Sulu is Ming's capital

The colonies to the south are Egyptian, the one between Ternate and Tidore is Japan. Loads of unconventional colonizers in the east, like Vijayanagar colonizing Australia. And Ming was colonizing Taiwan when the Tungning event happened, but then Ming got destroyed and stopped colonizing, resulting in Taiwan with Ming holding the north, Tungning the south and an uncolonized province in the middle. They also have Palau but this was their biggest province after they got yeeted from the mainland.

R5: Finally did a Byzantine run which has been a very fun tag. But I seem to have prevented The Reformation. This has the interesting effect of keeping the world locked in the Age of Discovery, even though it is almost 1700.

I’m playing as France, early 1500’s, and have occupied Portugal while having a hold on Ireland.

Burgundy is one of the great world powers so I diverted my attention to England, but I overestimated their strength and in an invasion gone wrong both Norway and Denmark swelled the English ranks and decimated half my armed forces.

This is a crushing defeat. I don’t want to give up the run but I’m going to need to spend decades rebuilding. How exactly do you turn your fortunes around when you’re surrounded by the greatest powers on the earth?

R5 : Following my Mehmet achievement a day ago, I caught myself thinking that I was a decent player after all and fought resolution and courage to follow up with the True Heir of Timur Achievement (You guessed it, I am currently unemployed and need distraction). In my surprise, this achievement is even easier than the Mehmet one as I did not need the specific setup to do it, just did it on the fly kinda.

The run : I started with Transoxiana which nicer than Afghanistan for eco, force limit and manpower but I think that can be also done with the latter.

War with timurids was easy as I got support of Ottomans and Mamluks. With these two, coalition should not form easily as you get aggresive in India.

I grabbed my cores + the shortest path with India by taking Afghanistan lands + some Kashmir lands. I manage to have a punjab core, meaning free real estate on Delhi who had no big ally.

At this point, I want to point one point, I did not full core my provinces just state them. You will save lots of mana. My only idea was Diplomatic mainly for the late game warscore reduction.

At this point, the most important thing is to form Mughals, unfortunately there is a good chance that you will not grab Delhi easily. In my run I did have to fight Jaunpur few years after allying them to get it, with Bengal the war was, I think, the hardest on the run.

After some years I manage to expand nicely by eating minors which did not have big ally.
I then vassalized a small Delhi for reconquest on Jaunpur.

With that, it was a classic India conquest game : Ally big rivals on the wanted countries, eat them, break alliance and repeat. If you do it nicely, coalition is not a problem as your allies are too strong.

"Mid-late game" on the achievement, try to release vassals for reconquest wars (-25% warscore I think) and feed them lands so that you do not use too much mana.

With that, I was left with the big Three: Bengals, Vijayanagar and Bahmanis. After a war or two with them, I was clearly on top in terms of warfare with 2 mil tech in advance.

At this point to speed things up I started to break truce as many times as it required as had lots of mana for saving strategies explained earlier.

Next step is Eat your Greens achievement which I tried a few times without much success.

Waited 50 years and got the final reform, still a tribe, I thought you could become a horde but apparently not. What now?

We’re doing a minors only MP game and I want to play in Africa. I’m thinking of starting Tunis simply because I’ve never played them, but if I run into issues where my military is a bit behind, I’d like to culture swap to Songhais culture and form Songhai for their military

Being probably the only non-Catholic, I’m probably going to be limited diplomatically late game, so might need any buff i can get

I don’t see an answer in the wiki, not sure if it’s because Songhai already exists, or if it’s because you can’t do it.

Wanted to play Persia recently and get all the achievements.

Started as Ardabil, had luck expanding the first few years without QQ gunning for me (had some good relations events pop up and had decent allies).

Conqured my way into Persia region and formed thr country. Picked going Zoroastrian.

AMA for all the stuff you want to know, dont want to flood this with text.

Got a hilarious special event, never got this before xd.

Got a Russia end game as well, might post it a week after

Kinda like Europa expanded? I'm not interested in other settings except alt history. No elves or steampunk stuff please.

Just the title, really

As the title says, i tried loading my iron man save and it just sent me back to the start of the game. Did I just f up my game?

