Declare war on the wrong target. No-CB + Truce breaking + strong alliance + large coalition 
Stupidest things you have ever done in EU4
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Playing as Kongo for 'African Power'. After one single hour catatonia sets in; you're unable to be roused even by paramedics.
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Declaring war on an HRE minor from the outside, before they patched war leader changing.
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After 6 hours of mind-numbing micromanaging troops in WC attempt, releasing a vassal and checking "Play as released subject" option by mistake.
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After 6 hours of mind-numbing micromanaging troops in WC attempt, releasing a vassal and checking "Play as released subject" option by mistake.
Dude...
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The worst version of this that I've had is where I've been annexing a vassal at the same time so I had to wait for the annexation to finish and then to get enough diplo points.
1) almost done winning a hard war against a large country (90% warscore). Popup. Click "ok" just to get rid of it. Then found out I made peace in exchange for his "admitting defeat".
2) as Muscovy, diplo-annexed Perm. Then conquered Kazan. Wanted to release Kazan as vassal. Accidently clicked the wrong button and released Perm instead.
Both happened due to playing while sleepy.
2) as Muscovy, diplo-annexed Perm. Then conquered Kazan. Wanted to release Kazan as vassal. Accidently clicked the wrong button and released Perm instead.
Both happened due to playing while sleepy.
So I'm sitting pretty in My Venice->Italy game, Number 1 power, Largest Army, just went revolutionary. I decide to declare war on France.
wanting to get out the 1 tradeship out of my fleet to delete it, miss the out part and delete whole fleet of 20 heavys and 40 transports with everything
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One of my biggest mistakes ever made was in an England Run. I wanted to go for the One Night in Paris achievement. I allied Austria, won a war or two against France and weakened them. Next war, I manage to get a PU over France. Then, out of no where, Austria's leader dies and I get a PU over Austria too. I couldn't be happier.
Then it all goes sour. To stick to history, I decide to convert to Protestantism. I completely forget the 100 prestige penalty and now I'm way in the negatives. My leader is like 60 something and soon dies while I have negative prestige, breaking both PUs. Then, France and Austria ally each other, preventing me from ever taking back what was mine.
Then it all goes sour. To stick to history, I decide to convert to Protestantism. I completely forget the 100 prestige penalty and now I'm way in the negatives. My leader is like 60 something and soon dies while I have negative prestige, breaking both PUs. Then, France and Austria ally each other, preventing me from ever taking back what was mine.
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Playing as the Ottoman Empire. Got everything from Hungary to Somalia to Mesoptamia to Tunis. I got more than 200,000 standing soldiers. So I decide to go into colonization. Start colonizing some provinces in Indonesia. I transport 50,000 men over there and decide to conquer Malacca. I figured they are a sunni state so their lands would prove a good base from which to later take more lands.
Did not check technology levels (How advanced can they possibly be?) nor army size (How big can their army possibly be compared to me mighty Ottoman?). Turns out they had 65,000 men, 1 mil tech level below mine, and even more troublesome, lots of ships. I declare war and within the first month my 50,000 men are reduced to 12,000. I decide to ship some troops over, load 60,000 troops in. Just as they are unloading, the Malaccan fleet shows up... 60,000 soldiers and my eastern fleet (about 45% of my entire warfleet and 75% of transport ships) are at the bottom of the sea. Had to build a new fleet, send more troops over. While waiting for new ships, my remaining 12,000 men get butchered.
In the end I lost 110,000 men in the first six months of the war and close to 180,000 in total. Dozens of ships were sunk and my manpower and treasury took a big hit. After the conquest I lost several tens of thousands men more during revolts for Malaccan independence. Took me decades to get the situation under control and a decade to recoup my losses.
I did use the new territories to colonize Taiwan and later conquer Korea though.
Did not check technology levels (How advanced can they possibly be?) nor army size (How big can their army possibly be compared to me mighty Ottoman?). Turns out they had 65,000 men, 1 mil tech level below mine, and even more troublesome, lots of ships. I declare war and within the first month my 50,000 men are reduced to 12,000. I decide to ship some troops over, load 60,000 troops in. Just as they are unloading, the Malaccan fleet shows up... 60,000 soldiers and my eastern fleet (about 45% of my entire warfleet and 75% of transport ships) are at the bottom of the sea. Had to build a new fleet, send more troops over. While waiting for new ships, my remaining 12,000 men get butchered.
In the end I lost 110,000 men in the first six months of the war and close to 180,000 in total. Dozens of ships were sunk and my manpower and treasury took a big hit. After the conquest I lost several tens of thousands men more during revolts for Malaccan independence. Took me decades to get the situation under control and a decade to recoup my losses.
I did use the new territories to colonize Taiwan and later conquer Korea though.
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Also in the same game: invading Russia (3 techs lower than mine in mil) and losing in the end because of winter. Noob mistake, I know... I went for Astrakhan and ended up giving up Azov and Crimea.
It showed me that expasion to the north (or the west) was no longer feasible. So I went for an easier target: Malacca.
*sigh*
It showed me that expasion to the north (or the west) was no longer feasible. So I went for an easier target: Malacca.
