So I'm wondering how does a nation strapped for cash earn some more. Is economic or trade better when you can't afford a large navy.
Ways to make money
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Economic is good for controlling gold inflation and investing it into big income fast, not a "strapped for cash" situation. The following are your best bets:
1. Looting: vs big nations, you can move province to province that doesn't border anything where you have military access and stop just briefly, and you'll loot the province for its base tax value, or double that if you're a horde government. In extreme cases, you can loot 1000's of ducats off Ming as a horde. In less extreme cases, you can still get 100's across a war (I did this for example as Taberestan vs both QQ and Timurids en route to the achievement).
2. Fleece targets for money: Might as well take reparations and gold in the war deal.
3. Manage army maintenance: Early on, run low maintenance whenever you can get away with it and store money for a big burst to take down someone hard.
4. Conquer into rich nodes/tax areas: Self explanatory, but acquiring rich territory stops you from being poor.
Trade is probably the best individual group for money unless you're at source nodes or some crap, but I rarely take it. For nations like Siberian tribes and whatnot you're really going to get used to low maintenance, farming money off the AI, and looting while at war to make any progress.
1. Looting: vs big nations, you can move province to province that doesn't border anything where you have military access and stop just briefly, and you'll loot the province for its base tax value, or double that if you're a horde government. In extreme cases, you can loot 1000's of ducats off Ming as a horde. In less extreme cases, you can still get 100's across a war (I did this for example as Taberestan vs both QQ and Timurids en route to the achievement).
2. Fleece targets for money: Might as well take reparations and gold in the war deal.
3. Manage army maintenance: Early on, run low maintenance whenever you can get away with it and store money for a big burst to take down someone hard.
4. Conquer into rich nodes/tax areas: Self explanatory, but acquiring rich territory stops you from being poor.
Trade is probably the best individual group for money unless you're at source nodes or some crap, but I rarely take it. For nations like Siberian tribes and whatnot you're really going to get used to low maintenance, farming money off the AI, and looting while at war to make any progress.
Defensive/Offensive.
Be better at war, and take it from your neighbors. Afterall, cash gives no AE.
Be better at war, and take it from your neighbors. Afterall, cash gives no AE.
Look at the ledger and find the richest country. Often you can find a filthy rich opm and just war with them to take their money, depending on where you are in the world of course. I once took 14k from frankfurt but that was rather late in the game.
My current game, 2pm Venice was so filthy rich, I could only take 1/4 of it in a single war...
I remember the good old days of taking a withdrawal from the bank of Swahili. They would sit there with no enemies, nothing to do and just build up thousands of cash.
Everyone is swimming in money in 1.8! How the hell did you manage to get strapped for cash?
This is what I've been noticing in my games. I don't have most of the money problems I did before.
Try out one of the Siberian tribes North of Japan and tell us all about that swimming in cash position.
That's one of the few times I've ever taken trade in single player, though admittedly I didn't take if for the money in that case, but rather because it was by far my strongest military idea.
Sounds like a great way to have your manpower depleted and pay a ton in army maintenance. If you are accepting a bunch of CTAs, maybe sit back and don't help for awhile, and go ahead and crank up the war taxes.
i have been in war a longtime as well. the best thing i have found is keeping my stability positive is the best thing you can do to maintain a state of war for long periods. i have been staying at war with portugal, cablise, and england for the main purpose of sinking their fleets so they cannot colonize. of course i am working on capturing the straits of gibraltar and the canary islands atm before i can settle for peace with them. i will be forced to peace with them soon because i cannot diplo-annex my vassals when they are at war otherwise i would stay at war with those guys forever. maintain a positive stability is going to increase your money.