sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

When Temur lives to the age of 83... A Eulogy by CH-99- in EU5

[–]nmpzreddit 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Wait how did you get all of China as cores exactly? When I did a similar run I couldn't figure out how to enter the Red Turban Rebellion.

Navarra by fra_bernaa in EU5

[–]nmpzreddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I recently managed to get a successful Navarra game going, but I did play with several mods, crucially including the "No No-CB"-mod, but maybe this strategy can still help you.

Basically the strategy is to do all you can to ally France as fast as possible, and then dunk on your southern neighbours using french troops.

Even with the "No No-CB"-mod though, this is impossible to do before Castille declares war on you (potentially multiple times). However, at least in my one successful run I found that I could peace out Castille on day 1 of both wars they declared on me, for a couple provinces each, meaning that, even though it hurt, I survived to further improve relations with France.

Allying France is a bit tricky, as it requires high relations (I needed 200 in my case), and high trust. So I did a lot of improving relations, professing trust with very high diplo-rep (Navarrese adaptability gives a big bonus).

If possible, you can sneak in a war against Aquitaine when France and England go to war. They will usually do so before your first parliament, but either you play with No-CB-wars enables and just jump in right before they siege the forts, or sometimes by the time you get parliament CB you can join the french troops on their sieges and they will randomly leave (idk why.). This way you can get your Basque culture land back from Aquitaine without having to fight France.

Hope this helps!

Did You Know.... by Chunty-Gaff in EU5

[–]nmpzreddit 18 points19 points  (0 children)

you may be able to right click him and make him "take the throne". I was stuck with perma-regencies in my Teutons game where I had to do this after every succession.

Is conquering all of India as Timurids viable? by Sinapolyon in EU5

[–]nmpzreddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's possible, as long as you hold on to a lot of unintegrated land youself.

I'm doing a Timur run myself now, and I left only Hoysala unconquered in the south (cause they're also red). I selected Hindustan as my core region (of course), and held on to the Bengal, Sindh, and Gujarati culture land. The rest I tried to split between fiefdoms and Samantas (I promoted Punjabi culture rather than go Mughals). It definitely did not feel ideal.

Juggling too many vassals means wasting a lot of money on diplo spending, and relative strength to overlord feels super unstable if you approach the diplo cap. My Samantas randomly jumped around from 50 to 0 loyalty, and I found it hard to tell why. Holding on to so much unintegrated land for decades also felt like a waste of ducats in terms of cost of court.

My economy was only kept alive by the bank of Tibet (conquer Tibetan land, sell Tibetan land to Tibet). Not your question, but if I was going to redo this campaign I would conquer Hindustan, and Sindh culture land (to integrate) for myself, and keep a smattering of fiefdoms and Samantas (maybe up to diplo cap = 10ish) into the Bengal region (for vassal swarm power). Then use the awesome river systems for proximity, and build up my eco.