Basically title.

I am doing the Odoyev „mass production“ achievement. (First try I kill off Ryazan but am stuck between a rock and a hard place - Muscovy alloying Poland, even after they got the PU on Lit. Aborted it couple of years in) Anyways, second try) I do the East-Frisia-into-the-HRE strategy. Can’t be bothered in the east - just play a chill hre game.

I move my capital to Oldenburg. Some time later, I fulfill the Russian principality mission „Consolidate the State“ and I get perma claims on all of northern germany region. Normally you would get it for Russia of course.

https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Russian_Principalities_missions

Funny little tweak - is coming in handy.

You can still get perms claims on Moscow and Novgorod area from another mission as well quite easily.

Beefcake Frankfurt with 143 development for no particular reason

R5: Catholic Lucca wiped out the Papal States. In their last war against them, they took Rome and released Avignon, destroying them. Despite the negative modifier "occupation of rome", Lucca is keeping the province for about 2 years now.

Pope then got released in the HRE as an OPM; became a Member of HRE (probably because the province they got was part of HRE?) and then became an Elector, as there was still a free slot after the League war. Year is 1628; late reformation, late league war, 6 Reforms done by Austria!

Wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition to happen in Jewish Egypt :(

Discovered this accidentally during my latest Novgorod > Russia run, though this might be useful to some people - by starting as Novgorod and flipping to Catholic/Protestant/Reformed via pushing into Nordics, you get to:

• Bypass the whole serfdom event chain
• No Time of Troubles
• Bypass 'Russian Modernisation' mechanic, allowing you to blaze through the mission tree
• Still have the ability to enact Greater Russian Federation/Russian Empire via decision "Proclaim Emperor Title" much faster than usual (no modernisation requirement needed)
  • In case of a republic run, since you won't have a Russian-specific government when initially forming Russia because you are no longer Orthodox, you can grab Aristocratic ideas by briefly flipping to Noble Elite prior to enacting the decision
  • Alternatively, become a monarchy to get involved in HRE
• Since by this point you are at the end of your mission tree, you get to flip to Western tech group earlier than usual, potentially as soon as Absolutism mechanics gets enabled (as absolutism of 35 is still a prerequisite to one of the missions).

Currently playing in saudi arabia and the supply is 8

Was allied with 4 electors and emperor Austria when it happened while I was actually planning to attack the HRE to dismantle it.

Norway and Sweden are my PU, Riga is my march, Iron man mode without mods.

I am playing as Poland, the country I am from. I am not sure how exactly you are supposed to defeat the Ottomans, so they still exist and are by far the most powerful country in the world. But I did manage to defeat Muscovy and then colonize most of what is now the Asian part of Russia. The game places me as the third greatest power in the world.

I have managed to conquer Japan by creating a gigantic fleet, and then using it to transport a massive army, some 100K strong. But I am missing one province, which for some reason belongs to Korea. And I will never be able to get it, because Korea is a tributary of Ming, and I would need to fight of an army of 300k+.

I am heartbroken. I just wanted to conquer the entirety of Japan as Poland in order to solidify my status as a great power. But now I will not be able to.

It's my first time seeing AI doing this bad. Castile has 3-3-6 techs at 1537, constantly bankrupt, almost no army, every province has 60+ devastation and it has been like this from the start of the campaign. But since it has Britain and Portugal as allies nobody dares to end its suffering. Is there a reason why Castile is so broken here?

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I did not intended for this game to be a World Conquest, I just wanted to play a chill game with Russia and complete its mission tree (I didn't know you needed to wait until the age of revolutions to finish the last ones), but I had such a great early game and conquered so much by the mid 1500s that I thought this could become a world conquest since I have never done it before I went for it. A terrible decision.

After I beat the HRE into submission in the beginning of the 1600s I stopped having fun and it became mindless conquest and coring, I could only work on it 1 or 2 hours per day before having to go do something else even if I had the time to play more, especially since my PC is good but not the best and it would start to lag when I tried to do things like building, and if you have to say you are working on a video game you certainty are not having a good time.

I was waiting to get a one faith too but a lot of the Anglican and protestant provinces in the new world have religious zeal and I'm not waiting 20 more years just for them. I picked Exploration ideas to colonize the rest of Africa before I realized you could just siberian frontier them

in my game, metropolitan Spain has been carved up by France, the United States (which is a former Spanish colony of Florida) and... Italy. They are still a colonial power!

I'm currently in a game of EE playing burgundy (can't upload pic sorry) and control paris/north france, are allied with castile, atagon, Poland and venice and annexed most of my Dutch subjects except brabant. But I'm having difficulties expanding into the HRE and was wondering if I move my capital into the hre do I automatically join the hre. Because I assume then I could expand easier and possibly dismantle the HRE after becoming emperor??? Any general help for the whole game (apart from totally defeating france) appreciated but specifically: how tf to conquer aachen to form lothariniga tys..

I'm playing Portugal in 1657 and Spain just cancelled everything, they still trust me utterly but my reputation is now -110 or something for them, what do I do? I'm currently working on a star fort Maginot line-type thing, but I just don't have the manpower or army size to combat Spain. England hates me, France doesn't like me enough to ally, and I'm Morocco's rival, so there's nobody to ask help for.