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What hilariously bad things did you do when learning the game?
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In my first game as Portugal i got overrun by Morocco because i came straight from CK2 and thought i could quickly raise troops. So i disbanded all my troops and ships at the start to save money. It was not long before morocco DOW me and killed me cuz i didn't know how to get alliances either.
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Right after playing the Tutorial i started a campaing with Brandenburg and thought it would be a good idea to take exploration ideas. 'cause give claim and shit 
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In my first game I was Sweden, looking through the sliders for the Armies, I realized I got more money when they were to the left, unfortunately when I declared war on Denmark, I didn't know set them back, and I never played Sweden again.
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I've had a quite recent learning experience on pu mechanics.
Started as England, first move was to unlock the mission to pu France. Just as I was about to dow, januari 1445, I get a popup telling me Aragon is contesting my PU over Austria. Well ok let's do that first.
Got the pu over Austria and immediately declared on France. Sometime during that war I get an event for a new ruler, yes please.....ow crap should've checked my prestige.
Oh well wrapped up the war with France and turned around to get Austria back into the fold.
So let's put these pu slaves to good use right away and throw them against Castille. During that war I noticed France had some rebels...I'll deal with them later. Ow crap again they were pretender rebels.
10 years into the game and I had already encountered two ways to break a pu.
Gotta love those ragequit inducing moments in ironman
Started as England, first move was to unlock the mission to pu France. Just as I was about to dow, januari 1445, I get a popup telling me Aragon is contesting my PU over Austria. Well ok let's do that first.
Got the pu over Austria and immediately declared on France. Sometime during that war I get an event for a new ruler, yes please.....ow crap should've checked my prestige.
Oh well wrapped up the war with France and turned around to get Austria back into the fold.
So let's put these pu slaves to good use right away and throw them against Castille. During that war I noticed France had some rebels...I'll deal with them later. Ow crap again they were pretender rebels.
10 years into the game and I had already encountered two ways to break a pu.
Gotta love those ragequit inducing moments in ironman
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One time when I was learning I accidently made a peace deal with me offering instead of taking and I was being greedy.
I gave them all my land and became their vassal and they remained under enough AE to be fine.
It was a really confusing moment.
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I was playing my first Ironman game, as England and I got France in a personal union right away. The Burgundian Inheritance fired during the war and France beat my army after I crossed a river into the hills. My allies Castile and Portugal helped me win. The peace gave me 50+ AE and I was destroyed in a coalition war by Super Austria, Denmark (with Sweden in PU), Aragon, Scotland, and half the HRE. The War of the Roses fired and I had to give up France and Wales to end the coalition war. I quit the game after signing the peace. It has been almost six months and I have just returned to England to do it the right way.
Thankfully I watched a lot of EU4 on YouTube before buying the game, so there are no really horrible mistakes or misunderstandings.
In my very first game as Portugal I knew AE was a thing, but I somehow never bothered to check it and actually it didn't come up for the longest time. Expanding into Africa, the Americas and Asia never caused enough AE to matter. Taking over the Iberian Peninsula also went fine (probably because I always took Humiliation and War Reps, leaving only 50% war score for provinces). Come mid-late game I was a little more ambitious. I wanted to take over the Genoa trade node. All of Northern Italy was part of a Milan blob, which I declared on. First mistake: I didn't call in my long-standing ally France, because I saw they had a bunch of claims on Milan. Second mistake: I assumed I could crush them like Asians. After getting my carpet siege destroyed by the Milanese Doomstack I learned better. In the end I took a large chunk of land and was generally very pleased with myself. Suddenly France flips their shit, dissolves our 200-year-alliance. Outraged, Wants your Provinces -180. Turns out they had a mission to conquer Milan. Ooops. This is where the AE raised its ugly head for the first time in my game experience, since France took full AE due to me not calling them into the war. Soon I had a coalition against me that consisted of France, Ottomans and half the HRE. Thankfully I could diplomatically disperse it before it ever fired, but the threat of being backstabbed by a gigantic France with Ottoman help was scary for a while. Now I know to check missions and pay attention to my AE heat map
The same war I also learned to check for red thumbs-down on the final peace screen. I had Austria help me out against Milan. I knew they had a few claims here and there and I deliberately gave them a valuable province from Burgundy in a side-peace, thinking it would make them happy because they gained land helping me in the war. Then I peaced out Milan all for myself and got a massive diplomatic penalty with Austria. That's when I learned that side-peaces don't matter to the AI
The rest of my facepalming experiences is mostly fighting with the UI, not really fighting with ignorance: Thinking the declare war screen was actually telling the truth when declaring on a subject, then having the Ottomans join day 1 despite the declare screen saying they wouldn't. Declaring an insignificant war and calling in all my major allies accidentally because I re-opened the screen or clicked on a CB (thankfully fixed). That sort of stuff...
