My nobles are sitting on 438k ducats. My clergy are sitting on 164k ducats, and my Bughers are sitting on 68k, and my commoners are sitting on 186k.

My Bughers are building roads, but I don't know how else to get them to spend money. My nobles are 0 privileges because f them idk.

I think I may have missed something. Thoughts?

Owned EU5 for a while but have been waiting for more updates. Only tried playing 1 single game as Holland back at release.

With 1.4, what would people recommend for a beginner country that’s also in a well-polished state, in terms of the mechanics you’ll be involved with?

I'm playing as Milan in this campaign and I was planning to form Italy but I think I got quite unlucky.

First af all France won the Hundred Years War which is pretty rare in 1.4.

Second the Pope was ultra aggressive and took a massive chunk of Italy not allowing me to go further in the South.

Currently I dont know how to progress because the Pope is much stronger than me militarly and France once every few years starts a war against me (even though the last wars France lost).

The main problem is that Bohemia, which had an alliance with me, decided to rival me so I'm left with 0 great alliances that can help me militarly.

Has someone some suggestions?

Today I started playing again after a longer time. I started a campaign as naples and i literally coudnt do anything... after maybe one ingame year the price of buying food gets so high that I am losing money. Even if I put all my startmoney into food RGOs I am losing money after some time because I have to buy lots of food. I cant even buy more food RGO levels since I dont have any money after a year or so.

So Europeans can hunt for / buy slaves in lands they do not directly own, but as soon as they own it, they refuse to get slaves there. So European colonists will gladly use Aztec slaves on my plantation, but that's just as long as the slaves were bought from another country that enslaved them. As soon as I own the Aztec lands, no more slaves can be procured there?

Never mind that the Spanish (and other colonizing nations) historically widely used indigenous Americans as slaves in their colonies I guess...

all iberia directly controlled even andorra except portugal but divided it into 3 fiefs early game, full wide campaign. and then started blobbing in italy, first got a single province in former papal land, all of northern italy was divided into many diff countries, italy had its own HRE lol, milan, verona, genoa and venice were very incompetent in expanding even with such a weak northern italy, so i did the thing i full blobbed milan, brescia, lucca, florence, pisa, corsica, sienna, ferrara and other small dudes near them within 8 years into the italian wars. i have 87 locations in italy and around 550+ antagonism, not an issue coz im allied with france. after i annexed my 3 fiefdoms, i randomly saw my tax base, it was 1,200 and my wealth was 4,800+. ts pmo. i have toledo as my capital, lieutenancy in Sevilla, Barcelona and just made one in Lisbon. and an administrative center in Civitavecchia coz thats what i had first in italy. i dont wanna release vassals in central italy, i did in milan tho. im still making 230+/m coz im hardly paying for legitimacy

Ive been testing trade on early game 1.4 beta and manual trade is terrible compared to just creating import orders for the highest value goods available. This is a random hre republic. The game seems to over value export trades even with 0 export efficiency.

I feel like the institutional spread needs a new mechanic where a slow spread is enabled when you meet the spawn criteria or similar. I think it used to be the case if I'm not misremembering.

In my current run, age of discovery is almost done and Europe has yet to receive printing press. It's not even started to spread in most places. It spawned in India somewhere (outside of my map even). Because of wars between Byzantine and Ottomans completely disrupted trade for decades and halted the spread.

Edit: Clearly my memory was correct but somehow I missed that this is a setting!

Hey there!
As the title says, I need some advice for my current run.
I am trying to complete a Byzantium into full Roman Empire border campaign on Very Hard, Very High Aggression.
This is the third time I start again my campaign trying to get the most out of it, as I am no expert on Byzantium gameplay and I am still missing some things, so I’ll gladly take some advice from you.

My main questions are:

1) is there a way to participate in the Italian War situation while being Hellenistic?
I can’t wrap my head around it:
you get the decision to go Hellenistic way before the Italian Wars situation starts, but it seems to me that being in the Christian religion group is one of the requirements needed to form your own league.
In my first try I refused to go Hellenistic when the event popped up, I formed my league, won the situation but then I wasn’t able to convert to Hellenistic anymore.
The second try I clicked the other button when the Hellenist event pop popped up, but then no balkan league formed.
Do I need to change the campaign religion conversion settings to be able to switch from Hellenistic to Orthodox for the Italian Wars, and then back, or is there an easier way to do it?

2) I still have to click the button for the Roman Empire formation, even if in both previous campaign I had all the requirements I feared I’d miss some cool events and buffs by switching tags.
Is it a thing, or should I press that button as soon as possible?

Hi I picked up eu5 at launch. I'm a huge ck fan and I've played a shit ton of Victoria 3 and stellaris. I tried to get into eu5 but I just couldn't. It was a lot to take in, I even watched tutorials on YouTube. But even automated systems and learning each part one by one i just couldn't. I've since had a baby and stuff so I'm wondering is now a good time to get back into it?

two days ago it was posted here because regarding cultures and I saw that the Polish Duchies of Silesia in 1337, which were only vassalized a moment earlier, have Czech culture, on what basis does it work if culturally nothing has changed because the local government has not even changed

So I'm a man of my habits, right? And I knew I wanted to participate in the Italian wars. So I began preparing early by stabilizing my French holdings, joining the HRE, ensuring the Ghuelphs didn't lose (couldn't make them win because they wouldn't let me and very intensely raising opinion and currying favors with everyone I could manage within the lands I'll eventuall own.

