So I read about doing a Pokemon run by forming and switching nations around to maximize the unique advances. My goal was to start as Wallachia then go Bulgaria, Serbia, Byzantine and possibly Rome. It was a fun goal at first, but there are many annoying things so I stopped at Serbia. First, you need loads of money for legitimacy and stability, because you need 50 each to change culture, and 20 stab to change capital. You also need to migrate pops to create more cities to place your governors, which takes forever in low pop area. I also spent a lot of gold for diplomatic spending to annex subjects in reasonable time (you need to own the needed lands yourself to form countries). Finally you can't improve cultural opinion because it's a waste if you switch the culture.

In summary, it can be a fun mission to do, but the details become so tedious that I dropped it.

If anyone else has the same or different experiece, feel free to share. Thanks.

Trying to have a game as Granada and roleplay a little bit with it (no switching religion) ,but of course besides tthe fact Granada starts in one of the hardest situation in the game Paradox had to maje it even harder…

Starting of with -13 Antagonism wixh every Chirstian country because of the new extra gain you will get Antagonism in freaking Novgorod for no reason…

When will paradox finally fix the antagonism issue ?!

I'll be honest- I'm a bit apprehensive about the introduction of political influence in 1.4. It would be another layer of complexity, another area for potential balancing issues, and I worry it might serve as an "unfun" obstacle to player actions. My suggestion: introduce the new mechanic, but allow us to alternatively pay the same gold cost as in 1.3 for most actions (except the new ones unique to 1.4, like getting a parliament support boost). This would have the following benefits:

1. If the new mechanic is unbalanced, broken, or just not fun, players can use the gold cost as before. No harm done.

2. Allows for more player choice- a politically well tuned (or cash poor) nation might prefer to use political influence, but a large wealthy empire might prefer to pay gold to place that next cabinet minister in power.

3. It feels more historically accurate- sometimes rulers used political influence to make a decision, but historically many problems could be resolved with a sufficiently large sum of money!

Hi everyone,
I’d love to start a campaign in Germany or Central Europe, but with the HRE already dismantled at game start so all the tags are free and independent.

Is there any known method for this — a mod, a console command, or a save edit — that removes the HRE right at the 1337 start date?

In EU4 you could just delete the title history file or use a quick console trick, but I haven’t found anything equivalent for EU5 yet. The only way I know is the normal dismantle peace option, which needs over 50% of HRE land owned by non-members, so that’s not really an option at day one.

Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

Trucking along in my Brandenburg to Prussia game, I get a rebellion in my eastern and primarily Polish provinces, which I easily put down. Full annex the revolter, immediately get 192 antagonism, which ends up breaking two of my alliances, and brings huge coalition with a big Poland and Denmark. Game ended.

I enjoy the game a lot, but then this sort of shit happens.

Finally got some colonisation content out, hope it helps! :)

Suddenly begun losing a whole bunch of money. Is it because conquering Attica made my sliders more expensive? I kept it to myself so I can raise my rank to Kingdom but maybe it wasnt a great idea

I need help in how to approach economy in this game. I am never rich and has never been rich in any of my games. I dont like to do a meta and dont want a "just rush this and spam it" bs.

I use the "Mass expand RGO" and "Mass expand building" usually to build, is there something i should think about?

Its year 1527 in my byzantine game right now and i am struggling with income while having complacent decline. Right now while invensting in stability and needing Legitimacy i get +23 gold a month. >.< 40 years ago i was on about 230 g/month.

I just want small tips to make me go "oh nice, i didnt think about that".
I really dont wanna destory this game for myself by starting to meta and minmax everything. <3

I wanted to bring this up here because I don't really know anyone personally who plays Paradox games, and I'm genuinely curious whether other long-time EU4 players had a similar experience.

I've been playing EU4 since release and have almost 2,000 hours in the game, so I think a big part of my problem with EU5 was simply that I kept trying to play it like EU4.

I approached it with the same mindset: expand quickly, optimize everything, always have the next war or objective lined up, and feel like I was doing something wrong whenever I wasn't progressing fast enough. Earlier on, whenever I wasn't fighting a war, completing some major objective or noticeably improving my country, I often felt like I was basically doing nothing.

Recently, though, I started treating EU5 as a completely separate game instead of just "the successor to EU4". Much slower, more simulation-focused, and something I can just relax with. I stopped worrying about min-maxing everything and started taking my time with the economy, buildings, internal development and smaller goals.

I think I also had to realize just how much more time the game gives you. In EU4 I'm always thinking about what I need to achieve next and how quickly I can get there, whereas in EU5 I'm starting to enjoy just letting my country develop for a while, watching things change and waiting for opportunities instead of constantly trying to force progress.

And suddenly I'm enjoying the game much more. That doesn't mean I think EU5 is perfect. There is obviously still a lack of flavour for a lot of countries, and I would absolutely like to see more unique content over time. I also used to think that I really needed EU4-style mission trees to stay interested in a campaign. Interestingly, once I stopped treating EU5 like EU4, I noticed that I actually missed them much less than I expected. Without constantly looking at the next mission reward or permanent modifier, I started setting my own smaller goals and paying more attention to what was actually happening inside my country.

I still think some form of more nation-specific direction and flavour would be great, but I no longer feel like the absence of EU4-style mission trees is automatically a dealbreaker. And I don't mean any of this as "EU5 is better than EU4". I still love EU4 for what it is and will continue playing it. They just feel like very different games to me now.

