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Originally Posted by goofyballer
I think I'm never going to finish it because I've concluded I can't conquer the world in the 80 years remaining so thinking about it makes me feel like a failure
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
1736:
Ethiopia is my vassal.
After this screenshot, I annexed Multan and Mewar (the small brown country between Multan and Vijay) and took ~a third of Vijay, in the same war. But it took, like, 8 years, I think it's 1444 now. So if it takes me 8 years to do that, then extrapolating, there's no way I can take the rest of the world in 80, especially when the wars I have ahead of me (GB who has France in PU, Spain, Russia, Ming) are going to be way more difficult than the ones I've fought up to this point.
I know WC is supposed to have 90% of the work happening after 1680 but I think I slouched too much before that point:
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
1683, just got dip 23 and thus imperialism CB, seems like a good spot to take a break at 1am. I worry I've been growing too tall and not wide, we'll see.
The (known) world:
At this point in time, where I got imperialism:
- I had never fought Transox, when I should have been beelining through them to get to Chagatai to start tanking Ming's mandate way before this point (I think in this screenshot is when I first bordered them)
- After taking most of Hormuz, I let their remnants stick around for decades longer than I should have for no particular reason, blocking eastward expansion
- I never decced on Spain or their allies (would have been important to try to weaken them earlier)
- I never decced on Russia or their allies (would have been important to try to weaken them earlier)
- I never decced on Portugal or their allies (them holding Morocco for forever set up a significant roadblock in my African expansion)
- while there was definitely a careful dance of trying to keep AE from getting too high in the HRE, I never decced on Bohemia (emerged as dominant power there) or their allies - my northwest expansion stopped decades earlier than it should have
So for those reasons, I think this game is basically toast and next time around, I need to suck it up and fight the wars I'm scared to fight way earlier. Any other fun, stupidly powerful WC countries? I wouldn't even mind trying this with Ottomans again, they're super fun, but maybe I should mix it up. I don't think I've ever played a full France game out, maybe it's time (though, does bordering Spain/HRE/GB make early expansion prohibitive?).
Last edited by goofyballer; 07-21-2018 at 07:02 PM.