This is a FOUR thread, Fivers keep movingI can't be the only one still playing this game, right? This was my latest campaign
>>2295364you're getting old anon
>Rigan Federation>Markgravate of KrakauYou fail as a Prussiaboo. It is the United Baltic Duchy, the Free City of Krakau, the Kingdom of Poland and the Kingdom of Weiss Rutland
>>2295364>This is a FOUR threadbased, this is still peak
>>2295364Heh.
>>2295378I wasn't copying Brest-Litovsk, that's boring. Riga isn't a monarchy, it's a federal republic with devolved cultural rights. United Baltic Duchy is a shit name. Krakau had to be a margrave because, at the time, it was on the Poland-Lithuania front lines. >Kingdom of Weiss RutlandThis one is actually good. You should've said something in the last thread when I was spending WEEKS trying to come up with a good name for my inevitable Ruthenian puppet.
>>2295364god damn that's a near perfect map except switzerland and sweden
>>2295413The thing is Rigan Federation is still stupid name, because Riga just a single city. It should be something that represents that it is a state governed by Baltic Germans. Hence why I said UBD. There are plenty of other good names too. Something about Livonian restoration, perhaps. And Markgravate is a shit name because this land goes far above the size of what is considered to be Markgravate.
>>2295436>It should be something that represents that it is a state governed by Baltic Germans.That's what Rigan Federation does. Riga is the seat of power and where the Baltic Germans live.>Something about Livonian restoration, perhaps. No, it's bigger than Livonia. Same reason UBD doesn't work, it goes beyond the Baltic. Look at how far south it is, that's Polish and Belorussian culture. And it has a bit of Novgorod>And Markgravate is a shit name because this land goes far above the size of what is considered to be Markgravate.You dumb nigger. I just told you it was a Markgrave at it's inception. There was a hostile Poland and Lithuania right next to it for a long time. Also, Brandenburg got pretty big while still being a Margrave
I never did properly learn 4, might as well learn it now since it's going to take a couple of years until 5 is 'good'
>>2295364I tried it out recently after playing EU5 but it feels so jank I just can't
>>2295364Sovl
>>2295407Wtf is this
>>2295364I'll check out eu5 in a couple months when the game settles into a good state and it goes on sale, but for now, while It isn't base game, I may as well show my map.Decided to play as the Sword Covenant into Covenblad. Their whole gimmick is that they have a hidden descent meter that gives you buffs depending on how much you've fallen from grace. I found their good path not that compelling, especially since the missions seem to really want you to have higher descent, but the minus aggressive expansion was just the better deal since the MT also wants you to take some bites out of the empire, then Covuria (who's probably been your ally up until now).Mechanically, they're pretty similar to the Blade Marches, but trading in the extra Mil points for mage stuff, in practice that means they get really good generals and you have a pretty easy time keep Military Tradition at 100 as well.I took the Troll warfare doctrine, but if you want to go full in on getting busted generals this nation is probably your pick. Mages, +2 shock as your ambition, +1 fire from half-elf doctrine, +1 shock and fire from offensive ideas, +1 maneuver from defensive, and +1 siege from aristocratic. Then you got your guaranteed war wizard and you get a unique disinherit event that makes your heir powerful mage?Although switch in half-elf or half-orc military probably isn't a good idea when compared to going elf military you can do that for another +1 fire or +1 shock.Anyways they seem like one of the better candidates to form the Black Demesne, I'll probably do that next time I play them.
>>2295522The time to learn 4 was like 8-9 years ago, dude. It's a bloated mess now.
>>2295418sweden looks good
>>2295418>swedenDenmark is my puppet, they were reduced to just Bornholm so I diplo-vassalized them and then got them their cores back. Sweden also owned all of northern Russia. Russia didn't form until maybe 20 years before that screenshot and I actually never fought a war against them. All that Rigan/Cossack/Transcaucasian land I took from Sweden, Lithuania, and the Ottomans. I fed Muscovy their cores and released Novgorod from Sweden so they could form Russia
Starting a brunei campaign to form malaya
>>2296362Can you use your vassals nationalism CB?
