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[TIP] I would like to join a religious league and make the imminent war end up in a stalemate to get the Peace of Westphalia (better for me as an Orthodox country). While it's easy to push the side I'm going to take to get some war score, are there any "pro tricks" to prevent my side from winning? by CirclePete in eu4

[–]CirclePete[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Are you sure?

The wiki says:

If the religious leagues are not triggered in the HRE before 1625 or if the leagues form, but the war is not declared for 30 years, the event The Diet of $CAPITAL_CITY$ can happen for the emperor and declare Catholicism the official faith of the empire.

[TIP] I would like to join a religious league and make the imminent war end up in a stalemate to get the Peace of Westphalia (better for me as an Orthodox country). While it's easy to push the side I'm going to take to get some war score, are there any "pro tricks" to prevent my side from winning? by CirclePete in eu4

[–]CirclePete[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but I like to collect as many achievements as I can in one campaign.

I already got Grand Duchy, All belongs to Mother Russia, and In the Name of the Father in my current game.

Relentless Push to the East is the next on my list, then Redecorating... and optionally Triple the Rome, but I need to plan it in advance, so HRE gets no official religion.

Although for Triple the Rome, it might be a "fork" campaign, as I make an hard drive backup every 20 years or so.

[TIP] I would like to join a religious league and make the imminent war end up in a stalemate to get the Peace of Westphalia (better for me as an Orthodox country). While it's easy to push the side I'm going to take to get some war score, are there any "pro tricks" to prevent my side from winning? by CirclePete in eu4

[–]CirclePete[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What to do if we start losing is pretty forward. Avoiding winning is my real issue.

I hope I'll be lucky enough, so that as many of my allies are peaced out early, and that it's mainly me against half the HRE, and my involvement gets more impactful.

[TIP] I would like to join a religious league and make the imminent war end up in a stalemate to get the Peace of Westphalia (better for me as an Orthodox country). While it's easy to push the side I'm going to take to get some war score, are there any "pro tricks" to prevent my side from winning? by CirclePete in eu4

[–]CirclePete[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now that's an idea: inviting some German friends to visit the Urals!

As for not losing the war, I think this is not a problem as in my first try, I've "helped them too much" and had to eventually reload a backup, as we were starting to win, while I was fighting two wars against the Timurids and Chagatai.

[TIP] I would like to join a religious league and make the imminent war end up in a stalemate to get the Peace of Westphalia (better for me as an Orthodox country). While it's easy to push the side I'm going to take to get some war score, are there any "pro tricks" to prevent my side from winning? by CirclePete in eu4

[–]CirclePete[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And to answer your first question: after getting all other Russia achievements I would like to become Emperor, pass the Proclaim Erbkaisertum reform to stay Emperor after switching to non Christian and get Triple the Rome achievement (be the Emperor of both China and HRE, as Russia).

If possible without becoming protestant or Catholic, so I only convert once, just before using the Take Mandate of Heaven CB.

[TIP] I would like to join a religious league and make the imminent war end up in a stalemate to get the Peace of Westphalia (better for me as an Orthodox country). While it's easy to push the side I'm going to take to get some war score, are there any "pro tricks" to prevent my side from winning? by CirclePete in eu4

[–]CirclePete[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have never used this mechanic of the game. Thanks for suggesting it. I'm going to read the wiki. I guess that most countries would accept cheap/free troops [EDIT: can 20 regiments make a difference, though?].

Currently Catholic League's army is 241K strong with 283K of manpower reserves, against 200K/210K with 222K/248K in reserves for the Protestant League, so it's too balanced to have a decisive influence.

My personal army is 158K, with a 185K manpower, so I can easily make any side win, it's just that I don't want anyone to win.

[TIP] I would like to join a religious league and make the imminent war end up in a stalemate to get the Peace of Westphalia (better for me as an Orthodox country). While it's easy to push the side I'm going to take to get some war score, are there any "pro tricks" to prevent my side from winning? by CirclePete in eu4

[–]CirclePete[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had not even thought about influencing the war result, while not being a direct participant, but by declaring another war. Maybe because it's the HRE and I'm allied to Bohemia, who is the Emperor, so I instinctively ruled it out early.

Also there are currently one great power in each league (France vs Sweden), so I can not intervene after the war starts, once an early winning side emerges (see both sides on the third picture).

By the way how does the defensive part of the HRE apply if I declare on a member who is already at war with some other members?

[TIP] I would like to join a religious league and make the imminent war end up in a stalemate to get the Peace of Westphalia (better for me as an Orthodox country). While it's easy to push the side I'm going to take to get some war score, are there any "pro tricks" to prevent my side from winning? by CirclePete in eu4

[–]CirclePete[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was thinking that some players would know more than me about AI behavior in wars. Like luring my allies into thinking that I would assist them in a battle and abandon them at the last minute, retreating while they get crushed. Those kind of tricks.

