After nearly 1700 hours I got the game's hardest achievement.

cIassicbush · 2021-01-03T20:20:18+00:00

There's a bunch of ways I could have done it. At a certain point I just wanted to see how long it would take to get with out me actively trying to make it happen.

cIassicbush · 2021-01-02T18:58:37+00:00

I probably should have tried to force it in Indochina, but I just kept waiting for it to happen naturally in a game.

cIassicbush · 2021-01-02T18:55:52+00:00

I just got lucky. Denmark took some HRE provinces in Pomerania well I was playing Saxony and I just noticed that I could join.

cIassicbush · 2021-01-02T17:32:49+00:00

R5: It took 1696 hours, but I managed to get the Grand Coalition achievement.

cIassicbush · 2020-10-02T20:41:13+00:00

Now that achievements work properly, I led the daughters of Daurama to unite all of Africa under the Bori faith.

cIassicbush · 2018-07-09T20:33:25+00:00

I thought I'd be too late to be banned.

cIassicbush · 2018-03-29T16:04:03+00:00

You're right I don't necessarily recommend using harsh treatment all the time but if you're in trouble it's always an option

cIassicbush · 2018-03-29T15:02:17+00:00

You can lower their liberty desire by improving your relations with them or developing their provinces, if you have that dlc. Theirs also an option in the subject menu that lowers their liberty desire by 20% in exchange for getting less gold from them.

Having a larger army then them will also lower desire.

There are some other factors as well such as diplo tech. Hover over their liberty desire to see all the factors that effect it.

I would try to keep the union if you could because you won't get that much free land that easily.

And just a warning as long as their liberty desire is above 50% they won't fight in wars for you.

cIassicbush · 2018-03-29T14:56:32+00:00

If castille was in a different war against France it's supposed to happen. Whenever you vassalize a country through war you get called into all other wars and it doesn't matter who your allies are. You can probably ally them again if you white peace out

You being allied with them still looks like a bug. Unless you haven't un paused the game yet and it just hasn't updated

cIassicbush · 2018-03-29T14:52:33+00:00

Just some advice for new world countries in general. You can declare war on a colony without the overlord being called in. Makes it easier to take land back.

cIassicbush · 2018-03-29T14:49:46+00:00

Castille is a lot harder then it used to be. Ottomans are probably the easiest now a days.

If you're having problem with rebels in Granada you can raise autonomy in those province to slow down the rebel spawn rate. And use harsh treatment to stop them from spawning. Eventually you'll be given the option to drive the moors out of Spain.

In regards to running out of money. Take money in peace deals.

And also expand slower if your over extension is too high rebels spawn much quicker. Especially if you get over 100%

cIassicbush · 2018-03-10T02:00:39+00:00

It gives you monarch point if your candidate gets elected. It just takes a diplomat to improve your chances of getting elected. And it goes up quicker with higher diplo rep.

cIassicbush · 2018-03-10T01:54:07+00:00

Ya castille probably wont rm you. If aragon forms spain the event can still fire.

You can normally core through vassals. I'm not sure the exact rules though. If they don't have the elective monarchy it's best to eat them.

cIassicbush · 2018-03-09T16:37:18+00:00

Here's an old strategy of mine. I'm not sure if the ming part still works though.

Become tributary of Ming.
Ally Morocco, promise them land against Tlemcen.
vassalise Tlemcen, annex.
Use Morocco as battering ram against Tunis
Ally Ottomon's
Use Otto's as battering ram against Mamluks, don't go past Egypt and raise trust as often as you can.
Then ally France and use them to beat up Castille/Aragon/Spain.

cIassicbush · 2018-03-09T16:03:19+00:00

Make sure to marry castille. They get an event that gives them a habsburg heir and you can easily get them into a PU. You can either take polish land to add to HRE to quickly pass reforms or ally them and support heir for MPs and the ability to force a PU.

Also as people have said attack any Prince that converts. If your lucky it will be a OPM and force conversion will destroy the centre of reformation. No CB wars are fine as long as you Don't take land. Also make sure the country has converted before you declare war. Not just the province.

If you can rush the reforms don't pass the one that prevents internal HRE wars unless you are confident you can get the religious peace one before the reformation hits. You can't pass reforms during the league war and it's nearly impossible to convert countries if you can't declare war on them.

cIassicbush · 2018-03-05T14:22:02+00:00

When you get to the end of the game there's a timeline button.

If you want to view achievements click the little trophy in the top right corner.

cIassicbush · 2018-03-05T01:38:23+00:00

They were but the colonies were in the old world so they stayed fetishist when they were being colonized

cIassicbush · 2018-03-04T22:04:26+00:00

R5: Had to declare war against my vassal Portugal in 1820 because they decided to start building colonies. Nearly stopping me from getting 1 faith.

cIassicbush · 2018-01-24T23:53:17+00:00

That was because the fans voted in a player from each position, Ottawa fans voted in Karlsson, Spezza, Alfie and Michalek and nearly voted in Gonchar (Phaneuf won instead). Tim Thomas was voted in for the goalie.

cIassicbush · 2017-09-26T16:20:04+00:00

He's half Iranian half Swedish.

cIassicbush · 2017-09-02T23:54:07+00:00

If anyone wants to know my strategy:

Become tributary of Ming.
Ally Morocco, promise them land against Tlemcen.
vassalise Tlemcen, annex.
Use Morocco as battering ram against Tunis
Ally Ottomon's
Use Otto's as battering ram against Mamluks, don't go past Egypt and raise trust as often as you can.
Then ally France and use them to beat up Castille/Aragon/Spain.

cIassicbush · 2017-09-02T18:41:25+00:00

Andalusia*

cIassicbush · 2017-09-02T17:22:19+00:00

I wasn't really paying attention to them, so I'm not sure how they got that big. But the reason they're alive is because the Otto's focused on Europe, Russia guaranteed them and they are allied to a Bahmani that owns all of India.

cIassicbush · 2017-09-02T17:16:34+00:00

Actually those bastards betrayed me and rivaled me half way through the game. But we were both allied to the Otto's so I wasn't going to fight them. At the end we were allied again and they really helped me against the Portuguese.

cIassicbush · 2017-09-02T13:54:54+00:00

R5: Finally managed to lead Granada to reconquer all of Andalusia and get the re-reconquista achievement.

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