Europa Universalis 4 - Holy Roman Empire (HRE)- Tutorial for Beginners! 

+Danjal Veskandar That's a good one.

An explanation of each mechanic in the expansions sounds good. I got this game and a few of the DLC's a while ago for 75% off, and I'd love an explanation of what else the game has to offer beyond just the core.

+Andrew Harper *962

lol

***** It lasted that long because it almost had no meaning.

Ian Knight in Eu4, yes. in reality, no. the point was about the real HRE.

Ian Knight Learn some history. The HRE played almost no role in forming Germany, fruthermore, it even held it back from developing.

Connor Boehm whaaa

In my game as France one province minor Nassau got elected as Emperor lmao

+TheSidekickGaming Just 170 hours but same. Did a campaign where I created Italy from Naples as part of the empire and did a Honsa into Germany campaign... but that's pretty much it.

+TheSidekickGaming Same here

You guys never vassal-swarmed France ? :(

Poor France :(

I have almost 2000 and still not able to return everything. Trying for the first time as Aragon

I’ve had the game since it came out like a decade ago and stayed away from hre, honestly Europe in general

not much difference than vassals and annexing but when its poland

which nation do you mean?

@@musikkritik6316 Looks like we’ll never know, as far as i know the only way to have Nestorianism in EU4 is to import CK2

personally i just give all my centers of trade to the merchants and then only give the cheapest possible provinces to the others when they demand their usual minimum development, then just keep them balanced via events (ideally dont let them get above 70% influence in case of an event) and then just abuse their interactions when you need them ie free manpower/settlers/monarch points. You can largely ignore them for most of the game but they certainly have uses. Also if you grab a really high tax province but its got huge autonomy, consider giving it to the church estate (or whatever they get called in other cultures) since estates can negate autonomy in certain areas.

also he didn't mention that you can avoid the unlawful territory by beeing at war. just declare another war and only make peace after you finished coring whatever you annexed in the first war

wu trax I didn't know that! Thanks!

JSQuareD I forgot the easiest solution: just ally the emperor :) It's a bit more difficult for smaller states, but if you play as one of the larger states in the empire it should be relatively easy, as long as he doesn't rival you.

In my experience that playthrough is fairly boring, even on speed 5. It does, however, get pretty fun once you can westernize.

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UltimateToby 17 Ahhh, thanks for your great answer, you really helped me...

Starfall no problem. Glad I could help

The answer is yes.

Brian Nguyen Ok thank you. :)

ThieflyChap yes it is possible as long you adjacent with HRE province and have high relation with emperor you could join HRE. or you could influence the majority of elector then the next time emperor die, your king are the next emperor then you could become member by adding your capital as HRE province

razhor ryan Cheers. :)

+Esty6 It's sort of historical though, considering how much the reforms "screwed" up the HRE in real life as well, but i agree it is really brutal if you're unlucky with the centers of reformation.

+Esty6 The forced conversion from the religious centers stops at 1650.

MedicFilms the only thing i think you can do is dismantle the hre and start expanding since you've already has established yourself as a strong nation

nope, just needs very few HRE members and then beat them up in war iirc.

thanks

Kind of was though. Holy? Yes. Empire? Depends on your definition but it could be said that it is. Roman? Not really

Depends on what time period we're talking about. Voltaire lived during the Empire's waning years, and at that point his quip was quite correct.

Holy because it was crowned by the pope Roman meaning king of the romans And empire because it was a coalition of mainly German Christian states

More like Holy German Empire

no it got bigger its just split

Ajay Adams yes, you can leave. It's in the HRE tab at the bottom shield.

No. There are two shields to the left of the minimap, the Papacy and the HRE.

Bryan Sheverbush I've searched everywhere, but no shield

Weird. Are you on any tabs?

I mean are there any menus open?

+Rmozzz He should know, he played as them in a multiplayer game with arumba, mathas and northernlion. It's probably just an oversight since he didn't see the unajoined provinces.

TheYr6LukePalmer-Woodinonewordikr kiss up to the emperor and be very small

+Alex Xavier Steel - D I think we will start seeing DLC for EU4 less and less now that HoI4 and Stellaris are both coming out this spring.

+Bryan G Umm no. Paradox make bank from EU4 so why would they stop. I mean look at the amount of dlc for CK2

No grammar. Comment on what they did for attention. Cringy name and profile picture. Thumbs down?

Why is it obsolete now?

+Chris Ufkes Similarly, but in many ways different Ashikaga Shogunate(starting Japan) doesn't really care if daimyo's are killing each other as long as they stay his vassals, but will protect them from foreigners as they are as such(most notably Korea, who will sometimes to much irony conquer the Japanese islands) daimyos will fight for the Shogun in his wars, but are only useful on Nippon because Paradox AI is shit with navies daimyos can conquer each other, but should a daimyo wish to be shogun they will have to depose the current one by force and reckon with both Shogunate armies and those of the remaining lords if you choose to play as the Ashikaga Shogunate(Japan) then you can unite Japan by spending the first 2 centuries of the game by annexing daimyo after that you can pray that Ming collapses making expansion on the mainland possible and/or go colonizing

+Chris Ufkes Similarly, but in many ways different Ashikaga Shogunate(starting Japan) doesn't really care if daimyo's are killing each other as long as they stay his vassals, but will protect them from foreigners as they are as such(most notably Korea, who will sometimes to much irony conquer the Japanese islands) daimyos will fight for the Shogun in his wars, but are only useful on Nippon because Paradox AI is shit with navies daimyos can conquer each other, but should a daimyo wish to be shogun they will have to depose the current one by force and reckon with both Shogunate armies and those of the remaining lords if you choose to play as the Ashikaga Shogunate(Japan) then you can unite Japan by spending the first 2 centuries of the game by annexing daimyo after that you can pray that Ming collapses making expansion on the mainland possible and/or go colonizing

+Chris Ufkes Similarly, but in many ways different Ashikaga Shogunate(starting Japan) doesn't really care if daimyo's are killing each other as long as they stay his vassals, but will protect them from foreigners as they are as such(most notably Korea, who will sometimes to much irony conquer the Japanese islands). Daimyos will fight for the Shogun in his wars. They can conquer each other, but should a daimyo wish to be shogun they will have to depose the current one by force and reckon with both Shogunate armies and those of the remaining lords. If you choose to play as the Ashikaga Shogunate(Japan) then you can unite Japan by spending the first 2 centuries of the game by annexing daimyo after that you can pray that Ming collapses making expansion on the mainland possible and/or go colonizing

thanks ;)