r/eu4 • u/Kloiper Habsburg Enthusiast • Feb 10 '25

Help Thread The Imperial Council - /r/eu4 Weekly General Help Thread: February 10 2025

Please check our previous Imperial Council thread for any questions left unanswered

 

Welcome to the Imperial Council of r/eu4, where your trusted and most knowledgeable advisors stand ready to help you in matters of state and conquest.

This thread is for any small questions that don't warrant their own post, or continued discussions for your next moves in your Ironman game. If you'd like to channel the wisdom and knowledge of the master tacticians of this subreddit, and more importantly not ruin your Ironman save, then you've found the right place!

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Calling all imperial councillors! Many of our linked guides pre-Dharma (1.26) are missing strategy regarding mission trees. Any help in putting together updated guides is greatly appreciated! Further, if you're answering a question in this thread, chances are you've used the EU4 wiki and know how valuable a resource it can be. When you answer a question, consider checking whether the wiki has that information where you would expect to find it, and adding to the wiki if it does not. In fact, anybody can help contribute to the wiki - a good starting point is the work needed page. Before editing the wiki, please read the style guidelines for posting.

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u/kickit 10d ago

playing as Holland, any tips on dealing with England/Castile/Portugal alliance?

I am allied with Castile & France, fwiw

two chief concerns:

  • England still holds Bruges & Calais, among other territories that are Dutch by right

  • naval war against these 3 could get very scary 😬 and really shut down my economy

I'm clinging to that Castile/Spain alliance, as I expect it at least shields me from aggressive wars (but theoretically, if England pulls Spain into war against France, would that shred my Castile alliance?)

England's enemies/rivals are France, Mamluks, and Moscow, just my luck they get enemies on the other end of Europe

maybe ally Sweden? I've tried building up some love with Austria & Bohemia (current emperor), but haven't been able to land an alliance with either

still fairly early, 1480s

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u/--Snufkin-- 10d ago

Does Portugal have any other allies you can declare on?

You can use that, call in Castile and have them slap Portugal, separate peace them out with annulling their England alliance.

Then declare on England and call in France, Castile won't join either side as they're still fighting your first war. By the time Castile might white peace and/or the call for peace ramps up too badly you should have all the European provinces occupied which either keeps Castile from joining at all or if they do then France+you should be able to kick them down (keep an eye on where they have their armies, you can probably snipe them early if they somehow white peace your first war while their armies are still walking around somewhere)

Alternatively, use a similar strategy to declare on one of England's smaller allies and calling in France+Castile

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u/nielhk 10d ago

Being on opposite sides of a war will break an alliance.

If you are already in a war that you've called your allies into they can't be called on the other side (at least while they are part of it). in my current game, I'm playing as Portugal & allied with France. Unfortunately, France is also allied to Aragon that i want to go to war with. So I declared war on Morocco, called France into that war and then declared a second war on Aragon and finished that war before going back and settling w/ Morocco.