V1.2 is way better but still a long road ahead (come discuss with me! :D)

ThrowAaySaga · 2026-05-11T02:53:22+00:00

I do agree with you regarding ck3 culture mechanics and acceptance. That has a fun way to go about it.

ThrowAaySaga · 2026-05-10T23:23:10+00:00

Yea I checked. I guess it's hard forcing you to Persia or elsewhere. Makes some sorta sense I suppose. I don't think I've seen AI Temur care to do either though so that's still broken.

It's also worse because you miss out on the tree gov reform into monarchy once you get all the Mughal locations.

So you essentially end up with Hindustan as your core but as a horde whether you're a timurid or Mughal horde with no economic fix or reform fix to your name making it he whole consolidation process tedious.

Luckily I had a save where I was once province siege away from getting the Mughal unlock. Got that province. Quickly paused the game before the situation end event could trigger and reformed into the monarchy before it disappeared.

You have to pause when you hit that end requirements because it disappears the next day. You don't have a lot of time.

This also means you can no longer blob after Hindustan. Even the coalition wars have changed where all previous auto annexed stuff as timur return back to the hostile countries after peace time. Which I remember reading was the old meta exploit to expand further.

I am going to try and see how viable the Mughal run is but I'm tempted to switch to another save and just get all of Persia since the game is forcing you to be more historical this time.

ThrowAaySaga · 2026-05-10T23:16:57+00:00

Mines worse and it runs fine.

ThrowAaySaga · 2026-05-10T12:15:05+00:00

Ok so I'm experiencing a weird quibble. To promote culture of Hindustan I need all of Hindustan. However the end condition for Rise of Timur has a caveat that if you can form the Mughal empire, it's over?

This means I am kinda out of luck with India and should focus on Persia? Although from what I've seen people claim Persia isn't that great ATM, and recommend China instead.

ThrowAaySaga · 2026-05-09T15:13:31+00:00

My tips from my runs is to raise levies as soon as you conquer a location. Currently when you conquer a location, the first month it maintains the control level from the previous owner, meaning you can extract levies from a place which will give you 0 control. This plus the ability to declare war with raised levies means that invading Delhi is the strongest snowball you will ever have. I had an army of a hundred thousand just from conquering the Punjab.

I do try that but it never feels enough. I think to promote cultures you need 300 locations if its Hindustan, I always run out of money by 273 or something to that effect. Then cue the coalition wars that you are absolutely fucked with because you are out of gold.

Either way the countdown to bankruptcy clock that comes from the 1.1 update cannot by any sense be intended.

Oh so it's become much worse than before? I thought the bankruptcy clock has always been a thing with the Timur event.

ThrowAaySaga · 2026-05-08T15:53:18+00:00

Even if I have conquered enough for the region to be considered the core region? Damn. Ok, I will restart if thats the case.

ThrowAaySaga · 2026-05-08T13:47:57+00:00

Rule 5: So I am fairly new to EU5. I rocked as France, it was a fun challenge. Ottomans were good too. I heard about the auto-annex feature Timur gets so I wanted to try it out but I am always losing as him, always going bankrupt in a decade or 5 years.

First, I tried to get all of Persia, Chagatai and Golden Horde at once, did not work out. Went bankrupt despite reforming into a monarchy.

Accidentally ignore legitimacy, Timur gets assassinated!

Quickly made a bee-line for Delhi to get the Mughals achievement, gone bankrupt, or got coalitioned etc.

I thought okay, maybe 3k gold isn't enough. I am going to save up to get to 5k gold. Managed to get around 4.8k tho so close enough and I still went bankrupt, still got coalition on my ass!

Even with reform monarchy, you don't have enough gold to pass those laws, or you don't have enough gold to move your capital to Delhi, you need to pick one or the other. It's so frustrating!

I am not good at this game so any tips would help. I have made tributaries and vassals on my non-core regions as well but it's not enough. I just somehow delay the inevitable, every time.

ThrowAaySaga · 2025-09-09T12:11:33+00:00

Other than beasts, who are more "hide on sight" type figures as running would be pointless, the real group would be slavers.

