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But no non-Hormuzian goods get through untaxed, we keep a strict hold over the nodes of Hormuz and Basra. The waters in the Gulf are very smooth and completely pirate-free. After the first couple of wars there was no one who could challenge my naval dominance in the Gulf and it was fairly smooth sailing from then on. Incidentally, throughout this campaign I found out that having your capital province on an island accessible by a strait is really handy for trapping enemy armies and keeping your capital from getting sieged, I don’t think it fell into enemy hands once. I then broke up with Najd, took all of their worldly goods and made preparations to attack them, beating them fairly handily and making me the dominant power in the Arabian peninsula. I followed this up by returning the cores of Bahrain and Qatar to me from Haasa, meaning that I could feel like I was playing one of those modern day countries, even though Hormuz itself is in Iran now. Instead I decided to go for a fairly bold opening move of grabbing what allies I could from Baluchistan, Najd and Yemen, isolating Oman and enabling me to take half of his territory in a single war. This seemed far too risky and unexciting for me, what happens when Persia builds up enough navy to sweep aside your leaky underfunded rowboats? So I decided against this strategy. The guide on the EU4 wiki suggested playing a timid game, sitting and waiting, while using the strait that you had to stop all enemies from landing on your capital island. I realised about halfway through, that I could also go for Arabian Coffee but that hasn’t come to pass yet, I’ll expand on why once I set the situation. And so I’d had my eye on it for a while as it meant I’d have to pick a very rigid set of ideas and I could direct my gameplay towards this one goal. Strait Talk requires you to have 10 diplomatic reputation, so maxing out one stat almost as far as you are allowed to within the confines of the game. I picked Hormuz as some of the most fun achievements look to be when it requires you to play a very different game, particularly in terms of idea groups, as to what you would normally play. During this run I also added Gentle Persuasion, one of the new easy Rights Of Man achievements that I just hadn’t gotten around to yet. In this post I’ll detail my runs for Strait Talk, the Hormuz achievement (with bonus attempt for Arabian Coffee) and Cities Of Cibola, the Pueblo achievement.
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So far I have everything down to Total Control in the Steam stats, meaning the highest one I don’t have is ‘Double The Love’ and from there Down Under, Isn’t This The Way To India, Aggressive Expander, This Navy Can Take It All, The Five Colonies, Just A Little Patience, This Is My Faith, Market Control, At Every Continent, Vasa Or Wettin?, The Continuation Of Diplomacy, Italian Ambiton, Not So Sad A State, Queen Of Conquest, Time Bandit, No Pirates In My Caribbean, All That’ Thine Shall Be Mine, A Pile Of Gold, Combined Arms, The Chrysanthemum Throne, Factionalism, Nobody Wants To Die and ones I’m proud of, Georgia On My Mind and Kirishitan Japan, which I detailed my runs for in previous posts. My goal on it is to one day get all of the Ironman achievements that come with it, one of the most interesting sets of achievements ever in a game. One Arabian, one New World nation for when I just want to chill. What I’ve been doing in my favourite game, Europa Universalis IV, I’ve had less time to play it lately, is playing as Hormuz and Pueblo.