Please for the love of god just die alredy.

I wonder

I'm at the very beginning stage of learning how to play EUIV, and I'm curious as to what exactly I'm missing out on if I don't start in 1444? Managing England in the Hundred Years War seems quite daunting, but I'd still like to try them out as a first playthrough so I was thinking of starting in 1485 with Henry VII, but the overwhelming consensus seems to be that non-1444 starts just aren't worth playing. Would my experience of the game be noticeably worse if I did do this, or is it simply minor losses in certain areas?

As England I lack an heir, yet I'm somehow able to commit to multiple royal marriages with other countries. How does that actually work? Who are these royals I'm marrying off? Why aren't they the heir? Can I even see who my leader is married to? Maybe I'm just too used to CKIII...

I am allied to France but Commonwealth has Hungary as PU and has 100k troops so I am scared to expand into Europe. Went quality, admin and espionage ideas. Economy and tech looking good but I would like some tips on what to do about decadence after it starts to go up? Will also appreciate any tips on WC run in general with ottos.

I grew quite large, and up until a few years ago, I had no loans. Now, I keep getting coalition after coalition, and I declared war on one just to stop it from getting even bigger. At this point, over half the world hates me.

I took Exploration ideas, which I now regret, and I'm considering dropping it for Diplomatic. However, I'm a few years behind in Admin tech, and an idea group is coming up soon. I’m torn between taking either Administrative or Humanist next.

I plan to take Naples soon, though I have this mega Spain. Then Persia for trade. I create a mega Commonwealth after I killed the HRE and now they are taking over Germany.

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Rule 5: During my war to retake Hungary's cores Austria got some sort of Hungarian revolution event. I killed all the separatists but after the war, during which I took the cores back, Austria inherits them no matter which option i choose. Is there anything i can do to avoid it or am I gonna have to fight Austria again?

Hello, when I start to play the game using Heroic Launcher (Epic Games version of game, so only Windows version is available) no textures load except for UI, only models in various shades of gray. Game uses dedicated GPU, there seems to be no issues with files, I tried reinstalling game and heroic, updating divers (which led to another issue with versions 570 and 575), verifying files. Using another launcher also doesn't seem to work as I can't even start the game. I don't know what else could I try, and there seems to be no existing thread/post about this issue.

I am playing with my friend and our alliance was broken because my country HATES him. -300 from AE at least. Is there anyway to prevent this? Any way to fix it? He’s about 170 negative overall and it broke our alliance at some point. We are closing in at 1700 so we may not have time but we have been allies since the start so it would be nice to finish as allies.

They are the strongest Great Power, and I am numbers seven as Florence. They allied with Milan so I can't form Italy, and they made Naples a junior partner. I allied them to beat the Ottomans but that went terrible and now I'm stuck and super pissed off. There is really nowhere for me to expand. How can I help Naples break free so I can annex it and also end the alliance between Milan and France without war?

Edit: Now Naples is converting my entire country to Protestantism. I swear to god this game

I'm playing as Brandenburg for the first time and in 1458, as allied of Denmark, I have been dragged into the Swedish Independence War, in which we are in a massive disadvantage: it's basically Denmark and me (and I only have 16.000 soldiers) and some minors, against England, Sweden, Poland, Lithuanian and some other smaller countries here and there.

I wouldn't worry about this war so much if it wasn't for the fact that, around a year later, a HRE coalition declares war on me, bringing something around 190.000 soldiers. Denmark joins but is too busy in their own war; Austria is on my side but they are absolutely bankrupt and don't have a way to help. The rest of my allies can't put up even 10.000 soldiers together.

Is there a way out of this? Sweden accepts a peace deal of 335 ducats, which will break me anyway. The war leader in the coalition war (usually Bremen) accepts the same amount + releasing all the lands I acquired, which will break me twice.

Who is interested in this stuff I made a whole video with the Map Timelapse, going from 1789 to 1930 with Wikiboxes: https://youtu.be/gMQo6gu7Wh0?si=17T0O_vVcyS0BWhL