier than doing it with a generic nation by a significant margin, even if practically anybody can do it as one of the major conversion religions.

Client states use your ideas in recent patches, so you can get a lot of extra missionaries going at relatively low effort in the late game if you're falling behind.

 

[Josar]

If you're playing on the latest patch (non-beta) there is a subject interaction to make them stop promoting settlement growth. Worked quite well when I tried. They immediately remove all colonists when you active the interaction.

But in patches some time ago it was an issue, I agree

Well it can still be a problem if you take colonial nations by annexing their overlord, as it will only stop it, if they have not started yet.

 

[Bouchart]

I did it ages ago as Sunni Ottomans. You'd need to take out the colonizers fairly quickly and take the Unify Islam decision.

 

[ianchen12345]

just do it as Austria... its way easier than Sunni... just stop reformation and you are good to go.

 

[Frustrum]

just do it as Austria... its way easier than Sunni... just stop reformation and you are good to go.

This. Just finished an Austria achievement run that went so well it accidentally turned into one faith. It was on 1.30.4 but has probably only gotten easier. you can crush the protestants anyway. England is the only annoying colonizer to rein in. And the vassal swarm makes the WC part a joke if you have ever done one without it. Would have been done before 1800 except needing to release and fight a couple of Colonial nations I inherited with promote settlement growth in place. Feed Asia to long snaking HRE vassals and watch them convert everything for you if you subsidize them a bit. Then inherit the whole thing to fix and provinces that a vassal made trade (Had a few in Africa from HRE colonizers)