Winning by bankrupting all the Banks. Have you done it?

[General Public]

I have won the game by the three other methods, which is not difficult, but I think the lowest number of banks still in the game was six by the time I reached turn 300.
The problem I find, whatever you do, is one bank, sometimes more, run away with the assets and you get left behind because you cannot invest at the rate they can. It is usually the Iron Bank which the AI seems fond of.
I'm sure a lot of players come up with the weapons drain where you declare war on a region, which you have no idea what the enemy region is going to have as resources, and you find you are using up your weapons reserve very quickly. This make it difficult to declare wars and expand.
So here are a couple of tips. You can use revolution, which is a gamble, but can hit other banks hard if it pays of. It can be expensive. The other is using the "reverse" method. Don't declare war with a country you have invested heavily in. You buy a licence in the country you want to expand in. You do not invest in it at all. Then as that country, declare war on the country you have invested in. You should find the big hitters have not invested and you can take the region. It does not always work, but most of the time it does.

If you have bankrupted all the banks to win, please let me know and advise how you managed it.

[amjadken]

I was hoping you had options you could set in the game setting and pick the type of victory you want. I want to conquer every region but that seems impossible.

[²³Megumin Gumpi Sip]

just clear killer achievement today,
choose mongolian for quick fear and beginner difficulty
start easy by buy and sell asset for 10 first turn
dont forget buy guard from first turn
research to add fear bonus
then participate in war for asset to sell in several turn (in my case 20-30 turn)
if you have enough money when participate in war dont forget to invest to country you support, so they can give you more asset to buy and you can sell it more expensive
meanwhile dont forget use your fear to sabotage competitor and give them loan if you have enough money
till turn 70 do exactly same gameplay
after turn 70 upgrade all your guardhouse to level 15 and hire guard with at least > 50 point
dont give loan to public after turn 70, sabotage competitor focus on second after you, give them loan, it can be passive income for you till end of game.
in my game all competitor bankrupt before turn 125

[@rafamestizzo]

I finally got the killer achievement. it took me a while but your replay really helped me. Thanks for that.
I also choose Castile as start nation and ended buying licences on almost every country. My strategy was attack the rival bank country while I freezy their assets to be sold in the last turn of their loan. It was challenge to coordenate simultaneos attacks to the specific regions in diferent nations. Just because there is no precise information about wich states has assets of the rival bank you are targeting when you still have multiple rivals.
So my hint for those who is trying to get this achievement is to save your abilitie on yor tec tree to reset your banks powers to freezy their assets to the 4 to 1 last rival banks. so you can try this strategy again right after using it in the last roll. I defeated 3 banks at once doing this and the last one in the next roll. They were not able to pay the multiple loans I gave to them.

Originally posted by ²³Megumin Gumpi Sip:

just clear killer achievement today,
choose mongolian for quick fear and beginner difficulty
start easy by buy and sell asset for 10 first turn
dont forget buy guard from first turn
research to add fear bonus
then participate in war for asset to sell in several turn (in my case 20-30 turn)
if you have enough money when participate in war dont forget to invest to country you support, so they can give you more asset to buy and you can sell it more expensive
meanwhile dont forget use your fear to sabotage competitor and give them loan if you have enough money
till turn 70 do exactly same gameplay
after turn 70 upgrade all your guardhouse to level 15 and hire guard with at least > 50 point
dont give loan to public after turn 70, sabotage competitor focus on second after you, give them loan, it can be passive income for you till end of game.
in my game all competitor bankrupt before turn 125

[gareeth]

Wow I am terrible at this game by comparison. Not just because I am prone to online play but this is not something I view as likely to happen any time soon

Apparently lending money to your older siblings as a child and repossessing their things and having merciless conditions is not the perfect training for EBM sigh , You'd think my youthful ruthlessness would help

Oh well back to the map .,,

[²³Megumin Gumpi Sip]

I have revision to my previous comment, if you combine with revolution in country with competing bank, you can bankrupt enemy bank more easily even if you have ultra hard difficulty and not mongolian and strategy as @rafamestizzo said, it will go easy.
make sure competing bank never have 1M it an extra safety to prevent their bank snowballing