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    August 03, 2020

    EU4 The Imperial Council - /r/eu4 Weekly General Help Thread: August 3 2020

    The Imperial Council - /r/eu4 Weekly General Help Thread: August 3 2020

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 06:00 AM PDT

    Please check our previous Imperial Council thread for any questions left unanswered

     

    Welcome to the Imperial Council of r/eu4, where your trusted and most knowledgeable advisors stand ready to help you in matters of state and conquest.

    This thread is for any small questions that don't warrant their own post, or continued discussions for your next moves in your Ironman game. If you'd like to channel the wisdom and knowledge of the master tacticians of this subreddit, and more importantly not ruin your Ironman save, then you've found the right place!

    Important: If you are asking about a specific situation in your game, please post screenshots of any relevant map modes (diplomatic, political, trade, etc) or interface tabs (economy, military, ideas, etc). Please also explain the situation as best you can. Alliances, army strength, ideas, tech etc. are all factors your advisors will need to know to give you the best possible answer.

     

    Tactician's Library:

    Below is a list of resources that are helpful to players of all skill levels, meant to assist both those asking questions as well as those answering questions. This list is updated as mechanics change, including new strategies as they arise and retiring old strategies that have been left in the dust. You can help me maintain the list by sending me new guides and notifying me when old guides are no longer relevant!

    Getting Started

    New Player Tutorials

    Administration

    Diplomacy

    Military

    Trade

     

    Country-Specific Strategy

     

    Advanced/In-Depth Guides

     

    If you have any useful resources not currently in the tactician's library, please share them with me and I'll add them! You can message me or mention my username in a comment by typing /u/Kloiper

    Calling all imperial councillors! Many of our linked guides pre-Dharma (1.26) are missing strategy regarding mission trees. Any help in putting together updated guides is greatly appreciated! Further, if you're answering a question in this thread, chances are you've used the EU4 wiki and know how valuable a resource it can be. When you answer a question, consider checking whether the wiki has that information where you would expect to find it, and adding to the wiki if it does not. In fact, anybody can help contribute to the wiki - a good starting point is the work needed page. Before editing the wiki, please read the style guidelines for posting.

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    4 Step guide to make anyone lose his hegemony in multiplayer

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 05:16 AM PDT

    The best Burgundian Inheritance ever

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 09:02 AM PDT

    Died as a ruler, lived as general

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 05:05 AM PDT

    The Semicircle of Fire.

    Posted: 02 Aug 2020 08:30 PM PDT

    Totally perfect name placement

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 07:19 AM PDT

    Rate our England / Papal Game!

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 06:09 AM PDT

    Got the France in the PU and then got burgundian inheritance

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 02:11 AM PDT

    I want to take Kazan. Khan- That useless land? OK, we wil pay you for taking this city

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 01:55 AM PDT

    England Guide 1.30

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 12:08 PM PDT

    Having watched Arumba's and Radio Res' guides I've decided to write down a tutorial guide for England which I think enhances them a bit and keeps 1.30 in mind. Please let me know your thoughts. One thing is that I like to play colonial so this is for people who don't want to subcontract that to vassals

    Things at start to avoid. Reroll until none of the following are true.

    1) Burgundy rivals you (This is the main one)

    2) Surrender of Maine fires before Dec 11th

    3) You get a queen consort from your royal marriages

    4) Scotland allies someone in the East

    Rivals 1) Scotland 2) Denmark 3) France

    Phase 1: Levy the Troops, dupe the estates, manage your French possessions

    1) Give the clergy rights to wine. They will give you cash. Give estates benefits so base loyalty > 50% so you can regularly seize crown lands

    2) Exploit Gascon lands for manpower and release Gascony with scutage, you can't defend it. Clergy loses wine rights with no penalty. It was free money!

    3) Ally Burgundy and Aragon

    4) debate in parliament. Best would be The Draft to get more manpower. Otherwise take option which reduces army maintenance and attrition

    5) Raise a 7K merc company to build up to force limit

    6) If you don't get the Draft you need to exploit provinces until manpower of ~14,000 men. You will want to disband a couple of cavalry as you'll be over force limit when mercs arrive

    7) Complete Levy the Troops mission. Now you have claims on Irleand and a Subjugation CB on Scotland

    8) Set monarch point focus to military

    9) Unpause

    Choice: Release Normandy or keep the land and delete fort in Caen.

    If you keep the land France will take it and cause war exhaustion. If you give it to Normandy you might have vassal issues and have to spend diplo points reintegrating them later.

    I tend to keep the land

    Phase 2: Subjugate Scotland and Peace with France

    1) Declare war on Scotland and siege their forts. Let their army cross to Ireland and then close the Irish sea straits with your fleet.

    2) France will siege down Normandy if you held it, but your Ally Burgundy will not grant them access to reach Calais 3) Once Scotland and the Isles are sieged down move 24K to Calais and keep the rest in Kent.

