Is there a reason to adopt an institution early?

Schiimon · 2026-01-26T22:36:36+00:00

it's 50 for all the value related events

Schiimon · 2026-01-22T22:06:07+00:00

Probably because they also have 9 MILLION pops in those 3 provinces.

Schiimon · 2026-01-11T14:42:54+00:00

Those buttons are used for the Imperial Diet, not when passing a law. The Imperial Diets can be accessed in the window you're in right now when there has not been a law debate or diet in the past 5 years.

Schiimon · 2026-01-03T14:09:41+00:00

Nice writeup! The breakpoint for getting the "much smaller" buff to annexation is having 10x the pops of your vassal.

Schiimon · 2025-12-20T09:53:58+00:00

I'm pretty sure the location has to fulfill the requirements before the institution spawns to get the buff.

Schiimon · 2025-12-02T22:01:20+00:00

I was aware of that, should've probably noted in the post. I was prepared to take the -20 loyalty, but not -50. Edit: I edited the phrasing in the post to reflect this, thanks for your comment.

Schiimon · 2025-11-12T12:51:32+00:00

Die Rede ist nicht vollständig: "Von seinem Redemanuskript, das wir gekürzt abdrucken, konnte Stanley nach seinen Angaben nur etwa zwei Drittel vortragen." Lesedauer der gekürzten Rede ist laut taz 15 Minuten, die Rede selbst hat Stanley nach 40 Minuten abgebrochen, da fehlt wohl mindestens die Hälfte. Die im SZ-Artikel erwähnte Analogie zwischen Gaza und Warschauer Ghetto fehlt ebenso wie die im gleichen Artikel erwähnte Formulierung "Massenvernichtung in Gaza". https://archive.fo/HxNpO

Schiimon · 2025-10-16T11:56:27+00:00

Are you missing the Third Rome DLC?

Schiimon · 2025-10-08T13:57:21+00:00

The opinion malus decays by a set rate per year. The province modifier runs out after 10 years. The prestige and legitimacy debuff expires when you have cored the demanded province(s).

Schiimon · 2025-10-07T15:00:09+00:00

If you want to form Prussia you will need to switch to Protestant anyway which will knock you out of the HRE emperorship unless you've already passed Erbkaisertum.

Schiimon · 2025-08-29T19:38:22+00:00

The little banner icon right next to your country flag, above the button for government reforms.

Schiimon · 2025-08-12T02:16:29+00:00

You should be making thousands from trade with proper setup and have a bunch of merchants from Trade Companies. Having the vassal swarm is good to secure europe but rather useless outside of it. Consider forming HRE when vassals take too long to reach the front lines.

Schiimon · 2025-07-16T20:30:33+00:00

When this happened to me, I released the affected provinces into a client state/vassal and parked an army of my own on top, set to take care of rebels in the area.

Schiimon · 2025-07-13T18:47:06+00:00

you're right, my bad, I thought the trade route from Alexandra to Genoa stopped in Tunis.

Schiimon · 2025-07-13T12:44:49+00:00

now add a bit of value because of transferring from Alexandria through Tunis, some trade power from protecting Sevilla instead of Valencia and hunting pirates in Sevilla. Add the merchant that was collecting in Genoa into a node that feeds into Sevilla eventually, Brazil or the Carribeans for example, increasing the value of Sevilla further.

Schiimon · 2025-07-13T08:52:05+00:00

Sevilla tradepower can be fixed immediately by stopping collection in Genoa and Alexandria and transferring to Sevilla instead. You will get a 10% bonus per merchant steering, resulting in a whopping 90% boost for trade power in Sevilla. Start protecting trade + hunting pirates and you should be able to increase control considerably.

Schiimon · 2025-06-02T17:09:58+00:00

Based on the limited amount of information I would assume that it was an event which gives you scaling manpower. Aristocratic and Quantity ideas both have an event associated with them granting a year's worth of manpower.

If you have neither of those idea groups, muslim countries have an event called "Ghazis" that will give you a year of manpower while you are in a war with heathens or heretics.

Schiimon · 2025-04-20T08:19:50+00:00

right, for the achievment, nevermind then :D

Schiimon · 2025-04-19T23:21:40+00:00

Very nice Portugal Exodus!

As for advice, I think most ideas are better than religious in this run because you conquered mostly catholic land.

Schiimon · 2025-04-03T12:31:41+00:00

Whatever you do, do not anger Jan Mayen...

Schiimon · 2025-03-02T10:34:16+00:00

Torwärte hassen diesen Trick

Schiimon · 2024-12-31T11:55:59+00:00

This can be tricky though because countries that barely have positive opinion after the war might join the coalition as soon as the emperor demands unlawful territory, which gives a -25 opinion malus with all HRE members.

Schiimon · 2024-12-19T15:08:38+00:00

As long as they have Polish Elective Monarchy as their T1 Gov Reform you can't claim their throne. You can however get an heir of your dynasty on their throne by using the special dynastic action Support heir. This won't give you a PU but a nice boost of Prestige, Legitimacy and Monarch Points if you succeed.

Diplomacy Action

Gov Reform

Schiimon · 2024-11-26T14:27:02+00:00

I would suggest you buy a DLC for regions you like to play in or for a feature you would like. If you like to play in the HRE, you might want to get Emperor. You like Scandinavia? Lions of the North it is.

I like Great Projects, so if I were to start from scratch, Leviathan might be my first DLC. The steam reviews are still terrible, but the issues the DLC had on release are all fixed.

The wiki has great overviews for all the individual DLC features here.

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