The game has lost some of its player base, after all the common sense rant, and perhaps less people are going for the achievements now as well. Take all your homeland cores back in the main peace deal with England along with their Irish core. However, it is much more difficult to retain. Please see the This item will only be visible to you, admins, and anyone marked as a creator.This item will only be visible in searches to you, your friends, and admins.Big Blue - A Guide to France (v.1.12) and achievement There’s a strategy where you attack England with reconquest CB, before the surrender of Maine event. It was last verified for Please help with verifying or updating this infobox. Labourd and Calais are not French, but can be taken with a After taking all the French culture provinces, the player, with either Influence or diplomatic Ideas, may try to become the Holy Roman Emperor (After waging all the above wars, the year should be around 1490 or 1500. There are a couple of ways to deal with it.1. step4: annex vassal. This useful to strengthen the French military to fight enemies like More troops are always useful.

You should have a lot of vassals all game.There is also an option to diplovassalize Navarra at the start.
Later in the game, Dutch rebellions are some of the worst in the game as rivals will have the option to defend them. To blob; Step1: Eat your neighbours. You also have the surrender of maine event we already talked about.

I got the Big Blue Blob achievement after three attempts. There is usually very little competition for the area with other great powers, and the countries in the area are usually very weak, especially Fourth is colonialism.

What does anyone else choose? Big blue blob - France due to its tendency to grow to immense size in EU4 BROT Better relations over time (obsolete since Patch 1.19) BT Base tax - one of the three components of development; before Patch 1.12 introduced the development system, it was the primary measure of a province's value BWB They usually don’t ally anyone big, so subsequent wars are mostly a formality. I usually take diplo, then couple of military ideas.France has one of the highest number of nation specific events. This achievement does not synergize with long term gameplay as France.
You will get a lot of good events for specific advisors late game. Are the idea groups I'm picking good in that order? France also has some unique historical colonial events and missions.

step3: "liberate" those cores. However, if other usual colonial competitors are not expanding fast, or if you have few enemies in mainland Europe, colonial expansion may be a good choice for France. I should mention here that this is one of my least favorite achievements in EU4. Humiliate and take a province and release catalonia. When you are halfway done, revoke your guarantee of Scotland.Scotland are easy target once you get the province across the strait.There are a couple of events after this that will decide your attack plans.If Castile get Iberian wedding early, you can’t attack Aragon, which isn’t great. French missions are focused around uniting the myriad states in France itself, the conquest of part of northern Italy, messing around in the The formation of La Ligue Catholique will decrease relations with Catholic nations and give qualifying neighboring powers a casus belli to restore the one true faith! But on the bright side, you have a super powerful ally now. You will need a vassal in ireland either way.

However, if paradox RNG is kind to you, the event won’t fire until late and you can attack aragon. This war can be started at the beginning of the game. 2. Be aware, however, that in multiplayer France will often have strong enemies in the mainland, and oftentimes expansion might not be a good choice for the French player. France is a kingdom located in Western Europe, in the French Region, and could be one of the most (if not the most) interesting and entertaining nations to play in EUIV due to its powerful military and amount of flavor events.France allows for the player to make mistakes with usually limited consequences. One of them is Castile or Spain.

It was last verified for Please help with verifying or updating this infobox. In EU4, it is represented with manpower. I've revived Byzantine empire, I've drowned Portugal in gold, I've formed Germany by 1750. Step2: Vassalise/release some little country who have lots of cores they don't own. Pro Tips and Tricks (Ideas within Ideas) You can get 2 out of 3 France specific achievements with this strategy.Getting all French cores is easy and you will have that in the first few years.Owning Vienna, Berlin and Moscow is a bit tricky, but if you play the blobbing game, its achievable. This makes France among the best colonial nations if France isn't moving troops into the new world. But I can't seem to blob hard. Best Ideas for France? Let's play Europa Universalis IV with the Mare Nostrum expansion! Secondly, one can expand into the low countries.

Goal of getting your golden age ASAP. From here on (1500s+) ideally you should have your french cores, half of what england's mainland is to start off, Spain's northern coastline and eastern coastline with granada free, and the northern three aragonese provinces, as well as a few vassals within the HRE. This event can occur after 1710 if the French economy is on its knees or is suffering from high France should focus on unifying its cultural cores early, this won't be too hard as England has fewer troops than France and is forced to navally invade. THis achievement is going to hurt my social life... You need to sign in or create an account to do that. And I've done some cool things.

I had modern day Germany, Austria, Czech, and northern Italy under my crown. Take your missions reconquer Gascony and expand France. Once they get rolling there's no counter.Playing tall is short for underexpanding on purpose. Things will work out eventually.Although every nation has a revolutionary disaster, France has some specific events related to it. EU4 is blobbing game with very limited options to play tall, probably most of all Paradox games.