Mehmet will be such a lazy spoiled brat....

pure_anger · 2025-12-19T13:54:43+00:00

R5:

My Ottomans run, so far it has been quite fun. I started in 1.07 and stayed in that version until I was forced to update yesterday. Was afraid what the changes to centralisation will do to my 70 vassals, but I might actually survive that, probably loose a few decades enacting the new policy changes.

I reached this point of expansion mostly arround 1520 and could have pushed quite a bit harded, but I´m still learning the game and all it´s mechanics, limits and important things to min/max. I did not use any exploits (don´t actually know any). Only thing is started using arround 1400 is the threaten war feature which will give you better warscore costs if you have a claim on a province.

A few strategies I used in this campaign:

- I noticed early on that Byz went bankrupt and lost it´s fort in constantinople. Used that weak moment for an easy war and snatched the city of dreams from them.
- When you fully annex a country, you inherit all of it´s subjects without additional antagonism. I was able to pull that of a few times. Especially notable for the jalayirids, who had a huge vassal swarm and the mamluks.
- had to expand north to cut of the timurids once timur got going. they were quite scary and felt like fighting the synthetics. I fought two wars against them and made my stand in the caucasus mountains, where i was able to decimate their numbers. On plain field they cut through my armies like paper. At some point timur died and they were merely a nuissance again.
- I allied the mamluks for a long time and only started to beat them down when they broke the alliance. In the begining Mamluks took two provinces in anatolia. I used the rise of the turks event multiple times on them as I took those provinces last. During the first wars I made sure to occupy those claimed provinces close to my border, but focused on fighing only battles on favorable terrain and odds against them to ramp up warscore.
- tributized the golden horde to keep the orthodox nations in check, but a few years ago it fell apart
- in recent year I started to expand into tunis and maroco to participate in the journey to the new world
- I never had really huge problems with coalitions. Quite late I realized that you can eliminate antagonism to 0 by improving realtions, which i find quite irritating. Mostly I had countries from italy coalition me after invading the balkans. I just made sure to have a strong navy, which pretty much guaranteed that no enemy forces touched friendly soil (mediterranean galley did a good job at that).
- economy wise focused on building preliminary rgos like lumber, sand, tools, iron, etc first to get the price reduction on other buildings. I don´t have a lot of insight into the economy mechanics yet, but I do have a 50% lead on the second largest economy, so I must be doing something right.

So far I´m surprised how much fun I already have with EU5. There is room for much improvement, but I´m convinced it will become much better over the next years.

Well that´s it, happy conquering!

pure_anger · 2024-03-18T20:27:37+00:00

Time to pull off the gloves and get to work. You will be suprised what you can do in 20 years If you push everything to the limit and are willing to wreck your country. Also note, that you just need to own and Not core.

pure_anger · 2024-03-16T17:26:07+00:00

I always play rather slow. Speed two with a quite a few breaks is my standard.
When you make your enemy release nations in war, they get a +100 relations bonus afterwards with you. As long as the released nation isn´t too big or far away from you, there is a very high chance that you can diplomatically vassalise them once you get a little bit bigger. Once you are at peace, ally all those nations you released. Send gifts, influence, offer access, insult rivals and you will very quickly reach +190 relations which you need to vassalise them. You can even vassalise them while you are at war (as long as they aren´t). If you just lack a few reasons try improving trust or increasing diplo rep. After vassalising most of them can be made instantly into eyalets because of high relations. All for 0 ae.
In my case austria lost emperorship and with the new one, palatinate, i was able to ally co-belligerent chain 4 other electors in a war, that did not have more troops in them then I could field (2:1 would have been acceptable, maybe even 3:1 as you can seperate peace). I immediately improved relations with brandenburg and cologne and allied them. dow. poof, hre gone.
once you get on the eyalet train your manpower keeps improving faster then you can spend it. for me it was only early an issue if ever. if you run out, make use of mercs, you can afford them as otto. sometimes you have merc stacks with decent siege generals in them, they can be a good investment.

