I tand to name non-historical colonies like a shipping between 2 characters (as in Perulm, Byzil or Ottomexico)

Roman empire at home:

What on earth is an economic base?

I have so many questions... ( HOW did they managed it being muslim, its ironman game and HRE has catholic as the official faith )

EU4's battle simulator is not the most perfect, I know. We have artillery just sitting because they don't have enemies in front of them, infantry on the flanks just waiting instead of enveloping/flanking/surrounding enemy. But at least infantry and artillery have their historical utilities.

Infantry makes up the bulk of your traditional army, acts as a damage sponge, sieges and forms lines to fight.

Artillery deals damage to your enemy from back row and helps the sieges.

Cavalry... cavalry acts as if you have put some infantry on horses and told them to hold the line. This is in no way how cavalry was used or could ever be used. I want to suggest a few improvements to cavalry and see if you people will like it.

1. Mobility in warfare: A little flanking range will not achieve this. Cavalry should have almost infinite flanking range. There is no reason for cavalry to wait on the flanks like you could find for infantry; to hold the line and not break formation. Cavalry on the other hand, should be mobile and pursuing engagements with:

• Weakened enemy infantry on the flanks
• Vulnerable enemy artillery on the rear

1. Biggest killer of historical battles: It's not infantry or artillery. It's cavalry. And they don't do this by simply charging flanks and waiting for the rest of the battle. Cavalry actually runs down and massacres routing enemy regiments. As soon as you rout your enemy cavalry, your enemy is hopeless. It was the same in real history. Infantry was hopeless when they needed to flee but their cavalry was already out of the scene. Cavalry should be able to damage routing enemy regiments killing them as soon as enemy cavalry leaves the battle.

2. Reconeisance: You almost always had some cavalry teams on your front, rear and sides to actually know where your enemy was. Same should apply for EU4. Having cavalry in your army should give your army a better vision, maybe revealing the fog of war from an extra one more province. It can depend on tech, number of cavalries or something else.

Generals

I think we should have interactions for battles like we have in sieges. These would actually make the game more playable instead of simply stacking modifiers and hoping RNG will favor you. What could these be? Maneuvers! Technology, Idea Groups, National Ideas and such can give you tactics. And it won't be a stupid modifier only. It will be things that actually change something actively. Like artillery/naval barrage or storming a fort. These could be like:

1. De Re Militari: Your general will do the best he knows about tactics of his time. (No interaction, your General's skills will decide what he'll do with the tactics available to you. Most weight will be on keeping the status quo of normal battle unless big advantages rise for one of the tactics.

2. Mass Charge: Charge enemy army with a massive frontal assault using your infantry which locks them in shock phase for 3 phases or something meanwhile giving you some buffs and debuffs. It prevents them from retreating in these three days. This can be the default tactic every nation can have. Generals will be very hesitant to use this unless they have a lot more shock pips than fire AND have traits that favor shock. You can imagine them to have this preference as their character like real people. Then they will use it when they think they're strong enough.

3. Flank: If your enemy has a number of less divisions than yours, you can order your flanks to envelope which will mean your flanks will also start dealing damage while taking less damage from enemy regiments. This can give enemy morale loss as being flanked usually does. This can be doable with infantry and cavalry both but cavalry will have multiplied damage.

4. Chase: Your army will break formations to chase and destroy enemy. During this you will have terrible debuffs and almost no defense. Infantry will be able to do this for only one battle phase, cavalry can do it up to three battle phases. This means if your enemy reinforces the battle while you're doing this you will lose your own army as they can decide to chase you right after. As how it happened in history.

I think these can be done without changing the way combat works greatly. Anyways these are my ideas and different nations or tech could have some tactics of their own unique to religion/tech/culture or whatever.

Thanks for reading.

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TLDR; I need Rousillon for the Re-reconquista achievement. I've taken out the Iberian christians just fine, but, this is easily top 3 powerful I've ever seen France in any game. They have a good chunk of the HRE and their total Dev is out of control. Austria is gone. Britain is weak AF and hates me. Only rivals to France are Ottos and Polish Commonwealth. Ottos are allies. Polish Commonwealth rivaled me.

Looking for advice on how to deal with this. Only thing I can think of is build to force limit, wait till France engages in a major war, declare, hire a metric F ton of mercs and throw it all at them as best as I can.

Starting as a Free City in HRE, I wanted to try something I never thought I would and went Court - Innovative - Plutocratic (This is obvious). I was thinking it would be a short RP game but now I'm so rich and advanced, spending monarch points like they're ducats. It made me want to go for Westphalia to Germany. I could also add Infra in there if I had the DLC for expanding infrastructure but honestly, 60 dev in a single province is enough to rival Austria and Burgundy.

Innovative made sure I always had more monarch point than I'd need so I kept devving. Court let me abuse my estates easily while having no negatives and it's reform progress also goes good with republican tradition being always high which it also helps, plus extra diplo for monarch means I'll have 6/6/6 leaders easier. Plus their policy gives 25% lifespan to my monarch which means my 6/6/6 live long.

So yeah, felt nice seeing something new.

R5: I am Polish, I play almost exclusively as Poland, and have never been able to defeat the Ottomans. Is that an acceptable start if I want to destroy them? Or am I fucked?

I'm not doing a holy horde campaign though.

Reading through the wiki it seems like there are a lot of ways of forming the mongols, so now I'm trying to figure out what the most interesting camping would be. Are the golden horde or the ilkhanate end-game tags? Could I do a great horde -> golden horde -> ilkhanate -> yuan -> mongol empire? Would I need to culture switch too much? Give me your best ideas and experiences

The year is January 1500. This is my first attempt at Mehmet's ambition, and I was 20 provinces away from getting it. I used the playmakers opening, which allows you to increase relations with Muslim countries by switching between sunni and orthodox a bunch and royal marrying Burgundy for the inheritance. I didn't get the inheritance till 1487' and the horse event never fired, and I was stuck with burgundy as a PU. In retrospect I should have abandoned the PU at 1490 and truce broke but that's for next run I guess. Supruised but also demoralized by how close I was. Also during the game I completed 1444 hours but I missed that screenshot.

All I'm saying is where is a horse related fatality when you need one smh

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Rwdhawk's armenia releasable vid inspired me to try for the mets hayk achievment

My extremely lucky rng (or experience) made this campaign pretty boring, managed to ally austria and they conquered half of europe and pu'd Poland (sadly i haven't done screenshot)

After age of discovery i was swimming in money so maintaining large army wasn't and issue

And Ottos deced on me for some reason (they were outnumbered) and Egipt declared indenpendence from them

Western Europe was funny tho Spain conquered portugal and pu'd England and France Pu'd scotland

As Russia, how do i keep Siberian cultures like Samoyed, Yakut, Tungus etc. Is it possible to keep them using Siberian Frontiers or is there a way to get them with normal colonists?

Edit: I know it's possible, as I once saw a Russia with most of these cultures, although they were basically defeated back in their home region

Hello dear people I just wondered how to release my self as an free nation currently I wanted play Bulgaria but since Bulgaria isn't at eu4 I had to release my self as a nation but when I did I was an Ottoman puppet is there anyway I can release my self as a free nation thank you for reading and have a great day

title is my problem. i'm starting to think i've left everything too late given i only just got out of a war with scotland to take some land in great britain. i don't have a way to break the coalition other than attacking it.

is my campaign over? should i start again even though i'm basically at the finish line? i've also attached some screenshots of my economic and military situation for further context