1.16 France - strategic guide

[rmontaruli]

What do you mean with "you are Rome" ?
Do you mean a game from 3000BC as Romans?
Or do you mean a player owns the city of Rome?

 

[Strijder21]

What do you mean with "you are Rome" ?
Do you mean a game from 3000BC as Romans?
Or do you mean a player owns the city of Rome?

The former.

 

[troubleshooting]

Ah that makes sense, I’ve held off on taking Naples/whatever southern Italian city, that was what was doing it. Thanks!

 

[black213]

I thought the Italian spawn was changed to a forced spawn (as in, they always spawn) in a recent-ish update.

 

[Dracosolon]

Has anyone ever managed the UHV on the 1700 AD map? The first one (Paris with Legendary ) is done for you but conquering 40% of Europe and North America in just one century seems very difficult/impossible.

 

[Lzz]

Normal speed likely not possible but Marathon could be doable maybe.

 

[Logoncal]

Has anyone ever managed the UHV on the 1700 AD map? The first one (Paris with Legendary ) is done for you but conquering 40% of Europe and North America in just one century seems very difficult/impossible.

That sounds like a massive Napoleon Challenge. How long do you have? 15-30 turns?

 

[Dracosolon]

33 (technically 34 if you count the last one I guess) turns on Normal, 5 of which where you can't declare war on anyone (you can still take Rome if you manage to get Open Borders with Austria).

 

[Dracosolon]

After testing, it's actually possible to win the second UHV on normal speed, though you do need to be lucky with combat odds (I savescummed a bit, not as much as I expected - either you get momentum in the first turns of war or you'll fail, it feels like). I went:

1) Rome,
2) Austria (vassalized after taking Milan),
3) Spain (never vassalized even after taking all of their core cities - they gave San Juan in a peace treaty),
4) England (vassalized after taking London),
5) Prussia (vassalized after taking Frankfurt and Berlin).

Poland friendly-vassalized on its own, pushing me above 50%. I actually feared I wouldn't get the North America one.

I'll test another day if I can survive that absurd overexpansion score.