This phase of the game is the most exciting: i'm completing colonization of SA, and i'm fighting a religius war in Europe.
With cursor going from a continent to the other one, following active units is very easy to forget an action and make a mistake.
Let's split two scenaries:
South America:
Spoiler:
Army got with conquerors event is enough to complete colonization without any loss. Step by step. No hurry.
It is more important to convert cities than conquer them. Cultural action of citadels and religion is enough to cover those silver sources in the other part of Andes.
When Portugal asked to be vassalized, i forgot to check if involved in any war, so i was in war with Russia and Ottomans, out of my plans.
I never met Russia in these turns, but they were very afraid of me.
Spoiler:
To the Ottomans i said NO, because they owned Belgrad, too close to Wien, so i chosed to fight, weak them a lot, take Belgrad and convert it, before give it to somebody (HRE for example).
Time to get army back from England, heal all units, and...
Spoiler:
This battle will be the last of the game.
From now peace, expansion, and spreading religion.
Some tricks for workers in SA.
Build roads, mines, farms, but DO NOT BUILD plantations: with Colonization and all those native dog soldiers, you'll enslave enough units to build slave plantations everywhere (do not forget Philippines).
Of cource gold and silver mines take precedence over everything, but any worked tile helps to grow.
And remember: do not build anything in colonies but religious buildings and jails.
This is the correct use of settlers in version 1.16 of DoC in Renaissance era.
In my eperience playing with Spain, Portugal is totally unuseful to achive Spanish goals.
Portugal never declared war to me, never asked money or resource, and sometimes (like in the game i'm playing) it asks to be vassalized for free.
Santiago and Cordoba can grow without tiles of Portugal core, and almost often it remains Catholic after shism of reformation.
My strategy expects to do just what i need to achive my goals. In this way i ignore Portugal and i let it grow and spread Catholicism in Brazil.
No way! Portugal asked to become your vassal when you where Spain!? That's incredibly rare since Portugal has very high self esteem in the game as well as every other European Nation. I once conquered every single city of the Holy Romans except Buda as the Germans and they still didn't want to capitulate! Even though they had a few Landsknechts and I had Musketeers!
Not usual (it is the first time that it happens indeed), but Portugal asked to be vassalized, and i accepted, and i found myself in war with Russia and Ottomans.
I had bad relations with Ottomans, so i took advantage of this war to charge their cannons with my conquistadores.
The result was a catholic Belgrad, Wien far from Ottoman border and a couple of work boats in Mediterranean sea to re-train.
But, i repeat, this is just a random event of the game.
By the way, Tibetans too asked to be vassalized in this game, but because i didn't find anything useful in that choice, i let them alone.
Working on a Spain playthrough at the moment, I got conquerors for the Inca but not the Aztecs even though I met them early enough. Is there a rule precluding the same player from getting both conquerors?
Don't think you can get conquerers before 1400 so it's possible to meet them too early. or they randomly spot you with a fishing boat before you contact them can be a purge. I've had arabia meet them then instantly disintegrate in games too
So I really enjoyed your strategy and the gameplay of your UHV victory and I tried emulating it to a certain extent but came up against an uncrackable wall. In three out of the four games I played with Spain the Vikings were still around when the reformation happened and they converted. In two of these cases they collapsed soon after but came back in the beginning of the 17th century as Protestant with a ridiculous army that I had no hope of defeating even if the game allowed me to declare war on them (it didn't for the first ten turns of their respawn). In the third case they never collapsed and were such a monster that even with the two conqueror events I got plus all the troops I built they still had a stronger military than we did. And they were more advanced. They also couldn't be persuaded to convert, even at pleased. Funny enough, in the fourth case they were actually the ones to found Protestantism but chose not to convert
So I really enjoyed your strategy and the gameplay of your UHV victory and I tried emulating it to a certain extent but came up against an uncrackable wall. In three out of the four games I played with Spain the Vikings were still around when the reformation happened and they converted. In two of these cases they collapsed soon after but came back in the beginning of the 17th century as Protestant with a ridiculous army that I had no hope of defeating even if the game allowed me to declare war on them (it didn't for the first ten turns of their respawn). In the third case they never collapsed and were such a monster that even with the two conqueror events I got plus all the troops I built they still had a stronger military than we did. And they were more advanced. They also couldn't be persuaded to convert, even at pleased. Funny enough, in the fourth case they were actually the ones to found Protestantism but chose not to convert
Maybe try espionage? The change state religion mission shouldn't cost too many EPs so not a huge sacrifice. The best way to do it would probably be by stationing a couple of spies in their cities just before the deadline and then conduct the change state religion mission.
I'm playing 1.16 (the original version). Marathon speed.
Try as I might, my economy/research always seems to tank before I can get to Optics, so I can't settle in the New World without leaving my colonies isolated from the trade network and therefore ridiculously expensive.
This tends to be my game plan:
- raze Marseilles
- prioritise Catholic monasteries and churches in Santiago and Barcelona, and jails
- try for Rome before Italy spawns (although the Shrine income doesn't seem to count - is this a bug??)
- eject the Moors by 1236
- beeline Firearms for Tercios
- nip France and England in the bud by capturing Bordeaux and Plymouth
- delay exploring the New World until Conquistadors are available, although in my latest game, England got to the New World first and vassalised both Mexico and Peru
My research seems to lag massively by this point, and I resorted to to stealing techs from France and HRE towards the end, but even this strategy ran out of road. Inflation seems to be through the roof - is there anything I can to slow down the increases?
Is there anything obvious I should be doing or not doing? Perhaps I should focus more on Spain's economy rather than neutering France and England, but it's not the best country to build cottages in.
Yes, Rome is a very good city to conquer as soon as possible for its shrine income.
You only need to settle one city in America early on for the UHV, delay the rest.
After that the goal is to use as few cities as possible to get your gold and silver goal just in time.
My preference for second city is Seattle, or where you can include the 3 silver and gold mines with culture (produce culture to make it in time).
You really don't need the conquer events for Aztec or Inca, as your ideal result is to have them as vassals and hand back most cities anyway.
You can easily grab the cities later on, and then just the cities you need for gold and silver.
There are also 3 easy gold resources to get if you conquer Mali and let them keep the cities with no gold resources.
Also with the new change made you can also let them keep all cities as resources for vassals count as well.
With a few silver and gold mines in central America you should have it now.
You don't even need Manilla from the Trade event, as it will be a huge cost with that far away city.
Conquer Ibera fully as soon as you can for the larger core area.
Harass you European competitors as much as possible (primarily France and England).
It could also be great to make them vassals.
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