Dumb mistakes you always make

[gall]

I often forget to check how much Overextension will peace deal give my vassal.
Second one would feeding vassals to the point, where they have +50% LD due to development (and +50% due to dip tech difference).
DoW though Truce is so popular, it is not worth mentioning.. I did it at least once per two real time hours of game.

 

[JagLover]

It is so easy to make mistakes when declaring war or making peace that will virtually destroy your game.

That is the only reason really why I don't play on ironman. I don't fancy losing 5 stability because I forgot to cancel military access or some such.

 

[Strangedane]

With more than 1500 hours played I still regularly do the following:

Dec with no maintenance.
Spend Adm/Dip points while at war.
Forget to force the smaller revolts by lowering autonomy.
Dec into royal marriages. Though I've become better at planning my marriages, it still happens once in a while.
Forget to core colonies.
Forget to fabricate important claims.
Forget to keep lesser union partners happy.

Ed: It's worth mentioning that i play exclusively ironman, and when I fuck up, I deal with it.

 

[Krajzen]

Royal marry everyone nearby carelessly and then struggle with dowing them

I do that every game ever

 

[Kamiran]

I hardly underestimate sieging forts, especially in earlygame.

Attacking and sieging 3 minor states for vassalisation. Loosing 3k Troops in fighting and 7k in sieging is ridicoulus.
After that my manpower was exhausted, only 20k standing army, event trigger and place 22k well leaded religious rebels. Attacked them and thought the 6k army of my vassal in adjacent province will help. They only watched how I lose the battle.
In same moment my ruler die and my stability fall to -1. Komet fly over my country. My stability fall to -2. Two former conquered regions with unrest start to rebel cause to stability loss. After killing the new rebels my army was at 12k.
The 20k rebel army was conquering province with fort and i conquered the prvince they owned. After that we switched provinces and this loop was infinite over years. All my manpower gain was spend into attrition loss, never reaching full army power.
Then additional religious rebels occur raise and i had to face 34k rebels......
Ironman game = quit.

 

[FloatingOrb]

1) Play ethiopia
2) vassalize everyone around me
3) remainding muslims of the horn ally eachother.
4) pfft, none of them ahve more that 7000 troops. I got 17000. Gawt this.
5) 4000+6000+7000+5000= more than 1700

 

[pfcpointer]

I regularly lose manpower unnecessarily early in a war by invading a strong neighbour too soon after declaration. Instead of delaying until at least some of my allies can give support, or divert some enemy forces away.

 

[Aythne]

Reform government as a Horde right as I'm about to take a shitton of AE right beside all that Terra Incognita that automatically gets discovered upon tech group change...

Hello Europe, nice to be coalitioned by you.

 

[jonnydesperado]

Crossing a river.

There's too many rivers.

 

[mighij]

Declaring War on a country while i'm still coring one of their cores.

 

[PhroX]

Crossing a river.

There's too many rivers.

To add to this:

Relying on the location of rivers on the map to determine whether I should attack in a particular direction. There's a fair few province border that don't look like they should have rivers but do. And I really should know by now that I need to check the provinces themselves to be sure. But I regularly forget and have a nice -1 to combat.

 

[net.split]

I tend to forget to increase my military budget before declaring war, delaying actual progress by a good six months. This has put me into an inferior (losing) tactical position more than once.

 

[DemBones]

Now that there is a ten year cooldown for calling allies into offensive wars, I have been forgetting to uncheck them for small wars, wherein I would rather save them for another more important war. Especially since selecting a different CB resets the ally checks. Ugh.

 

[Beagá]

Upgrading diplomatic tech just as a war I started is about to end.

Lol yes did that too.

Best way of not falling into such traps is to wait for neighbour bonus to go to -10% - there are seldom situations where you need to be up to date. Only colonizers need to be up to date regarding Dip tech.

By doing that you usually hoard points for emergencies.

The most irritating mistake I make now and then is knowing a MoP is about to hit 999 then only realizing it did months after the fact.

I'm also in the group who sometimes techs admin and/or diplo right before a big land grab.

Since spending on development exists, I don´t do that anymore I like to spend MIL to get more manpower.

 

[Sargon1]

There is a box on the naval unit view you can check that sets them to automatically port when war begins, in case you didn't know.

Dumb mistakes you always make

 

[neaiskink]

calculating the OE i will get in a peace deal, carefully not to go over 100% OE, get the peace deal.... realize, forgot to core the last batch.
hello 198% overextension, hello rebels, goodbye manpower...

 

[Tales N-E]

Asking for provinces worth close to 100% overextension, and forgetting I already had overextension. Went from 800 provinces to little over 200 as Ottoman when I aquired 150% overextention. Although thinking it's fine playing the game after a few beers didn't help either >_>

 

[Mirehn]

All the merchants always.

I usually make the atrocious mistake of forgetting I can't individually peace out combatants when they're part of a coalition. I've started countless wars (even in my CURRENT game) that way. Right now it's Russia, France, and Ottos .

 

[Soulburger]

My #1 mistake, "just one more war".


Three hours later...

 

[pedrito_elcabra]

Declaring without maintenance
Declaring without sending trade fleet to port
Releasing vassal that will cause all others to go above 50% (goodbye ironman game!)
Releasing a vassal that becomes... a protectorate
Signing royal marriages that bring me above relations limit
Sending armies on the move just before the end of month and losing the loot

All this with way over 1000 hours clocked...