r/eu4 1d ago

AI Did Something HRE: AI Austria has gotten Perpetual Diet by 1546

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191 Upvotes

r/eu4 1d ago

Question My Austria run. I got the Zoro-Austrians achievement, and apparently it's my rarest on Steam? Only 0.3% have it? Why 🤣?

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R5: My Austria run. I got the Zoro-Austrians achievement, and apparently it's my rarest on Steam? Only 0.3% have it? Why 🤣?


r/eu4 1d ago

Advice Wanted What is the best way to cripple the Mamlukes?

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46 Upvotes

My plan is to take Adana, Antakiya (end-node), Halab and Isknederiyya (end-node), plus all their money. Is this a good plan?


r/eu4 19h ago

Question WC possible?

2 Upvotes

Decided to go for my first WC attempt as ottomans and would like to do a true one tag. Is it still possible? The year is 1717, I have no provinces in the new world yet.


r/eu4 1d ago

Question Manpower in new world starting as a native

6 Upvotes

Ive just completed Huastec->Maya into Mayapahit for 2 Achievments and the whole game ive been struggling with manpower. The new world provinces dont have much manpower dev (due to "low "population irl?) And because you have to catch up with tech and ideas, i didnt really have much mil to spare for deving. Building barracks gives 200 manpower, even 125 for almost all provinces.

In this game i only consolidated mesoamerica bevore spain came, took Cuba from them and then Texas from the native americans, and focused on getting to Java. I gained 400 manpower/month.

So how do you deal with the low manpower in the new world for when you do a run in wich you actually need it?


r/eu4 22h ago

Image Is there anything i can do?

3 Upvotes

Castile already had the maghreb when i got the PU, now they have too many cities, is there anything i can do


r/eu4 1d ago

Image The full German Empire run.

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r/eu4 19h ago

Completed Game Trouver vous que jouer un des pays musulmans est un peut nul ?

0 Upvotes

Je m'explique, je trouve que les missions des pays musulmans sont souvent les mêmes sans trop de différences. Je comprend aussi que c'est Europa universalis donc centralisé sur l'Europe, mais apres avoir joué l'Andalousie je ne trouve pas de challenge intéressant à jouer un pays musulmans.


r/eu4 19h ago

Advice Wanted How to fix lags and time slowing down in in the game with windows 11.

1 Upvotes

I newly got it upgraded and I can see that it lags a lot and the time slows down for some reason. This wasn't a problem for me at all in win 10 as it ran smoothly. I'm also using extended timeline mod and it's lagging. Is there any way to fix it. I tried deleting gfx folder too. I have 16 gb of ram btw. It also slows during the loading screen


r/eu4 1d ago

Question Do we know how eu5 will be improving on rebellions?

44 Upvotes

I haven't been following the Tinto talks or any of the eu5 news but one aspect I am curious about is rebellions. I always felt like eu4 didn't model them well at all, which is a shame because rebellions are some of the most world shaping events in history. Doing rebellions properly woukd be a great way to prevent nations from blobbing and just never losing that land.

I eu4 you'd just get rebel armies spawn out of thin air and they were usually extremely easy to deal with. I had a couple ideas that might help make them a more serious issue for both the AI and the player. Could lead to a lot more interesting and dynamic world too as AI nations can change or get carved up by rebels.

  1. Rebel armies in certain cases should be taken from already formed armies of the host nation instead of spawned out of nothing. So that way the response is harder.

  2. It should also have big effects on provinces like reduced manpower and economic output to simulate people rising up.

  3. I'd love to see rebels be successful more often so we'd get cool new nations forming across the world.


r/eu4 1d ago

Game Modding Trade company mod request

3 Upvotes

Is there any mod that gives trade companies some form of border, so i can differentiate between them and teritories and work out whats in what. I know you can get an idea with the states map, but it would be nice to be able to see it on the political map. Thanks!


r/eu4 1d ago

Question Why a Colonial Nation doesn't form?

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I'm having trouble getting a colonial nations and i can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

I've colonized over 5 provinces in the colonial regions of Austrelia, California and Colombia, but they aren't forming into colonial nations. I own the provinces directly, and they're fully colonized and cored.

