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Hi guys!! I got into Paradox games with CK2 and the game is fantastic. I got EU3 Chronicles DW and already went through one playthough with it. In CK2 there are events, plots, factions, random popup stuff, and you do things with characters during peace time which keep it moderately interesting. In EU3 I noticed that it is not that interesting to play in peace time except for doing royal marriages, send merchants to places, and colonization. War is not that much better with the cascading alliance. :p

You guys have any tips to keep things fun in peace time? Thanks!
 

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Not exactly an answer to your question. Play Ottomans, take italy, eresum and kaffa. Now you have border with France, Austria, Hungary, QK, Timurid and GH. You won't have peace for longer than a year at any given time.
 

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Sadly EUIII isn't very interesting in peace it is mostly just preparing for the next war. Although, Down the line you might want to try Victoria II is has more focus on domestic things. I haven't played it but you might want to check it out, but ya EUIII focuses a lot on war wish they had some more focus on domestic things.
 

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1. Recover manpower (especially if you are playing 5.2).
2. Prepare for the next war.
3. Fix your finances.
4. Check to see what all your neighbours and biggest rivals are doing (their missions, wars, allies). Spot those who are weak (no or weak allies, in a war they are losing, close to you, with provinces you want, etc).

YOU WANT CONSTANT WAR: PLAY RUSSIA

If you want constant war, play a Russian minor (obviously you will want to form Russia). Trust me, you will be begging for some peace (not that you can't handle them, especially after you form Russia, but there will come a point when you will just want to relax a bit). First you face the Golden Horde, then you border Nogai and Qara Koyunlu, then Kazakh, then Timur, then Chogatai, then the Oirat Horde, and finally the Mongol Khanata (who are usually occupied by Ming, with Ming never accepting peace and thus you can't occupy their territories and are in constant war)!

And all these, while trying to take back your provinces from Lithuania, which is weak but allied to Poland - they are easy to beat but the problem is that you have to split your troops between the western and eastern fronts. If you have truce with the hordes you need to be fast to move all your troops to the western front, defeat POL-LIT and move them back to the eastern front, while making sure you don't lose much manpower.

Then you get the mission to get back Finland from the Swedes (which will grant you cores to all provinces - so sweet) but the problem is that although weak, they are in PU with DEN-NOR so the above applies to them!!!
 
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Then you get the mission to get back Finland from the Swedes (which will grant you cores to all provinces - so sweet) but the problem is that although weak, they are in PU with DEN-NOR so the above applies to them!!!

Sweden seems to be pretty good at ending the union though.
 

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There is no peace time in EU3, theres only a pause between wars.