Here is a screenshot for some Ryukyu update in 1653 :
For sure there would be some juicy colonial conquests to perform here with a cheap BB CB...
Less challenging and thus less exciting, here is my Fujiwara Japanese America in 1549 (right when I got a PU with Ming I'm still not sure what to do with) :
In this game I have used the pettiest westernizing strategy ever. Met Castile on my way to circumnavigate South America. Sold them the cheapest province I could find, landlocked in the middle of my biggest isle. It made them officially discover Japan but they couldn't reach it by any means. I protected it from random rebels for them as long as I was in the process of westernizing, and once I was done, funded some Japanese patriots. Meanwhile, I had regained a core on that province thanks to a border dispute, so when it eventually defected back to me, it was just as if nothing had ever happened.
A problem I didn't have with Ryukyu (since Central America is already animist) is religious conversion. It's going to take a looong time...
One of the first converted provinces is tipped to become the future capital of an extended Japanese American empire (because why not ?)
But for now, I've had more fun doing this with an European OPM I might have neglected to consider playing so far...
No regrets to have left this coast with many poor provinces and annoying rivals... although I have just vassalized Hungary, after they wanted to punish me for escaping my own vassal status from them, decades ago. The war was long enough for me to fund Croat rebels and let them do the job... Ragusa is not an isolated province anymore.
For sure there would be some juicy colonial conquests to perform here with a cheap BB CB...
Less challenging and thus less exciting, here is my Fujiwara Japanese America in 1549 (right when I got a PU with Ming I'm still not sure what to do with) :
In this game I have used the pettiest westernizing strategy ever. Met Castile on my way to circumnavigate South America. Sold them the cheapest province I could find, landlocked in the middle of my biggest isle. It made them officially discover Japan but they couldn't reach it by any means. I protected it from random rebels for them as long as I was in the process of westernizing, and once I was done, funded some Japanese patriots. Meanwhile, I had regained a core on that province thanks to a border dispute, so when it eventually defected back to me, it was just as if nothing had ever happened.
A problem I didn't have with Ryukyu (since Central America is already animist) is religious conversion. It's going to take a looong time...
One of the first converted provinces is tipped to become the future capital of an extended Japanese American empire (because why not ?)
But for now, I've had more fun doing this with an European OPM I might have neglected to consider playing so far...
No regrets to have left this coast with many poor provinces and annoying rivals... although I have just vassalized Hungary, after they wanted to punish me for escaping my own vassal status from them, decades ago. The war was long enough for me to fund Croat rebels and let them do the job... Ragusa is not an isolated province anymore.
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