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Chef, what I did as Navarra is actualy true, but I admit I won't be able to conquer the world(rebellions/russians too entrenched now)...still if you play it right you can achieve major conquests with a MINOR. Go try it.
Conquering the world can be done with any of the majors imho, and maybe, just maybe with insane luck with a minor(I haven't done it with a minor yet but don't exclude the possibility)
My earlier optimism with doing it as a minor is a bit waning because I've been hit by the realities of warfare in the later centuries...Expansion IS a piece of cake though in the early part of the game.
 
About the cheating thing...

I don't think removing the tags is cheating, cause the game doesn't get a lot easier because of it. It's more like creating a different scenario in an alternate reality.

Anyway, if you think that's cheating, then you probably think al those hand made CIV2-scenario's are also the work of cheaters.
 
Shan

Actually I am reading your Cross and Crescent AAR with interest. Its very good, and well played. But, yes, as you suggest, if you start out a minor power its very difficult to "conquer the world" or even come remotely close. You can take pride in the humiliation of one or two major powers, but the remaining ones, by 1700 or thereabouts, will have invested far more than you possibly could have into land and naval technology, and firepower will start to make a real difference in battles. If you haven't invested enough into this technology, which is unlikely unless you annex a major with 50 years of starting, your armies will be defeated over and over again. Now, the AI does not handle troops well and this gives you a bit of a hole to worm your way into (they don't seem to care about attrition rates, and sometime march long distances to take insignificant provinces). So you might be able to hold your own.

I'd really like to see your Navarra file.
 
Ok chef, when I said that to Ramo the game was in 1630, so give me an email address and Iwill send you the file from 1651, you will find that I have in fact conquered most of the middle east, have humbled Turkey etc. if you investigate the save file you will find that nothing at all has been changed, its a GC game with all the usual majors.
 
Chef, go look at my Wallachian aar to see how it's done with minors :) Yes, you would call it a scenario because it has no major tags and I added historical leaders for Wallachia BUT it is challenging enough to play as it is :p
 
I'd say it depends a lot on the minor power. I believe that any minor power next to a weak, reasonably sized major power (e.g., Austria or Hungary) can conquor the world given enough luck and some good handling and an aggressive stance from the very start of the game (to take advantage of the minimal fortresses).

Countries like Navarra and Granada would have it extremely tough to go for WC - at least assuming the player is also annexable. ;)
 
I wish to salute everyone who writes aar:s
I will write my own someday.

It is not all to har to capture the world , especially not in the un updated version of the game. I have done it as holland in the holland scenario in the download area:)
 
I must agree with Chef (first poster) on this. Unless you do some major cheating there is no way that the claim: "I conquered 2/3 of the world and there are only 3 COT left unconquered by 1560" could be possible. I don't care who you play as. There just isn't enough resources to do this w/o cheating. So there...
 
Hey, wait a minute! Didn't Brandenburg start out as a micro-puny Duchy in like the 13 or 1400's? And did it not stay pretty darn weak until the 1700's? And did it not stand to conquer the world later on as Germany under Hitler?
 
Um... Actually, it was Prussia rather than Brandenburg that became modern-day Germany if I remember my 'A' Level History correctly. Chancellor Bismarck fought four wars of German unification against the French and others in order to bring all the German states into line with Prussian control - and then Kaiser Wilhelm came along and had a falling out with Bismarck, then there was WWI followed by the humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles, which gave Hitler the leverage he needed to get to power, which, of course, led to WWII...

A massively simplified version, of course, but I do remember that the unification of Germany was definitely a Prussian thing...
 
But, correct me if I'm wrong, the name of the combined region covering Brandenburg and Prussia was ....Prussia. Prussia is far weaker than Brandenburg at the start of the game but by 1792 was considered as one of a group of major land powers. Admittedly, though, they were far from being in a position to conquer the world at this stage.

But no I don't think there was any great danger of Hitler conquering the world. Don't forget that the Japanese in the East were supposed to be getting their share of land and if they hadn't been forced to go for the oil who knows...

But that's my opinion.

As for the accusations of cheating, we all know that the AI cheats (especially playing Holland who always seem to open up a new CoT when their old one is getting too competitive) . So why can't we do the same? :p

BTW I'm playing Prussia and its January 1494 and I've just annexed the Aztecs and Poland and have 150k troops ready to march on the Holy Land and I'm not cheating at all.

And I've also converted to Reformed.
 
Originally posted by Coeur de Lion
But, correct me if I'm wrong, the name of the combined region covering Brandenburg and Prussia was ....Prussia. Prussia is far weaker than Brandenburg at the start of the game but by 1792 was considered as one of a group of major land powers. Admittedly, though, they were far from being in a position to conquer the world at this stage.

But no I don't think there was any great danger of Hitler conquering the world. Don't forget that the Japanese in the East were supposed to be getting their share of land and if they hadn't been forced to go for the oil who knows...

But that's my opinion.

As for the accusations of cheating, we all know that the AI cheats (especially playing Holland who always seem to open up a new CoT when their old one is getting too competitive) . So why can't we do the same? :p

BTW I'm playing Prussia and its January 1494 and I've just annexed the Aztecs and Poland and have 150k troops ready to march on the Holy Land and I'm not cheating at all.

And I've also converted to Reformed.
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How uninteresting.
 
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