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My 89th EUIV run: Tripura.

It's been a month since my last EUIV run, mostly because I was expecting the new Dev Diary cycle to start at any time, but to no avail, they're only returning in 27th February. Since we were unsure what would the next DLC focus on (now we know - Central and South America), I chose something that surely wouldn't get any new content - Tripura. I chose it over Kachar, because it has it's own ideas, instead of using Bengali ones.

I expected it to be a hard start, because you start as an OPM right next to a very aggressive Bengal. If they attack you, you're screwed. Luckily, they didn't and they focused on Koch, Assam and Sadya instead. In the meantime, I managed to annex Manipur, Kachar and Assam province itself. It would obviously not be enough, so I needed strong allies to prevent them from attacking me. Ayutthaya and Orissa seemed like perfect choices. I managed to secure both alliances, luckily, both were rivaled to Bengal so it was easier to get extra relations. Now I had enough strength to defeat them, only if they weren't allied to Bahmanis, Malwa and Delhi.

Now that I had Ayutthaya as an ally, there was another expansion route open - Ava and its tributaries. I started with Kale, along with it, I took Pagan province, the only non-jungle province, where I could grow Renaissance without wasting all my mana. The 2nd war was much easier and I attacked Ava directly, I reduced them to just one province. I could immediately feel my economy and force limit growing, it allowed me to start building up my country and think about challenging Bengal. An opportunity came when Bahmanis were at war with Jaunpur, they refused Bengal's call to arms. It was still a tough war, but I managed to win and grab some neighbouring provinces and gain sea access. In the next 3 wars I completely finished off Bengal. Then my warmongering ended and I could move my main trade city to Dhakka and just focus on developing my country.

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My 89th EUIV run: Tripura.

It's been a month since my last EUIV run, mostly because I was expecting the new Dev Diary cycle to start at any time, but to no avail, they're only returning in 27th February. Since we were unsure what would the next DLC focus on (now we know - Central and South America), I chose something that surely wouldn't get any new content - Tripura. I chose it over Kachar, because it has it's own ideas, instead of using Bengali ones.

I expected it to be a hard start, because you start as an OPM right next to a very aggressive Bengal. If they attack you, you're screwed. Luckily, they didn't and they focused on Koch, Assam and Sadya instead. In the meantime, I managed to annex Manipur, Kachar and Assam province itself. It would obviously not be enough, so I needed strong allies to prevent them from attacking me. Ayutthaya and Orissa seemed like perfect choices. I managed to secure both alliances, luckily, both were rivaled to Bengal so it was easier to get extra relations. Now I had enough strength to defeat them, only if they weren't allied to Bahmanis, Malwa and Delhi.

Now that I had Ayutthaya as an ally, there was another expansion route open - Ava and its tributaries. I started with Kale, along with it, I took Pagan province, the only non-jungle province, where I could grow Renaissance without wasting all my mana. The 2nd war was much easier and I attacked Ava directly, I reduced them to just one province. I could immediately feel my economy and force limit growing, it allowed me to start building up my country and think about challenging Bengal. An opportunity came when Bahmanis were at war with Jaunpur, they refused Bengal's call to arms. It was still a tough war, but I managed to win and grab some neighbouring provinces and gain sea access. In the next 3 wars I completely finished off Bengal. Then my warmongering ended and I could move my main trade city to Dhakka and just focus on developing my country.