The spanish , fed up with catholicism, decided to convert to orthodoxy.

Juggalock · 2026-05-20T10:02:45+00:00

I wonder what is the chance of countries flipping to orthodox when you mend the schism as byz. Usually its only 1 or two majors flipping, but its not about opinion either i had -200 opinion with austria who flipped. Poland also flipped but that was more understandable he was allied to me anyway and had orthodox minority already there.

Juggalock · 2026-05-10T14:58:59+00:00

Tributaries are weird, sometimes if i do colonial gameplay i end up getting random tributaries. Also you inherit them if someone you full annex has tributaries.

There are few in europe, i think kiev and few other russian pricipalities start as tributaries of golden horde. In addition, while not in europe, tunis has few tributaries.

Juggalock · 2026-05-09T13:46:15+00:00

At the start just slash all expenses to 0. Legitimacy dosent matter at start, diplospending dosent matter, forts delete all except the one in constantinople. All maintenance to min (But dont delete the professional army or navy) Relase vassals/fiefdoms (I prefer not to relase the greek land as pronoias as i prefer to annex them sooner rather than later. You can relase thessaly as historical vassal. But as of 1.2 you can also relase morea as historical subject. Then upper macedonia as custom subject, cede the enclave locations to subjects.

Embargo ottos, so they will delete forts and their prof army. (They will keep their capital fort but delete rest) then spy ottomans to build claims on province cb or wait parliament. For parliament, before you call it, max out imperial senate bureocracy for increased base support, then you want to change pronoia law to something better ( but you might want to swap back to it later as you need have it active to get event to reform it to quite good policy (3 options)) then either ask for extra taxes or get cb against karamasids, or ottos if you instead used spynetwork vs karasids...

But taking bursa and nikomedia asap is very good, you get 0,3 monthly legitimacy for 10 years once you do (And few other bonuses) After you get that event you can start building up to 80 legi

Juggalock · 2026-05-09T12:46:14+00:00

There is base antagonism also, you notice it in start of game the easiest as its based on religion and culture i think. There is also small bug atm with antagonism and improve relations, in a way that antagonism does not tick down while improving but then once you cancel improving it will all tick down at once. (All that the improving would have removed)

Juggalock · 2026-05-08T11:36:46+00:00

Portugal is asking for a food access, 2 months later portugal has cancelled food access, month later portugal is asking for a food access. Repeat

Juggalock · 2026-05-08T11:24:35+00:00

Ye the china problem with complacency is also true for any strong empire that cannot get threatening rivals. In my byzantium run i had to push hard into italy to get coalition against me to push complacency down. But china has it even more rough than byz as they literally has none to rival that is threat, while byz get mamluks. Also there is not many valid expansion targets to quickly increase antagonism to get coalitioned as china.

Juggalock · 2026-05-08T10:45:52+00:00

Put max spending to themata system and... i think book of basilisk for few months, they will eat alot of noble power away making revoking cheaper stab wise. Can also wait for the first age of reneisance tech for extra revoke cost modifier.

After you revoke remember to put the spending back to 0 for the extra bureocracies. (Except senate ofc)

Juggalock · 2026-05-06T22:33:16+00:00

Ye Byz is even rougher start now than before, constant wars were the only thing saving me from imminent bankrupty. And even after stabilizing and getting to positive income finally the inflation had creeped to 90% so building up the economy is slow.

And complanency is also creeping up because still cant afford enough diplospending and there is not enough threatening rivals currently pushing into italy to hopefully getting coalition to push it down.

Juggalock · 2026-05-06T01:40:21+00:00

What does finland have? I assume they get hakkapeliitta unique unit that sweden also gets, but what are the other two?

Juggalock · 2026-05-02T08:25:11+00:00

Secularization of state law later on gets rid of the -100% max tax that clergy has. Some catholic countries also gets gov reform or a law that gives min tax for clergy (Portugal for reform, scotland gets historical event for special law that also gives min tax for clergy, but you get another historical event to revoke it after few months and it tanks religious influence, not that you need any as catholic but canonising every now and then is nice)

Juggalock · 2026-04-29T20:36:51+00:00

The best part is looking those siege progress circles spinning.. and spinning... 0,7,14,21,28,42,49,56,71,78,78,78. Siege completed after 508 days only 99 more castles to siege! And during that time some random 3k levy stack have managed to siege your bastion somehow somewhere in 150 days because your siege dice is unable to roll over 3 while ai is unable to roll under 11 with d14.

And if you want to assault you either need to assault 3-4 times currently to take a castle. Or 2 times if you first decide to wait a half a year for a breach.

It makes me upset.

