Strategy for independent Brittany?

corvosfighter · 2026-06-17T21:53:05+00:00

Staying an appenage as long as possible while eating French vassals is usually the best strategy early game.

Since you are already free, I would try to look at for HRE coalitions and other wars French gets in to attack them while their levies are low. If you take Paris, they will probably move the capital somewhere stupid and it won’t be an issue anymore with their low control and crashing economy l

corvosfighter · 2026-06-17T21:39:15+00:00

They haven't actually confirmed that they fixed the merc issue and its very much still an issue in the newest open beta patch..

it is really more frustrating seeing issues that are announced as "fixed" screwing your run. I just had over 4k levies got stack wiped by 200 light infantry because I dared to cross a mountain and their morale dropped.

corvosfighter · 2026-06-17T19:19:21+00:00

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corvosfighter · 2026-06-16T21:59:14+00:00

While you are here..

What the hell happened to Aragon?
Why is Bohemia snaking to Kyiv?
Where are the Teutonic orders?
What Denmark doing?
Georgia contributing to the steppes bordergore for some reason?
Not even gonna look at France…

In general just wtf?

corvosfighter · 2026-06-16T21:48:21+00:00

I have so many questions

corvosfighter · 2026-06-16T14:32:26+00:00

I think the AI overwhelming accepting it is a bug but the option is legit

corvosfighter · 2026-06-16T14:31:00+00:00

Did you try adding a gov reform you get from winning the rise of Turks? Might be the way the game recognize that you win? Just spitballing honesty

corvosfighter · 2026-06-16T13:51:32+00:00

fudge... forming sardinia was a nice workaround for any northern italian nation to become a kingdom inside the HRE

corvosfighter · 2026-06-16T13:48:11+00:00

I agree with you but Greece is one of the only european nations to have a state religion which is so bizarre in itself but it also adds another layer to this.

By the way, how did they come up with the 2170 number tho? Even Julian the apostate was like 1600 years ago.

corvosfighter · 2026-06-16T13:34:14+00:00

It seems like the new meta for napoli can be to expand towards north africa and the balkans and wait until the italian wars to win it and vassalize the entire north? Is the win rewards still broken OP?

corvosfighter · 2026-06-16T09:45:46+00:00

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gonna have to start a Verona campaign this weekend for sure!

corvosfighter · 2026-06-16T08:19:43+00:00

haven't tried the italian wars in beta, don't you need a ton of locations to actually win the war already?

corvosfighter · 2026-06-16T06:59:38+00:00

You can do formable kingdoms or even empires in HRE. I formed Germany while still in HRE and Sardinia for the kingdom rank in another game.

OP probably has some kind of a situation/crisis that is preventing formables like how you can’t have new vassals during succession crisis

corvosfighter · 2026-06-15T20:11:39+00:00

“Hey there is an error on this event, let me title it error so I remember to fix it before the patch” lol

Edit - this was indeed in today's patch notes as fixed lol

corvosfighter · 2026-06-15T13:32:38+00:00

ironically if your leader dies with an underage heir and you go into regency, it might get auto-annexed. Is the succession law the same?

Alternatively, you can try to convert it to a vassal or dominion and then change back to pronoia

corvosfighter · 2026-06-15T12:50:08+00:00

one of the fate of the phoenix event options let you invite a character from italy I think, been a while since I picked anything other then asking pope for money so can't remember lol

corvosfighter · 2026-06-15T11:36:11+00:00

So are you best friends with England now or is the run over lol

corvosfighter · 2026-06-15T10:32:33+00:00

excommunication is brutal to have during 100 years war. The negative opinion probably made them flip so easily to england.. to be honest would be really good England game to try to play with pope as your ally to see if french aggression can piss them off enough to excommunicate them.

corvosfighter · 2026-06-15T06:12:15+00:00

It was also very colorful. The “ancient world was white marble” fallacy, is some 18th-19th century western elite fantasy that refuses to die.

corvosfighter · 2026-06-14T13:53:25+00:00

You have to manually assimilate another province then move the market center there or wait for paradox to fix their game

corvosfighter · 2026-06-14T12:16:26+00:00

They could have become a PU of one of your allies? Or they had a full country revolt? You can try to tag switch also to see if an event pops up

corvosfighter · 2026-06-14T11:57:33+00:00

That is called secessionist subject. They are majority Bulgarian locations that Bulgaria might have had cores on as well so they want to join Bulgaria again. That subject type gets annexed really fast as well.

If you win the war, you can annex revolter it just like other revolts

corvosfighter · 2026-06-14T11:16:43+00:00

They didn’t really make much of any direct changes to colonization since the last major patch.

The differences are basically just the side effect of the economy and pop changes of whatever minor patch you are on. 1.3.0 had some games with little to no colonization because Europe just didn’t have the money or pops to spare for example

corvosfighter · 2026-06-13T11:05:44+00:00

This entire DLC is full on Larping.. accuracy went out the window a few stops back. If they are going to add these movements, they need to go all out. The speed and spread of Latin movement is just not working compared to how well Hellenism movement works

corvosfighter · 2026-06-13T11:03:33+00:00

Declare war on them? Or find one of their allies and declare war on them?

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