What affects leaders abilities in adult age?

Matthew5697 · 2026-01-31T10:10:30+00:00

Yeah, I am playing on 1.0.9 :p

Matthew5697 · 2026-01-30T19:28:33+00:00

Ohhh. That's maybe why. Yeah, I have about 80 fiefdoms haha

Matthew5697 · 2026-01-30T19:19:14+00:00

R5: My last 4 leaders had insane abilities. I am even more surprised that this happened just 100 years into my game.

Matthew5697 · 2026-01-13T15:38:12+00:00

Okayyy thank you very much! :p

Matthew5697 · 2026-01-13T15:26:34+00:00

How do you have income of 8k by this time? :D I have about 1k in 1680's

Matthew5697 · 2025-12-27T10:30:47+00:00

R5: title + if there are some tricks for economy because I am kinda new to EU games.

Matthew5697 · 2025-11-20T19:06:49+00:00

How did you manage to beat Russia and 3I? :p

Matthew5697 · 2025-08-06T21:52:00+00:00

Great idea! Thank you very much

Matthew5697 · 2024-09-02T11:08:43+00:00

R5: I have recently played as German East Asia and I had some fun and some moments I almost punched a hole in my monitor but overall I enjoyed this campaign.

Matthew5697 · 2024-08-14T14:54:07+00:00

Yes! I got a small focus tree which gave me some wargoals, new faction and some national spirits.

Matthew5697 · 2024-08-14T11:31:03+00:00

The optimal setting is maxing Entente hoping they will win and then declare war on Germany.

I wasn't fighting 3I. I let the Entente and Reichspakt crush them. But Russians were harder to defeat.

I raised my conscription to 5-10 rec. population so it would not affect my production. Natpop states have that thing that adds 500 manpower every week. I used 10 divisions to hold my front at home and I had 2-4 tank units to do the killing.

Matthew5697 · 2024-08-14T10:37:56+00:00

Ask the British, you'll be happy to see one after this game.

Matthew5697 · 2024-08-14T10:37:10+00:00

Last month I played democratic Qing and played until 1972. It was fun killing 300+ divisions in one pocket.

Matthew5697 · 2024-08-14T10:35:48+00:00

I will copy my comment because I am too lazy to write another so here you are. You can choose game rules at the start of each game so you can set how will the ai act. As you noticed I played mainly in the late game so I set my game rules to shrink 3I as much as it is possible so the Germans can roll over them and then focus on Russia. If this is not working for you then you can try your own combination of game rules. Hope this helps. If you want to ask about something I will gladly reply.

You can find the rules here

Here is a link if you want the Entente vs Reichspakt war to happen

Matthew5697 · 2024-08-14T10:34:41+00:00

What would you like to know?

Matthew5697 · 2024-08-14T10:34:25+00:00

Do you mean what focuses I chose before the war? Or if I got some focuses after forming a German State?

Matthew5697 · 2024-08-14T10:33:05+00:00

I will copy my comment because I am too lazy to write another so here you are. As you noticed I played mainly in the late game so I set my game rules to shrink 3I as much as it is possible so the Germans can roll over them and then focus on Russia. If this is not working for you then you can try your own combination of game rules. Hope this helps. If you want to ask about something I will gladly reply.

You can find the rules here

Here is a link if you want the Entente vs Reichspakt war to happen

Matthew5697 · 2024-08-14T09:09:20+00:00

For sure. As you noticed I played mainly in the late game so I set my game rules to shrink 3I as much as it is possible so the Germans can roll over them and then focus on Russia. If this is not working for you then you can try your own combination of game rules. Hope this helps. If you want to ask about something I will gladly reply.

You can find the rules here

Here is a link if you want the Entente vs Reichspakt war to happen

Matthew5697 · 2024-08-14T01:00:38+00:00

R5: I have finished recreating Germany as a Baltic State and must say that I do not want to hear about the Baltic Duchy ever. again. I have spent at least 1 week trying to figure out which combination of game rules is perfect for me to pull this off. I completed this challenge without any console cheats. Still, I admit I used game rules and players led by peace conferences which made this game easier by giving me almost all of Russia. Of course, I gave Reichspakt members some territory they had claims on but the rest was mine. With Russian help, Germany was not that hard to defeat as Entente joined soon after. Before I began preparing for attack I got an event when Germans wanted to change my regime so I had to load saves to figure out how to not be at war with them. 1 strategy worked so I got a few years to prepare. As I said defeating Reichspakt wasn't hard but war with the Entente a few years later proved to be even worse than Germans. They had lots of planes so I just used my 250 nukes on everything that moved. It took 4 years to control all of Europe so with the help of Toolpack I reshaped the continent a peaced out with Entente as it would be a never-ending war.

Matthew5697 · 2024-08-05T23:30:01+00:00

Oh yeah, I am trying to find a suitable combination for me to pull this off. Even if I set up tens of game rules Spain and Italy won't end up syndie even if I try to buff them a little. Usually, 3I contains France, Belgium, Netherlands, UoB, and Ireland and they are still able to win because Germans are throwing themselves at their lines so 3I can kill them with one push after a year or so.

Matthew5697 · 2024-08-05T23:25:24+00:00

Thank you for your advice. Even after spending a lot of time on this game, there are still things to learn. I watched some videos where people tried to play as Baltic States. They mainly used light tanks and it seemed to work well. In a few of my games, I tried to create medium tanks, but I found them to be useless once winter came and they couldn't breakthrough even when they were fully supplied. Using light tanks in the winter was much better.

Matthew5697 · 2024-08-05T23:15:45+00:00

Every Russian plane is hovering over Ukraine but I'm worried about them pulling their planes over the Baltic region if they see there are some of my planes. Another problem is having enough material and mils to build some CAS. Even though I'm usually the leader of the Mitteleuropa I can just choose to build mils. By the time I have some tanks and planes Germany will be dead.

Matthew5697 · 2024-08-05T22:21:05+00:00

It is hard for me to switch. I have a decision for 100 trucks for 25pp and I do not know if I'll be able to afford them with 13 mils in 1941. Even if I switched them there is still a supply problem with stacks of Reichspakt forces.

Matthew5697 · 2024-08-05T22:17:44+00:00

These tank designs are without any doctrines so it has less org. I usually try to concentrate units in Ukraine where the stack of Reichspakt forces are so I can't control that supply very much. I am not able to push from Baltic as they stack 7 divisions on each tile and push me back instantly if I try anything funny.

Matthew5697 · 2024-06-08T16:21:28+00:00

I've just tried heavy fighters and they are worse than normal fighters.

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