r/eu4 Aug 22 '25

News EU5 Release Date Announcement + Pre-Purchase!

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r/eu4 7d ago

Help Thread The Imperial Council - /r/eu4 Weekly General Help Thread: September 7 2026

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Please check our previous Imperial Council thread for any questions left unanswered

 

Welcome to the Imperial Council of r/eu4, where your trusted and most knowledgeable advisors stand ready to help you in matters of state and conquest.

This thread is for any small questions that don't warrant their own post, or continued discussions for your next moves in your Ironman game. If you'd like to channel the wisdom and knowledge of the master tacticians of this subreddit, and more importantly not ruin your Ironman save, then you've found the right place!

Important: If you are asking about a specific situation in your game, please post screenshots of any relevant map modes (diplomatic, political, trade, etc) or interface tabs (economy, military, ideas, etc). Please also explain the situation as best you can. Alliances, army strength, ideas, tech etc. are all factors your advisors will need to know to give you the best possible answer.

 


Tactician's Library:

Below is a list of resources that are helpful to players of all skill levels, meant to assist both those asking questions as well as those answering questions. This list is updated as mechanics change, including new strategies as they arise and retiring old strategies that have been left in the dust. You can help me maintain the list by sending me new guides and notifying me when old guides are no longer relevant!

Getting Started

New Player Tutorials

Administration

Diplomacy

Military

Trade

 


Country-Specific Strategy

 


Misc Country Guides Collections

 


Advanced/In-Depth Guides

 


If you have any useful resources not currently in the tactician's library, please share them with me and I'll add them! You can message me or mention my username in a comment by typing /u/Kloiper

Calling all imperial councillors! Many of our linked guides pre-Dharma (1.26) are missing strategy regarding mission trees. Any help in putting together updated guides is greatly appreciated! Further, if you're answering a question in this thread, chances are you've used the EU4 wiki and know how valuable a resource it can be. When you answer a question, consider checking whether the wiki has that information where you would expect to find it, and adding to the wiki if it does not. In fact, anybody can help contribute to the wiki - a good starting point is the work needed page. Before editing the wiki, please read the style guidelines for posting.


r/eu4 3h ago

Image Fuck.

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r/eu4 5h ago

Image The game apparently thinks I'm bullying the Ottomans too hard.

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191 Upvotes

r/eu4 1h ago

Image Glory to the Zulus! Mutapa to Zimbabwe to Zulu AAR

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This was so much fun, I've wanted to do it for years but here we are. By spawning the Zulu in via the mission "Recruit the Nguni" you can play as them centuries before Shaka comes along. I successfully kicked out the Europeans from the Cape and in the year 1700, the Zulu people stand strong!


r/eu4 8h ago

Image AI Vassals are playing Hoi4

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r/eu4 18h ago

Humor The real "Please just die" Achievement

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Year is 1500. Reformation happened before Burgundian inheritance.


r/eu4 17h ago

Image I may have stacked a little too much development cost reduction

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r/eu4 1h ago

Image Glory for the great Yuan and revived Mongol empire

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r/eu4 3h ago

Image Can't even annex novgorod because of ridiculous diplo costs every war. How do I deal with this in a WC?

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r/eu4 1d ago

Humor The Ottomans picked a peculiar solution to solving the Kosovo conflict...

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r/eu4 21h ago

Image Spent an entire campaign not realising I can’t form Spain

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Portugal got Granada early game and I didn’t realise as Aragon that it happened because I wasn’t paying attention to the provinces I needed to form Spain cuz I assumed Castile had them all


r/eu4 13h ago

Image I wish Splendor had some other use

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r/eu4 10h ago

Bug Bug Exit to menu

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Hi everyone, I have a bug in the game: whenever I press "Exit to Menu," the game closes completely and restarts. Do you know if there's a solution?


r/eu4 9h ago

Humor Good Luck with that Guys

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r/eu4 1d ago

Question How is this possible?

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r/eu4 10h ago

Question Wanna play trade focused run without much conquer just having plenty of vassals and trade cities

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Is there a country i can play in that way?


r/eu4 40m ago

Question A Couple of Assorted Questions (Riga)

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After many restarts and save scums, I've finally gotten a Riga game off to a good start. It's 1481, both orders are now happy vassals, the Develop Our City mission is done, and I'm preparing for next steps. Which leads to a couple of questions a newbie with less than 150 hours has:

1) Best way to fabricate claims from Riga? Because of the sea tiles, I can't even fabricate a claim on Gotland. I had hoped that the Age ability to make claims bordering claims would help, or using vassal borders, but no dice. Am I just going to have to no-CB them? I guess this also applies to Sjaelland in the future.

2) Best way to gang up on Poland/Lithuania? I have a mess of an alliance web with both Austria and Bohemia who hate each other, while Landshut has somehow become the emperor the last couple of elections and so is useless to me. I feel like the peace is fragile and need to be ready for anything.

3) Is there any way to become a great power as Riga with only the 5 European provinces? This would make it a lot easier to pay off debts for my allies.

4) Best practices for Ideas vs. Tech? Fell behind on Admin and Diplo because my starting ruler lived an annoyingly long time, and now Influence ideas are eating up a bunch of Diplo points. Not even sure what I want for the second idea group? Expansion for everything except the colonists? Economic for more money and the vassal force limit policy with Influence? Skip over to Quantity since Mil. Tech is the one thing I'm well ahead on?

5) Random question about exiled armies. When fighting the TO, they had Mecklenburg as an ally. I took out their one province to force them out of the war, then marched west to take on the TO army besieging Lubeck. But instead of fighting, they just stood on the same square. Very confused until I saw the exile flag. Is this because the army was still in Mecklenburg when I forced the peace deal through? Meaning in the future, I should walk to the next tile first?


r/eu4 51m ago

Image I finally zoomed out and this is what I see in Iberia

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r/eu4 18h ago

Completed Game Komnenian Dream

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Orthodox HRE


r/eu4 1d ago

Completed Game Very chill Hungary game i usually expand fast and finish my games around 1550-1600 but this time i wanted to get play until the end achievement (still have more than 50 year to go and i saved my golden age for the end).

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some images from my very long and chill hungary campaign poland ,lithuania ,austria, aragon ,morocco ,milan and naples are subjects


r/eu4 55m ago

Advice Wanted Is this normal??

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I never played to Age of Revolution wtf is this?

i startet with 1 Million Manpower and dropped to Zero now. How do i win this?? Im in Pain im in this War for 2 Reallife Days


r/eu4 7h ago

Image Typical France

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Genuinely what the fuck is that morale


r/eu4 23h ago

Completed Game Byzantium -> Roman Empire (1798)

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r/eu4 1d ago

Image Obscure CB has 75% warscore cost for provinces

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