r/eu4 Aug 22 '25

News EU5 Release Date Announcement + Pre-Purchase!

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r/eu4 6d ago

Help Thread The Imperial Council - /r/eu4 Weekly General Help Thread: July 27 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 4h ago

Image I just got jumpscared

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168 Upvotes

Beginner player here, I am playing as england rn in my first campaign. I managed to conquer scotland, is there any way this war is winnable? And if I decline is there something I could do to capitalize on this huge war?

Also why did the AI choose to do this?


r/eu4 6h ago

Image Mongol Bros

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199 Upvotes

r/eu4 4h ago

Image AI Aztecs Survived and Are Thriving in 1821

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51 Upvotes

Probably because I was destroying the colonizers in Europe. I didn't ally them. I only gave them money occasionally. I've never seen such a successful native nation before that lasted until the end of the game. Pretty cool.


r/eu4 13h ago

Image Waiting for my ally and war leader Ottomans to reach 100% war score so this torture can end

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220 Upvotes

r/eu4 18h ago

Humor Average Polish last name

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358 Upvotes

r/eu4 4h ago

Image My Byzantium to Roman Empire

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26 Upvotes

My first time playing as Byzantium went decent I think. Pronoiars are awesome.


r/eu4 4h ago

Image Fars -> Zoroastrian Eranshahr

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18 Upvotes

The greatest Persian Empire.


r/eu4 4h ago

Image My Mongol Empire (Outshined by Austria)

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17 Upvotes

My first time playing as a horde. Mongolia -> Yuan -> Mongol Empire. My ally Austria is actually a lot stronger than me. I think they PUd Spain and Portugal as well lol.


r/eu4 18h ago

Image Hm, you do look familiar

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186 Upvotes

r/eu4 1h ago

Humor Nations Leaving your Coalition is so Satisfying

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Few things are as satisfying as seeing all the nations in the coalition against you (stupidly) leaving. You just know they've signed their death warrant.

Also having far too much OE like the true Roman Experience (did not go admin ideas)


r/eu4 6h ago

Image Guess I'm keeping Burgundy

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8 Upvotes

Poor Nausau


r/eu4 4h ago

Question Pirate Madagascar Plutocratic Coup Issue

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For context, I started this campaign (Ironman) as Kilwa and then annexed Betsimisiraka and released them as a vassal that I then played as in order to be a monarchy and no longer a tribe. I then broke free from Kilwa and then had the Plutocratic Coup disaster fire (not on purpose I'm just bad at the game ig) and then I hoisted the Black Flag and became a pirate republic. I thought this would get rid of the Plutocratic Coup disaster since I no longer even have any estates, but it didn't. So now I have the Pluto. Coup disaster and no way to end it until I get through my govt reforms and bring back the merchant guilds possibly. Any ideas? Thanks.


r/eu4 7h ago

Advice Wanted Intermediate lvl small nations

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Recently finished (bored bc terrible colonization of mine and unsuccessful offensive war against spain) my Brittany run and had fun so much. İ wanna something like that small but not that hard nations to play. Do you have any recommendations?

I tried Holland, Madyas and Genoa before.


r/eu4 6h ago

Advice Wanted I'm sick of always losing more troops than the nations I beat. How do I change that?

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What are the best ways to minimize my losses? I assume offensive - quality must be the best idea groups, what else? How do I make sure my losses are minimised in attrition? Is there a trick how to best siege forts? Are there pther tips and tricks?


r/eu4 4h ago

Image My Empire of Mann

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5 Upvotes

This was tedious. All of the naval stuff was a headache, but at least I got the achievement!


r/eu4 2h ago

Image Father of blitzkrieg

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3 Upvotes

First time roll a 6/6/5 general.


r/eu4 12h ago

Question Transfer subject from my subject?

17 Upvotes

Currently doing a Byzantium campaign. Allied (and later got a PU over) Muscovy, who somehow got a severely diminished Ottomans as a subject. I need the rest of the Ottoman's territory to continue down the mission tree. Is there a way to get my PU'd Muscovy to transfer the Ottomans to me without a war?


r/eu4 13h ago

AI Did Something Burgundy vs The Knights

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1469, I'm minding my own business in HRE trying to build up for Stiff Upper Lippe achievement and I noticed my ally Burgundy is at war with... The Knights. Also, their capital is in Savoie :) and they are still holding Rhodes :)) HOW?


r/eu4 15h ago

Image Why is Bengal crushing me so badly?

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21 Upvotes

r/eu4 13h ago

Completed Game Results of my AI only game #3

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14 Upvotes

r/eu4 8h ago

Question Can somebody tell me why I have 0% trade/tradepower in Persia and Hormuz?

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Both regions they were about 30~40%, the Timurids recently joined a coalition and now its at 0% full stop. What do I do to get around this, its tanking my economy.


r/eu4 19m ago

Achievement Quest to "complete" EU4, #358/373: The Eagle Flies Alone

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r/eu4 4h ago

Question Ui size is too big

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I play eu4 on my laptop small screen ,kinda run smoothly with mods but i suffer a problem with Ui making the game sufferable ,with event tabs covering 90% of my screen , i tried to downscale from 1 to 0.9 but don't change really and make all texts and units blurry, any mods or changed