Europa Universalis IV

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Some of my favorite campaigns have always been the ones where the Netherlands remains small and unassuming in Europe, sticking roughly to its historical borders, but builds a globe-spanning colonial empire overseas. There's something incredibly satisfying about playing tall, staying out of constant European wars, and still shaping world history from afar.

But my dream campaign takes this a step further.

I imagine a religiously, politically, and dynastically unified Europe—not under one massive empire, but as a peaceful patchwork of sovereign nation-states, each representing its own cultural group, with clean and elegant borders. Germany, Italy and the Balkans would be divided into many small nations, while France, Spain, Poland, etc., would each be unified within their natural cultural limits.

All of this would exist under the framework of a decentralized Holy Roman Empire, with the Netherlands as Emperor—not as a conqueror, but as a symbolic, stabilizing leader. Think of it like a proto-EU: nations cooperating, trading, and advancing in peace, with the Emperor guiding diplomacy and balance.

Meanwhile, the Dutch would dominate the colonial world—wealth flowing in, trade nodes channeled to the Low Countries, and naval supremacy securing global influence.

Key elements of the campaign:

The Netherlands stays small in Europe but becomes a global colonial power

Every European culture group forms a unified nation within its cultural borders

The HRE remains decentralized, a peaceful confederation of sovereign states

A religiously and politically stable continent, focused on development and diplomacy

I imagine am HRE including all of Italy and the Balkans, a clean Scandinavia, Commonwealth, Spain, GB, Russia and France all under the Dutch crown.

The “tallest” experience of all.

Has anybody tried this before or has suggestions how to approach this? Would this be even archievabal?

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I always play Wide and try to conquer as many provinces as possibile, but would like to Spice it up a bit. What tall nation would you consider picking in a campaign.

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Any territory that they nation had originally is ceded to other nations, and you can pick a tag that isnt present at the game's start

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started as ryukyu, introduced heir and drilled army with king as leaderto get rid of him asap. went colonial ideas to get to alaska and also mexico.

1500 changed religion to mayan. you get all of the reforms automatically

1517 formed alaska for the CCR

1525, formed maya after conquering mexico, At this point i could have -65% CCR (-25 admin ideas, -20 mayan reform, -20 alaskan ideas). Mexico is awesome economic base with gold

1528 charted a province from the commonwealth in latvia, first european province.

1544, first war with england, got london and calais

1554 war with spain, got alhambra and malta monuments

1564 gobbled almost all of england. continued to go crazy on europe for the next 100 years. i played on 2 or 3 speed, paused frequently. very annoying to coordinate several armies in new world and europe. tons of rebels and overextension.

1628 -> sardinia-piedmont -> prussia; I flipped reformed christian from decision (which you can do as a primitive religion like mayan) to form prussia. But i really wanted to be orthodox as its my favorite. So i let orthodox zealots run across my euopean provinces. I had a ton of provinces across the world at this point but very religiously diverse. Luckily to flip state religion you only need a plurality not a majority of dev.

by 1660 i annexed most of europe. Truce juggling means not having to care about ae anymore

1684 tag formations -> kongo -> england -> ruthenia -> russia -> roman empire

At this point the setup is complete and all i had to do was complete the wc...

...I was so burnt out of eu4 i took a year off lmao. I return now complete it. Thankfully my former self set me up for success. I had high admin efficiency, high ccr, province war score and high unrest reduction. i sleep walked the rest of the wc. after finishing all tag formations, most countries were 1 or 2 wars for full annexation

I reformed into a theocracy in 1739 to get more missionaries to speed the one faith

Idea groups taken in order:

1. exploration, but abandoned later once i had foothold in europe
2. religious for deus vult cb
3. admin for ccr
4. diplo for province war score
5. quantity for landforce limit and manpower
6. humanist for rebel management
7. defensive to stack attrition reduction so i can run death stacks across globe
8. offensive for siege ability, but at this point i was basically done

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My magnum opus of eu4 runs. Admin efficiency is the only way I could sit through a wc. I wanted it to be orthodox cuz its simply so good. I had to restart numerous times to get the setup in mexico right. Going orthodox after reformed was awesome but very tedious. I didn't actively pursue the one faith but i figured it was possible given how it went. I'm never doing a wc again lol

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