Not included is the amount of restarts all of these took.

Been trying to get Mare Nostrum since 2016!

I think if I ever saw ”Von Habsburg“ over France on the map I would actually throw up.

r5: i decided to try conuer the word as PLC, but ai got other plans. Around 1445 Lithenian Ruler died, making me not being able to get the Lithenia union event, thoes making this campign hardly playable. i tried doing no save scum, but man that is just toooo diabolical.

R5: Big Blue Blob, not the hardest of achievements but one I've been putting off for a long time. No Scandinavian or Balkan shortcuts, wanted to keep it a bit clean and will continue for Better than Napoleon, Napoleon's Ambition and maybe Home and Away if I can be bothered.

Didn't rush too hard all in all, but needed one restart because I didn't read the description properly and went into North Africa on my first attempt, taking most of the provinces there before I realized they don't count as it says 'European' on the achievement tin.

Apart from that, pretty much did the usual. Declared on England myself as I wanted Portugal in for the extra warscore, so I could avoid the hassle of trying to invade England. Allied Castile who I had join through promise land and Ottomans, in case of coalition. Took my cores + Pale + Calais,, and already had spy network ready to get a claim or two in Ireland and start conquering. Managed to grab all the provinces with the exception of Ulster and Desmond, which England sniped.

Most of my conquests were reconquest wars: Northumberland, Wales, and as Palatinate got a quick BI + inheritance, another 9 or 10 cores from them as well.

The two provinces from Granada were an easy opportunity as I was allied to Castile when they declared and my subjects managed to occupy them, so I separate peaced out because I had no AE with Sunni.

Speaking of AE, only had one small coalition form but disbanded it through improving relations. Age bonus + espionage did the rest.

We started off not so well, because I allied Mamlicks when they were stronger than Ottos and Ottos decided not to expand into Mamluks because most of the time they went rampaging Europe and they allied aq qounly which gently ate all the Anatolian expansion in itself, but then they finally decided to eat aq qounly which I allied too, so I unallied them and they got absorbed, then ottomans started eyeing Mamluks after finishing the Anatolian mission, so I unallied my long term Mamluks friend too in favour of ottomans, but recently they became abusive as fuck and they are telling me they’ll unally and kill me if I don’t give them 2 provinces, one of which I need because it has a trade emperioum of my node and the other is a border fortress by gaining which they’ll become way angrier since that’ll be it for their Iraq-Mesopotamian mission which will make me the primary target, so should I give them shirvan and keep the alliance for now? (The weirdest part is they desire it without vital interest, claim or vassal’s claim but only with strategic interest) I’m thinking yes so far, because in my plan it is to attack transoxiania through weak Afghanistan or Hormuz and chip away at them since they’re also ottomanish allies

Hi all,

So I’m playing an Austria game and I am staring at the Von Raab’s Restrictions mission rewards, one of the options gives me 20% manpower modifier if I keep noble estate influence above 80%. How can I do this with curtailing my ability to get absolutism, as each privilege I give the nobles reduces max absolutism? Or is it a case of it’s either good to lean heavily into estate privileges and ignore absolutism and also the other way around lean massively into absolutism and ignore estate privileges late game?

When you play outside of Europe.

Bonuspic of landshut having the game of their life.

I got this game gifted to me and, I’ve always wanted to play it I have a lot of hours on paradox games specially HOI4 yet, I can barely understand the game even after completing the game are there any good guides or tutorials you guys recommend? I’d rather a readable thing than a video also, I read the wikis guide but it didn’t help me much.

R5: 5 simultaneous wars, and a massive coalition afterwards. Is this saveable?

I’m looking to play as Brandenburg and then Prussia, but I’ve recently seen recommendations to form Lübeck first. Could someone explain the advantages and the "meta" behind this? Thanks!

A friend and I are just finishing our CK3 multiplayer game where we have been blobbing out like crazy. we want to convert our save to EU4, but im worried the game wont be enjoyable unless we break down our current empires, because we will simply be too OP from the start (I own most of europe and hes basically achaemenid persia) Problem is neither of us has played enough EU4 or done a conversion before to know what works and what doesn’t.

My question is: how to best set up the EU4 world so that we end up with a fun playthrough that isnt just two blobs painting the map but actually feels challenging, in your opinion?

If it makes any difference we both started as european dukes who left their lands to rule jerusalem after a crusade, then hybridized with the seljuk turks and converted to a syncretic muslim/jewish/christian religion, before blobbing like crazy thanks to these perks.

tldr: any ideas welcome to make our ck3 game map (blobbed out) more fun in eu4.

Got a 4/3/6/5 general in 1448 as Muscovy from the event A new champion of the joust

I was playing a custom nation game when these particularlist rebels kept popping up out of nowhere. Any possible reasons for it? The save is modded with Europa Veritasis and Hardcore universalis.

I don't get it why Austria doesn't destroy all those rebels ??? they lost Croatia,Slovakia,Transilvania, and soon Serbia and Moldova what ????

Playing as Japan, just united, 1474. Kept Hosokawan ideas for the -10% dev cost. The goal of the campaign is to stack T3 representatives of the crown, EoC mission mutual trade system, and japan mission Hegemon of Asia to get +3 monarch points per tributary and get a load of tributes, to then play super tall in Japan.

With this in mind, which idea strategy would be best?

1) Colonial: Exploration -> Expansion to reach NW and tributary new world tags

2) Clients: Influence -> Mercenary to make and release opm client states

3) Tall: take dev cost ideas like Aristo, Defensive, Infrastructure, Economic etc. to minimise dev cost first

Vanilla generic mission trees are incredibly boring and have virtually no impact on the game. When I play as a country with such a mission tree, I completely forget about them. Is there a mod that updates generic mission trees? Temporary vanilla rewards that add little value to missions are of little use. Hoi4 has permanent bonuses, and every major mod (New Ways, owb, etc.) reworks the generic mission tree, but I haven't found one for Europe.

Hey, want to do an european campaign on a nation that's more uncommon to play as/releasable. Do anyone have any gems or campaigns out of the ordinary that they like?

That's one way to ensure I don't get war score ig

Hey Guys,

If i untide the two crowns as netherlands, can I still Form Other endgame Tags?

I would like to use some handicaps in my games from now on. Do you guys know a good self sabotage that makes the game more interesting?

I don't mind if these are more historical/roleplay-based or whether they are for a specific country. Hit me with anything.

Do you guys use these things, or do I just have too many hours in the game?

Is there a faster way to build buildings than 1 click per province? I have over 1000 provinces, and I'd like to build a university and town hall in all of them, ideally. Using the production interface for this is slow, because especially at this size, there's a short delay between each build. Even using an auto-clicker, this method would take a long time.

Playing as Sakalava with Europa Expanded missions and planning on becoming a merchant republic. None of them offer colonists. Was thinking about colonising South Africa but unsure if I should take Expansion ideas