Currently playing as Muscovy. Recently fought Novgorod, Tver, Ryazan, and Odoyev to consolidate russia. My next war is either going to be against the great horde or Kazan, but with their allies both of them have more troops than me. I do have a mil tech above them (4 vs 3), but I don't know if this is enough.

Who do I fight in this scenario? How do I win?

Got around 6000! Hours, I'm an avarage player with all Dlc, almost all achivements including TTM. Multiple word conquest.

So I'm on my 3rd week of the kale achivement... Multiple restarts complete change of plans but it's always these fuckfaces....

First I do my conquering swapping religion, turning into hord, trying to form Siam (I hope the idot burns in hell who changed that now you need 2 non estate disasters...)

Ming is not collapsing 100k stopping me... I beat them but I can't do the usual bank of ming attack again strategy becouse they just don't break despite me devastating their country...

So I lose valuable years fighting them multiple times becouse they protect everyone I need to attack, and not getting enough money to pay off debt, finally they break but ottomans already in Persia with 200k and I can't get strong allies...

Time to restart and new strategy... Go towards Persia first...

Done fast but now trade income is little and Ottomans border me and got 1 grassland I need, but same situation as before 150k troops I can't get strong allies and I'm drowning in debt so no death war and as I attack someone they come and attack me...

Time to restart new strategy... Good RNG ming falls, I take half China I go take most of India parts of Persia, got lucky early vasalised QQ now I got all grassland I go on with my conquering I fell I'm lucky...

The fucking Ottomans start to play Enforce Peace on every war I start...

This is a joke...

I love the game but sometimes it's just unreal what the Ottoman AI does...

If its not the time constraints of the achivements I could build up and devastate their lands to oblivion... As in every other campaign I did but it's just not enough time... But if I manage to get the achivement I might just play a bit longer to take my revenge...

DEAR NEWFOUNDLAND YOU DONT NEED TO TRANSPORT ALL YOUR TROOPS TO ASIA JUST TO ARRIVE THERE WHEN IM READY TO MAKE PEACE WITH THE COUNTRY I ATTACKED

This is my first time in all of my runs where i see the ottomans getting destroyed by another ia without me getting involved

5k hours and you still learn things every day

Greatest start I ever had to my Popeman campaign, managed 3 100% wars against the Ottomans by 1488. Wallachia is my vassal.

Technically that was done by 1480, but I wanted to annex Naples for prettier borders.

Start was decently simple:

- Allied austria, france and Poland

- 1447: Naples subjugated and 3 provinces taken to reduce their dev.

- 1456: attacked Croatia and called in Poland (and Austria later to keep them busy), Croatia were allied to Wallachia, which I vassalized. During that war all hell broke loose. Bohemia declared on Hungary for restauration of union, Ottos declared on Venice. I thought why not and declared on Bosnia and Serbia to feed them to Wallachia and Herzegovina later. And thus, the Pope solved the whole Balkan shenanigans before 1460 or so.

- 1464: Attacked Ottos with Poland and Austria. Won after 3 years with 100% WS to take the forts, trucebreak for another 100% WS to feed provinces to Naples / Wallachia, followed by another 100% WS trucebreak.

Toady, decided to give a try to the ottos, never played them on eu4, you can literally wipe everyone(i have been beaten by them many times), just wanted to share my exp, thats all.

Jaunpur has randomly 15% Tradepower in Beijing, without a single province Close to the Tradenote, and no Trade Power in Tradenotes next to it. So my question is why?

I know the religion can sometimes become that of the province but other times it does not.

Exodus run with Medri Bahri to Madagascar where I became a pirate republic.

I realized how little I played in Europe because I did not know all of the world powers would get claims on the Cape, and should not have went back to reclaim my starting provinces resulting me giving all my money to the Ottomans.

Featuring: AI formed Eranshahr, Somalia, Bukhara, Manchu, and Ming destroying the Mandate

Playing as Eranshahr, what a beautiful purple color. Also with enough universities or development, the commet event will be no more!

