Europa Universalis IV

[Multi-headed Cow]

Playing my dumb baby game as England. So far I've won every battle (By the skin of my teeth due to a better general and sitting my ass on spots to force the French to take river crossings) but France is able to throw around so much shit I'm not sure I can handle it. I called Portugal in and they're helping a little, but not as much as I'd like.

Glorious.

 

[potatojohn]

Playing as England, took the mission to "vassalize Scotland", in negotiations vassalization costs 110%, making it impossible...

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Playing my dumb baby game as England. So far I've won every battle (By the skin of my teeth due to a better general and sitting my ass on spots to force the French to take river crossings) but France is able to throw around so much shit I'm not sure I can handle it. I called Portugal in and they're helping a little, but not as much as I'd like.

Glorious.

Try allying with Burgundy, Aragon or Castille.

Burgundy hates me (Event happened), Aragon doesn't give a fuck, and I've been buttering up Castille to be my new best friend.

At a point in my war which I would call a victory. France is willing to give up Armagnac, cancel all treaties with Scotland, and give me 116 ducats for peace. Now I'm not sure if I wanna take that and run so I can get to work on taking over Ireland and Scotland, or keep fighting since France's army is in bad shape. Mine kinda is too, but I only lost 3 or 4 regiments and France lost a hell of a lot more and has some rebuilding to do.
Just looked it up, I probably should keep raping France. France has like 5k standing troops, I've got 19k (10 regiments of which are still sitting in England because I don't trust Scotland and my rebel risk is kinda high) and France has 1,500 manpower left and I'm at 12,000. I actually hit them a lot harder than I thought. Only problem of course is I'll likely get massive overextension and shit if I take a lot of French territory. At least Armagnac is already a core for England.

 

[RRRrrr]

I've only played Victoria 2 and I can't find my way around EU4. Can you increase/lower taxes or are they fixed? I can't find how to change them.
I also can't find how to release a nation. Is it possible?
I hate how nothing is explained in the tutorial.

So far diplomacy seems to more complex than in V2 but everything else is confusing o_O

 

[Jarpie]

In EU3 french used to be fucking annoying with their huge unit limits and they tend to eat up vast majority of the europe, same in Victoria 2 afaik.

 

[tuluse]

Playing as England, took the mission to "vassalize Scotland", in negotiations vassalization costs 110%, making it impossible...

If you win a total victory you should be able to demand anything like other Paradox games.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Are you going for WC? England was pretty good to WC in all EU games.

Don't know what WC is. World conquest? I guess so, I just chose England since I figured they'd be a fairly easy starting point for getting the hang of EU4. Starting with a war with France was a bit rough but due to a decent general and some good rolls I pulled through.

Got my warscore up to 70+% with France and I think I'll just stop now. I'm getting MASSIVE war exhaustion (+2.8 a month which is an assload) because my people are telling me to stop fucking around and end the war, and all that war exhaustion is a pain in the ass. At this point I can take Armagnac from France, 114 ducats, have them drop their cores on all provinces I own, and drop their alliance with Scotland. Only problem is that likely won't hurt them much long-term. They'd only be losing a single territory, 114 ducats is no big deal, losing the cores on territories I own might (I guess?) give them less reason to attack me later, and no alliance with Scotland just means they won't get in my hair when I decide ITZ time for Scotland.

Hmph. What a pointless war for so many casualties.

Edit: What the fuck, Castille has me listed as a rival. Even though we have good relations they don't want an alliance because HURR YOU'RE MY RIVAL. GOD DAMN IT CASTILLE. PORTUGAL'S COOL, WHY CAN'T YOU BE COOL?

 

[RedScum]

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Oh yeah, this was my first event. Old news from where I am now but I figured I'd share some Crusader Universalis 24.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Think I've got a bug. Been sieging this province that rebels took for nearly a year, and somehow the fuckers have had 0 morale loss while my MASSIVELY BIGGER THAN THEM ARMY is falling to pieces. I've even got a general leading the army. The moral of the story is the mighty French? You can take Paris with no big deal. Some angry shitsmeared peasants who took a province while you were busy with France? SPESS MEHRINES FIGHTING FOR THE EMPRAH AND WON'T GIVE AN INCH OF GROUND.

Edit: Though I just realized I'm an idiot and not blockading. DURR I BET THAT WOULD HELP.

 

[yeye]

Blockade it.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Blockade it.

Yep, just realized that. And I'm not sure if it makes a difference or not, but I had my army maintenance scaled way back since I wasn't at war. Bumped that back up since a few rebellions just sprung up. The blockade was the big one though.

 

[Corporate_Jew_Master]

Well shit. Don't have some of the good DLC for CK2 on steam so I'll have to wait for an illegal copy of the converter.

No way I am doing a vanilla CK2 conversion.

 

[MasterSmithFandango]

France is kicking all ass. Was going to vassalize some electors to fuck with the HRE, but instead I think I'm just going to beat them up the old fashioned way.

 

[MasterSmithFandango]

Also, turned off lucky nations. Castile sucks and Austria lost the HRE to Bohemia. England was in trouble for awhile, but stabilized and are now beating up Burgundy, who no longer has an army or a treasury since I just finished a war with them.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

You can convert with non-Steam CK2 just fine. Did it myself a few moments ago.

I'd say there's only one real problem with the converter, and that's the need to mix it up with the French and German subcultures (all Frankish provinces become Cosmopolitaine). Otherwise, it's a real nice piece of work.


I'll need Kodex Kool Konsensus on various things I'll work on the converted save before uploading it:

1) What should the Basque-dominated Empire of Hispania be called?

