Polish tourism edition. Why wait ten years for EU5 to be finished when you can play EU4 right now?
My favourite build in EU4: Merc + Inno + Defensive + Espionage. Using this combination it's possible to get max mil advisor cost reduction (-90% so level 5 costs 2.5 ducats p/m) + signficant mil tech cost reduction so you have virtually unlimited mil points for sieges (+siege buffs from espionage) and always ahead on mil tech, also general innovativeness from inno and tech cost reduction, cheaper mercenaries with more manpower (one of most OP things in the game), stack fort defense and fort cost reduction (including other modifiers like estates, gov reforms, terrain etc.) to insane levels, alongside other group-specific mil bonuses.This build works very well with Switzerland due to their mercenary buffs, and they are one of the most OP countries in the game IMO. It's possible for each of your individual merc companies to have 200k+ manpower in reserve after unlocking every bonus.Not sure if this is widely known, I havent seen many others talk about it
>>2431915Sounds interesting, I might play Switzerland next after I get bored of this playthrough. I thought about either Brandenburg/Teutonic Order into Prussia or some Dutch minor into Netherlands, so Switzerland is close enough. I took Merc ideas in my Novgorod playthrough and I agree they're better than most people think.Innovative and Espionage are also definitely underrated in the last patch. These two synergize very well with Aristocratic, especially as Poland. It makes more sense than Mercenary here because this country has good manpower bonuses and some of the best cavalry in the game. Which idea group do you think I should take next?
>>2432230Merc ideas are one of the strongest in the game IMO. I always take merc + inno regardless of country unless you want to colonise, because of how strong effectively unlimited manpower is. Another thing I forgot to mention is you'll be able to constantly fight wars and therefore maintain high army tradition which gives further buffs. You also unlock elite mercenaries gov reform when you complete merc ideas giving further buffs to mercs so theres hidden bonuses. The reason I added defensive ideas to merc + inno + espionage is simply because there are a lot of fort policies they collectively unlock. Inno+def, esp+def, merc+esp all give fort defensiveness, inno+def also gives -33% fort cost reduction that can be stacked with estate privilege etc. can reach cap of -90% with some countries. You also get combat bonus when fighting on a friendly fort which you will be able to spam.Even if you think it's overkill for single player, you need every advantage in multiplayer.Espionage + aristocratic I agree is also very strong and I used to play that a lot for AE reduction, siege buffs, and to stack cav combat ability but it's not as powerful as merc + inno IMO. I also think aristocratic isnt that strong by itself, espionage is doing most of the work in that combo, so i dont feel its worth taking unless you want to stack cav combat ability which is obviously good for poland
I refuse to use mercenaries unless ABSOLUTELY necessary
Does this mean Japan will be Confucian in this timeline?
>>2433111I like to imagine it means the ruling family is Confucian while the ordinary people stay Shinto, ultimately serving as another reason for the overthrow of the Shogunate in the 1800's
>>2432251>so i dont feel its worth taking unless you want to stack cav combat ability which is obviously good for polandWell, what's the point of playing Poland if I not to stack CCA? I currently have 75% and my cavalry-to-infantry ratio limit is 80. Any suggestions on how I can stack more? I ended up choosing Administrative Ideas. This was supposed to be a "tall" playthrough at first, but then I lucked out with a PU over France and realized I can just steamroll through all of Europe easily. I accumulated more than 200 AE with every country in Europe AND the Ottomans, but a coalition isn't forming lol. Currently snaking through Germany to get extra merchants from trade companies and hopefully achieve economic hegemony before the age of reformation ends and my goods produced bonus runs out. I thought about delaying it by demolishing my trade centers in Lubeck if I have to, but I don't think it's gonna be necessary. Currently at 590 ducats of monthly income. I'm also gonna annex The Knights and and get access to the Malta monument soon.
>>2434839There's cheesy method to reform into horde, but it's way too late for that now. Quality comes with CCA and there's another policy that increases it, from Quality and Aristocratic iirc. There's also some sort of permanent Cav bonus from polish MT
Teutonic Horde is more fun than Poland IMO100% cavalry armies
>>2435095You were supposed to destroy them, not join them
Speaking of Poland why the hell are they now by far the worst of the 3 out of compared to Hungary and Bohemia who pretty much get handed PU's over half of Europe with no effort?
