EUIV - Quick Questions / Quick Answers

[Theoden]

2) Joining the HRE actually makes it easier to conquer stuff as the emperor only gets dragged into wars as a regular ally or defender of the faith in most cases (still gets called if you attack a free city directly) instead of any time you attack a member. The flip side is that AE for taking HRE provinces is doubled for any HRE member so you can pretty easily generate a massive coalition. The diplo way is to unite the HRE by passing all the Imperial reforms but that requires becoming emperor.

Thank you!
Well, I think I should better do it the hard way, since it's too complicated to it the diplo way. If I declare war to the Emperor, will it work as usual (only allies called in), or will I face all the HRE? In such a case, if I have a truce with the Emperor, can I attack a member of HRE without he accepting to defend it? Or perhaps it's better to attack a member while I am at war with the Emperor...

Another question:

As Portugal, I attacked Brittany. It had Breton Canada and Floride as CNs. I had a Portugal Canada (5 provinces). I annexed Brittany and inherited the CNs. But Breton Canada and Portuguese Canada did not merge. Instead, I have 2 of them now. And BTW, Alaska has like 7 provinces, because California (both are mine) took 3 from it. Separate peace deals... and now it won't transfer, so I cannot get that extra-merchant...
Is this WAD?

 

[brifbates]

Thank you!
Well, I think I should better do it the hard way, since it's too complicated to it the diplo way. If I declare war to the Emperor, will it work as usual (only allies called in), or will I face all the HRE? In such a case, if I have a truce with the Emperor, can I attack a member of HRE without he accepting to defend it? Or perhaps it's better to attack a member while I am at war with the Emperor...

Another question:

As Portugal, I attacked Brittany. It had Breton Canada and Floride as CNs. I had a Portugal Canada (5 provinces). I annexed Brittany and inherited the CNs. But Breton Canada and Portuguese Canada did not merge. Instead, I have 2 of them now. And BTW, Alaska has like 7 provinces, because California (both are mine) took 3 from it. Separate peace deals... and now it won't transfer, so I cannot get that extra-merchant...
Is this WAD?

1) Yes, attacking the emperor only calls in their allies/subjects
2) Truces don't stop nations from accepting defensive call to arms or inflict any stability costs for doing so. You can't attack an HRE member while you are involved in a war with the emperor (either on their side or against them).

3) That is the expected result, whether it was originally intended to be that way I haven't seen but as it's been that way for quite a while I expect it is intended. If you want to unite CNs in a region your best option is a colonial war with their overlord and demand cede X (under treaties) in the peace deal. Once you have two in the same area you have to grant one independence then conquer it to unify them.

 

[Sian]

Is there any way to 'save' RNW so you can reuse the tile/nation distribution for multiple playthroughs?

 

[brifbates]

Is there any way to 'save' RNW so you can reuse the tile/nation distribution for multiple playthroughs?

If you open the save file... near the top there's a line random map seed=XXXX (don't remember exact phrasing but something like that. Note the number, start a new game, save immediately, open the save and edit in the number for the map you want.

 

[CoolSpin]

Can you increase custom nation points, above 800, or infinite?

 

[Politic Revolutionnaire]

Can you increase custom nation points, above 800, or infinite?

I believe you can, but you need to modify a settings file or download a mod iirc.

 

[CoolSpin]

I found an excel hosted on docs.google.com, about combat width across the techs, but I cant find it again, anyone know of it? I found it via this forum somewhere..

 

[Sian]

I found an excel hosted on docs.google.com, about combat width across the techs, but I cant find it again, anyone know of it? I found it via this forum somewhere..

No clue, but is there any reason why you can't just use the gamewiki for Land Warfare#Combat_Width ?

 

[Greene]

Do CNs get liberty desire from development like they used to in 1.20 or is it fixed? (like it was before 1.20)

 

[Viperswhip]

OK, another round of perhaps stupid questions...

1) As Catholic Portugal, should I try to grab provinces from The Papal State, as this will reduce its opinion of me? It is already below 0 (I conquered most of its ally's (Brittany) territory. Am I at risk of not being able to gain papal influence anymore, with its bonuses? What if I conquer The Papal State entirely? Will the mechanism (papal influence, Curia, etc.) still run?

