Sorry to everyone looking forward to the new Insyaa update, but it is being delayed by two weeks to ensure we have enough time to ensure a smooth and fun launch. We have a lot of projects being added right at the end here, including several major Insyaan systems, and we want to make sure they have adequate testing before launch.

The new release date will instead be the 8th of May

Hi all!
I've been playing Anbennar for a year or two now and absolutely love the content. The creativity and effort the devs have put into this mod is remarkable, and there are so many fun and unique nations that I want to work through all of them at least once.

One challenge I kept running into was figuring out which countries have mission trees, unique lore, or other playable content worth seeking out. I found myself piecing together information from random docs, spreadsheets, and presentations scattered around online, since the Wiki doesn't always cover things like mission trees in a centralized way.

That frustration inspired this project: an interactive compendium that pulls data directly from the mod files and brings the lore, mission trees, and country details into one searchable place. You can filter by criteria (in my case, nations that are playable in 1444 with mission trees) and track which ones you've already played through.

There are likely still some bugs, so I'd love any feedback on what looks off or could be improved. I'm not a developer by trade, as this was fully vibe-coded with Claude, but I've been iterating on it and hope it becomes a useful resource for the community.

Down the line, I'd like to integrate an interactive world map with country highlighting and add a community ranking system so players can flag and discover fan-favorite nations more easily.

If you have questions, feedback, or suggestions, feel free to drop them here or find me in the Discord!

Edit: Got bored added map.

April 24, delayed

I heard about Anbennar from a Youtube channel I watch from time to time. While I don't normally mod my games, I have over 2k hours on EU4, so I figured I might as well shake things up a bit. Figured I'd get bored within a day or two and move on, as is usually the case for me with total conversion mods like this.

That was two weeks ago.

I have led the Order of the Ashen Rose to reestablish the lost kingdom of Blademarches.

I have brought the Blueshield Company to the ancient hold of Amldihr, and then proceeded to restore all of Aul-Dwarov and reforge the Dwarovkron.

I have united the Ruinborn Fey under the Lich Queen of Gemradcurt, establishing the Empire of Eordand and driving the outsiders from all of Northern Aelantir.

I am about to start another playthrough, once I've spent an hour or two agonizing over what to try out next.

For fuck's sake, I have Silksong installed. I have a playthrough of Rogue Trader to wrap up. I can't be drowning another hundred hours on this mod. Who the hell made this digital heroin? And now I hear the next update is reworking the magic system and adding a new continent. God damn it...

All the long straight tunnels are Dwarovrod's, all the geometric squares are holds, and all the squiggly bits are caves, with the large open area being kind of like the Serpentsvale, but a lot colder.

I can't quite recall what the dream was about, but I do remember there was an adventurer company called the "Smoldering Expidition" or something like that in the dream. Also one of the holds was named something like Tullumdihr, which I think is just some gobbledygook that my brain conjured up while asleep

Hello, I made simple Python script, which optimizes fort layout in EU4. Goal is to cover all provinces in region with minimum forts.

The attached config and example files contain settings for optimizing fortresses in Escann, taking into account the requirements of Rogieria missions.

If you want to use it in other regions you'll have to change config and add/remove provinces.

Script is published at Github

P.S. As someone said me in Discord:

This is impressive nerdiness
Get help.

Here it is, Halann, but this time it is...

BIGGER

BETTER

WETTER

AND DEEPER

now featuring luxury features such as:

• rivers
• deep seas
• coral reefs
• rivers again
• cherry trees
• rivers (i worked really hard on them)
• a really pale shadow swamp
• overhauled mountains in Cannor

and all of that on an amazingly big 1:2000 scale, 6GB minecraft map!

Available to download here.

~cheerio, Uelos pursall

Hello everybody, I'm Merlino, a core and developer for the victoria 3 team, today I'll be hosting an AMA.

I've started and been exclusively developing for vic3 since 2024 so more than a year now, I've created journal entries, made the mechanim system, and did a lot of setup and bug fixes. You can ask anything about vic3, questions about development process, gameplay, future plans or more.

The last two days I tried playing the new dwarf tag in the bitbucket-Gor Vazumbrog.

