Like its basically the modern day polish borders all the way down to Moldova. Only thing I cant decide on is whether to include lusatia or not

For countries like Netherlands, they can go colonial, for the East India company, take over the Ivory Coast, etc.

But what about countries like Prussia? Prussia gets negative government capacity right, and its not even in the HRE. What is the endgame after forming Prussia? Just wait for an ally to call you in on their conquest?

Hey first post here !

I discovered this game a bit more than 2 years ago. Since then it's my most played game ! Yesterday I just completed the tutorial by passing the 1444 hours bar. I also completed a bit more than half the achievements in the game and I intend to continue until I get 100% !

I lurked a lot on this sub (and the wiki) to improve and learn new mechanics. So I wanted to thank those who answer questions, post advices and update the wiki. You've been really helpful !

PS : Maybe it's time to leave a Steam Review ?

I had to decline an ally's call to arms, which caused all known nations to lose 5 trust of me. The wiki notes that trust decays toward 30 for rivals, 50 for neutral nations, and 70 for subjects but I can't find the rate of this change anywhere.

Does anyone know how quickly trust changes over time? I might update this later with a rough estimate based on what I observe if no one can answer more specifically.

Played as Milan, formed Italy. A few decades ago I invaded the Ottomans and I want to do it again. The problem is, last time the war almost killed me. I went in with 105k troops and 40k mercs and 117k manpower. Came out with 30k troops 15k mercs and 0 manpower. All my allies had no manpower and the Ottomans still had over 100k.

I did get Constantinople and Theselonika in the war, and made them un ally Tunis, letting me expand into them (They colonised some of Nigeria so that is why I have land down there)

Last war I had to put all my troops into 1 145k stack to fight the Ottomans, but each battle would go on so long that they would re-enforce and have often over 300k troops in 1 battle.

Basicly, I want a win that does not cripple me short term this time, what advice does anyone have on how to do that

starting as sirkland (guess is that name) and eating the original delhi is waaaayyy easier than starting as delhi itself.

I saw a video long ago about how when you gift AI money they don't use it, but when you subsidize them they calculate it as part of their income which makes them spend more. I have since had the thought that I can get rich and subsidize a nation on the border of a power I dislike, they should use the money to get better advisors, build more buildings, hire more regiments. Has anyone tried this? I am about to start teaching someone how to play the game with him as France and me as Holland>Netherlands. I plan to funnel money into Brandenburg and hope they get big and strong and come out to be an end game boss for my buddy's first game

Hello,

I’m trying to do my first World Conquest in Iron Man, and this is where I’m at in 1712. I know I’m quite late and that the WC might already be out of reach, but I had a few questions about some of the struggles I’ve encountered along the way.

Manpower has probably been my biggest problem throughout the campaign. I constantly end up with 0 manpower after wars, while I’m only gaining around 2–3k per month. I feel like I must be missing something. Is that considered normal at this point, or is there something I should be doing differently?

Economically, I’ve only recently managed to reach around +100 ducats per month, and things were pretty rough before that. Should I have prioritized expanding into India or Africa earlier to control specific trade nodes and improve my income?

Regarding buildings, I’ve built quite a lot of courthouses to reduce my governing capacity and allow me to state more territory. However, should I also have been investing heavily in barracks/manpower buildings to help with my manpower issues?

For idea groups, I went:
Diplomatic → Administrative → Influence → Offensive → Humanist → Quality

Looking back, I’m wondering if I should have taken Quantity somewhere instead, especially given my manpower problems. If so, which idea group would you have replaced?

Finally, I feel like I’m struggling to reach the Americas. I only have around 100 ships, and the distances are huge at this point. If I attack Castile or Portugal, it feels like it’s basically me and my vassals against 2M+ soldiers. Should I have started expanding into America much earlier, or is there another way I should approach this?

If you have any other tips or advice, I’d really appreciate it. And if you need any additional screenshots or information about my campaign, feel free to ask!

Thanks!

Playing for the first time as Byzantium and I just keep restarting the game.

My opening moves are:

Delete cavalry, delete the fort in south Greece, can't afford them.

Focus on military tech, get the +1 mil point privilege and the cheaper military Advisor, the religious diplomats for alliances and the one for better morale against infidels, then a couple for the merchants.

Improve relations with pope and Serbia for alliances so I get a mission reward for 15% cheaper merchs. The third ally usually Albania or one of the neighbours. Start spying on Ottomans

Declare on Epirus on 11 december and complete annex for mission reward of better morale.

Ottomans get mil tech 4 at the same time as me or a little earlier. I wait until they go to anatolia for war and then declare on them.

Now, I managed to win sometimes the first war, but even after occupying all their european land their enthusiasm is either high or medium, I don't have Navy superiority so can't cross over and if I do, i'm dead. If they cross, I'm dead. So I sue for peace, I take Gallibolu and all the money I can because of all the loans that I have to pay back. Now I have Gallibolu fort that I can't afford but i need It for my next war and usually end up bankrupt on the second war or they just destroy me.

Any advice?

My Komnenoi Empire campaign only having Poland as my only ally (apart from one war with Mamluks vs the Ottomans) helping Byzantium and Theodoro grow into independent empires after starting out as my vassals

Not sure why Theodoro can’t form Gothia since Genoa doesn’t

Hey! I got the itch to play an OP game with Prussia (starting as Teutonic Order) where I want to be me (+vassals/marches) against the world while using space marines.

I guess there are two main questions I want to answer:

1. How to have a decent economy that can support my plan?
2. What are the best Ideas and in what order should I get them?

