Your biggest mistakes?

[Sharples88]

We've all had mistakes in EU IV that have left us in a worse position then if we didn't do it.

Personally, my biggest mistake was developing the province of Haida as a native to 35 Development so I could get Feudalism then realize I couldn't embrace it.

 

[Dakka]

The timeless classic: "I can totally take that coalition"

 

[caesarian]

Not seeing if the game was properly saving with the current patch and losing 100 years of progress

but in terms of gameplay: Starting the war of the protestant leauge, seeing my side has a 300k man advantage so I reserve my 100k man army to just knocking Poland out of the war since they left their lands undefended, and then checking warscore and realizing my allies had been getting crushed and the numbers were the same now... then having most of my remaining allies white peace out as war exhaustion got to them, only thing that won me that war was massive debt and a mountain of mercenaries.

 

[yerm]

I have resigned myself to the reality that I will regularly allow ships to sit outside of supply range until they sink. Can't be stopped. I cannot seem to train myself to never not notice. Having an army drown probably happens every month. Something is wrong with me.

 

[Bouchart]

Going to war and getting 90%+ overextension. Start coring.

Then go to war with another country, that just happens to have cores on the land that you're not done coring. Coring progress halts.

 

[Tamm01]

Looking at the OE I would get from demanding provinces in a peace deal and thinking "Really, only 68%? Cool!". A little while after the peace deal all hell started breaking lose and I was like WTF? I checked my OE and it was 168% I don't know how I misread that. *sigh*

 

[Bouchart]

Looking at the OE I would get from demanding provinces in a peace deal and thinking "Really, only 68%? Cool!". A little while after the peace deal all hell started breaking lose and I was like WTF? I checked my OE and it was 168% I don't know how I misread that. *sigh*

Closely related: being careful enough to get under 100% overextension in a peace deal...not realizing that I'm already running 40-50% overextension..

 

[Lacost]

Surely I don't need reinforcements .... I just need a good shock roll!

 

[Ironside121]

The Ottomans are fighting the Mamluks, now my chance!

*Ottomans peace out and get Janissaries*

 

[Jordedude1234]

Leaving my entire army mothballed on Ryukyu. For some reason, I just completely forgot the province still had unrest. The rebels spawn and my entire army was stackwiped. Then a coalition of Chinese minors declared a coalition war on me. I quickly spammed mercenaries to fight the coalition, and ended up white-peacing.

 

[ThePatriotOfDreumel]

I am playing as Prussia, and have an army of 64k troops (2x 16/4/12), and I declare war on the Free City of Hamburg, protected by the emperor: Hesse. I didn't look at Hesse's allies, because I would surely be able to crush any of his weak German minor allies!







Hesse was allied to Ottomans, who threw 400k troops at me.

I won the war in the end, with 10k duckats in debt and 200 thousand dead mercs and 700k dead turks.

 

[Alpacayak]

Thinking that just having access from the Kurils plus a navy barely a bit larger than theirs is enough to launch a successful invasion on Japan.

 

[Woifee]

I ruined a goal I had for a long time.

Goal: Beeing Emperor of Austria, the HRE and Germany. I already was Emperor of Austria (with inheriteted Bohemia and Hungary and Emperor of a protestant HRE and my habsburg dynasty already ran a big Prussia and I was allied to them. In wars I feed them huge parts of german land but at some point they never took any anymore.

It wasn't going fast enough for me.

So I had the chance to PU Prussia and then force feed them. Sadly I got all the AE without the bonus Prussia would get. The Idea was getting them all provinces, break PU, let them form germany and regain PU trough CB.

Sadly after breaking PU I had a huge amount of AE and Prussia just didn't form germany but soon lead a huge coalition against me.

 

[Dsingis]

Shortly after the new institution system was introduced:

Le me, playing as Kongo, pumping mana in my capital to get Feudalism present. Succesfully got Feudalism present in my capital, not enough money t embrace it yet.
"Hmm.. well I could pump even more points in my capital to get the Renaissance present now that Feudalism is present there. So it can spread both at a time."

So, idiotic me spends rest of my mana in this province, without noticing, that the Renaissance made no progress, since I haven't yet embrace Feudalism.
This went on for about 5 years, when I embraced Feudalism and wondered why there is no Renaissance yet.

Ohh foolish me. Of course I restarted this run xD

 

[Toni Martoni]

Running 4 wars at the same time in a WC attempt, I won the first one and planned to give all the lands to my vassal after increasing the autonomy because I was already at nearly 100% OE. I've just forgotten that you cannot give provinces to a vassal if you're at war
Ok so let's go with 160% OE and separatists spawning litterally everywhere

 

[Trin Tragula]

I have resigned myself to the reality that I will regularly allow ships to sit outside of supply range until they sink. Can't be stopped. I cannot seem to train myself to never not notice. Having an army drown probably happens every month. Something is wrong with me.

Me too

 

[Frederick_Will]

Me too

what are your thoughts on having an alert telling you that your ships are about to sink from attrition? I can think of pros and cons for it.

 

[CrazyDoc70]

what are your thoughts on having an alert telling you that your ships are about to sink from attrition? I can think of pros and cons for it.

Wait, didn't they just add that in 1.19?

 

[SignedName]

I stupidly took an Ottoman core during a war with Aq Qoyunlu. Ten years later, my allies Hungary and Great Horde abandon me to my death like the traitorous scum they are.

 

[Rabid]

Intentionally choosing to never have new world colonies because I don't like the gameplay associated with them.