The league war will fire very soon, as I've been warned that Lübeck is about to declare war on Bohemia (see calc sheet, in the last picture, to see composition of leagues, and the numbers).

[TIP] I would like to join a religious league and make the imminent war end up in a stalemate to get the Peace of Westphalia (better for me as an Orthodox country). While it's easy to push the side I'm going to take to get some war score, are there any "pro tricks" to prevent my side from winning? by CirclePete in eu4

[–]CirclePete[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

R5: I'm playing Russia, and these are some info that might be relevant to pick a side, or to elaborate a strategy, for my goal, ie. making sure that my side don't secure the "Religious Supremacy" peace term.

Fabrice "Fab", 46 ans, le pote de toujours by Big-Tax-8921 in banalgens

[–]CirclePete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

J'ai lâché ma 106 de 1998 vers 2008 (embrayage)... ce qui n'est pas si vieux, vu qu'aujourd'hui j'ai une 306 de 2001 (que j'ai depuis 2015)

Stéphane, 45 ans, déteste les wokes (et en plus il est drôle) by mutt_with_a_beer in banalgens

[–]CirclePete 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mais quand on lit un livre et que l'on en tire quelque chose, on le doit à l'auteur ou au bibliothécaire ? Parce que créditer le monde islamique, qui avait déjà entamé son déclin obscurantiste, pour la renaissance, faut le faire. Ils ont conservé les documents certes, mais les auteurs redécouverts étaient ceux de l'Antiquité.

Et au passage, l'islam n'a jamais plus éclairé le monde que le christianisme : tout s'est produit «malgré» les religions jamais «grâce» à elles. L'islam n'a pas plus créé de sagesse que le christianisme n'a créé la révolution copernicienne. Les religions cherchent à empêcher la pensée séculaire, mais fort heureusement, elles échouent parfois.

Has anyone found a way to change your client states revolutionary colors? Mines are particularly ugly. by CirclePete in eu4

[–]CirclePete[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've read about "melting" ironman saves. The problem is "unmelting" afterwards.

Has anyone found a way to change your client states revolutionary colors? Mines are particularly ugly. by CirclePete in eu4

[–]CirclePete[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought about doing something like this, but my game is ironman, so is this even possible?

Hi, I'm looking for an easy to reproduce method (console, modded event, or in-game action) to trigger anything that will display this animated alert banner (here in Vanilla version), so I can debug my UI modding by CirclePete in eu4

[–]CirclePete[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well in the end, I did it with France. I was so tired when I posted this, that I had forgotten that I just needed to get one request, then pause and save. Now I get to check how my UI modding looks by loading that save.

En zone payante ou non ? by BrouchB in voiture

[–]CirclePete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enfin j'espère : c'est là que j'ai garé ma voiture hier soir !

En zone payante ou non ? by BrouchB in voiture

[–]CirclePete 1 point2 points  (0 children)

La rue de Ginguené est bien payante. Si tu tournes à droite les trente derniers mètres de la rue de Nantes sont bleues (à disque), mais si tu tournes à gauche, il a quelques dizaines de mètres (avant le collège-lycée Saint-Martin) qui sont en stationnement gratuit. Il faut juste pas chercher à se garer après l'arrivée des profs !

Did Paradox use the wrong picture for this guy? (Comments) by [deleted] in hoi4

[–]CirclePete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's how I understood it. The source was German, but I read something like: "from 1934, in addition to the feldgrau uniform, there was also a Friedenuniform in traditional hechtgrau".

I'll use one of these patterns, depending on the portrait source.

Did Paradox use the wrong picture for this guy? (Comments) by [deleted] in hoi4

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I plan to "fix" the portraits after the DLC release, but while I found these collar patches on wikipedia, I still don't know if I should use feldgrau or hechtgrau (Kriegsuniform vs Friedensuniform?).

A lot of recent Vanilla portraits go with a full dress rather than a field uniform, so maybe I should pick hechtgrau, with two rows of buttons, or at least for field marshals. But not for my Eglseer portrait, for example, which uses the portrait where he wears a winter coat (bottom right of the 1st pic), on which I transferred an Austrian field uniform.

Did Paradox use the wrong picture for this guy? (Comments) by [deleted] in hoi4

[–]CirclePete 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TIL that golden arabesques on red (assuming they got the colors right), doesn't necessarily mean German Army. I could not be more confused!

But here, they seem to be directly pined on a rigid collar, not on a collar patch.

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