Posted 11 February 2014 - 08:26 AM
EU4 further. Tried playing as Mutapa, as Kongo, but catching up with the west is... very luck dependant. As Kongo, for African Power achievement, you really need Porugal to be fairly weak, and Mamluks being broken and Ottomans not blobbing out. In my game Portugal was king of the world. Ah well.
Tried to play as Castille to try out major power gameplay. And boy, it's so, SO easy. I got succession war and PU over Portugal within the first 5 years of the game, and France was my friend until I devoured Aragon, very easy start. It's not the 1670-ies and I have everything in the spanish region, Sardinia + Corsica, Tangiers, Ceuta and Oran. All of South America barring 2 dutch colonies is with my colonial nations - Castillan West Indies, New Granada, Castillan Peru, Castillan Brazil, Castillan La Plata... just waiting for final colonies to pop for that colonial guyana... I hold Ivory Coast+Ashanti, Kongo, almost whole modern day South Africa, Aden, Hormuz, Ceylon, Malacca... Half of Indonesia/Phillippines, all of Australia, finishing up New Zealand. I control world trade, with 7 trading bonuses (maybe more? I don't even count). My protectorates are Brunei, Makassar, Aceh, Kilwa and that little strip of land north of Kilwa and one more country in Indonesia I can't name off the top of my head. Trade value reaching Sevilla is near 80. I think I could do better! I might just go ahead and make a move on Gulf of Aden, Ceylon, Indus and Bengal, though I'm not sure I have the amount of merchants I need... I might have to just make sure trade gets steered without my involvemend along Zanzibar, The Cape, Congo and Ivory coast... there's so much more trade to be grabbed!
France didn't colonize nor blob. England is my major rival, with colonies across north america and some here and there in Africa and the Indian Ocean, Taiwan and Kurils... the Dutch are also strong in the colonial game, and Creek westernized and blobbed across the midwest. I'm now allied to Tuscany, Creek and the USA and supporting independance of Nova Hollandia, with royal marriages with Tuscany, Creek, USA (yeah it's a feudal monarchy kek), France and... hmmm. Do I have one extra diplomatic relation I could fill? Hmm hmm. Austria is weak, Bohemia is the Emperor, only 3 reforms passed. Sweden blobbed over Scandinavia, Timurids hold everything between Ottomans and Delhi and the fast blobbing bengali Hindustan. Ming survives, Korea is huge, Japan formed but is bullied by Russia and Korea, Ayyuthaya holds Indochina.
France has disputed succession so the game tells me on the king's death there'll be a succession war between myself and France. I have more forcelimits but they hold a larger army and have 3x the manpower reserves. I'll have to put my income to good use and drown them in mercs - pull their army into my territory, bait them to attack in the mountains or hills and reinforce-defend, then blanket siege and blanket blockade their ports until I can force a PU. Spain + France PU? omg so stronk!
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NoOneExpectsThetiamishInquisition, on 04 February 2014 - 09:25 AM, said:
