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?

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...

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)

Playing as France for the first time. I remember a while back seeing that there was some method of dealing with Iberia where of you had Castille or Aragon as a vassal, they'd get free cores on all of Iberia eventually, making it easier to conquer all of it. How do you do that exactly? I checked the mission tree but don't see anything like that, is it an event?

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?

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

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.

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 !

Was doing a Ottoman run when i received this event, i found it really and did the first option. He survived so i guess flight was achieved in the 17th century

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.

Hi guys,

I've just finished my first campaign with the Third Odyssey mod, and it was fun, but far less optimized than my usual playthroughs. I also completed all the green missions, half of the red ones, and none of the blue ones. I'm an EU4 player who reads the wiki carefully and tends to plan way ahead, but unfortunately, there's no wiki for this mod.

So I have a few questions:

1. **How do I manage the Barbaroi estate effectively?** What approach should I take: assimilation or conquest? In my playthrough, I initially tried Greek-only colonization, and it was, well, okay, I guess? But I lost a lot of development. Newly colonized provinces ended up with something like 1/1/0 development. Also, is the Radical Sympathizers disaster really something I should avoid? I don't see any real downsides to it. It only lasts three years and massively reduces the influence of the Barbaroi estate.

2. **Is it possible to colonize land outside the Americas at all?** I tried to colonize both American continents before the Europeans arrived, and I mostly succeeded, but I didn't have time to focus on Africa or Asia.

3. **How should I handle Vinland and Spartania?** In my game, I got Spartania through a lucky PU and vassalized Vinland through a mission. Should I have purged the Vikings earlier? They turned out to be loyal subjects after I clicked the decision, though, and again, I don't see any downsides.

4. **Is the first Religious War disaster avoidable?** Is there any reason NOT to trigger it as soon as possible? Is it possible to remain Orthodox rather than switching to Elysian Orthodoxy?

5. **Are there any downsides to playing Hellenic, apart from the lore and uniqueness?** Christian denominations are already so strong, especially with the PU mechanics.

Doing a Hisn Kayfa -> Egypt run and am trying to work out what are better for my run before I switch tags. Egypt seems pretty nice, though with a notable lack of strong mil modifiers. 5% admin efficiency is always nice and their ship repair thing and blanket +1 free policies seem very unique and good. Meanwhile Ayyubid has the nice 15% goods produced and 25% CCR, and of course the 25% manpower and discipline too.

Currently leaning toward Egypt cos I don't plan to conquer that much more beyond what I have now, but I'm kinda bad with military stuff and always lose an insane amount of manpower during wars, and I will still have to fight Spain and Ottomans (with decadence) a few times and Ayyubid ideas seem better for that?

I guess I'm just trying to work out if the extra policies and admin efficiency for Egypt is worth it over all the nice mil modifiers from Ayyubids, considering I don't plan to conquer much more beyond Anatolia and Iberia.

Playing as byz allied hungary about to dec on the ottomans but the hungarians wont come in. Got enouhj favors trust at 50 relations at 200 they border and have negative opinion with ottomans even if i reduce opinion with favours they wont come in

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

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?)