Europa Universalis IV

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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.

 

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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!

• Europa Universalis 4 Wiki

• Wiki Beginner Guide

• Which DLCs should I buy?

• Client/Game Troubleshooting Help

• Reverting to a previous version

• How to play EU4, by Ezekiel (patch 1.28)

• Arumba teaches EU4 to Civilization player FilthyRobot (patch 1.18)

• Arumba's New Player Tutorial Series (patch 1.20)

• Arumba teaches EU4 to Monk004 (patch 1.28)

• Beginner's Guide to Coalitions 1, 2

• General tip collection thread

• How to revert to an older patch

• Reman's War Academy Volume I - Army Composition and Basic Combat

• Remans guide to Absolutism

• Guide to Religious Ideas

• Converting Culture

• Converting Religion

• Personal Unions and Succession Wars

• Video guide to Personal Unions

• A guide to multiplayer diplomacy

• Comprehensive guide on Subject Nations

• Reman's War Academy Volume II - Troop Quality and Advanced Combat

• Reman's War Academy Volume III - Military Idea Groups

• Reman's In-Depth guide to Fort Zone of Control

• Guide on Combat Width

• Ideal army composition for every tech

• On War - A Comprehensive War Manual for Multiplayer

• Dismantling the HRE

• Combat Simulator

• Reman's In Depth Guide to Trade

 

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• 1.30 Aztec Guide

• 1.30 Granada Guide

• 1.30 Knights Guide

 

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• 1.25 - 1.29 Misc Country Guides by RadioRes

• 1.25 - 1.28 Misc Country Guides by Lord Forwin

• 1.28 - 1.30 Misc Country Guides by AlzaboHD

• 1.30 Misc Country Guides by Ludi et Historia

• 1.31 - 1.35 EU4 Nation Guides by The Red Hawk

• Misc Country Mission Visualizations

 

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• Misc mechanics guides by RadioRes (culture shifting, policies, absolutism, etc)

• Guide to personal unions and direct inheritance

• 1.28 Three Mountains (Shogunate)

• Arumba's Assay series (misc patches, takes user-submitted failing or problematic games and helps fix them)

• A Complete Guide to EU4 Economics, Part 0 (links to multiple in-depth guides on economics)

• Comprehensive Multiplayer EU4 Guide (1.28)

• General World Conquest Guide

 

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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.

Title, if everyone else is annexed or conquered or left the HRE and the emperor is the last member, aside from losing tons of IA for having no free cities, electors and of course members, what happens?

After over 1500 hours in the game, I still have one major problem: the Ottomans! Every time I play a small European nation that cannot stand up to the Ottomans, they just roll over Europe. Neither Poland-Lithuania, Austria, France, nor Great Britain can stop the Ottomans, and they ruin my game. When I play Poland, my tactic is to attack Wallachia shortly after the start, as they are usually allied with Byzantium. I then vassalize Byzantium, crippling the Ottomans and getting them under control.

When I play a small nation like Lübeck in Germany, there comes a point (relatively quickly) when half of Poland, Hungary, and Austria have already been completely conquered by the Ottoman Empire, and parts of Italy are also in their hands (not to mention their expansions in Africa and Asia).

So, how do you deal with the Ottomans?
Do you also have this problem?
Do you use console commands to cripple them?

Are colozation and indigenous religions without El Dorado so bad? Is it worth buying if I am not interested in custom nations?

I’m currently in a Spain campaign trying to complete the mission tree and I just… can’t. My PUs of Portugal, Britain, and France have provinces in the colonial regions/provinces I need for the later colonial missions. Literally unplayable 😭 I spent so long on this run and can’t even complete the mission tree bc of this dumb technicality.

Any thoughts or solutions? I’d rather not fight all my PUs lol

Edit: I was miffed when I wrote this but the comments have shown me there are many avenues I could take. Thank you for showing me the obvious stuff I missed too lol. I’ll try these out and see if they work. Thanks!

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Welcome friends, welcome to the most intellectual, most pious, and most Roman planet of the galaxy, Earth. This paradise planet has unified in culture, the only culture known to man, ruled by the most excellent basilinna and answers only to the true god.

This was my third attempt at Byzantium: one culture, one faith, true one-tag on normal difficulty. In the first two attempts, I tried no-ally runs which I failed not due to lack of allies, but because coalitions formed, decreasing the speed of world conquest. In all three attempts, I immensely enjoyed playing Byzantium since I had to push myself to my playing capabilities to achieve one culture as a non-horde nation. I do recommend you try this; the main concern is time, and I did not exploit development religiously since I am not a disciplined person.

Few insights that i gathered from my attempts:

1. For money going east is good but you guarantee the west becomes a nuisance with 40+ development 8 level forts everywhere.
2. Allies are only useful for deterring coalitions to a some degree, they will eventually break the alliance and rival you and coalition will form nonetheless.
3. You can seize land from your vassals while in war to get them below 100 development for turning them into pronoia.
4. Pronoia is a must for manpower issues.
5. Governing capacity will be problematic and court houses are the biggest money sinks.
6. Paradox needs to increase supply limits for the last 100 years since your biggest enemy is attrition.
7. OPM AI needs to do something with their monarch points other than developing.
8. Colonial nations are perfect for manpower and force limit.
9. Try to get institution spawns for mana.
10. Exploit tax dev whenever you can endure.

Ideas were:

1. Administrative for ccr and goverment capacity and also policies.( Culture conversion cost and diplo annex cost)
2. Exploration*
3. Religious is a must for deus vult and conversions.
4. Influence
5. Offensive/quantity for QoL
6. Humanist for years of separatism and also QoL

*Colonial nations were crucial for my plan, although i couldn't use them well enough they spread greek culture to some degree and give manpower which you need. Also, having a colonist means fighting on different continents which will help you with AE.

I had Russia¹,Aragon²,Burgundy³,Anhalt as personal unions and lots of vassals and Lithuania⁴

1:After i placed my heir,russia decided to rival me. I ended our rivalry via war, sent gifts and all courtesies, royal married and PU'd Russia forcefully.

2:Aragon was a pu that i had due to aggresively royal marrying everyone, which in the long term i regret getting.

3.Standard burgundian pu, i need to learn how the horse event works for free annex.

4:I couldn't pronoai because its development was 100+ and i noticed it only after my second lithuanian reconquest war started.

The main usage of PU's and vassals is usually as rebel killers,they did help me stay sane during my 300+OE times but cost me 3k+diplo points.

I used Budget Monk's island trap opening and used guarantees for truce reset/money making. I threw a lot of babies for better rulers.

Feel free to ask questions.

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