>>2296775Probably, but I'm not loading the game up to checkI'm pretty sure overlords have access to all their subjects CBs
>>2296362>those borders by 1672
>>2296885What's the rush?
>>2295364>over 24 hours later only 16 repliesholy dead game....
>>2296362I prefer thesr borders over the Sweden exclave. Although the big Lithuania, that doesn't actually have any of lithuania in it and the tiny poland are funny.
>>2297145I only decided to kill Sweden because they were Lithuania's long time ally. I figured that, since I would be fighting them a lot, I'd make Russia's formation and end goal. I forget why they have that exclave though. I remember returning all of Muscovy's cores then releasing Novgorod. So who knows
>>2297166Can't fault you there, in my game I still ended up with a bunch of provinces I could grab with nationalism but never bothered to, even when doing so would make better borders.There comes to a point where fighting massive wars for just three or two provinces is just more hassle then it's worth and you decide to put the game down for a bir.
>>2297203>There comes to a point where fighting massive wars for just three or two provinces is just more hassle then it's worthYup. Truth be told, Lithuania had 4 more provinces and I used the console to annex them into the cossacks for the map before I took the final screenshot. Lithuania were guaranteed by Russia, Catholic with Spain as DoF, and allied with Sweden and France. I was not fighting that war just to annex 4 steppe provinces for a prettier border
I was gonna pirate eu4 on my new pc and pirated eu5 instead without noticing, I'm so fucking stupid
>>2295364I've been away from my beloved Fulo too long...
Playing Voltaire's Nightmare pacifist playthrough (plus threaten war is also not allowed)Not even 300 years after the start date, Iberia is finally united. This is why I love EU4 over EU5. The diplomacy gameplay is just on a completely different level. Between being able to specialize into diplomacy through ideas, to renting condottieri, allying someone for a short period just to break their other alliances, and returning cores for favors. It just can't be compared to the poor diplomatic options of five.
>>2295364Nobody plays this game anymore
>>2298262That's what you get when paradox constantly releases unfinished games, but I don't doubt they'll add some more diplo stuff in the future.Hopefully at least.
>>2296293Why didn't you form Castanor or Black Demesne in this run?
>>2298501Well I have the button to form Castanor, I just don't feel like it from a role playing perspective. Castanor is like Alenar to me, I think they're lame. I had already united all of the Essanni people, except for my vassal and those three pvinces held by Grombar. Don't ask why there was a single province of non-Escanni within now former Marhold, I don't know why that was there either.I would have gone Black Demesne but it felt off since I purged the non-virtuous elements from Blade Coven instead of the virtuous ones, I couldn't devote my nation wholly to magic in order to form the BD. I had already sort of gone past the point I saw this runs story going.In the story in my head, Covenblad smashes though Ibevar and hooks around to purge Corvuria of the undead, while taking less of Escann leading to pic rel. Yellow is Covenbladic vassals while the rest of Escann is ruled by a handful of petty kings and Marrhold. Escann is never 100% united but Covenblad becomes the dominate power and it's wars with the empire where the its cornite mage-knights decimate the forces of the Alchemist Emperor Varaine leads to the groth of Revalinism and Artificery, eventually culminating in the quite revolution within the empire where a lot of the monarchies became constitutional under growing pressure caused by the Covenbaldic invasion and also the costly failed colonization of Aelantir.It wasn't so quiet for the Magisterium, their tower now the holding place of the cube, but they fled to the Lorentish colonies to form their own magocratic state there after Covenblad rejected Magocracy and the expelled the believers of the black doctrine in the black-cornite wars. Corinism was actually so successful this game only Grombar and the Lorentish sphere of influence are Regent Council while the core of the Empire is Revalian. So there weren't any league wars, so I added black doctine vs cornite relgious wars to the fanfiction in my head.
>>2298262Just gonna take the rest of Libyan coastline, southern Italy, Corsica, and Sardinia, and I think that's it.
>>2299090Did you diplo vassalize all these people? That's crazy
Feels fucking good. Milk Jolof for all it's worth.