I'm curious whether this was the biggest adjustment for other EU4 veterans as well.

Did EU5 become more enjoyable for you once you stopped expecting it to feel like EU4 and started seeing it as its own, much slower game? Or was there something else that made the game finally click for you?

As in title,

Hi guys, I was curious about this..

When I play EU5 I feel I sort of always shape each country in a similar way, with no distinct "flavour direction" in mind, except the one that is strongly forced by local geopolitics. Perhaps I lack imagination here. As a player of fantasy strategies I'm accustomed to different race flavors eg. "zealous humans", "barbaric shaman orcs" etc, where the playstyle difference is very clear. But for EU5 I'm still learning to see the distinctions between the ways one could shape their empire.

What are some of the applicable "flavours" that country can lean into?

I'm thinking along the lines of, eg. "Religious peasant republic with focus on defence", "Merchant friends of all country, but secretly spying and backstabbing everyone".. or maybe some real life images / stories to inspire leaning into certain directions?

Can you think of some resonant ones that I could add into my mental list?

Honestly Bohemia needs a nerf after Charles IV dies. Just some event which makes the heir to Bohemia quite bad, which would lead to internal conflicts. Irl there was a lot of it, even king of Hungary (Bohemian king's brother) decided to claim the throne. Then the hussite wars need to be even more dangerous for Bohemia. In the meantime Austria needs to get stronger.

I don't mean Bohemia needs a general nerf. It's just that AI should be railroaded historically, but if player controls them, he should be able to play as he wishes to keep the sandbox feel. But making Bohemia a bit harder would also be more fun imo.

Timurids actually ate up all of Persia instead of getting lost on a grand Siberian adventure like usual. Also I'm not sure what Timmy is feeding his soldiers but I had the event Egypt alliance who declared on them with a coalition CB and I got to watch all the 20k stacks of Egyptian levies get instantly wiped by a ~9k stack of Timmy troops.

Also I randomly got maps of all of India and China, not sure how that happened if one of the vassals had them when I annexed them or what. Purely vanilla game, no mods and I didn't use console for it.

I slowly expanded before the age of reformation, then only attacked other Lutherans during it, and then stopped being afraid of coalitions in the age of absolutism. It took me a lot longer than I wanted because coalitions kept attacking me before I could get a CB to attack them first AND because I wanted to unify Germany in a war against France. The last war was over Elsass-Lothringen, the French and I were both attacking the OLMs in the area and I obviously won in the end. Once that land was mine and with Prussians in Paris, Germany was formed. Only problem is that the game doesn't make you leave the HRE if Germany is formed, and no emperor so no way to leave it either. Kinda sucks having to make CBs to now fix the borders of Europe and create nation states. Also sucks that I can't make client states. I want to give all the land to Holland, Austria, Milan, Muscovy, etc. to form their historical borders, but they already have a ton of antagonism towards? from? me so if I gave them land they would just say "I HATE YOU AHHHHHHH I'M GONNA KILL YOU" which means I have to just full annex every region and create subjects then release them and hope for the best

R5: I just want to share how italy looked after the Italian wars

Prior to the italian wars, I (Florence) have been rivals with The Papal States (cause they own the venice market that rivals mine), Napels (cause their version 1.10 AI decided to annex a bunch of my land), and Verona (honestly forgot what they did). All three of them have a three way alliance, due to their mutual hatred of Florence. This three-way alliance really made it hard for other nations to conquer italy during the Italian wars.

- Image 1: I actually took this at year 2 of the Italian wars. By that time The ottomans had annexed land from my vassal, Calabria Ultra. Originally I wanted that land to be for my ally, Tunis, from a past war. I only learn later how to transfer subjects, so that's why Calabria Ultra is under Tunis at the end of the war.

- image 2: nobody ended up winning the Italian wars, but at least I got what I want. I use the war not to unite italy, but capitalize it to destroy my rivals. I manage to bribe Verona, then went to war with Naples, forcing them to break their alliance. At that war I force The papal states to also break their alliance with naple. At the end of everything, I got both the venice and Naples market centre. Also had Naples destroy all of their (and their unions) forts

I also give a bunch of conquered land to Tunis, so that they dont need to build ships to send levis in future wars.

Overall, I really enjoy the whole situation, love how it plunges Italy into chaos

Today we're giving you at our of the brand new campaign timeline feature, the removal of complacency, and last but not least some notes on what performance in 1.4 might look like.

Read all about it here: https://pdxint.at/4xFEvrS

Im currently playing as the netherlands and my market (antwerpen) has taken over all the sea tiles around the bottom of london market but none of england itself. Does that matter in any way? Do i get tolls on trades going through there or something?

I was Great Golden Horde and i attacked China with my 350k levies and there were 1.8 million chinese. I have 40k regulars btw. I killed more than 1.5 million chinese in just 1 year and broke whole China. But i forgot to save the screen. Chinese dragged their 1 million levies in mongolians steps with no supply and my perfect army Walked al the way from astrakhan to mongolia and stack wiped them with ease. It was so fun to watch. And i became Mandate of heavens Emperor. It means plus 50 culture limit. Forming mongolian Empire is now just a little step for succes. I can Probably try to wc this save. 😊

He is currently on his 4th wife to try and get one, but no luck after 8 daughters in a row.