Used a little trick I saw on the Playmaker's YouTube channel and formed the biggest, baddest, earliest Rome I've ever made. Had to border gore at the end to make sure I got enough provinces from the Ottomans at the end to hit 425.

Just trying out different formable tags in the german region, saw swabia and decided to stack as much easilly accesible improve relation bonuses as possible, ngl I had a ton of fun playing with wurttemberg, got coalitioned twice, first time I dissolved it by improving relations (of course) then just simply outgrew it, also might push for "for the emperor" achivement:) Oh and also 3rd reich borders weren't intended:P

Orleans declared independence from france. In the peace deal, Orleans got a lot bigger and burgundy gained a couple provinces. I (England) got Maine and Auvergne (I chose to surrender Maine instead of doing the hundred years' war). ORLEANS DID NOT GET INDEPENDENCE! WTF, Paradox?

R5: defender of the faith defends itself when set as a co-belligerent, love this game

First time playing as Austria and was exploring the diplomatic actions for the Emperor. Opened the Papal State for fun and discovered this statement.

I wonder if there more such funny things in this game. So veterans of EU4 , share your instances

R5: Going for the This is Fine achievement. I have more than 10 unrest, am the defender in a coalition war targeted against me and they have more than 30 war score. Still, the achievement isn't firing and it says a cross with "More than 30 War score". I have also had +30 war score on my side and it still gave a cross...

Naples and Papal states have the one protestant Center of Reformation each... The papal state has fallen... I did not know this was possible???

Also it has no effect on the papal mechanic

Is Brandenburg into lubeck an optimal strategy in multiplayer or is better to not deal with that and stay as BB? I don’t play much of this country but this would be very useful information and any other general advice as I am currently playing it in an mp session

The topic in particular was the results of the Reformation and how a source mentions that “rulers wanted to seize church land” to consolidate power in place of Rome. I was previously familiar with the Reformation, but the pupils further able to understand the concept of Rome’s influence being usurped now that tax could be concentrated in the hands of local rulers.

I am very happy the thousands of rebels I’ve slain while seizing Crownland has been applied to my academic studies.

I haven't played in some time was that normal

Got into a war over Mexico, i am Japan and was declared on, i am not sure if it was the colony on my colony or Spain on my colony, anyhow me and spain

They got like 200k troops but never bothered moving any, and ended up fighting there colonial shitty troops

Spain could have stomped me with their army twice as big and bigger navy but they just let me have an easy gg

Was this normal?

Maybe they wanted to go inland into my hoard ally but couldn't

I got curious and tag switched, they have 20k stack in east coast and half the army in Sicily and only 20 transport but they were straight up chilling

I just rped it in my head as the colonies wanting the war and the king didn't bother and was like fine you guys deal with it xD

The pope gets a vassalization cb on Naples if they refuse a payment event, is there a list of conditions/things that raise the chance for them to decline? I looked it up and could only find an ai response listing it was 50/50 but I’m not sure if that’s true or not. Wanted more conclusive answers. I basically want to see if I can more or less guarantee this event as it makes the pope a lot stronger in mp

I'm still pretty new, only like second ever campaign. Also I play in german so i dont know how all the stuff is called in English.

Playing as England/Great Britain and i have the colonial state of British Mexiko. The Aztek Empire keeps declaring war on that state and obviously wins, but somehow I or any other of my colonial states arent involved and cant join to back BM up. The first time this happened I still had a truce with the Azteks but BM hadnt bc it was formed after the war. Now there is no truce but I still cant get involved. How and Why, please explain.

I only have the base game, no DLCs or Mods

In my opinion, the existence of end nodes makes no sense. Trade should always be flowing somewhere. For example its especially annoying playing as Qing or Ming and not being able to divert trade from malacca to Beijing

Pretty sure im uber screwed because i also had a coalition that wouldnt touch me due to my allies austira england france and portugal. Its ironman mode so my first thought was to fight the coalition with my allies but were losing… but besides that, if the coalition hadnt been a thing what would have happened to me with multiple countries having a PU cb on me? would they have fought eachother over me? should i have just allowed one to get a cb on me? could i choose which? I probably would have chose england because i think i only need to defend my capital right? and they probably couldnt get all their troops to me. its 1490 if thats relevant

Hi all. So as the title says, I am thinking of starting a game as Austria and really see how many nation manpower bonuses I can stack. I don’t normally do much tag switching so really unsure what to aim for, I can only think of tag switching into Russia.

took me quite some time, also having to fight war with 800k troops revolutionary france wasnt helping at all with their 12 morale but luckily ai is dumb, anyway had so much fun during this run

i started with alliance from both france and venice, used them to eat castille austria and part of commonwealth and to get rid of ottoblob(ottomans were incredibly strong this run, maybe i left them for too long), overextending into india superregion also took part in slowing down the process because it also increased the coalition highly, anyway i recommend this run to everyone

I am trying (again) a run as Georgia, and it's going quite well. I annexed all of Circassia, shirvan, the two daghestani nations + the steppe up to Astrakan and most of aq qoyunlu, Trebizond is my vassal, Muscovy is my ally (I also have Cyprus, Theodoro and mushasha but they are useless right now), I spawned renaissance and all of my army is composed by 16 strelicy infantry and 4 Cossack cavalry (force limit is 20). I unlocked my first idea set and I was wondering what to chose: main treats are a big QQ (they attacked aq after I nearly killed them and took one third of their ally ajam in the process) and of course the ottomans. I am on par with ottos as for military and diplomatic tech, but due to the many cores I created admin tech is behind my neighbours. For this reason I would avoid any adm idea group for now. The economy is in shambles, so trade is tempting me, but diplo is always useful and influence/espionnage could have a role too. If not, I was thinking about taking quality just for the first tree ideas (I don't have a navy beside a single trade ship) so I don't fall behind the ottos, but even so they will probably overtake me as soon as they get renaissance too...

What would you guys suggest? I am not an expert (at 1000 hours I am yet to finish the 1444 tutorial) but I would like to keep this run going as long as possible

Tried several times to do the Roma restoration achievement.
Very fun at the start of the game.

England, Austria, Byzantium, Provence. After establishing a pretty solid power base, I'd go on Ottoman and Mamlukes, releasing Bulgaria, Syria... Jerusalem for some fun. Dealing with Reformation by force convertion...

Just feels very repittive and lose interests in 1500 after I know nobody can challenge me.

Any suggestions to form into Rome in a fun-er way?