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[EnigmaticHat]

They actually sent cheerleaders to encourage you during difficult legislation.

[h3lblad3]

That's an interesting strategy for getting into the HRE, I haven't thought of it.

Having used Austria to help me suppress electors, I've three elector-vassals now and am in line to be the Burgundian Emperor.

EDIT: I am now the emperor. There is no Imperial Authority, nor has there been for a long time. How do you get the religious unity CB? I need it badly.

[Bouchart]

I think you have to ask a country to convert before it gives you the casus belli.  There should be a button for it under Imperial Actions or whatever it is called in the diplomacy screen.

[Micro102]

Sweden is so OP. So many OP events.

[Bouchart]

What is the best way to break the Kalmar Union?

[WealthyRadish]

Personal unions will break if the senior partner has negative prestige on ruler death. An easy way to tank someone's prestige hard is to occupy their capital, since they'll lose 20 prestige each time this happens, and you can potentially do it multiple times in a war. With Denmark though, Sweden will almost always start an independence war very early (though Denmark does sometimes hold onto Norway if they keep decent prestige).

I've been playing as Better Poland (Mazovia), and man, it's been a hell of a ride. The independence war itself was luckily very smooth, and I was able to break Poland's PU over Lithuania (by the capital trick) and the next war with them went well enough, but afterward I ended up getting DoW'd by Lithuania and Poland separately. It was a 2:1 disadvantage in the Lithuania war, and all my allies dishonored the call to arms with the Poland war (they didn't get any allies in though, so it was just me and them).

What was insane about it was that I knew something horrible like this would happen (Lithuania is no joke, and I hadn't been able to get Muscovy on my side), so I encouraged a civil war ahead of time by leaving land uncored (fortunately had a really shitty ruler). The result was Poland and Lithuania slogging through around 70 pretender regiments, while I stayed out of bankruptcy by looting random provinces I could sneak around to with my tiny army. It was probably the most fun I've had in this game, and by the end of it I managed a white peace with Lithuania and took 100% warscore worth of land off Poland (while at 15 WE, -3 stability, and 15 legitimacy). And then with the war over, I collapse to rebels, and poof! 0 stab, 95 legitimacy, and 0 war exhaustion (also -100 prestige and like 80% autonomy everywhere, but you can't have everything).

[h3lblad3]

The glorious alliance of Emperor Burgundy, Austria, and Spain have defeated France twice now (around 1600), taking Champaigne, Paris, and Berry.

This is the first time I've ever really used mercenaries in EU4 for any length of time. Mercenary infantry with home-grown cavalry and artillery is my standing army. Fighting with France consists of me throwing troops into the meat-grinder to deplete French manpower until Austria can reinforce me while Spain conquers southern France. Still really bad that I have no navy to speak of; I never rebuilt it after England destroyed it in the beginning of the game.

I've got Quality (unfinished), Defensive (finished), Diplomatic (just started), and Administrative (finished) ideas and am not sure what to take next. Maybe Offensive? Or Quantity? Aristocratic for the +10% cav damage and -10% mil tech cost?

I've reached the point where I'm not sure what to do anymore. Do I continue swallowing France or do I go back to swallowing the HRE? Because I have elector-vassals to keep myself emperor, I'll never unite it. But that doesn't mean I can't use and abuse liberation CBs against the princes.

[Bouchart]

You might want Religious depending on how crazy the Reformation has been or if you need the Cleansing of Heresy casus belli.  Influence is always useful but since you haven't finished Diplomatic it could wait.  If you are the Emperor you get a big manpower bonus so Quantity isn't that important.

What is going on in North America?  It's too late to get into the colonization game but there might be a small colonial power you could take on.  Probably not Spain, Portugal or Britain but possibly a smaller one like the Dutch (if they are still around) or Venetians or some Italian minor.

[h3lblad3]

As Burgundy, I am the Dutch. Well, about 2 provinces from being able to form it. The only odd colonizer I know of is Scotland who may or may not still have them after being eaten alive by England. Maybe Sweden or the Hansa has some, but I can't see North America yet.

I think colonization has been severely hampered by constant warfare and debt. Spain spends every moment it can on fighting Super Tunis and the Ottomans. Meanwhile Portugal is focusing on Africa and the Caribbean. France was the first real colonizer, taking up Brazil/Venezuela. Might actually be able to get into that game, but it'll take me into direct conflict with England who will almost certainly sink my fleet if we ever go to war. Assuming they aren't allied with Spain, I could probably take Portugal out by simply marching through Spain. But yeah, by the time I could take an idea for colonists, it'd probably be too late. Then again, there's always the East. Last I checked, India was nearly united by Bahmanis, so I don't know how easy it would be to get a foothold there.

Last time I played, I ended the game as the merchant republic of Serbia. This has been a much different experience.

The HRE has barely any Catholics, the west being Reformed and the north being Protestant. The last Catholics are, amusingly, Austria and 2 of the electors. I can't get IA because I have too many vassals (3 elector-vassals destroys IA gain), but I can't win elections against Austria (can't even come close, their dip rep is insane) so I can't give them up. Maybe if/when I finish Diplomatic I will have a chance.

[Sheb]

Or just massacre Austria.

[WealthyRadish]

I definitely wouldn't take Aristocratic (by the sound of it you're nearing the point in the game where cavalry are becoming weaker than infantry for anything but minor battles), though if you're looking for another military idea group Quantity would probably be the best choice. If you're going for supersoldiers, religious would also be a good choice, since they have a great policy with Quality. Innovative may even been a nice luxury option, since it has the best idea group events in the game and massive MTTH modifiers on many good events otherwise.

[PanH]

Aristocratic is pretty good, but it's better to take it early, while some group ideas have the same effects no matter when you take them.

[h3lblad3]

Thanks, guys. I'll take your advice to heart when I make my decision later.

In the meantime, in case anyone is interested, I have the state of Europe from my game.
http://imgur.com/a/ENTNJ#0

[Bouchart]

The Commonwealth got big.

And is that purple blob Theodoro?  What's going on over there?

Anyway my gut says try to vassalize Brittany, one way or another.

[WealthyRadish]

I saw Theodoro do the same in this run. I think Crimea doesn't get an Ottoman alliance as often in this version, and gets wrecked by an aggressive Genoa.

What I'm curious about is who that is in Cyprus. My first guess was the ever migratory Naples, but they got integrated by Castile by the looks of it.