Which country have strongest ideas?
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-shock can be gotten from Shia, and really,starting from 20-30% it becomes so strong that it decides battles. Since it everything else goes up, it becomes even stronger, as iirc it's the last modifier applied.
Jan Mayen hands down the best. You can create any nation and adopt their ideas, simple
France, Russia, Mughals np
Just finished an Oda run and am now playing Hisn Kayfa. Both have top tier idea sets, with Oda taking the edge. Also very interesting nations to play.
Smolensk has a very interesting idea set. Not the greatest but certainly one of the more unique ones. Smolensk is a pain to play though. I actually really like Austria as well for the PU opportunities and easier annexing.
1. Gujarat
2. Oman
3. Ternate
Why bother burning the world when you can steer trade into Zanzibar? Barbarians these days...
2. Oman
3. Ternate
Why bother burning the world when you can steer trade into Zanzibar? Barbarians these days...
England, Madyas, and Malaya are rather good in MP, I think, since they're pretty much immune to invasion due to their ideas and can be a pain in the colonial and trade fronts. You'd need naval and maritime ideas to take their fleets on, assuming they don't take any naval ideas, and continental tags don't have the luxury of taking those in MP. Or outnumber them heavily.
Oda is insanely strong. Their traditions right off the bat are +10% Morale and +10% Infantry Combat Ability. This stacks with +10% Morale from Shinto religion and +10% Morale and +10% Infantry Combat Ability from Daimyo government. Let me rephrase that - Oda has +30% morale and +20% Infantry Combat ability from day one, without any ideas selected. This lets them stackwipe pretty much any army with ease. Take a couple of loans and go over your force limit by a few troops and every other daimyo will melt like butter. it's so ridiculous that after the first couple of initial wars, you can just declare war on everybody in Japan one after another and ignore coalitions, and have Japan unified within the lifetime of your first ruler. Keep in mind this is an OPM subject that starts with a force limit of 4.
Then you get into their ideas: Their first idea is Goods Produced, one of the best economic modifiers in the game. Their second idea is 10% CCR and -10% Province Warscore Cost. Their other ideas give Land Leader Shock, Fire, and Siege (!), as well as a straight boost to Land Fire Damage and 20% Manpower modifier/-5% tech cost for good measure. Basically every one of their ideas is geared for war, and the ones that aren't strictly combat-oriented are still helpful. They have no pointless naval ideas, no wasted slots that might as well be empty (10% stab cost mod, etc.). Just great ideas for smashing everything around you.
Of course other countries have ideas/governments that are good in other ways, but Oda really just stands out to me as amazingly good purely on the merit of its idea set. Especially since it's not even a formable like Persia, Italy, or Yuan.
Then you get into their ideas: Their first idea is Goods Produced, one of the best economic modifiers in the game. Their second idea is 10% CCR and -10% Province Warscore Cost. Their other ideas give Land Leader Shock, Fire, and Siege (!), as well as a straight boost to Land Fire Damage and 20% Manpower modifier/-5% tech cost for good measure. Basically every one of their ideas is geared for war, and the ones that aren't strictly combat-oriented are still helpful. They have no pointless naval ideas, no wasted slots that might as well be empty (10% stab cost mod, etc.). Just great ideas for smashing everything around you.
Of course other countries have ideas/governments that are good in other ways, but Oda really just stands out to me as amazingly good purely on the merit of its idea set. Especially since it's not even a formable like Persia, Italy, or Yuan.
Combat-wise, i'd say any military-oriented nation in Japan. Shinto+Empire-rank Independent Daimyo alone give +20% morale and +10% Infantry Power. And only then you actually start to consider actual ideas. What i am saying is, basically, that Prussia is no longer the best military-oriented nation
From the japanese nations, i'd rank them as following:
1) Oda
2) Uesugi/Shimazu
3) Tokugawa
4) Otomo/Satake (because artillery power is awesome)
From the japanese nations, i'd rank them as following:
1) Oda
2) Uesugi/Shimazu
3) Tokugawa
4) Otomo/Satake (because artillery power is awesome)
ROME
it's not the best, and it's a late game or mod acquisition, but it has good ccr
it's not the best, and it's a late game or mod acquisition, but it has good ccr
butua shock reduction is ambition though, I just question how long of a timing you have to really utilize shock reduction stack before shock accounts for less than 30% of casualties in battles.
Not trivial to get the zaidi scholar either.
Burgundian ideas are among the best for current mercspam meta:
- +5% Discipline
- +10% Morale
- +50% Available mercenaries
- -25% Mercenary maintenance
- +25% Manpower
By mercspam do you mean full consolidate?
I wondered how an MP player that plays careful professionalism holds up against someone that just smashes 1000% reinforce speed mercs into him. In an existential threat war, this would suggest he also either mercs+aggressively consolidates or dies..
I wondered how an MP player that plays careful professionalism holds up against someone that just smashes 1000% reinforce speed mercs into him. In an existential threat war, this would suggest he also either mercs+aggressively consolidates or dies..
yes, cheap mercenary infantry that can be consolidated when needed.
In MP people stack professionalism to ditch it into free manpower when needed, mostly. With new ability to break walls, slowly reinforcing MP-based armies are even in higher disadvantage.
Merc recruitment speed might wind up mattering more or less depending on the rules of real time in MP. I was pretty good in SC2 when still playing (diamond 1 in 1v1) but 3+ speed will still strain APM and this game's hotkeys/interface aren't designed for that on a large scale. In big wars even 2 speed no pause can press you.
I don't do much MP in this game since I don't like the dedicated time commitment, but I can't picture drill/professionalism winning over mercs, especially when drill melts in the first 1-5% of the war's time (often on forts if you're the attacker). I wonder how many MP players know about/use artillery barrage --> assault while consolidating? I'd imagine that could be pretty huge in big wars.
You need to micro really hard to assault at full efficiency since you never want to assault with troops over the "X troops can simultaneously assault" limit.
Though I wonder if assaulting significantly under that limit might be better, if the damage is still % based when you are below limit. In such a case you go for a morale win, not win by garrison depletion.
Though I wonder if assaulting significantly under that limit might be better, if the damage is still % based when you are below limit. In such a case you go for a morale win, not win by garrison depletion.
byzantium got very strong and unique idea set too guarenteeing you to never have rebellions as long as you can convert your provinces before they spawn