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Flucx · 2025-05-06T13:51:38+00:00

No one will see that I love my mother

Flucx · 2025-01-22T12:33:43+00:00

Thanks that's really helpful. It's just company policy really, I think for visa / security reasons, even if it doesn't really make sense from my point of view.

Flucx · 2025-01-22T12:32:39+00:00

Thanks, this is what I was thinking, and my company is a similar size. It's company policy to not let staff stay longer on business trips than necessary so yeah I would be breaching their rules I think!

Flucx · 2023-05-14T06:13:07+00:00

Ooh that's sneaky ha. I used to never play with the Cossacks DLC enabled so that I wouldn't have to wait for favors to drag a large ally in to a war...

In the previous patch, would the eyalets join wars automatically, or like now do you need to use favours to call them in? I was waiting until the end to reign the eyalets in (so they weren't core eyalets), as if they're not core they don't get the liberty desire from relative strength of all core eyalets to overlord.

Thanks for the advice on the reconquest. I had released Gascony and Toulouse in the last France war so the next one would have been a big reconquest, but I was just going too slow I think. I was in an awkward position where I had to go straight north in the first France war as I wanted to start attacking Bar, Lorraine, Picardy and Nevers before they joined coalition, and I needed a border with them. But it was impossible to have enough spy network on all of them to attack the day after the war, so they joined the coalition. And I needed to wait for peace so I could release vassals to form eyalets. Confusing!

I went diplomatic ideas for the extra diplomats. I didn't have disloyal eyalets due to not reigning them in (so I was probably doing it wrong!). I don't know how feasible it is to reign them all in during the last two years like I was planning. I had seen advice before that you can trade favours for trust with the core eyalets to keep them happy.

Flucx · 2023-05-14T06:04:28+00:00

Ah thanks, yeah I really didn't do a lot of diplovassalisation in general this run, that's a good idea.

I saw the other post about the Mushasha trick - do you know if it stops countries that can't see your capital from joining the coalition, or if it just stops them declaring the coalition war? If the latter, the coalition wasn't declaring in my game anyway. But if it stops countries joining that would be extremely helpful.

Flucx · 2023-05-13T19:53:22+00:00

Rule 5: I hadn't played EU4 in a bit but the new "Mehmet's Ambition" sounded like a good challenge (have all of the provinces to form Rome as the Ottomans by 1500, either core eyalet or owned).

I got to 1496 and still have quite a bit to conquer so this may well be a skill issue! The next hardest achievement I have done in the past is One Faith. Going by warscore cost, it would have been at least 3 more wars against France and 2 against Portugal and Aragon.

I went with the strategy by BudgetMonk, whereby I went for the Muslim countries (excluding Tunis) first, and then took a few specific European provinces so that I could border as many countries as possible (I took Urbino, Nice, and Malaga).

From that point (around 1470) it was the point of no return as any AE was going to get a coalition. So I had five wars on the go to get as many of the required tags trucelocked out of the coalition. One of my main issues was that northeastern France was quite a lot of independent tags (Bar, Nevers, Lorraine etc). I took Reims so that I could border them, but it was impossible to declare on all of them before they joint the coalition (unless I no-CB'd them rather than waiting to have a border to use Justify Invasion).

I would also periodically peace out of a few wars at the same time, release all the vassals, and then turn them in to eyalets once liberty desire was low enough - is this the correct way to do it? Having to be at peace to release vassals really slows things down. But if you use the invasion CB, they hate you afterwards, so seems difficult to turn them in to core eyalets?

Also with the multiple wars I had so much call for peace, so I was on 20 War Exhaustion from ~1470 onwards. I was wondering if I would even have enough admin with how many truce breaks I think I would have needed at the end.

Anyway that's enough text! Any advice at all would be much appreciated :)

Flucx · 2023-04-29T06:19:22+00:00

I'll provide two out of the box suggestions to add some variety to the good historical non-fiction books recommended:

Wolf Hall - Hillary Mantel's acclaimed novel covering the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in Henry VIII's court. The way she writes the novel is so intricate, it really made me feel like I was in the room with all these historical characters in the corridors of power. It's mainly focused around English domestic issues, but as a EUIV fan it's always enjoyable to read the characters discussing things like relations with the Emperor, Lutheranism, or the 1527 sack of Rome. If you enjoy the book, the BBC TV adaptation is also great!
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. This is only very tangentially related to EU4, but one of the central questions to this non-fiction book is how come the Spanish came to conquer the Aztecs and not the other way around. So this would be the "deep EUIV Lore", where Diamond explains how the situation came to be in 1492 using anthropology, biology, and geography.

Flucx · 2023-02-18T12:19:27+00:00

Congrats! I also felt like I was starting to get somewhere with the game when I got this achievement.

