Ostroeuropa wrote:Managed a good start on a The Knights game finally.
Allied venice, took Byzantium. Waited for the Ottomans to derp around with the Mamluks, waited a year or two, attacked, have now seized all their greek states on the coast, vastly improving my ability to solo them if necessary, but especially improving my chances with the Venetian fleet as backup.
Now it's just a matter of eating the ottomans over a series of wars, and marching to Jerusalem after that. Then constant crusading time. The entirety of Asia is open to us.
May also slowly nibble at france until I can maybe just outright replace them at some point, and end up being "France" (With the Jerusalem mechanics and buffs) for a new mission tree and for the lulz.
Ideas i'm planning on:
Religious
Influence
Divine
Admin
Trade
Offensive
Economic
Quality
Divine+Admin for a further 5% core cost reduction seems nice.
A note to those who want to try it:
The Malta base is absolutely essential. With constant raiding whenever you can, you will still have a long-term budget deficit. With malta added to increase your range, you will just about be breaking even, albeit taking loans and paying them off towards the tail end.
With constantinople added too, you will be slightly profitable in the long term as you add the black sea to possible raiding locations.
At this point I took the papal "get rid of inflation" buff because i'm a perfectionist ;p
You should take Quantity along with the Religious ideas. The policy you get grants you +10% morale and +5% manpower recovery speed.
