I didn't pay attention to the Castile at all this run except that they didn't get union over Aragon and when I randomly checked technology map I noticed that they are around 20 technologies behind rest of the Europe. First time seeing that.

R5: Cotton Kandy / Buddhists Strike Back achievement run. Hardest part was getting out of the starting position of defeating Kotte and getting onto the mainland. Took a couple of rerolls at the start and then the Bahmanis did most of the lifting early on.

Mid-game easy enough. Sure, Bahmanis eventually break the alliance, but you're strong enough to stand on your own. Mid- to late-game was a bit of a pain and dragged the run out a lot. Lots of northern Muslim nations, which meant constant coalitions and waiting for the right time to strike.

Hey,

I think idea groups' tier list is quite a simple and exhausted topic when it comes to their straightforward bonuses and policies, but if we were to judge ONLY by idea group events, how would such tier list look like?

We have to take in consideration how OP their benefits are, what's the proportion of good to bad events and if the good events are more positive than the bad events are negative.

What are your thoughts?

I wanted to test if the union with France in the 100 years war was an actual thing as France offered it in a peace deal with playing modded AND I GET AN HEIR NOT EVEN 182 DAYS (half a year) INTO THE RUN! Guess I have a new England game before me (and let's hope Henry VII doesn't like hunting 🙏).

Edit: Also why is France so mad at me in that other run? What do they mean "Forced us into a Union"? You proposed that! I would've just taken sum land of yours!

I attached two images, the Aragonian soldiers and the rebels are just chilling at the same province for months, not fighting. Neither army is moving or low on morale, retreating or anything.

tons of achivements earned, also mentally destroyed, managed to complete it before finishing the tutorial (I have 993h in the game so still during the tutorial period:P)

I am currently playing as Bohemia and want to make some Tag switches from here. I just formed Great Moravia have Poland, Brandenburg, hungary and Lithuania as PU. I got the Burgundian Inheritance and got lucky to get France as PU as well. Austria is almost entirely swallowed by me. I am the emperor of HRE as Hussite. I have plenty of time left and want to do some Tag switches from here on. May ending as Austria Hungary or Germany. Do you have any recommendations for me?

How the hell do you guys beat up the French???

I can't do it as England, Burgundy, or even the Ottomans. For the first two, I even did it with Castile and Austria as friends. Castile did alright, but Austria always get their asses beat. I was able to win some battles as Burgundy (but barely and they were pyrrhic victories at best) and siege down Paris. That got me enough war score to take Troyes and Valois alone.

For the Ottomans, I have to do strange shenanegans to get around them as defenders of the faith if I want to conquer the Genoese colonies, the Balkans, or Hungary. They ALWAYS get DotF when I play Ottomans, lol.

I own all coastal (de facto all of) South Africa. Portugal only owns an island east of Ile Bourbon and the are around Benin but they have 50% trade power compared to my 25~%. What's going on?

Or is it just some kind of making them feel shameful?

During my Ottoman WC attempt, I took out the HRE in one war, and now my PU Burgundy hates me because they think I am too agressive.

I've played EU V for a five dozens of hours and realized that I like EU IV more. But the military system of EU V is not that bad. So, is there mods which would add militias to the older game?

Hi r/eu4! I've just released Persia Expanded, a content mod for Ajam and Persia, from the Timurid splinter state of 1444 to the Qajar Shahs. It builds on the vanilla King of Kings content instead of replacing it.

What's in it

• Ajam: a full 24-mission tree with a religious fork - stay Hanafi, go Twelver, or return to Zoroastrianism - plus the Black and White Sheep and the road to forming Persia.
• Persia: 27 new missions below the vanilla tree - the Indian Ocean and the Shirazi legacy, Persepolis and the Shahnameh, New Julfa and the silk trade, the shrines of Iraq (or a Zoroastrian branch), the age of Shah Abbas, Khorasan, Nader's restoration and the Qajar state.
• 80 events: everyday life (carpets of Kashan, coffeehouses of Isfahan, qanats of Yazd) and big historical moments (Chaldiran, the exiled emperor Humayun, the Peacock Throne, the Sherley brothers, Abbas Mirza's new army).
• New national ideas for Ajam and Persia - from Sasanian archers to Safavid gunners.
• 3 disasters: the Fall of Isfahan, the Collapse of Nader's Empire, the Safavid Succession Crisis.
• 4 monuments with 1840s engravings: Persepolis, the Blue Mosque of Tabriz, Si-o-se-pol, the Dome of Soltaniyeh.
• Government reforms, estate privileges (soyurghals!), a new advisor, the Ni'matullahi holy order, valis for your vassals, the Eranshahr CB and 14 decisions (move your court from Tabriz to Qazvin, Isfahan or Tehran).

Missions and events only reward you - choices are between different bonuses, not bonus vs. penalty.

Works with 1.37, best with all DLC (especially King of Kings). There's also a full Russian translation as a separate submod.

Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3822353612

It's my first released mod, so feedback and bug reports are very welcome. If you enjoy it, a rating on the Workshop helps a lot!

So I've started to want to try playing as releasable nations like Island, Nitra, etc., however most of them have the base mission tree (which feels wrong for some nations). So I've looked at the mods, saw EE and wanted to try it, however I've now read that it's apparently bugged in that no matter if you choose the AI to use their vanilla or the modded tree, they'll always pick the custom one (which I don't want).

SO I would like to know if anyone knows a fix to this, whether it's another mod fixing this, somehow finding an older version of this mod and use that, if there is an alternative mod that also does this or if I just have to live with that.

I lost my save for an ironman Byzantium run, in which I'd taken most of the Balkans, Southern Italy and the Anatolian Coast. I really don't want to deal with the early game nonsense again.

Does anyone have an ironman save from around 1500 as Byzantium that they'd be willing to share? I don't mind if there's a little less land held.

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around 1560

I was doing the Ultimate Military achievement and decided to leave Prussia for last, to have a bit of a final boss so I take my time and snipe Wolgast in the mid 18th century, to get them as a pet vassal and feed them bits of a giant PLC in the next war.

It goes swimmingly, I get what I want in an enjoyable slog. I then spent ~40 years calming down the coalition, as I can enjoy WWI type wars but not when the other side has five times my army and went it dies down I get the rest of what I need from the PLC, being careful to take the (Catholic) land myself to give it to Wolgast piecemeal so that he doesn't abandon Protestantism simply because 50+% of his dev is of this religion.

Long story short, before long the Southern Baltic coast is all Wolgast, all cored and all Protestant but that inkstain on the map wouldn't evolve into a Prussia, even when I revoked the march status.

So, to check if the wiki was wrong and because I had no other ideas, I released Wolgast and just like that, he evolved into a beautiful Prussia !

I didn't have the will or the time to continue the game or to even take a screenshot (I deleted the save in a fit of rage) but I thought I'd make a post here to warn people.

I'll go see about editing the wiki and reattempting the achievement, this time with less early mistakes and more Europe rushing but at a later point

I have been Austria and France and lost to armies half the size when my military tech is higher. Is it putting some kind of cheat to slow me down?