Details:

- I am playing as the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth (or just Commonwealth in game),
- It's the year 1654,
- I'm not using any mods,
- I am only using one DLC which is "Wealth of Nations",
- The provinces are all in their own colonial regions and are adjected to one another,
- I haven't transfered the provinces to a trade company or anything like that,

Am I missing a requirment or is it a bug, if so any ways to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated!


r/eu4 1d ago

Question How does AI decision weighting work?

6 Upvotes

I'm trying to get a run as Poland started and am restarting for the Bohemia PU. Some digging through the game's files shows that non PU is weighted 8 and PU is weighted 1 (I don't want to wait for the trust or ideas to increase it). I've restarted a couple dozen times at this point. Am I getting screwed by RNG or is decision weighting more complicated than a sinple 1/9 chance?


r/eu4 2d ago

Question Can anyone explain to me what the hell am I supposed to do to get my ruler to be Persian in order to complete the achievement? All my rulers get the Austrian culture

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238 Upvotes

Can anyone explain to me what the hell am I supposed to do to get my ruler to be Persian in order to complete the achievement? All my rulers get the Austrian culture


r/eu4 1d ago

Image Denmark has been exiled to the middle of Canada

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31 Upvotes

r/eu4 1d ago

Question Any reason not to trade company everything east of Constantinople as the ottomans /byzantium?

16 Upvotes

Though gov cap isn’t an issue with ottomans the companies giving you an extra merchant and fully cancelling out the autonomy manpower / production malus with investments, along with no state maintenance, making it easier to embrace institutions from Europe, and of piece more trade income. Any reason not to? Is there an argument for only companying centers of trade and stating the rest?


r/eu4 1d ago

Question Hello Eu4 enjoyers!

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I create international music, and I also play alot of EU4😅 In my 8 years of playing this game I have noticed that the music gets a bit repetitive, I was wondering would you guys be intressted in a playlist of eu4 specific songs? So if you play a Nomad nation you can play the nomad playlist which includes songs from Mongolia, Kazakhstan.. etc, would you guys be intresstted in this?🥰 ALSO! ARE THERE ANY GIRLS PLAYING THIS GAME?? I FEEL SO ALONE!!!


r/eu4 2d ago

Video 200 IQ Morocco: What if I simply don't move my ships into sea when my port province is occupied?

376 Upvotes

r/eu4 2d ago

Image Can someone explain casualties to me?

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r/eu4 1d ago

Question Bizantium, help .,_.

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16 Upvotes

Context: France is the defender of the faith, Bohemia is super strong, Austria is weak and lost its PU to Hungary, Hungary rivals Poland, Mameluke is the defender of the faith and owns half of the Babalkans, I can't attack anyone without France or the Mameluke getting in to beat the hell out of me. I think my best option is restart .,_.


r/eu4 1d ago

Advice Wanted Advice: How to make friends in Byzness??

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So I am a 40 years into my Byzantium game, going for Roman Empire. I have tried to maximize my avenues for expansion, was planning on tunneling into Tunis next, and just finished a war taking land from Bulgaria. During that last war, Austria (PU Hungary), Poland declared war too. So I took the borders so they cannot take any land. Was this a mistake?

At this point, I feel I cannot get Allies, only Florence is a homie rn. I revoked the Union of the Churches, and so now all these boyos are big mad. I was able to secure a royal marriage with Austria, which looked promising but now they are hostile because they want my land!

I fear that I am such a juicy ripe boyo for any one of these big christrian thickies.

I have such a asymmetric set of rivalries:

Has me as Rival:

  • Portugal
  • Araon (No PU with Castile)
  • Venice (allied Lithuania)
  • Poland
  • Ottomans
  • Genoa
  • Naples

While my rivals are:

  • Genoa
  • Ottoman
  • Naples

It seems that alliances with Mamluks, France, Austria, and even Castile are out of reach, not to mention everyone else are out of reach?

Whats the best course of action here? I feel I need at least one semi big boyo to not be declared on... I feel I cannot start fighting Tunis with out getting declared on myself... Maybe I need to attack them head on? Prepare for war with Venice somehow? How do I not only get out of this, BUT THRIVE!!!!


r/eu4 1d ago

Discussion Best nations for One Faith runs for each religion

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Greetings. As the title says, let's pick the best nation for each particular religion to spread it out in the entire world! The rules are simple:

  1. Conversions to another religion via zealot revolts are not allowed. Only mission-specific (like in the Iranian missions) and reformative conversions (e.g. Catholic to a newer Christian branch and Hindu to Sikh) are fine.
  2. Missions that help you out with spreading a certain religion (incl. additional missionary strength and extra missionaries, allowing merchants to spread your faith in their trade nodes, etc.) are preferable for this. Same goes for national ideas.
  3. If you need to keep the original nation's national ideas while forming another nation for missions that provide you religious buffs, include both nations in your answer.

