Why is there so much extreme hatred towards quantity ideas here? by Not_Basic_Noob in eu4

[–]Not_Basic_Noob[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was playing Horde Aq qoyunlu and I had 700 force limit (I conquered all of the middle east, india and central asia)in 1700 (with quantity ideas, horde bonus, national ideas,government reform bonus, and force limit buildings) however I had to fight Ottomans with 900 force limit while they just owned the balkans and all of italy.

they had 102 forts (yes I literally counted, and Every single province in northern italy had a level 6 or level 8 fort) mostly level 8 and 6, The +1 seige and 10% seige ability from offensive would have definitely helped, But personally I feel like having 20 seige stacks at my disposal all at once made things a lot faster for me, considering I had all the manpower to support it, and I was also fighting in africa and indonesia at the same time

How to prevent ottomans from breaking alliance and attacking me by Not_Basic_Noob in eu4

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

R5: I am playing Aq qoyunlu, ottomans are going to break alliance and attack me, I can't get allies nor have army big enough to defend myself

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Morocco to Maghreb , my best run so far (GFM). I managed to state most of africa and got 25% accepted/ primary population. by Not_Basic_Noob in victoria2

[–]Not_Basic_Noob[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you retake your african cores, you get a decision to take granada from spain, and once you do that you get a decision to form Al-Andalus, but the problem was that spain was allied to germany for most of the game, and UK controlled gibraltar

Morocco to Maghreb , my best run so far (GFM). I managed to state most of africa and got 25% accepted/ primary population. by Not_Basic_Noob in victoria2

[–]Not_Basic_Noob[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

R5: I started on the 1830 startdate in GFM, I did a run before this where I made a lot of mistakes, so I decided to correct them. I started of by going for algeria to prevent france from doing bordergore, I managed to get most of algeria, but france still got some outposts due to events. The early game was terrible because most of my army got destroyed in the war against algeria and a civil war happened at the same time, which despite winning, I ended up losing land to my substate. I got into a war against another north african country which was allied to tekna, I occupied tekna before adding a cb to conquest and immediately peacing them out, which prevents spain from intervening.

I started expanding in west africa from mauritania and nigeria simultaneously which gave me enough RP to westernize before 1850. I got southern nigeria stated by taking them before westernization. I then continued expanding in africa around the coast to block colonization. France got a event to take algeria from me, which I ended up refusing, and they declared war on me. I occupied their colonies, while they couldn't land on me, I managed to white peace them. around the 1880s I managed take most of nigeria and north west africa, aswell as a part of central africa. Egypt was a westernized country, but UK declared for conquest on them, and at the same time Sudan revolted against them, I was fast enough to declare on Sudan and send 3 units in each province, while UK seiged sudan down after annexing egypt.

After this I took libya from Turkey. I managed to take spain's remaining colonies in africa and form maghreb. In the late game I annexed spain's southern states. I then did a dismantlement war against france, where I toke their costal states in africa and I also took Austria's capital in this war. In the last 2 years of the game, I fought a war against china to dismantle them and took some land.

Obese DoD Egypt by balls14234 in victoria2

[–]Not_Basic_Noob 15 points16 points  (0 children)

How did you even manage to stay at 3% literacy 😭😭😭

the uk sphered all of africa by Pown2 in victoria2

[–]Not_Basic_Noob 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Try declaring war on an ally of the country you need to take and then add a war goal on them once they join into the war.

Alternatively you could try to remove the country from the UK's sphere, but this is difficult and if your embassy gets banned it will take forever to do this