The game gets magnificent when the whole world hates you before the middle of 16th century.
Going narrowminded via events is done via the Founding Father event That wont pop up until 17xx+
Hey Rastar, how do you decide when it is a good time to enter into the BB war phase? I've danced near the BB limit in my Ireland game a couple times, but I've been worried what a large Castille and Scandinavia might do. Is it a function of money, income, and lack of large foes that have access to you? I suppose to put it a better way, would you have started the BB wars if Persia and the Golden Horde bordered you? Good job on the management of so many wars by the way :wacko:.
In case you were wondering, yeah I have to play on rather slow speed being at war with 10 countries at once.
Was there any question?
Good work on being bad. And on Japan, with their navy so huge would it be worth it to sponsor pirates in an effort to knock them down?
I am not sure about this, the goal is to tech faster, right ? Converted provinces will give more income and less rebels in the long run (in short term the rr will rise of curse) and going free subjects will only result in better tech. Otoh there are some events that allows to go narrowminded or at least i have an impression that going narrowminded via random events is quite easy compared to free subjects. Just my 2 cents.
Going narrowminded via events is done via the Founding Father event That wont pop up until 17xx+
"Petition of redress" and "Peasants getting uppity" can eventually move free subjects from -5 to 0, that would ofc take few hundred years... Don't know about founding fathers, but some other Narrowminded events seem to require you to be narrowminded already...
The game gets magnificent when the whole world hates you before the middle of 16th century.
Good point. It was the founding father event - i played lately a game in the 1700s and had a LOT of overseas provinces. but it wont help Rastar. There is one event about a philosopher, you can imprison him (i think) to become +1 narrowminded but this one isn't province based afaik.
Ah-hah! See, I knew that somehow you'd manage to not have to pull out of that war with the Ottos for the little you already had.
Just a shame that the solution was so simple and not some cunning plan.
Excellent stuff yet again, though I am not sure how obscure references to rapid eye movement really are.
How do you deal with rebels? if i try something like this i would drown in rebels and war exhaustion.
And I was imagining you playing with 8 mice and 8 keyboards... in the internet nobody knows you are an octopus :rofl:
Once you've dealt with the Ottomans I don't think Persia will be that scary...
Rastar's got plenty of troops on rebel watching duty.
You seem to have the Ottos on the run and the mamluks can't be too much of a threat with their constant bankruptcies. Once you've got a border with Persia, you'll be in one series of wars until you've eliminated them. Cherry pick their best provinces as you did with Ming and they'll fall as easily with the same sort of cat and mouse s'trategy. Same with the Golden Horde.
I am dealing with the twin challenges of “Need to show you more years of action in order to have a good enough story to be worthy of posting”, and “Each year of action involves more and more rebels and so takes even longer to actually play”.
Update – Otto-matic for the people*
*Trying my hand at obscure pop culture references
I laughed hard :rofl:
keep up the good work mate.