exploits are for men

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If you can't win a war, try to soften the blow as much as you can with any deal you can strike.

If they want a lot of money... and you have a decent amount built up, try to que up like 500 mercs... then do the deal and basically go 'I only have this much' and they'll take it... and after the deal you can cancel the recruitment and get to keep all your ducets.

Otherwise...

If you want to /win/ the war...

You should try to trap big armies on smaller islands and try to use a fleet to block them off so they're trapped

That's another thing you can try.

Otherwise, the classical using a good general and have them attack you over a river and into a mountain works to.

managed to finish that war by returning a few territories to the dying Ottomans

and immediatly attacked them and got them back

kek

here is the progress so far

You already should have the Basileus achievement.

http://www.eu4wiki.com/images/1/11/EU4BasileusRequirements.png

just need all of this cored

oh, I thought I needed to do the reform the empire decision

shit this will be a lot easier

lol

I'm missing Crimea

Time to call Putin

I mean, you can go Refrom the Empire to, did you get the crazy Theme decision yet?

yep

Get that with Quantity Ideas and you'll out-Manpower all of Europe XD

I'm a bit underteched atm hah

so much adm for coring

and mil for rebellions, I had like 5 instances of 110+ overextension

Once you got your shit together and got Basileus, you should really hunker down and try to tech up a bit. Admin isn't all that important at the start, but Military ideas and points are exceedingly important!

I want to reform, and have like 150 years left or so

not sure if its doable

it requires way too much

Italy I could do, but to get France and Iberia as well? and then London as well

You can use alliances, slowly get land... Or...

You could always go the route of the Revolution

Revolutionary Roman Empire?

sounds legit

lol

They don't have a tricolor for it, so the flag will be fucking White

I tried doing a France run before this

couldn't go beyond 1500