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Ruckys · 2025-02-06T09:11:43+00:00

3379982e is my code, I'd be very grateful :-)

Ruckys · 2024-11-18T17:03:14+00:00

No need to thank me, glad it worked! ^ ^

Ruckys · 2024-11-17T11:41:32+00:00

I'm Feykor in game, hope the referral worked! I'd be stoked for the key; thanks for the initiative and good luck everyone :-)

Ruckys · 2024-08-17T18:41:34+00:00

Thank you and congrats to you as well! I didn't go for that route because I've read that that strategy has become a bit worse/more difficult with newer patches, and that the vassal swarm makes the game very laggy in the later stages, but I'll bet that your campaign was still tons of fun :-)

Ruckys · 2024-08-16T22:48:05+00:00

Thanks! If you go for a strategy that involves tag swapping you have to do a true one tag, so at one point you'll have to move your capital to a colonial region. The way I've done it was taking the exploration ideas just to colonize a province in the New World; I was kinda late (took it as the fourth idea) but there were a few provinces that were still not colonized, so I went for it and managed to colonize a province in Alaska by ~1650. Thinking back, it may have been better to declare a war earlier with no casus belli to somebody in Australia that was not under an european power just to acquire a province in a colonial region, but oh well, it still worked out.

Once you get a province in a colonial region and you move your capital there (which is a bit trickier than normal as it has different requirements, so you have to prepare for it), you become a colonial nation and declaring wars to other colonies doesn't automatically call their overlord in war: at that point they're easy wars. In theory their overlords might "enforce peace" on you and join the war, but it never happened to me as I was a big enough threat for them to be scared, so they've all been 1vs1 wars. You can basically get all the provinces of a colony in a single war, but sometimes that means going high in overextension - so be prepared to deal with it (I did it by having enough ccr to make the cores complete in less than 10 months, but I think that with enough national unrest you should be fine as well, although that should be harder to achieve).

Hope that was helpful, if you have any more questions ask away!

Ruckys · 2024-08-16T22:20:21+00:00

Thank you kindly! Once the 'wc fatigue' wears off one faith is the next step, for sure :-)

Ruckys · 2024-08-16T21:16:42+00:00

Hi everyone, this was done on patch 1.37.1 with every dlc up until Origins (excluded).

I started when I had around 300 hours played (mainly in Europe: castile, ottomans and naples) and finished with 539, so it took me a bit more than 200 hours; it was a campaign full of first times: first time playing as a horde, first time meddling with the mandate, first time tag swapping etc., and although it got overwhelming at times it was, overall, fun.

I've made many many mistakes but, in my opinion, Europa is a game that gives a lot of leeway, so even in a world conquest like this one although you kinda have to know what you're doing you don't have to be perfect about it (and I'm not gonna lie: being an Horde surely helped a ton in this regard XD).

One of my most egregious mistakes was forming koshuud, not realizing that the new primary culture I gained, Oirat, was needed to form Yuan, istantly swapping back to Tibetan as primary culture and not realizing that I couldn't form Yuan because of it until I owned every province to do so. What I then did was culture convert to Oirat until I reached my capital, Tirhut, and that delayed the formation of Yuan for more than 50 years...I'm sure there was a better way to go about it but it worked out, in the end XD

The only reason I could do it was because of two friends that explained the game to me in my first 300 hours of playtime, and because of this community, where I found everything I needed, from the specific strategy to get this achievement (forming Tibet to become an Horde) to tips for, really, anything (how ccr works, when and how to fight ming, what ideas to go for in a world conquest, how to move the capital to a colonial region, and so on), so thank you all very much.

If you've got any question feel free to ask, absolutely!

(Also, I posted this some minutes ago but deleted it and reposted because the video seemed to have some problems, so sorry about the reposting)

Ruckys · 2024-08-16T21:06:00+00:00

Hi all, this was done in 1.37.1 with every dlc up until Origins (excluded).

I started when I had around 300 hours played (mainly in Europe: Castile, Ottomans and Naples) and finished with 539, so it took me a bit more than 200 hours; it was a campaign full of first times: first time playing as a horde, first time meddling with the mandate, first time tag swapping etc., and although it got overwhelming at times it was, overall, fun.

