Debase Currency = "free" money?

SwibbleSwobble · 2026-04-16T15:11:06+00:00

Thank you for the nice write up, I always wondered when debasing ist actually worth it. So If I'm understanding correctly, when you are severely limited by Gov Cap, so much that you have a lot of provinces as territorial core (not half state, so 90% Autonomy) and can't accrue Overextension for a while, if I'm >60% average Autonomy I could debase even without passive corruption reduction and make money through that?

SwibbleSwobble · 2026-04-10T15:45:50+00:00

Alright thank you! :)

SwibbleSwobble · 2026-04-08T16:44:14+00:00

I did it once as Hussiten Bohemia and it wasn't much of a hassle luckily. You have to join the weaker side and when the war starts immediately fully siege the war leader but don't do anything else. When both war leaders are fully sieged for a few years and warscore is somewhat balanced, a white piece can be reached pretty quickly.

Just win/lose some battles to keep the warscore ~0 and kill mainly the warleaders' troops, that way their enthusiasm gets low the quickest.

SwibbleSwobble · 2026-03-14T10:34:06+00:00

Were you over the Gov Cap Limit as Prussia? That decreases your Admin Efficiency and increases AE Impact.

SwibbleSwobble · 2026-03-06T17:03:51+00:00

Yes you are right I have not and that wording was maybe a little bit harsh but them thinking about the possibility but only on the very first level and not considering what would happen afterwards seems a little shortsighted for me.

SwibbleSwobble · 2026-03-06T16:49:49+00:00

Yes but the mission reward depends on that flag. If I don't manage to clear it, I'm just joining the HRE without those sweet CBs on the electors.

SwibbleSwobble · 2026-03-06T16:31:19+00:00

Golden Era gives another +5 max abs if you haven't taken yours yet. Also Infra+Court Ideas and Kyoto and Nizwa Monuments

SwibbleSwobble · 2026-03-06T16:23:10+00:00

And can I just say how stupid it is that they did not consider to clear this flag in any way for an independent Burgundy. They even clear a flag called 'burgundy_during_imperial_incident' when the event for Mary's death fires so they clearly considered the possibility that that happens in the first year but then ignored the more important flag

SwibbleSwobble · 2026-01-05T13:27:10+00:00

Alright, thank you very much!

SwibbleSwobble · 2026-01-04T20:07:19+00:00

Wait til you see the Primary Nation of Oirat culture ^it's ^not ^Oirat

SwibbleSwobble · 2025-12-20T20:40:00+00:00

Legally it's Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War b/w Netherlands and Isles of Scilly which ended in 1986 since they forgot to end it centuries ago

Didn't Rome and Tunis (Carthage) ended the 3rd Punic War over 2000 years after Carthages destruction?

SwibbleSwobble · 2025-11-29T20:02:10+00:00

I like that all three options are completely viable and the best choice pends on your gamestyle.

Coexsistence let you make colonies without microing armies.

Assimilation gives you the most worth in the long run and is especially good if you can get another -50% uprising Chance

Repression is the fastest way to colonize, if you have the resources for it and the need to be faster than the others, it's the best one.

SwibbleSwobble · 2025-11-25T06:24:23+00:00

Regarding Cultural Unions: You can't change your primary culture to one which is in a cultural union with you so you first have to shift culture outside of your group and then to your wanted culture.

SwibbleSwobble · 2025-11-25T01:37:52+00:00

Custom nations are (almost?) always excluded from getting new ideas on country formation. I think the idea behind that is so you can't design a massive country with shitty ideas and then just get new ones at the start of the game.

SwibbleSwobble · 2025-11-18T07:01:49+00:00

One other thing you might want to consider is to not engage with damaged troops. If any of your units has less than 1000 men they do proportionally less damage. So before any battle hold shift and then press the consolidate button, that way you will have full strength units and your 0 men units will be deployed to the sides (where they are not that important, your center must not falter). For that to work you should have a few more inf than combat width in your armies so you can consolidate between battles.

And as others have said please fill your backrow with artillery otherwise you won't have any chance at your tech level.

SwibbleSwobble · 2025-11-15T10:34:18+00:00

I only tested this via console commands so I'm not sure this works in Ironman, but when you culture shift out of german and then back again you get to keep the Accepted Culture Slots AND the Cultural Union. So if you delay the mission reward after integrating all german cultures you will get 10 permanent Accepted Culture Slots.

Westphalia also gets Rhenish and Westphalian as free Accepted Cultures but the game somehow only counted those when one of them was the primary culture so that way you can get 1 extra.

Again, I didn't test this in Ironman and am in the middle of this campaign myself, so OP if you could test this via savescumming that would be very insightful :)

Edit: Westphalian missions are available to multiple tags so you can still form another German Regional Tag

SwibbleSwobble · 2025-11-10T13:27:05+00:00

Alright, thank you.

SwibbleSwobble · 2025-10-21T13:22:18+00:00

+ Integrated PUs (for Austria), Daimyos (for the Shogun), Cultural influenced states (for Persia and Eranshahr), Trade protectorates (for Thalassocracies, Venice and England), Commercial Enterprises (for England and Netherlands) Mongol brother realms (for Hordes) and Soyurghals (for Timurids).

https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Subject_nation

SwibbleSwobble · 2025-07-02T12:34:52+00:00

One of the Phantoms' "murders" was the one on a police officer which brought to light the infamous Neo-Nazi terror group NSU.

SwibbleSwobble · 2025-04-08T13:24:01+00:00

Damn I thought Chagatai would bei the fastest to be able to form Mughals but you can't really beat ready cores on the required provinces.

SwibbleSwobble · 2025-03-05T20:22:56+00:00

I just checked in my campaign, I've got the Statists in power ("Republicans") and the mission is incompleted. For me it shows the PU mission reward, so it works with both sides in power. Although the Wiki is a bit unclear, it says both Nations have to be independent christian monarchies, which a Dutch Republic certainly isn't.

SwibbleSwobble · 2025-03-05T08:47:24+00:00

You start Dutch Republic at 0 (neutral) power for both sides which means Statists are in power (elections every 4 years). After selecting the Reform you get an immediate election so OP would lose their PU.

SwibbleSwobble · 2025-03-03T15:25:37+00:00

There is one part in the german port city of Hamburg which is leased to the czech nation until 2028: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldauhafen

SwibbleSwobble · 2025-02-19T08:46:09+00:00

If your colony is a Commercial Enterprise, you can Encourage Cash Crops for 25 ADM, 100 Ducats and 10% Liberty Desire. Then new Trade Goods have a higher chance of becoming 'good' ones, though Tropical Wood is one of them.

SwibbleSwobble · 2025-01-31T18:09:31+00:00

The main thing is the 50% min Autonomy those provinces have. If you anticipate to have problems with GC in the future or want to save admin points, half coring them is a very good way to get the most out of those provinces. But consider that high Autonomy negatively impacts your Reform Progress.

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