    4) Get access from Burgundy and March on Paris (Supply limit is around 20 so a full 30K stack will drain your manpower). France will now move to siege Calais

    5) Capture Paris and complete the mission then relieve Calais and unsiege Normandy if necessary

    6) After a defeat France will accept peace which will last longer than 1450 when the Surrender of Maine event expires

    7) Force Scotland to surrender and sieze the Isles before 1447 when War of Roses will fire

    8) Unstate Mann to reduce coring costs. Not worth the governing cap

    9) End Alliance with Portugal. You don't need them anymore

    Choice: Fire the War of the Roses? Without a consort Margaret of Anjou should appear with 3/4/3 stats. If you want to avoid the disaster take her as your ruler and royal marry to try to get an heir. You'll have to deal with the disaster across the Age, but once you have an heir it's easy to avoid.

    If you want it to fire take her as an advisor and bank the 300 monarch points you get (raise stability by 1 to slow disaster). Disaster costs 2 stab and a chuck of manpower (manpower can be saved by mass recruiting until manpower is 0 and then canceling recruits). Fight about 4 rebel armies and the diaster will end, give you 2 stab up and Henry Tudor as a fully aged heir who can be made a general. You also complete a mission which lowers Agressive Expansion for 15 years.

    I tend to let it fire since the new King is often better than Margaret of Anjou. Have gotten 5/4/5 and 6/6/1 before and had them rule 30-40 years. Worth it!

    Phase 3: Ireland and the North Sea

    1) Conquer the Irish states one by one. Reduce your AE by co beligerenting the petty kingdoms with the fewest allies.

    2) Avoid taking Brittany for now as the AE might fire a coalition

    3) Declare war on Norway for the North Sea Isles and besiege Copehagen. Remember to use 2K per island as attiriton will prevent 1K seiging them down properly.

    4) Set Scotland to Scutage. This is the last war they'll actually help in so now just start demanding cash.

    5) If you now have some decent monarch power consider developing London to around 32 to spawn Renaissance and meet age objective. Done early enough and you'll be ahead of the competition.

    Choice: Humiliate the Danes?

    Humiliation will get you power projection and Splendor in this age as well as weaken Denmark so Sweden declares independence. However, you'll need to siege down most of Denmark and Norway to have high enough war score. Sieging the isles and Copenhagen is normally all you need for your war goals

    I tend to humiliate and use the extra time to let my AE burn down a bit. Also means I have more favors with Burgundy and Aragon

    Phase 4: French Reunion

    1) Peace with France should have ended several years ago. Declare Restoration of Union and call in Burgundy and Aragon

    2) Have diplomats improving relations at all times, especially with HRE minors, Austria, and the Pope

    3) Win War by sieging Paris and avoiding unfavorable battles.

    4) If AE is high try to buy better relations before subjecting France. Keep the coalition small for now.

    5) 1464 should be approaching. When it does set monarch point focus to admin

    Choice: First idea group options 1) Exploration 2) Innovative 3) Admin

    I like the snowballing innotaviness of innovative ideas, but Admin is always good and is necessary for coring and governing capacity. It's to soon to colonize, but colonists can develop up your lands whilst you chart new lands. Your Admin points are also needed elsewhere. Finally, if you take exploration now you can take Expansion next and rush the New World.

    Phase 4: The Iberian Wars

    1) Get Admin Tech 6. Until then you can't make good on your claim to Gibralter

    2) Once ready, declare war on Castille. Call in Aragon on promise of land and cobelligerent Portugal (Never known them NOT to ally Castille)

    3) Take the islands off the coast of Portugal and any lands they are colonising. Also take the Canaries Spain holds

    4) Separate peace Portugal for their lands and money. Try to bankrupt them so they can't colonise anytime soon.

    5) Take Gibraltar and the Canaries from Spain as well as their money. Give Aragon land to keep them happy.

    6) Break Alliance with Aragon as you will now have claims on their islands.

    7) Threaten Genoa with War for Corsica. If they have left the HRE and are at war they should cave easily.

    8) If Naples is still with Aragon consider taking transfer subject Power, though the AE will be high and cause a coalition. Otherwise consider allying free Naples to join in the war.

    9) Once truce has expired declare war on Aragon and siege them down and take their islands. Make peace when ready.

    Choice: Onto Egypt? Now you have claims on Alexandria, Crete, Malta, and Cypress. Quickly taking these is possible, but Mamaluks can be tough. You'll want to take Cypress first. However, it will be a while before you get more claims in Egypt so maybe it's best to wait rather than overextend.

    Phase 5: Global Britain 1) Begin colonising the world

    2) Try to cut off Spain and Portugal from going to India

    3) Form colonial nations in lands before they arrive to get Treaty of Torrdesias

    4) Let aggressive expansion die down

    5) Hope to get the Burgundian Inheritance by keeping good relations with them.

    Choice: Reformation Religion

    1) Pope will always win the Curia as things stand so it's best to abandon the Papists

    2) Protestantism is the best faith with benefits for colonial powers and it will make it easier to take over the HRE

    3) Anglicanism is a "Tall" faith meant for people with Monarch points not being spent of Stability, coring, and annexing, but instead on dev and tech. You can also take Defender of the Faith and feel confident only your vassals will be of your faith so it's a safe, if weaker perk.

