MadArcand
Whaletarded
Well I started a Venice game yesterday and played for a bit. So far it's more of annoyance than fun game though (I loathe spread-out empires).Ya lol sorry about that. I've tried to take screenshots before, but my F keys are binded in kind of a strange way. I'll take a look at it again. It certainly beats crappy phone photos though lol.
My nine provinces were:
Constantinople, Alexandria, Carnik, Bessarabia, Venezia, Treviso, Ragusa, Rosetta, and Hüdavendigâr
Ya, basically I vassalized Serbia and fed it most of my provinces original (sans Treviso and Venezia itself). I also released Milan as a vassal and fed it Brescia and Verona. I did have Byzantium as a vassal too, but eventually I released them in order to attack them and get them to transfer their trade power. I had about five countries transferring trade power to me (learned just how awesome trade wars are).
This was not an easy game at all and it might be one of the hardest achievements I have attempted so far (sans Great Khan maybe). You should try it...really an unique experience. The first and probably only game I've ever played where Diplo points where WAY more valuable than Admin points. Really had to take advantage of every single trade benefit I could possibly get my hands on. Just a totally different focus to this game than most games of EU4. Knowing your skill at the game, I think you could definitely do it and you'd have a ton of fun with it.
Near the end, I had to kill Spain to eliminate their trade power in Alexandria. My 250 ship heavy frigate fleet laugh utterly destroyed their 83 ship fleet (including 33 triple deckers) in literally five seconds. I think by the end I was something like 250 over my fleet limit lol.
Day 1 allied Austria & Poland; and declared reconquest on Albania. Fabricated on Byzantines and Ragusa. Annexed Albania, declared on Byzzies, took Constantinople & Athens, vassalized the rest. Gave them Athens back, made them a march & forced them to convert -> insta-rebellious vassal for a long time. Bleh. Declared on and annexed Ragusa turbo-fast. Then Crimea attacks Genoa, Austria gets called in & drags me into war with Ottomans. Oh jolly. Had to white peace out all out of manpower. Austria lost to Styrian rebels and is now much reduced. Allied France to alleviate that. Annexed Corfu & Naxos, peacevassaled the Knights. Byzzies finally turned loyal.
I guess the plan is to release Aquilea and feed them my Italian lands, release Croatia and give them the Croatian lands & finally feed Byzantium Greek lands. They can even all be marches. Still... a disjointed empire feels vile.