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[Loud Whispers]

Magyar nation best nation in world. John Hunyadi not John Hapsburg OK.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Make Hungary Great Again

[ZeroGravitas]

Make Hungary Great Again

for the first time

[Loud Whispers]

Dohoho the Knight orders can get fort maintenance down to -60% with the right ideas and policies. MAKE EU4 DORF FORTRESS AGAIN

[Radsoc]

Having the mandate of heaven is a major pain, even when going in with 14 tributaries. Seems like the only way to do something to stabilize mandate is to aggressively attack while the clock is still ticking. I got Japan covered for now, but guess Russia is what eats mandate. It probably doesn't make sense to make them a tributary. Would get called to European wars between their declarations of independence. A Siberian client state could probably shield them off though.

[Loud Whispers]

The solution is to colonize Siberia and then place a Tatar or Mongol horde in between Russia and Mingberia

[Rex_Nex]

Heck. I just missed completing The Third Way (start Ibadi, convert all Sunni and Shia provinces) by ~3 years.

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One Sunni province remained in Yeren and one of Ming's provinces got an event and flipped to Sunni. My biggest mistake was not forming Mughals or Persia, but there were a lot of things I could of done before I realized how hard this was going to be. For some reason I thought I just had to wipe every Sunni nation out. Woops.

[Sheb]

So, wierd shit is happening in my ironman Russia game, I fought a inheritance war with Austria and got Hungary in a PU now. Then, my Tsar and my heir converted to Catholicism. I took the "Time for an Orthodox Tsar" decision (-2 stabs, ouch) to convert my Tsar, but he pretty much immediately reverted to Catholicism. Anyone got any idea of what's happening? Does a ruler's religion import?

[Loud Whispers]

I don't know, religions in leaders are a new mechanic, that might be a bug though

[Sheb]

Looking on reddit, apparently it's a bug where junior partners can change the religion of the king. I hope they fix it quick, it will already have cost me hundreds of admin mana...

[USEC_OFFICER]

Ironically enough, I was just about to suggest that AI Hungary was forcing you to convert. Glad to know I was right.

[FantasticDorf]

Second attempt fell flat for trying to form Wales into England so that i can culture shift, form england and supplant english/british events with strong welsh ideas with a plan to swamp Europe from fortress Britain & the colonies with Wales's 25% force limit ambitions & strong religious ideas mixed with quantity & gold from Africa.

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Welsh ideas
Traditions: (both are these are good with defensive, as ideally you'll want to turtle up the british isles anyway, solid second idea group if you haven't chosen naval for ocean superiority)
+1 Attrition for enemies
+10% Morale of armies

Cynulliad
−20% Stability cost modifier (stacks with religious ideas for nearly half discount)

Bardic Literature
+1 Yearly prestige (+2 a year with religious ideas, you'll always be in the black with minimum prestige)

Cyfraith Hywel
−1 National unrest (-2 from humanist)

Unbennaeth Prydain
+1 Yearly legitimacy

Economic Revival
+10% Production efficiency (economic ideas levels out foriegn gold provinces & provides stronger base & cheaper troops for your en-masse future army)

Prifysgolion Cymru
−10% Idea cost (stacks with Humanist ideas bonus -20% definitely tree to complete first to breeze the rest)

Welsh Church
+1 Tolerance of the true faith
+1% Missionary strength vs heretics (potentially strong with/without religious ideas strictly speaking)

Ambition:
+25% Land force limit modifier (plus quantities 50 and accelerated idea growth, insane)

All of this plus becoming england & passing parlimentary debates, Wales is tough & time consuming to eat your overlord but absolutely underrated for the quality of what you can do with these ideas. I just can't think of any dirty tricks at the moment that would give me a edge as often Scotland falls flat & France is purely good for the continent. Ill try releasing northumberland to free england up of development and intensify the war of the roses event which lets you send over 3000 men to spawn a 8 stack rebel of troops each.

Only time i've ever been freed from England was my first attempt at this where england incurred a irish coalition and lost releasing me within the peace deal. I then got clobbered being greedy & starting more wars after taking laughin.

[Loud Whispers]

Welsh exodus to USA is an obvious one, but I think a path that has been tread before. Is it just me, or does the +prestige, +legitimacy, small size and dank religious + idea bonuses suggest Wales could become a secret Holy Roman Welsh Emperor strat?
Think about it: From Wales you could eliminate the protestant centre of reformation in the British Isles and thus eliminate one of the toughest protestant strongholds. With bonus prestige and legitimacy you'll never lack for bonuses from other states wanting you to be Emperor (once you're big enough), and if you suck up to the Austrians before the Dutch leave, you could theoretically add yourself to the HRE or else just go the long route, become Emperor and so add yourself that way. With bonus to religious ideas and conversion you're a prime candidate for a German and Scandinavian protestant chemotherapy edition, eliminating centres of reformation with missionary strength no one else possesses (except maybe the Byzantines, but they won't have survived this long anyways so no one cares). With your idea groups stacked religious and humanist, you're basically immune to the reformation!
You also have a natural reason to reclaim France as the natural celtic descendants of One True Celtic France^tm. And if you become HRE and defeat the protestants and Dutch, revoking the privilegia cements your hold on the English Channel trade node, as all other trade income goes to your vassals instead of rivals. The only downside I think, is that despite your increased force limit, manpower may still remain an issue, with regards to winning a league war.

[FantasticDorf]

Why fight the protestants when i can become the protestant with a holy war CB onto usually catholic France & then stack the church power buffs ontop too? Ill keep that HRE strat in mind though you're right it does sound really really good. Protestant church aspect dump in the bit below

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Church aspects
Aspect    Effects
Organized through bishops    Development cost.png −5% Development cost (stacks with economic)
Priests may marry    Stability cost modifier.png −10% Stability cost modifier (almost permanent +3 stability)
Adult baptism    Missionary strength.png +1% Missionary strength (unstoppable conversion machine)
Holy sacraments    Discipline.png +2.5% Discipline (most definitely just to keep my armies strong)
Saints accept prayers    Morale of armies.png +5% Morale of armies (gives elan! a run for its money with welsh traditions)
Morale of navies.png +5% Morale of navies
Icons    Prestige.png +0.50 Yearly prestige (Infinite prestige)
Legalised divorces    Legitimacy.png +0.25 Yearly legitimacy (Nice top up to legitimacy)
Republican tradition.png +0.10 Yearly republican tradition
Devotion.png +0.25 Yearly devotion
Horde unity +0.25 Yearly horde unity
Heretics deported    Global settler increase.png +15.00 Global settler increase (better colonisation, pretty good)
Parish registers    Manpower recovery speed.png +10% Manpower recovery speed (for keeping my INFINITE armies healthy)
Individual creeds    Idea cost.png −5% Idea cost (can give a pass)
Allow usury    Production efficiency.png +10% Production efficiency (stacks with economic for +30% total and absurd trade companies)
Translated Bibles    National unrest.png −1 National unrest (stacks with humanitarian)

However the process to becoming england incurs more development than the emperor will allow as the AI disallows states it feels are a threat, vassalising electors through roundabout HRE wars after i get a foothold in europe through France is a more likely bet.

[Loud Whispers]

You know what, converting to protestantism and leading the protestant league to victory sounds like a great way to usurp the HRE from Austria