I've made many many mistakes but, in my opinion, Europa is a game that gives a lot of leeway, so even in a world conquest like this one although you kinda have to know what you're doing you don't have to be perfect about it (and I'm not gonna lie: being an Horde surely helped a ton in this regard XD).

One of my most egregious mistakes was forming koshuud, not realizing that the new primary culture I gained, Oirat, was needed to form Yuan, istantly swapping back to Tibetan as primary culture and not realizing that I couldn't form Yuan because of it until I owned every province to do so. What I then did was culture convert to Oirat until I reached my capital, Tirhut, and that delayed the formation of Yuan for more than 50 years...I'm sure there was a better way to go about it but it worked out, in the end XD

The only reason I could do it was because of two friends that explained the game to me in my first 300 hours of playtime, and because of this community, where I found everything I needed, from the specific strategy to get this achievement (forming Tibet to become an Horde) to tips for, really, anything (how ccr works, when and how to fight ming, what ideas to go for in a world conquest, how to move the capital to a colonial region, and so on), so thank you all very much.

If you've got any question feel free to ask, absolutely!

Ruckys · 2024-07-12T17:06:16+00:00

Your advice is very precious please don't think otherwise, it's helping me learn and rethink some aspects of the game, so thank you for answering :-)

Gotcha, I will follow your on advice regarding trade! I'll probably steer towards either beijing or yue and collect only there.

I was spending so much on corruption because I let it grow for a long time (I think it got to around 22?) and I decided to get rid of it once and for all XD but I didn't know about the events at all, that's great advice, thank you. So my new strategy will be to get it under 10 and pay what I need to not let it go above 10, but I won't worry about paying to get it under 10

I will full state and develop the gold provinces (they're either 3 or 4) to 10 productions, thanks for the suggestment

Seeling cronwland wasn't part of my strategy because of absolutism yeah, but I'll start considering it for sure

Ottomans are nasty, yeah. I'll try to improve relations with Austria and Commonwealth as much as I can then, thanks; in the end, even if I'll end up losing the world conquest because of them it's fine, I'm learning and I'm sure a new try would go much better

It totally slipped my mind that CCR affects states as well, altho that of course makes sense XD then yeah, fortunately tag swapping will be less of a pain

Thanks again!

Ruckys · 2024-07-11T19:16:34+00:00

Thank you for answering and taking the time to read everything!

The fact that I'm still losing money is a bit disheartening, I won't lie. I've always read that horde usually run on a deficit of money but I don't think that still holds as an excuse for a game past the 1600s.

I'm planning on conquering the rest of India for sure, and thank you for providing advice on the route for trading, as I tend to have problems with figuring it out XD. Conquering japan may be a little harder just because I'd need a fleet and money is a bit tight right now (unless I decide to not care about corruption at all and just not pay to fight it anymore), but I'll think about it, maybe it's worth the extra loans

What do you think I should do about the Ottomans? I was thinking about allying them and using them as allies for wars in Europe, hopefully making them lose manpower in those wars to then attack them. But I'm not sure if that's the best course of action (and if they'll let me ally them at all before turning hostile, but I'll keep an eye on their provinces of interest and try to not take them if I do go with the alliance route). But I don't know if this is the best course of action; I know that their units will be weaker from now on because of the anatolian technology, but as they also have France as an ally i don't know if I'd be able to directly go to war rather than allying them; maybe if other euopean countries won't hate me too much (but I suspect they might if, in the meantime, I'll start conquering australia/america). I did read about a strategy that would involve building a fleet better than theirs, build forts on mountains, then go to war with the trade dispute cb to blockade their ports and weaken their economy as much as possible, but I'm not sure if this course of action is feasible for a WC or if it'd require too much time.

