Which country are you playing first?
>>720995820Lam
i'll play in 10 years when the game is done thanks
>>720995820I'm torn on doing Mamluks or France as my learner game.
>>720995820France. They're always the most neutral benchmark of what these games are like. They're strong enough to not have serious threats but not so strong they're totally boring. They can colonize or stay at home, they can get involved anywhere in Europe, they can build an overseas empire but aren't dependent on it. You can get a little of everything.
Sweden
>>720995820>kyiv
>>720995820Jesus Christ...
Portugal is eternal
>>720995820Swedenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIn025BHvd8>Yes I am Finnish, how did you know?>>720999642it's beautiful
>>720999642not enoughmore HREMORE HRE MINORSI LOVE MOLESTING ONE PROVINCE MINORS
>>720999873If it's any comfort, there's also landless tags there. Banks, holy orders etc.
>>721000157>Bankslet's fucking go
>>720995820Maybe in 5 years when all the dlc is out and bundled I'll play teutonic order.
>>721001208jew
>>721001193it makes the russkies seethe, and they deserve being clowned on for how shitty that invasion was
A comfy Portugal game of redirecting trade.
>>720995820Probably somewhere in northern Italy, I like that there's opportunity and challenge in every direction from there.
>>720995820HRE clusterfuck my beloved>>721002021How do you have one of the strongest armies in the world and fuck up invading wheat farmers?
>>720995820Kingdom of God assuming they let you form it. Byzantium or novgorod Russian republic if not.
>>720996326Agreed. France is really fun
Russia
>>721003534Be fair, the wheat farmers still practice genuine territorial warfare with infantry and artillery. They're not a post-modernist, 5th generation army with thousands of "soldiers" shitposting on social media and another thousands lost in Frankfurt school thoughts about what victory *really* means. The wheat farmers also receive multiple times their enemy's war spend every year of gifted cutting edge equipment, to the point that they're actually running out of people to operate it all.
>>720995820Brabant into Belgium or Netherlands to larp as homethen unite Japanthen i will play as Malacca or something in the neighborhoodthen i will unite germany maybe
>>720995820how much crypto will this thing be mining?
Will it have a working, GOOD random new world generation option?
>>720995820DependsI forgot what's independent at the start, I think Dali was up? I always liked shattering China and playing Dali, so I guess them. Then the compulsory Byzabloobloobloo.
>>720995820Austria. Then Austria, Austria and Austria. I live in Austria btw.
>>720995820genoa so i can finance iberian colonization and get rich doing it
>>721004802But will you form Germany?
>>721002607I don't think redirecting trade is even a thing anymore, you just get access to the markets
>>720995820Is that the Silk Road?
>>721005059Genocide is the only option.
>>721005236Why would you genocide your own people?
>>721004802>I live in Austria btwnahhh
>>721005276Nothing good ever came out of Germany, starting with the barbaric hordes 110 BC that invaded our sacred hills and burned down out capital Noreia all the way to Merkels invitation to the Saracene hordes to come trample over us on their way to this god forsaken land. Why must we suffer assotiation with these brutes? Why can the world not realize that Austrian is its own language, not like Germans will ever understand us if we don't want them to. For what deed have we been cursed forever by this blight to the north and west? Let it end already, let Germany sink into the ocean and the water wash away all their ilk, the world will breathe more peacefully afterwards and we will finally know release from this pain.
>>720995820The Serbian imperium begins...
>>721005802Bro, you're not supposed to continue this LARP into 2025 it was just to avoid punishment for the 2nd Weltkrieg.Vienna is and always has been the heart of Germany.
