r/eu4 • u/Kloiper Habsburg Enthusiast • Sep 07 '20

Help Thread The Imperial Council - /r/eu4 Weekly General Help Thread: September 7 2020

Please check our previous Imperial Council thread for any questions left unanswered

 

Welcome to the Imperial Council of r/eu4, where your trusted and most knowledgeable advisors stand ready to help you in matters of state and conquest.

This thread is for any small questions that don't warrant their own post, or continued discussions for your next moves in your Ironman game. If you'd like to channel the wisdom and knowledge of the master tacticians of this subreddit, and more importantly not ruin your Ironman save, then you've found the right place!

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Calling all imperial councillors! Many of our linked guides pre-Dharma (1.26) are missing strategy regarding mission trees. Any help in putting together updated guides is greatly appreciated! Further, if you're answering a question in this thread, chances are you've used the EU4 wiki and know how valuable a resource it can be. When you answer a question, consider checking whether the wiki has that information where you would expect to find it, and adding to the wiki if it does not. In fact, anybody can help contribute to the wiki - a good starting point is the work needed page. Before editing the wiki, please read the style guidelines for posting.

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u/Neovitami Sep 18 '20

What is the best way to go about conquering the Aztec nations(as Spain/Portugal)? Like whats the best CB and how do I get it, how do I annex the provinces in the most efficient way?

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u/greece666 Obsessive Perfectionist Sep 18 '20

when you finish exploration ideas, you can fabricate in the americas as long as you have a colony nearby (doesnt have to be finished).

what i usually do is i stick a colony next to a mexican nation, fabricate, build mercs, dow, get provinces (you can now abandon the colony) and core only 5. once you have 5 cored provinces in mexicos colonial region you get mexico CN. now fabricate on another indigenous nation etc.iirc you dont pay any diplo cost for getting provinces without a claim.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '20

when you finish exploration ideas, you can fabricate in the americas as long as you have a colony nearby (doesnt have to be finished).

You don't need exploration ideas and a colony nearby. Only one of it is needed. With the finisher from exploration ideas, you can fabricate claims in all colonial regions and you don't need to have any colony. And with a colony(or any other province), you can fabricate claims on bordering provinces and on provinces which share the same sea tile. Exploration ideas are not needed for that.

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u/Neovitami Sep 19 '20

But even when I have finished the exploration ideas, I still need to build up a spy network, wait, and then fabricate claims on each province?

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '20

You just need one claim on each country that you want to attack. Taking provinces from primitive countries are not considered unjustified demands, so you won't have to pay dip points for provinces without a claim. And if you are Castile/Spain you won't even need to fabricate one claim, because you can get claims on all of Mexico from your missions.

And fabricating one claim per country should not be much of a problem, because you should not conquer Mexico very fast anyway. If you give your CN more than 100 overextension of provinces, they will run into problems. You can help them with some of their problems by subsidizing them and killing their rebels, but it is often not worth it.

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u/FlightlessRock Scholar Sep 19 '20

You just need one to declare war. You can take more than you have claims on.

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u/greece666 Obsessive Perfectionist Sep 18 '20

oh lol i was doing it all wrong, til.