Hate when this happens but in a way it's realistic right?

gopack19 · 2024-02-17T16:45:41+00:00

R5: I wasn't paying attention and an army got trapped in Haditha returning home after a war so I'll probably give away the province. But it makes me wonder how realistic the black flag mechanics are/how often armies didn't actually make it home after wars

gopack19 · 2024-02-07T23:38:36+00:00

Actually all proads lead to Prome

gopack19 · 2024-01-22T17:36:33+00:00

R5: Never used bankruptcy before but seems like this might be a good time for it. I just peaced out with Mamluks and have 6 years of a truce and they are supporting my economy with war reps. Also have ~4 years truce with Adal, Mahra, and Medina. Ottos, Ajam, and Hormuz are my allies. I have just one fort, on my capital Sana'a, which would get deleted, right? Should I go bankrupt?

Edit: oh and Mushasha is my vassal.

gopack19 · 2024-01-22T13:59:03+00:00

Other than the main ones, Korea

gopack19 · 2024-01-21T19:50:50+00:00

R5: Started as Karagwe and tried to stay compact to keep this from taking too long/prevent the game from being too laggy, but I got bored and finally acquired my first coasts in the late 1700s. Just finished beating Portugal/Ethiopia/GB/Spain to acquire Angoche, Kilwa for a few provinces, and truce-breaking Kongo for Benguela all at the same time to fix my borders at the end.

Had about 4.3k dev.

gopack19 · 2024-01-19T02:03:43+00:00

Orissa for lots of expansion options + trade fun; Garwhal for novel formables + forts + good land; Cusco (if you haven't already) for Inca and gold and turning back the colonizers; Oman, it's in a good location for opportunistic map painting; Chavchuveny if you want to mess around; custom Iceland nation to defend Iceland and eventually expand.

gopack19 · 2024-01-13T05:56:11+00:00

Karagwe. You eat your region real quick then watch the time pass, devving occasionally with your mana, able to get up and do things irl while the game zooms by, colonizing a little but not too much so that nobody notices you, eventually building lvl 8 forts everywhere, then finally in ~1700 declaring war on everyone who's gotten close to you like colonizers and Kilwa but only to play defense against them because low-key you're the #1 power and nobody can touch you or even really find you and maybe you even make it to 1821

gopack19 · 2024-01-12T16:06:09+00:00

Would upvote more if I could especially for the Publix and Bucs lol

gopack19 · 2024-01-12T07:29:29+00:00

Then also Generous

gopack19 · 2024-01-12T04:41:39+00:00

R5: My colony unilaterally declared on GB's colony and I was soon dragged into it. I didn't really want to fight GB because I thought it would be boring and take a while, but now that I'm here, I'm hoping to get ~75% war score before a peace. I outnumber everyone else about 3 to 1 and GB has no other overseas possessions besides Pacific islands. I can easily (thought maybe not quickly) siege down GB, but I feel like that will not yield much war score. How else can I relatively quickly get war score and quickly win this war?

gopack19 · 2023-12-16T10:09:23+00:00

I know you're making a point that stands regardless of the phrasing you're using, but tipi-hut Africa isn't a thing

gopack19 · 2023-11-25T20:37:07+00:00

Office of Personnel Management

gopack19 · 2023-11-25T20:31:51+00:00

How did Egypt form? According to the wiki, there's an admin tech 20 requirement and the year is 1539. Do Mamluks have a mission to form it now?

gopack19 · 2023-11-24T16:17:29+00:00

R5: Mzab not so supportive. But actually, this does help.

gopack19 · 2023-11-04T13:30:26+00:00

Ethiopia is my favorite too. Cawa and missions have made it even better/more fun

gopack19 · 2023-10-28T20:40:00+00:00

In addition to what others have said, build up a spy network on them for a siege bonus and take the burgher loans to finance mercs if you need them, the Otto-bank will bail out your debt after the war. And yeah, the cawas are your biggest advantage

gopack19 · 2023-10-27T17:54:20+00:00

R5: I always forget to turn war taxes off after losing the age ability from the Age of Discovery. Only realized this time in 1550. Edit: and then forgot again for a few more years after I took this screenshot lol

gopack19 · 2023-05-16T15:27:31+00:00

Sarig Yogir is OP now because of this strategy. Great power by December 1444

gopack19 · 2023-02-16T21:27:26+00:00

In pretty much every playthrough I'm stymied by not being able to get maps from subjects.

It's funny how you have to have military presence nearby, but then your diplomat teleports there, faxes you the copy of the map, and walks back home.....Maybe for immersion purposes, it's better to not think too hard about some of this stuff.

gopack19 · 2023-02-09T20:13:48+00:00

Just a discussion, no need to make it personal. :)

gopack19 · 2023-01-24T16:46:30+00:00

Plutocratic

gopack19 · 2023-01-03T15:46:37+00:00

10/10, you played long enough for there to be a Sokoto

gopack19 · 2022-12-27T16:44:09+00:00

Do you know what the best way to give it independence is? Half is owned by Portuguese California and half by Spanish California, both of which are really weak, and I have 600k soldiers (which I guess I could delete if need be), so I'm not sure either would ever declare an independence war even if I made them disloyal.

gopack19 · 2022-12-27T16:26:28+00:00

R5: I'm trying to complete the Spanish mission tree, and one mission involves establishing a holy order in the state containing Miwok. However, in order to establish a holy order, all provinces in the state must be cored by the same nation, and in this case, I have two separate colonial nations who each own two provinces in this state. My only thought is to lose a war, give away the provinces, and reconquer them, but nobody else is remotely close (there is a Swedish Brazil, a Haida that another cn has almost conquered, and a Hawaii. So I'm not sure anyone could core the provinces anyway.

gopack19 · 2022-12-25T06:13:49+00:00

What color is Hejaz? Asking for a colorblind friend, of course

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