Venice gets very rich - but has no university - it is worth rushing it at the start to get access to a well developed port and city. Hardest? Austria - lots of countries round you - all potenitally enemies - Prussia are massively expansioist, poland will look to nibble and the ottomans can change your religion slightly in the eastern provinces and make you spend more on upkeep. You have decent navy and good troop recruitment in the americas - once boston is takn off the french, the rest of the area should follow. Your western border should mainly be defensive as you have many different nations all looking nervously at any armies you have there.Įgypt and the middle east can be left moslty undefended and once you get some trade up with Spain, it should bring in lots over time.Įasiest faction is GB - you can roll the french over within a couple of turns in europe if you risk it and hurry them.
May be worth keeping good relations with Austria to keep them off your back. Once you have a decent money flow again, invade either via Georgia or boat across to the Crimea - once Moscow and Kiev are yours/raided/razed it should be a matter of rolling up the russian bear.
Pull back and turtle, watch out for the persians and keep the georgian border well guarded.or take georgia - easily defendable region from the russian. Just sell it or use it to sue for peace or something. Ottomans, lose the unprofitable and difficult to keep province near Russia in the west. Taking the Balkans from the Ottomans is, if you will forgive the obvious metaphor, like taking candy from a baby.
Cossacks and Stretsy make an excellent team. Plus, your've got good starting infantry options. Great starting position, nobody really hates you besides the Ottomans, and you've got a decent monarch. I'd rate them as challenging.Įasiest, IMO, is Russia. I wouldn't say Spain's the HARDEST faction, but the required military buildup early in the game can hurt your early growth a bit. You might lose Florida and Portugal might run amok in Spain, but you probably wont get taken over. The, uh, two people who DONT hate your guts, France and New Spain, will probably shield you from any serious early threats. Now, it is true, you do start off with some advantages. It's a pain to develop those outlying American provinces as well, because your initial income is a bit small and the pirate fleets will happily take on your ships and win. Unlike Russia, you cant just defend certain points, because, starting out, almost everybody hates you. Not only does he not give you benefits, he gives you -10 to all relations!Īll that territory is a bit of a dead weight, too. I actually had quite a challenge starting off as Spain.Īlthough you start off big, you also have a lot of issues.Īs I pointed out in the guide, your king is basically a total dead weight.
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