If You Want Norwegian Wood. You'll Need These Ideas

Wait, so with the religious CB you don't take ANY unjustified demands penalty? I didn't know that and that's crazy! Well, guess religious is gonna become another one of the ideas I take (almost) every campaign.

For nations with no CCR like Norway: inf, adm, rel, dip is the way to go. You can go hum, off after that.

why is nobody talking about Aristocratic and Espionage, i dont get it? :( and why ppl taking still Quantity? :D

META WC Ideas for you feeble minded fools:

Admin for -15% merc maintenance cost and -10% merc cost. so Free Company is closer to being actually free so you can go over force limit
Innovative for +1 possible advisors so you can get useful advisors like fort defense
Naval for +15% ship disengagement chance (VERY important)
Expansion because world conquest means you expand a lot

Idea groups are very difficult to pick and that is a good thing. There is so much choice and no real wrong when it comes to choosing between the better ideas.
Early game, Esp and Ino are pretty good. Cheap advisors and good siege ability. Choose off as third idea for mega quick sieges.
Religious is amazing for the CB, but that is all it really offers.
Diplo is cool, but you will be limited in your expansion early game.
Inf is good, but a worse version of diplo and you really don't annex many things early.
Admin is awesome, but is difficult to take as a first idea.

So many choices.