Dealing with european arrival as inca

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What's the strategy? Looking things up it makes it sound like they will try to invade you ASAP.

[Sviothiod]

1. You will have to be really quick about reforming your religion. If you are fast, you'll be able to finish shortly before the Spanish arrive.

2. By the time of the Spanish arrival, you should have united all the tribes around you.

3. Make sure that you have extra forts that cover your southern provinces. You will slowly gain warscore if the Spanish don't control the war objective. A fort can help in that respect.

4. Build a big army. Your advantage is that they will most likely send smaller forces at first. You can squash those. It's a tough fight, not gonna lie. But it is possible. Take loans if you must but that first war needs to be at least a draw.

Later on, you can declare war on Spanish colonies without declaring war on Spain. That way you can enlargen your territory.

If a European power declares war on you, immediately peace out and give them what they want IF that means that they will form a new colonial nation. You will notice that you have a peace treaty with that European power but not with that new nation. You can basically declare war on it right away and as the European nation won't join in "colony-only" wars and that new colonial nation hasn't built any army, you can win your territory right back with the advantage of having some institution progress in these provinces now.

[Shard]

This is written, assuming that you have the "El Dorado" DLC (because if you don't, it's gonna be very painful)

To add to the above:

1. Try and get admin tech 5 and pick Expansion ideas. The extra tech costs does hurt a bit, but in the long run it's better to be able to fill out one idea group instead of having to do it later on (you will need to catch up A LOT)

2. Before reforming your religion, get all techs aside admin to level 3 so you don't get the unbalanced research penalty. Keep all your mana points close to the maximum cap. Whenever they are about to max out, dev some provinces. You will pay +50% because you aren't reformed, but this will strengthen you massively in the long run. Don't forget to enact the development edict whenever you do develop. Once you reform, pause and get all techs you can get. If you wait for the monthly tick, all your points over 999 will be wasted, so be careful there.

3. Reforming Inti takes the longest out of the three El Dorado religions, so you need a lot of time. Send your colonists northwards up until you reach Muisca. Annex them, since having more development boosts your reform speed. Then don't go northwards, instead go southwards. Chances are, that Spain will reach you before you can reform if you push too far north, so play it safe.

[d_jakowenko]

Don't have coastal provinces.

[bri]

Originally posted by d_jakowenko:

Don't have coastal provinces.

And if possible don't have gold provinces you own directly.

[d_jakowenko]

Great Britain CAN'T find its way to Spain or Portugal. But don't worry, it can send a 30 stack to the ends of the world. Be very afraid.

[Vetgirig on Linux]

Actually - own all coastal provinces. Then they can't colonize in south america and will colonize in other places.

[ArchiV]

Originally posted by Vetgirig on Linux:

Actually - own all coastal provinces. Then they can't colonize in south america and will colonize in other places.

lol, did u ever played as inca ? :D
if u succed to take ALL coastal land of SA before colonizer come, plz tell how xD

[kaiyl_kariashi]

Originally posted by ArchiV:

Originally posted by Vetgirig on Linux:

Actually - own all coastal provinces. Then they can't colonize in south america and will colonize in other places.

lol, did u ever played as inca ? :D
if u succed to take ALL coastal land of SA before colonizer come, plz tell how xD

Beat a ton of MP out of your rivals with Show Strength and keep them around for as long as possible, develop all your institutions and tech until you're on time and have both Feudalism and Renesance. (you'll probably run out of rivals at this point, but if you don't, keep beating MP out of them until you can't rival anyone anymore). Then just consolidate the rest of the continent via vassal hopping. This won't help with conquering all the coastal provinces, but you will be the strongest nation in the game and can kill them pretty easily when they show up and start colonizing your land for you (which you can graciously integrate into your empire once it becomes a Colonial nation).

(warranted this only works if you DO NOT have El Dorado, since you can't embrace institutions without reforming your religion with El Dorado enabled, also less effective if you have CoP since the non-Inti OPMs can migrate around, instead of being fixed in good locations to hop on freshly constructed colonial nations like they normally are).