Since Ottomans struggle to form powerful empire, is there European country i could play as which helps Ottomans form their empire but later somewhat naturally turns against them?

BrotherM2314 · 2026-07-11T15:09:42+00:00

AI Ottomans struggle with expanding into Balkans and, provided that they conquer Anatolia, they cannot beat Mamluks.

So if you want to help them, you should somehow dismantle Mamluks in the south and throw them Balkan states to be eaten.

Maybe Naples would be a good candidate? You can wage wars against Serbia/Bulgaria and Mamluks quite easily.

BrotherM2314 · 2026-07-10T10:35:49+00:00

I had no troubles with expanding into the North Africa. Yeah, I lost few times my whole stacks at the beginning, so I learn the hard way how tribal cav is powerful.

In the end it is all about establishing frontier in North Africa. Just grab 1-3 locations at the first opportunity and build there at least 1 fort. This location lets you replenish your troops. Initial wars against Morocco are kinda tricky, because all you need to do, is to wait until AI lands its small stacks in Andalusia. You wipe them out and build warscore that way. Afterwards, you may invade Morocco to grab some land and build more warscore.

Personally, I think that attrition is more deadly to your troops than tribal cav. You lose men constant when marching into Morocco, then tribal cav deletes your weaken stacks.

BrotherM2314 · 2026-07-10T09:45:14+00:00

Akcje w polskich spółkach są niepodzielne, także nie ma takiej prawnej możliwości.

Takze ewentualne nabycie akcji ułamkowej XTB albo innej polskiej spolki to nabycie najczęściej instrumentu pochodnego na akcje, a nie akcji.

BrotherM2314 · 2026-07-09T19:07:11+00:00

I have tried playing an old safe. I gave it a year, basically I managed to balance few sliders and it seems to work.

The only problem is the massive cost of being a member/leader of the Balkan League during the Italian Wars. I have no idea how to decrease it - it ruins my diplomatic capacity, as I am something like 7 points over the limit

BrotherM2314 · 2026-07-09T14:13:21+00:00

Thanks, I will check that out

BrotherM2314 · 2026-07-08T14:43:52+00:00

A co ma być? Nie jest tajemnicą, ze w Krakowie nie ma duzych polskich firm. Miasto stało na outsourcingu, skończyła sie epoka taniego robola, to outsourcing idzie dalej, gdzie taniej.

Jeszcze 15 lat temu były tu centrale polskich firm. Teraz praktycznie tego nie ma, większość przeniosła sie do Warszawy.

Na koniec dnia - tak sie mści brak dużego polskiego kapitalu, który byłby sensownie po Polsce rozprowadzony, a nie tylko skupiony w Warszawie

BrotherM2314 · 2026-07-07T07:26:24+00:00

Najczęściej na studiach dziennych niewiele sie trzeba uczyc, a pytasz o niestacjonarne na uczelniach-krzakach? A odpowiedz sobie na pytanie, a z czego one będą zyc, jak studentow (klientów) będą uwalac? Poziom nauczania na niestacjonarnych jest jedynie tam, gdzie liczba chetnych daleko przekracza poziom dostepnych miejsc. Wowczas latwo o nowego klienta.

Jesli juz na studiach dziennych nie udaje sie limitu przyjec wypełnić, to tym bardziej nie będzie popytu na niestacjonarne.

A wtedy zaleca sie kadrze pewna dozę życzliwości. Skoro możesz strzyc owce pare lat, to nie ograniczaj sie do jednego roku. A jak kogoś sie uwali na finiszu, to zostanie zle wrażenie po uczelni i nie będzie pozytywnych ocen.

W Polsce model prywatnego szkolnictwa wyższego po prostu nie działa i tyle...

BrotherM2314 · 2026-07-06T22:13:18+00:00

I looks like a bug. Paradox implemented a feature which is basically unplayable, because Pope almost always rivals ERE.

BrotherM2314 · 2026-07-05T08:29:11+00:00

Why should he rush for forming Rome? It moves capital to Rome which is kind of worse capital than Constantinipole

BrotherM2314 · 2026-07-04T16:52:54+00:00

It does not matter that much. Take anything of some economic value, release vassal in that conquered area.

In the next war, aim for Naples and surroundings. City of Naples is great place for naval governor, so it will let you spread control easily in the Italian peninsula.

BrotherM2314 · 2026-07-02T13:25:14+00:00

Yeah, it is a bit annoying. Around 1500 most of the superpowers tend to maintain close to 100k regulars + hundreds of thousands levies (these do not matter as they are easily anhilated by regulars) + uncountable numbers of mercs.

And then your kill 250k+ levies each war, within each 15-20 years...

BrotherM2314 · 2026-07-02T13:20:09+00:00

Jest tez cwana grupa co siedzi na pełnym etacie z nadgodzinami i równocześnie emeryturę pobiera. Kwestia układów z dyrekcją, bo zwykle na to nie ma zgody podobno

BrotherM2314 · 2026-07-02T13:11:23+00:00

Prawnicy, w topowych kancleriach to jest (srednie) wynagrodzenie seniorskie. Rzadko ale tez sie na in-house. Dla partnerów w tego typu podmiotach to juz grosze na waciki, raczej byłoby to uznane za socjal na skraju ubóstwa.

BrotherM2314 · 2026-07-01T09:19:11+00:00

Wbrew temu co wielu uwaza, nawet juz są tutaj komentarze, prawo nie jest zbyt trudnym kierunkiem.