*sigh*
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Playing Kazan I realized that the great Commonblob-Spain(with France PUannexed) alliance not only was broken but that the two were in fact in a war. I thought "sure I can/must capitalize on that" and declared on a now isolated CW. And it sorta worked, I rolled through most of eastern Lithuania without any opposition at all. But then news of the end of the Commonblob-Sblob war arrived. The next day they were allied again and I suddenly had CW, Spain and Mantua against me. Some 220k troops against my 100k-ish.
Another Kazan pearl: I controlled all of Russia. I wanted to attack Japan to drive them off of the continent and force them to liberate Ainu(because I like'em).
Problem is Japan had some 130 ships total and I was already way over my naval FL with only 70, so I couldn't really put boots on the archipellago during the war.
My brilliant idea was to drop off a ~90 stack on the Kurils, take Hokkaido with it and hold it until the end of the war. Sure the japanese wouldn't be able to mobilize anywhere near 90 troops and the strait crossing penalties combined with their petty chinese tech would hold them back, right? Plus, I can always hire mercenaries in the Kurils to beef up my army, right?
First shock was seeing Japan attack with 60 stacks twice, second shock was seeing Japan finish westernization somewhere between the second and third strikes, by the time I found out I can't recruit mercs in overseas all my hopes were dead and buried. I still won the war, but that loss...
Another Kazan pearl: I controlled all of Russia. I wanted to attack Japan to drive them off of the continent and force them to liberate Ainu(because I like'em).
Problem is Japan had some 130 ships total and I was already way over my naval FL with only 70, so I couldn't really put boots on the archipellago during the war.
My brilliant idea was to drop off a ~90 stack on the Kurils, take Hokkaido with it and hold it until the end of the war. Sure the japanese wouldn't be able to mobilize anywhere near 90 troops and the strait crossing penalties combined with their petty chinese tech would hold them back, right? Plus, I can always hire mercenaries in the Kurils to beef up my army, right?
First shock was seeing Japan attack with 60 stacks twice, second shock was seeing Japan finish westernization somewhere between the second and third strikes, by the time I found out I can't recruit mercs in overseas all my hopes were dead and buried. I still won the war, but that loss...
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That really must be annoying; that WC attempt would have succeeded.After 6 hours of mind-numbing micromanaging troops in WC attempt, releasing a vassal and checking "Play as released subject" option by mistake.
living near france, living on the same continent, living in general.
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I think my worst was a fresh multiplayer game were I was Brandenburg. Only a few years in and I had declared war on some HRE minor and I didn't notice the small Break Truce warning. Then a massive coalition ensued.
We rehosts and i switch to Bohemia. ....I again delcare war on some minor I have a truce with and didn't notice.
Then I announced you should never play the game when you haven't slept for 24 hours. You just don't notice things.
We rehosts and i switch to Bohemia. ....I again delcare war on some minor I have a truce with and didn't notice.
Then I announced you should never play the game when you haven't slept for 24 hours. You just don't notice things.
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In my first EU4 game that wasn't screwing around for tutorial purposes, I played Byzantium with the intent to restore the Trajanic Roman Empire. Which I did, until I won the final war of 1810 and realized my OE was now .3 over 100 because of Casablanca. In 1.0, the OE events were incredibly frequent and I rapid-fire lost all my legitimacy, prestige and army tradition within the space of less than a year, had revolts all over the place. I ultimately had to sell Casablanca back to Morocco, and failed to restore the Roman Empire, ultimately manaing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by a matter of a single province.
The stupidest thing I have ever done in EU IV is trusting in the capabilities of my AI allies in crucial wars. I can still see Sweden ignoring my war as the Teutons against Poland and Lithuania entirely while their 25k troops should have made the crucial difference... It wasn't even a matter of not being able to get there: Pomerania, my neighbor, got in a war against them and suddenly Sweden appeared in Germany besieging Pomeranias provinces while my war was still going on. When Pomerania was finished they left again, ignoring all war targets while doing nothing. Same happened in my Cusco campaign: my alliance outnumbered the last remaining enemy in a war 4 to 1 but literally every ally decided to stay put in their capital, letting me fight an enemy who was stronger 1v1 alone and losing the ironman campaign. If only one of these guys helped I would have won easily, God I hate these useless AI allies.
Long story short: I rather wait until the right time when I can probably win a war on my own than fight a risky war where I have to depend on the AI to not fail in waging war entirely if I have the choice.
Long story short: I rather wait until the right time when I can probably win a war on my own than fight a risky war where I have to depend on the AI to not fail in waging war entirely if I have the choice.
It's about 1590 in my current Sweden>>>Scandinavia game. Gearing up for some expansion into the HRE now that I'm strong enough.
Got into a weird dynastic thing which means I have a 'Lancaster' on my throne. No big deal though.
I got the "A beloved heir dies" event. Chose to find solace in the arms of the Lord.
My good ally Lithuania claims my throne.
I'm now suddenly under a Jagiellonian personal union, and scrabbling around to find anyone significant to help support my independence. Lithuania has strong allies in Poland and a strong Tuscany.
Should have just taken the weak heir
Got into a weird dynastic thing which means I have a 'Lancaster' on my throne. No big deal though.
I got the "A beloved heir dies" event. Chose to find solace in the arms of the Lord.
My good ally Lithuania claims my throne.
I'm now suddenly under a Jagiellonian personal union, and scrabbling around to find anyone significant to help support my independence. Lithuania has strong allies in Poland and a strong Tuscany.
Should have just taken the weak heir