2) If I conquer a province that belongs to the HRE, what precisely will I face? The HRE Emperor trying to get it back? All the members against me? Or nothing at all? And... how can I join HRE? Should I, if possible, or better not? Or should I try to disband it? I anyway want to conquer them all, in the end, just not sure what's the best way for that.

The easiest way to take land from the Pope is to ally Siena or or someone, help them take land from the Pope, and then take the land from them instead.

 

[Theoden]

The easiest way to take land from the Pope is to ally Siena or or someone, help them take land from the Pope, and then take the land from them instead.

Thank you for the good point!
Well, there are few nations left in the region, but I will try that, with any of the nations willing to fight the Pope.

If, for example, I take some provinces from Austria (even some French provinces are in the HRE, as they were annexed by Austria), can I make the provinces leave HRE? Or what if I use the same mechanics as suggested above? If another country (not a HRE member) conquers the province and if that might mean that the province will/can leave HRE, then I can grab it later, right?

 

[Aotrs Commander]

What exactly happens on a colonial nation's liberty desire gets to high and it presumably breaks away? What happens if you reconquer them once if they split off? Do they just go back to being a CN, a regular vassal, which if diplo annexed would create a new CN or what?

 

[Viperswhip]

Thank you for the good point!
Well, there are few nations left in the region, but I will try that, with any of the nations willing to fight the Pope.

If, for example, I take some provinces from Austria (even some French provinces are in the HRE, as they were annexed by Austria), can I make the provinces leave HRE? Or what if I use the same mechanics as suggested above? If another country (not a HRE member) conquers the province and if that might mean that the province will/can leave HRE, then I can grab it later, right?

If you remove provinces from the HRE you get a relations hit with the emperor, of the time, so it's no big deal, plus if you become emperor later you get IA from readding them. You can add all provinces in Europe to the Empire, that includes the Ottoman lands. You only get a malus for taking HRE land from an HRE member, if you take it from France the emperor will never demand it from you. For example as Castile one of my primary goals is to get the Burgundian Inheritance, and this gets me HRE land, the Emperor has never once asked for it unless I conquer more HRE land, something I do not do until I become Emperor myself.

If you join the HRE, like I used to do with Byzantium, the Emperor also doesn't care if you take HRE land from a non HRE member, as I stated above. Or if you are not in the HRE, and take HRE land from another country not in the HRE, the emperor does not care.

 

[Ironicus]

What exactly happens on a colonial nation's liberty desire gets to high and it presumably breaks away? What happens if you reconquer them once if they split off? Do they just go back to being a CN, a regular vassal, which if diplo annexed would create a new CN or what?

First, above 50 liberty desire, they become disloyal. This means they no longer pay you tariffs, they refuse to leave their territory if you drag them into wars and they start their own diplomancy, forging alliances with your other disloyal subjects and accepting support for liberty from other nations. If they see a really good opportunity, they may declare an independence war, but from my experience you have ample time to deal with them peacefully. Once their liberty desire hits 100 you should expect them to start an independence war very soon though.

If you win the independence war, everything goes back to the way it was before. They lose all their alliances and become a loyal subject once again (until the "recently lost independence war" modifier ticks down).

If you lose the independence war and they actually peace out for independence (not always a given with Paradox AI), they become an independent nation. The CN cores are transferred to this new nation. So for all intents and purposes your every interaction with this new nation is now the same as with any other independent AI nation in the new world, i.e. you can vassalize them or take their territory, but if you core 5 provinces a new CN will form.

 

[londoner247]

Anyone know for certain whether the Emperor can appoint new Electors whilst the Emperor is at war?

I have all the Electors occupied but the Emperor's capital is occupied by someone else in another war so I can't dismantle the HRE yet so I'm thinking of annexing Electors to stop call for peace ticking up but I don't know whether the Emperor could just appoint more and so stop me from dismantling the HRE.

 

[Aotrs Commander]

First, above 50 liberty desire, they become disloyal. This means they no longer pay you tariffs, they refuse to leave their territory if you drag them into wars and they start their own diplomancy, forging alliances with your other disloyal subjects and accepting support for liberty from other nations. If they see a really good opportunity, they may declare an independence war, but from my experience you have ample time to deal with them peacefully. Once their liberty desire hits 100 you should expect them to start an independence war very soon though.

