General strategy for Egypt

[ShouteN]

I am not very experienced victoria player, struggling with Egypt right now. Cant even make basic eco up and running. Share your tips, what should I do?;)

[Menkerot]

I guess army takes a lot of money but since you need it to fight the ottomans, you probably have to put up with debt until your economy stabilises. In the long term you need to abolish slave trade and serfdom; in the short term - more resources that you can trade with (and profitable ones in general) plus consumption taxes. Also, don't forget to expand your bureaucracy to manage taxation efficiency if you lack it, big countries like Egypt often suffer from it at the start. And if your production lacks resources, fixing this will swiftly improve the situation since you will have domestic production instead of relying on trade.

[Midas]

Tax Production that you increase, egypt has all it needs, so a good way.

You need a military, so you need Iron for the start to produce weapons, have a large military, cause the ottomans come. Pick Austria if possible or russia, and im and export from them, get a defnsive packt with them, so they step in.
Economical wise, expand what is used, so Wood, Iron, a drink

[ScythianUA]

this game have 3 main aspects:
diplomacy
war
economy

you can't skip any of these or you will get bad times

for Egypt your natural allies: Russia, Austia, Persia, cause they all can fight Ottomans and hate them...if you fail Diplomacy with them - you will lose whole eastern coast in 4-8-12 years eventually

you can do wars with neighbors for extra cash if you want, but after handling with ottomans

you are a trade hub, as Ottomans, you can make a good profit from it after you get used to
and familiarize with game mechanics...there is also few good comanies for you to target your effort to...

after you study all these 3 aspects for your country you just play mostly with policies and micromenagment to get extra income...

you always can just become a part of a british trade union and forget about trade for the sake of better life for your people but you will find yourself a "satelite state" after a while

[lister]

Start expanding in arabia and put your large army to good use. If ottoman tries to stop you, even better, you have a better, more modern army then ottomans at the beginning of the game so you should be able to defeat them. You should go to war against ottomans as soon as possible to take advantage of your more modern army. Try to get the army to like you when you go to war with Ottoman to get the 10% attack and defence bonus for your army.

Try to ally a great power, UK, Russia, France, Austria are all good. Try to get recognised as soon as possible as unrecognised nations has to pay like 50% more interest when taking on debt, making taking on debt not viable as unrecognised nations. You can try to get it from USA at the start of the game. Since USA have a very small army at the beginning, there is a chance they will just give it to you at for free at the beginning of the game. Even if the USA dont back down, you should be able to win if you try to avoid their navy and no one else protect them.

Economy wise, try focus on building up logging camp -> iron -> tools to make turning on iron construction more affordable. Try to turn on social mobility in cario to boost literacy. Put consumption tax on service and luxury goods to boost revenue. Lower goverment wage as well to improve revenue.