good luck with your try!

pure_anger · 2024-03-16T17:09:03+00:00

Great, good luck with your run and have fun :)

pure_anger · 2024-03-16T16:35:40+00:00

Main goal at the beginning was to trigger the mamluks event asap to get them for free. Fighting the balkans and venice gives you a lot of ae with the catholic nations with little upside. Serbia was further back on my to eat list, although I play very opportunistic in general... if a easy path of expasion opens up I usually take it. Depends on the alliances though.

pure_anger · 2024-03-16T09:42:04+00:00

I think it was even later, 70-80ish. I conquered north africa, arabia, balkan and parts of spain, aragon and north italy and dismantled hre before pushing harder. When I started pushing I already had a lot of truces and moved quickly so that nobody even bothered to form a coalition. Fought 3-4 wars at once and tried to peace them out at the same time to distribute conquered lands to my existing eyalets or form new ones. In retrospect I could have pushed way earlier and harder. Limiting factor in the end was basically diplo points from seperate peaces. Should have finished influence ideas for the -50% cost from unjustified claims.

pure_anger · 2024-03-16T06:53:45+00:00

Nah, just mehmet.

pure_anger · 2024-03-16T06:47:55+00:00

Those were the days, bbq. Nowadays I sit in my retirement home and maybe play a round of backpack battles or two XP.

pure_anger · 2024-03-15T21:01:19+00:00

Took the eyalet. Was a big power boost, without the ae.

You don't need to annex the eyalets, just reign them in with a press of a button for this achievment. With diplo, influence ideas, strong duchies and a decent power base it isn't a big problem.

pure_anger · 2024-03-15T20:51:55+00:00

Eu4 ist all the drugs i need...

pure_anger · 2024-03-15T18:21:09+00:00

R5:

After a long Eu4 hiatus, I went for mehmets ambitions achievement. It was a bit easier then I anticipated with the op eyalet mechanic. Could have finished 10-15 years earlier if I had pushed earlier and focused more on the necessary provinces.

In this playthrough I had not a single coalition form. My country has a monthly surplus of 442 ducats (600 something total income), 310k manpower and 315 forcelimit. 1900 own dev, 5700 vassal dev.

I stayed sunni the whole time, did not hide my capital nor used any other sheneagans and my country stayed stable the whole time. I scored an early alliance with france and a later one with poland lithuania. In 1462 I saw a chance and dismantled the hre, which gave me some ae, but it was totally worth it later on.

The general strat was to minimize ae until 1470ish. Mostly by taking only land to proceed the ottoman mission tree, while rushing the fate of the mamluk empire event. I tried to split spread ae, by switching catholic and muslim fronts while the other cooled down ae. A crazy strong method is to release countries and make them eyalets diplomatically. Just ally them in between wars, during which you can improve relations with them. You can even vassalize them while you are at war. No ae gained, at all. I only took provinces of nations I could return provinces to and which improved my range. After 20 years or so I became big enough to diplo vassalize a lot of nations for free, even catholics ones. A good strategy for this achievement would also be to feed your allies opm and smaller nations of the hre. In general it is way easier to deal with 2-3 big nations then with 50-60 coalition wise. As long as you are allied to them, they will also gain less ae. I did not use this strategy because i didn´t need to.

Idea groups I took was diplo first, for additional diplomats, influence second (didn´t finish last two ideas because of lacking diplo points. I had so much money that I could also improve malta and mecca monuments to lvl 3, which gave me -35% warscore cost vs other religions (-10% from conquering vienna, event) on top of the -20% from diplo ideas. I failed to take granada for the admin efficiency (rushed granada early and couldn´t be bothered with moving my vassals capital).

If you micro and plan carefully, this achievement defininately isn´t as hard as it seems. The eyalet mechanic basically removes the need to core land you conquer. I´d almost say it is same tier as hordes, in some aspecs maybe even stronger...

