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* Other than that, pay attention to the tooltips. A lot of info about mechanics is hidden in those.
* Other than that, pay attention to the tooltips. A lot of info about mechanics is hidden in those.


* Castille is also a good nation for starters. If you get good relations with Aragon, there's a high chance to get an event that downright gives all of their shit to you. (The gist of it is that either you need rulers of opposite genders and they don't have a heir during the 15th century, and during that whole century the chance has an effect of triggering, but no longer afterwards.) Castille is also neat because if you get cordial relations with France you basically don' thave to care about much invading you at all and you can work on uniting the peninsula and/or colonising stuff.
* Castille is also a good nation for starters. If you get good relations with Aragon, there's a high chance to get an event that downright gives all of their stuff to you. (The gist of it is that either you need rulers of opposite genders and they don't have a heir during the 15th century, and during that whole century the chance has an effect of triggering, but no longer afterwards.) Castille is also neat because if you get cordial relations with France you basically don' thave to care about much invading you at all and you can work on uniting the peninsula and/or colonising stuff.


* Don't reload when you lose a war or territory. Setbacks are very common when the AI decides to gang up on you for some reason. Just truck on and keep dicking around for a century or so and then change to another country until you get the gist of the mechanics.
* Don't reload when you lose a war or territory. Setbacks are very common when the AI decides to gang up on you for some reason. Just truck on and keep dicking around for a century or so and then change to another country until you get the gist of the mechanics.