That would mean getting Gotland - and Marienhamn to cripple their logistics - from the swedes and ultimately Lübeck. Next you need to keep the competition down. Also, get a Navy capable of defensive naval action - ideally you will sink the nordic fleets piece-by-piece. As LO one of the best opening moves would be taking Danzig from TO and Riga to become the destined hegemon of regional trade. Taking LO and Riga will consolidate it further. With Danzig and Königsberg you are already at a pretty sweet spot for doing just that.
The key to income is controlling the Blatic trade. To get more of them you need mroe income. Most of your income will go towards your armed and naval forces. Invest mana towards a better army - this is essential. You are going to be constantly fighting your surrounding foes, who are all initially stronger than you, for the first century at least. Or one of them will do it for you and you'll have to contend with a GP on your neighborhood waving their dick around. To keep going you need rekt one of them and expand at their expense asap. The aim is the keep them blakanized - forcing religion will occupy them nicely. Other wise you'll keep fighting the slavshithordes for the rest of the game.
Muscovy is the literal devil and must be delenda'd at all costs. Novgorod is the lesser of two evils but will also likely hate you/the LO initially. Lithuanians can be bros as long as they focus on the Russias, are kept from falling under the Polish thumb and won't get missions to "liberate" the "latvians" of LO and take Riga as their natural port-city. Poland is an asshole and will always work against you. Austria - hope you like fighting in France and the Balkans and Venice landing troops to at Danzig. Bohemia - noice but they will drawn you into conflicts and will hate you if you start showing aspirations for Branderburg-Prussia. Branderburg is a possibility after sceding Neumark, but they are sort of smallish anyhow against your foes. If not by your hand then the Brandenburgians will do it. Lübeck would be a nice bet against the Danes if only they weren't allied with Riga. They will also be your biggest rivals in terms of Baltic trade. But they'll turn against you as they can and will get missions towards Estland. Swedes are pretty good for keeping the Danes down by supporting their indepence. Also, Nordic navy is the literal devil in the Baltics. This means that taking over or even allying the Livonians makes them your enemies. Denmark starts as a unsure hegemon of the North and will get missions towards reclaiming parts of Estland. Let's recap the deplomatic situation somewhat. Gonna talk about the startpos and possible scenarios for a bit. Mana, a terrible government system, boring domestic stuff, retarded aggressive expansion balancing and stupid arbitrary stuff like regencies really do make this game much much worse than it could have been Time to finish up with the Ottomans and fight FranceĪnd I think I'm about done with this game. >No problem, France is also at war with the Ottmans and doesn't have any manpower. Planed to get a border with Bohemia to use them to fight Naples >Fine, will go to war with the Blobomans for Ragusa (my vassals) territory. >by the time the Regency ends, Spain has allied them
>waiting out the truce time, only a couple of months left >Finally decide to backstab Sardinia to fight Savoy and use the alliance chain to gain land and break France's alliances >France is super huge because Spain is retarded and can never fight them >Alliance system means all my remaining Italian neighbours are either allied to France or my own allies, keking me out of my territory
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