If you win the independence war, everything goes back to the way it was before. They lose all their alliances and become a loyal subject once again (until the "recently lost independence war" modifier ticks down).

If you lose the independence war and they actually peace out for independence (not always a given with Paradox AI), they become an independent nation. The CN cores are transferred to this new nation. So for all intents and purposes your every interaction with this new nation is now the same as with any other independent AI nation in the new world, i.e. you can vassalize them or take their territory, but if you core 5 provinces a new CN will form.

Right. Sort of what I though. Kind of annoying the CNs can be the only frackers that will get into that perpetual state.

What's the best way of dealign with them peacefully? Aside from dropping tariffs (I allowed one tarieff event on each CN) and burning 20 prestidge oon placating the rulers (and the extremely long time for fairly low returne on improve relations), is there anything else you can do?

 

[Ironicus]

What's the best way of dealign with them peacefully? Aside from dropping tariffs (I allowed one tarieff event on each CN) and burning 20 prestidge oon placating the rulers (and the extremely long time for fairly low returne on improve relations), is there anything else you can do?

Keeping them topped off at 200 relations isn't all that hard, to be honest. Letting AE tick down faster with +Improved Relations may help, if AE is a concern (used to be a huge problem before they made it so colonial subjects didn't take full AE even on provinces you fed them). Diplomatic Reputation provides a flat bonus of -3 liberty desire per point. Increasing your military strength gives you a more favourable relative size calculation. And developing in their provinces should help, but I don't have experience with this and it's probably quite expensive for the limited effect.

Events you can't really count on, but both the Diplomatic and Influence idea groups should help with keeping many subjects (additional diplomat, less AE, diplo rep, envoy travel time, etc). In the very long run it is quite hard to avoid an independence war with a large colonial empire (which is probably the intention and quite historic). You can't really stay small and weak as the overlord of a large colonial empire - you need to grow at home and take out strong rivals who would otherwise support independence on your CNs.
To me independence wars usually happenend in a nasty cascade since whatever metric I neglected usually applied to all of my subjects almost equally. It may or may not prudent to push a single CN into an independence war if you fear that a large alliance web between CNs could otherwise form.

 

[Aotrs Commander]

Keeping them topped off at 200 relations isn't all that hard, to be honest. Letting AE tick down faster with +Improved Relations may help, if AE is a concern (used to be a huge problem before they made it so colonial subjects didn't take full AE even on provinces you fed them). Diplomatic Reputation provides a flat bonus of -3 liberty desire per point. Increasing your military strength gives you a more favourable relative size calculation. And developing in their provinces should help, but I don't have experience with this and it's probably quite expensive for the limited effect.

Events you can't really count on, but both the Diplomatic and Influence idea groups should help with keeping many subjects (additional diplomat, less AE, diplo rep, envoy travel time, etc). In the very long run it is quite hard to avoid an independence war with a large colonial empire (which is probably the intention and quite historic). You can't really stay small and weak as the overlord of a large colonial empire - you need to grow at home and take out strong rivals who would otherwise support independence on your CNs.
To me independence wars usually happenend in a nasty cascade since whatever metric I neglected usually applied to all of my subjects almost equally. It may or may not prudent to push a single CN into an independence war if you fear that a large alliance web between CNs could otherwise form.

Right. Not much I can do in the short term (though influence will be next idea group after the one I'm about to take now). I played my first game a Portugal in 1.16-1.17 (this is my second) and I didn't have much trouble keeping the colonies in line (even with a fair bit of tarieffs). But the new changes, especially the development one, are making it rather harder this time. Fortunately, I started in Africa and have been expanding there and quite a lot in the far east as well, so my miitary is pretty good. (Though again, with the increased merc maintenance, I probably don't have quite the same number of troops as I did last time!) I will perhaps put some more troops together, though; thanks.

 

[blackgutter]

Is there any way I can instantly finish the harmonization process for a religion as a ming emperor? Using a console command, or do I need to have a mod for that work?

 

[elano_16]

In my last campaign Prussia released by a peace deal and Brandenburg still exist. I didn't do that AI does. But there is no Prussian goverment. Is that normal? What is the requirement for Prussia to get their unique goverment?