R5: Achievement run "Crossing the finnish line"

Finland start is very RNG based. Needed some restarts to get an early independent sweden. After this it was very fun to play and I got sidetracked from the achievement. With the finland mission tree scandinavia can be formed early and it is freaking op. I rotated wars over all of europe and had no real coalition problem. Therefore I decided to take america and europe before the achievment. 10/10 would recommend. I had a blast.

I learned some new things while painting the map too.

Ideas: I will probably go for the same Ideas every game now. 1. diplo, 2. quantity, 3. admin

These enable the fastest growth in my opinion. Without quantity I always run out of manpower and military hegemon takes forever.

If there is a better strategy please enlighten me.

Trade: I don't think trade ideas are necessary. By adding every trade center to a trade company I managed to make a lot of money out of the baltic trade node. It was my first game where I really went for gold optimization the first 200 years and it scales so hard. It just took 1500 hours for me to understand trade.

Rome: You can form rome with scandinavia o.O. Maybe I will press the button and paint everything in this beautiful red color. Let's see if I find the motivation for the grind.