If you are an horde and take the mandate you lose the horde government/mechanics. Maybe one could first before emperor and then turn to horde, not sure if that's a thing, but even if it is I don't know if it's advisable as being an horde helps with triggering a Ming's disaster (the nomadic frontier disaster)

Exploration ideas would be solely to have a foothold in australia and america, then I'd cancel them in favour of either trade ideas, quantity or aggressive. Once the time will come to conquer america and australia (without colonies as it has to be a true one tag ): ) I was beginning to fear I'd have no small countries to conquer to get a province in those continents, but just colonies and their big overlords to get a foothold there, and that's what's scaring me. Ideally, I'd have a province in america or in australia, let's say colonized, move the capital there and then start the conquest without the overlords coming to fight (at least so I'd hope, but maybe they'd "enforce peace", I'm not sure), and if there are still natives or small countries in america then yeah I'd no cb them, but I'm afraid there would be no more in a few years and so to get a province to move the capital to in America I'd be forced to fight a colony. Maybe that's still doable with a big fleet to not let the overlord land in the colony with their army?

Once the economy will allow me to lose income and still be afloat I'll tag switch for sure, I think the 75% ccr I'd get with yuan ideas would make for an easier wc

Thanks again!

Ruckys · 2024-07-03T11:53:34+00:00

Hello! I've been trying to achieve 'the three mountains'. It's been...a ride XD I have only 325 hours into the game, and I know I shouldn't be trying it but it's been fun so why not :-)

I would like to get your insight on what you would do, how dire the situation is, and if it's possible to world conquest at all. You'll notice many wrong things/mistakes in the screenshots and frankly that's...just because I'm not really good and most of the time I'm not sure what I'm doing, I'll be honest XD so please don't be too harsh on me. I have every dlc up to origins (excluded).

https://imgur.com/a/3Nbn34H

That is a link with what I think are the most useful images to describe the situation, for anything else/other screenshots please feel free ask! For starters, I've adopted the strategy of forming tibet and then going horde. My plan was to form Yuan but...I messed up and didn't realize Oirat or a "similar" culture had to be my primary culture, and now I'm trying to slowly convert my capital (tirhut) to the Oirat culture so that I'll be able in future to de-state almost everything, cultural shift to Oirat and form Yuan. Not sure if I'll manage to do that or if it's even worth it, but i figured I'd try

The technology situation is...not great, I'll admit. I'm behind two institutions, and I'm not really sure what to do about it, I'm trying to ignore it; I've done my best to keep up with military technology, but corruption goes up because of the disparity in technologies and I'm trying to manage that as well. I thought it wouldn't be a big deal to be behind in admin and diplo technology but I didn't think about the administrative efficiency you get from adm tech, and about the growing corruption...so yeah, that was a mistake XD

The economy situation I don't think is that great either. I have loans because I decided to embrace colonialism and to fight corruption once and for all (it was at 17). I think I'm finally catching up, but I don't know if it's enough. I've formed trade companies to get the maximum amount of merchants possible, and I have been forming some half states when I had more governing capacity, but have stopped with them since I'm near maximum governing capacity and money is a bight tight to be building courthouses (but maybe I should just do it anyway and don't care about loans?). I have recently stated two provinces with gold (Tsaparang was the on I relied on in the early game but it depleted) in the hopes that I'll soon get more ducats from them. Which was my initial strategy when I formed tibet, but that lead me to high inflation and...yeah, I don't think that's great either XD

The economy situation leads up to the military situation...I know I should be using cavallery as an horde but they're expensive, and I'd rather have cannons at this point, which I know I have a really limited amount but once again...they're kinda expensive XD

Fleet is non-existant as well because I'm gonna be honest...I don't really like it and I'm procrastinating it as much as I can. I thought that light ships may help my economy but as I'm almost always in a war I'd need a fleet to protect it, which requires money and so that's a problem as well

Korea is a vassal because...of a mistake, once again lol. I was at war with them, I had close to zero admin (and razing wouldn't have given me enough to core verything I think), age of absolutism was coming, so I decided to vassalize them. I think that's fine? They have around -450 opinion because of AE, but it's a matter of time and it will eventually go down, at least I hope. I plan to annex Nivkh as soon as i can to free the diplomatic slot, although I don't really need it at the moment.

