The absolute easiest nation to do a world conquest with

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I have been attempting to unite the world under one tag in EU4 with moderate success, doing a few test runs recreating the Roman Empire as an orthodox Ottomans and getting the Mare Nostrum achievement. But as much as the world trembles before the awesome culture and religion shifting powers of the Great Green Blob, they don't exactly have the optimal set of national ideas to undertake global dominion.

Aside from making a custom nation, which country in the game would have the best possible shot in terms of total development and national ideas at creating a worldwide government, be it formable or otherwise?

Best Answer

The easiest is catholic Ottoman. Become Emperor of the HRE and get a vassal swarm to conquer the world for you.

I don't understand, why you would say the Ottomans are not a good choice for world conquest. Ever since the game was released, they've been the #1 choice. While going for catholic makes it easiest an orthodox or even sunni Ottoman is still very much capable of world conquest.

They have three key adavantages over basically any other nation:

  1. Between increased manpower-recovery, reduced core creation cost and massive force limit, they have a very good set of national ideas. This was even nerfed, the Ghazi idea used to give +50% recovery speed.

  2. They are one of the most powerful nations at the start.

  3. Their position is uniquely suited to keep conquering all the time. Thanks to the reduced core creation cost you can afford coring and they are able to alternate wars between Europe, Russia, Arabia and Asia without obtaining enough aggressive expansion to trigger coalitions.

Other relatively easy options:

Ming/Qing - massive power right from the start or as soon you conquered China allows you to steamroll

Castille/France - colonial dominance, but you have to take out the other one quite early

England - With Personal Union over France you become a powerhouse

Austria/Bohemia/Brandenburg - HRE vassal swarm from the source, harder than Ottomans because their initial power level is much lower. Easiest of the three is Austria.

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