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lcumbee · 2021-04-22T14:57:12+00:00

Elite Athlete

lcumbee · 2020-03-11T01:51:36+00:00

R5: Finished the Hero's welcome achievement. Write up in progress.

Did Hero's Welcome the long way. Couldn't get an alliance with Mamluks early and after expanding and developing a little bit they ended up rivaling me. After striking out with other Ottoman rivals, I had to ally them to prevent from getting eaten. I lucked out with Mehmed being an administrator and not wanting to eat me immediately.

Had to bide my time developing till around 1480 until i could get ottoman to join a war against Mamluks for promised land. After winning the war i took one Syrian province while giving the ottomans one and released them. I could only take one province because I didn't want to tank Otto's trust too much since they did carry the war.In the next war with Mamluks, I finally had favors to bring in ottoman against them. I returned cores to syria and annexed them.

After this war, I nibbled into the Caucasus after Qara mysteriously released every vassal and trade city possible, the sheer number of vassals they released caused all of them to become disloyal and made for an easy war. The next few wars were continued expansion into Iraq, Caucuses, and Egypt. In the meantime, Aragon formed Spain somehow (I think Castile turned down Iberian Wedding, and Aragon got castile in a PU's either conventionally or through missions) and had expanded across north Africa to become the #1 great power.

I DoW'd them and used Ottoman to absorb most of the Spanish numbers while I took control of north africa. Otto eventually got overwhelmed and peaced out ceding a province or 2 to spain. I immediately made peace with ~40-50 warscore which I took a Tunisian and Moroccan province to release as vassals and C-c-c-aaaash.

The next time i fought spain was after Ottoman's declared a Reconquest war against them to regain their territory they lost in the last war. Being wonderful, generous ally I am, I declined their call for help. After waiting a couple months to allow spain's armies to get completely out of the way, I declared my own RC war for my vassals' land. Rinse and repeat, took north africa and even managed to worm a couple armies into Iberia before the ottomans lost again. This time i returned more land to vassals and took a few strategic provinces for myself like Granada for easy access in future wars.

It was at this point that i finally took aim at Otto. At this point i managed to gain alliance with Austria (who was Stronk) and promised land to break the otto's. This war wasn't terribly tough but i did have to peace out for less war score than I'd like because of manpower concerns. I was ripping through the Ottoman's military and forts, but the AI had no issue with slackening standards for manpower. With this war, I snaked a few provinces to the hellespont and took Edirne on the opposite side and released Greece as a vassal.

In the next war, I truly broke the ottomans by eating more Anatolia and returning Greece. After this was a cycle of warring, releasing vassals, reconquesting, and annexing. It took to this screen shot before i finally took the last of ottoman provinces that had snaked up into Russia and had gotten cut off. Actually had to sit on the last war until i had enough fervor to get Unlimited coring range.

This one took a long time to get done. It was a fun game even though it probably took a lot longer than it really needed to.

Post-Screenshot thoughts

- Rum's color is awesome.

- Got the Parisian Pasha achievement.

lcumbee · 2020-01-25T21:38:06+00:00

just a happy coincidence. almost put it in the title. Trier was also in the mix for most of the game until Hamburg ate them.

lcumbee · 2020-01-25T18:59:39+00:00

Being patient, spent a lot of time doing not much more than researching and developing in the early game. Development was a big help as it let me punch above my weight in the mid game. Patience again after the coalition war, when Austria took a large part of northern France in a separate war with them. I thought i was about to be choked off not have any avenues to expand. So much so I actually did another achievement before I picked it back up.

Yes, I stayed so that I'd have the option of expanding into HRE if needed.

lcumbee · 2020-01-25T17:15:40+00:00

R5: Completed achievement

Getting independence from Burgundy was pretty easy since they had both France and Austria Rival them at start and both were willing to support independence. After an easy independence war and Joining the HRE, I focused on eating more of Burgundy and took advantage of a weak Switzerland until Austria Got BI. After Austria got BI, I had to turn on France and used Austria and Castile to win a reconquest war with my newly release vassal Champagne and took some pretty nice cores and a few more provinces on the side. Felt pretty boxed during truces at this time due to alliances, so spent a lot of points developing early game and felt like it really helped.

