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Ok, you need to keep their liberty desire low. This means having a diplomat sit there and keep relations at +50 at all times. You need to make sure your army is bigger than theirs. I'd go for a ratio of 1 cavarly to 3 infantry.
Actually if you clobbered their army, I'd say you don' need to rebuild yours just yet as long as you outnumber them 3 to 1. Once they are more than a third of you, keep recuriting until you either outnubmer them 3 to 1 or hit England's force limit, whichever is first.
You also need a good ally. Burgandy or Austria are the best chocies, but Castile works too. Invite Portugal into every offensive war you get into until they balk.
Try to reach tech 7. This allows your colonial range to be larger for diplo. This allows a new set of ideas for adm. This will allow cannons, and I'd 7 say cannons in your main stack is good enough (beccause honestly until level 10 cannons kind of suck... then they become waaaay more pwoerful than they really were in the Napoleonic or Crimean War era becuase the devs don't understnad battle tactics).
In the mean time, try to focus on expantion. Canada, Carridean, and Mississpi are lucrative nodes. Canada and diplo 7 allows you to jump further south. Alternatly, you can try to take an island for Portugal without a claim for the island hop. The Eastern North America (13 colonies) region is a bit of a troublemaker region and mgiht not be noob friendly. I'd say jsut grab 3 regions in that region (not 4 becuase your future CNs can make colonies outside of thier colonial range if adjacent).
In Europe, marry out. I usually have 3 marriages. The idea is that the dynasty can spread and make more PUs. if you want to antagonize Castile, Navarre is good for that. Look for opporunties to expand, like the Swiss.
Once you reach diplo 7, you are probably clsoe to the 50 year mark. Integrate france. Once that is done, you can forge claims all over the medditeranean and rule the world! You might need relgious ideas to take care of them muslims because this game doesn't have a kebab genocide option (which would wreck havoc on the virtual world but make the player's life easier)
Assuming you can keep him loyal (which you can if you let him do teh fighting in your wars) you will become almost unstopable.
After 50 years you can intergrate him or if your much bigger than he is at that time and have high dip rep you may get a small chance to just inherit him each time your ruler dies.
personal unions with large nations can really change your game :)
Combat it with a diplomat at all times, try to appease them in events, make sure you're allied with austria if possible, or if not then castille.
As said above keep your army larger than theirs, and if war of the roses pops be very careful with your forces.
See screenshot my concern is that it says on ruler's death personal union will end??
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=912656186
Give them gifts if needed.
Also save right now and make sure you cango back to this (or if ironman, then copy the save to your desktop)
Not on ironman yet as I am learning. I save often and can go back to war and drag it out hopefully ruler dies and new heir takes over who is 14 now? Will that work dragging war out?
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=912665654
Edit: will it be ok if current ruler dies while this war is going on though?
This means their relations are too low. This is MUCH easier than the liberty desire (their propensity to be ♥♥♥♥♥ during wars and et your rivals to start wars for their independence). Just dump a diplomat there and give them a gift that improves relations by about 8 (max is 25, but your duplomat will take care of the rest).
Don't do ironman while learning. In fact, I'd suggest not doing ironman at all. I know I can do big acomplishments like the achievments say, I don't need steam to record them, I know I did it. But if you want to do ironman later if you like having saves fried when your computer laggs during a save, do it once you master the ropes.
Yes, it looks like dragging on will work.
Once William dies, I think you can make calais the staple port. It will annoy Burgandy, but hopefully they will live you over time.
Start here, give a small gift (doens't have to be the max, 8 will do), and have a diplomat live in Paris. And never give France territroy if you win a war with their help.
You did VERY well to win the Hundred Year's War as a beginer. England isn't a noob country at the start. The Maine event garuntees war with France and you often lsoe the lucrative norman territory.
Six nations have formed a coalition against me now lol whoo hoo how scary
Sorry but what you mean by making Calais the staple port?
The coalition can attack you as well if they think they can win. It should be relatively easy for you to win though, as long as you can keep them off the Islands.
The Staple Port thing is a decision England can take that gives you 10% Mercantilism and improves Calais by giving it 25% more local tradepower and 50% more local taxes. If you haven't taken it yet, then it should be in the Missions and Decisions tab.
designate_the_staple_port = {
potential = {
tag = ENG
owns = 87
NOT = { 87 = { has_province_modifier = the_staple_port } }
}
allow = {
is_at_war = no
adm = 2
adm_power = 40
NOT = {
1744* = {
owned_by = ROOT
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