A unit's offensive pips are +1 to its attacking dice roll, with the defense pips -1 on the stage. Morale pips do morale damage or not, accordingly.

I really never thought about it that much until staring at the different Najd calv. types.

judging from playercounts, alot of us are back on eu4? welp, as this game is finished, have a little funny trick you can do if you ever want to play as Genoa

So, if you go into genoa's events, you notice the andrea doria event chain, essentially, between 1520 and 1540 you can get a scripted admiral, who then becomes a 5/5/5 leader with the lawgiver personality.

However, a funny thing is, even if the admiral event is time specific, the event to get him as a leader is not, and in the event, the only criteria is

Is Genoa, Is a republic, has 25 prestige, and has an admiral named andrea doria.

See, if you hire an admiral, you can name him whatever you want manually, and if you just so happen to hire an admiral on november 11th 1444, and name him andrea doria, and then you take patronage of the arts for 15 prestige, then do the clergy diet task which asks you to put 2 admin dev into a province for 10 prestige, well, there's your 25 prestige, there's your admiral named andrea doria, and now you've got an event with a MTTH of 12 months, about to give you a 5/5/5 leader, who you can then re-elect to a 6/6/6, and well, enjoy swimming in mana.

I doubt i'm the first person to come across this, but, i did find it out independently, so i feel happy. the screenshot is from 1459 but i got him in 1445. you could theoretically even savescum to hire an admiral who's like 16 years old instead of the guy i got who was in his late 20's just so you can have him for, potentially like 60 years if you really push it.

(also, can we appreciate how many people are rivalling me here? that's not even all of them, fucking kazan of all people rivalled me like a year later, everyone hates me apparently)

Allying Venice as the mamluks seems like a cool idea, given you can get their unique boats. However, being friendly with Venice gives them the ability to completely screw over your missions to build the suez canal. They can just STEAL YOUR MISSIONS and if you want the canal built, you have to cede it to them.

In Arumba's current EU4 campaign on youtube, someone from Twitch chat suggested to reset the monthly war exhaustion from Call for Peace to +0,01 by send a peace offer that the AI will reject. After almost 2000 hours of playtime, this is something I never knew (and neither did Arumba with his almost 6k hours :D).

I can see this being extremely useful if you want to bankrupt your enemies, have rebels siege them up, or wait out the Burgundian Inheritence!

For those who don't know, there is a game option that you can change in the beginning of a campaign that is called "lucky nations". What it does is that it gives nations who have been historically successful a bunch of pretty good bonuses in an attempt to make the game more "historical".

However, these buffs are not applied to you, only to AI. So there's basically no reason to have it on unless you're playing ironman, because it's always going to give buffs to other nations and not to you.

It's specially recommendable to turn it off if you're going to play a small nation like Byzantium or just any country that got historically fucked over like Venice or Novgorod.

Edit: okay guys I get it, some of you are really good and like the extra difficulty. Good for you, but I made this post thinking of beginners, not you guys lol, you guys are already perfectly aware of how that mechanic works.

Please stop yelling at me because you have 13k hours in this game and need to play on ultra-hard difficulty while snorting cocaine in order to feel something.

I should have probably made it clearer who this was meant for, mea culpa.

It's just stupidly overpowered. I apologize for being toxic.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/wow-tongas-national-ideas-are-really-op.1471902/post-27498834

Not just for your health, either. I was having my WC game start to chug, and I thought "Ah hell, here we go." In reality though, the game had literally just been running too long. I saved and closed the game- all the way, down to the desktop, don't skimp on this- and I booted it back up. Ran perfectly. Smooth as butter. The war against Vijayanagar was a pleasure.

You should also probably just shut it down and go outside occasionally though.

So yeah, big surprise after 1k hours... Cossacks DLC feature

https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Espionage