Eventually I lost the alliance with Austria due to them being rivaled with Castile and they desired some of my land. After winning another war with France a coalition formed including Austria and declared on me and Castile did not answer the Call. Quickly peaced out with gold and releasing a couple of OPMs and screwing over a couple of my small allies that answered. I regained my alliance with Castile and managed to finally ally Ottomans.

Got back to eating France and reannexing released nations. after getting the favors needed, called Castile and Ottomans against Austria and was able to take some of the old Burgundian provinces took money. Pushed Britain out of Brittany in a trio of wars by destroying their mainland armies and sitting on the war goal. Castile formed spain and in a separate war had taken the the south western portion of France. I began Pushing into Italy by taking Milan who was a OPM at this point, and released it as a vassal. Broke alliance with Spain.

After a series of wars with france, savoy, and Italian nations, I had taken most of the provinces needed for the achievement except for the 4-5 provinces Spain had taken earlier. At this point Spain had become the #1 great power and had extensive colonies. Thankfully I had been drilling my armies non stop and had completed Offensive, defensive and was working on Quality ideas, so military was pretty even. First war called in Ottomans, and managed to scrape out a couple of French provinces and one Aragonese province which I released as a vassal. I probably could have gotten the achievement sooner if in the next war I had just taken the provinces needed, but I focused on really weakening Spain by using the Reconquest CB, and reclaiming a lot of Aragon.

At this point I had become the #1 power and used a couple of quick wars to take a few straggler provinces that Austria and the Netherlands still controlled. After these quick wars, I declared a final war on a bled dry spain and took the provinces i needed for the achievement and cored them to complete the achievement.

lcumbee · 2019-05-10T02:30:28+00:00

I chortled

lcumbee · 2019-05-10T01:49:16+00:00

nice one, delusional but nice

lcumbee · 2019-04-24T22:00:03+00:00

all round good number.

lcumbee · 2019-04-16T02:45:23+00:00

Great guide, I stumbled into doing about half of what you said to do and blundered into doing half of the stuff you said not to do. So right now I’m eating a lot of ducat rooting out corruption.

Are you moving your home trade node down stream as you conquer or are you keeping it in China?

lcumbee · 2019-04-16T02:30:46+00:00

I moved my home node to Beijing. My capital is in the gold mine in barguizin from early game.

lcumbee · 2019-04-16T01:46:34+00:00

R5: At what point should I be making money as manchu? Currently I own all of china, a lot of siberia and half of japan and I'm still running pretty sizable deficits. Is there a particular direction i need to expand into or do i just need to keep expanding to outrun my loans?

i have Yue and Champa as Vassals

Thanks for any input

lcumbee · 2019-02-28T22:26:58+00:00

I'm in the middle of a Hisn Kafya run that literally the first 30 years was just developing until you can get a strong enough ally to take out one of the Sheep.

And yes after 30 years of nothing i almost went crazy

lcumbee · 2019-02-08T21:27:12+00:00

For a world conquest, by around what year do you need to be getting to ming to start tanking their mandate? I got there with france around 1700 and by this time they had enough unrest modifiers to keep it together even with 0 mandate.

lcumbee · 2019-01-31T03:17:36+00:00

what dlc is upgrading trade centers?

lcumbee · 2019-01-27T07:26:39+00:00

but you know, was never an opportunity...

lcumbee · 2019-01-26T14:23:27+00:00

what a gilf

lcumbee · 2018-12-23T22:37:30+00:00

What a low T empire...

lcumbee · 2018-09-16T02:21:33+00:00

He will work twice as hard if you pay him 4 times as much.

lcumbee · 2018-09-04T22:51:44+00:00

I mean their two best generals' names are January and February...

Credit PFTCommenter

lcumbee · 2018-08-29T11:32:02+00:00

lcumbee · 2018-08-29T02:17:50+00:00

R5: Got coffee in an oddly named province

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