>>721001282Yes, and?
first portugal since i wanna get into colonization and exploration earlysecond probably muscovy into russia
>>721003534>fuck up invading wheat farmersTwo things. One, the Ukranians were begging for a war with Russia because Eastesrn Europeans are fucking retarded and hold grudges forever. The Ukranian far right wanted to actually purge Russians and Russian culture out of Ukraine and they're the ones who largely took over in 2014. They shelled their own Russian speaking populations for being traitors since none of them wanted to go along with a US backed coup, then got mad that that Russians did their own coup to take over Crimea. Two. The Ukranians are actually a really good military. They've been getting NATO training and funding off and on since 2014, they're a massive country with a huge military that had a lot of old Soviet weaponry besides getting weapons from NATO, and also the Ukranians are very brave and stubborn fighters because, again, that's just what Eastern euros are like. They were never "just wheat farmers", they were arguably one of the strongest militaries in Europe even before the invasion also the Russians botched the initial invasion it since around the time of Bakhmut changed up their strategy and have been winning the war ever since >Inb4 Ivan Don't even , I'm just very familiar with Eastern euro autism. The fact that Ukranians have convinced left wingers and liberals in the west that they're actually a super progressive country is hilarious to me and they should've pushed that first counter offensive they had in the first year of the war further as they would've beaten back the Russians out of Mariupol which would've been hilarious.
>>721005932I implore you not to dismiss an Austrians honest profession of his hatred of Germans this casually. Blood runs thick and deep in Europe.
>>720999642Just shows how retarded "political map mode" is. These are not sovereign states or princes, unlike what Voltaire redditors might think, not in 1337. It's retarded to depict them as these mostly independent states.
>>721006143Enjoy doing nothing for 100 years
>>720999642
>>721007545>simulating german minors is le bad!>simulating the bingobango tribes of deep ngango is le good!
>>720995820>want to play Byzantium>they cut content from launch and already announced a Byzantium DLC>now I can't play Byzantium at launchFuck you Paradox
>>720995820Golden Horde is a cool name so that one
>>720995820Wales!!
KievAfter I make a mod renaming it from Kyiv to Kiev
>>721003534>How do you have one of the strongest armies in the world and fuck up invading wheat farmers?Go in with last century doctrine and having to adapt and write new doctrine while taking losses, Ukraine having the largest army in Europe, not casualty averse at all, and a fuckton of intelligence and equipment from abroad.
>>720995820Playing with one of the Italian minors sounds fun, probably Florence.
>>721003534>How do you have one of the strongest armies in the world and fuck up invading wheat farmers?I like how people online often act like Ukraine is a small and weak military, but Iraq was a very strong opponent.Ukrainians for one, are smart enough to move their AA, unlike brown people who lost all of their AA in the first days.
>>720995820Portugal probably, focus on the economy and then go build a colonial empire
>>721006458>Russian cultureOxymoronback to >>>/x/ wit you, zigger
>>721007924skill issue
Got any recommendations based on the time period? I love playing extremely tiny nations with huge potential to grow big.
>>720995820Byzantium-Bulgaria-Ottomans is the clearly most interesting start. One of those, to beat up the other two.
>>721009824Embarrassing.
>>721010065>BulgariaWhy not Serbia?
>>721006458You wrote this essey as a response to the city of Kyiv being referenced by its official game in a video game.
>>721010328Serbia was a 1 hit wonder, I'm not feeling them. Medieval Byzantium and Bulgaria both had a shot to control all of the Balkans just before the Ottomans actually came and did it.I guess Serbia is viable too.
>>721010334No, he wrote that in response to someone who wrote a post about the city of Kyiv's name.>>721010537>Serbia was a 1 hit wonder,Yes, but that's the exact right time for their wonder, to make it work.
>>721010334this retard didnt even read the post he's replying to
>>720995820Muscovy or Novgorod. Can't wait to sabotage the golden horde from within
>>721010671>>721010716kyiv lol
>>721009019i think he's just saying he wants them to be simulated as vassals of the emperor
>>721010762*Κιέβο
>>721009019Little Bubi
>>721011117Кийгopoд*
>>721003534its just how russia works eversince they liberated themselves from mongoloidsuhhm I must say tho in aoe4 russia is kino
