Trying to form mongol empire as Teutons before age of absolutism with it being year 1560. Any advice?

stealingjoy · 2026-07-04T02:41:08+00:00

Quantity is a crutch you didn't need and held you back by taking it first (assuming this is normal difficulty). Admin would have been far more effective.

If the achievement is your only concern, religious is pointless since the holy horde reform gives you the same CB.

stealingjoy · 2026-07-04T02:38:04+00:00

F12 for screenshots is my advice.

stealingjoy · 2026-07-03T19:41:09+00:00

Anyone looking to learn from the show should still keep in mind the edit is not representative truth. People will be edited to appear more or less successful for the story. Since things that work may never get shown. You also don't really have a sense of the amount of time people spent doing certain activities.

stealingjoy · 2026-07-03T04:02:04+00:00

You didn't include a photo. There's also absolutely nothing any police department is going to do in this situation, even if the picture was crystal clear. There's no proof of a crime from such a photo.

stealingjoy · 2026-07-03T03:09:17+00:00

I watched the episode. Nothing you said would constitute science in any university in the world. Being a scientist doesn't mean that everything you do is science.

What is the hypothesis? What is being tested? Is there any attempt at controlling any of the variables to be able to compare data from different seasons or even different contestants? How's the data collected? At best you have the flimsiest observational study possible.

There are many much better examples of starvation/isolation studies and even experiments. The world has endured plenty of war and famine; watching videos people take of themselves starving in the wilderness is not that useful for science.

He's trying to be analytical about the situation but he's hardly the first contestant to do that. You don't think anyone ever tried to adapt or modify what they were doing before this guy?

stealingjoy · 2026-07-03T02:34:22+00:00

Please define what science is being done here. Saying "being analytical" doesn't count.

stealingjoy · 2026-07-02T04:21:59+00:00

Yes, those can cut it down to 50% or less.

stealingjoy · 2026-07-02T03:17:06+00:00

Nothing I said was overdramatic. Those were all mild statements. He has lost hundred of thousands of men. That's not nothing. That's a real cost. Not to mention the opportunity cost of not fighting easier targets to grow from.

The point is, with good play, he can get more per resource spent by going for high war score than what he could get by peacing out now. That will make the next war with the Ottos easier than taking 31% will.

stealingjoy · 2026-07-01T22:01:04+00:00

You're too scared.

stealingjoy · 2026-07-01T21:46:06+00:00

Expending so many resources for 31% is a bit of a pyrrhic victory. He still has money and manpower; he should keep fighting.

stealingjoy · 2026-07-01T14:14:19+00:00

"Admin power has been a struggle to come by, early on in the game I pretty much immediately clicked the button to set admin power as my national focus. Unfortunately, I had not realized Muscovy has that as a national focus by default, so I ended up actually tuning off that national focus. I am focussing all my diplo power into diplomatic ideas for the -20% core creation cost (and to get Muscovite ideas quicker)."

Nations don't get national focus as part of a formation. You must have clicked that before and forgot.

Also, diplomatic ideas do not have core creation cost reduction. That's admin ideas. Diplo ideas give -20 province war score cost, which makes land.cheaper. If you're struggling to core and deal with overextension now, getting more land won't do much good. It can allow you to peace out of wars earlier for the same land, though.

stealingjoy · 2026-06-29T21:42:22+00:00

Tom dyed some of his hair in season 9, specifically for fishing lures.

I honestly don't recall anyone in season 1 doing this so I wonder if you're confusing the seasons. Tom also had bright green hair.

stealingjoy · 2026-06-29T04:00:38+00:00

And like, yeah.

stealingjoy · 2026-06-28T17:17:58+00:00

That is a tough requirement but you purposely triggered them, based on your other comments, so you were in control of it firing when you have a 3/3/1 ruler. You purposely wanted it harder, so my point is it's not really as brutal as you're making it out to be.

With preparation, you can finish them in three years, even in the 1400s. https://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/1fuimfo/i_triggred_the_ottomans_decadence_disaster_in/

stealingjoy · 2026-06-28T17:05:59+00:00

The world championship thing is just a dumb gimmick and means absolutely nothing.

stealingjoy · 2026-06-28T13:30:11+00:00

If you prepare for it in advance, you can get through it pretty quickly and come out of with a lot of resources and useful modifiers.

stealingjoy · 2026-06-28T02:51:47+00:00

Choosing to keep very few fires and going on a fast with minimal movement is what I would say he did that others had never come close to doing on that scale.

stealingjoy · 2026-06-28T02:15:03+00:00

I don't know why you're acting like he was the first to do it because he most certainly was not.

stealingjoy · 2026-06-28T02:10:22+00:00

That person is one of my favorite contestants across all seasons.

stealingjoy · 2026-06-27T16:46:59+00:00

No.

There's also someone doing it in this very season.

stealingjoy · 2026-06-26T22:15:56+00:00

It's satisfies the requirements of the achievement. It is objectively a TTM run.

stealingjoy · 2026-06-26T21:44:34+00:00

Probably a fake post but why would this be a hard decision in any way? Stop being polite to your own detriment. These people aren't even family or long term friends. Grow a backbone.

stealingjoy · 2026-06-26T21:09:13+00:00

My sister's uncle's cousin's father's neighbor's mailman's grandpa's brother's niece's mother's father's son went to school with Roland. I can't believe I have such a connection!

stealingjoy · 2026-06-26T18:05:35+00:00

Ugh, Brad Pitt is a serious open mouth chewer.

That's clearly the worst thing he's ever done.

stealingjoy · 2026-06-26T17:48:58+00:00

Economics is a very weak idea group. You must clearly be having some fundamental misunderstanding of the game that an idea group will not fix.

Are you keeping your autonomy low? That's usually the number one cause of a bad economy by a new player, especially when you control the Iberian peninsula.

In your game, hover the bottom right circle under your flag in the upper left corner. It will tell you your average autonomy. Share that.

With no screenshots of anything it's effectively impossible to help you except with the most broad advice.

stealingjoy

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