How do i get good at eu4?

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I have at last 2000 hours in eu3, I have only played eu4 maybe 10 hours because I can't be bothered to learn it.

Also the bumpy map is ugly

>i play poortugal and i have nowhere to expand since berbers are harder to convert and core.

expand to America

>i play france i am surrounded by guys that hate me and have hundred years war and get excommunicated.

beat them up one at a time. also you're france so you have the most money and the most soldiers

but also, WCs are boring

Easy game t. 1500 hours

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Play EU3, it's better.

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>Blobbing

>switzerlake

His is for history, not map painting.

woah...

Why did you spam this on multiple boards?

Do you have the DLC? If not look up which to buy, they don't necessarily make the game easier but they make it actually fun to play. Also, look up how to form and play Japan, probably my absolute favorite nation in EU4. Indonesian nations are also fun cause trade nodes.

Did this on my first game lmao
Granted I have a lot of ck2 experience
Extremely based

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or you could just pirate them cause paradox are greedy fucks

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Just use cheat fucking cuck

I tried playing byzantium without it and is literally hell so i made some cheat for money and bang i killed 'em in the spam of 2 year

This too fuck paradox and its dlc policy

By them i mean the ottomans

I've only played Ottomans and Spain

This. Unless you're an Primitive tribe or a shitty nomad stuck in the middle of Central Asia, trade is going to make up the bulk of your income by 1600. Don't take debt that you can't repay in ten years from beating up other countries. Trade companies are still OP with an extra merchant, bonuses to production, and no state limit until Johan and Groogy sort of nerf them with the next DLC, so conquer those unless you're in Asia.

Another tip is to try and keep Power Projection as high as possible since +1 mana per month for +50 Power Projection, even for 200 years, adds up to 2400 mana. That's a free idea group or a couple of tech levels.

Honestly, I wouldn't even do a WC until you can get past those obvious hurdles. Try playing on easy or with a minor nation to get an idea on what you can do before you go off the deep end.

Also this. It's such a fucking slog to play past 1700 once you're obviously steamrolling everyone. I can't even be bothered to finish my EoC Aztec run with 50% Infantry combat ability because I have to spend all my time carpet sieging.

>plays Portugal
>tries to conquer Northern Africa
Portugal did that irl and its glory days ended because of it. Just colonize all of the American coast while everybody is fighting the XVIII War of French Aggretion

I have somewhat the same problem. Every time i play as Spain and try to expand into India. I always end up on some weird native land? I was expecting gold and bountiful trade, but for now I'll just establish colonies I guess...

Wtf dude? I have around 300 hours and I managed to turn UK as the richest country in the game. If you have over one hundred hours you can do decently as one of the major powers, especially France

High chance of getting absolutely assraped as soon as Shun invades you

No, it didn't. In fact their glory days had just started.

start by playing V2 instead

Lmao I only play as Moldova. Never finished a run because the beginning is very RNG based, but what I usually do is ally Hungary, take Wallachia, develop my shitty provinces and hope the Ottomans get fucked by wars with Venice.
Sometimes Poland invades me and I ragequit, sometimes the Ottomans pull 30k mercenaries out of their ass and btfo Hungary and I ragequit. I've got like 16 hours in the game because CK2 is much better.

I just wanna form Romania>Roman Empire because forming it as anything else seems too easy.

When will paradox fix native Americans?

kek

I play fairly regularly EU4, and I can't pull some weaker starting nations to become real monsters, but I just played France and Castille and I'm by far most powerful country around.

What is important is economy, expanding your country over shit provinces is bad. In EU3 you'd just blob everywhere.

