Albania

Primary culture
Capital province
Government
State religion
Technology group
- +10% Manpower recovery speed
- +20% Fort defense
- +20% Land force limit modifier
- +1 Land leader maneuver
- +1 Yearly prestige
- +50% Cavalry flanking ability
- −10% Stability cost modifier
- +1 Tolerance of heretics
- +1 Tolerance of heathens
- +15% National manpower modifier
- −1% Yearly army tradition decay
Albania is a two 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 5/5/5/0 general.
Missions[edit | edit source]
- Main article: Albanian missions
Events[edit | edit source]
Those are events added by the free Women in History DLC and concern Albania specifically: [1]
Nora of Kelmendi
Trigger conditions
The year is between 1630 and 1700. |
Mean time to happen
200 months |
As a reward for her bravery, make her an advisor.
She has already proven herself as a leader, now make her a general. |
Strategy[edit | edit source]

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 coalitions 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
Achievements[edit | edit source]
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- ↑ The script code of the events can be found in /Europa Universalis IV/events/WomenInHistory.txt.