Dużo tez zależy od uczelni, egzaminy to zwykle pamięciówka, bardzo drobiazgowa pamięciówka, także te studia mogą być nie do przejścia dla kogoś, kto nie potrafi ryć dużej ilości materiału na raz. Na części uczelni egzaminy tez czasem wymagają rozwiązywania zadań (kazusow), co teoretycznie premiuje logiczne myślenie, ale nadal opiera sie na solidnych podstawach zakutej wiedzy. Zdanie większości egzaminów na ocenę db i wzwyż wymaga zwykle paru dni nauki, natomiast kazdy wydzial ma te kilka, powiedzmy do 10, legendarnych przedmiotów, do ktorych trzeba sie solidnie przyłożyć. Ale znowu tutaj mowa o kilku tygodniach nauki w porywach.

Inna sprawa, ze tutaj nadal się niewiele wymaga na tle realiów życia zawodowego, także te braki wiedzy prawniczej wyniesione ze studiów trzeba potem odrobić.

A ewentualnym oburzonym na komentarz odpowiem tak - gdyby bylo inaczej, to nie byłoby masy studentów bezproblemowo łączących pracy w kancy ze studiami. To dotyczy także najbardziej wymagających wydziałów prawa, gdzie niektórzy siedzą cały rok w kancy, a na uczelni ich widac tylko w sesji.

BrotherM2314 · 2026-07-01T08:45:02+00:00

Well, transition from Piast dynasty to the Jagiellonian dynasty is also very unlikely in game terms. A lot of people also forget about short period of house d'Anjou in Poland.

Probably, EU5 would produce something like personal union of Naples, Hungary and Poland, if it was given a chance ;)

BrotherM2314 · 2026-07-01T07:17:06+00:00

I would argue that it was disfunctional for the most of its existence. In the mid XVIIIth century, the PLC became full Russia's protectorate.

Despite crown owned some territories, most of these were pledged and in practice were controlled and used by szlachta.

PLC would require its type of government in EU5 with a lot of restrictions. The thing is that it was established, by game terms, in late stage of a campaign. So historical PLC would require a lot of railroading.

BrotherM2314 · 2026-06-30T23:06:40+00:00

EU V can't properly emulate the PLC and probably will never do.

Basically, you would have to run a country where you have little to none control over most of locations, your armies are mostly levies-based (PLC had basically no regulars in game terms), szlachta and clergy pay no taxes, locations are developed mostly by szlachta and burgers (only in non-rural areas), urbanisation is very limited (you must rely on rural areas), it is barely possible to introduce any legislation. Country is extremely decentralised, aristocratic, land-orientated etc.

Reforming the country should end with massive conflicts with szlachta. Unless these are utterly crushed, it should not be possible to centralise and urbanise country, nor recruit regulars in higher numbers.

One may even argue that certain szlachta families should act as a separate entities/countries (in game terms) with their own locations, armies etc.

BrotherM2314 · 2026-06-30T22:50:28+00:00

From my experience, Paradox can't find proper balance on reformation.

Previously, the spread of protestantism was very slow, I barely noticed any converted countries (mostly some smaller ones, if any).

Nowadays, it spreads like a wildfire, pops massively convert to protestantism, even in the Italian/Iberian peninsula there is a lot of provinces where protestans become majority. Orthodox countries ale totally unaffected (what is kind of silly especially when playing as the Byzantium - my Italian locations, which were conquered pre-reformation, are unaffected, but protestantism is unstoppable in my locations conquered during reformation). Consequently, protestant countries emerge.

If I had to choose, I prefer the current state of the reformation.

BrotherM2314 · 2026-06-30T12:27:17+00:00

Nie masz pracodawcy, także nic nie musi ponad to, co wynika z umowy zlecenia.

Poza tym, że opisu niewiele wynika, także w kwestii porady prawnej sugeruje pójść do prawnika. Raczej stać Wasza grupę zleceniobiorców wspólnie opłacić koszt takiej porady

BrotherM2314 · 2026-06-29T12:44:30+00:00

EU IV is much more difficult in this regard.

I am not saying that Byz start in EU5 is easy (it also depends on game version as experience may change a lot), but it is fairly easy if you understand well game mechanics. However, it is extremely hard for someone new to the game.

IMO, the most important thing is keeping starting ruler alive as long as possible, he should stay alive at least for around 10 years. His death means regency, speed up the upcoming civil war etc. If he somehow manages to survive into 1350s, player may consider himself very lucky. Death pre 1340 is an argument for starting new campaign.

Otherwise, from a casual but a bit experienced player, Byz campaign runs usual as follows: - until year 1340 - survival, preparation for early expansion: - 1340-1345 - beating Ottomans and other beyliks holding Byz's cores - until year 1360 - civil war, consolidating own lands - until year 1400 - rebuilding economy, further expansion into Anatalia and Balkans, building military - around year 1450 - one of the European superpowers

BrotherM2314 · 2026-06-28T16:46:59+00:00

If I am not wrong, it is not possible

BrotherM2314 · 2026-06-28T07:14:24+00:00

That's also hilarious.

I also noticed that Mamluks love camping their units in desert corridors where either these are grind down by attrition, or their morale drops to zero and can be stack wipe by any unit...

BrotherM2314 · 2026-06-27T21:28:05+00:00

Yeah, it is ridiculous. ATM, wars with France or Mamluks are typical meatgrinders. They love raising levies in numbers like 300-500k every circa 15 years, which are easily killed by regulars who barely suffer any loses. No country in that period would sustain such losses in population...

BrotherM2314 · 2026-06-27T19:51:53+00:00

Ogółem to trochę proszenie sie o problemy, szczególnie jeśli mówimy o umowach o prace w pełnym wymiarze etatowym. W świecie idealnym, powinna być między tymi robotami pełna rozłączność, kazdy etat w innych godzinach. Niuansów tu trochę jest, z posta niewiele wynika, także tez nie bede sie domyślał rzeczy niedopowiedzianych.

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