Europa Universalis IV

Yeah not got the new DLC yet, but 1.11.4 was a fantastic point in the game imo, very few bugs, a few niggling things like AI being really bad at returning exiled troops home, but on the whole balance felt about right.

New DLC changes a lot of stuff, will probably have a go with it this weekend. They completely re-did how sieges work with forts now for starters, and coring/annexation costs have increased fairly significantly.

Fairly sure that Austria would be the best for World Conquest now, especially if you can get an early PU or two, revoke the privilege, and then go around the world vassal feeding HRE vassals.

Actually imo this game has surprisingly little representation here given that it's one of the best strat games I've played, way better than Civ 5 imo.
 
I've been looking at this franchise for years but I've always been too lazy to learn. Checked it out the other day and omg now I don't sleep. Seriously, what an absolute time vampire!

I agree it's miles better than CIV5, which if I was to play now I would think it was made for a toddler.

I would love a future EU game that's spans the timeline of CIV5 with all the technology etc.
 
Good to see this thread alive again. Smokey Deza - I agree with what your saying. I can't play another strategy game now without it feeling like it's missing lots compared to EUIV.
 
if you check out the achievements there are some good ideas about what to do, they actually have some damn hard achievements. You can only get them if you use Ironman though.

Some good starting nations to get you into the swing of things:

Ottomans - probably easiest start in the game, you can quickly expand in all directions as you are central.
France - just be stronger than Austria and try to eat up Europe.
England - bit of a rocky start, but you can expand into France quite nicely in the right conditions.
Spain - Same, eat up le Europe. You can get unions over Aragon and Naples.
Poland - You can get a union over Lithuania, and eat up Teutonic Order for free westernisation via Danzig.
Austria - Protect the empire, pass the reforms, get massive vassal swarm armies. Meanwhile eat up Ottomans down to Constantinople.
Muscovy - Expand everywhere, form Russia, take what you want.
 
I put many hours in the game prior to the latest patches, and have done really well with places like Maya. But since the latest patch and the new dlcs a lot has changed apparently, so I need to go easy with a faction and re-learn the basics, time permitting of course. I've not even played with the new fort system yet.
 
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Had an awesome game as England the other week. I had so many colonies in the New World with huge treasure fleets coming in from Mexico, Peru and Brazil.

Went to war with most of Europe towards the end (I wanted the last 10% trade power in the Channel).I already had huge armies, manpower and so much gold I just spawned mercenaries everywhere :)

The fort mechanic is really daft though. Can't move into an adjacent province because that enemy castle I have under siege with 20k soldiers 100 miles away is 'blocking' me.

Playing Muscovy at the moment. It's a bit meh. Unruly bunch.
 
I'm looking forward to Stellaris and Hearts of Iron 4 which should be coming out this year.

Wasn't too impressed with The Cossacks DLC for EU4. Sounded good on paper but was a bit lacklustre. Been having more fun with HoI3, Vicky 2 and CK2 recently to be honest.
 
I bought this game in the Steam summer sale.

I've watched a few hours of lets play videos and i've played the tutorial.

I can't help but feel it would be easier for me to learn rocket science than try understand how to play this game :p
 
Andr3w said:
I bought this game in the Steam summer sale.

I've watched a few hours of lets play videos and i've played the tutorial.

I can't help but feel it would be easier for me to learn rocket science than try understand how to play this game :p
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I'd recommend watching Quill18's "Castile - Tutorial for Beginners" series.
He breaks down the different mechanics of the game into nice and focused chunks across 8 videos.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs3acGYgI1-uWvHEhlIvx-vzsX0vhMOZj
 
I've been watching that playlist by Quill, I think i'm about 4 or 5 videos into it!

For my first campaign i'm playing as Portugal. Its around 1504 and I have Portugal and the west coast of morocco! I have no idea if i'm doing well or not.
 
You'll get there! I was watching video's but then found I'd get into the game and just muck about and that was equally as effective. It's worth the effort.
 
Yeh i'm just making it all up as I go along. I have no idea if the decisons I make in game are the right ones. Not really sure what i'm supposed to be doing with trade or with all my administrative/diplomatic/military power points.

#yolo?
 
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