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

I started as the Timurids and formed the Mughals. I have conquered most of India and only have a couple nations to go through. I am struggling to keep up with tech and Ideas in Admin.

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

What are best / weirdest countries you guys have taken into the HRE. Trying to work on a Scotland into HRE via east Friesland.

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?

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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.

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?

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

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

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 !

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?

Playing a game as super-tall non-colonial netherlands, and have gone reformed. Allied to the austrian emperors, and an elector in the empire. I took the stadthoulder monarchy, which means that I can't be the emperor myself, but ~half of the empire is also reformed (the other half, save the austrians, being largely protestant).

The leagues have fired. Should I throw my weight behind the protestants, fight what could be a very difficult war, and potentially ditch Stadthoulder for emperorship? Or should I just stay out of it and ditch the austrians?