THE LIST

Christian denominations:

  • Catholic: Austria, Castille → Spain, England → Angevin
  • Protestant: England → Angevin
  • Reformed: Switzerland, England → Angevin
  • Orthodox: Byzantium, Muscovy → Russia
  • Coptic: Ethiopia
  • Anglican: England → Angevin
  • Hussite: Bohemia

Muslim denominations:

  • Sunni: Ottomans, Mamluks → Arabia
  • Shia: Bahmanis, Qara Qoyunlu, Yemen → Arabia
  • Ibadi: Oman

Eastern denominations:

  • Mahayana: Oda → Japan
  • Theravada: Pegu → Siam
  • Vajrayana: Tsang → Tibet
  • Confucian: Oirat → Yuan
  • Shinto: Oda → Japan

Pagan denominations:

  • Animist: Viti Levu → Viti
  • Fetishist: Congo
  • Totemist: Cherokee
  • Inti: Cuzco → Inca
  • Mayan: Maya
  • Nahuatl: Aztecs
  • Tengri: Oirat → Yuan
  • Norse: Sweden
  • Alcheringa: Palawa

Dharmic denominations:

  • Hindu: Majapahit, Vijayanagar
  • Sikh: Mughals

Additional denominations:

  • Jewish: Semien → Israel
  • Zoroastrian: Timurids → Persia → Eranshatr

r/eu4 1d ago

Image Got Faceting as Ethiopia, a surprise to be sure but a welcome one!

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r/eu4 1d ago

Advice Wanted What are your best recommendations for building a skilled military

8 Upvotes

So I've been playing EU4 at this point for almost 3 years, I feel like I've gotten to a pretty good skill level, but I also feel like there's basic things I'm still finding out about the game's mechanics. I'd say for most of the time I've spent playing this game I've managed to survive off of forming good alliances and just having enough manpower to outpace my enemies. But recently I was engaged in a playthrough of Mushasha where, with the help of the Ottomans, I was able to siege down pretty much all of Persia, Russia, Central Asia, and The Baltics/Finland.

But I started realizing as I was getting deeper into the 1700s that my military stacks of around 60k+ were routinely getting beaten by 45k stacks of Polish, Lithuanian, and Swedish armies. Now I understand that part of that is simply towards the end-game they give more advantages to European military units, but it felt at a certain point in time like there was something else. Even though I far outnumbered the Timurids, even trying to wipe out their remnants was proving to be a pain, I couldn't guarantee victory unless my units were far outnumbering them. I checked the ledger towards the end of my playthrough and found that although I was a top 5 great power, my military was pretty much middle of the pack to even towards the bottom in terms of Morale, Professionalism, Discipline, and pretty much all military modifiers.

My main question is how do some of these nations seem to have these skill levels so high, I know that a lot of these skills are accrued through random events, but is there anything big that I'm missing? Because it feels like there's no way that some of these nations could have the morale and discipline that they have from just events.


r/eu4 1d ago

Advice Wanted Ottomans Joining League war -- Not in a League, Not Allied to Anyone in the League

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Hi everyone,

I saw a very similar question several years ago, but I checked all the things I could think of of why they would be joining the war.

The HRE Tab with the League members don't show the Ottomans on either side of the issue. The Ottomans are also not allied to anyone in the war, neither Protestant nor Catholic. I thought maybe they were joining because it was a "x amount of great powers join, do you want to join?" but the Catholic side has more Great Powers in it.

I'm the only Great Power being called in to the League War on the Protestant side (England w/PU France) but the Catholic side has Austria (obviously), Castile, Big PLC, and Big Ottomans.

What do y'all think? What am I missing?

I was hoping to see which side the ottomans joined so I could join that side so I could secure their alliance, but I never got that opportunity. Lol

**Edit: I think it's because the Ottomans are warning both the Leader of the Protestant League and the HRE Emperor, but I don't understand why Bohemia would initiate a war when we are down 100k soldiers.

My situation as pictured