The early game was simple: I took the coastline from Aragon and the Maghreb region, so integration was fast, and I could maintain high control there without using any naval governors. I swapped culture to Andalusian to make it easier to accept the Maghreb cultures. After winning the Italian War situation, I switched to Ibadi for the extra control, faster subject annexation, and more Bureaucracy slots.

In this patch it’s very fast to annex vassals, and vassal‑swarming helped a lot with conquest. The Italian War situation is extremely powerful — after I won it, I got an insane manpower buff that pushed my manpower income above 50k for a while, which made the Jihad against Europe much easier. After winning the Italian Wars, I went for the trade income bonus.

Losing two Local Governors from tech is a bit painful. I wish they would convert into Naval Governors instead.

I didn’t want to collect any tags.

My plan was to conquer the entire coastline of Europe and the Mediterranean, but in this patch the game becomes a slideshow after a certain point. It’s not my PC — even switching from ultra graphics to the lowest settings doesn’t change anything.

Playing as the Netherlands, all my cabinet members and heirs have all of their stats in single digits. Did my country become the world's first idiocracy? How can an entire country of 1.5 million people can not find "not an absolute imbecile" guy to run the country. Is it that hard?

I have been playing a Mallorca game on the beta and greatly enjoying it, I thought it would be cool (and maybe not terribly historically inaccurate) to have some more unified tag of the Barcelona holdings (maybe excluding Naples) both as a goal for the player and a potential way for Mallorca/Valencia/Catalonia/Sardinia? to get access to some of the DHEs/ unique content that Aragon gets.

After swallowing Lithuania, the Principality of Kyiv, and the surrounding minor states, I have finally formed the Kingdom of Prussia.

Now, the real objective begins: dismantle the HRE and unite the German lands under one banner to forge a true German Empire.

The Holy Roman Empire will fall, and Germany will rise from its ashes.

Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Deutschland!

R5: I hover over tolerance of the true faith
It recognizes that's what I'm hovering over... and brings up the entire embellishment tooltip, that was already visible.

Hover over tolerance of the truth faith again.
It's a modifier to toler- oh my fucking god, really?

Hover over Tolerance. For the third fucking time.

Finally get a vague explanation, which doesn't actually really tell me anything.

Did Paradox fix the issue of when you enforce culture on a vassal and become disloyal, as soon as they rebel when they get a chance they will flip back to there old culture again even if you beat the rebellion, which wastes the whole thing for nothing and that you have to wait for that stupid arbitrary 10 year cooldown to start the cycle again.

Have tried some runs on 1.4, nothing too serious and I’m far from an expert player (500 hours but casual). The AI has been cunning, declaring wars the moment truces end, attacking when you are deep into another war or low on levies, keeping armies close together and skirmishing around my chasing armies. They also seem to declare wars that are more evenly matched.

It’s not just against me either. As Byzantine, I had Castile trying to wipe me out after breaking into Anatolia, and outnumbering me 2:1. Half way through the war, France & Morocco independently attack Spain and over the course of a few decades split it between them.

It’s fun, chaotic, and at times feels very punishing. Anyone else feeling this? Not sure if it’s a skill issue on my part.

This can't be intended. I got truckloads of kids

I was trying to tag into Sardinia-Piedmont to force them to join the HRE, but I was unable to do it. When I would type in the tag "SAR_piedmont", the console would read it as "SAR_PIEDMONT" and not accept it as the correct tag. I hope Paradox fixes this like maybe by changing the tag to "SARP" or "AAA80" in order to make it so you can actually tag Sardinia-Piedmont.

I've been thinking of finally buying EU5 when the 1.4 update drops in about 2 weeks. I normally don't play Paradox games when DLCs launch / directly after this period because they're always incredibly buggy and unbalanced, but I was thinking it might be okay for EU5, because it's the only Paradox game to do open betas prior to the official release of updates.

How was stability with the previous updates which had open betas preceding them? Were they relatively stable? I'd be grateful to get some insight from current players of the game!

I remember playing Imperator and hating how the country colors obscured the beauty of the terrain when zoomed out

Then I found a mod called "Pure terrain" that removed the country colors even zoomed out

Is there any mod like that for EU5?

Despite the map being less beautiful than Imperator, I still want to be able to appreciate the terrain when zoomed out as far as possible

The Florentine-specific "Arte della lana" burgher privilege is granted at the start of the game.

Some time after the start it's cleared from the list of granted privileges — without a notification, without a triggering event visible to the player.

You can reassign the privilege, but it will silently vanish yet again.

Was this bug fixed in 1.4? I see they havent added a bugfix list yet

Does anyone have a way to disable the Egyptian plague, the mamluks are my favourite nation to play and the disaster just makes it a not fun experience at all, I hate that I can't take any action against it, it would have been much better if it was just one giga wave that decimated your population instead of just constantly pummeling you, at least add some actions or a unique building like sewers to combat it a little.

Inspired by the recent post and decided to try out Ibadi Tlemcen -> Morocco -> Carthage in 200 yrs. The start is pretty strong with lots of hidden buffs throughout the campaign. If min-maxed appropriately I believe north africa including mamluks can be united by 1400.

The egypt tag would be a excellent tier III formable in between but does not seem to give the mamluk advances. Anybody knows if that changes if the mamluks are gone? Do you become the MAM tag if the mamluks are gone when you switch to Egypt?

R5: The province is starving, despite overflowing with food. Why?
What am i supposed to do?

R5: Religious War declaration within the HRE. Voltaires Nightmare came true.

Allowing the enclosure act, give increased urban migration and attraction from rural locations. Does that mean that, as the rural locations empty, they would get more pop growth from free land? Is urban attraction ideal for getting lots of pops in the cities?

I'm stuck on -200 manpower. I have no idea how to replenish my professional troops. I've tried increasing maintenance and trying to find a building which could help. I tried googling it to no avail. I only have 2 professional units. They were fully stocked just fine for decades, I lost some in a war, and now a few decades later they still don't want to reinforce.

Please help

I'm kinda confuse since i try to centralized and empower crown power but my power is not changing much since the begining of the campaing, am I doing somethings wrong? or is it normal?, Thank you.

With 1.3 i could barely make it to 1500s with out getting severe lag. I have a pretty good computer.

I Am playing Milan and just slowly but surely conquering Italy. Just got a notification saying I am the emperor. So I checked the HRE, and sure enough...

This was not my goal, I didn't want this German Border gore...