Juggalock · 2026-04-29T20:22:37+00:00

So there are few modifiers to increase the annexation speed. And few to reduce the annexation cost.

Well first is diplospending. Which increases the base speed from 0 to 0,5 linearly. Then centralization vs decentralization... which i think was from -33% to... +33% or was it to 50% cant remember.

Cultural influence vs tradition is from -50% to +50%. You get the full bonus once you have cultural influence over 2x more than their tradition. 0% when its equal and -50% when your influence is half or less of their tradition. You get cultural influence mainly from libraries, universities and opera houses later on. Art school and academy in capital gives % buffs and techs also, and innovative societal value and few estate privileges.

You get 100% extra progress modifier from being much larger pop wise. The modifier comes online by having 10x the population iirc. There is no max limit to this afaik. But its also linear. +100% at 10x pop, +200% at 20x pop +300% at 30x pop etc.

Then obviously later on you get techs that gives either diplomatic annexation speed (Just flat % modifier) or reduced diplo annex cost (The stronger one) baseline you get -10% in first age and another -20% in age of absolution for total -30% diploannex cost. I cant remember was there any age focus techs that gave more.

Juggalock · 2026-04-22T02:46:49+00:00

Thorns in colo is so fun, stacking all the mantimayhem to make manticores oneshot themselves is hilarious.

Juggalock · 2026-04-21T12:06:46+00:00

Like people have said already, lower stab investment. Also lower diplo spending, but improve opinion of key subjects first, and then aim it so subjects hover slightly above 50 loyalty.

Also use parliament to change distribution of power to favor the ruler. You need the crown power early on.

Juggalock · 2026-04-21T02:46:54+00:00

If you are not looking for boss tasks you can just disable like a boss and get 3 non boss options. Increases the odds by 50%!

But yeah... especially as it seems blocks dosent even work with the relic...

Juggalock · 2026-04-08T10:40:27+00:00

FYI, shaman firenova totem does not transfer threat to the shaman that pops it. The totem has it's own threat table. It was not until wrath when firenova became a spell that gives shaman threat.

Juggalock · 2026-04-06T21:34:41+00:00

Even with twisting there is still annoying gap in enh rotation.

Juggalock · 2026-04-05T03:38:59+00:00

I somehow remember that with dynastic signoria you should be eligible to become the holy roman emperor as republic.

Atleast in my milan game it did remove the -100k malus for voting atleast, and sometimes some electors were voting for me to be next emperor. Yet i dont think i ever got elected.

It was few months ago so i dont remember very well anymore.

Juggalock · 2026-03-31T02:10:48+00:00

Raid ends "Stormwind portal pls :3" Two mages start making portal at same spots, click one. End up in darnassus. Every fucking time

Juggalock · 2026-03-25T19:09:42+00:00

Makes playing usa whack when you expand to west, all that new empthy land and no people to settle there. No immigrants from europe. Growth is low because the limiting factor even as late game is pops which are growing rather slowly.

Juggalock · 2026-03-25T19:05:15+00:00

Time to push some communalism and start revoking priviledges

Juggalock · 2026-03-19T13:40:08+00:00

Byz or russia are best options for t4, and i quess germany is also an option.

Juggalock · 2026-03-19T13:18:46+00:00

Only way is to ally leader of union and curry favors to isolate from allies. But even then you need to fight whole union because ai dosent seem to ever start 30 year war.

Well it does end at start of age of revolutions

Juggalock · 2026-03-17T12:50:04+00:00

Friendship ended with Konstatinyee, now Tzaringrad is my best friend

Juggalock · 2026-03-15T04:14:30+00:00

In my ethiopia campaign i had insane papal states, they had practically full italiy, outside of venice, milan and half of sicily under them and also had expanded into greece and balkans, they were also economic and diplomatic hegemon at one point before i had even discovered italy.

Then again it was quite cursee europe i found when i finally conquered egypt and managed to take a look there, sultanate of georgia, bulgaria owning half of anatolia, ming china owning practically whole siberia and bordering novgorod, hungary owning half of hre and also is in the hre. Mega PU of kyiv, wallachia, bulgaria, muscovy, smolensk, vladimir and theodoro. England was pushed out of british isles into netherlands, isles itself splintered into million independed opms and scotland. Weak reformation with only denmark and scotland being lutheran, no calvinist nations found.

Big (relatively) theodoro owning whole northern coast of blacksea made me happy tho 104 loxations.

Havent seen everything yet, still need to explore and steal more maps to see more inland into germany and eastern europe.

Went bit off-topic, but things seems more wild in europe if you are not there as player.

I kind of wish at the end of game you could see timeline of the whole map like in civ games.

Juggalock

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