R5: Especially since I visited Oman on a school trip in December last year and even before Cradle of Civilisation, I’ve been wanting to do the Third Way achievement, but kept getting distracted by other campaign ideas. Toward the end of the century, managed to colonise strategically next to Kongo and Kilwa to begin expanding there. Paradox have opened a new studio focused on grand strategy games June 1, 2020 That's why you prioritise taking level 8 forts in your first peace deal. Achivements were disabled and there was nothing I could do. Next, when I grew enough that France rivalled me, and almost immediately supported the independence of my vassal Fulo whom I had enforced religion on. Also, since every land is of the wrong religion, this created a ton of unrest all over the place which would plague me until I took humanist ideas in the mid 1700s. I used to fight one war, and then try to play it again on the next day.. Until by the end of the campaign, around 1780, I realize I have achievements disabled. It would have been easy to conquer that if not for mega-France full-annexing Granada and inheriting the colonial nation. JavaScript is disabled. India was a huge Bengal and Delhi, and they had like a thousand level 8 forts. The province is not directly adjacent to any of my cores, but it's pretty close. With the addition of governing capacity to curb expansion, and the existing systems of coring, aggressive expansion, rebels and states/territories; province warscore cost, something I've long thought an unfortunate but necessary mechanic, can be dropped. At least for now. I was intending to update some comments after playing more and trying things more. Image album. I can immediately start colonizing, despite the distance being "99999" from my nearest port. The Navigator Diplomatic Advisor gives a +20% colonial range bonus.. Travel time []. Im sorry for my rant, but I had to take it out of my chest. Granada survived and beat back Castile, but the idiot went to colonise Brazil. Got the achievement in 1817 when Najd converted the last Sunni province, and converted my last province (Orthodox Samarkand) about a year later. This was to prevent him converting trade company provinces after I kick him out of Europe, and I’m so glad I thought of that or this run would have been such a massive failure. Normally you can only fabricate claims on provinces you can core but there are exceptions: Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. During the war, I occupy the province and get a high war score. Having Najd, Ennarea and Mewar as vassals (all of them took religious ideas) and having 6 missionaries and crazy conversion speed myself, I could convert faster than I could conquer and core so it was just my blobbing speed that was the limiting factor, but although I had the most development in the world, Ming, Russia and the Ottomans still had bigger armies than me, so it wasn’t so easy just to win wars, much less achieve complete victory. EU4 has a thing called coring range which decides how far away you can core something from your nearest cored territory. Paradox set to sign collective agreement with unions June 3, 2020. Constant 1.20 Ideas . Rule your nation through the centuries, with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Most of the time the game will tell you if achievements will end up getting disabled, I had that alert pop up once but I ignored it because it wasn't an achievement run. ... ignore_coring_distance ignore_coring_distance = yes: Allows coring in any uncored province, regardless of distance. Gonna comment a bit more on post above. So in general before you get something like 10 colonies you are in age of reformation. - Colonial Nations can now start war with neighbours of another religion group. Due to not blobbing hard enough in the 16th and 17th centuries, it was really stressful in the 1700s, and to be honest this run was really tiring to complete, and I really cut it pretty close, though it could have been quite a bit easier had I played out the early and mid game better with hindsight.