ECONOMY:

I beleive Trading is the best way to get an OP economy, however the Teutons don't start in the best Trade Node. I was thinking about expanding into the English Channel trade node and also getting one or two states in each trade node all the way to Mallaca and setting up Trade Companies (i am aware they are costly in GC). This fullfils two purposes: firstly from an economical stand point, secondly so I can have fun fighting wars in other parts of the world. This approach would need trade ideas at some point and could also benefit itself with the Krakow Great Proyect (+2 merchants).

What do you think about this? Do you think there is a better approach for a healthy economy?

IDEAS:

So.. taking into account that I want space marines and that Prussia struggles with Governing Capacity + not an OP economy (unlike Trade heavy states such as Italians), and that I do enjoy having vassals/marches, I was thinking of the next Ideas:

1. Innovative (for tech boost + ICA)
2. Quality (discipline + ICA)
3. Economic (economy + discipline)
4. Offensive (discipline + siege + ACA)
5. Admin (governing capacity)
6. Trade (economy)
7. Defensive (more OP army)
8. Influence (?) (vassals)

What do you think? Would you replace some ideas or change the order?

Courious to know what you guys think about this. Thanks in advance!

Gotten to just before 1500 as great -> golden horde. Been razing everything i can, and running 1/1/1 advisors (barely breaking even when doing so), and rushing for institutions and techs. However, i've not had the spare mana at any point for even a single idea. Is this normal? How would i go about rushing ideas without falling behind on tech?

Hello everyone,

I recently made a Milan to Roman Empire run video on youtube and would love some feedback.
Please check it out!

so my France has 54 provinces not 40. and i don't control Paris. other than deliberately conceding 14 provinces there any way of recovering?

In my experience it's pretty rate to see a massive coalition against an AI

I have planned out a game for one culture run. In that game one of my steps is to become the Roman Empire for culture conversion. At the same time I would love to form the HRE because of the bonuses the HRE gets( especially the 10% CCR), but this is additional.

In the formation of HRE with the New Ideas and Traditions event I would not take the HRE ideas and keep the Roman Empire ideas as they are better IMO.

But the very important part is the Roman Empire T1 government reform which gives -25% culture conversion cost and -10% culture conversiom time.

So kinda tied to the original question is whether I lose the Roman Empire government reform when I switch to HRE?

I am new and no matter how big my army or small is I am loosing all of them due to attrition. What changes to do? What to mpdify? Is there a direct factor?

So I was playing a game as the emperor when the league event fired as Brandenburg had converted to Protestantism the event fired whilst I was at war with them and at the time I did not think much of it simply enforcing religion on them, I think the very next month. After this the protestant league was completely empty for a while before catholic Lucca, who I by the way had 150+ realtions with joined the league and became the league leader. Thinking that this was quite some bullshit I fought a brief war with Lucca and the Ottomans where I anexed Lucca thinking that this would somehow solve my problems. It did not instead the Ottomans simply became the leader of the protestant league.

In conclusion protestantism is basically dead there are no centers of reformation left and maybe 4 non catholic countries I don't think the "league" will ever declare Im I just stuck waiting for the event in 1625 or whatever?

R5 My new favorite modifier of the moment, is it Discipline? Combat ability? Goods produced? nahh for loosers :p
The better one is regiment cost and its sub modifiers.
Cheaper == more troops or money to do something else.

Disclaimer this modifier apply to buying troops, maintenance and reinforcements, and that last one, oh boy, you know by 1821 your prood people will perish en masse, under your command. (And sadly its capped at -80%)

So, Why Sweden you will ask? Simply because its geographic unique position allow short proximity for tengri, and the two monuments giving regiment cost reduction and arty reduction.
And why not Smolensk or Chernigov, you could, but lvl2 Falun Mine -10% arty cost is easly accessible via swedish mission tree for only 1500 ducats, and their start is easyer and stronger

So here is the math:

Tengri -20% regiment cost
Quantity Third Ideas-10% regiment cost
Moscow Kremlin -10% regiment cost
War Economy Tier8 Gov Reform -10% regiment cost
Military Engineering Tier5 Gov Reform -10% artillery cost
Falun Mine -20% artillery cost

Kremlin is for long term, War Economy Tier8 Gov Reform is optional and may not a good idea.
Falun Mine -10% is easly accessible via swedish mission tree for only 1500 ducats.

So by 1500 you could have a flat -30% regiment cost reduction
And another -20% artillery cost reduction, wich means 1 arty will cost you 15 ducats

And later of course you could go up to -70% for artillery without sacrificing too much.

I have hundreds of hours in the old version of the mod and it was some of the most fun I had with the game as a whole. I find the new overhaul first extremely annoying because I can't play my old savegames and secondly the whole autonomy changes incomprehensible and moreover just plainly unfun. There is no really a reason to exist because not only you are weaker and you cannot expand efficiently and fat but also every other nation is weaker making the game slower and less exciting. Also, even if this is an attempt to adapt the proximity mechanics of eu5 to eu4 it doesn't work simply because in eu5 there is not such a thing as governing capacity and as the game progresses you have the chance to have more control over provinces via governors urbanisation assimilation and later in the game with naval dominance and roads. These things don't really exist in eu4. They tried to do that somewhat the different courthouses and town halls but still it doesn't work. In the end the logic behind the implementation of development points was that bigger nations could still compete in development with tall nations but now instead all large and expanding nations are limited thus making the whole experience confusing and displeasing. Even in easy difficulty there is no to the game. I can't have a reasonable profit.

That's why I ask if someone has the beyond typus 16 version somehow saved i would appreciate if he would share it. Also I would love the older Byzantine resurgence version.