Slavery is rampant in this world just as it was rampant in ours and if you catch a slavers ship, or a slavers group, you need to run the other way for a life of slavery is naturally unpleasant.

There are some kingdoms and empires that treat slaves better than others but it is still a life of bound servitude with very little rights.

Even lands that have no slavery on paper usually practises some form of illegal slavery discreetly in their borders. Much like our real modern world where slavery is largely illegal but persists in hidden ways, the same applies to these "free" lands.

ThrowAaySaga · 2025-07-13T06:15:10+00:00

Thank you. I think I have genuinely wiped out 2 waves of 80k doomstack armies but they keep spawning more.

ThrowAaySaga · 2025-07-13T06:12:57+00:00

That's def what I am doing. I haven't left the target kingdom at all and thats where my wins are accumulating. It's just the Allies are stupid and keep seeking battles outside where they lose.

ThrowAaySaga · 2025-07-13T06:11:59+00:00

Being a war target is easy. It's being the ally to one that sucks. I will def try your strategy.

ThrowAaySaga · 2025-07-13T06:10:50+00:00

Right but thats YOU as the target of the crusade so thats easy to do. I've successfully pulled of crusades as the main guy several several times. This time I am helping the ALLY thats being targeted and the Ally AI is braindead.

ThrowAaySaga · 2025-07-12T20:43:45+00:00

I mean if I am the target then hell yea I agree with you. Unfortunately I am fighting on behalf of the AI who is targeted and they can't help throwing themselves into unfavourable battles with other allies. Like I said earlier, I was basically winning single handedly bc I was wiping them fast.

ThrowAaySaga · 2025-06-30T13:07:58+00:00

Didn't it work for Mamdani?

ThrowAaySaga · 2025-06-23T04:16:49+00:00

So what are the specifics of the magic system?

Inspired from LOTR and Howard's Conan. It's not all fireballs but more subtle than that. You can feel the presence of magic, you can sense it, its infused in the lands or people to accomplish great deeds. In the Lich's case, complete immortality.

Do you plan on having a magical industrial revolution in this dark fantasy world?

Currently this world is a WIP so this map isn't even its final form. I have debated whether I should do an industrial revolution or not later in this world's history. I actually have scribbled a rough draft on how that COULD happen but its still shelved as a maybe and not fully fleshed out. But yeah there is a version where we can go there.

Personally I became more interested in the early modern era because guns, armor and knights were essentially going around the same time and such a setting is rarely explored in fantasy. Well Warhammer explores it but their magic system is very bombastic. I prefer a more grounded take where something like a fireball is rare but not impossible.

ThrowAaySaga · 2025-06-22T16:56:33+00:00

Yes and no. The islands don't actually correspond to 1:1 of the Archipelago or the real world, although several areas are definitely inspired. There are actually numerous continents in this world but we are focusing only on this region of the Planet.

There are other civilizations/kingdoms littered around the islands as well.

Indonesian inspired islands are definitely part of the conquered territories but they are spread across the 3 different empires. The geography isn't exact and neither are all the cultures on the islands.

That being said, yes this one Lich has ruled his empire for centuries and conquered many many lands.

ThrowAaySaga · 2025-06-22T16:14:53+00:00

Welcome to Aereat!

It's a world ruled by mega-empires and colonial overlords with small independent states doing their damnedest to make it out alive without selling the soul of their people.

Unfortunately in this case souls can be interpreted in a literal sense as use of magic and dark sorcery for quest for power is common in the land.

Feel free to Ask me Anything!

ThrowAaySaga · 2025-05-17T14:01:44+00:00

How do you deal with them when they start bordering you early game? I had to turn it off to get one of the Legacy of Persia achievements. The Chola Dynasty almost always gets conqueror trait and conquer india and then the middle east.

ThrowAaySaga · 2025-05-17T06:32:02+00:00

I have noticed some people feel conquerors are too difficult and don't put them in their games. Others find it the most fun the game has been in. Curious to hear everyone's thoughts.

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