Step Three: Annex France and Iberia, and Turkey if you have the time.

Call florry, he might be interested

Step 4: Have Byzantine Empire as Daimyo

Step 8: full annex Ming

Step 9: Profit????

Shogun 2 is awesome. Thank you for watching.

No doubt can and has been done.

There is a strategy for this. Steal/buy maps to no CB Shirvan/vassalize Shirvan. Use their claims to attack neighbor. Seize province. I forget the next step but the idea is to get over into the HRE, taking advantage of the same no AE because not discovered trick that you can use in India.

too early

if you ever wondered why people refer to dlc as pay to win

@@gregmccauley1687 but you can do the achievement without the DLC AND you are not even “winning“, yeah I get the hate against PDX but come on.

@@Timon-IrishFolk yeah... they aren't my words but the idea is that each new DLC (most of them any way) give you a new button that you press for some bonuses. No button, no bonus! Also, the AI sucks at using DLC features. Notice every horde ever reforms into republic. I did the achievement a long time ago by culture shifting to Manchu and raising banners, it was very fun. (wait for Yeren to get into defensive war, no CB them to dogpile on, vassalize, wait 50 years, integrate, while developing and colonizing to Mexico for gold)

Eh, I'd argue that golden century is a major nerf to everyone. Weeeeeell, not the dlc, but patch 1.28 I guess. Hmm

@A Handsome Fella The game and all dlcs were just on sale for 70 Euro, without the newest ones. Or you are refering to Australian dollars.

I really like your suggestions Vladimir, I implemented some of them into my 'master plan'. I hope you don't mind that I hijack your comment to lay out some of my own ideas for the playthrough. Some things in there you already mentioned. It can really be frustrating because of the first war against Hosokawa plus Ming being a complete bitch. Stage one and two: Hosokawa is most likely to attack the one core states of Kono, Tsutsui, Amago, or Isshiki. The factor determining this for the most part is the quality of the alliances these states form but for my tries (must be more than 200 by now) they attacked Tsutsui roughly 50% of the times. Sometimes Hosokawa attacks without their allies, which makes the fight much easier. If Hosokawa declares war too early and eats up one of the states, it is still possible to wait for the next war that will most likely happen within the next one or two years. Also keep in mind that you only need a core neighboring Kyoto, it doesn't have to be Settsu (even though it is the best choise because of the Trade node). But I think the most efficient strategy is to restart. To me, one promising situation was when Tsutsui was allied to Amago. Hosokawa would declare on Tsutsui and siege down their fort and then would move on to Amago's level 3 capital fort. Because this would take ages, it leaves enough time to land on Hosokawa capital and siege it down (siege pips on the king would be advantageous, of course) and maybe even take some other provinces. A crucial part of this is your Navy because, by the time you are able to reach 100 relations or shortly after, most daimyos cancel military access because the Shogun is already pissed off at you. One strategy here might be to place the navy with troops on them in the Kii Channel before the enforce peace intervention and then declare when there is not much or no Hosokawa navy. Chances are their navy goes down almost instantly or doesn't attack in the first place which enables you to land your troops. If safe to do so, remember to blockade the capital with your navy while sieging While at war, you might want to arrange a royal marriage with Ming (to get a queen and potentially an heir) and start raising Ming's oppinion of you. Stage three: After taking Settsu, I think the best position to put your army and navy is in Mings territory. Keep the Galleys coming and keep your navy where Ming stations their main attack fleet (the one with heavy ships and galleys). Once the Shogun declares war on you, simply set the navy to full maintainence and attach it to Mings attack fleet. This way you can also keep track of the destruction of the enemy fleet easily. It is essential to help Ming kill the Shogun fleet because only when the fleet is decimated enough, Ming will land troops. Ming's fight and especially her taking of Kyoto still takes quite a bit of luck and can be a pain in the ass (Ming is a bitch). I have had it happen that Ming would take Kyoto but not transfer the province to me (even though she gave me all the other provinces). Might have been because of low Prestige. Don't embargo the Shogun. In a trade war you can still demand Kyoto but it would be a gamble to get enough Superiority with Ming loosing some of her stacks. The war will be easier if many daimyos are at war with each other when the Shogun declares war. Also, Ming not being at war and with high manpower is desirable. To ensure this, one could check the alliances forming around Ming in the beginning of the game so that Ming can eat them easily (especially Oirat alliances have been a pain for me). After 1450 and the Reformation, you can start investing into Settsu to spawn it. However, there is an event that fires quite often and gives -10% development cost in Settsu. You might want to wait for it to safe some mana. Stage four: After becoming Shogun, build as many troops as possible to raise the Vassals opinions asap. Also, even though the daimyos are pissed off at you, you can still enable divert trade for all of them which should net you around 6 to 10 ducats per month in trade in Nippon easily. Even if all of them are at 100%, they will not declare war because you still have Mings protection. What I try to do next is normally to no cb Yeren or Jianzhou on the mainland so that I can switch religion to Tengri and can build up cb against korea, haixiu (?), and Yeren/Jianzhou. Seize basically any opportunity you get when they fight each other to take out the weak. If you also opt for Tengri, it is useful to conquer some Hindu provinces to get heathens to be accepted, if you have the DLC cossacks, that is (maybe need to no cb in Indonesia/Malacca, or use colonists as Vladimir suggested). As for ideas, I like to go: Colonial, Administrative, Quantity, Offensive or Defensive (the admin/offensive idea for vassal income is huge until you get your trade up and running and even then quite a bit and Defensive/Humanist reduces war exhaustion), Humanist, Replace colonial with Trade or Influence, Influence/Trade Stage five: I'd say that the purpose of this stage is to prepare taking down Ming and to increase your trade income. Start colonizing Alaska and start building cb as soon as you can reach the first nations on the american west coast. Take them and then discover mexico. Meanwhile, try getting your foot down in Malaysia. It is very important to secure trade power in Malacca because it generates easily double of what Nippon does (and much more later). But as long as you are not at 60% to 80% trade power in the node, it won't be effective to change the home node (you will also need light ships to get trade power in Hangzhou). Also, try getting land (and cb) access to all of Mings tributiaries. If you can take most of them down you can drive mandate either into negative numbers or at least +- 0, so that it decreases as soon as ming cancels your tributiary status (which happens when your effective development is roughly 10 or 20% above Ming's). You can even grant land bordering Ming to your Daimyos to decrease mandate generation further. Note: sometimes Daimyos don't 'want the land' that you grant them. This only happens as long as you are Ming's tributiary. Afterwards you can feed them everything in coring range. As soon as you can cb states in Mexico, do so and try to pick one with many vassals. Then, don't realease the vassals in the peace deal but just fully annex the country you declared on - you will automatically get their vassals! As soon as you get the trader from colonial mexico (or any colonial nation) it is far more useful to feed/create new vassals instead of feeding the provinces to the colonial nation because colonies only give 50% of their trade power while your vassals will give you 100% (remember to check divert trade for all the new vassals regularly). After getting full control of Malacca and with enough light ships in Hangzhou, it will be rather easy to take down all the leftover tributaries and once Ming's mandate is at zero/very low, it should be easy to take her down, even with lower manpower. When you conquer Ming, remember to take the Hangzhou trade region provinces first so you can use the light ships elsewhere. Also, you can funnel all your trade power to beijing for one month to get Global Trade to spawn there (unless you are very unlucky and some other node has become huge).

