R5: Picture shows I can reelect myself as emperor since I'm only one of 2 electors

Unexpectedly, this campaign has been a lot of fun. I expected to get bored pretty quickly because I usually have issues with GC. ;))But the fact that I keep getting terrible rulers, that Christianity is spreading way too fast, and that I've had constant trouble with my vassals because of Parthia has made this campaign really entertaining.It's going to get even more interesting in a few hundred years, once I'm done with Europe and it's finally time to take on, one by one: Parthia, which stretches all the way to Tibet; the Satavahana, who control all of India; and the Xiongnu (a nomadic confederation), whose territory also extends from near Persia all the way to Manchuria.

Playing as France, allied to Castile, 1530ish. Castille launches a war for Naples, calls me in against not just Naples, but also Austria - who is the HRE, and has both Hungary and Bohemia as junior partners. We're outnumbered about 100k to 80k, with no discernible advantage in tech.

And Spain calls the war with only about 12k troops in Spain. The rest are scattered around the new world. So, the AI expects me to accept a call to an offensive war, against an opponent who outnumbers us (and me about 2:1), while they are completely unprepared to mobilize for the conflict.

Did the AI get dumber?

FMB

I know someone has posted Kongo as the HRE emperor in earlier versions of the game. I have seen some quite unusual HRE emperors in my 3000 hours of EU4 as well.

I have seen Provence somehow made it to the Age of Absolutism and thriving, and was voted the HRE emperor multiple times in a row. I have also seen one of the Irish minors out of everyone was made the HRE emperor while England shit the bed.

I'm currently running a France campaign aiming for Big Blue Blob -> Azur semé de lis or -> Better than Napoleon -> Napoleon's Ambition -> Mare Nostrum.

I got a bit impatient and started truce-cycling the former HRE, starting with the Low Countries. After expanding rapidly and stacking a metric ton of AE (PLC and Pope are friends), I got hit out of nowhere by the Dutch Revolt and lost it all.

Given my overall goals, what should my next steps be?

• Should I keep truce-cycling? (This is burning through a lot of ADM points, and I've already picked Religious Ideas).
• Or should I settle down, let the AE cool off, and then expand aggressively using Deus Vult?

I can get all but one province from the netherlends (for 110 AE), should I do that? Or just the trade provinces in English node (still a lot of AE)?

I'm not going for a world conquest or anything like that

Unless I am being stoopid by missing something right in my face, isn't this debuff supposed to be revoked when Ladislaus become emperor? Game says:

To revoke this privilege ONE OF THE FOLLOWING must be true:

Ladislaus is either dead or our ruler (which is the case)
Has enacted the unite the Habsburg lands decision

By what I understand, it should be revoked, no?

Playing as Karabakh, I finally got a good start going. One of my hardest successes to date.

There is a chcance you seen one on youtube. There is 2 or more players, that play on one save, and after playing around 50 Year's they give the save to another Person. We can do a meme - like campaing, where we do shit and have fun, bonuses stacking campaing, where we form nations to get thier bounses (if where going to do this one, lets stack only one bonus type okay?) or we can do a challange campaing, where we need to form Roman Empire using Ulm or somthing like that. I'm not choosing the nation, and the theme of camping, so it is up to person that will start the campaign. Also keep in mind. I'm not really good in eu4, so i woud rather to do this with not really well playing players. so if you want to play, and propose an ida, of what where going to do, go ahead. Last thing: i'm doing this w max 6 players.

last place avaible. so you know better get hurry, becuse after that, you will need to wait for another occasion.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not annoyed at that, I'm just confused as to what actually led to this happening

The end of my achievement run for the Buddhist Strike Back and Cotton Kandy.

Rule 5: Started as Crimea with Europa Expanded, had no hand in Anatolia apart from an attempted alliance that failed early on. Saw something about an 'Anatolian Beylik Revolt' disaster for the Ottomans. They looked fine most of the time until now where they lost all their holdings in Anatolia

So the main question is what should be my next idea group ? Havent played since eu5 released tbh i am out of practice. But i am open to any suggestions other than that .
Income approximately 400, have arround 60 subjects and they barely have disloyal attitude, 400+ land 250+ naval units

Which game should I come back to?

Conquest of the world for the Orleans Sisterhood, according to the precepts of Jeanne d'Arc.

Last year I got really into ck3, platinumed it, and now am ready to move onto eu4 because I've heard a lot of people say it's just a better ck3. I've heard a lot of people say that countries like Portugal and England are the best starts for new players, but the colonial gameplay doesn't really appeal to me that much. I really enjoy playing in Italy in ck3 and I was wondering if Naples is a good start for a new player like me or if I should just start as Portugal or something else entirely. I'm open to any recommendations I know there's a lot of experienced players in the community that could help me out :)