Yes

100% If you can find a way to give nations land in North America you can also annex them for free, though good luck with that.

Great start if you want to play a tall Paraguay game

It wont be fun 10 hours in i can tell you that much

@@TobyYellsAtThings Trade states maybe and just ask for a favor then absolve that favor for a relation boost.

And also complete like 70% of it

I agree

Yeah things like that should be left in

Yeah as of right now It damn near impossible to form Turtle Island without using exploits. The Indian territory can't get independence for one and second, even if they did they can't get nationalism before all the natives have been annexed.

Probably possible in a future DLC

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I probably won't make a video on it but this is easily the easiest world conquest at the moment.

Thank you so much, I appreciate it.

If you want an honest answer it's because it just isn't feasible right now. The intended nation to do this with is the Indian Territory, however you simply cannot get independence with them without either a ton of time or an astronomical amount of luck. Then even if you did get independence from the US, you still can't research Nationalism in time to use turtle island as you have to neighbor a decentralized nation to Proclaim turtle island. By the time you have nationalism all the decentralized nations will be or will almost be completely colonized. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent trying to get the Indian Territory to work. Frankly, I believe it's impossible to legitimately form turtle island as the Indian territory. As it stand I think the devs know about this but have their hands full with the SoL DLC so it can't be addressed yet. TLDR: It just isn't possible right now, I wish it was, but it isn't.

@@TobyYellsAtThings True enough sadly, I do hope Paradox gives us more of a chance sometime soon. Granted IDK what that chance would be, maybe making one of the decentralized nations at the start centralized but that has a lot of other issues so probably not. This is a problem where what the solution is something is understandably difficult, cause it needs to be something that only really has a chance of happening if the player lets it or intends it, either through willful inactions, a goofy release country wargoal or doing it themselves directly. And that is something that is an ungodly difficult tight rope to balance a lot of the time i imagine

Almost, hmm... I'll have to try harder next time.

Any country with an indigenous primary culture can form turtle island, however you can only annex the US and other nations if they also have a European Primary Culture as well. To my knowledge no one else has the requirements.

@@TobyYellsAtThings Greenland has Danish and Inuit as primary cultures. It's just much weaker. Any other indigenous country would have to integrate either Paraguay or Greenland (or Louisiana if they already accept African cultures, like the Miskito Kingdom does) before doing anything else.

I will one day. I've tried but so far haven't been able to win the first war. I will get it one day though.

@@TobyYellsAtThings Yeah the game is pretty unreal in that regard since the guys over there actually lasted 10 years fighting

If you can find a way to give them a state yes. I couldn't figure out a way to do this, but it is theoretically possible.

I think the best way to make that happen would be to find a way to subjugate France, as that would make them more inclined to want the state there. In my only successful run forming Turtle Island so far, I tried releasing Yakutia as independent so I could give them Alaska and annex them. They wouldn't take Alaska. After retaking Yakutia, I released Kamchatka as a subject, and they were willing to take Alaska. I then gave them independence and used the option to annex them.

No they don't, Since you gain them all as primary cultures it's actually really easy to keep them happy. Also yes the economy is easy to salvage. I played around with it afterwards and grew my gdp by about 50m in just a few years.

@@TobyYellsAtThings for some reason I can not make Brazil or Argentina take the trade of the original Paraguay capital state... im stuck with 3 states. Parana and original Paraguay... may restart... dunno what I did wrong

Valid response.

It's possible you don't have any more to declare in which case you need to remove one. Another possible answer is you have no ports, so check to make sure you do.

Check to make sure you still have Guarani as your Primary culture. If you don't it means you clicked on the wrong option in one for the events and have to start over.

@@TobyYellsAtThings Damn you're right I think. I remember clicking past a bunch of events without reading them. I'll try again today.

I'm not sure what might have caused that, in my runs that was always the easiest part. If you're just completely unable to beat Brazil but still want to try this, there is always the option of a quick country switch to force it to work. It's cheaty but at least it lets you try it out.

unfortunately you can't as Paraguay because they start with isolationism.

It's a luck thing, though I can confirm you can sometimes get lucky if you make a save before fighting Texas and the US can have a different view of you from load to load.

Maybe. I have no idea honestly. I don't see any reason it wouldn't work.

In theory yes, practically speaking though, I was unable to get any nations to take states from me. If you can figure out way to get them to take states then it is 100% doable.

@@TobyYellsAtThings Subjects always accept traded states that border them by land or across a short enough body of water, such as the Bering Strait between Russia and Alaska, as do any countries that have a belligerent attitude towards you (so long as they have a high enough opinion of you that trading states is an option). Countries will also desire any states they have a claim on, regardless of distance. Less consistently, they'll desire bordering cultural homelands, which is how you can give Bajo Paraguay over to Argentina so easily, but that's less helpful in general. Therefore, if a country is too big/difficult to subjugate or take in a unification play (which annexes all supporters, such as for the Federation of the Andes or Germany), you can conquer a single state from someone, force them into a belligerent attitude, and try to trade away a couple different states you want them to have. They'll lose the belligerent attitude quickly, though, once they start receiving land. This is consequently more viable for countries close to North America, like Japan, than for someone like Egypt. Apart from that, you can accept a lot of cultures off of released subjects (so long as you don't grant them independence BEFORE giving them land), and homelands of your culture are much cheaper to take in a war; with the kind of military you can build up, straight-up conquest shouldn't be too much of a hassle. If you have/still use a reddit account, I can DM you if that's preferable.

I think it's most likely to get Yankee from them for their primary culture. The US doesn't even get Afro-American as a primary culture until after Reconstruction.

Hrm, I never encountered this issue. I assume it could be fixed with a reset. I'm unsure though as I never ran into that issue.

If they do I don't think it'll be for am while. I assume they have their hands full with the SoL DLC since it got delayed.

I tried it a few days ago, and it's still possible. I'm not sure how long version 1.6 has been out for.

actually no, Paraguay starts with isolationism. If you get lucky you can get off of it early but I find it easier to just build the shipyard.

@@TobyYellsAtThings State of Bahia has shipyards. Maybe conquer it instead of Rio or São Paulo. Just brainstorming.

@@ka1ock That's probably true, You take Rio Mainly for the actual naval bases themselves. But that could actually just be much better. You would still be stuck waiting on nationalism though.

damn, that's uh.... hmm. well that's depressing...

@@TobyYellsAtThings not much If you from Brazil(i am)

I just looked it up, those casualty numbers are insane. Remember kids... war is stupid.

@@TobyYellsAtThingsHe extremely simplified it, the situation is much more complex, you should search for the War of the Triple Alliance aka Paraguayan War, it is a very interesting series of events that leads Solano Lopez to wage total war centuries before the Nazi’s, they even had their own send the young and the sick units.

@@historyafficionado478 It wasn't even a century before WW2.

It's a good thing you didn't scream three times

It is a little rng reliant but Texas was independent for me roughly half the time

No need since it's just a tutorial and I have no intention of playing the game out. If you do want to play the game out though you should start passing laws pretty much instantly. I would honestly wait to build the economy after you annex Russia and the UK though.

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same

This does seem to be something I missed while developing my strategy. I never encountered this issue myself so I assume it's simply an rng thing and requires a restart until you get lucky.

Yeah i can't trade away those states either.

Download the transfer state tool mod. That'll allow you to force it to them.

@@andysss456 Does it prevent you from getting achievements?

I wear that as a badge of honor.

I forgot to unpause and let it update. I was number 1 by about 300 prestige over France.