After repeating the start 6+ times before it finally worked out, I have now nearly conquered the world with this strategy. I definitely agree with your tips for the early game. I've never seen Hosokawa declare on one of their rivals unless they border them, but usually they will go for Kono or Tsutsui because they are tiny. I also don't go for cogs but instead buy one infantry up to my force limit of 6, that way the 3 starting cogs can ferry them all across in exactly two trips and I can save up money for buying galleys while waiting for Ashikaga to declare (I can usually avoid Hosokawa's fleets without a naval battle). My opinion on idea groups is quite different though. Exploration of course comes first to spawn colonialism, and you're right that you have a lot of extra admin points after that. But that's why I take administrative second, because the earlier you get it the better. You will spend less to core the centres of trade that you're taking and the reduced interest and merc maintenance will help with your earlygame manpower troubles. After that I take humanist. It's a much-have just like administrative, because it reduces unrest so I won't need to raise autonomy anymore once absolutism hits. It's also better to get early since it reduces idea cost. After that I took influence next because when you have 100+ vassals it's crazy overpowered. The vassal force limit contribution helps a lot and the income from vassals actually becomes very significant. Income from vassals is nearly the size of my trade income now and more than double my income from taxes. Also why are you talking about integrating vassals? I've integrated a vassal twice this game, the first time was a big daimyo in Japan so that I could control my whole capital area and release two OPM daimyos instead, and the second time was just to get a bigger map font in Siberia. Integrating vassals just shrinks the swarm. No reason to ever do it. Next was my first millitary group, offensive, it's mostly essential for the siege ability but also gives a little force limit boost. The extra general pips I don't really care about yet since why make your own generals if your vassals almost always have a good one? I took defensive after for the army trad, reduced attrition and the policy with humanist for even less attrition. Helps with manpower a lot so you don't need quantity. Around that time I also dropped exploration since I had blocked of Russia and started three colonial nations and didn't need a colonist anymore. By the way I kept native suppression the whole game since it really helps with early-game growth and at higher tech you can just keep a single merc on every colony and it's fine (didn't want to lose a stab for switching native policy). But anyway I took diplomatic instead, because I had diplomats working around the clock to improve relations with small places that would accept an offer of vassalisation. As Shogun you can have +3 dip rep for 10 years so if you take influence and diplo ideas and take a dip rep advisor you can even diplo vassalise some HRE members despite still being Shinto and having your government rank stuck on kingdom. Also the reduced warscore cost helps a lot and diplomatic gives you policies for more available mercenaries and less merc maintenance. At this point I was hitting my merc cap so I went for that. After I destroyed Ming, taking the Beijing area for myself and releasing nearly everything else as small nations which I diplo-vassalised (only two or three actually spawned by rebellion because apparently getting Mingplosion to happen is really hard in MoH) no one has coalitioned me since. In fact ever since then I am counted as so big that I have no valid rivals. Which is great because then the big nations who would normally rival me and ally each other rivalled each other instead and I've been picking them off one by one, often even calling another great power into the war. So yeah it's definitely a solid strategy, very broken, probably should get patched... Best of luck with it though.