Can't wait for 25/06 when the DLCs (hopefully) will go on sale and buy them all.
Who is the main protagonist of EU4?I reckon it's Jean Bureau, or "John Table" in English.
>>2433111I don't know if AI ever converts provinces when it's Confucian so the provinces will most likely all stay Shinto. Hope Yamana have Shinto harmonized
>>2431755>mfw there is no sack after siege event in eu5
>>2436233I always pick ducats and mil power unless super rich
>>2435664Mehmet II unironically
>>2435664Martin Luther
>>2435664>John TableJohn Desk you mean
dream came true :^)
Bruh I just started the game and royal marriaged England as Portugal and now I'm in a successcion war with France
>>2437884awesomeyou can win that easily with castile and navy
>Jeets clapped, tributaries defendedHow fares the campaign anons?
>>2431755God the UI looks so shit in 4k though.
Partition in this timeline is going to be hilarious
>>2437971Yeah I easily won against France, then I got split on wether should conquer ireland or try to conquer Marroco, then I inherited Burgundy... I just wanted a chill iron man game.
>>2432274I WILL use homegrown patriotsI WILL deplete my manpower poolI WILL take quantity ideasI WILL get 100% professionalism by 1510
If you take Merc ideas you don't lose professionalism from using them.In fact, it's far cheaper to get 100% professionalism using Merc + Inno as you can stack -90% mil advisor cost reduction and spam generals
EU4 tip of the day : >if an AI sells titles and is paying war reps to you, it is counted in the 10% of income for war reps. selling titles the same month this happens can give you a massive amount of cash
>>2438262For reference this is the income from selling titles for the next month
>>2438157You may as well grab the 'All Blue' achievement if you don't have it already. If you dismantle the HRE you should be able to steamroll Europe fairly quickly and kneecapping Castile right now would guarantuee the whole New World for yourself as PU's and vassals won't take exploration ideas
>playing Denmark>quite literally the exact day Sweden happens to slip to 50% LD, Muscovy immediately supports it>Muscovy THEN declares itself my rival, meaning it made that choice without even rivalling meI don't mind the idea of managing Sweden but the AI genuinely did this even before the "one of your subjects is disloyal" notification even had time to show up and I was on speed 3
SKILL ISSUE
>>2438195I WILL seek manpower recovery speed modifiers wherever I can I WILL carefully manage sieges to minimize attrition
>>2438262thought it was some event like goldrush when I got huge load of cash from delhi
>>2438700Anything that increases income so events would be counted as well
>>2438262Good tip I will use this next time I play
any recommended mods for somebody that actually doesn't like EU4?
>>2438847EU5.
>>2436708Unfortunate truth
AI Ming lost a war against the Oirats, somehow, now they are getting butchered by Ayutthaya and other nations want to join in. This might be the first time I've seen this happen so early.
hre or germany path in the austrian mission tree? which is more fun?and while we’re at it, the multicultural option or austrian conversion?
castile is a junior partner under France with no liberty desire
>Russia>quantity>trade>religiousAyup
any recommended gameplay improvement / qol mods for somebody that hasn't played eu4 for the past 7 years?
>>2439998Russia doesn't need Quantity, I like grabbing Offensive instead
Swimming in government reform progress thanks to this mission.
>>2441633I had to go into debt to build all of those universities, but it let me complete all government reforms by 1621 and I still had some points left for expanding administration. I had also managed to release and diplo-vassalize Jerusalem before the Age of Reformation ended.
Locke's Nightmare. I don't understand how Spain was even able to take that one landlocked province. Do they have something that lets them ignore coring cost early on in their missions?
>>2441635*coring distance, of courseEthiopia somehow got the Portuguese dynasty on their throne and I also got it because they support candidate. I claimed throne and I'm gonna PU them now. PU'ing Portugal is unfortunately not an option. They have too much AE with me and won't let me royal marry them. Even if I somehow got the union with Portugal by pure chance, I wouldn't be able to improve relations with them enough and it would break after my monarch's death.
>>2436127The event that lets you swap to Confucianism as a daimyo automatically harmonizes Shinto.
how rare is that
Never seen
you lie
america looking handsome
rate france
>>2441816Well no wonder there weren't any spics in Central America.
How do you play in hre without falling asleep
>still fairly new to EU4>want to play an Oirat -> Yaun game>never played as a hordeWhat am I in for? I'm planning on taking the mandate and becoming emperor for RP reasons even if staying as a horde is objectively better.
