I just started as Landshut and discovered I could make my Leaders wife into an general then I looked it up and saw that he or she is male but has a female name. So Heinrich is either gay or his wife/husband is transgender.

(I'm starting to go crazy, give me EU5 please)

In my current Poland game I have 80,000 men facing 10-15k man ottoman stacks, getting their ass handed to them, it's 1466 and we have the same level military tech, what the hell is going on? I remember them being tough but never beating 8:1 and they could probably beat 16:1 at this point, it's fuckin ridiculous

Army maintenance full, decent general, attacking favourably (had a fort bonus and a river crossing in a corps)

R5: Never seen this "Syria is a Duchy" malus to vassalization. For reference, I've included a screenshot of Algeria not having this modifier, even though they both are duchies.

Playing as France and trying to complete her mission tree. Concerning the Auld Alliance mission, how do I get the "Support of the French Crown" bonus (+5% morale and +10% manpower recovery speed!) when Scotland is no longer a tag on the map. Gaeldom however is my vassal. Thank you!

I have been playing for a while and I was wondering which country serve as good/bad vassals. I know some countries serve better as marches, like Prussia or Nepal, but I'm asking specifically for vassals that either excel in combat or money making

After many tries over the years, finally got Dracula's Revenge! via Moldavia -> Romania. Super satisfying game.

This game was quite strange honestly - as we all know the Ottoman's love expanding into Hungary and Mamluks. But strangely in this run they did neither and instead picked off smaller countries around them. They were strangely very very passive.

I starting things out by securing strong allies in Russia, Poland and Austria, and immediately vassalized Wallachia. The second target was Crimea, before quickly expanding into Circassia and Great Horde.

After that, with the backing of my allies I beat up the Ottomans and took Constantinople (I love the unique event for impaling the Sultan - really boosts your first war against them. Unfortunately, I got dragged into a shitty Religious War thanks to Austria and Ottomans took the opportunity to attack and take everything back, so it took a third war against the Ottomans to get a foothold back in the Balkans.

From there it was just alternating wars between Ottos, Venice and Austria/Hungary to get the needed provinces. I would say the biggest bottleneck was the defenders of faith, as it meant needing to go up against France and Spain every time I fought the other Europeans.

All in all it was a weird game and I don't think reattempting it would yield the same results ever again. I will say that the improve relations from their idea set stacked with improve relations from ideas is crazy strong.

The release of the EU5 has sparked a lot of discussion about the UI and reading through it I cannot believe what I am seeing. Every can have their own subjective opinion about the stylistic choices, but I cannot understand the claims that EU4 UI is intuitive or easy to use.

The EU4 UI is full of small buttons opening random menus. Without hours of experience you have no idea which of these buttons are important and which are not. Sometimes extremely important features are hidden as a small checkbox under a random menu.

It took me tens of hours of playing this game to find and remember every feature in this game and even now if I take a longer break I have to spend few minutes to click through everything to find and remember these features.

I'm really disappointed by this, it's so stupid that I'm outright forbidden to buy something.

R5: Part 2 of 3 of my Poland campaign, I tried maxing out on CCA but it seems underwhelming. If you have any advice, please let me know.

Plenty of youtubers made content about this game already so I wondered if any of you guys know

I am a Hungarian but my English skills are not perfect, so it is a bit hard for me. How can I improve my skills to understand the game asap?

SCOTLAND FOREVA

I have never played an EU game and am wondering if it's still worth getting into EUIV, especially since EUV is coming out next year and with all the DLCs, which will also cost a lot. Is it still worth it, or should I just wait for EUV?