Another thing, though, I did make use of the copied save file exploit for this and the next campaign, but only used it and the more common ‘game “crashed” let’s use the backup’ exploit for total fuckups that could have ruined my run and extremely recent mistakes (and as I went along and became more convinced of the success of the campaign, I stopped making copies, or just forgot to) for mistakes like a war-losing battle that could have been avoided or starting a war I wasn’t ready to fight. Albeit I would have gotten it anyway when (if?!) I do Three Mountains in the future but that could be a few years away and though I consider myself skilled at EU4, making Ryukyu my first (and only, it will be my only other, although One Faith will come close) world conquest was not something I felt confident in, despite taking several notes from Arumba’s 1.19 run on doing it, although I have no clue how I will do it without shadow diplomats, I may have to go back to that patch.

World conquests really do take a long time, but this means that I have gotten one rather difficult achievement, World Conqueror out of the way. I have been taking a few liberties with my EUIV blog writing and I have fallen two campaigns behind, so here is my Ottoman World Conquest that I completed in 1.22, I started it just before Third Rome came out and I finished it about a month and a half after, I went through a period of not playing as much EU4, and at the time, this was all I was playing on it.

Eu4 world conquest guide