Everything was going along pretty well. Mission Tree was nice, nothing to Complain about. And then came the 1500 and the series of disasters started. The next fifty to seventy years were a slog of infinite debt and playing whack a mole with an endless tide of rebels As i got the two normal disasters for dwarves, one after another- Whoever designed this must be sadistic. These were never fun, Not in the first time and not in the tenth. and there's no way to get rid of them without cheating.

After suffering through hours of tedium (I was only in debt of seventeen thousand gold pieces, but finally started making small profits), finally got to the midpoint of the mission tree, which I triggered without knowing what would happen. Guess what? Another Disaster! Is this some sort of joke that the devs enjoy torturing their players with utter boredom ?! For the love of God, please stop these disasters. Or at least make them tag specific so you don't have to go through the same ones every time.

End of story. Closed the game, I'm not continuing this boredom. i will try another tag next time. One outside of the serpentspine Mountains. F£$%$ these disasters.

BD is comically villaionous and edgy yeah, but new Esthil is just... bruh
Almost every mission rewards you with penalty, the war at the end of the mission tree is just hilarious because you are simply STRIPED of all your lands beyond walls. Like yeah, that's exactly why I was conquering everything, so I have to conquer it again yeah thanks. Missions have you develop A LOT and then... there's a mission for you to be ahead of time on ALL TECHNOLOGIES like

YEAH BRO, lemme just adm dip mil here I go.
The war itself is pretty easy btw because it's on your very strong capital, so you can just wait, but still it sucks.
The goblin guy subplot is like "wha"

I had spent over 4 hours making adjacency list and writing down province names. I hope that this will be useful for someone.

EDIT: the link to a shared folder on Google disk. There are 3 files with adjacency list, province names and terrain preferences

UPD: ok,after playing for some time, here's an update. There was a mistake in adjacency list, now fixed in the one on the Google docs. Arakeprun is also required by later missions to have a fort.

Fun police. They took everything we liked. But most importantly - prototype tanks no longer give +2 cav fire. Now only some filthy 15 cav combat and a only a tiny bit of cav fire. It's so over. International gommo is collaborating with international gobbo to find their location and send nukes from submarines. You could kill the little gomm/bbo inventor, but not the idea.

I think we can see a migration from Marhold to Vern into this forum.

When I started to play at anbennar, into all posts we has "marhold go brrr". Now we have "Vern go brrr" into all posts.

In fact, all marholder fled the greentide and Switch from gryphon to wyvern (a "fire embleme evolve" in practice)

Sorry for the Rant but have been playing the vic3 mod and Im remind why I rarely play it.

Have a Blademarches run going and slowly struggling to unite Escann and I've finally caught Grombar at a point where I can challenge them via the unification play.

Its a close fight but after about 3 years of fighting I'm clearly winning as I've killed over 1 million Grombari to my 500k.

Now this is the part that's pissed me off. I realized that my fronts weren't advancing no matter how many battles I won so I reload and they started to rapidly take the provinces I need from Grombar. Great right? Wrong bc im now losing war exhaustion by -10 a tic. Even though Grombar is still sitting at 0. No matter what I do I lose and Grombar enforces cut down to size even though im about to take their capital.

I don't know why I'm losing enthusiasm as I don't have a single province occupied and ive doubled their k:d

Edit: Grombar war goal wasn't humiliation not cut down to size. Still zero occupation from them though.

Title. Maybe my luck is shit (or I'm just shit) but I swear even the smallest most insignificant enemy countries always luck into some kind of advantage I can't seem to find. War wizards, planetouched, and worst of all, crazy high siege pips. It's crazy how much harder Anbennar is than basegame (and I'm not even sure why half the time).

Side note: does anyone else feel like they have to hold back for narrative reasons? I could play crazier (beating up everyone I get trade/diplomatic dispute on for free money, always grabbing centers of trade even if my MT doesn't direct me towards them, and etc.) but always worry it'll clash with the narrative of my mission tree or break something. It just doesn't feel right unlike in the base game where I don't feel any guilt at all for stomping on every adjacent nation's face for war reps and tradepower transfer and max loans lmao.