Prussian spawn as HRE

[Tomorrow's Dawn]

It shouldn't help, because he have too many vassals, they still control their core areas.
To make it work, he need to control more foreign cores (at least -80 stability for "occupied core" without imperialism) and as less as possible foreign areas. It is easier start a new game and avoid settling of both americas.
Collapse is guaranteed in few turns.

From what jammerculture is saying though, his HRE can meet the pop/land threshold for Domination soon though.

What I recommend at this point is to:

-Rush Courthouses out ASAP in any city that doesn't already have them.
-Rush Espionage buildings out of any city that doesn't already have them.
-Stop teching and set your culture slider 80-100%.
-Ignore your advanced opponents at this point and prey on those who are behind you in tech to meet the land requirement.

 

[jammerculture]

collapsed two turns later at 1900

I think I might have kept at the Mongols too long for no benefit. Once they were out of Persia (my vassals), I had destroyed their SOD and taken Samarkand I should have sued for peace and gone after Russia right away. I was gun shy due to general winter, but my tanks and bombers should have been able to do enough damage to get the land. They were spread out very thin in Europe so each city had a ton of land to go with it.

I definitely need to learn more about stability if I want to play this aggressive. Ever since I read your Chinese AAR Dawn, I've been itching to have a really kicka$$ game like that but I'm not good enough of a player.

On your specific comments:

I thought culture was bad for your stability. I am sure I have read threads to that effect, but never really understood them.

What does espionage buildings have to do with stability?

super stable authoritarian civic combo? explain

I'm gonna start a thread on Leoreth's new stability advisor screen and see if I can get the info I need.

 

[apenpaap]

What does espionage buildings have to do with stability?

Courthouse, Jail and Security Bureau all give a nice stability boost when you build them. I'm not sure if Intelligence Agency does too. Building a lot of them across your empire can make a huge difference.

 

[mykeedee]

Autocracy+ Totalitarianism +10 stability
Totalitarianism+State Property +5 stability
Totalitarianism+Secularism +3 stability
Supreme Council+State Property +7 stability
Totalitarianism +1 stability for every 5 cities you control
halves the stability penalty for angry population
doubles the stability increase from jails
Autocracy +3 stability for every civ you're at war with

Super Stable Authoritarian Civic Combo

 

[jammerculture]

I replayed from 1898 and used the S.S.A.C.C. and it worked! Stability went to -30-40 and I was able to take Russia's European cities bringing me to 24.8%. I sued for peace, taking a city they controlled in Finland and voila, Domination victory!