Albania

Primary culture

Albanian (South Slavic)

Capital province

Lezhë (4175)

Government

Despotic Monarchy

State religion

Catholic

Technology group

Eastern

Albanian ideas

Traditions:

+10% Manpower recovery speed

+20% Fort defense

All Lands Under Skanderbeg

+20% Land force limit modifier

Land of Ambushers

+1 Land leader maneuver

Kingdom of Albania

+1 Yearly prestige

Hit and Run

+50% Cavalry flanking ability

Land of the Eagles

−10% Stability cost modifier

Albanian Tolerance

+1 Tolerance of heretics

+1 Tolerance of heathens

Break The Power Of Princes

+15% National manpower modifier

Ambition:

−1% Yearly army tradition decay

Albania is a one province minor in Eastern Europe. It starts out surrounded by Serbia, Venice and Ottomans. The latter two countries each own one of its core provinces.

Although Albania is Catholic, its capital province is Orthodox. It does start out with a very good leader, a 6/5/6 who is also a 5/5/5 general.

Strategy[edit]

Lucky bastard

Albanian starting position is known for its encirclement by Ottomans and Venice, but godlike ruler and general Skanderbeg.

Cores of Ottomans and Venice make Albania desirable to conquer. You must secure alliances with Hungary and Aragon to make Byzantium more desirable. After this you can change your religion to Orthodox if you want. You will benefit from it internally but diplomacy will suffer.

In scenario where Ottomans attack Byzantium who is allied to Serbia , your first move is conquering Zeta. This should provoke Venice to attack Serbia. It is easy to white peace Serbian ally Bosnia. When you occupy Smederevo, take Zeta, Kosovo and Raska and vassalize Serbia to get into defensive war against Venice. After you and your allies occupy as many provinces as you can or you see ottoman forces near your borders, sue for peace with Istria as must have.

If they don't attack, great. But if they do, you must rapidly make spy network, take icon of St. Michael and Military commander advisor. You must fight many battles on defensive terrain, occupy Selanik and hold your capital. Sue for peace if you see that your your allies can not endure more warfare or if Skanderbeg dies.

After this war, you shall seek alliance with Austria, Muscovy or some of western great powers, but main exit to safety is joining into HRE. Consider moving capital to Istria.

Expansion should lead you to Gulf of Venice, Bosnia or you could stack galley to obtain naval dominance and defeat Ottomans by good old blockade of sea of Marmara.

After you take out the Ottomans, you should be concerned of Muslim Nations that would create collinations against you and you should rapidly expand into the caucuses before Russia does or else it would be difficult to obtain the Albania or Iberia achievement and need help at least 3 nations

So far you are already a great power and try not to screw up

Good luck!