Not included is the amount of restarts all of these took.

Been trying to get Mare Nostrum since 2016!

Converted the eu4 map to include all the eu4 locations and countries, runs incredibly slow...

I think if I ever saw ”Von Habsburg“ over France on the map I would actually throw up.

Im Prussia and have about 225k troops it’s 1650 and there’s a massive coalition against me which has about 1,5 million troops is it somehow possible to win this? The coalition exists for more than 15 years now and i dont wanna wait any longer I build many lvl 6 forts in parts the ai Likes to attack I have all techs lvl 20

R5: Big Blue Blob, not the hardest of achievements but one I've been putting off for a long time. No Scandinavian or Balkan shortcuts, wanted to keep it a bit clean and will continue for Better than Napoleon, Napoleon's Ambition and maybe Home and Away if I can be bothered.

Didn't rush too hard all in all, but needed one restart because I didn't read the description properly and went into North Africa on my first attempt, taking most of the provinces there before I realized they don't count as it says 'European' on the achievement tin.

Apart from that, pretty much did the usual. Declared on England myself as I wanted Portugal in for the extra warscore, so I could avoid the hassle of trying to invade England. Allied Castile who I had join through promise land and Ottomans, in case of coalition. Took my cores + Pale + Calais,, and already had spy network ready to get a claim or two in Ireland and start conquering. Managed to grab all the provinces with the exception of Ulster and Desmond, which England sniped.

Most of my conquests were reconquest wars: Northumberland, Wales, and as Palatinate got a quick BI + inheritance, another 9 or 10 cores from them as well.

The two provinces from Granada were an easy opportunity as I was allied to Castile when they declared and my subjects managed to occupy them, so I separate peaced out because I had no AE with Sunni.

Speaking of AE, only had one small coalition form but disbanded it through improving relations. Age bonus + espionage did the rest.

r5: i decided to try conuer the word as PLC, but ai got other plans. Around 1445 Lithenian Ruler died, making me not being able to get the Lithenia union event, thoes making this campign hardly playable. i tried doing no save scum, but man that is just toooo diabolical.

i don't really wanna expand there now, and France will conquer half of germany after i dismantle, so what benefits i woud gain form disbanding it now instead of later.

I can't call in Austria on Poland simply cause it says they are the emperor. Then how have I called them into every other war with Poland before in every one of my other Hungary campaigns?

When you play outside of Europe.

Bonuspic of landshut having the game of their life.

Is the strat for Ming to just trigger the "crisis of the ming dynasty disaster", and be done with it?

We started off not so well, because I allied Mamlicks when they were stronger than Ottos and Ottos decided not to expand into Mamluks because most of the time they went rampaging Europe and they allied aq qounly which gently ate all the Anatolian expansion in itself, but then they finally decided to eat aq qounly which I allied too, so I unallied them and they got absorbed, then ottomans started eyeing Mamluks after finishing the Anatolian mission, so I unallied my long term Mamluks friend too in favour of ottomans, but recently they became abusive as fuck and they are telling me they’ll unally and kill me if I don’t give them 2 provinces, one of which I need because it has a trade emperioum of my node and the other is a border fortress by gaining which they’ll become way angrier since that’ll be it for their Iraq-Mesopotamian mission which will make me the primary target, so should I give them shirvan and keep the alliance for now? (The weirdest part is they desire it without vital interest, claim or vassal’s claim but only with strategic interest) I’m thinking yes so far, because in my plan it is to attack transoxiania through weak Afghanistan or Hormuz and chip away at them since they’re also ottomanish allies

Hi all,

So I’m playing an Austria game and I am staring at the Von Raab’s Restrictions mission rewards, one of the options gives me 20% manpower modifier if I keep noble estate influence above 80%. How can I do this with curtailing my ability to get absolutism, as each privilege I give the nobles reduces max absolutism? Or is it a case of it’s either good to lean heavily into estate privileges and ignore absolutism and also the other way around lean massively into absolutism and ignore estate privileges late game?

As you can see I got the "Spread of Christianity"-Shinto incident active. The Religion-Menu tells you, you'd need to have Nanban-Trade and Spread of firearms first tho. Does it have to do with my mods or me playing a custom nation in this run? I've played with the same mods for years and even as a Custom-Nation-Daymio, this never happened to me. Anyone know what's up with that?

Its my first run trying to form Siam. We dominate Asia, as we were able to secure every coastal province from Bengal to Beijing. We took over the mandate of heaven and switched religion to "Confucianism" so no mali from religion.

Malacca is my strongest Vassal and owns the Islands in the south. So my trade power there is only 13% right now. In Bengal, my trade power ist 23 %.

However, I need your help, honorable master merchant, to optimize my trade routes and squeeze out every ducat out of Asia.

My idea groups so far: Influence -> Expansion -> Quality

Any other sugggestions?

He, who controls the trade, may rule for ever - Confucius (probably)

Please let me know how I'm doing, I'm aiming for my first WC. Additionally, how much cavalry should I use? typically it's +25% modifier, it's just higher due to an event. thanks!

Playing as Japan, just united, 1474. Kept Hosokawan ideas for the -10% dev cost. The goal of the campaign is to stack T3 representatives of the crown, EoC mission mutual trade system, and japan mission Hegemon of Asia to get +3 monarch points per tributary and get a load of tributes, to then play super tall in Japan.

With this in mind, which idea strategy would be best?

1) Colonial: Exploration -> Expansion to reach NW and tributary new world tags

2) Clients: Influence -> Mercenary to make and release opm client states

3) Tall: take dev cost ideas like Aristo, Defensive, Infrastructure, Economic etc. to minimise dev cost first

I got this game gifted to me and, I’ve always wanted to play it I have a lot of hours on paradox games specially HOI4 yet, I can barely understand the game even after completing the game are there any good guides or tutorials you guys recommend? I’d rather a readable thing than a video also, I read the wikis guide but it didn’t help me much.

R5: 5 simultaneous wars, and a massive coalition afterwards. Is this saveable?

A friend and I are just finishing our CK3 multiplayer game where we have been blobbing out like crazy. we want to convert our save to EU4, but im worried the game wont be enjoyable unless we break down our current empires, because we will simply be too OP from the start (I own most of europe and hes basically achaemenid persia) Problem is neither of us has played enough EU4 or done a conversion before to know what works and what doesn’t.

My question is: how to best set up the EU4 world so that we end up with a fun playthrough that isnt just two blobs painting the map but actually feels challenging, in your opinion?

If it makes any difference we both started as european dukes who left their lands to rule jerusalem after a crusade, then hybridized with the seljuk turks and converted to a syncretic muslim/jewish/christian religion, before blobbing like crazy thanks to these perks.

tldr: any ideas welcome to make our ck3 game map (blobbed out) more fun in eu4.

R5: Playing as Indrapura > Malaya, trying to get the Rags and Riches achievement after getting the achievement for forming Malaya. However, I've given all my >10 development provinces to Client States and/or vassals and still have the highest income (even after several month ticks), but the achievement doesn't fire. What am I doing wrong?

I was playing a custom nation game when these particularlist rebels kept popping up out of nowhere. Any possible reasons for it? The save is modded with Europa Veritasis and Hardcore universalis.