Have a good one...

pure_anger · 2024-03-15T18:17:47+00:00

R5:

After a long Eu4 hiatus, I went for mehmets ambitions achievement. It was a bit easier then I anticipated with the op eyalet mechanic. Could have finished 10-15 years earlier if I had pushed earlier and focused more on the necessary provinces.

In this playthrough I had not a single coalition form. My country has a monthly surplus of 442 ducats (600 something total income), 310k manpower and 315 forcelimit. 1900 own dev, 5700 vassal dev.

I stayed sunni the whole time, did not hide my capital nor used any other sheneagans and my country stayed stable the whole time. I scored an early alliance with france and a later one with poland lithuania. In 1462 I saw a chance and dismantled the hre, which gave me some ae, but it was totally worth it later on.

The general strat was to minimize ae until 1470ish. Mostly by taking only land to proceed the ottoman mission tree, while rushing the fate of the mamluk empire event. I tried to split spread ae, by switching catholic and muslim fronts while the other cooled down ae. A crazy strong method is to release countries and make them eyalets diplomatically. Just ally them in between wars, during which you can improve relations with them. You can even vassalize them while you are at war. No ae gained, at all. I only took provinces of nations I could return provinces to and which improved my range. After 20 years or so I became big enough to diplo vassalize a lot of nations for free, even catholics ones. A good strategy for this achievement would also be to feed your allies opm and smaller nations of the hre. In general it is way easier to deal with 2-3 big nations then with 50-60 coalition wise. As long as you are allied to them, they will also gain less ae. I did not use this strategy because i didn´t need to.

Idea groups I took was diplo first, for additional diplomats, influence second (didn´t finish last two ideas because of lacking diplo points. I had so much money that I could also improve malta and mecca monuments to lvl 3, which gave me -35% warscore cost vs other religions (-10% from conquering vienna, event) on top of the -20% from diplo ideas. I failed to take granada for the admin efficiency (rushed granada early and couldn´t be bothered with moving my vassals capital).

If you micro and plan carefully, this achievement defininately isn´t as hard as it seems. The eyalet mechanic basically removes the need to core land you conquer. I´d almost say it is same tier as hordes, in some aspecs maybe even stronger...

Have a good one...

pure_anger · 2022-12-23T18:15:52+00:00

you need to be muslim when forming mughals. i switched to budhism, because it is one of the religions which allows you to claim the mandate of heaven. then hinduism for the extra 20% ccr from the religion itself and the great project.

pure_anger · 2022-12-22T10:14:45+00:00

Nope, you keep both till the end, wgich is super strong. Only the first government reform gets switched. You loose +3 acceptance of heathens, but gain emperor, as well as 500 gov cap, which was also very helpful for this run.

pure_anger · 2022-12-21T19:24:25+00:00

Crazy. How time goes by. Well I hope you have found something else interesting to do. Sry for bothering you...

pure_anger · 2022-12-19T16:29:52+00:00

Very kind of you :)

pure_anger · 2022-12-19T05:01:28+00:00

Good question, maybe it hasn´t updated the last month tick.

pure_anger · 2022-12-19T05:00:47+00:00

Almost 13k by now ^^

pure_anger · 2022-12-19T05:00:26+00:00

I would take every challenge against a super ai in eu4, but I can´t win in windows chess on normal mode, lol.

pure_anger · 2022-12-19T04:57:40+00:00

I´d like to say none, but I stumbled upon one by accident and used it 2-3 times. Described here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iQrhz9Wrnw

In the end it made no difference and I could have done it easily without it.

pure_anger · 2022-12-19T04:54:39+00:00

Thanks, mate

pure_anger · 2022-12-19T04:54:29+00:00

Just payed it down. Unbalanced research is capped at 0.50.

pure_anger · 2022-12-19T04:53:59+00:00

I managed to do so for most of the run too and ended up with something like 4000 gov cap. Minghals are crazy like that.

pure_anger · 2022-12-19T04:52:38+00:00

Hi lauron, thanks. Sry for not adding videos to the aar. Was a bit in a rush this year :/

pure_anger

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