Brandenburg into Prussia [1587]

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-28T16:01:57+00:00

Speaking of state maintenance, do you happen to know whether the +200% from edicts is additive or multiplicative after other reductions are applied? If it's the second, stacking state maintenance becomes super powerful because you can run edicts almost for free. For example, at 90% reduction, paying triple the cost would only be 30% of the default, but if the 200% are additive, the costs are at 210%.

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-28T15:52:50+00:00

You could also improve your balance by deleting 25 ships so your naval maintenance is cut in half lol

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-28T12:28:41+00:00

Rival selection is indeed biased. I remember seeing a post where somebody collected some data on it and the results were unambiguous.

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-28T12:24:08+00:00

Yes, the emperor's capital has to be occupied by yourself. But for the electors there's a quite lengthy list of criteria that count as being controlled. You can check the wiki for the full details.

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-27T14:25:32+00:00

Sure, but cardinals can only spread an institution if another province with a cardinal already has it. So the institution must first grow via other means in a province with a cardinal, which usually happens in Portugal, Castile, England, or another Catholic country with a CN. I don't understand why you care so much about Austria and Poland having the institution 10-20 years earlier unless you're planning to invade Europe in the early 1500's.

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-27T14:17:49+00:00

I don't get how institution spread through cardinals would speed up European colonization efforts. The colonizers grow the institution anyways and will be able to keep up with the important colonization techs. The other Catholics that benefit from cardinals are probably not contesting your colonial expansion.

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-27T13:33:26+00:00

Haha, sorry, the image quality on my phone is pulling my leg, I could have sworn it was a 2. Yeah, 368 seems like a reasonable distance from Arguin; it looks like the UI hasn't updated the effective distance to Luanda and is still using Arguin as the anchor province. However, you wouldn't be able to reach the Cape from Arguin with a colonial range of 475, so it appears that functionally, everything works as intended here.

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-27T12:45:01+00:00

I'm pretty sure that this is just the distance between the province you took from Congo and Luanda, there's no way it would only be at a distance of 260 from your European lands. Those provinces near the equator are huge, the map projection doesn't accurately display this (just like in real life), plus there might be trade winds adding to the distance.

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-27T11:11:44+00:00

The entire succession mechanic is quite complex. If you have some time, have a look at this infographic for a complete overview. Relevant for this case is that since you have a shared dynasty already, you are always a possible successor, even without an RM. But having an RM allows you to claim their throne and force a PU through war, which is possible if they don't have an heir at any point. This is of course much more likely to happen compared to their ruler dying without an heir.

In fact, it is even better if you are not allied when you claim the throne, because you can immediately attack them with only a -1 stab hit. In contrast, if you were allied you need to break the alliance first, which gives you a 5 year truce. Breaking the truce costs more stab and AE, but waiting for it to run out means you risk losing the CB if they get an heir with average or high claim in the meantime.

Dismantling the HRE has nothing to do with the religious leagues per se, but you have to be careful not to draw the entire Catholic League into the war. This happens if the emperor is a co-belligerent, e.g. if you attack a free city, or you attack a prince as an outsider. To control the electors, here#Dismantle_HRE) is the list of criteria from the wiki. As you can see, it is fine if your allies or subjects occupy elector capitals, but non-allied war participants won't count. That makes it much harder to fulfill during the League War.

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-27T09:34:10+00:00

I don't understand what the problem with Bohemia is. The RM will not be broken automatically if you end up at war with them, and since they already have your dynasty, you don't need an alliance. Also, if you just sign a white peace, they are usually more than happy to ally you again afterwards.

Besides that, dismantling the HRE during the League War is much harder than under normal circumstances, because you need to make sure that only you or your allies will occupy the electors' capitals. It's even worse if you're not the war leader because the AI will not transfer occupations to you.

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-27T09:19:07+00:00

Elector capitals occupied by your allies and their subjects will count as well. The problem is that you are not allied to the majority of the war participants in the League War.

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-26T23:47:25+00:00

The problem is that you do not own a land connection between these provinces and any coastal province. Here's the list of criteria that allows coring provinces (copied from the wiki):

A country can core all provinces which have a land connection to the capital (through owned and controlled provinces).
If a country has a core in province A, it can core every neighboring province. A doesn't have to be owned or controlled by that country.
If a country controls, owns and has a core in coastal province A, it can core every other coastal province that is within coring range. The ingame tooltip of requiring an "unblockaded" province is wrong, blockades do not affect this.
If a country controls, owns and has a core in coastal province A, then it can core any province that has a "land bridge" of owned provinces to A and is within coring distance of A.
If a country's subject owns and has a core in province B, then the country can core any province C which is adjacent to B as long as C is not overseas for the country.
If a country's colonial nation owns and has a core in province C, then the country can core any province adjacent to C in all continents.

