How is your EU4 Game going?

There are good events too, sounds like you just had bad luck. When it comes to stability, don't treat this like EU3. I mostly hover at +1 stability, going to +3 isn't worth it, it costs too much and you NEED the admin points elsewhere. I only go above +1 generally when I happen to get a good event that raises stab. The game is designed assuming you WON'T be at +3 all the time so don't feel the need to do so.
 
Also that. Fabricate claims is awesome, it takes some time (expansion in general seems much slower in this game) but it let's you war with anyone you want as long as you share borders.
 
Seeing as there are 3 other topics on this game on page 1 of the forum, yes, I would hazard to guess that other people are playing it.
 
(expansion in general seems much slower in this game)
that's a riot


There's no infamy anymore, nothing to stop you from taking as much land as you want in peace deals. I conquered and cored all of the British isles by 1510 as Scotland and had the majority of North America and the entirety of the Caribbean under my thumb by 1600.
 
I don't know how you managed that with the overextension mechanic. I usually can't take more than 3 or 4 provinces in one war without causing myself massive overextension problems unless the provinces are quite poor and useless.
 
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I don't know how you managed that with the overextension mechanic. I usually can't take more than 3 or 4 provinces in one war without causing myself massive overextension problems unless the provinces are quite poor and useless.

Because coring is so damn easy. With the British provinces, they didn't add much overextension and they were very quick to core - colonizing doesn't add overextension and you just have to eat the natives in bite sized chunks while you core them.

Seriously. Coring is too easy.
 
My game is broken. It keeps crashing for no apparent reason and i'm not even sure WHEN or why it's happening. :(
 
I'm currently just in observation mode because I wanted to see what happen.

France has become insanely powerful is what happened. England, over the course of several wars, was gradually kicked into non-existence by Scotland, who ended up forming Great Britain. Aragon was gradually divided up between Castille (who formed Spain) and France, and then France decided it hated Spain too and now there is Northern Spain, Southern Spain, and the French claim that runs in between the two all the way to Portugal. France has won every single war is has entered over the last century and has won wars fought in Africa, North America, South America, the Caribbean, and in Europe just in the last two decades.

Even the coalition, even before Austria left, has failed to reverse the tide, only delaying it at every turn and preventing Spain from falling further than it has. Spain has colonized most of South America, but France has a large presence in the Caribbean and Venezuela. Portugal is largely limited to the Caribbean, but now has a colony on the Mississippi. France is now colonizing Manhattan and the New England area. Norway claimed Nova Scotia.

France has a colony in West Africa and the only thing that stopped France from swallowing Mali was the coalition. Unfortunately for the coalition, France has made inroads into India, gaining a foothold despite the surprising initial repulsion by Persia.

The Creek are still around. They lost badly to France who, while taking no land in the peace deal, broke the country hard enough that rebels tore the country in half for a few years. The Aztecs, Incans, and Iroquois have not looked down the barrel of war yet.

France might be contained for the time being in Europe and West Africa, but it looks like India will face the blunt of the hurt soon.

Finally, the Ming collapsed spectacularly. I'm not sure what happened because I wasn't paying much attention. It looks like they were doing fine and fended off an invasion or two before Chinese peasants and the Orient Horde broke the Ming. One successor state, Xi, at long last looks to be in the position of reunifying China. But the other problem is Japan.

Japan has beaten the mess out of the Manchus and a surprisingly large amount of Manchuria and Northeast Asia is Japanese.
 
My game is broken. It keeps crashing for no apparent reason and i'm not even sure WHEN or why it's happening. :(
Restarted the computer and it works now ! :)

Btw how do i "End religious turmoil" ? Do i have to get to 100% Religious unity ? That seems impossible.
 
I think you have to fight several religious rebel stacks and either beat them or let them win to convert.

I did so as England when I converted to Protestantism. The rebellions were massive my meager 60k army paled to their might, my manpower was depleted within 2 years and my armies were being whittled down. Though when I converted 70% of my lands were Protestant and the rest Catholic, so Catholic uprisings became common, but they were on smaller scales and easily managed by my armies, thus after 5 years of religious strife that shattered my economy, "Religious Turmoil Ends" even with only 75% of my nation converted to Protestantism.

The reason I fought the uprising originally was because I was controlling the Curia and thus the Pope to some degree and was loath to give up my Crusading authority.
 
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Portugal vassalised and lucky PU with Ireland:

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Colonisation is so slow and I can't let the French get into America..

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All diplo-annexations grant instant cores! :D

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I think you have to fight several religious rebel stacks and either beat them or let them win to convert.

I did so as England when I converted to Protestantism. The rebellions were massive my meager 60k army paled to their might, my manpower was depleted within 2 years and my armies were being whittled down. Though when I converted 70% of my lands were Protestant and the rest Catholic, so Catholic uprisings became common, but they were on smaller scales and easily managed by my armies, thus after 5 years of religious strife that shattered my economy, "Religious Turmoil Ends" even with only 75% of my nation converted to Protestantism.

The reason I fought the uprising originally was because I was controlling the Curia and thus the Pope to some degree and was loath to give up my Crusading authority.
I'm playing as England too. I got Religious Turmoil when Protestantism appeared crippling the economy and the everything. Seeing how it was impossible to convert those provinces because of religious zeal and seeing how severely in debt i was, i converted the country to Prot so i can actually use my missionary and have money. VEEEEERY slowly but surely, the provinces are getting converted. I'm at 60% unity now. So i'll have to get to 75% then ? Hmm, survived 25 years in religious turmoil i can last a few more i guess.
 
Started my first game as Bosnia a while back (not at home now), it was a great game at first, took Zeta and Ragusa, great trade influx, everything was going great (the Hungarians didnt invade on day 1) managed to get an alliance with Austria,BAMMMM, obliterated the Hungarians....it was grand. I took Slavonia, greater Bosnia was in the making, my next target was Venetian Dalmatia. I had a large 13k army in Zeta,on the turk border...the turks had a 11k army. They declare war and invade with said army, i had a great general, had number was on the defence...I was confident of victory but the turks wiped my army in a day....I rage quitted.

>tfw turks are still overpowered
 
Winning a battle is a bit more than just numbers ...
I lost a naval battle against 10 ships. I had 50.
I lost a battle against 7000 Burgundians. My army had 15000 including cannons and the royal heir was leading them.
And i don't even want to remember some of the sieges i lost.

In all those cases i was just dumb and ignored the combat modifiers. It's as simple as that.

In your case the Ottomans were prolly way ahead of you in Military tech. I noticed military tech gives HUGE bonuses now, compared to EU3.
 
Damn, colonisation is much much slower in this game, France keeps getting in the way, damn, and they even have a Trastamara on the throne, I so wish it was them under a PU and not Ireland!

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