Paradox Studio Thread

[ellroy]

What did you even do to get that Coalition?

Okay I will still contest that AE is just a number...
But that number is too damn high, you never heard of truce juggling? Look that up and restart with it mind, before you get Napoleonic War'd 300 years early again.

He appears to have conquered the land off of BUR instead of waiting for the inheritance.
Only other thing that could have done it is full annexing BRI + using the wrong CB to snatch Normandy + Gascony off off ENG.
All in all should get some more hours in before doing ironman; it's not savescumming if it's a learning experience.

I missed out on the inheritance despite my constant fighting with Burgundy before then. I had the Burgundian succession war but wasn't prepared for it and my vassals were shit at fighting it compared to Burgundy and their own and their alliance with Aragon. As soon as I could get a positive war score, I white peace'd it because it was going to get ugly eventually. Burgundy afterwards joined the HRE (a first in my previous playthroughs) and immediately allied Austria and Austria must of taken quantity because they had a lot of manpower so I didn't want to directly go to war with Burgundy.

I took advantage of Burgundy's weird alliances with Saluzzo and Aragon to use either Provence's claims on Sardina and my new vassal Savoy's claims on Saluzzo since I liberated them from Genoa when I went to war over Provence's claims on Corsica. I would destroy Burgundy first and chipped away Western Burgundy with Aragon's war and then again for Eastern Burgundy over Saluzzo. To make matter's worse, I revoked the HRE territory on the two western Burgundian provinces. I think I clearly took too much in those three wars and Milan kicked off the Coalition. I keep trying to soothe over Milan and Bohemia but Milan won't have it and will declare war.

Sucks to know I have to start over but I did learn a little bit even with 200+ hours under my belt before this game.

 

[East_Clintwood]

How badly did I screw myself over and is this recoverable?

Pretty badly and maybe, but it'd probably take a fair amount of effort. Given you're only 50 years into the game you're probably honestly better off restarting and not going full retard on the AE.

Honestly I do wanna congratulate you on fucking up your AE that high though. I've only managed something similar once and that was in like my 3rd game ever when I was playing Anbennar and I ate most of Inner and Southern Castanor in one war.

 

[Chickenpolar]

For lack of a better place to ask this, I need to ask it here.

I'm in iron man game as France and I got a big coalition that sprung up against me in a month. I'm allied to Switzerland, Castile, and Poland without the PU with Lithuania. Milan loves to declare war within a month each time I try to play from my iron man save file.

How badly did I screw myself over and is this recoverable?

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You'll be fine. Coalitions are broken and rarely fire. In a France game I just played had a collation that would have my side outnumbered 3:1 but they never declared war.

Have a couple of your diplomats automatically improve relations with outraged countries using the diplo menu alongside the build screen and sit tight.

 

[ellroy]

You'll be fine. Coalitions are broken and rarely fire. In a France game I just played had a collation that would have my side outnumbered 3:1 but they never declared war.

Have a couple of your diplomats automatically improve relations with outraged countries using the diplo menu alongside the build screen and sit tight.

I’ve found a way to manipulate the save file and can try at that date in the screenshot as long as I exit the game via alt-tab and close (the joys of playing the Linux version). The furthest I’ve lasted without war was 40 days and Milan declares because they have a claim on Nice and other provinces held by Savoy and Provence. I could sell titles at a 1000 ducats and then use the ducats to bribe Milan with a gift. But Austria is my rival and they’ll probably declare eventually.

That war starts with a 6:1 ratio against since most of the HRE joins in. No way I can win that.

 

[Chickenpolar]

I’ve found a way to manipulate the save file and can try at that date in the screenshot as long as I exit the game via alt-tab and close (the joys of playing the Linux version). The furthest I’ve lasted without war was 40 days and Milan declares because they have a claim on Nice and other provinces held by Savoy and Provence. I could sell titles at a 1000 ducats and then use the ducats to bribe Milan with a gift. But Austria is my rival and they’ll probably declare eventually.

That war starts with a 6:1 ratio against since most of the HRE joins in. No way I can win that.

Well fuck. Sorry for the shitty advice. I'd rate it dumb if I could.

Hope your next game goes better