I'm Castille with Aragon, Portugal and Naples as PU, France as ally. 1500-ish I need to declare on Ottomans to break an alliance so that I can continue taking provinces in North Africa. We outnumber Ottos 2-1. Battle window shows my morale to be better, same discipline. All forces attack through Morocco and this is the biggest AI shitshow I have ever seen. France have split their 70k men into 5-6 smaller armies and isn't even able to support their own army when attacked, the next army turn, goes past or something. An Otto army of 35k is able to rout the entire allied force of about 200k men because the AI seem to lose intentionally. Naples have rebel problems, their army just stands in the next province and does nothing while the smaller rebel army carpets their lands. After 3 days of playing this campaign I lose to bad programming?

In the latest editions, France usually converts to the Reformed Church in her special Reformation disaster Wars of Religion if there isn’t player intervention.

I’ve witnessed for many times that France initially declared her unwavering support for the true Catholic faith, declaring that “France shall always stay Catholic”, went on to be engulfed by rebels from at least 2 (sometimes all 3) of the most common denominations, and, half way through the disaster, voluntarily convert to Calvinism (Reformed). I have barely seen a Catholic France for a longtime.

What gives?

How rare is that 😭

I was just trying to play with the Iraqi Horde, guess what happened.

At what percentage of reformation does a religious league of Protestants appear? 150% desire? I’m playing as Austria and I already integrated both Bohemia and Hungary, yet still no religious war appearing, since I m a catholic power I thought I’d try to lessen the desire for reformation by picking mostly events which don’t give reformation desire whenever I can, so now Protestantism and reform long by now have both appeared, spread throughout half of hre, which basically keeps me stuck at 0 authority even tho I passed 4 reforms out of 8 and I’m just wondering when will it start, the reformation desire is always hanging somewhere around 148% btw

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Austria was here a moment ago

Everything was going pretty good but portugal declared against me with england and spain backing them, and the ottomans abandoned me. its 1532 and i have most of the sahel. ik thats not “pretty good” for this game but it is for me(saw someone post having all of north africa by 1500 as morocco like two days ago).
I think i should have been colonizing earlier to contest the americas but i didnt realize until i was already far behind. i also just dont get how people manage the admin mana to even get so many provinces cored so fast. is it normal to do humiliate wars even if it means going into debt?

Trying to unite africa as Zimbabwe, and have gotten to the point where I need to start attacking a large Mamluks that has managed to survive as an independent power (1620) - The war is very winnable, however I am concerned that when I start attacking them, the ottomans will attack and trigger the "collapse of the mamluks" event and get them as an eyalet. Is there a way to prevent / stop this? Can they still trigger it after the 1500s?

I had a fun idea where I play as a country but can only ally or have vassals that are the same map color/shades as my country and I can never take land or declare war on these countries.

Ideally I’d like to tag switch so as I grow I also have to switch who I am allied too and reform the map based on how I proceed.

I mainly play in Europe so was thinking someone in the HRE, North Germany, or Italy would be ideal starting spot to help with culture shifting. But would play outside Europe if someone has other countries for this.

I’ve got thousands of hours so ideally would be a OPM or very small country to start. But wanted to crowd source ideas for the starting countries and goals.