the new capital-moving-restriction might complicate the whole capital moving thing somewhat

@@brokenbutler Shogun cannot move capital

AlzaboHD pp

Ming doesn’t transfer Kyoto to you if they siege it down.

I don't see the fun in playing a game where u have to restart. Then might as well use cheat codes

So nice if they peace out at june 1st...

Thanks for the confirmation! Pinned for further visibility

Hosokawa keeps declaring their in the beginning of 1445 is that new after an update?

Same problem for me

It doesn't work anymore. Even though things are different I managed to take Settsu (Hosokawa goes balls to the walls on weak nations at the start of game, often several times; only outplaying the AI and luck will manage you the grab, as no AI armies will be able to help you) But the Ming will only land on that small island off Korea. They won't land in Japan proper, and the Shogun will have like 40k troops at his disposal... Ming only has 23ish transports. They will white peace out.

@@SebHaarfagre same happened to me :/

Thanks for the update, glad to hear it still works. Goodluck in your campaign!

@@AlzaboHD Oh hi, I've just noticed your reply. Yeah, it did work, even though my pc almost died in process because of the sheer amount of tags. Nevertheless, got the achievement

still works in 2024! all dlcs, latest version. huge risk and 13 loans but worth it. became daimyo 1479 could have been sooner i think but i didnt want to risk it too early...

i don''t think this works anymore. even when u take kyoto, you have -53 warscore. are you supposed to build a fort on settsu because they take that no matter what.

I will test this out in the next couple of days, does rolling back to 1.28 help at all? I'm sad that i missed this train 2 years ago...

thanks a lot ! i will try this soon

Are you using backups? I had to use several ironman local saves to make the attempt easier. Took about 7 tries iirc - dont give up!

@@AlzaboHD I gave it another shot this morning, trying to ally Korea. That never happened but I did ally Ainu who bravely sacrificed their land and were full annexed in my defense... Ming and I were able to win the war, so i am the Shogun now. I think it's mostly a roll of the dice to see how many daimyos are at war when Ashikaga attacks. Also, ming doesn't transfer occupation of Kyoto. I was extremely lucky and ashikaga seiged it back and let me get it for myself. Anyways I thought it worth mentioning that in September 1457 I just had an event that changed my state religion to Shinto. Saves me the time and effort of spawning rebels

I hope that the guide helps!

AlzaboHD Thanks it did

I'm glad to hear that it works in 1.28! Good luck on your campaign

Awesome to hear it still works, good luck on your campaign Tom! It becomes a bit of a slog but it's great fun once the horde is unleashed

I'm glad you found it useful! Thanks for watching.

I miss him :(

Ardan we all miss him

What happened to him?

Reman, at least last time I checked, appears to be fine and well, but seems to have just stepped away from making videos

you have to make sure you have a unit start the seige before Ming joins and you will be ok....maybe

me2 ...