>Spain
Conserve resources, invade Portugal when England is distracted and wait for iberian wedding
>France
Become holy roman emperor and inherit both halves of burgundy
>England
Ally Aragon and attack France as soon as possible

Over 3000 hours here, minmax, prep alliances and starting strategy before you even start, and then git gut by being smart about war and your own idea groups.
Know your buffs and chinks, and then you’ll be set. Classic example is Navarra. Try to ally Castille as well as France before Surrender of Maine event or enforce peace on England during Hundred Year’s war. Later, war with England to take Gascon provinces and give France territory in Normandy. Make claims on Castille after alliance breaks off due to giving them zero land and use alliance with France to put the pressure on ‘em. Go to war with Castille for chunks of Iberia and/or take on any Grenada territory remaining if applicable. Keep munching on Iberia and then take expansion ideas to tryn base in the New World. Make Caribbean colonies to boost wealth and invest in manpower in those colonies. Start building tall as aggressive expansion accumulates and Aragon/Castille unite into Spain (or whatever’s left of it). Continue using funds from New World to finish off Iberia and move onto various holding across the Mediterranean while expanding colonies overseas.

May not result in a WC, but that’s just one example of how you can have a shit start and then end up controlling a quarter of the planet. You need to practice and play smart my dude, otherwise you don’t stand a chance.

>This board is dedicated to the discussion of history and the other humanities such as philosophy, religion, law, classical artwork, archeology, anthropology, ancient languages, etc

Video games are classic art

Have less than 100 hours and I mastered the game.
Play as the ottomans, you start really strong with good economy and a focus tree that gives you lot of claims.

Uk averages 1000 or 2000 ducats by late game poorfag

Where did it all go so wrong lads,
(Britannia BTW, the last stand of christianity)
Everyone is either Germanic, Tengri, or Jain for some reason. The Jains even managed to convert the middle east.

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What about the pu you can get with aragon that makes navarra way easier

Of course the glory days of Portugal started with Ceuta, but ended because of Alcacer Qibir. Portugal got a reputation because of sailing throughout the world, not because it conquered some really hard to mantain cities in the Mahgreb.

My point is that, in eu4, Northern Africa is irrelevant to Portugal (besides the pirates). You can defend Ceuta, but focus on colonizing america and Southern Africa

If you reach India and China on time, you get Goa and Macao FOR FREE!

The natural progression of the game seems to be
>france enters civil war
>muslim superstate takes random duchy
if they succeed enough they can become too big for any coalition to deal with.

In my game I became duke of Toulouse then lost the entire duchy to the Umayyads and was back to Weinsberg, felt like ragequitting but continued anyway.

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Which of Vic2, CK2 or Eu4 is the best game?

>EU4

I bought this game at launch and dropped after 30+ hours because like all Paradox Games, it was utterly barebones at launch.

5 years later there are like 16 DLCs for this game which probably cost $500 and I dont think ill feel like im getting the full experience if I start playing again with essentially vanilla EUIV

fug paradox

But I've never had this happen before, the Jains converting the steppe and Persia? This new update just fucked everything.

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I'm officially quitting EU4 after +1500 hours of playtime after I finish my Maze into Persia run.

Manipur is the hardest nation, yes?

>No allies, ever
>Surrounded by 3 nations that want you dead
>Doesn't even have Feudalism because fuck you
>Even if you win, Bengal takes you right after

Real answer: the easiest way to play is pick an enemy you can beat, then kill them and take all their money to fund the next war. Never stop conquest, because more taken land = more money and more soldiers to take more land with. For easy mode, find a valuable ally in a strong nation so they use their men and money instead of yours. Manage coalitions by declaring directly on them before they get too big. You can manage 2-3 separate coalitions that can never declare on you all at once if you time everything well.

>Playing the game

merc update when?

>play poortugal and i have nowhere to expand since berbers are harder to convert and core
>not being a Chad and converting Portugal into a merchant republic whose only goal is to spread Catholic capitalism across the world

Just bought this shit and I want to do the obligatory Prussia into Germany game, should I do it with Brandenburg or Teutonic Order?

With Emperor

>where did it go wrong
Anime portraits

In CK2 do you guys release kingdoms if you don't feel like you'd realistically hold them? I like keeping mostly de jure borders then conquering a place just to release it with a family member as king.

Vicky 2 easily, as it's still the best game Paradox has ever put out.