Europa Universalis IV

[thesecret1]

How many manas will the game have?

 

[Heroic Liberator]

How many manas will the game have?

All of them!))

 

[communard]

What's a good mod setup for historical(ish) gameplay these days? Please take performance into account.

 

[Axioms]

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...ulture-should-not-exist.1627983/post-29455022

I've argued this for years and even decades by this point! Glad to see someone just coming out and saying it on the Paradox forums in the EU5 threads. Basically any discussion that doesn't acknowledge this is just gibberish and nonsense. In point of fact the poster here is underselling the problem. People who argue about ahistorical outcomes in Paradox games are just morons.

 

[Average Manatee]

There's an easy way to simulate this realistically even in the present EU4 system. Past a certain size you should have a scaling AE floor with everyone smaller. Be big enough and the whole world is in coalition for every war

 

[Axioms]

There's an easy way to simulate this realistically even in the present EU4 system. Past a certain size you should have a scaling AE floor with everyone smaller. Be big enough and the whole world is in coalition for every war

That's not really "realistic", though. It probably wouldn't even be effective. Well it would be a massive slog to conquer anything but the AI wouldn't actually have a chance.

The problem comes from both unrealistic internal cohesion and unrealistic temporal cohesion from the "player".

 

[Mark.L.Joy]

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...ulture-should-not-exist.1627983/post-29455022

I've argued this for years and even decades by this point! Glad to see someone just coming out and saying it on the Paradox forums in the EU5 threads. Basically any discussion that doesn't acknowledge this is just gibberish and nonsense. In point of fact the poster here is underselling the problem. People who argue about ahistorical outcomes in Paradox games are just morons.

That's a misunderstanding of the problem, the selling point of the game is agency applied on a world similar to our own, otherwise just play any other better tabletop, for the worlds to be similar, historicity, or more a accurately railroading, which exists in eu2(?I only played modded), victoria and hoi is gone in eu4, the mission trees complely miss the point.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

I installed Anbennar yesterday. I admit that I was interested in the motif of a bisexual empress whose national goals include the motif of "elven racial purity". Is this still in the game?
Empire of Aelnar is not a selectable nation, so can it be created?

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

yes, it's part of venail's mission tree. it's not really fun if you don't know what's going to happen beforehand. as most of anbennar's disasters.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

yes, it's part of venail's mission tree. it's not really fun if you don't know what's going to happen beforehand. as most of anbennar's disasters.

Ah, yes. I played dwarfs from north. For sixth attempt I leave starting city (colonist needed very particular mission).

 

[kangaxx]

I'm doing an Angevin run... pretty good fun IMO. You can be like Austria but with stronger and more troops.

 

[Frozen]

 

[Sinilevä]

So, I tried this Anbennar mod. Couldn't really get into it mainly due to visual presentation. The mod has been in development for a while, but still has the interface of basic EU4 with crosses, musketeer icons etc. My dwarf unit was just some medieval pikeman lol. Yeah, I get it, it is all cosmetics and the mod might have some deep and interesting mechanics, but for me personally this is an immersion breaker. Might try it again if they upgrade the interface and units to fit the actual theme of their game.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

So, I tried this Anbennar mod. Couldn't really get into it mainly due to visual presentation. The mod has been in development for a while, but still has the interface of basic EU4 with crosses, musketeer icons etc. My dwarf unit was just some medieval pikeman lol. Yeah, I get it, it is all cosmetics and the mod might have some deep and interesting mechanics, but for me personally this is an immersion breaker. Might try it again if they upgrade the interface and units to fit the actual theme of their game.

Anbennar:



+ racist empire of a bisexual elf
+ race relations and racism
+ necromancy

- removing racism (orcs who, instead of killing peasants, fight honorable duels with them etc.)
- new content is less funny than the old one (because it is not offensive)
- metaplot bloat

 

[kangaxx]

This is why I stick to European history.

 

[TheDeveloperDude]

Hi. Can I play using only build armies and military conquests? Or I must manage everything?

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

You always have to manage economy to an extent where you don't want to go bankrupt. Diplomacy kind of works similarly, yeah you can put very little effort into it sometimes but there's a lot of options it can open.

Theoretically steppe hordes have very heavily military-focused playstyle, but even they will have to occasionally wind down to recover manpower or get their debts settled, not to mention they have a bunch of unique mechanics that you have to understand.