

Scandinavia, India, Ottoman European provinces and the Beijing region of Ming seems to be the most obvious choices. Once you get religious ideas, decent patriarch authority, missionary strength and a nice tech advantage you can go crazy and start conquering horde territory (more on the ideas below).Īfter conquering all the horde lands in East asia the path of expansion is up to you and what seems most opportune. If the right opportunity presents itself, use the humiliate CB and grab some power projection and ducats by humiliationg any horde rivals. The unconvertable lands will most likely be an unnecessary drain on your manpower and monarch points and apart from the gold mine in Bashgird they won’t deliver may benefits to your nation due to culture and religion penalties. Until you got the religious idea groups, try to limit expansion into the muslim horde territory. If the commonwealth proves to strong for you, you could consider expansion into northern India or China at later stages of the game as an alternative.Īnnex your small vassals and conquer the Russian OPMs, whenever you got some spare monarch points in between the wars. Be prepared to take out loans for mercs if your manpower expires. Ideally attack while they are busy fighting the Teutonic order. Unless you get very lucky and Poland is confronted by multiple enemies, the first war is going to be very tough. Furthermore in southern Lithuania you’ll find a few nice farmland and grassland provinces ideal for institution and manpower development, which you sorely lack in the east. These provinces will be ideal for the strength of your empire as you won’t suffer the wrong culture penalties nor face very many rebellions in these lands. The goal is to grab as many of the provinces that share your culture group and have the Orthodox religion as you possibly can in the early game. Your secondary target should be Poland and Lithuania. Try to do so before your claims on his provinces expires. You can finish the conquest of Novgorod in a second war when the truce expires. You don’t want Lithuania or Denmark to get any bright ideas and grab any clay that rightfully belong to you. Assuming you win the war with 100 % war score make sure to grab all provinces adjacent to the western neighbors. Consider deploying a few mercs for the first war on the front lines to limit the manpower losses. Be careful to minimize your losses as your manpower is limited and the attrition in the north is horrible.
EU4 MANPOWER GROWTH FREE
This will give you free claims on all his lands. Starting as Muscovy your opening move should be to accept the mission to conquer Novgorod. However any nation in position to form Russia or to conquer the World (Ottomans) could in theory go for this achievement as well. The part of the guide describing the opening moves is written for Muscovy. The easiest choice for this achievement is Muscovy, due to the Russian national idea set. If confident you should do it on a harder difficulty as well For an extra challenge more experienced players can attempt to beat that. Using the strategy below I finished the achievement in 1747 in 1.18 on normall difficulty. The ladder is welcome to add to the guide below though The achievement might be tough for newer players, but hopefully not impossible if you follow this guide. If you are completely new to the game or very experienced, this is probably not the guide for you.
