![]() The first time I’ve ever managed to spawn an institution myself and more importantly, deny Europe an advantage (which perhaps wasn’t so good in the long run for the Christians actually getting to me, but you know, it’s a lot of obnoxious bragging rights to say you’ve done it). ![]() And I knew that likely my only competitors would be Castile and Portugal over in the shroud. I got to level 8 and sent my explorer on an urgent, no brakes on the sails mission, finding the tip of Alaska in a ‘far too close for comfort’ 1498. So then began a mad rush of diplomatic tech once I got the second colonist from Exploration. Taking exploration had impacted on my diplo tech though, and despite having Quest For The New World, to have a chance of spawning colonialism I also needed to be able to see America. Outside of Japan, I quickly made sure I wasn’t friendly with anyone across the sea tiles from me to keep the Renaissance from spreading (something I managed to do very successfully, it was just Japan that would be a centre of tech for many years), and started to colonise the Philippines. Even though my main objective was converting to Christianity and I figured that would be difficult if I took too much, hence I have slowed down my expansion outside of Japan. Tech-wise, I had developed the Renaissance in Owari as quickly as I could so I didn’t fall behind, and took exploration because I felt that looking eastward with Japan and getting a ‘reverse colonialism’ game going would be fun. He’d annexed Ouchi by this point and the other two were independent so it was a simple matter to get them under my wing. A war or two later and Kyoto was mine, with the emperor reduced to one province in Musashi. Essentially, I was the dominant power in Japan, the Emperor little more than a puppet. To the north, Ainu was almost immediately wiped out and defeated with their incredible 9 development coming under my wing. After one, I believe it was Otomo, declared a war for the emperor and left it with staying part of Japan even after I helped him beat the emperor, I declared my own war as soon as the truce timer allowed and became independent. ![]() They have a million other things to balance, do Paradox, but it could use some improvement.Ĭontinuing along that path, there was only me, Otomo, Ouchi and Yamana left, and I had been flipping relations with them from friendly to hostile and back again. I think something needs to be done there about Japan, there’s some good unique events but they come round very often and the shogun wars aren’t as well represented as they could be, the emperor was no threat to my expansion and it felt way too easy. So much so, that in my first war, I pretty much doubled my size and spread the teal across Japan, taking out daimyos like Hatekeyama and Imayawa, and a year or two later, Takeda for his gold mine, Date, Uesegi, Nanbu, Hosokawa, gone, owned pretty much all of eastern Honshu and all of Shikoku, and yet the emperor didn’t bat an eyelid. Firstly, they were the closest I could get to Oda and for my EU4 Japan playthrough I wanted to go as close as I could to history (I’d have done Oda or Asakura if either were available in the start, the second for Ryoko-related reasons), secondly, doge (sadly I will not be doing trickery to make myself an Italian Merchant Republic, that’s a step too far and I know it’s been done), thirdly, I love their nice teal colour. I started as Shiba, for a couple of reasons. And of course this is my first time playing with Rights Of Man enabled and so I’ve been enjoying all the new features that offered. Not fluent enough in Japanese to know if that’s right or not but it’s working for my immersion. I’m living with it by renaming all the provinces I conquer to Japanese names as informed to me via Google Translate. The former will be achieved via the latter, as much as I hate to not stay Shinto until the end of the game with Japan, the achievements direct my play style. Time for me to talk about my latest campaign in EU4, and possibly the first where I’m going for a rather challenging Ironman achievement that will require me to fiddle a bit with game mechanics, I started as a Daimyo and am going for two achievements, The Chrysanthenum Throne and Kirishitan Japan.
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