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I'm doing a casual Uzbek run at the moment. My original aim was Uzbek > Bukhara > Yuan > Mongol Empire; my conquests into Persia were delayed because of very strong Timurids, but expansion east has been pretty much a breeze with the Ming imploding without my help, and I'm now close to all provinces needed to form Yuan. However, I noticed that in order to actually take the Mandate, I have to be in the Pagan or Eastern religious groups. Now I'm not a big expert on EU4 mechanics (I only have a little less than 1,000 hours in the game...), so I was wondering if anyone could help me with flipping my religion. Do I really have to just rile up some Tengri rebels and let them siege everything until they can enforce demands?

Was trying to determine whether Naval Idea Heavy Ship vs Naval Idea Galley in an inland sea before realising that I don't know what it actually buffs. Does it effect the flat damage after a roll or something?

Hi everyone I want to finally try and form Rome and get the achievement for owning the coastline of the Mediterranean. What the easiest country and best way to go about doing it? I was thinking Ottomans maybe and converting to Christianity to form it? Any help and advice on how to do this would be great thanks.

I just wondered why. Most dynasties have an "of" in their name or the equivalent meaning (de, di, van, von etc.) - so has anyone an idea why the English dynasties are not called "of Lancaster" or "of York"?

Mughal game, 1697, half of the world already sunni (I assume). On track to WC on maybe 1730-1740s. Maybe less if I really try hard. Is waiting for enlightenment to maybe start culture conversion so I have net yet convert a single province.

Questions are,

Is it possible to do it before end date after I get enlightenment? Should I had start earlier?

What is the bottleneck of culture conversion (diplo mana or time?)?

Is there an efficient technique to use when culture conversion (like start spread out so you can get neighbor bonus)?

My situation is the following:

Playing as Kingdom of Milan, on the lower end of the great power list. I usually play tall, so my lands are basically northern Italy and a few caribbean beaches. I am on equal military tech level with most other powers. My total army is about 75k-ish big.

The year is around 1620, and the Ottomans pretty much gobbled up the Carpathian basin. They are fighting wars with the Gurkhans on the east- a fact that I wanted to abuse to annoy them. However, if I accept an invitation to war against them, they easily push me back with two armies by the total size of around 60k.

The question: is there any way in the game to use espionage or something similar to dismantle/weaken the Ottomans? Supporting rebels in this game always seemed to me as a waste of money, as it never produces any significant result.

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So I was going for the usual dilo vassals in a divided Italy after the Empire retreats, but I got super lucky to snipe Genoa, Naples, Savoy and Venice, all of which had been reduced to OPMs and thus make for great reconquest vassals. Basically took all of Italy without any AE.

Also, excuse the French language in the game, but I think it flavourful when playing France.

hello, I was wondering what playing Ming is like. I have around 800 hours in EU four and I have only ever played in Europe. Does Ming have a good mission tree/flavor? Do they have any interesting formables?

I’m looking for a campaign that is kind of like unifying all of Asia and I’m not really into creating a bunch of tributaries. I mainly want to focus on spreading Chinese culture and unifying east Asia under one nation.

Is Ming the best nation to do this with?

Suddenly feeling like getting back into this game and thought I’d start a new campaign tonight. I’m definitely a casual (have a few hundred hours but most of those are failed/abandoned runs). Not into WCs or crazy achievement runs but I just enjoy building a big, powerful empire. There are a couple runs I’m feeling like doing, mainly Austria and Timurids —> Mughals but I’m also very open to other semi-beginner friendly options. Any advice for a good opening with either of those 2, or another country/strategy you think would make for a fun run? I really enjoy playing in the Middle East but I’m really open to anywhere in the old world for this one

First ever EU4 game as Portugal (2016)

Most recent EU4 game as Portugal (2026)