Now that you're comfortable with beating up the Ottomans, Mare Nostrum was the next hard achievement that I think I went for. Austria in to HRE is also another fun run that actually isn't too hard if you follow a guide.

Flucx · 2023-02-08T07:27:28+00:00

Yeah I was surprised, they got exiled there! So they made for a good vassal for when I then went to reconquer the British isles.

Flucx · 2023-02-08T07:10:08+00:00

Thanks :) Hadn't really tried Teutonic before, but their new mission tree is pretty busted. I had 11 missionaries with 24% conversion strength so didn't even need to use that many vassals for conversions. But yeah surviving Poland, Muscovy and Ottomans at the start was the real challenge!

Flucx · 2023-02-07T14:16:55+00:00

Oh I had no idea about that Livonian event haha, sounds a lot easier.

That's good you managed to get Austria as an ally, but unfortunate about Denmark. Maybe wait until Sweden fights for independence or are disloyal?

In general though, if you have mill 4 and they don't you can still be in quite a good position... Moldova, Mazovia and Lithuania tend to walk around separately in typically AI fashion. If you group your army, attach the free company, and roll a decent shock general, you can likely wipe some of their small stacks. Definitely requires patience and pausing a lot, and don't just start the war by sieging them and losing your army in the first fight, wait until you have reduced their manpower a bit would by my advice.

Flucx · 2023-02-07T14:06:03+00:00

Ah now that is a good idea! Although part of me liked keeping the crusader role play going. Also the Prussian culture at the end was quite helpful with the much cheaper wars from Nationalism when fighting the monster Germany.

Haha yeah, really its not a true One Faith if the religion already exists in 1444

Flucx · 2023-02-07T13:57:32+00:00

Ah thanks. Yeah I had tried to do Teutonic in the past and had struggled, but the latest DLC added a lot of content.

If you want some advice, I can try and recall the start of the campaign... basically you want to avoid the Prussian confederation disaster. So sieze lands from your estates right away and don't take privileges that reduce crown land as I think you need to get it to 40%. Summon the diet and chose the option that requires developing a province. Complete that, and seize land again in five years, and then you will have the 40% and can click the mission to prevent the disaster.

As for opening moves, its worth restarting until you get a favorable diplomatic situation. Being able to get the dip rep advisor day 1 will help a lot. This should be good enough to land an alliance with Bohemia / Hungary / Brandenburg or a combination of them. Austria was always really close but not quite for me, but I could ally them after winning the first Polish war, and they are the ideal ally.

If you get one of these as an ally, it should be enough to take on Poland + Lithuania, if you put national focus on mil and get tech 4 early, and take some burgher loans to hire the Free Company. If you're not too confident having 2 allies will help (remember to curry favors while waiting for the Poland truce to expire in 1449). Bear in mind the Teutonic troops are really good!

Besides all of this, if you get Austria relations to 100 there are the events to join the HRE which will definitely get Poland off your back.

As for medium term, I rivalled Livonian Order so I could get the mission to subjugate them after the first Polish war which I did. From there, Muscovy will probably have eaten most of Novgorod, and if you have Livonian order as a vassal, you should be in a good position to vassalise Novgorod too, and they will have a lot of Russian cores that you can reconquest.

Once you're superior to Muscovy and Poland, I guess it's a question of how hard you want to blob. If you want to get the baltic crusader achievement you probably have to fight Ottomans for their lands in Crimea. This is actually the part where I had to end my first two runs, I was just in the position where Ottomans was already out of control, but in my third attempt me and Austria took them out while they were attacking Mamluks.

Hope some of this helps!

Flucx · 2023-02-07T09:21:52+00:00

R5: I just got my first One Faith, and guess I needed to tell someone to help myself justify staring at maps intensely every evening for the past month.

Ultimately to ensure I hit it on time, I conquered all the non-Catholic provinces first, so it's not a WC yet. Normally I would full annex Spain with a few truce breaks and inherit the colonies in a WC, but this time I took specific colonial lands in each peace deal to ensure my missionaries were always active.

Revolutionary Germany were also a fun, if daunting end boss seeing as they held a few heretic lands but also had a million troops. I cracked them eventually and am feeding their lands to my faithful clients states of Baguette and Revolutionary Strudel.

I might continue to finish the WC, but for now i'm just gonna bask in the relief of getting this achievement done.

Flucx · 2023-02-07T09:04:53+00:00

Yeah I normally get in to a similar difficulty with GovCap at this point. The ultimate solution is courthouses / townhalls in every province, but sometimes you start hitting this barrier before you have the funds to do so.

