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lareman

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It's about time to try one of the harder achievements: Sunset Invasion. I was inspired by a picture of a succesful Aztec empire in the "Your EU4 Empire" thread, so I'm going to try and get the achievement. This is not one of those fancy narrative AARs: lots of gamey stuff such as constant truce-breaking will be involved.

The first steps are simple enough. In one fell swoop, Zapotec was fully annexed and Maya vassalized. I could've annexed them too, but getting to adm tech 4 is such a priority that I don't want to waste the MP. Thankfully, pagan provinces are -50% coring cost, so the annexation of Zapotec didn't drain me too much.

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Some progress has happened. Unfortunately I was stuck with the starting heir ruling for 25 years with his 0 adm, so I might have to end up restarting. The next ruler had a decent 3 adm. However, things look positive right now: a glorious event-pretender has seized the throne. Historians talk about how King Axayacatl, fearing nationalist rebellions in Zapotec and Maya, sent his army camping south. Unluckily for him, the pretender managed to capture Mexico with no effort whatsoever. And he's only 20 years old! At this rate, adm 4 will be reached by 1545.

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For a moment I thought this was going to use the converter from CK2. Good luck.