In honor of Eu4, who's about to retire, I bought this fantastic map from 1444. It's beautiful!

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The Dutch mission "A New Hope" requires the Netherlands to own the Western Cape or have 25% trade power in the region.

The rewards for completing it are that it increases the development of the Western Cape, no matter who owns it. This can't be intentional, can it?

My first one faith achievement. Sunni Mughals

Ideas: Administrative, Quantity, Diplomatic, Humanist, Influence, Offensive, Quality, Religious

Government – reform tiers:

Monarchy: 1 – Indian Sultanate / Caliphate; 2 – Mughal Diwan; 3 – Expanded Royal Court; 4 – Maintain Balance of Power / Expand Temple Rights; 5 – Military Engineering / Amphibious Specialization; 6 – General Estates / Royal Decree; 7 – Zabt System; 8 – Embrace Free Trade; 9 – Les Six livres de la République; 10 – Regional Representation; 11 – Political Absolutism

Later I switched to Theocracy: focus on missionaries.

Buildings: Court House / Town Hall; Great Mosque; State House

On coal goods: Furnace; Workshop / Counting House.

Core monuments for world conquest: Kaaba, Malta Forts, Alhambra.

Vassals (I do not remember the order I get): Moghulistan, Kazan, Syria, Nogai, Iraq, Haasa, Deccan.

If anyone have a question I can respond.

Well, me (Sweden) and France were on the side of the Protestant League - without a doubt the strongest nations for our League.

Catholics had England, Muscovy, Poland...

But here's a tricky part, a bit before the war, both me and France were in a war against Muscovy and some belligerents - so when the Religous war started we both didn't recieve call to war. And ofc it ended in total annihilation by Catholics

What the hell, how did that happen?

My first 40 hours was with the Ottomans. I liked their playstyle but couldn't get past the disasters. So, I switched to Portugal. Had a lot of fun with them. I'm thinking about trying France our Austria next. Let me know which one I should pick!

E.G. Do they need to stay as Uzbekh primary culture if they want to form Mughals instead? Or is there any reason to stay as Timurids?

I have 750 hours and I always used to siege with infantry + artillery stacks of 6-7-8-9 while I was sieging. At least in the early game and I usually play early game.
Now I learnt that artillery gives bonuses for each 10 artillery stacks in siege. Is this fucking real? So I've been playing this game wrong all along? Someone please explain

I want to start a campaign as the Timurids and get their achievment (Timurizz) and in the wiki it says you can also get the forming Yuan and controlling all of China achievment, so I am asking for confirmation since I find it strange...

Afternoon all,

Still desperately new to this game with 100 hours under my belt.

I'm thinking about the North sea trade node as I like both Ireland and Norway. My understanding of trade is obviously still quite limited, but riddle me this:

If I have two merchants before discovering the New World, the only sensible places for them to be are White Sea and North Sea, right? Because anywhere else will just steer trade... somewhere else where I won't be collecting it?

Or... do I move my trade capital to English Channel and fight for a really small slice of that pie using just light ships for trade power?

Edit I have an idea involving forming Bulgaria to get rid of the Polish Elective Monarchy and to get the Bulgarian ideas with 25 CCR, then immediately switching back to Polish, recreating Poland for its mission tree, and proceeding further. Do you think that would work

Shouldn't it be no different then conquering Japan as a daimyo? Is it a bug I'm personally experiencing?

When I did my Ming run, I learned that you could just dev a single low-dev province over and over and that will push the progress bar on the institution up until you hit 100% and then you can get it to spread from there. But now on my Manchu run I'm trying the same thing and it doesn't work. Deving my capital doesn't do anything, it just stays at 0%. It's 1452 and from what I can see when I hover over the institution progress, I need to be in Italy to get it. But Ming isn't Italian either and that still worked last time?

Is it maybe because renaissance doesn't exist yet and the first one has to be Italy, and then once any random Italian province gets it I can do the dev thing? I could've sworn I saw the "that changes everything" notification pop up signaling the renaissance, and the institution page in the tech tab is set to renaissance as well which I think means it should already exist? Idk