>>2443216You can become Yuan right after your first war with Ming though its pretty hard since you'll have terrible mandate for a long time, I did it once though it was a pretty fun game.
I tried playing Ainu in base game (I can tell this is a mistake) and it's so annoying starting in a regency, feels even more RNG than usual.How do you even have a regency if your government is a tribal council? No estates for tribes btw.The problem is the only people who will ally me are very close to me and therefore betray me, if they don't just die to Oirat immediately. Sometimes even they also ally the wrong people. If only I could get Korea to like me it would fix some things, but I'm just too small and the expansion development is too pathetic to make me big even when I get lucky expanding into Manchuria. I'm too poor for colonies, too, since Alaska takes forever to colonize.I can kind of survive just by spamming galleys and stopping anyone from entering my islands, and I finally "succeeded" that way, but it was by getting lucky with a Japan invasion with no help in one of the runs where Oirat ate all of Manchuria immediately, and I didn't want this to just be a Japan run. Wanted to expand this the other direction.
What are some little things you guys do for RP? If I’m playing with a Parliament, I always assign a new seat to conquered states. Not every state gets a seat, but if I conquer a new region (especially if it has a new culture I plan to accept) it gets a new seat if it’s not a colony/TC
>>2445330Map before a Japan war, red and blue in Japan are my vassals, yellow is me.I really couldn't do anything at all in the mainland, just got an early independence war from Uesugi to feed off of. Everyone in Manchuria is now allies with Oirat. I don't want to just be Japan but slow and with no estates/events.
>>2445375Either wait for the inevitable Oirat-Ming war and attack him or one of his allies or pray a strong Russia formed and will start conquering east when it realizes it can't break through Ottoman/Commonwealth/Sweden roadblocks
Never use the console command. It's like a drug and once you start you can't stop.I'm at a point that I use the console to siege Galipoli whenever I'm playing Byzantium because I know that if I don't get the siege I'm just restarting, so I'd rather force it then reroll a dozen times
Nubia is fun
Whenever I play Muscovy, I use the console to annex Novgorod after the first war. Meaning I get to 100 WS and fully siege down the country, then take as much as I can in the peace, but then I use the annex console command on what's left. Novgorod takes like 3 wars to annex and it stops being relevant after the first war
Catholic Prussian Shogunate of the Teutonic Order.
>>2445780Is that not just Ethiopia with fewer mechanics?
>>2447517>Ethiopia with fewer mechanics?I'mma be real with you bro, yes. With that being said the start and mid-game is very interesting as you have dogshit economy if you start as Makuria and a long list of stronger enemies to fight (Nubian minors, Ethiopia/Adal, Mamluks then Ottomans) and has been some of the most fun I've had I EU4 in a while
>>2445375I moved my capital to the New World and formed Alaska in my Ainu run
>>2448567nice, didn't even know about Alaska as a separate tag. Any other interesting tags? Interesting idea groups?
There are male vtubers playing the game now
>>2445780That region is so lackluster, literally nothing but Mamluk and Yemeni food
>>2448634Didn't quarbit start this trend after being ashamed of his fat fucking face?
>>2449047Vtuber is designed to be used by the uglys. Too bad most vtubers dont have personality to make up for the whole ugly part.
>>2448634what did you expect? this is a tranny game now, all player base moved to eu5, realized its shit and will never be good, tried to come back to eu4 but couldn't play a game without pops and with arcade mechanics, and touched grass never looking back
Milan is so fun bros. I’m just aggressively raping Italy. I learned not to fear the coalition, I played Austria and expanded at a glacial pace because of that, but it’s like 1530 and I own half of Italy
>>2449308Whoops meant this for eu5 not you poor goyims
>>2448567I went bankrupt before my first colony finished when I tried expanding to Alaska, not having estates is so awful.
>>2449476>I went bankrupt before my first colony finished when I tried expanding to AlaskSkill issue. Those sea otter pelts should be printing ducats. Then you dig Swan Lake in Sitka and start shipping ice to C*lifornia.
>>2431755Time to jihad the euroid judeochristians again I have the urge to play this game
The Voltaire's Nightmare discord server got nuked if you didn't know
>>2449725CP hub behind the veneer of an HRE simulation?
