EU4 1.32.2 1463 Re-reconquista

Lots of grinding, but I finally got a pretty decent time. Should be WR. The achievement requires you to start as Granada and become Andalusia while owning + coring all of Iberia. The coring aspect makes the end game slower compared to typical speedruns where coring is not required. In hindsight, I played way too conservatively (see my adm points at the end).

[@lambdaxx1]

FAQ:
Why no cb Shirvan?
- To seize and core Dagestan. This is a European province that western tech nations can't see, so by moving my capital there, I can prevent coalitions from them.
Save file?
- pdx.tools/eu4/saves/9XgJGYZZZ1gaST9XkQTpX

[@Nimarioos]

Wow that’s really something new for me, I’m going to use it in my runs, might be fun as Byzantium to quickly fully take Venice

[@xzardas541]

This makes me want to do this with france just to see what numbers AE can get to.

[@KuhulAjawMapGaming]

For some countries A, B, and province C, if B is a vassal of A and C is adjacent to B, you can conquer C provided all are on the same continent.
This is how minor tags join the hre through East Frisia. It also is useful for East/South Asian tags to quickly get to Europe for institutions, HRE, or to quickly conquer future great powers. Ofc for Uzbek and Oirat this isn’t necessary. Conversely with humanist ideas Europeans can conquer in the near east towards India this way.
A couple other uses are to conquer Ireland and colonize early, to expand as an isolated native tag, to colonize the moluccas as ryukyu or take the mandate early.
I was trying as vijayanagar to become hre and form Prussia as zoroastrian with the Marathas privilege for 160% potential discipline. I would use a similar situation to nocb biapas then take shirvan, move the capital, get maps, and take the Teutonic order, coring the livonian. Long story short I think it’s better to start as Poland and form Rajputana, shift to another Indian culture, get the privilege, then shift to Saxon and form Prussia. Or culture shift to get Marathas after forming Prussia.

[@lambdaxx1]

​@@KuhulAjawMapGaming Some corrections:
B has to core and own an adjacent province -- ownership isn't sufficient. Also, B does not have to have its capital in the same continent as A nor C. What matters is A's capital is in the same continent as C.

[@Nimarioos]

Another well done camping! Well done lambdaxx!

[@giffica]

Yo, what O_O Bro what am I watching? Did you just move your capital to Dagestan??? Are you telling me the AI can't coalition you if your capital is in a province they can't see????? This is DDRJake level of play right here, fantastic, wow.
I just did Re-Reconquista for the first time, in 1717......what a run this is man.

[@anthroposium]

The AE-test was skewed because your starting ruler was careful (-10% AE)

[@lambdaxx1]

Thank you again for answering my incompetent questions lol. That explains why I had more AE in the actual run :P

[@Magier2010]

too good siege rng at game start, take your cheat engine elsewhere Kappa

[@ChungusLover-re7wh]

why no cb shirvan

[@lambdaxx1]

I just added an FAQ pinned comment to address this. I'll also add more common questions as they pop up.

[@itisye117]

How do you siege like that

[@lambdaxx1]

siege like what?

[@aperson4913]

@@lambdaxx1 they probably mean how you split armies off and cycle through them to carpet siege

[@CharlieKellyEsq]

1.32.2 is the best patch this game has ever been.

[@lambdaxx1]

In terms of ease of expansion, I certainly agree. It does feel a bit "too" cheap though, but for me, the alternative is 1.33.3, which is just a miserable experience to play in. I hope that 1.34 makes the game more enjoyable for me, so I can move on.

[@CharlieKellyEsq]

@@lambdaxx1 I played a few campaigns on 1.33, which I do on every major update to see how the in game changes effect the UX. florence, and mewar. Those combat changes were miserable, not so much with mewar, as india is a ffa, but with florence, I was struggling to get through the 1460's on multiple occasions by fighting larger nations simultaneously

[@CharlieKellyEsq]

@@lambdaxx1 and I would argue that the 1.31 patch was really really easy. That's why I go with 1.32. I think it adds the correct balance

[@Bolt892]

@@lambdaxx1 Why is 1.33 miserable, is it the combat? I've not updated from 1.30 yet.

[@lambdaxx1]

@@Bolt892 combat is miserable imo yeah

[@starliaghtsz8400]

2:13:49 seeing 32 english ships charging at the battle where youre fighting with claw and teeth to keep naval supremacy was the scariest shit ever ngl, thankfully it wasnt the heavies lol
edit: atlso why did i watch 3+ hours of a vod? what the hell am i doing with my life Kappa

[@anthroposium]

th-cam.com/video/2eiDjSMdeEI/w-d-xo.html Marokkos troops were in the Mamluks territory from the Tlemcen-war and probably got black flagged and had to walk back first in your first war with Castile

[@lambdaxx1]

Ah, that makes sense. I forgot that Tlemcen tried to run to siege Shirvan.