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So which ideas are recommended?
I imagine Aristocratic and religious ideas due to increased coring cost on you, and religious to deal with neighboring Muslims, and to make culture conversion easier.
Speaking of which, have any of you guys done any significant amount of culture conversion? If I'm ever successful myself, I'll culture convert as much as possible.
Too early for me to say. One that brings in money is a good choice I think.
I want to convert as much as possible to Gothic, but it's just so expensive.
 

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Anyone found an easy way (or any way) to turn back Poland from Domineering after they get a random claim from an event ?


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Might as well post my 5th try :D. This time I killed Genoa before they could coalition-pile me :D

Sadly Poland is only RM. Muscovy is ally. Georgia is my vassal.

The next targets are Kazan, Nogai and the Dagestani.

E8CD6FA145B5B7B7ED5A53AC7AF82FAFA927F0F0
 
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Anyone found an easy way (or any way) to turn back Poland from Domineering after they get a random claim from an event ?

Might as well post my 5th try :D

Finally managed to get rid of both Genoa and Crimea. Sadly Poland is only RM. Muscovy is ally. Georgia is my vassal.

The next targets are Kazan, Nogai and the Dagestani.

E8CD6FA145B5B7B7ED5A53AC7AF82FAFA927F0F0
The picture isn't loading hajutze.

Edit. It shows up in my respond but not in your post?!?
 

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So which ideas are recommended?
I imagine Aristocratic and religious ideas due to increased coring cost on you, and religious to deal with neighboring Muslims, and to make culture conversion easier.
Speaking of which, have any of you guys done any significant amount of culture conversion? If I'm ever successful myself, I'll culture convert as much as possible.

I haven't played enough to really know, but I've gone Administrative > Religious > Offensive so far. Administrative is probably a bit overkill, but mercs being cheaper to recruit than actual units now due to combined merc cost reduction bonuses (Theodoro has one as its first idea) is pretty neat. It also gives me a little bit of a failsafe incase I play poorly, at least during the early stages of the game. At some point I'll probably start mixing mercs in with the regular army to conserve manpower. The cheaper core creation combined with the cost reduction from using claims lets me split the cost between my admin and dip power for going through the sea of hostile core creation cost modifiers that surround you (they become even cost at 10 points per base tax base).

Also I've done a little bit of cultural conversion. As a cultural group gets low to where it's about to fall out of being accepted, I'll just mass convert the group. I think that'll help in the short run in making sure my country stays together. After Offensive I might grab Innovative, Defensive, Aristocratic, or Humanism. Haven't decided yet. Might even go for Economic or Trade honestly.

Edit: ParadogsGamer, I just got done watching Episode 4. You should have taken a look at your advisors to see if you had a diplo rep guy; he would have given you the boost you needed to get the marriage (and therefore the alliance) with Muscovy.
 
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Edit: ParadogsGamer, I just got done watching Episode 4. You should have taken a look at your advisors to see if you had a diplo rep guy; he would have given you the boost you needed to get the marriage (and therefore the alliance) with Muscovy.
Without saying too much, let's just say I figure that out later ;-) Episode 5 or 6, I don't remember.
Feel stupid when I watch it now lol.
 

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Edit: ParadogsGamer, I just got done watching Episode 4. You should have taken a look at your advisors to see if you had a diplo rep guy; he would have given you the boost you needed to get the marriage (and therefore the alliance) with Muscovy.
I'd also have considered seeing if you can rival a(nother?) common enemy and checking what sort of potential the subsidies had.
 

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I think I've mentioned it before .. but yeah .. the PLC wrecks Muscovy 9 out of 10 times now. And they really really really want to conquer you when they get any claim on you, making your life really really really hard :D
 

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can anyone explain to me what all the excitement about theodoro is about? i feel like im missing something... :)

i bet its their color. And they start as OPM amidst hostile countries that dow almost immediately. Nothing compared to Albania, Yaroslavl, Navarra etc though.

But its a new coutnry, in a region that many people don't play. But its in fact a very interesting region now. Playing a country near Black Sea has advantages too, since you can spread your agressive expansion over 3 continents. Africa, Asia and Europe are all options for a nation around Black sea.

Oh yeah, they have Goth culture. Not the youngster culture, but well, the Goths.

All in all, its a nice challenge for someone who never tried playing an OPM country.

Why people play 'm? Is there some achievement i'm missing?
 

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i bet its their color. And they start as OPM amidst hostile countries that dow almost immediately. Nothing compared to Albania, Yaroslavl, Navarra etc though.

But its a new coutnry, in a region that many people don't play. But its in fact a very interesting region now. Playing a country near Black Sea has advantages too, since you can spread your agressive expansion over 3 continents. Africa, Asia and Europe are all options for a nation around Black sea.

Oh yeah, they have Goth culture. Not the youngster culture, but well, the Goths.

All in all, its a nice challenge for someone who never tried playing an OPM country.

Why people play 'm? Is there some achievement i'm missing?

Nah, no achievement to my knowledge. So you basically nailed it.
 

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I think I've mentioned it before .. but yeah .. the PLC wrecks Muscovy 9 out of 10 times now. And they really really really want to conquer you when they get any claim on you, making your life really really really hard :D

If Muscovy has golden horde as enemy at start, they can get wrecked early. Kazan usually dow Perm then; Muscovy can lose some battles, Golden horde sees opportunity, Ryazan too, and they all declare on Muscovy. Novgorod won't, since they alwaus help Sweden in its independance war. Bye Muscovy after that. They then take religious ideas (if they didn't get a novgorod port province), lose all their vassals usually making peace with the attackers. It was the ideal start for my yaroslavl game.

Regarding Poland, won't they always be domineering towards you?
 

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My experience is - if you manage to quickly grab a couple of lands and they dont get a claim on you somehow - they are rarely domineering but alas ... they get claims sometimes. And s*** gets ugly if they have no one else to fight :D
 

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My experience is - if you manage to quickly grab a couple of lands and they dont get a claim on you somehow - they are rarely domineering but alas ... they get claims sometimes. And s*** gets ugly if they have no one else to fight :D
If you keep Crimea as a March between you and PLC, they won't get a claim would they?