Catholic Horde Kongo Is Peak African Experience - EU4 1.35 Kongo Guide

This is a guide for Kongo in Europa Universalis IV 1.35.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Opening moves
01:11 First conquests
07:07 Conquering Great Lakes
09:08 Conquering Zimbabwe
11:36 Conquering Kilwa
15:05 Embracing Christianity
17:18 Getting to Horn of Africa
18:29 Getting cardinal and what to do next

[@Mordacitas7]

Kongo isn’t only non-European that can have Cardinals, Kirishitan Japan can also through special gov mechanic

[@ewigerschuler3982]

So what??

[@CoolBonobo]

Oh, my mistake. Anyway, still interesting that there are only two non European nations that can benefit from Catholicism.

[@Florencekk]

@@CoolBonobo play kiristian japan make ottomans catholic

[@ewigerschuler3982]

@@CoolBonoboyou mean benefit from papal mechanics :)

[@serhatdag4221]

@@CoolBonobodo colonial nations not benefit from catholicism?

[@solidspiderznake8100]

Kongo was surprisngly comfortable to play. I went Sunni and used trade money to hire upgraded advisor to unlock tech and develop early.

[@toxicsaint3545]

”only nation that can easily become a catholic horde” cries in Teutonic😭

[@MundaneThingsBackwards]

In Africa (and SE Asia) it's actually a good thing if you DON'T get rid of natives for the massive bonus to goods produced thanks to the large population sizes even if you want to micro. You just have to pick the -50% uprising chance policy and grab the estate privelege that allows you to click the decision for another -50%. Literally the best of both worlds, set and forget and good colonization speed. It gets better once exploration and expansion are finished so you can pick the +20 policy without worrying about uprisings.

[@Madokaexe]

Nah, it's better to kill them all and get your culture+religion there

[@CoolBonobo]

Oh my god, I didn't even know there is such privilege! Very good idea then, it also increases native assimilation. For anyone wondering it's clergy one, you need to have colonist to get it.

[@makiskanyt9269]

​@@CoolBonoboyeah it's amazing you get a good boost from every province

[@eafesaf6934]

​@@makiskanyt9269which estate grants that - 50 uprising chance?

[@makiskanyt9269]

@@eafesaf6934 clergy one

[@stefanbatory6752]

I would suggest allying one of the Great Lakes nations and letting it conquer all the other ones, since this would trigger the mission for them to colonize some additional provinces :D

[@CoolBonobo]

Good one!

[@carltonleboss]

Nice

[@McWerp]

I have never seen Kilwa leave Mutapa along that long :D
Usually its all Kilwa within like 15 years.

[@CoolBonobo]

Yeah, it's RNG, I wouldn't say that Kilwa ALWAYS does this (sometimes they also go for Madagascar), but it's a possibility. Doesn't change much though, Kilwa isn't the toughest nation out there

[@svenb3430]

Zimbabwe can go catholic through mission tree as well I’m pretty sure

[@CoolBonobo]

Uh, kinda. It's more like it can change its religion through missions, it's not limited to catholic. It's definitely not as fleshed out as Kongo missions

[@GermeSage]

Kongo 🎉

[@alimzhankhamzin2770]

I hear your russian accent:)

[@anthroposium]

why do you wait for 50 crownland before you give out more privileges?

[@MundaneThingsBackwards]

The less influence the estates have, the more crownland you gain from conquest with the reverse being true also. He's not necessarily waiting for 50 crownland specifically, I don't think.

[@CoolBonobo]

There is such thing as crown land equilibrium. To quickly get 50 crown land, total influence of estates should be around 60. After that you can just seize crown land once in a while to keep it high.

[@MundaneThingsBackwards]

@@CoolBonobo Aha! That's good to know.

[@iseeyou5061]

Probably shouldn't expand so aggresively until i bevome horde. Gotta get that sweet sweet raze.
The only rival would be European and Islamic Empire so if i were that big i will probably become monarchy.

[@CoolBonobo]

I wouldn't say it's aggressive expansion. More like getting powerbase. It's like only 700 dev in 80 years (or 100, if you count me waiting to become horde).

[@2009worstyearever]

the last bits of North Africa from spain is always such a pain in the ass because their stupid colonial nations also show up. i would much rather fight 1 single Ottomans than 10 different landings all over the place.

[@CoolBonobo]

Eh, different strokes for different folks. I would gladly take fighting off naval invasions than Ottomans doomstacks. The problem here is war score, conquering whole Maghreb might take a few wars just because there is not many ways you can get warscore aside from occupying the objective (naval invading Mexico is the worst thing in the game IMO).

[@rasplay5761]

Pu them or move your capital

[@kumakohai7499]

Actually catholic Japan can also get cardinals with their new government
🤓☝

[@gieniostyk1601]

0:01 POLAND

[@Torecto]

Hi, I would recommend you not saying the word ''good'', use more specific,'' is valuable for ...,'' is what we need ''' etc...

[@viorp5267]

0:14 Japan can get cadinals and crimean catholicism is pretty easy

[@CoolBonobo]

Agree about Japan, I forgot about new mechanic, but Crimea is European nation (well, at least geographically).

[@viorp5267]

@@CoolBonobo that was about the second part of becoming a catholic horde. Crimean HRE emperorship is not even that hard when I tried

[@AlienOfUranus]

Not much easier than Teutonic Horde...

[@CoolBonobo]

Teutonic horde is entirely different experience, Kongo is also fun, but of course less fleshed out

[@rasplay5761]

monarchy allows to
pu europe

[@CoolBonobo]

In theory yes, in practice, unless you're extremely lucky, horde will be better

[@Rosemarie_and_tomato]

Hordes can PU too

[@rasplay5761]

@@Rosemarie_and_tomato what?

[@De-Valois]

@@rasplay5761 if you save scum of course your gonna pu everyone XD

[@rasplay5761]

@@De-Valois you migh to choose not to save scum and play 50 times this tag, depends how you like. but players prefer to save scum for perfect conditions, also as author does.

[@michalmonstrov137]

Counquer the world in one Kasanje🤣