Europa Universalis General Thread

[Casimir]

Couple of screens form our MP session that just ended.  If you feel like jumping in with us hit me up on steam (casimir4794) or just meet up on Merc / Kalmar TS when you are about and you can jump straight in.

Player list:
Arn: Livonian Order / Kurland 3rd
Casimir: Utrecht / Netherlands 2nd
Kami: Portugal / Richugal 1st
Mr. K: Tuetonic Order / Prussia 4th

Guest staring:
Avenge as whoever Austria wants to fight & Gradmom as The little colonial Tuscany that could!


Europe Map:

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Arn Purple (Colonial Nations unmarked)
Casimir Green (Colonial Nations Turquoise)
Kami Blue (Colonial Nations unmarked)
Mr.K Unmarked cos he's too noob to have an overseas empire

The game ended a little early and we will be starting a new one next week, we'd thought a couple big imperialist wars in Europe culminating in our last war which pitted Austria, with the support of Arn's Kurland, France, Hungary & Aragon against Kami, myself and Mr. K as Portugal contested the pitiful thrown of Croatia.

Notable moments for me were when Arn got stomped by Kami and Mr. K together, but was able to negotiate a white peace with Kami before i joined in order to prevent a wipe-out of Kurland by the Prussians, also the many rises and falls of the great city of Ulm who struck fear into the hearts of us all and brought many close misses to the stability of our empires, and of course my signature move of vassal feeding great Britain to Wales was as satisfying and brilliant as ever.

Our next game should be starting next week and with the newest piece of DLC coming out December 1st you can expect a sale on the regular game for those who might be interested in picking up a copy!

[Umbra]

Croatia stronk

[Kafein]

Castile got rek

And... is that Oman I see over there?

[ARN_]

Castile got rek

And... is that Oman I see over there?

Yes and... yes!

[Voncrow]

I started a game of the Netherlands recently, I've already started conquering GB but I'm about 100 years behind. Croatia also is a thing in my game and is kind of expanding somehow.

[Casimir]

Castile got rek

And... is that Oman I see over there?

Castile got the Iberian wedding then lost both the PU's due to low prestige in around 1 year.  join us for the next round if you are free next week mate!

I started a game of the Netherlands recently, I've already started conquering GB but I'm about 100 years behind. Croatia also is a thing in my game and is kind of expanding somehow.

GB conquest is very easy as soon as you can win 1 war against them, taking a single british province or releasing a nation (to diplo-vassalise / ally) makes for immediate conquest of the isles as you can avoid any naval warfare and simple siege down London without any real resistance.

[Kafein]

join us for the next round if you are free next week mate!

Will probably not happen, although I can play some AI sometimes.

[Lt_Anders]

What Mod do you guys play?
When do you play?

I love EU4, but the NA group disbanded

[Latvian]

What Mod do you guys play?
When do you play?

I love EU4, but the NA group disbanded

if i dont force these scrubs to play some mod they play shitty vanilla

[ARN_]

What Mod do you guys play?
When do you play?

I love EU4, but the NA group disbanded

We don't play with mods atm and we usually play around evening to late night cet add me on steam if you want to join(Arn with my forum avatar) or come to this ts and see if we are there 176.9.48.138:9999

[ARN_]

if i dont force these scrubs to play some mod they play shitty vanilla

Learn to play vanilla before you try your mods and get rekt in them

[Voncrow]

GB conquest is very easy as soon as you can win 1 war against them, taking a single british province or releasing a nation (to diplo-vassalise / ally) makes for immediate conquest of the isles as you can avoid any naval warfare and simple siege down London without any real resistance.

In my Holland game where I formed the Netherlands, Britain was always sitting comfy with like 40-50 troops on the isles. I didn't even have 20k and always relied on France for Ground support. And from early game I easily achieve Naval Supremacy over all other Nations, for the longest time the only way I could beat Britain was with trade conflicts due to only winning via embargoes. I finally was able to take more land by landing in Ireland and blocking it off from British troops so that France felt safe to land its troops there and we finally beat them in Land. This lead to their slow demise as I I conquered them chuncks of land at a time since they were much weaker and I much stronger on Land now.

[Casimir]

In my Holland game where I formed the Netherlands, Britain was always sitting comfy with like 40-50 troops on the isles. I didn't even have 20k and always relied on France for Ground support. And from early game I easily achieve Naval Supremacy over all other Nations, for the longest time the only way I could beat Britain was with trade conflicts due to only winning via embargoes. I finally was able to take more land by landing in Ireland and blocking it off from British troops so that France felt safe to land its troops there and we finally beat them in Land. This lead to their slow demise as I I conquered them chuncks of land at a time since they were much weaker and I much stronger on Land now.

If you have naval supremacy but their land forces are stronger simply bait them into Ireland with a weak military force or lots of merc then block the crossing with your fleet when their armies arrive.  Proceed to land your actual armies in Britain and easy win the war without taking major losses.  Gotta take them British lands as irish development is pitiful compared to that in Britain. Was easily over 2k development in our mp game but a decent amount of that came from taking almost all of the Indian coast, the Malaysia peninsular and various Chinese trade ports.

[Kafein]

If you have naval supremacy but their land forces are stronger simply bait them into Ireland with a weak military force or lots of merc then block the crossing with your fleet when their armies arrive.  Proceed to land your actual armies in Britain and easy win the war without taking major losses.  Gotta take them British lands as irish development is pitiful compared to that in Britain. Was easily over 2k development in our mp game but a decent amount of that came from taking almost all of the Indian coast, the Malaysia peninsular and various Chinese trade ports.

This is one of the major things that the AI should be better at. The same can happen with Ceylon, and it's even more dramatic when you "fight" a late game unified India with a million troops all stuck on Ceylon.

[Casimir]

This is one of the major things that the AI should be better at. The same can happen with Ceylon, and it's even more dramatic when you "fight" a late game unified India with a million troops all stuck on Ceylon.

Ming as well can easy have 20 - 40 k troops taken out by blocking them on Hainan in the south, however it is one of the few advantages of being a strong naval power and removing it would be a huge blow to an already underpowered component of the game.