u/son_of_ur_son

The region looks like a mix of Japan and Indonesia so it should be my go-to for another colonization game. But does it have big mission tree in vanilla, or are there mods to enhance it?

I've been trying to survive as Ardabil on Xorme AI. Main issue is of course the Ottomans who sneak to the borders by 1500 when you still aren't Persia, outnumbered etc. so it's just my skill issues.

What opm nation, just slightly less difficult would you suggest? With still that minor feeling that you might get ganked, but just luckier or easier

Id played Andalusia, Byzantium even on hard difficulty + Xorme AI and it was easy because diplomacy for those nations are easy, and the strong allies are very close, and all allies are strong

yesterday i've asked the questions about disaster(s). but maybe i wrote the post very poorly so i couldn't get answers properly.

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some events might come from "Preludes to the Greatness" ravelian disaster, i don't know, have no idea what the hell i am dealing with. but i guess disasters like this above are related to the magisters? so i DID reduce their influence which was over 100% at some point, but their events are just keeping spawning for way-way too long and i wonder if there is something i am missing otherwise having devastation everywhere and growing debt for 10-ish years.

how to make the gather the ravelian knowledge so that i can end all 4 debates quicker, other than getting the knowledge from events one by one?

could you give me an idea about what exactly am i dealing with at the moment?

era of absolutism. playing as ravelian pashaine.i little bit fucked up the estates influence of magisters. i guess i finished its negative events through passing up parlament debates. although there is caretakers of mage towers privilege granted which gives some malus. also, there is just that repeating event which takes money agian and again

at the same time, there is prelude to greatness disaster, i guess it is just sit and wait as you have to collect the knowledge (1 debate passed so far, how many are there?)

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there is also repeating event which takes money again and again, i couldn't catch and post it here but it had something to do with the markets (???). now this one is different repeating event, either rebels or minus money with slightly less rebels. what these events are/were related to, what disaster? the magisters, the prelude, or just nation's?

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i am not so sure what all the events, parlament debates are related to what disaster. what is their workaround, is there something that i have to know prior or is it doable?

i restored my Pashaine run and want to go full revolutionary until the end. now, right now i am just Pashaine and haven't finished its missions tree, which upon finishing grants newer one. i noticed that the missions involve free cities, electors, and other stuffs related to the EoA. will the next mission tree involve EoA features as well? when should i dismantle it? and if i just dismantle it while not completing missions with the EoA features, will they all be checked or deadlocked?

i have a campaign where i was playing a nation and adventurers event popped and i started playing as that nation in the aelantir. how can i melt it down so that i can tag switch? paradox tool is converting the game map to vanilla

what region in Anbennar is as rich as Indonesia where Europeans and anyone else usually focus to colonize? i want to play a nation which has colonial gameplay in the old world, rather than focusing on Aelantir, with claims, flavors in there. some people suggested that it was Insyaa but it is closed for the first half of the game.

also, i've just had Beepeck->Small Country region but now that i have stomped Gawed and Lorent, it got little bit boring. what next formable can i go for, to change/extend missiion tree? is there any flavor for this nation past 1550s?

Usually, I hated playing as colonial nation in the the Americas like Inca, Aztecs, or didn't play as CN of colonial power because it was too boring and little bit isolated

I have done Jaddari, Busilar, Verkal Gulan and in the mid of Bluehart->Pashayne run. Now I am wondering if there is a nation in the colonial region which has a ton of flavors, more interaction outside the region. Also, sorry for my ignorance, there is a region which is closed for the first half of the game and you can't get in, get out of there. What is that region about?

I made stupid mistake accodentally taking 1 province for myself from moonhaven during my liberation of vassal war. now idk how i can generate sway. should i release the OPM vassal and hope for an ally emperor granting me free city status which is rng?

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this is normal+anbennar xorme ai. almost everyone but me all just reduce their army numbers even though they economically can field much much more. is it just random AI thing or is there a disaster, event? istralore, busilar, corvuria etc are all fielding like 1-4k armies. normally ai just skyrockets army number but i guess the ai enhancer mod is broken or it is an even/disaster? even gawed right now hasn't done much of big war yet still somehow shrinked his army size

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playing verkal gulan. Just saw OL popping out of Er-Natvir and I see that their economy is poor although they somehow have equal to me army, without them hiring any merc. before attacking them , i wanna know what militaristic buffs they have, other than huge force limit number and huge land maintenance modifier

and how can i play as OL, is it popped from a disaster or is it a formable too?

