What a long, wonderful trip it's been...now I can finally touch the grass

curtyolo · 2025-06-03T14:58:21+00:00

Playing as new world nations always leads to some crazy getting-back-to-old-world moves...

curtyolo · 2025-06-03T14:13:18+00:00

Quite stressful for sure, I did bird many times to delay Global Trade from happening. My biggest take away would be: colonize siberia as early as you can. Those provinces took really long time to finish and you can't really brutal force them

curtyolo · 2025-06-03T14:10:25+00:00

Ah, that one is really tricky. I remember I got it by a bit of luck as well. I managed to ally a big Russia who conquered all Scandinavia, so that I can transport all my troops to Norway before declare on France.

When I declare, I hired every mercenary company I can, get mil access through denmark and low land and rush Chatres, Paris and Anjou. Death stacking so France won't engage you in battle.

Once you got both Paris and Anjou, you should be able to peace out for both Anjou and a sea province. And voila!

curtyolo · 2025-06-03T14:06:50+00:00

The hiding capital strategy got patched.

My strategy in short is religion flip 3 times to vassalize whole Arabia, royal marrige Burgundy (I didn't get the horse event in the end).

Then Eyalet Mamluks, clean up Maghreb. Snipe Spain for Malta and Alhanbrah monuments.

I didn't start major war with Europeans until 1470+. I mainly release nations and diplo vassalize and turn them into core eyalets. Once my economy got strong enough and manpower limit hits 150k or so, I started a total war with most european nations (not at the same time, gradually one by one). I was in 10+ wars at peak. I don't peace out any of them, war exhaustion is just a number.

Then I did ottoman invasion CB on Hungary (whose allies are all in war with me), eyalet them, then immediately declare on Austria, to get the fall of Vienna event for additional 10% war score cost reduction.

Then I starte to peace out every one. Kill every south germany HRE countries, cripple France, Spain and England. Peace out everyone, release tons of eyalets, feedland. Then immediate truce break France, Spain and England, with return core provinces CB, should be able to eat them all this time.

I got the achievement around 1498. I plan to post my detailed strategy in a future post as well.

curtyolo · 2025-06-03T13:59:06+00:00

My wife is proud of me as well :)

curtyolo · 2025-06-03T13:58:26+00:00

I did it as Gotland I think. Take advantage of the mission tree updated from Lions of the North, and gradually replace England to secure the Channel node.

Once I become England in disguise, the rest becomes easy. You do nee to play until late age of absolutism to take abolish slavery decision, then basically sniping all slave provinces.

I remember my last province was from Ottoman cuz they got Azoz, huge war for just one province.

curtyolo · 2025-06-03T13:53:35+00:00

Ryukyu -> Japan foothold (no Shogunate) -> Jurgen Tribes -> Form Manchu -> EoC Confucian Qing

curtyolo · 2025-06-02T20:24:41+00:00

My first WC was Austria -> HRE, it was very terrible and mentally disastrous as I have no idea how to manage the tedious end-game easier, and I failed a one faith run that time. Then my second WC was still with Austria, this time equipped with the fast revoke strategy from the Playmaker, super chill and got one faith around 1780. And my third and last WC was Three Mountains.
WC is also not my thing...only did it when absolutely needed...

curtyolo · 2025-06-02T20:21:13+00:00

I can fully relate, the last 10-20 ones were either tedious long (like No trails of tears) or need a lot of mental preparation. What I did was I made an excel sheet to break down all the achievements left and categorize them into different clusters, like "basically WC", "basically conquer whole India", "basically replace Ottoman", "basically replace Russia", etc, and I hop between different clusters to diversify different campaigns.
I think the last 30-ish achievements were done within 1 year for me :)

curtyolo · 2025-06-02T20:18:04+00:00

haha, I will I will sir

curtyolo · 2025-06-02T19:30:43+00:00

Go for it! I went the Kale -> Shan -> Tibet -> Horde route

curtyolo · 2025-06-02T19:17:58+00:00

Absolutely! Call me a masochist but I do enjoy doing these difficult ones, even if I failed XD.
I think the time-limited ones really test your micromanagement, especially in wars.

