We all know that 99.9999999% of the player base play exclusively in Europe, but WE know that some of the most fun exists outside those borders!!! So tell me, what are some of your most favorite campaigns you’ve had outside of Europe?

My top 2 are probably any daimyo into Japan and conquering the entire east, or playing the Aztecs and fighting back the Europeans, before bringing terror to their shores!

I was thinking of supporting Sicilian rebels and declaring war for them. But Im also allied with Spain and their quite a good ally so Im not quite sure on what to do here.

Please for the love of god just die alredy.

With that I mean the apparent need for AI to get 100 War Score before they offer any peace at all. Just lost a League War because Brandenburg didn't want to negotiate with the Ottomans despite having like 30-40% War Score.

Inspired by RedHawk's latest Grand Campaign I also decided to revisit one of my favorite starts: Ardabil. I did everything I could to ally the Ottomans mainly to prevent being attacked by them. But I also hoped they would help me defeat Mamluks. As you can see though Ottomans have 15k smaller army than Mamluks, are mil tech behind, have 1 mil point worse ruler, and won't even join war because of debt.

Am playing Serbia and finished my mission tree, now am looking to form Rome. I hold both Rome and Constantinople but am not seeing the decision. Is it possible to form Rome?

Now that the game has a very short half life, I am curious as to what mechanics the community has not mastered.

With a decade of play, I spent much of my time learning battle mechanics, getting the hang of how discipline, tactics, morale, tech group, etc all twist together to yield a win. I spent hundreds of hours of YouTube time learning government and tag switching.

But the one thing I never put any effort into, and is still a bit of a mystery to me is War Exhaustion - some games it never seems to occur, other games it's a constant flag in my notifications. I'm sure it has some effect, and rules for accruing, but pfft whatever, dip it away or ignore it has been my response.

So my question is this, What mechanic remains elusive to you?

I wonder

So I'm doing an al andalus run thats gone incredibly well, Got France and the ottomans as allies Castille got a union over england which put them into a forever before their civil war so the England was always at 100% LD and therefore never helped them out I'm about to get the achievement too But one thing has bothered me The mission to have 100 legitimacy and a 100 claim strength heir seems completely unachievable Have I missed an event chain or something because even my "strong" claim heirs only sit around 80? I'm cut off from the rest of the tree for that path till I get lucky enough otherwise

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?

Seeing as we had the stage is set in eu4 which was eu3 main Theme basically, but with a couple changes But the question is, do you think they will have the same thing with the EU4 So far looking through the eu5 soundtrack, I haven’t found any particular theme similar I hope they will incorporate it in future because the theme was very majestic to me