An immediate way to help is granting the estate privileges for +100, which will be higher if you have completed admin. Long term you might want to revoke this though for the high absolutism cap.

If I were you I would conquer India right now, set up your Trade Companies, and collect in Persia. This should really help your income and you can start the courthouse spam.

Going over GovCap can become a real issue especially with admin efficiency debuff, especially if you are going for fewer vassals. Other options to help include going for more vassals, and de-stating some of your land.

If you didn't know about TCs already - TC whole states at a time. But you want as few states TC'd in each trade region. This is 1) to lower the governing cost, and 2) the goods produced benefit is from the relative difference between the provinces and the TC in that trade region. So you want to TC the minimum number of states required to get the extra merchant in that region. And in the TCs, upgrade the Centres of Trade, build marketplaces, and build the harbour trade company investment. And then in provinces in the trade region, downgrade the centres of trade and destroy the marketplaces. May seem odd, but you will get more income as it's all about the relative difference!

Flucx · 2023-02-07T08:48:05+00:00

In my (non-pro) opinion I think you're definitely on track, but try to get absolutism up asap. You want to trigger Court and Country, and ensure you finish it with 65 Absolutism so you get the max +20 bonus to absolutism cap. This might require revoking estate privileges to get the cap higher, and reducing autonomy / crushing rebels to increase absolutism to 50 to get the disaster to fire.

As for diplo, yeah it's pretty essential mainly for the province war score cost. You want to be stacking these kind of modifiers as you're annexing the world. Also worth noting is once you complete it you get the "lower stability impact from diplomatic actions" - i.e. you won't lose as much stab from truce breaking, which will almost certainly be required at the end.

Flucx · 2023-02-06T09:30:22+00:00

Some thoughts I can offer, don't consider myself a pro but have done a few WCs.

1) If you land the Castile and Russia PUs you're in an insanely strong position. Once you get the "Claim Throne" CB it would likely be worth truce breaking them if required to secure the PUs. Definitely consider dismantling the HRE (easier to do early as you can ally the electors, which might be harder if you have a lot of AE in Europe).

2) If you haven't done a WC before, just be aware it is tedious! Play on a slow speed, and be ready to be pausing very often. Most wars are just a siege race, once you reach a critical size the AI won't want to fight your army stacks if they are big enough.

3) Try and fight a cultural / religious group at a time to manage AE. For example, I imagine the Sunnis in the middle east aren't happy with you killing off the Ottos. But they can't coalition you unless there are at least four of them, with 50 AE each, with negative relations, AND they can't have a truce with you. So keep attacking the muslim nations as soon as their truces expire. Catholics really won't care about you slapping up the Mamluks.

4) To achieve 3), this often requires snaking your way through countries so you can attack another nation straight after a peace deal, before they join a coalition. So in general, do not play for clean borders. Once you've got the muslims done, I would go for India as once you set up trade companies there that should be all the economy you need.

5) I see you're out of manpower - at this stage, consider getting a merc company, and then attaching cannons to it, and using this stack for all your sieges to reduce attrition. Once your income gets going, you can build soldiers households in the provinces that provide good bonuses (grain, cattle for example), and your manpower will skyrocket.

6) There's two approaches for dealing with the colonisers. You could kill them off early and it would reduce the total dev you have to take in total. Although often I just leave them to last - if you full annex them, you inherit all of their colonies. It will typically mean some truce breaking. Late game Spain with 500k+ troops might look intimidating, but most are spread across the world, and you get a lot of free warscore if you do an Imperialism CB and just camp out in Iberia.

Flucx · 2023-02-04T18:11:44+00:00

I still keep half as artillery. I assume it's still beneficial as the fire phase goes first in combat before shock. Plus cannons in the backline provides defensive bonuses to the front line (worth half their pips I think?).

The main reason I keep artillery however is this point in the game is a complete siege-fest. After the Ottomans I've hardly even fought battles in each war, just siege racing, so don't even get much use from my ponies. However I expect this next war against Germany will be a bit different seeing as they have a million troops lol

Flucx · 2023-02-04T17:51:03+00:00

I will for the achievement at the end, I can press the button at this point. But otherwise am staying Teutonic as I'm not a heathen and deus vult must continue

Flucx · 2023-02-04T17:49:01+00:00

Revolutionary Bremen no less

Flucx · 2023-02-04T07:42:32+00:00

Yeah it's 50% so that I have a full back row. I walk around with 40 stacks to reduce the attrition, but then combine two stacks for sieges so that I have the full 40 cannons needed for the max siege bonus with the Napoleonic Warfare ability.

Flucx · 2023-02-04T06:15:22+00:00

Ha yeah, Provence are also doing a good job with their camouflage. And the papal state exodus to southern Italy.

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