    I'd recommend Protestantism unless you want the achievements for many marriages and merchantalism.

    Additional Choices Elizabeth I: Try not the have an heir in the mid 1500s and there is a good chance you will get a 6/6/5 ruler in her twenties.

    English Civil War: Let it Fire? Who to back? English Civil War is a minor disaster for the most part and allows you to form a Parliament Protectorate or Abolish the English Monarchy for a regular one. Either one will help raise your absolutism and Oliver Cromwell has great stats (apologies to the Irish). It's also hard to fire the Court and Country disaster without also sparking the English Civil War

    The HRE: Become Emperor or dissolve the HRE? To complete the English Mission Tree you need to do one of the two. Do you choose to take over and fight in the League wars or shut it down and become the largest player in Europe whilst focusing elsewhere?

    Later ideas: Expansion and Influence will be necessary to integrate France as well as possibly Burgundy and Naples in addition to keeping Colonial nations in check. On the military front Offensive and Quality pair well for a professional army and make up for a lack of military national ideas. They also help ships which is nice for the Royal Navy. Other than that, admin if you haven't taken it already. Diplomatic and Humanist will make the most sense.

    And that should set you up for a solid game as Great Britain and lots of fun. God Save the Queen!

    100 Year's War

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    So I just got 2 talented and ambitious daughters in a row

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 12:58 PM PDT

    Rate your eu4 skill in ruler stats!

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 08:15 AM PDT

    I think I'm a 4/6/3, I'm not too good at wars but I can get good allies in MP

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    Playing Netherlands "tall" is a hidden gem.

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 03:00 AM PDT

    Playing Netherlands "tall" is a hidden gem.

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    Not new, but nice little powerhouse by developing provinces

    Ironman.Income: ~800 Gold/month
    Nr. 2 Great Power with ~2400 dev (equals Britain with Colonies and PU over France - helped them do that)
    Nr. 1 Army supports 300k and 300k max manpower
    Nr. 1 Fleet with 250 big ships (partly still in construction)And still making a profit of ~250 Gold/month (just a few colonies and no silver fleets)

    Edit:
    Trade
    It's ~70% of my income, or 550 Gold, 80% in Trade Node Channel (GB must not be amused), 57% Ivory Coast, 90% South Africa, 65% South India, 80% Malakka

    And why the downvotes? What did I get wrong?

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    Abu Bakr's nightmare

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 10:29 AM PDT

    Who even needs Territories

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 08:56 AM PDT

    Granada is killing it

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 12:10 AM PDT

    When The Balance of Powers in Europe has been upset by Brittany

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 02:49 AM PDT

    I Love Prussian army.

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 12:55 PM PDT

    Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with heretics and infidels

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 07:18 AM PDT

    I Killed One Million Ottomans

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 12:11 PM PDT

    Perfection

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 07:49 AM PDT

    When Rugen popped up, I knew my game was over.

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 06:06 AM PDT

    I'm not a fair EU4 player

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 11:52 AM PDT

    (Before you start reading I'd like to tell you that I apologize for any mistakes that may appear but english is not my first language. Also it contains something from programming and I'm not really into it)

    I have to say this. My first times with Europa Universalis IV were on a cracked version from the internet. Now I don't crack games but then I didn't see anything wrong with it since none of my friends had it and I wanted to see do I really want to buy a game for about 150 PLN (40$) and not have it "collect dust in my library". I've played about 2 weeks on a cracked version and bought the full game, but I was instantly slapped by Paradox with its' DLCs. But I bought some through these years and I recently bought Rule Britania and Golden Century. But I bought them just to have 'em legally and I'm also gonna buy Emperor. I am not cracking DLCs from web 'cause I know from my experience that it's too high risk of gettin' virus. I have other tehnique and no I don't know how to get DLC only mechanics other than missions. After Rule Britania came out with it's brand new missions tree system I was searching through the files and I've discovered that when DLC comes out game installs you DLC only mission trees (if it contains any). Apparently if you enter "missions" folder there are sets of missions. E.g. after Emperor came out Austria got 2nd mission file. 1st one is for basic game and 2nd one is for DLC. 1st set has line that says " NOT = { has_dlc = "Emperor"} " and 2nd set has 2 lines one belongs to "potential_on_load" and says " has_dlc = "Emperor" " and 2nd line says the same but belongs to "potential". So if you delete the " NOT = { has_dlc = "Emperor"} " from non DLC mission tree file and replace it with:

    potential_on_load = { has_dlc = "Emperor" } potential = { has_dlc = "Emperor"

    then you make this file DLC needed to run. If you delete those lines in DLC needed file you can have missions without DLC and they won't bug with non dlc mission tree, but the thing is that you have to do it on all slots (just search for these lines and you'll know where new slot begins). If you'd ask no I am not proud of it 'cause it's not fair. But I decided to share this if anyone would like to check if he or she would like missions in a particular DLC. Please don't scream at me if you already know it. Thanks for reading.

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    Rate my Pirate Mare Nostrum

    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 02:14 PM PDT
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