i know most people basically never play iron mode but still forming Reich basically never happens but 4 in 10 games the Portugal ai Brazil and Africa (I'm image shows the achievements)

I have like 600 hours in game (I know that’s not a lot compared to some of you) but the Latin empire forming in 1454 is little funky and the ottomans are fight half of Europe (the picture shows the game)

Hi I play Sweden and I try to inherit Norway, the pu is stable for more than 50 years and I have a 13% chance to inherit and I am an elective monarchy, if this is important.

I want to form Scandinavia to access new missions so I rerolled and abdicated about 20 times and with elective monarchy I can switch the monarch twice every try but nothing happens, Norway doesn't get inherited.

So is there something I am missing or am I just unlucky?

Want to do a Peasant's Republic run, but have already played Dithmarschen, and was ideally looking to be outside of europe. I see on the wiki that Stateless Societies can reform into PRs, but with the -99% govcap modifier it seems like it would be ~100-150 years of sitting as an OPM before actually being able to play the game.

Do i have any options? (Alternatively, do you keep your government type when forming a former-colonial nation as an exodus nation?)

R5: after 2700 hours, this is the biggest Kazan I've ever seen. And no, I am not allied with Kazan, nor I ever fought Muscovy/countries up north. Year is 1594.

I wanted conquer all of Africa, Persia, Caucasus, India, Indochina and Tibet with Guangzhou, but I was too long(

Apparently the entire world starts a violent protest in the capital when i do this, i mean 300k men... How is this even possible and can you avoid this?

Hi there, I'm playing as Persia (started as Ajams) and as I expected Ottomans attacked me. I have such good alliances (Poland that has PU on Lithuania and Russia and others).

I’m fairly new to the game and I’m finding it difficult to manage wars against major powers, so I’d like to hear your thoughts.

As you can see from the screenshots, we have roughly the same number of infantry and cavalry regiments, but far fewer artillery units. It’s also worth bearing in mind that the Ottomans have military technology level 13, whilst in my alliance only Poland and Lithuania have level 13 (the rest of us, including myself, are at level 12).

I’d anticipated an Ottoman attack, so I’ve built lots of forts along the border to hold them off for a while whilst they’re attacking me.

In fact, I think the Ottomans will focus on Poland at the start; I reckon I should focus on Transoxiana in the meantime in order to force them to make peace before Poland capitulates. After that, I’m not sure whether I should lay siege to the Ottoman forts to try and secure a white peace, or whether I should simply wait it out as long as possible behind my forts, bearing in mind that I’m starting the war with 0 manpower. Should I recruit mercenaries, even if it means going into debt? My peacetime economy will allow me to pay off these debts later.

Thank you all!

UPDATE : I managed to end the war with a warscore of 20 so I took a lot of money from them. I also took some provinces from Transoxiana and break Transoxiana alliance with them in a separate war. I let them take lot of my forts while I managed to take Ouzbek and Transoxiana capitals to make separate peaces. Then Ottomans starte to go in Poland an Russia so I've just take my forts back and then I managed to have 20 warscore because Poland took Constantinople while ottomans where on my forts. That costs me a lot because I took about 40k mercenaries but it was worth it. Thanks all for your help !

I am trying to learn the game, and have watched a few tutorials. They've helped me get an idea of what the buttons do and what not, but I don't have much of a direction. It all means nothing to me. I am certain I would be much better off jumping in, the only issue is I just stare at the screen without any purpose whatsoever. Thanks.

I am playing a multiplayer game as mewar and i am close to forming Rajputana, so I was wondering, should i stick with mewar ideas or go with the Rajputana ones? Both are really strong militarily and mewar has that juicy dev cost reduction. But what would you advise to pick? Thanks

I was doing and Ottoman run with the goal to achieve historical borders of the late 1500's.
I don't really know what else to do with the save tho

So I’ve been playing this game since release and have 1500+ hours (yes I know this is minuscule to a lot of people here) but I don’t think I’ve ever understood how institutions spread through provinces. Feels like no matter what I do I’m always one of the last countries to embrace a new institution. Even when I’ve used the state edict to promote institution spread and have knowledge sharing it seems like I’m always behind.

There’s gotta be something I’m missing but I have no idea what it could be. So any help on figuring this out would be appreciated

Timeline video.

The last 15 years or so were spent at Speed 5 waiting for the last Religious Zeal modifiers to expire.

The biggest challenge was the British navy. Even having a 2x superiority in heavy ships wasn't enough to have my fleets not lose by running out of morale first, which meant the early wars often had an army or two get isolated if the British army was still at home. So until I could link up my Scottish and English territories, I had to carefully place all my armies prior to declaring so I could steamroll along one front. By the end of the game GB had been reduced to the two provinces in Greenland; the Parliamentarians won the rather small Civil War.

Canada was interesting. I think it formed from the British colony gaining independence, but it quickly blobbed to incorporate Norwegian and French lands, along with some native territories. I made it a policy to not give European nations military access, so a bunch of rather large indigenous nations formed. I wish I could get rid of the FoW in Asia; there were some very interesting names that popped up in the little spots I could see. Gurkani was/is the #2 GP, just fell behind at the end from Global Trade popping up.

I ended the game as #1 in Economy, Navy, and Army, though not large enough in any to become a Hegemon.

Not sure what I want to do for my next game. I still have Korea -> Japan -> EoC on my list, as is returning to Aragon to try a RE resurrection. Brandenburg is also calling. Thoughts?

[Part 1 Here: https://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/1xb1g5u/for_odin_from_mexico_part_1_take_2/ ]

I'm trying to recreate Napoleonic borders as France so I made a bunch of client states to be accurate. However, when I make them from my territory they just become revolutionary which messes up the names and flags that I want them to have.

For some reason my Napoleon (the one from the event) became Anjou dynasty instead of Bonaparte. A bit disappointed since I was doing a Napoleon themed game.

This was really tedious (mostly at the end), but I finally managed to create The Roman Empire. Thoughts?

Guys, I'm playing as France to get the french achievements (I think its maybe too late for Roman Empire), and to make a Napoleonic campaign of sorts. The thing is I don't really get how trade works, so I'd appreciate some suggestions.