Annoying problem in My EU3

[Tiberius of the Drake]

this is an annoying problem.

Im playing as the kingdom of Leinster starting from 1453. I began negotiating with france almost immediately so i could get their help to kick the english out. I had good relations (around 150) and I decided to have a trade agreement. Not only did they refuse the agreement but they also somehow convinced my diplomats to force leinster into a Personal union. This is where it gets strange. all of the sudden the timeline seemed to have fast forwaded about 100 years without me knowing it. the year indicator still said 1457, but all the monarch names were changed. the french king was now Henri II who ruled in 1557 and the english were under Frederick I (I dont know where this came from). I was just curious if this had happend to anyone else.

[The_Doctor]

Monarch names are random, unless you are playing with the historic monarch option switched on, in which case something odd has happened.

[Tiberius of the Drake]

Monarch names are random, unless you are playing with the historic monarch option switched on, in which case something odd has happened.

I did have the historical Monarch option on. so something odd has happened Hmm...

[KarlXII]

I did have the historical Monarch option on. so something odd has happened Hmm...

The union changed the timeline!!!!! I expect robots to be in your arsenal very soon.

[CountArach]

Personal Unions are random and if you don't want them to occur, don't get Royal Marriages. Personal Unions are not negotiated through diplomats, they occur when your monarch dies and another nation inherits the throne.

[Tiberius of the Drake]

thank u for the advice count arach.

robots would make my conquest much easier....

[KarlXII]

thank u for the advice count arach.

robots would make my conquest much easier....

Attrition must be high.

Anyway, I'm no big expert here, never used the historical leaders feature, but if you change history, it's going to do something to the future. That or I'm reading too much.

[TinCow]

Historical monarchs are generally bad when you're playing a minor nation. Nations which ceased to exist before the end of the game simply stop generating new monarchs and you end up stuck with whoever the last real monarch was for the rest of the game. That could easily be 200 years, and often the last monarchs have very poor stats because they were responsible for the end of their nation as an independent entity. Unless you're playing a major nation that existed throughout the entire period, I would not recommend using historical monarchs.

[Antagonist]

Indeed, Historical Monarchs mode only really works if you not only play a major nation, but actively try and behave as that nation historically did. It's fine as long as you're trying to recreate history, but as soon as the setting significantly diverges from what actually happened IRL (which seldom takes long) it loses all context and eventually breaks down. A bit like getting the Marian Reforms in RTW even if Rome is a weakling one-province protectorate of the mighty Gallic Empire or whatever. The whole time-warping thing is particularly odd.

FWIW the monarch lists for the Irish factions are pretty bizarre and off-the-wall anyway, not one of EU3's most accurately modelled regions.

Antagonist