Europa Univeralis IV Thread

[Decepticon]

so im playing a very cheat-filled but also very long session but its p fun

then this happened (the thirteen colonies right now are still rising up against britain)

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[Epicduke]

so im playing a very cheat-filled but also very long session but its p fun

then this happened (the thirteen colonies right now are still rising up against britain)

extended timeline is a mess and it makes me sad :(

[Decepticon]

extended timeline is a mess and it makes me sad :(

in a new cheat-y session the czechs get mad at me taking my claim from them so they take their anger out on my friend

[Waru]

lookin good, me B) (muscovy -> russia playthrough)



Nogai, Kazan, Timurids (!), Crimea, as Vassals, Livonian Order as March, just recently annexed Finland and i've been slowly taking land from Golden Horde the whole game.

ill probably use the Timurids to have a reason to forget up persia. I'm intergrating Crimea and Nogai rn.

[Xealyth]

i played a lot of ck2 a couple months back
would i have an easier time learning eu4 having that knowledge or is it just that much different from ck2?

[Waru]

i played a lot of ck2 a couple months back
would i have an easier time learning eu4 having that knowledge or is it just that much different from ck2?

knowledge and control of that game is very beneficial for any other game in that "span"

[Jairo]

year?

[Waru]

year?

1517

got a good heir and rushed adm ideas to form russia and now i cant loving core anything cause he died and i used all my points

[Quartz]

i played a lot of ck2 a couple months back
would i have an easier time learning eu4 having that knowledge or is it just that much different from ck2?

I did the opposite. Started playing EU4, then went to CK2. I haven't really gotten back into EU4.

[Epicduke]

1517

got a good heir and rushed adm ideas to form russia and now i cant loving core anything cause he died and i used all my points

I can't even get passed 1500 without the mongols loving my stuff up, how does anyone play russia without dying from the hordes and the polish

[Xealyth]

I did the opposite. Started playing EU4, then went to CK2. I haven't really gotten back into EU4.

how was the transition?
i assume pretty quick since you have the entire gist of how paradox games work

[Waru]

I can't even get passed 1500 without the mongols loving my stuff up, how does anyone play russia without dying from the hordes and the polish

a bit of luck and some well though-out tactics. starting as Muscovy, I started off with lithuania, golden horde, and novgorod rivaling me. basically what you want to do is;


1a. casus belli on tver and Ryazan. declare on tver and vassalize it. wait on Ryazan.
1b.  find an alliance between either denmark, lithuania, or poland. i got lucky and poland got the PU over lith so they werent rivals anymore, and i allied denmark and poland. by now you have two options, you can do in either order.

1a) declare on novgorod, taking land up to the providence novgorod and giving cores back to pskov and tver (if they have no allies)

2a. if livorder has no allies, declare and vassalize them! Later in the game I made them my march, because their tech is godly.

1b. wait until golden horde starts amassing troops on your one border province you can see into (meaning they will attack Ryazan soon)

2b. once golden horde declares on ryazan, declare on ryazan yourself (dont call in allies if you can) and snatch up the two provinces before golden horde does. vassalize them and you'll inherit the war with golden horde. they'll usually not call in any of their allies since ryazan should of been a piece of cake. you can call allies in (i'm pretty sure?) and war, ending the peace deal on feeding as much as you can to ryazan.

congradulations, you now have beaten back both novgorod and the golden horde, and now own your own personal vassal swarm! you'll have too many diplo relations though, so make sure to intergrate pskov and the other one you start with (not perm) cause they'll be useless. you now can fully annex novgorod in a new war or push south and start vassalizing the large land area, yet small armied nations.

[Quartz]

how was the transition?
i assume pretty quick since you have the entire gist of how paradox games work

It was actually quite harsh, CK2 is helluva game. However, a transition from CK2 to EU4 is gonna be easier... gotta get used to a few things though:

• You don't play a family, but a state... no matter what dynasty it is of.
• Trading is a bit more advanced.
• Units work a bit more like revenues, so you don't disband the "levy" once you're finished with them.
• Very different civil war system.
• Ships work very different too... and you have more types too.

Overall, EU4 was great fun for me, but CK2 has a bigger place in my heart now. It's only a matter of taste though.

[Waru]

lithuania should be thanking me. ottomans have to go through ME to get to them.

[Waru]

oops