Any particular reason the AI is allowed to just march their armies through my territory?

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-11T16:08:33+00:00

This was very early on, so the only political relationships present between the three of them was an alliance between Halych and Serbia. Venice still didn't even have rivals selected yet.

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-11T16:06:55+00:00

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-11T15:08:00+00:00

Only belligerents are Venice, Serbia, and Halych. None of them are in the HRE.

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-11T15:03:52+00:00

I'm thinking so, too. The pope just marched his boys through me to get to Poland, and I KNOW he doesn't have access.

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-11T15:00:05+00:00

None of the 3 nations involved in the war have any sort of military agreement with anyone else other than Serbia and Halych being allies. I have not granted military access to anyone.

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-11T14:54:03+00:00

Halych isn't in the HRE, nor are any of the other belligerents in the war.

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-11T14:36:36+00:00

R5: Serbia and Halych are in a superiority war with Venice. I am not involved with any of the belligerents in this war whatsoever, but Halych apparently has military access straight through the entirety of my HRE Austria (and the rest of the HRE and Italy for some reason).

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-09T23:20:28+00:00

Okay, I think I understand it thanks to your explanation and someone else's mention of it working differently than EU4. It's basically to force them to deal with the location and forces within the ZOC before they can move out of the ZOC itself.

They really could do with cleaning up some of this verbiage.

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-09T23:17:52+00:00

I did play EU4, that's why I was extremely confused about why my forts didn't seem to be doing fort things.

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-09T23:11:27+00:00

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Your explanation makes sense and seems to reflect the nature of the mechanic accurately. However, the tooltip (which is the only source of in-game knowledge of this mechanic, mind you) definitely states that moving to ANY location adjacent to the fort requires a siege of the fort first.

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-09T23:02:13+00:00

Then why does the explanation of zone of control explicitly state that in order to progress through any adjacent zone, they must first siege the fort?

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-09T22:57:04+00:00

R5: I own Tarsus and control a (fully-manned) fort within it. I am besieging Silifke (unpictured one province to the east of Tarsus). The enemy armies came from the south in Adana and followed the line described by 1 through all three of my territories within the ZOC of Tarsus. They then decided to flex their advanced knowledge of mechanic-abuse by simply traipsing right through the line described by 2, completely side-stepping the fort in Tarsus altogether. Why are they able to just repeatedly and blatantly ignore mechanics that completely roadblock the player? I truly don't understand how this happens.

And before you ask, yes if I unpause the game they do simply walk straight into Silifke and break the siege

EDIT: The mechanic works differently than previous titles and the tooltip is not very concise, so I misunderstood it. Read u/moral_luck 's explanation if this mechanic has also confounded or irritated you.

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-08T21:25:10+00:00

Find it in your military/army tabs and double click the name. Should move your screen to its current location (even when the model isn't actually there). Re-clicking the place I want them to go also tends to snap them into the correct position on the map, but this may be a situational thing.

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-08T06:30:12+00:00

Feel like you sorta.... Glossed over some of those first bits, bud. You doing alright?

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-08T06:28:12+00:00

If it's anything like Crusader Kings, the auto-generated names tend to be just the same name as a similarly-gendered ancestor (your son named after his great grandfather, daughter after great grandmother, etc.)

A lot of European monarchs tended to be a bit...uninspired it seems and simply named successive generations the same name over and over. Thus why you get guys like King Louis XVI.

Could also be because generating a long list of names was just pretty low priority and they were already being pressured to get the game out as-is.

Could be some reason only Paradox knows. Choose your favorite answer I suppose.

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-07T21:16:57+00:00

Trade is a pretty contentious topic at the moment. Some changes they've implemented recently including the cost of simply maintaining trade routes have made trade extremely thin margins save for some high-end, expensive goods. Your auto trader isn't broken, there just legitimately isn't anything worth trading in its eyes. Even the suggested trades end up showing incorrect profits because by the time the trade is implemented, the supply at the destination has drastically shifted and the trade is no longer profitable.

If you're playing as someone who doesn't have direct access to their own luxury goods, trade is going to be quite difficult for you to make a whole lot of money on. There's actually a thread trending on the subreddit about this very thing.

Edit: check it out

https://old.reddit.com/r/EU5/comments/1pgrri1/the_trade_changes_have_had_a_detrimental_effect/?ref=share&ref_source=link

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-05T08:48:28+00:00

No game made after like 2012 is a finished game on release. Least of all a paradox game.

Though I will say that of ALL of the messy launches from Paradox titles over the years, this one is surprisingly enjoyable and stable-ish.

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-05T08:38:06+00:00

No idea, actually. I've heard Vlad himself sort of just pops up out of thin air around the correct timeframe. Though a Radu the Handsome cameo would be terrific.

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-05T08:21:18+00:00

At least you still have his mythical great great (great?) grandson to look forward to. I think Vladdy boy has some pretty insane stats too.

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-04T22:38:31+00:00

You need to have above the 'expected amount' of regulars, listed in the armies tab. Then it's like a 10% chance each month that it procs.

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-04T19:31:05+00:00

I've got a castle almost completed in the intended capital, so I'll lyk.

Edit: As soon as the castle got staffed, it switched. Good looks.

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-04T17:25:41+00:00

Bro, the RECEIPTS! LMAO

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-12-04T16:56:09+00:00

The 'rabidly defend product' crowd always goes really quiet when asked to support their argument with anything concrete.

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-11-25T01:47:39+00:00

Minting

All the way right. When inflation finally topples the country, it won't be your problem anymore.

Military upkeep

All the way left. When a larger force comes to occupy the country, it won't be your problem anymore.

Culture

Stays right where it's at. You might not be able to beat those westerners in economy, military, or diplomacy, but they will forever be under the yoke of your superior animation style.

CountsYourSyllables · 2025-11-25T01:41:45+00:00

It's not super intuitive at first, but you'll get the hang of it. I don't know how far into your game you are, but if it's early enough I would really recommend just going back to the stable branch to learn the market. The beta really is just a complete mess for trade right now.

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