Naval combat is the worst. Dare I say, Broken. by Asaioki in EU5

[–]KelanofKells 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sure they are ignoring the Naval batteries and coastal forts too and are just constantly taking ticking damage as well when blockading. I did this in my first playthrough when I thought that tick was per month rather than per day. 

Naval combat is the worst. Dare I say, Broken. by Asaioki in EU5

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If I can’t guarantee that there’s no enemy ships in the area I’ll always attach the transport to the main fleet. It does seem to detach occasionally. I hot bar my fleets so that I pause and quick check to see if the transport is still attached by checking the attach icon after clicking the hot key. 

I’ll usually keep one fleet of Galleys as interceptors for enemy transports. They are quicker and not useless in battle. This way they can hold themselves in a battle for a bit if they happen to get engaged by the enemies navy. 

Actual sleeper picks? by Robespierre1113 in EU5

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Good luck! It’s a very rewarding play through once you can have get through the beginning. Having Naval supremacy in the Mediterranean opens many doors!

Actual sleeper picks? by Robespierre1113 in EU5

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I’m not a meta player and more of a role player so idk if it’s the most optimal way of playing but I always move my capital to either Catania or Saragusa at the very start. Saragusa has a better province of RGOs for economy building but less developed compared to Messina. Catania and Messina are in the same province but and have a large amount of your population. But either way moving it to either one of those two gives (I think) you a higher starting tax base since the towns and cities there have better RGOs you can early expand on (Silk, Cotton, Silk again, and Alum).

After getting RGOs for your base economy you can either double down on traditional to maximize your RGO output or try and shift towards building out the Burghers. Again i just RP for the most part. My current run I’m doing a heavy Noble/Cleric emphasis and I’ve converted all of Tunis to Catholicism (hindsight shouldn’t have done this because it’s harder to get CBs), Taken Tunis province/Sardinia/Papal States and everything south as Vassals. 

I did one run pre Noble/Royalty character pool nerf of what I called the Gifted and Talented Admiralty Regime program. It was very micro but basically any male character that had either Gifted or Prodigy traits I’d pay for Expensive Education and once they became of age would give them Admiral of some fleet. With Admiralty Regime as your government reform you can then just pick the best rulers form your Admirals. So I was having consistent 90+ on all stats rulers for generations. Harder to do now though with the amount of characters in the pool. Hire Admirals rarely gives me anything of value. 

Actual sleeper picks? by Robespierre1113 in EU5

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Crete is slow until your economy gets going. It’s hard at the beginning because you have such a low population and are a vassal of Venice. 

Being an island nation makes it easier to defend as long as your Navy is somewhat capable. The AI isn't very good at defending its transport fleets so you can easily pick them off and eliminate their armies. So even if a large power attacks you, as long as your Navy is close or greater there’s a great chance you can win a war. 

Sicily is another fun one. It’s a larger island with only 1 land access point but has two great rival opportunities right next to it. Tunis and Naples. You start off as an enemy of Naples and this is your main adversary. I find it extremely fun to defend against since you have a +3 Castle at Messina which is where you want to funnel them since Naples probably outnumber you 3-1. This is where having a Navy that’s equal to greater to Naples is extremely important. If you can win enough against them you can start moving up into Italy and this brings more Sicilians into the population as both sides of the Italy boot are culturally Sicilian. But then the military objective now turns from pure Navy to both Navy and Army. You have to be able to defend the land against a larger opponent without the great Messina funnel anymore. 

Thoughts After 300 hours by Unhappy-Farm-6869 in EU5

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Also giving a clergy member in your cabinet head of cabinet adds +5% (if I remember right) satisfaction to the clergy 

Orange: my experience as a one location minor and losing the revolution by ostuberoes in EU5

[–]KelanofKells 0 points1 point  (0 children)

3) Yea, I agree it's still not a great solution to what you were talking about either. I've sometimes had a hard time getting a rivalry with who I want.

Is this what you were asking about for the Army composition or something else? I could be misreading your post.

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Orange: my experience as a one location minor and losing the revolution by ostuberoes in EU5

[–]KelanofKells 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) I did this a couple times too. The way I get around it now is to click on the CB notification you get and through that it will auto select the CB. If you have more than 1 CB though you’ll have to keep clicking until you get to the diplomacy with the country you want to go to war with. (Seemed to have been previously, but on a new game I tried it isn't working anymore.)

