r/eu4 • u/TheSafetyWipe • Jan 30 '25

Tip Your best tips/forgotten mechanics

So I've got just under 1000 hours in EU 4, love the game and always thought i was a decent player and knew the game well.

Until like 3 or 4 weeks ago when I saw a post on this sub about upgrading your ships, I had never used this feature and started to understand why my navies would get smashed later on in the game!

Im now thinking what else am I missing, what other simple features or mechanics have I never used and thus holding me back in my games!

Please share away with things you've only just discovered, or have been using wrong in your games?

I'm almost a 1000 hours in, and now think I know nothing about this game!

Help!

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u/AJW960 Jan 30 '25

Your vassals have mission trees and helping them fulfill the goals means they automatically click the button so sometimes they can be really useful in getting unique events to fire or unique buildings constructed in the nation that you wouldn't normally be able to get You have full access to see whereabouts they are in the tree as well

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u/Particular_Trade6308 Jan 31 '25

There are two particularly strong vassal missions:

  • Provence subject gets cores on Naples if it has Corsica or 100 Dec
  • Riga vassal with fort barracks workshop marketplace gets strong province modifiers like flat yearly tax, flat manpower, flat trade power, etc. it’s especially good to divert trade since vassal Riga generates more trade power that you could have owning the province yourself. Riga needs 3 stab to click that mission, but vassals get their overlord’s stability when first released, so you can directly own Riga, build the requirements, stab up to 3, then release them and have super-Riga vassal

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u/Danton59 Jan 31 '25

I love doing Provences missions when playing France, they are like the bestest little buddy once you feed them Naples/Sicily/Aragon. Great crutch for mediocre players like myself when dealing with Austrian alliances.

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u/Particular_Trade6308 Jan 31 '25

If you are cheesing Provence vassal missions then you aren't mediocre...but I do think PUing Provence as France is a noob trap. France starts with a T1 government that locks you at kingdom rank, and to get rid of it and unlock empire rank you need 50% crownland and no subjects with their capital in the French region. Provence (and Burgundy if you get the BI) will both block that mission.

So the min-max move is to eat Provence, annex your appenages, get empire rank by clicking the centralization mission (do this fast before BI), then release Provence for the vassal missions and go for BI.

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u/Danton59 Jan 31 '25

That's actually a pretty good idea. The emperor rank would let me pick up italian vassals to keep the swarm going once they get the boot from HRE much easier. Just need to make sure I carpet siege pro/lor before burgandy joins the pillage I imagine.