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Originally Posted by Anssi A
I think favorite campaigns (assuming you have all dlc):
(Slowly) unify Japan
Brandenburg - Prussia
Orissa trade monster
Ryukyu world conquest
Luck of the Irish
Byzantium into Rome
Lubeck trade empire
Form Netherlands as minor
I usually do a brandenburg-Prussia campaign every time i start to play again after an expansion or two and want to check out the new mechanics. Always an interesting game balancing the slow pace of early expansion in HRE due to heavy AE with trying to eat into poland/TO, and then cool goals in terms of forming prussia, turning empire protestant, space marine soldiers, etc.
Netherlands and Irish real fun too.
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As a side note, I think Aragon is the strongest European power.
I'm actually doing an Aragon campaign now cause goofy posting his game inspired me to play again. I'm going for the consulate of the sea achievement (own all Med centers of trade). They def are very strong because the Med is basically your lake with your large starting fleet, galley combat bonus from traditions, and Naples, and you can very quickly and easily completely dominate the Genoa node and get mega rich. Plus there's the alternative option of allying England if they don't rival you at start, letting you smash France between you (although would need to ally Castille to prevent stabbing in the back). Biggest issue I'm running into is the ideas are garbage later on in terms of land warfare, trying to fight Ottomans/France/other countries with military bonuses is rough, but if you can snag the free PU w/ Castille you can get the pretty strong Spain ideas.
Its ~1560 in my game atm, started off with a no-cb war on Byz to vassal them, have fed them Athens, Cyprus and all of the Greek islands, and they are a march so pretty decent army and fleet. More importantly, they totally cock-block the Ottomans since they lose out on Constantinople and Byz saps a lot of their trade. Plan is to eventually feed them all the rest of their Ottoman cores, but Ottomans are terror despite me stealing Byz and Egypt, they inherited Crimea in the first 50 years and are already fielding a 110k army. Unfortunately, the final COTs I need are the Ottoman ones. They had an alliance w/ France for ~60 years that I finally managed to break, so hopefully me and Austria (which PUed and integrated Hungary) can dunk them.
Last edited by Nonfiction; 10-10-2017 at 02:44 PM.