Late game-complete WC

[Ceranai]

So I saw the HRE IA trick on here and decided to try my first run through with austria (not first time as greyskin though) With some luck I also got the baltic states under a PU with me. Now its 1670 and im at admin tech 21, my manpower is limitless. The greatest thing slowing me down is coalitions making it so much harder to take everything I want, and this is rotating through 3 different coalitions. Portugal is down to two european provinces and ive taken enough overseas land tat the province calculator thing says I can one shot them now, the same province calculator thing says im at 300% for spain so 4 or 5 wars, 600 for russiaso a good few more wars in the north. england is in a similar situation to portugal but for some reason even though i thought i would be able to 1 shot them I couldnt annex them in one go in the war I just got out of. I've neglected the ottomans but they should fall pretty easily as I drove them out of the balkans already.

If I protectorate ming and india I think I have a good chance to finally get my WC done but ive very rarely played to such a late date.

Can anyone give me advice for late game map painting. Ive got several powerful vassals I keep to automate some of the more tedious stuff (the baltics all colonise for me, sweden and late game TO (they wont form prussia for some reason) shred enemy armies. I have 500k troops split into 40k stacks that are spread around my borders. I havn't been doing that well outsite europe because I struggle to play on multiple stages but my american nations are now powerful enough that they can handle themselves.

I guess Im looking for tips for automanaging things because micromanaging 500k troops is soooo time consuming

 

[oblio-]

Patience, mostly.

That's how late game looks, especially WC runs.

 

[kitemasaki]

(they wont form prussia for some reason)

I believe that subject nations cannot trigger form-able requirements now. That is probably why you don't see Prussia form. You would have to wait until they do, then vassal them if you wanted them as a subject.

 

[thegreatuniter]

late game TO (they wont form prussia for some reason)

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They can't form prussia when they are a subject. (http://www.eu4wiki.com/Prussia#Forming_Prussia_as_the_Teutonic_Order)

 

[Chewy Yui]

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They can't form prussia when they are a subject. (http://www.eu4wiki.com/Prussia#Forming_Prussia_as_the_Teutonic_Order)

Didn't the TO reform into Prussia whilst subject to the Polish crown?

 

[Dorevai]

On April 10, 1525 Albert resigned his position, became a Protestant, and in the Prussian Homage was granted the title "Duke of Prussia" by his new feudal overlord, King Sigismund I the Old of Poland, who was also his uncle.

Source

The "can't be a vassal" thing has annoyed me forever. I guess client states are meant to resolve that kind of thing a bit.

CK2 handles gradients of vassal freedom better than EU4, and they both fail to acknowledge dual-vassalage. In this case Brandenburg as vassal of the HRE (held by Austria mostly) and Prussia as vassal of Poland, but both Brandenburg and Prussia were ruled by one man since 1618.

 

[Ceranai]

LOl the prussia thing doesnt matter that much, TO handles itself fine. As far as client states go has anyone experimented with them? can i chose thier ideas for them?