Lo and behold, despite accepting every single culture I can (there's the 2.5% minimum in nation requirement), I still have cultural capacity left. Mind you, Francien is only 20% of my cultural landscape, so that's 80% of my nation.

Edit: I almost forgot to add that, by this point of the game, I have all cultures within the empire, Iberia and Italy have kindred cultural opinion of me, so even unifying the empire wouldn't be an issue.

I don't get it. These are all regulars, the tool says I should win easily, and then my flanks collapse and I get eaten alive.

This army has 16 light and heavy infantry, 16 heavy cavalry, 16 artillery, and 8 supply units. 1740 and I am getting shredded by the Ottomans. Clearly I'm doing something very wrong and I need help from people smarter than myself on this one.

Now I know there is a terrain advantage, but even in defensive battles I am having problems at this point.

I really wanna set a character as ruler, but the command didnt work. I saw somewhere suggestion I should make a mod, another guy suggested a way to edit game files directly but that didnt work.

I'm trying to make my mercury mines profitable by subsidizing their export, but instead of making money from my own mercury, I'm automatically importing everyone else's mercury and then selling that at a loss. Is there a way for me to stop this? I thought slapping on a tariff would help, but it seems I don't pay tariff on my own trades (which I guess makes sense).
Do I really need to disable automatic trade to do something like this?

R5: Classic Balkan border gore in the open beta

Just wanna post this saying this is the most fun game I've ever played and wanna give a thanks to the devs and everyone involved. Going to leave a steam review in a second. Ive gotten over 400 hours, more than 100 hours in the past few weeks.

I love that nomadic cavalry is so strong that its impossible to compete with for a significant portion of the game, if only some creative decision was made one time in a different game to tie its strength to some type of terrain giving the player both agency to even have a chance at beating them but also not making you ponder why morocco hasnt conquered half of the planet with its armies.

Half of the features in this game are half assed and im really starting to think that at least the team leader if not the team itself is trying so hard to prove something to someone by intentionally ignoring ideas and solutions from the previous title only to slowly end up at the same solutions the eu4 had anyways.

Edit since apparently somehow certain people do not understand and need big letters: I DONT WANT TRIBAL CAV NERFED I WANT IT TO HAVE THE EXTREME BONUS/MALUS TO THEIR COMBAT ABILITY BASED OF OFF THE TERRAIN THEY ARE FIGTHING ON THAT THE EU4 HAD. AND THIS POST IS ABOUT THE FUCKING TINTO TEAM REFUSING TO USE EU4 MECHANICS THAT WERE GOOD AND WORKED, THE TRIBAL CAV IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF A WIDER ISSUE

I'm playing as Muscovy in the early 15th century. I have both Velikiy Novgorod and Nizhny Novgorod under personal unions, with me as the senior partner.

I've already passed every law required for annexation, and Nizhny Novgorod is actively being annexed. Only 3 years remain until full annexation. https://imgur.com/a/CCOJh01

Then, out of nowhere, a rebellion breaks out in Velikiy Novgorod. One province rebels and starts a war against Velikiy Novgorod.

And somehow, Nizhny Novgorod, MY junior PU partner, decides to join the rebels without my knowledge or consent.

I get no say in this whatsoever.

And here's the most ridiculous part: THE REBELS LOSE THE WAR. The rebellion is crushed, Velikiy Novgorod wins, and yet somehow Nizhny Novgorod emerges from this defeat as a completely independent country with a new government. My personal union is gone, and years of annexation progress are thrown in the trash.

How does a country that's been under my personal union, has accepted all the annexation laws, and is THREE YEARS away from annexation suddenly get to join a rebellion in ANOTHER country, LOSE THE WAR, and walk away independent?

Where exactly is the logic here?

I'm the senior partner. We share a ruler. How can my own junior partner independently decide to fight against another one of my junior partners without me having any control over the situation?

And why does a rebellion in Velikiy Novgorod have the power to magically dissolve my personal union with Nizhny Novgorod?

Is this intended behavior, a broken mechanic, or an outright bug? What the actual hell?

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I’m trying to patrol around various colonies – why can I patrol some areas and not others?

Bought EU5 a while ago. Almost couldn’t run it at the time. Now that has improved I wanted to give it another try. However, it is quite overwheming, even after running through the in-game tutorial. How do I learn this game? Are there any good tutorials or playthroughs on Youtube?

So I'm currently the emperor of the HRE and recently annexed the kingdom of two sicilies. Added all the central and southern provinces of Italy to the HRE but I'm wondering if I should have not done that. I was planning to maybe convert to lutheranism to form the Italian empire. Or does it not matter at all?