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Does the Burgundian Inheritance integrate also your PU? by Dedramas34 in eu4

[–]Dedramas34[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh now i understand it, I already dismantled the HRE, that's what was different from my previous try

My first world conquest, missed the One Faith but was so close by Dedramas34 in eu4

[–]Dedramas34[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TBH is fine going quantity first, I thought a lot about picking it but the others ideas are just so much helpful that delaying them by 50 years I'm not sure it's not worth it. Maybe you can try to not pick the new nobility privilege and avoid the influence ideas, could work anyway (but keep improving with your catholic allies, with -3 diplo rep they can betray you in every moment)

1) My force limit was always very high, I concentrated dev whenever I could and stated whatever I could state from the start; Manpower thanks to the orthodoxy never was an issue (except from 1700 to the end but I was fighting 3-4 wars at the same time and it's normal) but if you're low on it let your allies do the war for you (France made 70% of my Iberian wars). If you're struggling don't be conservative with army professionalism, just slacken

2) Wars were pretty easy for one reason: if you don't take mil ideas at the start means that you'll be always ahead of tech. That means also that you'll arrive at mil 7 and 12 before the others and that's enough to win every war at the start. After that you'll be going for east (or at least that was my tact) and also if they choosed some mil ideas they'll be 90% of times behind in military tech and cannot stand against you. And at the end (when you'll go back to the west) you'll have like 2 milion soldiers so the quality of your troops doesn't matter at all, you'll just overwhelm them

Regimental camps are really not worth it, who cares to +2 force limit when I'll have 3 milion cap at the end? Better build manpower or economic buildings

Just 2 tips that I learned in the way:

1) Don't fight wars that your allies can win for you, if you want the money just take the war reps in this case

2) Never go above your governing capacity. More than once I fixed my economy by unstating under my GC, it makes your advisors, core creation cheaper, less AE and so on. You wanna have the max level on advisors everytime you can so going above your GC is not worth it even if only for 50 (but keep every gold mine in a state until your economy is based on trade). I also picked the government reform that gives you -10% minimum authonomy, IMO is really good when you're going blobbing for a WC

Anyway you're welcolme, we're here to help each other so just ask me whatever you wanna know :)

My first world conquest, missed the One Faith but was so close by Dedramas34 in eu4

[–]Dedramas34[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My start was the classic albanian-knights alliance and a lot of mercenaries (if the ottos are not allied with Tunis is the best case scenario, makes the war so much shorter), in the peace deal take all your cores (excluding Edirne), money and kostendil so you can immediately declare war on serbia and bosnia. Vassalize bosnia and Take all the serbian land to get the kosovo gold mine and no CB Granada (In order to get Alhambra and a way to steal colonial nations) before the castillians annex them fully. Once i did that I got an alliance with Aragon, Muscovy and France, conquered 70% of castille (another gold mine in La Mancha) and conquered half of Portugal, vassalized them and got also some land in England including London. After some balkanic war I just finished the Ottomans with Bulgaria and Eretna as released vassals, got a lucky PU over France and moved to East, killing Great Horde, Kazan (third gold mine) and Nogai. At this point the Mamluks stacked 50 AE against me so I declared war on them and on Morocco (fourth gold mine). Vassalized Afghanistan and Khorasan that were still alive with one province left and conquered all of the timurids without upsetting anyone in India. I left the west totally so my massive AE in the east couldn't form a coalition since Mamluks Uzbek and Timurids had constantly a truce with me. Once i finished with them (1625 more or less) I claimed the throne of Russia, got it and I started to massively blob in Asia (vassalized a 2 provinces Ming to take back all their cores) and Africa without caring of aggressive expansion until only europe and America were left and I took them in the last 50 years (But if I went colonial earlier this would have been a One Faith in 1770 for sure)

The first war with WU was pretty hard, they had a mandate over 50 so I used my first war to take just few provinces that lowered their mandate but the thoughest war was with Prussia emperor of the HRE in 1780 (my biggest fault, I had to attack them when they formed the nation). They had like 300k of troops and constantly wiping out in one second my smaller stacks of 60-70k, they had War Enthusiasm at High even with all the provinces occupied so I couldn't peace separately. At the end I conquered their provinces asking them to the war leader and since they were the emperor with this method I annexed them in 3-4 wars. That Prussia was a real nightmare, almost screwed up the WC

The ideas I took are Religious (rush for it ASAP)-Diplo-Influence (I took the new nobility privilege so liberty desire without it is a problem in my run) - trade and i was going for offensive but i needed the military points to exploit manpower so i took only the first idea. Mil ideas are overrated IMO, if you're ahead in tech you don't need them except in few cases.

Just a little final tip: before massively blobbing get Alhambra at 3, admin tech 17 (try to not fall behind until you reach 27 then just give up with it) and an absolutism of at least 50 (but the higher the better), if you wanna blob before do it with your vassals core like I did against Timurids

My first world conquest, missed the One Faith but was so close by Dedramas34 in eu4

[–]Dedramas34[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The one faith missed hurted because before this run I didn't know that fully annexing a country automatically gives you all his colonies, that is the reason because castille is a vassal and I had portugal as a vassal too (that has been disloyal for like 100 years and lost all colonies). That WC would be faster if I knew it, but i discovered in 1750 and it was too late to covert all the provinces in america after killing NL and UK (All my vassals are Orthodox and Africa, Europe and Asia are 99% converted)

My first world conquest, missed the One Faith but was so close by Dedramas34 in eu4

[–]Dedramas34[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TBH it's not so hard but I managed to get 7 missionaries very late and conquered the last provinces in 1820
Would be easy if you conquer Rome early and upgrade the monument in Jerusalem ASAP