Same for 1.33

@@Rullino32 For you and anyone reading this in 2022... I managed in the end to become Shogun and conquer the world with Ryukyu, but you have to attack Ashikaga yourself. Stay Ming tributary and expand in Japan with enforce peace, wait for ashikaga to become weaker (at some point he will have very few subjects left) and take the capital. You don't need MIng, but it takes longer

@@Adrivan Thanks for the information, I waited for 20-30 and Ashikaga did nothing to me, I had to restart and I can barely take Settsu for myself, I considered the option you mentioned before, I'll try it. I tought i had to spam mercenaries but I had too little troops and I sent my armies back to Okinawa like AlzaboHD said, now I'll try to expand by taking parts of South/Central Japan with this strategy.

I actually experienced the same thing, with some of the daimyos declaring on Ashikaga one month into the game. it seamed very weird

I hope you find the guide useful! Also RIP mughals, who did you start the campaign as?

@@AlzaboHD It was Afghanistan. It exploded before I completely conquered that cursed yellow Vijayanagar. 😡 BTW, I tried your guide. It's easier said than done! I'm currently in my 10th+ try since a certain Hosokawa just don't want to declare war on anyone in 10years. Heck, I twice even waited 15 and 20 years and they still didn't declare war. 🤬 The RNG gods are not smiling at me right now. 😢

You can save scum by saving the iron man files. Highly recommend for this achievement.

Oh, where can I watch it?

Good luck! I hope this guide helps you. Let me know how it goes for you - I'm hoping it still works for 1.28.

Why would it be patched?

​@@rokassadauskas8328 because you shouldn't be able to enable reforms that switch government types during war. This allowed the "Republic of Milan as PU enhancing my king every 3 years" that was posted on r/eu4/ posted yeasterday, and this just isn't working as it should. www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/a5v7my/puing_milan_is_the_best_thing_i_ever_did/

Just revert to previous version if it does, doesnt stop you from getting the achievment

I am having the same problems, can't get Ming to help me in any useful way after Japanese fleets are destroyed. :( It is getting kind of boring, it must my 20th run by now...

@@Barasingha I mean you can still try to do it the normal way. Ignore japan, expand into Phillipines and Indonesia,conquer India and then the world. You should still try to spawn colonialism to keep ur expansion stady. While this strat is not as luck based as the other, the lategame will be hell as you will play more or less speed2 with a lot of pause

Daimyo government and religion gives 20 morale together

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Certain achievements require many retry because many different things can happen in this game.

Had exactly the same distribution of outcomes myself after many restarts.

Still better than a normal wc as Ryuku.

I have a lag question. I got a really good computer but late game i get freeze lag every 2-3 seconds no matter what. Same for you?

Only their own forces, which is great. You can have hundreds of them without problem.

You can enforce peace on other Daimyos to expand, it worked for me and Managed to fund the war thru Knowledge sharing to China.

Awesome, thank you very much for the heads up! I've heard people were downgrading to 1.27 to update 1.28 mods but your technique will be much better. I appreciate it and will get the exodus mods up later this weekend!

This happened to me several times. I got lucky and they eventually landed them. It might take a few tries, I suggest making a backup save file once Ashikaga declares war on you.

@@AlzaboHD Restarted today after a long pause as it didn't seem to work after many tries, first attempt everything works out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Now to continue this lucky streak and thanks for making the guide.

thanks !

Late but if you just want to do it for the fun of it, then you could always play in normal & tag switch to make them attack you after you've done everything you should have to, to make them attack you. If you want the achievement, then idrk.

1st IMO for idea cost

its easy. you can get all achievo's with 50 point Norse start. Just border mayans and get EAST AFRICAN tech. This enables you to start with feudalism. You will be set to win. Ideas are not that important, success

Manchu culture + siberian frontier, add some combination of government/ideas to get 100% cav ratio. Full frontline of cavalry with unlimited manpower

@@drakan4769 totally unnecessary and it will make you unable to take all achievements in one go

@@Dalimyr I tried doing that but they won their second war before I even got max relations with the target

vanadain15 try to land troops same place as Ming and use attach friendly units option so you can control where troops go

And use your navy, the japanese navies are weak before they blob up

Well, sort of a nvm. I looked into it more, and it looks like an immersion pack, not really a dlc. Thanks anyway!

This was mainly with 1.27 but it should work in 1.28 without issue! I didn't see anything in the patch notes that explicitly patched this strategy.

Okay, cool. Sounds good.

@@classifiedforlife.1466 the main nerf from GC is capital movement. You used to be able to move your capital to Oceania as Ryukyu (or the new world) and TC everything in Asia for lots of ducats. It's a lot harder to do now as you need equal dev where you plan to move your capital. It has no effect on this daimyo strat though.

Ah! Good to know, thanks!