
The next war you fight with England should be easy – just march your armies around (hopefully while you’re at military tech 5) and you should get some stackwhipes. Now you’ve done something significant – you’ve rendered the England navy completely irrelevant. You’ll want to attack Scotland and take at least the two provinces bordering England. While you’re fighting Ulster, build a spy network against Scotland.Īfter the war with Ulster, the truce with Scotland should be just about up. That should make beating Ulster a piece of cake. Hopefully you moved against England fast enough that Ulster could not ally England. Just ferry your troops across the channel right after the peace deal from the English war.

You’re very next war will be against Ulster. Make a claim – you’ll use that very soon. While you’re fighting that war, build a spy network on Ulster. You might as well take some cores too because the best England is no England, and we get there by chipping away at their territory bit by bit. There are no forts in that area, which means you will receive Dublin for a nominal war score by simply asking. But, here’s where things diverge from your typical France play through, when you send England a piece offer make sure that you ask for Meath / Dublin. Do the general opening moves as France where you fight England, siege down every province in Normandy, Gascony, and Portugal if the Portuguese were silly enough to answer England’s call to arms. Revoke your guarantee of Scotland – England will be too busy fighting you and dealing with the War of Roses to attack Scotland any time soon. Here’s a video summarizing what I did, but if you’d like to read the rest of this guide, that works too.įirst, start the game as France. This is, without a doubt, a much easier way to get the achievement than I think Paradox intended, but I can’t think of a reliable way this strategy could be nerfed either. I started as France, took over all the cores I needed to, released Wales as a non-playable vassal, fed them the cores they needed, re-integrated Wales, then re-released Wales and selecting the option to play as the subject nation the 2nd time around.

I assume the Paradox developers intended this to be played starting as England, releasing Wales, winning an independence war, then growing and spanning across Western Europe. Wales is not a playable nation at the start of the game, which means you will have to release Wales as a playable vassal at some point. We’re going to go over how to get the Home and Away achievement, which is obtained by being the nation of Wales and owning cores on Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh, Rome, Paris, & London.
