1.18 strategy

[Piloni]

I just wanted to tell you guys about a cool strategy in 1.18.

I'm, currently playing QQ going for the Arabian coffee achievement. ( I know that's a bit odd )
The Ottoturks bulied me early and took some provinces, they were hostile and had the mission take mesopotamia.

So I was in this sticky situation and had to think about a solution, I didn't really find one and just waited on speed 5 to die, when suddendly I realised, that the turks had changed their attitude to domineering.
I was wondering what made them become domineering, I eventually realised that I felt technologicaly really far behind, thus beeing far enought behind for the Turks to make ma a protectorate.

I offered to become the turk's protectorate, adapted the Renaisance and became free again.
In the first month of beeing free the turks were friendly towards me, thus I was able to get an Alliance with them, which saved my ass.

TL; DR : being in trouble ? Get behind in tech, offer to be protectorated, catch up in tech, get an alliance with your ex. threat. GG EZ

 

[Luddsig]

Best strategy ever on here i would say, well written and it will help alot of people

 

[Unikram]

That's smart.

 

[Viktor Vaughn]

Yeah it's an imbalance of how the game interprets institutions and tech levels. I was playing as Malay and got to the point where I had colonies in Siberia, Australia, Africa. Had the largest navy in the world, top 5 army, etc etc. Pegu was my neighbour, they had only eight provinces maybe, but they were one institution ahead of me and therefore became domineering.