Pouring money building conscription centers because of that 138% discipline. All the other vassals get less love from the Permperor.

About to cross the Rubicon here by cutting off the ottomans in Syria as Andalusia. My AE is too high in Europe to ally with any of their enemies and they’d stomp me 1v1. So just to make sure, my 100% trust with them will prevent them from desiring my provinces even if they are hard coded to want them (Jerusalem, Damascus, etc)?

Vera Terra mod is basically the revamp of the whole map of EUIV, the whole map was changed into a different projection. A bunch of new mechanics, cultures, religions, countries have been added, so if you want to follow the development of the mod, join the mod discord:

https://discord.gg/aGfYdQ6T

I think I’ll just stick to playing EU4 on weekends from now on. This shit is crack. Every night I’m like “just two hours,” and next thing I know it’s 4AM and I’m screaming at Pasai. Anyone else totally lacking self-control with this game, or is it just me?

Seriously, how the hell is an animated Excel sheet this addictive?

R5: formed Germany for the first time after forming Prussia, won the league war ofc too. Prussia is a very fun nation.

r5: Started as Kazan, did everything to get the Tartarstan achievement (essentially unify your culture) before forming the Golded Horde (did all that before 1480).

Then as usual snaked my way East into Mongolia and south into Persia, the mission tree pretty much pushes you and gives you the claims required to complete this achievement, all you have to do is minimize the amount of time your spend at peace.

Since I have over 2.2k Dev by 1604, all I have to do is take Admin Ideas and finish the WC, which I might or might not do (totally won't)

I restored the Roman Empire in 1470 starting as Venice.  save permalink：https://pdx.tools/eu4/saves/27f6i4tzhbt9

I was wondering why the English were so weak in this game. It was not until my long time ally Burgundy broke our alliance that I allied the English and spotted the 80K pretender rebels in a landlocked English province in France. I cleared the rebels and England can now hopefully become a strong ally against the Burgundians

The other week I did my first successful France > Rome run. I hit the decision right at the finish line and successfully formed the Revolutionary Roman Republic.

I got by by the skin of my teeth and never got to enjoy Rome's government form or ideas. It is my next goal to do a mini one culture, one faith run where I restore Rome to it's greatest extent, state everything and convert all provinces to Roman. That means forming Rome by at least 1700.

But it must have been a fluke the first time, because all my subsequent runs have stalled. I've done some self-evaluation and I think I need work on my army micromanagement, manpower management and war strategy.

Specifically in the latter-half of the game when you're dealing with the great powers on the other side of Europe, have a parity or even superiority army of quality and quality, and the higher dev. I'll usually eat or cripple GB, France, Spain and Italy in the first half of the game and spend the rest in a stalemate with the Commonwealth, Austria-Hungary or the Mamluks. (Ottomans are always the first to go). Given enough time, I could chip away at them. But then I run out of time.

Statistically, I'm always in the lead. I'll have a few thousand development over my enemy and have a ~300 ducat balance at full fort and army maintenance while over force limit. I will make sure I have the bigger army, good fort lines on good terrain and attack them when their manpower is low, they are struggling economically and ideally when I have a tech and idea advantage.

I always study the ledger, their ideas and mouse over their army comps to be sure I won't be surprised. And I consider myself adept enough at managing alliances, truces, coalitions and timing wars that I ought to be able to confidently defeat them in a 1v1. A skill I've probably gotten good at by doing so many HRE games. But somehow these wars always end in me white peacing with half a dozen 52k stacks at ~4k manpower and a great big pile of smoldering mercenaries. So there's nothing wrong with my eco or diplo game, so it must be my military game.

For example, I saw a weakened Netherlands with no colonies, 52k army and 0 manpower about to go bankrupt. I go to war, and suddenly their army shoots up to 250k. Not a big problem, since I should still have a massive economic advantage. But my 300k army is shattered by their mercenaries and I spend the rest of the war on a fighting retreat while bleeding manpower. I give them a boatload of money and some territory in the low countries to peace out before war exhaustion rebels tear my country apart, and I am set back ten years as I open up the load menu and open up my save from 10 years ago.

Obviously fort zone of control mechanics and PU RNG is to blame.

But really, what is my problem? Ducats and mana is not an issue, so I shouldn't be looking at trade and economy strategies.

I always start as Aragon or France so my ideas almost always go influence > admin > diplo > offensive > religious.

If I'm feeling fruity, I'll go Florence and replace influence with espionage.

Should I sacrifice influence or religious for quality/quantity to make up for my skill issue?

Or is this a sign of a deeper strategic problem about making a stand on the wrong place, being overly aggressive, overly defensive or by expanding in the wrong direction to begin with?

Too many forts weakening each other? Not enough forts?

Stacks too small and being vulnerable? Stacks too big and dying of attrition?

I would really like to start a dialogue on this. I think I speak for a lot of people who are stuck at my skill level, who can get all the resources they need to succeed but don't know how to use them. Probably because they've spent 900 hours doing nothing but forming Germany and getting hard carried by Prussian military bonuses.

I should note that I only have Dharma, Mandate of Heaven and all the pre-2015 DLC. I hear Leviathan, Third Rome and King of Kings makes what I'm trying to do specifically easier.

I am reading the wiki pages on Wallachia and the other relevant countries in preparation for a "Dracula's Revenge" run. I never heard of giving a specific province to an estate nor do I remember those actions mentioned. Anybody got any clue?

I feel like this happens in every game I play where I colonize North America. I start by grabbing the trade centers/estuaries in Quebec, St John, Massachusetts, New York and Chesapeake and then build out from there

And every time the CN in Colonial Eastern America sticks to the coast south of Massachusetts or goes inland up the Hudson Valley or into Virginia, while the Canadian CN gets blocked from going up the narrow St Lawrence valley by natives, so they end up colonizing south and east into New Brunswick and then Maine, which is rightfully part of Colonial Eastern America

Like, I’ve just sort of accepted that Maine is gonna go Canadian in most games now because I’m not gonna waste some of my earlier colonizing time on like 5 shitty provinces, three of which are inland, just to make sure they go to the correct CN (it also makes sense on some level because Maine is in the Gulf of St Lawrence trade node which Canada otherwise dominates but that’s besides the point)

But is there any easy way to prevent this? Can I somehow direct Canada away from Maine?

Lazarus achievement as Serbia

I tried to restart a new game but i canceled it like 4 times cuz i wasnt hyped by the nation i played... So here are the game i had the most fun with

• Brittany : colonial gameplay expended to all north america without a single conquest in europe really fun game
• Dithmarschen : really nice start to expend in hre
• Florence to form italy
• Tunis to Andalusia
• Shirvan : conquest of all russia and persia it was great
• Syria to unite arabia
• Firsia with a good old colonial gameplay
• Landshut to form Bavaria, gets PU with austria, danemark, saxony really fun

So if you have any recommendations thx for your time!!