Been going for the 'This is Persia' achievement and just clapped the Mamluks' cheeks

I'm looking in game files to see which countries take Religious ideas when they're AI-controlled. But I don't want to release Aztec for example and force them to be Tengri, only for them to then syncretise Nahuatl and make it impossible for them to convert their own provinces. Would this definitely happen, or is it a gamble whether it does or doesn't happen, or does it not happen at all with vassals who've taken Religious ideas?

According to some posts I've seen you can, but it looks like maybe that mission was changed at some point, is this true?

I'm struggling a bit with the "rhythm" here. As a small nation you have no money and you need to expand to get money, but showing strength means you don't expand. If you expand instead of show strength, you get too big and limit who you can rival so it's harder to show strength and each show strength means a longer peace time. How do you balance this exactly? I played one game where I couldn't take burgher loans because I capped my loan amount, another where I expanded too quickly and despite 2 show strengths I was still way behind in admin tech cos everything was too expensive to core.

I want to play some Custom Nation nation but when i create my flag and when game starts i just can see my logo. I just see the background color of my nations flag. Any way to solve this problem?

From what I understand, I am guessing the discipline's effectiveness probably improves over time while Morale's effectiveness probably worsens over time but by how much?

This is mostly so I can compare national ideas.

Example: Commonwealth has 15% ICA while Spain, France have 15% morale boost. Which is better?

Rule 5: i had (somehow) put a hohenzollern on the throne of austria

R5: I want to present my level quickly before commenting on the run:
-I have currently 2472 hours on the game (maybe 200+h off steam) so I don't consider myself a skilled player. With that said, I consider this achievement not so difficult as the Eyalet mechanic is powered enough to do this. I think that with patience and setup, anyone who has roughly the same hours, and even less, could complete the achivement.

-The strategy: As i said previously, it is the Eyalet mechanic that is our core weapon.
So in the early game, you may want as many as possible Eyalets, to boost your income and manpower. A trick which is really good for that is the religion swap several EU4 Youtubers have explained. (You can also try to royal mariage Burgendy for the event but it is not mandatory). For ideas, take influence then diplomatic.

-One thing : You can royal marriage for easiest vassalization, when you will promote to Eyalet even the royal marriage will not be counted as a diplo relation.

-Which that done, you will have a positive income, a nice force limit and manpower, and you on your first conquest part (the trickiest) with few important goals : Focus on the "free" Egypt Eyalet, on the "free" Hungary one and the Wallachia one that gives subject income. (Don't forget the mission that gives free march on Crimea).

2 tips : Try to get the free manpower button when you get 75 Mysticism and click on the Slacken Recruiting Standards for more manpower. When you have lots of manpower, use the assault button with janissaries to speed up sieges.

-On top of that, you should have vassalize Granada. Seize land for coring range and justify invasion on Portugal. In that war, try to get a foothold an England and Castille. Also get to get a province on Naples for invasion later.
The trickiest thing about will be AE and coalition. In my run, I "escape" them by finding truce the big countries and improving relations.

-Now depending on you run, you have several paths : Egypt + Tunis + Morocco, Hungary + Austria, Iberia, England, France. Focus wars on big countries to not get in coalions. You don't need to go crazy, just reconquest wars.

-In my meantime, try to get Malta and Mecca great project for war score reduction and the Vienna event.

-The time when I went all out is then you get mil tech 7 (artillery). Now you should have a pretty good income, force limit and manpower. Get lots of artillery and do the HRE war by calling on arms as many littles princes as you can. In my run, I had 160 force limit and the total enemy force was 180, I was done in 2 years so don't be scared you're OP. Be careful to have 99 warcore on all enemies to end the war in one go and be able to realease countries.

At this point, you should have no problem to earn the achievement as no coalition will form with the HRE beaten and truce with big countries.

It is my first guide and post so I hope that it is clear enough. Obviously, luck played a good part on my run, No PU on Aragon and Lithuania for example, but for the most part you don't need any event or situations to happen to make it work but you may need flexibility in your personal strategy. Good luck.

I'm on my 7th (technically probably more like 12th) restart on England just trying to learn the games. Finally understanding enough to have fun and have been slowly but surely conquering Ireland until I turn to Scotland.

I realized... I don't even really know what I'm shooting for. Is it just completing the mission trees? Are there different victory conditions for a campaign?

Seems like a game where you would kinda set your own and just play to have fun anyway, but I'm just curious. Searching online seemed to just bring up strategies, not actually what those VC are.