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[Loud Whispers]

Yes I've read that. But I've done all I can and it's taking years for little change. If you are trying to tell me that progress will ramp up exponentially, then I'd be willing to wait.

Yeah, the bonuses from centralization, admin and vassal years stack up exponentially. Look at it this way, the longer you have your vassal, the faster they are integrated - so without factoring in centralization or admin, it definitely will exponentially increase. When you negotiate a closer bond with your vassal, you effectively add 10 years of service in the span of a day, so that'll also help speed up integration growth

[Micro102]

Could someone explain to me why all my vassal have suddenly stopped helping me fight wars? When I had my first war to break from the papal states they all ran around and attacked and siege territories. Now they just sit there while this stack that could very easily be wiped out with their help sieges all my territory. I tried changing their behavior. I've tried attaching my army to theirs. I've tried engaging the enemy's 7 units with my 5, hoping the other 4 units of vassals would join in, but nothing happens. They just sit there until the stack walks in and destroys their armies one by one. It's infuriating. This is 5 different vassals all doing this.

(Just a reminder I'm playing MEIOU and Taxes 2.0)

[Persus13]

Have you tried clicking "attach to this unit" on your army? Also, what's the liberty desire on your vassals?

[Micro102]

Have you tried clicking "attach to this unit" on your army? Also, what's the liberty desire on your vassals?

I have tried that, and their liberty desire was somewhere in the 50's.

[Persus13]

I'm pretty sure that in vanilla your vassals won't help in wars if they're disloyal, which is above 50%. Unless M&T changes that there is your problem.

[Micro102]

Well that's disappointing. I feel that there should be more to a decision that threatens the existence of your nation  and army than a few points of liberty desire.

[Sheb]

Well that's disappointing. I feel that there should be more to a decision that threatens the existence of your nation  and army than a few points of liberty desire.

Well, keeping liberty desire low is important. If you have some prestige to sacrifice, you can sacrifice 20 prestige for a -5% liberty desire.

[Exerosp]

Or a tiny amount of mana to develop a province, if you have the DLC that lets you do that.

[Persus13]

Or just improve relations with your vassals or find a way to get your diplomatic reputation higher

[Micro102]

So I'm playing MEIOU and Taxes and am wondering if this is vanilla or part of the mod and what causes it. My armies, after losing a fight, regain movement only at ~25% a month and the tooltip says I need 50% to begin moving again. This effectively lets the enemy stack wipe me.

[Loud Whispers]

So I'm playing MEIOU and Taxes and am wondering if this is vanilla or part of the mod and what causes it. My armies, after losing a fight, regain movement only at ~25% a month and the tooltip says I need 50% to begin moving again. This effectively lets the enemy stack wipe me.

It's a vanilla mechanic, armies with too low morale get forced into a shattered retreat. The AI (or you) then marches to what it thinks is a safe place to retreat to, fingers crossed it's into a fleet of transports or behind Fortresses that can then ferry those forces to safety. If not, they can get stackwiped. Also when doing a shattered retreat, most commonly through Russia, if a unit regains morale before reaching its retreat destination it can be manually controlled again before the retreat is completed.
High morale is godly in the early game and great in the late game. Generally, it's never a bad idea to have better morale

[Micro102]

It took me a few decades but I finally realized why the ottomans were kicking my as so badly. Massive tech advantage.

[Sheb]

Yeah, you really don't want to fall behind on military tech. Sometime even a one tech level advantage can make a huge difference if it unlocks new units.

[Loud Whispers]

Spoiler: tfw you're about to have the first war with the Hapsburg menace, the war that will determine ultimate hegemony over the fate of the world, and they leave 4 of their interior top of the line Napoleonic Fortresses empty of dudes (click to show/hide)

And then you just walk in and take them all, securing all of the Balkans in your swag popemobile at the staggering cost of like 210 mil points and 0 casualties

suk maa diiiik im the pope suk ma dik suk ma dik remove hapsbourg REMOVE HAPSBOURG you are worst hapsbourg YOU LIVE IN A DITCH and probably sleep with sister

*EDIT

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And then after most of Austria's allies got eliminated by Papal white coats, after Bohemia decided to launch their own war to cleanse Austria of heresy - Russia joined in to boost the Papal war to 1,000,000 soldiers strong. rip hapsbourg

Sweden however does not care. The Swedes can stare down the swords of a million souls and fear not the coming storm, nor fear to walk amongst the innumerable dead. The Swede shall not ask whether honour matters or whether their cause was just, they shall simply carry on when everything is already lost, for the Swede must fear nothing but Finngolians and mildly hot weather

*EDIT
With the hapsbourgs assimilated in short order, the rest of the HRE crumbled in rapid succession - their great protector annihilated and annexed. With prince after prince falling to the livid Papacy, the last remaining elector of the Netherlands turned to the only Catholic ruler left who had managed to successfully resist the Pope.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

GIGA-SWEDEN

[Tawa]

I'm doing a Netherlands game, and I'm at the very tail end of it. I took all the economic and money ideas possible and colonized the shit out of South and Central Africa (among other places.) Basically everywhere between the Horn of Africa and the Cape of Good Hope is my domain.

My trade power is so insanely high right now that I control the world slave trade despite having outlawed slavery.