Europa Universalis 4

[killsdazombies]

I've been playing eu4 a lot recently, and I dislike spamming chat about it, but its great. I recommend giving it a buy when its on sale, and buying DLC if you find it suits your taste (there is a lot of "junk" dlc, there are several big packs that offer actual new content that are really interesting to play around with, but it has a big price tag) If enough people find they like it and want to get a multiplayer game together that would be great, as well, if not, feel free to share any tips and tricks you might have noticed in your play as various nations, or help on getting those sweet sweet achievements


I'll start with my favourite. BE THE LEADER OF THE REVOLUTION. As soon as the year hits 1750, you should have 25 loans (in my case, about 1.8M ducats worth) and 5 war exhaustion, and -1 stability. Its the /most/ broken stat boost in the game, the only people who could potentially opt out are the ottomans and prussia, but Rev Gov is still better than Otto Gov or Prussia Gov.


You could end up with this monstrosity of a modifier with a late game gov type.

[Aves]

Worth mentioning, it is currently on sale in Steam for 75% off (10 USD now). Only seen people doing let's plays, but it looks fun, if a bit lengthy for those of us who are short on time.

[killsdazombies]

Oh yes, even at max speed (which was SIGNIFICANTLY increased) the game could take a huge amount of time, if youre going to play, play in 1-3 hours chunks at most, or you'll get burned out. My current session started on the first, and im only about 5/6ths done with it (Going on a very slow speed is important at high difficulty)


The thing I really like about it, is youre always learning new things, I just found a new interaction after 890 hours of playtime.

Also no one ever told me anything when I first started but here are a few of the first nations I would play as.

The Ottomans: Your soldiers are a god among men. You have great generals, and if you hit above 50 Army Tradition, you get an event that makes you even more unkillable. You have free cores (Read, free land) all around you to just take, and one of the highest incomes in the game, and one of the easiest/best Religions in the game. Its one of the best starting nations, because it gives you insight in the basic things about war, while giving you a big enough edge to remove most factors of luck, and keep constant action going. Once youre big and powerful its easy to mess around with trade.

Pros: Lots of war, lots of money, Lots of unique events
Cons: Limited colonial ambitions, low trade tomfoolery, no game of thrones


France: You are also unkillable, to a lesser extent, and everyone will love you early-mid game (1500~ on) and you can easily be a diplo war machine to rival the ages. Also high income, and huge army. Weak navy compared to england and castile though

Pros: You can hit positive relations with literally every nation at the same time. Unrivaled diplomacy aside from austria. Units are very strong, hard to kill. Unique events. Colonialism is possible.
Cons: Expansion in europe is hard. Very hard. Limited trade. Colonialism is shaky at best.

Austria: The thing that makes attacking in europe hard is because of austria, if austria is you, that problem fades. You can have an amazing degree of diplomacy, and you can pass imperial reforms and restore the holy roman empire

Pros: mostly unique holy roman empire mechanics, lots of diplomacy, lots of war
Cons: limited colonalism and no real navy. Hard to expand

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