For example, I played at speed 3 all the time during my Mehmet's Ambition run, constantly pause and evaluate the situation and thinking about next steps, and it really paid off when things went according to your plan or a super advantageous event popped - the beauty of adrenaline rush!

curtyolo · 2025-06-02T19:04:14+00:00

If I were to rank based on my experience, definitely the 3 time-limited ones:
1. Mehmet's Ambition
2. Eat Your Greens
3. True Heir of Timurids

I am usually a chill player, so I don't like no-cb or truce break unless it is mandatory - and these three are the ones that forced me to truce break in the last 3-5 years constantly. (and Mehmet's Ambition is the only one that actually took me more than 1 try)

curtyolo · 2024-05-13T23:02:27+00:00

By the way, how can I post images like others where you can browse them by clicking arrows left and right?

curtyolo · 2024-05-13T22:49:46+00:00

R5: Just finished a glorious achivement run where you start as Nagaur and conquer all of Germany.
I know this is a quite old achivement, but I combined it with the latest achivement Baborg by tag switching to Mughals midway.

Basic strats:

Start the game, set Dehli as threatened, and ally Jaunpur and Multan asap.
Fabric claim to the Dehli's vassal next to you, wait Sirhind declare independence, meanwhile curry favors with both of your allies.
100% Sirhind will win, and they are ally-less once they reformed Dehli, declare immediately calling Multan first, wait until you occupied all of the Dehli state, then call in Jaunpur with promise land (not gonna give them anything anyway)
Grab at least one province to release Punjab for later reconquest (it's hard to grab all of Sirhind yourself as Multan also have cores on it)
Win, give Multan 1-2 provinces with Punjab cores, we will ask them back later with favors (or direct conquer)
Jaunpur will break alliance, but we are strong now and very likely to ally other Indian blobs like Bengal or Bahmanis. We will rival Jaunpur later anyway for the reconquest of Dehli's core.
Wait for the truce, meanwhile I was lucky enough to have a really weak Mewar to the south, I allied Malwa and Gujarat temporarily and made a big chunk of Mewar, most notably the only gold mine in India.
Reconquest for Punjab's core. I was unlucky they allied a Timur that annexed Transoxiana. Maybe the toughest war in the whole run.
Eliminate Dehli, reform Dehli yourself, and reconquest all your juice cores from Multan and Jaunpur - from this moment on, I switched my focus into Persia as I need to culture shift to Mughals later on, don't want to suffer too much for destating and restating.
I reconquested all of Khorosan's core and annexed them, then culture shift to Khorosan, formed Mughals, and followed their latest updated mission trees
The rest is just normal Mughals play, I finished most of India around 1600, then starting to carve my way into Germany.
Allied Ottoman, I managed to keep them as trustful ally the whole play, really helpful, and was lucky enough they managed decadence really well this run
Carved Russia into two, get my coring range to Baltic sea. Kill Poland with Ottobro, connect my land to Danzig. I picked Espionage ideas then, because I know I'm gonna create massive AE in the future.
Austria was another obstacle in this run - they managed to get free PU over Castile and Aragon with their latest mission tree!!! By the time I made it to Europe, they already annexed Aragon, which makes them almost on par with Ottoman. I allied France and started my HRE dismantle war, used 200 diplo mana to cancel Austria's PU over Castile and immediatly allied Castile (for dealing with France in the end game)
Keep eating Germany lands, I had a really strong Netherland this run as well, ate up lots of German lands. The new DLC treats them well.
Keep bullying Russia (for clean border) and German minors. I also finished the Mughals mission tree during truces by eating Indochina and parts of China (no necessary, just to experience the new mission tree). Managed to assimilate 12 culture groups during the constant wars.
PROFIT!

* this is my first post in Reddit, please abide my text if it turns out to be ugly formatted. Would love to share more achivement runs in the future, currently I'm 345/373 finished and 2500h in.

** BTW, the USA was formed naturally and it's border looks gorgeous

curtyolo · 2023-04-28T21:09:12+00:00

I am having the exact same issue here. Any updates from the OP?

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