In my very first game as Portugal I knew AE was a thing, but I somehow never bothered to check it and actually it didn't come up for the longest time. Expanding into Africa, the Americas and Asia never caused enough AE to matter. Taking over the Iberian Peninsula also went fine (probably because I always took Humiliation and War Reps, leaving only 50% war score for provinces). Come mid-late game I was a little more ambitious. I wanted to take over the Genoa trade node. All of Northern Italy was part of a Milan blob, which I declared on. First mistake: I didn't call in my long-standing ally France, because I saw they had a bunch of claims on Milan. Second mistake: I assumed I could crush them like Asians. After getting my carpet siege destroyed by the Milanese Doomstack I learned better. In the end I took a large chunk of land and was generally very pleased with myself. Suddenly France flips their shit, dissolves our 200-year-alliance. Outraged, Wants your Provinces -180. Turns out they had a mission to conquer Milan. Ooops. This is where the AE raised its ugly head for the first time in my game experience, since France took full AE due to me not calling them into the war. Soon I had a coalition against me that consisted of France, Ottomans and half the HRE. Thankfully I could diplomatically disperse it before it ever fired, but the threat of being backstabbed by a gigantic France with Ottoman help was scary for a while. Now I know to check missions and pay attention to my AE heat map
The same war I also learned to check for red thumbs-down on the final peace screen. I had Austria help me out against Milan. I knew they had a few claims here and there and I deliberately gave them a valuable province from Burgundy in a side-peace, thinking it would make them happy because they gained land helping me in the war. Then I peaced out Milan all for myself and got a massive diplomatic penalty with Austria. That's when I learned that side-peaces don't matter to the AI
The rest of my facepalming experiences is mostly fighting with the UI, not really fighting with ignorance: Thinking the declare war screen was actually telling the truth when declaring on a subject, then having the Ottomans join day 1 despite the declare screen saying they wouldn't. Declaring an insignificant war and calling in all my major allies accidentally because I re-opened the screen or clicked on a CB (thankfully fixed). That sort of stuff...
First game was as Manchu, ended up maintaining a twenty year war with Japan just so I could keep my economy in the green with war taxes.
not caring for the infamy in EU3 and get my behind taken down by alot of nations declaring war on me
Not realising that you could siege provinces and wondering why I was constantly losing when I assaulted forts.
I've sent peace offers to the war leader and another enemy on the same day before...oops.
Culture conversion, culture conversion everywhere.
I remember back when the game first launched, there was mass hysteria over how missionaries worked... people thought that you simply could not convert Sunni provinces anymore. So generally avoiding every Muslim province was also a thing I did for a bit. Wee.
I remember back when the game first launched, there was mass hysteria over how missionaries worked... people thought that you simply could not convert Sunni provinces anymore. So generally avoiding every Muslim province was also a thing I did for a bit. Wee.
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As Castille, I wanted to save money and focus on colonizing. France was friendly so I deleted most of my troops for better income and expected happy colonizing in peace and rainbows. France breaks alliance, then DOW's me. How do I move my capital to Americas again?
Joining a religious war that opposes France, Poland, Austria and Muscovy.
Lost 85% of my land when they forced me to release 4 nations.
Lost 85% of my land when they forced me to release 4 nations.
If you are serious, there is a way, you could either wait for the Wedding and sell your land to Aragon, or release Galcia, or one of the newer vassals, give them all your land. I think you aren't allowed to move your capital to another continent until you are down to your last province in your original (Europe in this case).
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