Good video although lacking on some fronts, Really enjoyed the comments in the comment section. People really know how to elaborate and complete the delivery for the strategy, and also address common problems It's amazing to see that this (overall) stratrgy still works, although knowing the additional workarounds is always fun (just in case)
I disagree with the one number spot, i think islam is much better than orthodox, orthodox is great but not as good as islam, i would of put orthodox in number 2 and islam in number 1
A quick question that someone will hopefully be able to answer: How did you have enough naval range to take Capo Verde from the Portuguese? Did you have colonialism embraced along with the "Tales of Gold and Spice" mission complete? This is the only way I can think to have the necessary naval range without Colonial Ventures, Overseas Exploration, or diplo tech 9. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
One of the reasons why lot of people quit is that they fall into monotony of doing the same thing over and over again. Why do this bad thing when doing the other option is much more beneficial, right? So one game after another, their game is the same. There's unbelievable depth to this game and so much can be accomplished if the player is smart about it.
Totally agree. I roleplay, making decisions based on what I feel my player character would do, not the "best" decision, and I've never had a playthrough go the same way twice. Much more enjoyable than playing simply to "beat" the game, where's the fun in that?!
my oldest character was 139 which is very old she become an empress and formed a new religion before dying and passing on her throne to her great great great granddaughter
the biggest decision as netherlands is to choose colonies or development. since i choose the latter, i go aristocratic first, then economic, infrastructure, plutocratic (go for dutch republic, after getting plutocratic, which can be taken as either second, third or fourth idea) and then manually going for stadholder monarchy (first goverment reform) and you get oranje dynasty. then take defensive as your fifth idea, get the seven provinces and voila, you can develop a nation that is capable of just stealing other nation's colonies (which is what i do, with the bonus being the since as netherlands most colonial nations around you don't fight each other because ai is stacking against you, you usually have england, france, portugal and castile/spain building an armada of colonies, colonizing the entire americas by 1600s, which you can now just take (and also spend 93.34% of your money on hiring mercs to put down space rebels since their numbers can't come from earth)). choose to get +1 adm policies, and choose all 4 adm policies (2x for money, gov cap and autonomy debuff which helps if you expand beyond low countries, and dev in primary culture from def policy) final note from me is that while you are a republic, restart until england becomes anglican, so you can convert. so now you get a bunch of income because of economic ideas from policies, dev policy from def ideas, dev from aristocratic, plutocratic and infrastructure ideas, dev from anglican which is more than from protestant, but with high religious unity you get enough money from anglican interactions. the only downside from anglican is that you can't have consorts so no extra dev points from divorces (though if you remain a feudal goverment, you can do that, it's just not gonna feel right from rp perspective).
