Before clicking "An Absolute Monarchy" I think i did stupid mistake and revoked "The New Middle Class" privilege which should be tied to the modernization mechanic to get the influence lower. The modernization bar is full 100. And when I looked at the conditions of "Great Imperial Ambition" I had the Modernization condition checked, If I remember it right. Did I just break the mission tree?
So I've seen a pop up message where I was told that Afghanistan was steering to attack Chagatai. I, big nation, warned Afghanistan not to deck on Chaghatai, and they still decked them and I joined the war. now interesting part is, Afghanistan is allied with the Ottomans and they are not in the war and the alliance is not broken. like it sounds as if Afghanistan hasn't been warned and thought they could do it on their own but the game didn't respond fast enough to the warning. or is it just random? it's been a while since the war started, the ottomans didn't still join and even have started their war
I decided to give Novgorod a try in forming Russia. it was very slow because me vs muscovy is just 1:4 + it is xorme ai. allying poland did help but muscovy had annoying allies like denmark. i couldn't tell if sweds would be loyal because it was just plc supporting independence of them. also poland decided to step up for the czechs in their succession war against Austria so Austria won them and took their provinces in poland and pu'd bohemia so it only crippled them so hard that the ottomans after decided to attack PLC, and it was a mistake, i guess, but i declined the call in for arms. so now poland won't ally back. while i was doing all my wars with the muscovy, the ottomans also warred them so i couldn't get at least half of astrakhan. idk if poland would still ally me even i theoretically own all of provinces muscovy as taken. i can attack the hordes but because i simply have no good allies, no one wants to ally, max improved with everyone, including austria, timmies, france, spain, brits.
so far ideas taken quantity->trade->religious but as i see, i made mistake too cuz i had to get diplomatic idea to rush province warscore and maybe good allies. now sweds, poles are my threat. ottomans could also become threat too, they don't have claims yet but better have a knife behind your back, right now they don't want my provinces.
is that a restart? i don't think it's possible to even play with xorme ai on this nation, the ottomans at least will be pushing too aggressively until i have no provinces to eat left out.
There was an "Anjala League" event which has allowed me to finance the finnish rebels against the sweds during the Russo-Swedish war. they decided to stay here in Finland and now I have no other rebels than "these". so surprise surprise, I have to now navigate the enemies into pathfinding to kill these rebels because how will i else raise crownlands and absolutism? Concluded, never finance rebels
I am sorry that I put screenshot like this without doing it with special image way.
1st try of Teutons was Prussian Kingdom MT path which means you have to deal with the emperor. I deathwarred against Bohemia-Poland-Lithania union, all allies rejected. i quitted after declaring bankruptcy because I forgot to finish coring up and have no morale against rebels.
2nd try here, it's HRE Conquest path. Austria broke alliance with me, not sure of the pattern of how it desires or abandons claims but it just picked aggressive HRE conquest path and against whom I deathwarred just for money. now Poland decks on me, I still got 2x more combined troops but not sure how Spain will protect me. I don't want to deal with loans and bankruptcy again (is it not as bad as it looks?)
now I just think that I should form Prussia diplomatically before tech 10 with HRE diplomacy MT path, my army is just too weak against Scandinavians, Muscovites, PLC and Austria and so is economy which I couldn't make stronger just because piece of s**t Austria called me into his stupid dangerous wars after every loan repayment. also, i was trying to get into pomeriania region but they were allied with Poland and no ally would help me. so i tried to expand into saxony region for a while but exactly at this point the chain of defensive wars has begun.
ideas picked: offensive, espionage
I have like 27 loans of 4k ducats. is bankruptcy not as bad as it looks like? i am just fearing austrians decking on me again after peace agreement expiration because if PLC decked on me while being 2x less troops than combined of my allied forces, why wouldn't austria?
When I joined the HRE at the start of the game, I joined with no restrictions whatsoever. I picked Prussian Kingdom mission tree path, and have never manually left the empire. Decked on Poland and got my initial batch of claimed provinces. Now I look at Austria and have that ugly modifier "Left the Empire". Is it because I have Prussian Kingdom path or is it because I am now strong enough to protect myself from Poland?
I tried everything, PI, indulgency, relationship improving, Pope's rival scornful insult, making Pope stop rival me in the peace deal and give up all the claims it has on me but he just keeps rivaling me again, for the 4th time. I know that even with trying it is still completely RNG to become Papal controller, but are there any tricks to become one faster? otherwise, for God's sake, that delusional fanatic just destroys all my efforts. I've never been rivaled by Pope as other nations playing in Italy like in this playthrough but Florence is just no. 1 guy to rival for Pope ALWAYS even with indulgences I've took my loans for. are there any tricks or exploits?
