How to raise navy tradition?

[bobapplepie]

I want to get the traditional player achievement, but I only have ~60 naval tradition. It seems easy enough to get high army tradition: fight in lots of battles, siege lots of provinces, etc, but it seems like there's no easy way to get the other kind. I maxed out innovative ideas so it decays less, but it's not enough.

[Kitten Food]

The easiest way to keep navy tradition high is by making sure you protect trade with light ships. What this means is that you get +2 yearly naval tradition per 100% ratio of light ships to your naval limit.

Example: Your naval limit is 10. You have 10 light ships. You are earning +2 naval tradition per year.

You can passively keep tradition higher (without battles) by investing in Maritime Ideas, Innovative Ideas and Administrative Ideas (Admin+Maritime gives you a policy).

You can basically almost always have 90-100% tradition if your light ship numbers are 250% of your naval force limit combined with Maritime/Innovative. Since going over naval limits is not anywhere near as expensive as going over land limits, its is feasible to get this achievement.

Good Luck Have Fun.

[bobapplepie]

I think it would be best suited for a different run for me then. I've filled almost my entire ideas and I don't have either admin or maritime. I also have a huge naval forcelimit and pretty much everyone in europe is in a coalition, so I don't think destroying my navy for an achievement would be a good idea.

Originally posted by Kite:

The easiest way to keep navy tradition high is by making sure you protect trade with light ships. What this means is that you get +2 yearly naval tradition per 100% ratio of light ships to your naval limit.

Example: Your naval limit is 10. You have 10 light ships. You are earning +2 naval tradition per year.

You can passively keep tradition higher (without battles) by investing in Maritime Ideas, Innovative Ideas and Administrative Ideas (Admin+Maritime gives you a policy).

You can basically almost always have 90-100% tradition if your light ship numbers are 250% of your naval force limit combined with Maritime/Innovative. Since going over naval limits is not anywhere near as expensive as going over land limits, its is feasible to get this achievement.

Good Luck Have Fun.

[bobapplepie]

Well, I managed to get it. I went for naval ideas for my second to last idea group, but I didn't get administrative because it didn't seem very good, especially in the late game. My navy tradition was hovering at about 68 or so. I got 2 lucky hardy seaman events which raised it to 88. I finished it off by declaring war on portugal so I could sink their stack of 500 light ships, giving me 5 tradition.

[the_panther]

I got it super easy as England without doing the all light-ship route. In fact, I hit 90% naval tradition before the land one. I got the land when I invaded and crushed France during about 6 wars. You get the Paris achievement this way also.