Best country for mandate of heaven

[Paco LS]

Hello!! I bought mandate of heaven a few days ago, but I don't know what kingdom is good for play in East Asia... I'm a begginer in the game (I spent about 200 h playing). I'm thinking Japan, what is the easiest daimyo?

[Warlordnipple]

The most fun for me is one of the manchurian tribes. I usually pick Keren, you take over the other two and form Manchuria. After forming Manchuria you build up your power, ie banners a special unit that manchurians can pull up from their provinces at the cost of corruption, and attack Ming breaking tributary status. Hopefully you are large so that Ming gets a ticking negative modifier to his mandate while you are free. If you can win your first war Ming will now have a +50% to shock and fire damage received and high unrest. You get claims on all of China and decreased coring cost from ideas. You can now invade and take over Ming, and the Mandate of Heaven if you want, while Ming falls apart.

Japan is not a very good choice unless you like colonization with Mandate of Heavan because your capital is not on the mainland so it will never decrease Ming's Mandate. He will never break apart which makes fighting him very difficult and costly, even with a large colonial empire.

[brian_va]

oda's national ideas are some of the best. maybe not the easiest start but should be doable.

recently did auythaia or however you spell it for the achievement, enjoyabe.

[Radene]

Jianzhou->Manchu->Qing

[Frozenkhan]

Haixi->Manchu->Qing imo

[Radene]

Originally posted by Witch-king of Angmar:

Haixi->Manchu->Qing imo

I only favor Jianzhou because it's the historical way.

[Paco LS]

Manchu is difficult for me, maybe in easy mode

[Jihadi Jesus]

Originally posted by Paco LS:

Manchu is difficult for me, maybe in easy mode

Try out Brunei. Go expiration quality then trade and watch the trade gold role in.