Europa Universalis General Thread

[Lt_Anders]

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.

Fix naval battles. Morale > All other naval stats.

[SirCymro_Crusader]

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.

Ming stronk!

Even when everyone declares war on you in the last year, Ming will never falter, Ming will never fall!!

[Voncrow]

Finished my Netherlands game, thought I let you guys know how it went. I started as Holland so easier than 1 province dutch minors.

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I'm gonna write down the history of the game that I remember into segments based on the main Power involved.

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The best part of my Game was repeatedly watching People gaining vast amounts of power then having it taken away. Spain had PU's over Milan, Savoy, Aragon, Naples, Croatia and vast swaths of Colonies. Then the Papacy and its super alliance took away. England forming GB and Creating Huge Colonies even as I repeatedly attempted to hinder and take their shit. I eventually destroyed them. Trier, Brunswick, hesse, Mecklenburg, Bohemia, Bavaria, Savoy, Milan, Cologne, the Palitanate and even more HRE Princes explanded a bunch then got their shit rekt and taken away. I mean look at Trier now, this is their second attempt at expasion. Pomerania formed Prussia and then got destroyed, then Brandenburg invaded Poland as a proper German does and formed Prussia again! And you think I'm talking small expansion here? No these guys take like 15-20 provinces then get their shit rekt by a variety of people. It's not always just a coalition. Portugal was gonna take Spains place as the world power, then between me and the Ottomans they got destroyed. Before the Ottomans got in there Tunis was half its size and Morocco wasn't a thing. Muscovy was on the verge of forming Russian then got sandwich slammed by Sweden and Uzbek, Uzbek took like all of Muscovy's provinces then fell apart, Russian is now a chaotic clusterfuck. Britanny was allied to Spain and was actually doing pretty well for the first few centuries, but after Spain fell apart Brittany  followed suit. France got a PU over Lithuania but nearly got destroyed afterwards when 3 super alliances decided to fuck his shit up over it. Hungary was stagnant but sturdy the whole game until the Ottomans decided it was time to take them. And from what I can tell the biggest success story was the Ming surviving and becoming the worlds second most powerful military force behind the Ottomans. This whole game has been pretty interesting as I control the sees and watch the people rise and fall from my cozy islands.

I'm wondering what I should play next, any recommendations?

[Kafein]

Seems like Muscowy played by the AI has become really weak in the last few versions.

[Casimir]

I'm wondering what I should play next, any recommendations?

I really enjoyed my ceylon game, took me a couple attempts to get the achievement but once you've overcome Vajinyagar it's not unreasonably hard, other Indian nations can be good fun and the religious divergence in the region make it very interesting.

If you would like a more relaxed non-European game I cam suggest taking one of the Indonesian nations are forming Malaya, Makassar were my choice when we did it in one of our MP sessions but the stronger nations probably make for an easier fun.

[Kafein]

I wonder if the Irish achievement is still in that "really hard, but not impossible" territory.

[Casimir]

scotland can into independence

[Grytviken]

What DLC's do you recommend for EU4?

[Casimir]

It really depends on what you want to do.  I'd say common sense, and art of war are general must buys as they add a lot of universal feature, art of war probably being less important of the two. If you  are interested in a colonial game then conquest of paradise and el dorado should be taken as well. Others such as res-publica and wealth of nations are less important and should only be taken for specific games such as playing the Netherlands or Poland. The latests cossak DLC is also one of the biggest, particularly for the estates and diplomatic feedback features which have some pretty big implications for pretty much every country in the game.

[Lt_Anders]

What does cossaks do to game. Kinda stopped following it a bit ago.

[Casimir]

Diplomatic feedback allows you to interact with the ai, setting your attitude towards nations and declare what provinces you wish to capture.  Estates add internal faction who compete for influence and can add bonuses to your country, but they cost you autonomy in provinces and if their loyalty drops to low they will turn their bonuses into strong malus's against your Kingdom and they can attempt to seize power if they gain to much influence.

[Butan]

Wow, I didnt follow the latest DLC features, this cossack one sounds gold.
I loved the last gameplay expansion DLC, might try this one soon.

[Voncrow]

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  Man I have not been enjoying estates. Plus events have been fucking me hard lately.

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  Man I have not been enjoying estates. Plus events have been fucking me hard lately.

Estates are awesome, great bonuses and free monarchpoints!

[Butan]

Estates are indeed really fun, and useful if you manage well! Gotta understand that influence/loyalty is mostly static (over time) and only big ass events and giving out the maximum-est provinces to them can make them very profitable (at the same time, not, since it increases autonomy; also events can force you to completely fuck up an influential group!).


I have been participating in a stable MP game that is nearly over for the past two weeks, I will post a european-centric animated gif of it in the next days (when its done), in political mode (and other modes if people suggest something that can be done!).