2) Should the Finnish Empire be called Karelia, Uralica, Finland-Permia, or what?

3) Burgundy-Italy, what do?

4) What's the national adjective for Empire of Albion (Welsh Empire of Britannia)? Brython? Albionian? Sheepshagger?

5) Persia is a theocracy. Zoros definately don't have an Archbishop. What ruler title to give?

 

[Hellraiser]

1) Greater Euskal? Or just spain in basque which is "Espainia" according to the googlebot translator. Best bet would be to ask on a basque forum or something.

 

[oscar]

Shaping up to be an interesting game to import.

- Muslims have conquered France and central/eastern Iberia. Have been some successful French Catholic revolts that have led to independent states.
- Lothrangia holds much of west/central Germany and Italy and could probably expell the Muslims but keeps splitting up due to gavelkind succession
- Byzantine Empire holding out well
- Cumania has formed a huge eastern steppe empire
- I'm playing as Prussia and have united the Baltic tribes and reformed the Romuva faith

Should be an interesting set-up. Do I have to wait for the game to run until 1450 or whatever to import?

 

[L'ennui]

5) Persia is a theocracy. Zoros definately don't have an Archbishop. What ruler title to give?

There is a debate among historians as to whether the term "Zoroaster" later became a high religious title in Zoroastrianism, but if you want to play it safe (you should), you can use the title moabadan-moabad, which seems to be precisely the equivalent to an achbishop or a pope in that religious structure (a mobad being a bishop's counterpart).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobad

Downloading the game!

 

[pakoito]

1) What should the Basque-dominated Empire of Hispania be called?

1) Greater Euskal? Or just spain in basque which is "Espainia" according to the googlebot translator. Best bet would be to ask on a basque forum or something.

Euskal Herria (basque kingdom)

As a Castillan myself, my ancestrors just shivered.

 

[Malakal]

Have to say that AI has issues with keeping its realm together. Austria expanded greatly and then simply imploded, the entire HRE and western Europe is a mix of smaller and bigger powers in constant flux and war.

But I suffered some catastrophic defeats from the hands of OE too. They killed my armies and didnt demand anything for few years completely ruining my economy. Kinda hated that - they declared on my ally Venice with war goal of winning as many battles as possible but then demanded shit from me as alliance leader. Unfair. Lost three provinces and Lithuania collapsed/broke the union. It took me years to put everything together. This proves that the AI can fight wars and build its nation since it slaughtered my troops effortlessly.

 

[pakoito]

the entire HRE and western Europe is a mix of smaller and bigger powers in constant flux and war.

And in the game.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

hurry up with screenshots of imported persia you faggots.

 

[Renegen]

Is it screenshot time already?

Playing as Genoa. They start very small and it's so tough not to get bumrushed by Savoy it almost feels broken. But a few minor annexations fixes that. Had pretty much a permanent alliance with Aragorn and to my delight Castille was beaten back. Then France too was assaulted on all sides. Had this great 3-way alliance with Venice and Switzerland and managed to help them come back from some disastrous losses to Austria up to the point Austria is almost a non-threat. Venice grew so big they hate me now.

The diplomacy AI is pretty cool. Beyond your usual modifiers, you have a helpful indicator that changes from friendly to rival and it's pretty accurate to what a human player would do. Venice doesn't need me anymore. Then the stupid event chain fired and Castille who was weaker than Aragorn became Spain and magically became the leader in a union between them. Aragorn hates me too now.

I'm trying to create this global trading empire with Genoa and so far I have nothing to show for it. 80 years of fighting to secure my own borders and I haven't been able to invest in colonists and explorers at all. But the trading system is just brilliant. The Sevilla node is pretty much the center of the world. Trade that comes from Moscow or Alexandria only comes in 1 way, Genoa is among the best placed nodes to suck up all of this trade, but the whole Mediterranean inturn funnels 1 way into Sevilla. Venice, Constantinople, Genoa it doesn't matter who you are, you can't get anything past Sevilla because trade only flows to it, not from. New World trade and African trade also flows into Sevilla, naturally. The other "center of the world" is Antwerp. In order to collect trade and actually make any money, you need to own a province in that trade node. So I invaded Tangiers, it was conveniently left alone by Spain/Portugal. At this point, light ships are nice to build up your market share, but getting a few more prized possessions goes just as far. I'm thinking of taking the southern tip of Spain, not trying to conquer everything, just enough to get a good base in what will be the center of everything. Hard to believe but France is my best hope right now, and I hope they get stronger.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

The diplomacy AI is pretty cool. Beyond your usual modifiers, you have a helpful indicator that changes from friendly to rival and it's pretty accurate to what a human player would do. Venice doesn't need me anymore. Then the stupid event chain fired and Castille who was weaker than Aragorn became Spain and magically became the leader in a union between them. Aragorn hates me too now.

Yeah, I gotta agree on the diplomacy being cool as hell. You have so many options available to you, and so goddamn much influences diplomacy positively and negatively.

This has easily usurped Dragon Commander for "Game within the past month or two that I preordered and feel the least bad about" position, in that I actually feel good about preordering this. And I actually enjoy the gameplay instead of suffering through it for carrots-on-sticks dialog!

 

[Average Manatee]

Railroaded events to make Castille become Spain and inherit Aragon? That's hilarious, considering in reality it was the other way around, with Aragon inheriting Spain. Would be so awesome to troll people playing Castille into being forced into a PU under Aragon. You disappoint me, Paradox.

I agree, the diplomacy transparency was pretty cool. Only thing I don't like though is that it seems like you can't really change someone into liking you if they've decided they aren't going to like you.