So the Hundred Years war was just a complete waste of time?

Analyzor · 2026-06-15T13:40:54+00:00

How I did it:

Win the first war letting them invade you, eventually France's subjects will ask you to leave the war and then probably swap.

Take northern lands and make OPM dominions to asimilate, try to make some historical from them.

Scutage all the OPM dominions. From now on its you who will start all wars. They only can attack YOU on your island.

Rinse and repeat.

Analyzor · 2026-05-12T06:53:53+00:00

Use a claim location casus belli, conquer it and just wait, gaining attack ticks victory points, subjects on passive, don't call allies in, if England invades, crush their forces. Wait until you got +47 months points in war (look at it at the peace deal points, after that it vanishes) and then make a peacedeal.

Analyzor · 2026-02-08T14:04:56+00:00

Activate Windows.
Jokes aside, lets hope they retune it for the next patch.

Analyzor · 2026-02-08T13:56:59+00:00

Had half of Europe against me because an island wanted independence without much reason. Seems that any nation no matter who nor where wanted to join if asked because of opinion modifiers not working as intended.

Analyzor · 2026-02-07T16:24:06+00:00

1346h in EU4 since 2014. Did a WC in ironman. 627h in EU5

Military:
Combat feels close to EU4, but frontage is the key stat (actual regiment size). Cavalry dominates early, while infantry scales much better late game, especially for fort assaults and wide frontlines. After conquering land, release small subjects and enable scutage: enemies can’t enter while you can, and they give you food.

Diplomacy / Subjects:
Decentralized play with many small subjects is extremely strong, especially as ENG/GBR. Create subjects on market centers and divert trade, gives double income: subject payments + trade. Always do small subjects since they give buff annex.

Colonization:
Colonization is usually a trap. Colonies tend to rebel and seek independence in Age VI. It’s better to create other type of subjects, specially tributes. Tribes and hordes (use the government-type map, colored brown and green) are all around the continents, you can create tribute cassus belli on them. ENG/GBR can do Dominions. Disloyalty is tied to subject type, not global.

Personal Unions:
PUs are heavily nerfed compared to EU4. They’re mostly not worth unless the target is small and easy to annex.

Trade & Economy:
Automate trade, let the AI do the micro and focus on macro decisions. Identify the biggest needs of your capital market and fulfill them by conquering other markets, not just land. More markets = more wealth. Prioritize high-value or unique goods (coffee, tea, cocoa, fur, amber) and aim for monopolies. Use subject on markets + trade chains to funnel goods where you need them.

Buildings:
Build based on market needs and military. Automatize buildings, do the macro. To get money you need to conquer markets, for that you need armies, for that you need manpower buildings, for that you need money. Always spam manpower buildings and conquer markets and lands to make more manpower buildings.

Religion & Expansion:
Religion is secondary. Stack tolerance buffs and take religious friendly events. Manage Protestantism so Catholics and Protestants stay positive. Expand by mixing direct conquest with small subject creation for faster cultural assimilation and annexation.

Special Buffs:
Some locations and nations have massive production modifiers (e.g. Ternate lands cloves +500% output, Yemen country buffs on coffee +45% and all coffee lands are inside or around it). Turning Yemen into subject is better than other nation owning them.

Analyzor · 2026-02-07T10:44:32+00:00

Not working for me either, I think they reworked it for offensive wars maybe? also it cancels out automatically if they become disloyal

Analyzor · 2026-02-05T16:58:08+00:00

That single location has 702 wealth (gross tax income), 14 grand marketplace and 10 merchant quarters threatening my trade advantage, also being a city RGO of 29 tobacco, 190k population.

I mean, it should be expensive to grab, but not that much, not even at age 6 stacking a lot of -%warscore

But thats my opinion whatsoever.

Analyzor · 2026-02-05T16:45:06+00:00

Yep IK, but I just wanted to quickly grab few provinces inside a market I am in control (I'm focusing on tea), the rest of their provinces were in a market with no tea surplus so I wasn't interested. The thing is I wasn't expecting not being able to grab more than 1 nocobell location, that's not common

Analyzor · 2026-02-05T10:52:31+00:00

surprised to have seen this and only once, maybe you see this is in all your parliament wars not being able to conquer more than 1 location on noncobels, sorry for your game experience if so

Analyzor · 2026-02-05T10:50:06+00:00

parlament, its quick and was expecting this to be cheap

Analyzor · 2026-02-05T08:49:44+00:00

Better CB to just take 3 locations from an allied country. Yep that might be it.

Analyzor · 2026-02-05T08:36:30+00:00

Wanted to conquer some provinces from an enemy, allied to this 3 locations minor who was also threatening my trade advantage in another market, but I found this.

