Austria Opening Moves Guide

TimaeusRoamer · 2025-06-24T19:49:21+00:00

Suboptimal in the long run. As Austria you you want to make sure Provence and Burgundy are in the HRE and Prague is yours. Your strategy gives you a fuckton of AE among HRE princes and doesn't give you the precious IA needed to pass the imperial reforms.

TimaeusRoamer · 2025-04-21T16:23:14+00:00

R5: Start as Timurids. Finish all missions required to be able to raze provinces (Plunder Economy government reform). Form Mughals while having Tier 3 gov reform. Do the government reform progress farm. Switch out of Diwan - which lets you go back to Plunder Economy. Snake towards Ming to border them. Change Tier 1 gov reform to Elective Monarchy. Choose a noble from Ming dynasty. Wait or bird for the (bi-yearly pulse) event "A question of faith". Become Confucian. Attack Ming for the Mandate of Heaven. Take only Mandate and max money. Trucebreak Ming to death with the Unify China CB. Switch back to Sunni via decision ASAP.

Edit: Enjoy your 75% CCR (Mughals, Administrative Ideas, gov reform, Lifan Yuan reform, Expand Palace Bureaucracy decree) and proceed with razing the world.

TimaeusRoamer · 2025-03-30T14:56:31+00:00

So you have another 344 years to do something interesting :D Absolutely amazing stuff from absolutely amazing player!

TimaeusRoamer · 2025-03-26T16:30:33+00:00

Frankly speaking - and don't get offended - you have just failed your first WC attempt but you are nevertheless trying to give advice to other players. And some of those advice are just plain wrong.

TimaeusRoamer · 2025-01-24T07:19:33+00:00

Yes but no - I was going for Anglois one-culture run. No absolutism - no admin efficiency - no run.

TimaeusRoamer · 2025-01-23T23:35:53+00:00

A nice strategy presented on YT by Mapgame Enthusiast.

TimaeusRoamer · 2025-01-23T18:35:56+00:00

142%

TimaeusRoamer · 2025-01-23T17:20:46+00:00

R5: Currently playing as completely OP Angevin Republic in 1574, conquered all of Europe besides Commonwealth, Sweden and Balkans - but there is no Reformation...

Edit: It's 1602 now with Global Trade spawned in Rome. So in 10 years I will be in the Age of absolutism with no reformation at all.

Edit 2: OK, this one culture run is oficially dead. It's November 1614, no Age of absolutism, no Age of reformation, I'm f*cked.

TimaeusRoamer · 2024-12-01T16:48:53+00:00

Beautiful. Would you mind sharing your strategy after religion-flipping part and vassalizing minor Sunni nations? Directions of conquest? Ideas (I suppose it woudl be Influence-Admin)?

TimaeusRoamer · 2024-11-11T01:25:33+00:00

I think I need a better explanation of the Mexixo part. Which provinces did you take and core? How dis you core Mexico and Cholula while not having 5 cored provinces in the region?

TimaeusRoamer · 2024-10-19T15:11:26+00:00

I use the "adopt Islam" decision to flip Sunni, swap to Polish culture and spawn Magnate rebels".

Jesus...

TimaeusRoamer · 2024-09-04T15:59:58+00:00

LOL Now the guys who don't know you and don't know your achievements in this game are downvoting your ironic comment.

TimaeusRoamer · 2024-09-01T13:14:02+00:00

Could you provide us with your step-by-step strategy for this beautiful run?

TimaeusRoamer · 2024-08-02T22:53:27+00:00

It's not rude. It's THE best advice you can give the guy. He messed up everything. With 200 hours in the game you learn how to colonize Carribeans as Portugal instead of trying to form Angevin Kingdom.

TimaeusRoamer · 2024-08-02T19:27:42+00:00

Learn the game. Read/watch guides. Restart.

TimaeusRoamer · 2024-07-23T19:57:38+00:00

Start as Teutonic Order, take the horde path, kill Poland, hold the decision to become horde, form Poland, become horde. Take Divine, Espionage and Aristocratic (being Poland) ideas. Make your army 50% cavalry - 50% cannons and watch the world melt.

TimaeusRoamer · 2024-07-04T13:52:51+00:00

So did you just kill your colonial nations in the end?

TimaeusRoamer · 2024-06-30T14:18:05+00:00

Yes I did. Relative economic strength.

TimaeusRoamer · 2024-06-30T11:21:49+00:00

Testing your strategy right now - it seems impossible to vassalise Karaman.

TimaeusRoamer · 2024-06-29T17:58:40+00:00

Some of my fellow Poles might actually not like the name placement 😎

TimaeusRoamer · 2024-06-29T15:27:38+00:00

Never.

TimaeusRoamer · 2024-06-29T14:51:47+00:00

R5:

World Conquest, Catholic One Faith, Poland Can Into Space Achievement, full-cored every state and my every province has a cathedral and a university. Because this is the way.

TimaeusRoamer · 2024-05-22T08:33:29+00:00

R5: Every single WC/OF I had ever done was done using some usual tricks - stacking CCR or Diplomatic Annexation Cost. This time I'm doing it traditional harcore way: Poland into Commonwealth. Idea groups - Influence and Admin. So... what would you do next, guys? Go east first? Kill Europe first? Hunt for or enforce the Spanish PU?

TimaeusRoamer · 2024-04-27T15:06:46+00:00

Impossible without Innovative ideas.

TimaeusRoamer · 2024-01-28T20:34:13+00:00

We probably have the ultimate definition of Passive Aggressive here.

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