What are your guys hardest achievements from the global achievements on Steam? Obviously some of us aren't beasts, but mine is Abu Bakr II's Ambition. With 0.4% of the player base getting it.
I'm still not a great player, but I'm not awful. I still need to get Master of India haha.
I want to try The Navigator.
"As Portugal, get owned provinces in Africa, India and Indonesia before 1500."
I got four tied, all 0.2%:
Voltaire's Nightmare: Have at Least 75 countries in the HRE
Back in Control: Form Yuan and be the only country holding land in China
The Prince of Egypt: Starting as Florence, form Egypt
It's All Greek to Me: Form Greece, and have cores on Zeta, Thatta, Lamba, and Roh.
Though none of these are what I considered to be my hardest achievement. That's probably
Lazarus (0.3%), which requires you to own the entire Balkans as Serbia. I got "It's All Greek to Me" in that run as well, as I culture shifted than formed Greece.
I have Navigator and honestly, I don't know if it was luck but I got it on my first try. You rush Cape Verde, then grab provinces from the Cape until Diego Garcia (which give you range for Indonesia). You get Goa as an event which is just a matter of waiting for it to fire for the India component.
All of those are considered "hard" or easier achievements. The only achievements I have that are labeled as harder than "Hard" by the game are Basileus, which requires you to form the Roman Empire as Byzantium and honestly it's not that hard as long as you can beat the Ottomans, and "This is Persia" (own Egypt, Anatolia and Greece as core provinces as Persia), which isn't that hard either.
E: Actually, I forgot "Shahanshah", which is also labeled as VH and got much harder with Cradle, because you had to form it as Ardabil which is an OPM in one of the most dangerous regions in the game. Before you could do it with a country that while not easy did not have many neighbours. I got it as Ardabil, and subsequently got "This is Persia."
I was never able to get the hang of this game without console commands (the economy part always destroyed me). Last game I played I started as Rwanda and conquered most of south/central Africa, set up colonies in Brazil (Brwanzil), Atlantic Canada (Rwanada) and British Colombia (Rwalberta).
It took me a long time too. I probably didn't get the economy until 100-200 hours in. Once you understand trade (and it's kind of convoluted), everything falls through.
Best way to force yourself to learn skills is to play Ironman. You can still savescum if needed (ctl+alt+delete out of the game and load one of the old saves).
