[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by fahdiz:
Well, this weekend I broke down and ordered EU2 (found it for $11 Online, couldn't find it in the bargain bins of the usual game stores I frequent)...so that'll be arriving soon. One quick question about EU2 - is it possible to mold the state religion of your nation of choice, or do you pretty much have to tow the line of recorded history?

For example: if I wanted a Catholic China or a Buddhist British Empire, could I do so in EU2?

No - not without modding (which is easy as all event and all save files are plain text format for easy editing).

You can change between Catholic-Protestant-Reformed Protestant at will (though you suffer a bit of turmoil when doing so), but all other religion changes have to be either scripted (e.g. all Indian nations have a chance to become Sunni muslim through events) or forced. Sunni/Shia's can force-convert each other as can Catholics-Protestants-Reformed, and everybody can force-convert the pagans... (Though it is much more profitable to conquer them and send out the missionaries)

It is possible to create weird-religion vassal states, however, by conquering a country, converting its provinces, and releasing the country as a vassal. This is not cost-effective, but can be quite fun. [A few nations have hard-coded religion when you release them, but in general a new country gets the starting religion of its capital province]