I would be interested to try some very hard soon.

To Form Rome you directly need to own the provinces. and its quite bad to annex provinces in the HRE, as you will see at the end of my video. Furthermore I'm not sure how the PU mechanic works, as I've never tried it.

I can't do it in one episode 😂

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Finally! It's funny! Thanks so much!

DaY 23 oF aSKiNg fOr a TrUe.. bro shut up nobody cares. Let him do what he likes, if that's Theodoro then fine but no need to whine like a bitch

Yeah but by picking esp you’re delaying one of dip adm rel by 4 techs which is very bad

@@flimpeenflarmpoon1353 yeah, i think the problem is people doesnt like to take off an idea group, in reformation era i often change spionage by diplo, doing this opening; spionage, admin, religious with spionage -> diplo (using golden era), at tech 10 you will be rich enough to don't mind about losing -35% advisor cost and with that opening i could do 1680 wc with naples -> sp -> italy -> roman (and it was before the spionage buff tho, i did it in 1.30)

No. Siege ability is very useful especially late game. And it has good policies.

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You don't need to improve relation if you have lower aggressive expansion (both from -20% idea and from claiming the territories that you annex). Plus, you also have 1 diplomat from idea

I agree, diplo + admin is still unrivaled for big expansionist campaigns, specifically in the HRE. Further proof of their superiority is the fact that everyone who takes the espionage ideas eventually switches them for the diplo ones as the run progresses.

@@marcoagostini7866 you dont get less AE when you conquer your claims compared to con-claims btw FYI. claim only reducing coring cost and coring time. if you read what i was talking about earlier, lower AE + 1 diplomat is simply a worse idea set compared to "improve relations" modifier and extra 2 diplomats when it comes to managing coalitions. consider a HRE game with a german dutchy, comparing espionage vs diplo ideas while expanding at rapid pace is a very different experience. with diplo ideas, ae decays at 3-4 per month with "improve relations" stacking. 10 years of peace and you remove AE equivalent of conquering a lot of high dev land (this is just from passive modifiers). With extra diplomats, you can always be very careful about who enters coalition and who doesnt. unless you bird for "careful" trait, bird for pulse events, take less AE mission rewards and stack it to real high 70-80% AE impact, you will end up with a coalition vs your rivals or hostile neighbours and its going to be real tough to get out of it because you lack the diplomats and "improve relations" modifiers to get out of coalitions.

@@Suhaschintala if you start as opm Espionage still better, extra diplomat wants save you from 50 members of hre

humanist+trade IIRC giving -20 idea cost though. -10 by completing humanist and another -10 w/ policy.

@@manageberg yeah, but he is talking about Espionage + Admin - which is -20%. Adviser cost

people dint like it because biggest bonus was AE, and the "best" players normally dont care much about AE and coalitions. So people deemed as useless, but after a buff some years ago it was ok, but you still had some op ideas, making it a weak pick, then they buffed again on that patch that reduced manpower stack and development stacks, removing the op ideas and making it better, at this point was a nice pick but people still had some grudges, then they buffed again and changed some good events to Espionage, and now is a really solid pick, just lack on policies

Now is a pretty solid pick, is not necessary in every game, but is userfull on europe and places where is hard to control AE at the start

AND U CAN SNAKE CLAIMS ON STATES!!! in my Muscovy run i claimed Skane from denmark this way(finland -> uppland -> skane) and got BI BI gets u over gov cap(or at least very close to it). so you have 2 option here. either just sit around without expansion until admin 10 or concentrate all that dev(moving capital once or twice as well) and then giving up exploited lowlands to anyone willing to pay there's a third option of releasing vassals on scutage, but im not fond of it tho this was done through muscovite mission, but you could do the same with espionage

Thanks! Glad we finally got there.

wouldn't admin eff be redundant w max pwsc, other than oe red ofc but that already doesn't matter w coring time

correct

@avnase4637 I don't know for sure, but I think that high admin efficiency would allow you to take even more in peace deals, lower the diplo cost for unjustified demands, and make coring cheaper. Plus of course all the other benefits in terms of all powers cost reduction.

On very hard

You won't find me saying pre 1600 is easy... haha. Austria is my best so far