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2k hours in and this is my first time when reneissance appeared so late, later than 1450s

I want to test my limits but Is it really just physically impossible to play Ardabil past start of 1500s with xorme ai?

I did 20+- restarts where I played up until 1500s. I think I did all the tricks from the guides, vassals, privileges, alliances with Bahmanis, couldn't get to the Austrian tho but was about to. so i had like all of the Shirvan, Georgia, almost all of QQ possessions, half of Ajam. normally, i stabilize finances once I get Iraq-e Ajam and upper Fars but that's exactly when the Ottomans return from their campaigns and full focus on me outnumbering from 4:1 up to 7:1, almost exactly once I start to build buildings. but even those buildings can't fund your armies enough, you build new stacks - ottos already siege down mountains because of the age bonus.

i am not even talking about shit allies like Bahmanis who 1) can be decked by Vij-Malwa 2) are too far away to reinforce 3) can't consolidate their shit if i play in Persia in 70% cases, but can collect their shit once i play Netherlands, it's just how human interaction really impacts continent

I even played this on Europa Expanded mod where Ottoman's expansion momentum should at least be slowed down because Byz can convert to Catholics in 90% cases and get allies. Holy shit, can you believe Ottoman AI taking down PLC and other small allies, and even pope sometimes? In vanilla mod their momentum is just as usual as expansive and aggressive as it can be. Ottomans are almost never a problem for me even for most games even if they expand into me, except for nations where expansion is limited to 2-3 nations, but here I have the entire freaking region yet it is still clumsy.

i could play as ardabil without any mods, vanilla AI is just shitty at reinforcements and their protecting stacks can do random walkings and stuff, you can still beat them even if they 4x you if you have enough space to move around.

is it really just me or it's just as it is?

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So corintar is pretty much like native tribe in America in vanilla but not a native tribe exactly. all i have to do, is to conquer tribal lands, and get more of them as much as i can. i shouldn't care about federation as it shouldn't do anything to my nation but rather acts as a defensive bonus.

the most important stuff is to migrate constantly because i am constantly getting devastation, pillage enemies' capitals, and just to wait for the tier 7 reform and pretty much everything will become normal country. am i right? is there anything more to add?

I've played Jadari and Busilar, 50/50 understand the mechanic and whatnot but it was too chill and way too strong at the start. are there any nations that might have Persia-level build up mission tree or something close and be in tough geopolitical situation?

If you mix marines and artillery, both which have very different disembarkation speed, whose speed is going to be universally applied?

Is it just Britain and Portugal who gets the best marines modifiers or are there any other nations? I've heard from another thread that Britain can use just marines late game, but why? if you don't build naval sailors buildings, won't that make you lose sailors manpower?

similar question for flagship, are all the modifiers that you can make you flagship with, gonna be applied to the whole fleet stack, or there are some exceptions?

I'm wondering what patches the Ottomans and PLC are the weakest. how weak/strong is the Ottoman AI compared to the one where it's weak/strong?

Russia AI is such a big joke, they can't even beat Japan let alone the Ottomans

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I had no idea that vassals like could be stolen from sovereign and form PU, which is what Wolgast did to me. they even rivaled each other at the start

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This is Europa Expanded mod Ardabil mission tree and it's different. So I vassalized Biapas cuz Gilan decked on him, and vassalized Gilan cuz Mazandaran decked on him. but mission tree specifically asks me to instead ally with Gilan. I see 2 ways out of it. annex him but that's maybe mission deadlock. or release him off the vassalage.

I tried my own strats allying Gilan but he just dishonors the alliance when I am decked; or annex all of Biapas but that one 1 province close to Gilan only makes him hate me

I am quite liking the new mission tree Prussia has but wish I could do something dirty with the discipline like you do with Gotland->Hanseatic league->Prussia. i am not sure which nations receive such buffs with new mission trees