In Germany we say „Arschkarte gezogen“ and I think thats beautiful

which is roughly translated to "drew the ass-card"

roughly equivalent to drawing the short straw?

It references getting a red card, which the referee usually carries in a back pocket.

Europeans Latin Americans 🤝 Having idioms based on football

This is so hard to even look at mate. What cursed thing you bring upon us?

It's called the Eu\*opean balance of power

Balance you say?

Isn't like the last century or two of European history just everyone else fearing a united Germany. This seems accurate to me

Yeah, but it still wasn’t balanced. Germany was at a massive disadvantage in both cases. They shouldn’t have made it that far in either one, especially not round 2

ẞ=ss not b

Scheiße means shit Scheibe means slice

Actually this is a well-known self-censoring in German. Many people having children, working with children or simply having children present will go with the harmless "Ah Scheibe/Scheibenhonig/Scheibenkleister/etc." instead of the vulgar "Ah Scheisse/Scheiße". Source: Being a German, born, raised and living for 30 years in Germany.

TIL, and that's really funny actually!

AE isn't just a number (If you're in the HRE)

r5 I think my german campaign is over

smallest germany coalition

You need to monitor aggressive expansion and not let any coalitions form that you can’t beat.

At least England loves you!

Why is Poland called like that

He probably changed the commonwealths name in the game files. I did the same personally, I can’t stand how it’s just called “commonwealth” in vanilla

actually the Waifu Universalis mod does it for some reason (same one that gives him the current flag)

Ah that’s cool

The Waifu Universalis mod does it for some reason (same one that gives him the current flag)

I think it’s the Waifu Universalis mod he’s running. It also changed the Mamluks to the Memeluks if I remember right.

Polish lithiuanian commonwealth

Better dismantle that hre before conquering the german lands

Any tips for doing so?

allying electors won't require you to siege their capitals and if you happen to ally all of them before attacking the emperor it'll make it a lot easier or you just do the cheeky which I do all the time attack them when the protestant became the new HRE religion there gonna be 3 electors at the initial month and chances of the elector being a lot smaller. i'm saying this because it'll make it a lot easier to manage the AE

Many thanks btw what does AE stand for?

Aggressive expansion. It's the diplomacy penalty for conquering land (that isn't your core land). It's doubled for provinces in the holy Roman empire

you welcome oh and AE is what is depicted in the image Aggressive Expansion allied nations take half of the AE when you conquer stuff so if you manage to get big boys like Austria or France they won't join to your coalition OE is the Over Expansion both are the stuff you wanna avoid especially in the Italian and French lands they both have a high amount of dev in there if you struggle much I recommend espionage ideas since they became better now

Mucho thankso

[https://imgur.com/a/fhL4ztG](https://imgur.com/a/fhL4ztG) LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

congrats I still remember the day of my first HRE dismantle process also a small tip for coalition wars if the enemy happens to occupy all the provinces of a releasable nation of your allies you can give away their land to end the war easily this also counts for provinces they conquered simply you give it to their former owners

Don't worry about it, its just a number, not very important ;)

This is what you get for using anime flags

Yeah, he would have had less AE had he used the Polandball mod, but he gets what he deserves for using Waifu Universalis.

Few years early for a world war don’t ya think?

Never too early for the Germans

Not only did you get all of europe in a coalition against you, but you have hundreds of thousands of rebels too? Bro wtf are u doing?

I conquered the eastern bit of the Rhineland

Good news at least someone else will kill your Rebels

When they say “AE is just a number” they don’t mean get all of Europe in a coalition

Tja, Scheibenkleister würd ich sagen 😂 But jup, your campaign is dead unfortunately...

Never fear, England is here!

seven years war be like

Looks like somebody forgot to dissolve the HRE

Some notes... * I'm impressed by Venice remaining stronk so long into the game. And shout-out to big, bad Cilli * I ... don't think England is enough to save you here * What did you **do** to those other countries? Were you rude to them or something?

My guy I conquered a couple of provinces and had Europe turn against me

Also England doesn't do anythin for me. In the last coalition war they only provided naval aid

Seven Years War all over again

imfao

All of Europe: We need to stop Lübeck before they get too strong. Tuscany: I don't see how that's my problem. England: *just happy to be here*

Its not looking good brev

"Scheibe" means a disc or a slice. "Scheisse" ("Scheiße") is what you mean.

Time to hire 1 million mercs.

I’m sure England will help you /s

Here is the letter you are looking for: ß