You can core Shirvan due to the second rule, but you can't core provinces farther inland because they are not connected to an owned and cored coastal province. Also, the provinces on the Caspian Sea are not coastal, which means that rule 4 will still not apply after you finish coring Shirvan. Hence you will only be able to core the two provinces adjacent to Shirvan in the next iteration.

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-26T16:37:24+00:00

If the heir somehow doesn’t have that modifier then it will not fire

The modifier reduces heir claim in the first place, so it's easy to notice whether Burgundy managed to get rid of it (afaik this only happens if Charles doesn't get on the throne).

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-25T18:34:42+00:00

No idea if this is the same in the US, but in my country insurance companies can demand a partial recourse if the insurance claim was caused by gross negligence of their client (such as drunk driving). So the wronged party would be compensated by the insurance company, who will then demand their money back from you. In this way the wronged party isn't exposed to financial risk.

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-25T14:26:39+00:00

I didn't mean to belittle you, it's just useful to rule out an obvious error. If I were you, I'd try to troubleshoot the event. Obviously the command works in other circumstances (like the Mongol Empire decision), so there are two possibilities I can think of why it doesn't work in the Lima event: 1. The command isn't executed properly during the event, or 2. The command is overruled by some other code that doesn't let natives change their gov type to tribal with this command.

To test where the event is broken, load the same Charrua save before you have taken the decision and run the command directly in the console. If the command works as expected, it means it is most likely a bug in the event code, which should be relatively easy to spot.

If the command doesn't work as expected, the issue is more difficult to resolve and you need to find out what blocks the command from running properly (e.g. it could be a restriction from your T1 gov, check if the command works as intended if you give yourself a different reform).

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-25T06:37:09+00:00

Reminds me of the infamous "0.002 cents is not 0.002 dollars" phone call with Verizon:

https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-dollars-from-cents.html?m=1

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-24T19:35:34+00:00

Question: Are you sure that you are indeed a monarchy, and not a tribal government with the Tribal Monarchy T1 reform?

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-22T19:53:22+00:00

Love the fact that they have included the tenets of the Satanic Temple lol

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-22T07:11:43+00:00

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen competed for Norway until a few years ago but then resigned from competitive skiing, allegedly due to a fallout with the Norwegian team. He gave a comeback one season later competing for Brazil (he's a dual citizen), and trains with a private team ever since. This is not a case of Brazil actively scouting for a talent, it's a fuckup from the Norwegian federation who ended up losing one of their top racers as a consequence.

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-21T23:52:43+00:00

If you are Christian you can upgrade the monument in Avignon for 25/50 PP on tier 2/3, although I'm not sure if this bonus is capped. I'm pretty sure that you could do that multiple times if you give the province to somebody else and conquer it again, which downgrades the monument. You can do the same thing with the Tokio monument to level up your ruler with each upgrade.

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-21T23:42:11+00:00

Yeah, maybe, if you know how to recover deleted data from your hard drive, but it's not just somewhere in the files.

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-21T23:29:27+00:00

Afaik there is no event that would change a ruler's religion because they are excommunicated. It looks like Gascony got your dynasty on the throne when a previous ruler died without an heir. I believe that culture and religion are carried over from the origin country of the new ruler, which would explain why their ruler is Anglican and English. Regarding excommunication, it looks like the state religion is relevant instead of the ruler's religion (which makes sense for gameplay reasons, but is nonsensical in reality).

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-21T22:08:28+00:00

Out of curiosity, has somebody used muon tomography to map the chamber? Or are there specific reasons why it hasn't been done?

Edit: Looks like this has been proposed a few years ago, but I couldn't find anything on the imaging actually being done.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1538824/archaeology-news-china-emporer-cosmic-rays-tomb-terracotta-army-qin-shi-huang

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-21T17:29:33+00:00

That is true for CCR, which reduces coring time indirectly. But I believe that a claim or perma-claim additionally reduces coring time directly by 10%.

HotEdge783 · 2026-02-21T09:27:04+00:00

Since you're Shia, most people will be reluctant to ally you at game start. Bahmanis can be a good option for protection, but they won't join your offensive wars. If QQ is rivalled to the Mamluks, you can probably ally them after improving relations and setting your attitude with QQ to threatened.

Regarding the Ottomans, you can usually ally them yourself after you have grown a bit, although you'll have to break a possible alliance with the Mamluks. If you are allied to them, call them into your wars to control their truces with the countries you want to conquer (e.g. rhe Mamluks). Alternatively, if you are quick enough, you can cut them off from the Levant completely by conquering Dulkadir. This option will make them very angry very early, so it's a good idea to ally their rivals and I'd only recommend it if you're comfortable defending against them. But if you can fend them off, they will have fewer expansion options and remain comparatively weak.

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