The Imperial Council - /r/eu4 Weekly General Help Thread: June 15 2020
Posted: 15 Jun 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.
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
Arumba teaches EU4 to Civilization player FilthyRobot (patch 1.18)
Reman's War Academy Volume I - Army Composition and Basic Combat
Administration
Diplomacy
Military
Trade
Misc mechanics guides by RadioRes (culture shifting, policies, absolutism, etc)
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)
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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Posted: 15 Jun 2020 09:20 AM PDT
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What is up lads, budgetmonk here to remind me that I suck ass at this game.
Posted: 15 Jun 2020 09:44 AM PDT
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From the Dortmund national Ideas
Posted: 14 Jun 2020 11:04 PM PDT
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I can fight a junior partner without their overlord joining the war
Posted: 15 Jun 2020 04:30 AM PDT
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Corfu is looking different than I remember
Posted: 15 Jun 2020 08:18 AM PDT
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After many failed attempts in previous patches, finally got my African Power in 1.30
Posted: 15 Jun 2020 07:05 AM PDT
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Im teaching my friend eu4 and noticed his heir name perfectly sums up all beginners thoughts haha
Posted: 14 Jun 2020 11:12 PM PDT
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Posted: 15 Jun 2020 03:15 AM PDT
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Survived my coalition all on my lonesome, newish player. Feels good man. Mountain Forts op.
Posted: 15 Jun 2020 05:59 AM PDT
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I trapped 81,000 turkish soldiers on one island. Also France carpet siege themself
Posted: 15 Jun 2020 05:43 AM PDT
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Posted: 15 Jun 2020 01:05 AM PDT
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France + poland + HRE vs Prussia
Posted: 15 Jun 2020 04:19 AM PDT
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They can't do that! Shoot them... or something.
Posted: 15 Jun 2020 07:25 AM PDT
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So... today i discovered Japan in 1456
Posted: 15 Jun 2020 10:59 AM PDT
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This patch is so broken it even spelled Wu backwards
Posted: 15 Jun 2020 11:24 AM PDT
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If you pick the new wine production government reform holy orders become brewing imperiums
Posted: 15 Jun 2020 12:06 PM PDT
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Most disgusting EU4 moment ever
Posted: 15 Jun 2020 09:46 AM PDT
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Probably the most insane start as England i've ever had
Posted: 15 Jun 2020 08:22 AM PDT
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PSA: Pirate Republics get access to Imperialism by ~1500
Posted: 15 Jun 2020 02:02 AM PDT
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Everyone's upset that AI always passes all HRE reforms, and I'm just sitting here like:
Posted: 15 Jun 2020 12:00 PM PDT
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Posted: 15 Jun 2020 03:59 AM PDT
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Ok, now PLC is as strong as HRE, it's a chance that a De Valois heir came on their throne
Posted: 15 Jun 2020 10:39 AM PDT
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Posted: 15 Jun 2020 09:00 AM PDT
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Overlords not joining subjects
Posted: 15 Jun 2020 10:15 AM PDT
I created a post earlier (link) about Russia not joining their subject Bohemia in a defensive war earlier. This is obviously strange, because the overlord is usually dragged into the war without having a choice of whether or not to join it.
However, after a test, I have found that if the overlord is the defender of the faith, and the subject is the same faith but the attacker is a different faith, the overlord doesn't actually get called in at all. Even if it says the overlord will join, they won't actually do so. However, the overlord's allies get called in. It's a very strange bug.
So for example, if the Ottomans take defender of the faith, and have vassalised Crimea, a Catholic Poland can attack Crimea without having to fight the Ottomans themselves. They will fight Crimea and any Ottoman allies (who would accept the call to arms), but not any other Ottoman vassals either. Crimea would be the war leader instead of the Ottomans. Note that the Ottomans do not lose their title of Defender of the Faith.
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