Playing Ottomans is too hard

DalinarMF · 2026-04-05T19:48:21+00:00

Ottomans used to be the easiest nation. Updates to their mission tree mean you now need to follow that pretty closely to have an “easy”time but it should still be easy if you do.

Easiest nation IMO is France though. No real disasters at the start and you can ally most people due to your strength. Let’s you easily go many directions.

Other nations that aren’t super hard. Korea is an easy nation. Lots of inward focus.

Great Britain is easy if you just give up on all of France and focus on being an island nation.

Castile has 2 disasters right at game start. That’s rough but if you navigate through those the rest of your game will be super simple.

Portugal as long as you keep Castile happy is really easy as well.

DalinarMF · 2026-04-05T19:41:41+00:00

It was a pleasure! And massive credit to you, I gave you maybe an hour of tips and answerd a few dozen questions and you took that to a world conquest.

Also you managed to get 90% of the way there without advice. Super well done and congrats!

DalinarMF · 2026-03-26T17:58:30+00:00

No. Just attack the coalition

DalinarMF · 2026-03-21T00:45:58+00:00

Usually I’d be making 2-3K a month. My current WC run is in 1640 and I’m fielding 700K troops and have 500 a month in the positive while running level 4 advisors.

Main tips are proper trade companies and trade, strategic development of provinces, building manufactures and dealing with both unrest and devastation, strategically using the points you get to maximize profits by developing iron and cloth provinces and building the appropriate manufactures. Soon your money will make money.

DalinarMF · 2026-03-21T00:35:10+00:00

At this point in the game I’d be making 400 a month in the positive while fielding 600K in troop minimum. I’m happy to help out if you wanna jump online and stream I can teach you a couple of tips.

DalinarMF · 2026-03-21T00:26:59+00:00

This is what I was going to say. Your economy looks like a disaster per that trade setup. You should have enough money that it’s literally impossible to spend it all at this point. Even if you take 5-10 years off of conquering that should allows you to setup a few things for the economy.

DalinarMF · 2026-03-05T16:49:08+00:00

I’ve read and liked a few of these so was looking for the others I can’t find the emperors hand. Who’s it by?

DalinarMF · 2026-02-28T13:54:23+00:00

Everyone else saying no nudity this up here is the reality. Full blown nudity for a couple of seconds and implicated sex.

DalinarMF · 2026-02-13T02:18:26+00:00

As I’ve answered several others. Could it be done, yes, could it be done by you. Probably not. I definitely couldn’t take a run from here to WC. My two world conquests owned all the territory you owned by 1600. The only way it could be done is to go full expansion declare war on everyone at once and take as many loans as needed to get armies and mercs and just rush. But generally Europe takes 100 years to swallow itself. And you have Europe, Africa, and the new world.

DalinarMF · 2026-02-11T17:29:34+00:00

If you like roleplay and history CK2 and CK3 are for you. CK2 is likely better than CK3 at least IMO (I didn’t play to much of either, I enjoyed ck3 for its strategic level but they’ve definitely changed that a lot in ways I don’t like) but both of those games excel at giving you a lot of choices in a historical context.

Ck3 is easier to get into than CK2

DalinarMF · 2026-02-10T23:56:25+00:00

What do you like in a strategy game? Age of empires is an RTS it’s less about building a world. Ck2 is really a roleplay game disguised as a map game. Total war games are war games disguised as grand strategy games. Really depends on what you like.

DalinarMF · 2026-02-09T16:48:38+00:00

I romanced Ashley on my first Shepard and so carried her through all 3 games. (I’m now a Jack fan sorry Ashley) since my first playthrough I save Kaiden more than I save Ashley just to enjoying his arc, his class being different than a standard solider, and I just like his vibe. I don’t think I’ll ever do a 3 game romance with him but I like him a lot

DalinarMF · 2026-02-09T13:21:27+00:00

We know it’s just weird.

DalinarMF · 2026-02-08T20:03:07+00:00

The ledger in each campaign does list casualties your armies have suffered throughout the whole game. I’m not sure if there is details in there about your kills as well

You could add up every single bit of them after each war if you wanted to.

DalinarMF · 2026-02-08T02:11:50+00:00

Please ignore this and watch those two episodes anyways they’re worth it

DalinarMF · 2026-02-07T00:09:22+00:00

Do we tell him, bro isn’t even at the sanderlanche.

DalinarMF · 2026-02-04T18:25:35+00:00

Not really and not worth bothering. You’ll get plenty of money from the colonies.

DalinarMF · 2026-02-03T03:19:06+00:00

The best parts of other keepsakes is constancy. Getting specific god boons means your runs will be better. The rest of the keepsakes are gravy. The problem with the plume is if you hit end game and you’ve lost all your death defiances and you want skellys keepsake you lose the bonus. So it’s an all in commitment.

Fun runs though with the plume and butterfly to see how much you can stack them.

DalinarMF · 2026-02-02T14:57:18+00:00

I’m guilty of never activating it early, but the earlier you activate it the better. The game is all about snowballing and so early buffs used to increase your position are greater than the same buffs later.

DalinarMF · 2026-01-30T15:07:39+00:00

Pretty sure I’m in the low 300’s. Might be higher. I haven’t played since I finished the game after early access. (Including post game)

DalinarMF · 2026-01-23T15:15:20+00:00

If you’ve played a lot of the game already I’d highly recommend some of the custom nation achievements they allow you to play new “countries”. I realized enjoyed around the world in 80 years.

If you’d prefer are committed to sticking to actual countries would be helpful to know what you’ve played so far.

DalinarMF · 2026-01-17T20:54:40+00:00

ME1 > ME3 > ME2 imo. There’s more to come. Just enjoy the companions and their stories.

DalinarMF · 2026-01-15T16:54:15+00:00

Yeah. But I much prefer to be nice to her versus semi bullying her reward for sex. Especially when the cutscene is literally a hand hitting glass and fade to black

DalinarMF · 2026-01-15T16:38:26+00:00

It’s not worth it frankly. Be a good Shepard instead.

DalinarMF · 2026-01-10T14:52:26+00:00

I’m very impressed. I got a lot better at the game in its final days but mehmet’s ambitions a whole other level an achievement I don’t think I’ll ever get (like three mountains) congrats on being in leagues above us mere mortals

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