I am having England->Angevin run. I made a little bit of mistake not taking french provinces so that they have less than 40 provinces or so, which would make me insta integrate them and form Angevin but i don't see any other way than to start a light war, intentionally lose french provinces but i am not sure how angry would that make France, they still have high LD from events and actions. should i just integrate them or it is actually doable and lose in a war intentionally?
what happens if i support independence of french colonies in America? if a colony starts independence war will the PU arrangement get dissolved and war begin?
got transoxiana's back in this war but suddenly I realize that just 3 out of his are not fighting with us and only Khorasan does. they are all loyal, but that doesn't do anything anyways cuz vassal automaton joins overlord's war. bug? Timmies are also fighting against Luristan and all of them are in
Fr*nce got PU'd by a freaking Denmark and then Austria with its Bohemian and Burgundian PUs decked on Denmark. well France got punished for being bad boy but guess what, who is forming Spain?
I am having my game lagging and throwing pop up windows telling whether to exit the game or wait. But it happens WAY too often this campaign, idk if it has to do something with late game (1650s) mechanics. It doesn't matter, speed 1, 3, 5 doesn't matter. It happened 2 times in my entire EU4 interaction, idk if it is related but both gameplays lagged in HRE games so I guess if player plays in a dense region like HRE it's laggy and if it is AI it is less? Or is it just random? That's even with all other background applications are closed, running only EU4 cause my laptop is very ancient. That's even with Fast Universalis, less graffic demanding settings. Part of me thinks that given above it shouldn't be related to my laptop but to the behavior of the game, its engine?
I want to check the logs, files or maybe bugs for that, any help would be appreciated cause I don't want to abandon the campaign I am currently playing.
I have seen other people having maybe the same problem, not sure if the type of lags are the same but even some people would have completely good CPU and some couldn't play past 1650, some could. Another reason why I consider it shouldn't be about the resources but game engine
I know it's HRE members, Prussia, little bit of Netherlands too, but like those all are about gov cap, high AE or existing territorial claims in other regions (Indonesia for Netherlands). But I'd want to challenge myself to still stand without changing my territories (potentially fall off of great power rank). the only nation that I've heard about is Riga which i guess encourages you to play within livonian order borders?
what other nations also have really nice missions that change the goods prices while playing tall like in case of Persia with silk and cloth?
trying hussite Bohemia (Europa Expanded Mod family) in the beginning, i tried to PU Hungary by conquering but they were doing good diplomacy and had very strong allies (France, Denmark, minors). we rivaled each other but i guess they had some succession crisis or something and got PU'ed by me. their development is very big, twice of mine. i am devving his province, improving relationships but i feel its not gonna be worth it. Austria has 70k vs my 40k, Hungarians have 50k but i will try to sit over force limit as much as i economically can.
should i abandon this PU, conquer until our devs and economy are equal or there are workarounds to make richer PUs loyal? i am just scared of someone granting independence to Hungary which will further only make loyalty unmanageable at all. that's my first time working with PUs and I have no idea not deep ideas how it works so any tip would be nice to hear
mamluks being military gigachad this campaign annihilated ottomans, formed rum. i was wondering why it didn't form egypt tho
i have just finished repairing ships, naval battle or upgrade, not important, yet still the number is going down. even with ships being in the dock, just 20 of VOC just protecting the english node. normally, i do not build dock buildings because it is the most useless building in my opinion, but i almost finished building all of it, all across home, indonesia, africa. how do you stay fresh with ships for multi-continental fights? how do i know the actual rate of growth of sailors, like in pic 1 it is said i gain 1200ish sailors a month, but in reality it actually is decreasing. how the hell does that even work, how do i determine the true growth of sailors?
i was having netherlands run and i guess i made my jump into India way too early when i am too weak. now bahmanis have just occupied all of ceylon because my dumb ass forgot to leave enough ships dominate in the navy and i couldn't make in time to get there to unsiege province. now i am thinking if i can wait for too long so that bahmanis would get tried of the war. the current peace deal doesn't suit me cuz that mf wants to split my whole home into nations. is it possible to come to draw if i am losing to ticking score?
Castile got gangbanged by Aragon and Navarra (vassal of France) so badly they are even warned to not expand south by Aragon. RIP Trastamara
back when i was catholic everything was alright, austria could join in but now i can't even do anything? ducal prussia is poles' march, and yeah, lithuanians and poles rival each other
So let's say in scenario like this, if i have no quality nor quantity against offensive enemy, the only winning option for me is just somehow deceive them. strait trick is obvious but they will likely go just for nile first. should i mothball the closest to the ottoman's borders fort, once a stack enters, swiftly close the fort and wipe it and repeat, as the ottomans' stack will be inside forts triange? or the garrison won't fill in quick anyways, or they will still carpet siege inactive fort? i have no problems with fighting the ottomans, i have iberians, it's just they are stuck in milan area so i have to buy time while being productive in destroying their manpower.
i don't have ramparts at the borders and, yeah, i didn't think ottomans will quickly declare war after that alliance break so i had no money nor time to build it. how would you defend the borders other than with strait?