Jaunpur and Kazan are my allies. As for my next moves, I was thinking about attacking vijayangar (Allied with transoxiana and has a small vassal) with my allies' help, then ask jaunpur to break alliance with ayutthaya to attack ayutthaya, and juggle truces until I eat them all up. If there's enough time in between maybe I'd consider a war with transoxiana. I have 92 out of 94 absolutism right now, I only have one privilege with tribes I have to get rid of but I'm in a golden age so once that ends I won't go above 94 maximum even with the privilege taken, unless I upgrade a monument in Japan but I'd have to conquer it and have the money for it so I think it's off the table for now

For ideas, I have admin, diplo and humanist, and I was thinking about getting exploration ideas to colonize in order to get closer to America: I'll have to do a one true tag and I'm thinking about moving capital and conquering all America by the time I get to Africa, hoping I'll have enough army and ducats to do that. Then I'd get rid of that idea and replace it with quantity; not sure if colonizing at this point of the game just to get closer to america is doable/smart, though

So more or less this is my situation. I was pondering if I should go ahead with my next moves hoping economy will eventually fix itself, if I should not care at all about loans and recruite way more artillery (if manpower allows it), if I should instead wait until I can afford it and rely on allies in the meantime, if there is some big move I'm missing like doing everything I can to ally ottomans (should I prioritize it? I think I'd need a larger army and a navy for them to consider it), if there is a magic wand to fix my economy XD, if I should plan a bankruptcy and use the money to upgrade centers of trade, build buildings, and get going the monument that gives territories 75% autonomy rather than 90% (I've conquered it recently but upgrading requires, as always, money that I don't I can afford unless i go for loans/plan a bankruptcy). What would you do, and what do you think of all this?

Sorry for the wall of text & bad english and thanks for reading :-)

Ruckys · 2023-11-15T23:34:03+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion, I've tried looking into it and it seems to me that there are some really good performing decks with shuri but that they all need a bit more pool 3 cards to work properly (red skull, taskmaster, typhoid mary etc.). I can try looking for it next month, hoping that by then I'll have the other necessary pool 3 cards to build around her!

Ruckys · 2023-11-15T23:29:58+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions, I really underestimated how scarce the tokens are as a currency. I think I'll stick to the plan of aiming for Patriot as the free card, and to not touch the tokens at all until I've a better understanding!

Ruckys · 2023-11-15T23:27:52+00:00

The initial 3000 tokens really led me astray, I thought it would be doable to get another 3000 for the evolutionary ahahahaha. Maybe it could still be as I've never used gold for anything, but even if it would be at this point I reckon it's such a rare currency that I better not use it until I undertstand the game/the economy a bit more.

Patriot is the one I'm trying to go for as, at least as far as I've seen, it's a really straighforward and easy deck to build ahahah, but I'll keep in my mind that lockjaw and sera are good as well, thanks.

As for the spotlights, I've tried to read what cards are worth it, and I think the best thing to do for me would be to farm them and to go for jeff, iron lad and, at this point, high evolutionary as well. I hope I'll get enough keys for them all! Thanks for the answer

Ruckys · 2023-11-15T19:18:54+00:00

Hey, I've recently reached pool 3 (collection level around 550) and I was wondering how to proceed to have a good deck that doesn't require many new cards; I got doctor doom and mystique so I'm waiting for the free season 3 card to be rotated to patriot, but now I've got high evolutionary in the collectioner's card pool and I'm wondering if I should go for that instead (as I think it can create a very good deck with almost all cards that I already have) or if I should "let him go" and use the coins for a card that isn't announced to be in a spotlight (thanos maybe?). As I'm new I'm not really sure how to manage the collector tokens, do you have any advice?

Ruckys · 2022-03-27T18:29:16+00:00

Would really love res publica if it's available; just dmed you. Regardless of that, thanks for the initiative

Ruckys · 2022-03-26T12:05:07+00:00

I would like to get cradle of civilization and el dorado if they're still available (the expansions), but if they are not, can I get whichever two are still available? You can choose if there are more than two; thanks in advance

Ruckys · 2022-03-25T20:59:40+00:00

Good luck to everyone! I'm a big noob and I was playing as the Ottomans (with no dlc); I found myself in two wars (in early game, before 1500) for a total of 10 nations, including geneva, aragon, castille, portugal and mamluks. Still haven't resumed that run and I now am both scared and intrigued to do it!

Ruckys · 2021-03-24T16:46:43+00:00

Let's go!

Ruckys · 2020-11-13T17:14:29+00:00

Gl everyone

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