Best Pirate Republic?

[Lordly Cinder]

For a tall playthrough possibly just a few Islands. The other option was a tall country in Malacca. Wasnt sure how fun pirate would be as the raiding could get tedious? Ive never actually done it before. Im actually remembering CK2 Norse pirates lol

Another weird idea for a playthrough I had was trying to do a somewhat tall horde pref Mongolia then Yuan. I remember kast time I played Yuan I ended up so poor and it was after a dlc or two so the game had changed it up a bit but I really thought on my Florence run that playing tall for awhile really put me in a position of strength.

[Medicles]

Well, i havent played it myself but Gotland even has a Pirate mission tree, so i would suggest them.

[Lordly Cinder]

Originally posted by Medicles:

Well, i havent played it myself but Gotland even has a Pirate mission tree, so i would suggest them.

Yes thats what I was thinking too althouth its the only one I know.

[Medicles]

https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Pirate_republic

It seems to be the only one with specific pirate missions compared to the ones with a basic pirate mission tree and nations who apparently just have a generic mission tree, like So having japanese missions.

[Triple G]

There´s an achievement to play as New Providence and own the Caribbean though. If You want to combine it. I guess i started as Portugal to get there. I thought that the Caribbean and pirates fit very well.

Then it´s also not much about raiding coasts, but more about to get these islands. Mission tree or not.

Else You can play tall as almost any nation, except for those which give You a lot of claims - if You also want to do the mission trees. Riga is basically about playing tall as much as it can get - because You can stay as this OPM.

Yuan is not really tall if You own all of China, and don´t even have the gov capacity to fully state everything. Same is when You want to play "tall Netherlands" but Your colonial empire is about owning everything outside of Europe and Persia...

[Dumah]

New Providence can be cheesed by starting at Bahamas as custom 2 province nation. It actually can be combined with 50 points Humble Origins achievement. All you need to do is to make non primitive 2 province nation at Bahamas, heavily penalize it to be below 50 points threshold and from the start just send all your fleet to pirate at Caribbean. In few month event about New Providence will fire and you can switch to it. Poor natives will never knew what hit them and iberian colonizers will be cucked hard.