User blog comment:Zandhart/EU4 MP Custom Nation/@comment-44100057-20191020015118/@comment-25244331-20191020142055

>Vanilla is almost impossible.

You probably played your first game as Sweden.

My first EU4 game was vanilla, save for a few cosmetic DLCs and I got along just fine. Even played until 1821.

You can crack the DLCs if you have the base game, just saying.