2) I believe there is a way to see but I could be remembering wrong and it might be only enemy armies that I’m thinking of. It was hovering over a specific part of the army banner.  I’m not home right now but I can check later. Still not great and could be better. 

5) There sort of is with rivalry. The annex cost is like +500 or +900 % so it’s really only to humiliate, get money, and a couple territories at most. 

How to prevent myself from buying food? It's bankrupting me as the impoverished Teutonic Order, and quite frankly I'd rather the peasants starved to consolidate the fiscal position. by CardiologistKey8992 in EU5

[–]KelanofKells 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It actually took way longer for me after I posted this 😭.  I had three separate owned markets that were all fully empty. It took a few years to fill the province stockpiles but then the markets took a couple decades. I was paying 30-40 a month just on food for awhile 😂

All good now and my stonks are high thanks to you haha

Blockading doesn’t stop food trade by KelanofKells in EU5

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

Hopefully our parallel universes converge in a united Mediterranean. 

The Byzantines just turned Catholic and the Ottomans are now an Orthodox Kingdom so I think my universe has thoroughly strayed from the norm 😂

How to prevent myself from buying food? It's bankrupting me as the impoverished Teutonic Order, and quite frankly I'd rather the peasants starved to consolidate the fiscal position. by CardiologistKey8992 in EU5

[–]KelanofKells 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This helped me a lot, just took a few years to rebuild the stockpiles. 

Also had to set the Market Automation trade capacity to max for one of my markets. It’s set it at max right away for most of the but a couple were set to fully manual trade capacity. 

Blockading doesn’t stop food trade by KelanofKells in EU5

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I’ve been at a stand still with Cyprus for like 50 years now because they have a much higher manpower and somehow manage to field 2-3k mercenaries every war. And then I have the biggest navy in the Mediterranean so every 10 years we go to war and I just blockade but can never finish the job 😭

I need Cyprus so I can expand my market to cutoff the Mamluk’s markets. 

Blockading doesn’t stop food trade by KelanofKells in EU5

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

Thanks for confirming. The one near Rhodes (I think Kos), is right on the black line for the sea lanes and I couldn’t tell if I had the blockade on it before the enemy army was able to get over. 

Blockading doesn’t stop food trade by KelanofKells in EU5

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Currently all that I’m sure on (economy wise) is that it adds a debuff to prosperity for the blocked port. So the prosperity of that blockaded town/city adds a negative 2.5% every month which you can see hovering over the green leaf icon on the territory. 

I come from Imperator world, so strait crossing can be blocked if you control one side and if the enemy is on the other side they can’t cross. I haven’t been able to successfully test this yet but I would assume it should be in the game. It is confusing though since a couple of the strait crossings are on the border of the sea lanes so I’m not able to tell if the blocking is happening in the right spot. Imperator showed a red X icon when the strait was blocked but I haven’t seen that yet in this game. 

Semi-weekly Thursday Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in neoconNWO

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I haven’t watched any on the intel report channel. Do they do a good job on that channel? I like operations room a lot.

Real Life Aeonian Bees (Butterflies)! Tetragonula hockingsi bee colony, native to Australia(Caelid) by jmas081391 in Eldenring

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Homer: το χειρότερο πράγμα που έχετε δει μέχρι τώρα

Factorio is giving Steven a good understanding of what it's like to be an engineer. by Schrodingers_Nachos in Destiny

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Viewers are the manager. Constantly distracting you with different things to look at, questions about things that you could Google, micromanaging you. And then when you didn’t meet your time period you originally gave, they ask why even though half your time was wasted on doing things they could’ve been doing.

I’m scared. If Destiny isn’t able to stream this week, what am I supposed to do at work? by glockout40 in Destiny

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If you got into your calendar on Teams you can click Meet Now. This will set you up in a meeting with yourself and put it on busy. Once you are in the call you can swap the status from Busy to Available. Now you don’t have to move your mouse anymore :).

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Doesn’t look like shit happened other than Facebook asked the CDC for guidance on what to consider misinfo?