Why i dont cant recruit generals, explorer, admiral, etc

[jdrou]

Hmm, I'm usually not correcting dharper, but let me point out that QftNW is still a useful NI in IN due to the +50% colonial range.

Also useful as a trigger for useful events/decisions or to prevent the annoying 'national decline' event.

Is it possible to edit the save to allow for normal recruitment of leaders?

You can't have both historical leaders and normal leaders at the same time but you can switch from one to the other by editing the save.
Savegame editing guide: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?p=7977680
Savegame editor: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=377044

 

[alexnothome]

You all are forgetting event 881.

You need QOTNW idea, 5 merchants and have not discovered the Caribbean, have at least 1 port and it does trigger often; but I believe only once per game.

You'll get a Carrack and an Explorer with 20 Naval Tradition stats.

Most important quest in Historical leader setting if you ask me.

 

[jdrou]

This is a good example of why thread-necromancy is usually bad: that event did not exist when this thread was active.

 

[alexnothome]

This is a good example of why thread-necromancy is usually bad: that event did not exist when this thread was active.

First. Yes it was. This event been a random event since NA, which was released in 2007, and that's before this question.

Secondly, and more importantly, this is not an uncommon question and it's the only google hit around. Nobody uses this website's primitive search engines since it does not return good hits. That's how I found this question and others who have asked the same question have now found an answer and a new strategy when playing in "Historical" mode. Matter in fact, I dare to say this even been since Vanilla because I've aimed for this event many times if I play in a muslim tech group wishing not to be a colonialist play style wasting Idea slot on colonial ventures for a year then switch to QOTW then back to whatever proper Idea I must have. Need the Explorer to discover routes to Nanjing for example.

So, since this question not only answers not only posters but people who use Google as well then there is no necromancy so stop talking out of your rear.

 

[jdrou]

I have pretty much every version of EU3 since 1.0 installed and event 881 does not exist until Divine Wind 5.1.