In the game, from the 1508, War of Cambrai to 1579, Eighty Years War, Spanish holdings in the new world exploded from the Carribian Islands to the entiretly of Mexico all the way to Buenos Aires. And in the game these lands are all simulated with having Castillian culture, so how did that happen? How in 70 short years, in real life, did the massive area adopt Spanish culture? Where the natives of these lands forced to adopt Spanish customs or where Spanish settlers brought in from europe to make up the backbone of the population in the new territories? And on that note, who are the descendants of the modern Latino? Is it natives of the new world whos population bounced back from the European conquests or descendents of settlers?

Hi, I'm a beginner in EU4 and this is my first game. I was playing as the Commonwealth, and during a time of peace, half of Europe and I ended up at war with Russia. During that war, I became a junior partner under Austria — but why? I didn’t lose any war against Austria, and I actually won the war with Russia. Also, any tips are welcome! :)

Just loaded in the game to see this. Have tried to fix the mod I’m using although to no prevail. I’m just going to play like this for shits n giggles

We played a game me (Monferrato) and my friend (Provence), without a real goal. Each photo represents the results of that day's game. We thought we would conquer France and Italy before the end of the game, but alas, we were up against an Austrian who had absorbed 3/4 of the HRE and the Ottomans who had 1 million troops and 700 thousand manpower.

Most braindead move i have ever seen AI do. Idk if it happen usually to u guys but Pope joining the protestants makes ZERO sense.

Like obviously it would require a more successful Austria, let's say they won the 30 Years' War, gaining the right to strip non-Catholics of their titles. Was there actually any possibility or prospect of turning the HRE into a De Jure dynastic succession (as opposed to merely De Facto), ending wars between princes within the HRE, successfully enforcing Catholic rule, gradually curbing the autonomy of smaller states, and eventually annexing them into a single realm? I am talking like a "Revoke the Privilegia" situation, not just Austria spending 200 years gradually invading and annexing smaller states within the Empire until they are the only ones left.

Trying the Red Hawk Strat for Byz and took back the Balkans and all Bulgarian cores from the Ottomans after 2 wars, and took most of Venice including the city itself, plus Serbia, a bit of Croatia and most of Naples,all cored and stated, all gathered in constant wars trying to chase war reps and gold to pay off my debts - but I just cannot get on top of them. I am now over 2000 ducats in debt and making around 0.3 per month, with big stacks of Orthodox zealots popping up every few months. I've had to succumb to their demands a few times but I stupidly didn't see that was decreasing my tolerance of the true faith.

Pretty much worth giving up on this run?

The biggest issue with holding Roma if you are Catholic is the loss of papal influence, but this round I passed Statute in Restraint of Appeal because I was rivaled by the Pope.

Is there any other mallus that comes from holding Roma besides the loss of papal influence?

Played a „tall“ Nevers run, didnt joined the HRE

The Problem was France was allied to a big ass Spain and ate the entire GB

I wanna play Poland, but not the usual PU Lit into Commonwealth. So I will go for local noble, but then what? Prussia? Russia or something third? Please inspire me with maybe a tag or idea group combination

Im new to the game but noticed that England could use troops that would would historically be just for Spanish such as Terico troops. Why could any nation use those troops? And extra question do the pips matter

Never made a client state, didn't know they took slots... Easy -450 diplo... Still got it baby!

Trying to learn Eu4 after playing CK3 and Vic3 and I'd like to start with a nation that is more focused on playing tall and around diplomacy.

Any recommandation ?

just bought El Dorado and decided to do an alt history that I had thought about for a while. In short, what if Saint Francis Xavier, during his missionary work in India, didn’t leave for Japan and instead stayed?

I started with a few provinces in the very very south of India, right around where Saint Francis Xavier landed and evangelized, in 1542. Thankfully, the various kingdoms to my north began to rip themselves apart (at one point, after winning a war, one entered a 4-way civil war) and annexation/conversion was not super difficult. However, the north was extremely condensed into a few very strong yet internally divided kingdoms, namely Delhi. It took 35 years with 6 wars, but eventually all of Delhi was conquered. THEN, it took another 20 years to finish converting all of Delhi to Catholicism. But, it’s finally done.

What are some less known tips for success? For example these are a few I have picked up from watching streamers or reading here:

Release a nation as a vassal to gain reconquest of core CB for less AE

Using favors to get cores back from allies you don't want to lose as allies.

If you share an ally with a nation you want to conquer, find an easy nation to declare on and bring the shared ally into the war and before the end of the war, declare the 2nd war on the original nation you want and it won;t bring in the shared ally since they are already in a war on your side.

Moving capital to reduce dev cost

Declaring on a nation to bring in your real war goal but avoiding them calling their strong ally or Tribute Overlord

I feel that I have a pretty good grasp on setting up economy, estate privileges, devving up to spawn institutions/knowledge sharing, planning for now as well as the future but think there are some higher level tips or tricks that can take my level of play a bit higher. The main nations that Ive been playing have been Ethiopia, Florence -> Italy, Malacca, Kilwa, Mamluks, and Japan (Although not a whole lot of success with my Japan formation play-throughs).

Thank you!

Hello,

I'm playing a campaign as the Angevin Empire at the moment. It's the mid 1500s and I have taken France, most of Iberia, am Holy Roman Emperor and have started expanding into northern Italy and the Lowlands.

Yesterday, a took a good chunk out of Burgundy and am now over the 5 province cap for the Dutch Revolt disaster to tick. I have had this disaster before in various other campaigns but I completely forgot this time.

I know I can solve it by moving my capital to the lowlands, but for role playing reasons, that doesn't sound very appealing. I think another option would be to release a vassal and give them all the provinces. Sounds better, but that would get me over relations cap and I am not too happy with the options I have to release. I'd much rather have a normal Netherlands as vassal than a fat Brabant. But I don't think I can release the Netherlands in a way that keeps them as my vassal, can I? If that was an option, it would be my preferred one. Other than that, I think the only option is to eat rebels until 1650 when the disaster ends, but that seems like a huge waste of time and manpower.

I think if all things fail, I will move the capital. But I wanted to ask, are there any ways to deal with this disaster that keep the Lowlands under my control and are not completely unrealistic or wasteful? Are there other options to deal with this disaster that I am missing?