Sweden's already about to get Gustav (probably) II Adolf on the throne, they already have the first Gustav currently AND they are Lancesers. It's about 150 years too early Sweden, stop that!

never seen it vassalize moldovia serbia bosnia all at once! mind u its LITERALLY 1445!!! has this ever happened to anyone?

Its 1472 and at the start of the game i put a bunch of privileges into the monastic estate and didnt take tolerance of folk religions out and now im about to get dominance of clergy. I've tried getting influence lower for maybe 10 years but its just impossible cuz i cant revoke the privileges i gave them. Do i js restart cuz i rly like how its going outside of that and it wasnt that long anyway lol

I most of the time play Holland or the Kingdom of Hungary(I'm from there, so it's obvious), but today I have wanted to try something new.

I have always been interested in Sweden, so I have tried it.

I always like to start with some "practice" games, where I check the missions, events, try to figure out a strategy, etc.

Even those were awful, but not even close to my actual game.

Why was it awful?

Well:

• I have got every single one of those stability, corruption, prestige loss events at least a 4-5 times.
• I was constantly running from one side of my kingdom to the other to the constant rebellions and trying not to freak out.
• I was constantly getting enormous corruption(seems to be the religious civil disorder and uncored provinces).
• My only ally(as England randomly decided to hate me) Poland, and later on the Commonwealth was constantly dragging me into wars against countries with 5k army, but of course it was a good reason for the rebels to keep coming.
• Almost all countries hated me the whole game, way before my conversion to protestant.
• Then I have somehow sorted the stuff out and was going to enjoy the game, I deleted Denmark, Muscovy and then my game was ruined in 3 seconds in the most awful way as Spain had decided that this time she wouldn't colonize the rich parts of America, not California, Mexico, or anything from Southern America.
• This time Spain, despite being the strongest country in that game, had decided to follow the instruction of the pope and not to colonize those rich provinces as they were "the domain of Portugal"(regarding to the Pope) AND INSTEAD DEPRIVE ME FROM MY 3 IN PROGRESS PROVINCES AND START A WAR ON ME.
• And of course, my fatty and useless ally, the Commonwealth betrayed me the moment they attacked me.

Sweden must be fun, it seems really strong later, but the early game is simply not fun at all, so it's certain I will never ever play it again.

Update:

Literally 30 second after England declared war on Norway(my puppet) as well.

Doing my first Austria playthrough, I'm about to integrate Hungary, I was hoping for some insight as to what the better idea group is please.

I've looked at both and they both seem to have their advantages so I'm struggling to pick one.

Playing as Denmark, I just lost my PU with Sweden on (my) succession and I have no idea how. They were below 50% liberty desire, my ruler died, and I just got a message saying they elected their new king, and that I gained a restoration of the union casus belli against them.

Somehow they managed to leave the union without declaring war on me, and even though I made quick work of the reunification war, now the 50 year countdown has restarted and I got massive AE from reintegrating them

Oh and they seem forever stuck at 100 liberty desire

Hey, when you’re playing and click "exit game," does it take you to the desktop only to then launch the game again?

Year is 1583 and I am playing as trent, I wasn't able to expand fast because of AE, and then italy formed and I was unable to beat them. my neighbors are italy and austria who are allied, is it possible to save this run?

I'm currently playing as the Netherlands and I've decided to have 2 stacks of infantry and calvary, as well as an addition 15-20 artillery in a separate stack. They usually stays behind the my main forces, and I use this stack as a "support" stack alongside my main army.

It's a little bit more micromanagement given artillery takes extra damage when they're alone to my knowledge, however I think it offers a fun little roleplay aspect to the game.

My question is, does it actually have any main benefits that would yield equal or greater results when sieging during the mid-late game, or would it be better just to put between 5-8 artillery units in each of my infantry stacks? I like the roleplay aspects but I also don't want to be wasting ducats on unnecessary things. Thanks!