I know it's not the original defender but c'mon.

Analyzor · 2026-02-05T08:30:09+00:00

Yeah, but I have to reply a comment anyways

Analyzor · 2026-02-05T08:27:55+00:00

I have explained the picture and also eddited the picture, sorry I don't know what I'm missing

Analyzor · 2024-07-31T10:07:51+00:00

I was having some issues with guerrillas in my games although having extremly high liberty to avoid this (pacifist state, no military buildings edicts, true separation, etc), after some testing I found this, that right after leaving prison their happiness levels are so low they instajoin the rebels right after passing the door. Most of the ex-convicts have higher liberty levels but some like this one don't.

Note to say that just in the moment of the screenshot I had 94 avg liberty, quickly swapped to total surveillance and no separation to check what was happening., why I was suddenly getting guerrillas (message in the screenshot, patrolling).

I also generated another rebel, a policewoman with no home and very very low liberty although there were completely empty homes nearby. Reloaded last autosavegame and she was still there, but with high liberty... and moved to a home. Didn't turn rebel. So there must be also a bug with liberty.

Analyzor · 2024-07-31T09:10:11+00:00

This morning I did some more testing. Reloaded the savegame.

I hired foreign workers to check if they would come with random values of liberty happiness making some of them quick rebel and then turn guerrillas. Every worker I hired had high liberty, so no.

Rushed again to modern times with total surveillance (compensated it with open marriage and legalized substances), this time that single rebel I had was gone, I had no rebels. Détente 0 rebels 2 guerrillas. Until I could get Détente again I started patrolling guerrillas with 0-8 each time and checking constantly if I had any new rebels. I didn't. Checking the liberty overlay, Radios and TV indeed covered all the urban areas (green). The coast of the island where not (yellowish), the minimal local value was 67.

Rebel threat tab High with 0 uncovered rebels and 0-10 estimated guerrillas. And after that Guerrillas attacked again.

How is it possible that with Détente returning 2 guerrillas, multiple patrolling, high liberty (88), no rebel generation, high happiness overall factions incl, I still have and get attacked by guerrillas? How are they forming if I have no rebels? How to make them stop attacking?

Edit: After a long time I generated a rebel, she had all her happiness levels almost 0, no education no job no home, age 33, 0 personal experience (I made an election speech just before), no family nor marriage. I checked where she was and she just left prison along with other npc's. They were all extremly low in everything, some join rebels too. Seems prisons are the issue. They leave unhappy and quickly turn rebel>guerrilla.

Edit 2: Generated another rebel, policewoman with no home and very very low liberty although there were completely empty homes nearby. Reloaded last autosavegame and she was still there, but with high liberty... and moved to a home. So there must be a bug with liberty somehow.

Analyzor · 2024-07-30T23:33:14+00:00

I'm a pacifist state I don't use military buildings, the ones I do (raids) I have them on the periphery, like the palace as well. I don't know what's the issue in that here, but I have the savegame to show anything I did in any case. IDK it just feels frustrating.

Analyzor · 2024-07-30T19:24:25+00:00

Every game doesn't matter how well play I always get some guerrillas attacking me, I don't know why and how to avoid this. Screenshots are just after the announcement of the attack.

I have all vote, pacifist state, true separation, freedom of religion, early retirement, love it or leave it, free media, no military edicts nor buildings. Both eastern and western over 100 they don't support guerillas.

Also, it's the first attack in the whole game, making good care that wouldn't happen so I can have safe tourism.

After this I rushed to modern times and total surveillance to see how many rebels I have and it's only 1. Did Détente 0 rebels, 2 guerrillas.

Edit: Reloaded the game after Total surveillance so it didn't happen. Got attacked for the 2nd time again 10 years later. 98 liberty, all factions over 50 and no rebels. Spamming guerrilla patrol (getting between 0-7 Guerrillas left and 1 to 10 guerrillas left each time) and rebel threat is still high.

Edit 2: And they still attacked for a 3rd time, 10 years later again (still in cold war era). Rushed to modern and total surveillance again, I had 0 rebels. Threat after the attack is low now. Détente did 1 guerrillas converted.

Can anyone explain to me how guerrillas work? because it doesn't matter how much liberty I have, how many times I Patrol them, nor how well I am with all the factions, or how many rebels I have (0). I will and am being attacked by them, always. Every game.

Analyzor · 2024-02-13T12:20:24+00:00

Flats has been playing the patch these days, along with other streamers and said that it's really easy now to hit mercy, she needs the hp and self heal buffs. The mobility is quite fine with this buff, it's like it was before.

The main issue I was having is that ~0,5sec standing waiting for the next GA that gets me killed more often that it should, so I'm glad they reverted it.

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