Europa Universalis IV

[FunkDockta27]

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Are you still having trouble with Ireland? That's pretty much my go to game so I can help with anything.

So I've downloaded the Northern England Flavour mod which has enabled me to do this:



I've had to manually get Yorkshire available to be controlled by manipulating the HYW. As England, I got them to give up Gascogne (but still a claim on it), give up a claim on Armagnac and release York as a sovereign nation. This might take a few goes as England have a core on me, but I do have a truce with them so I've got a bit of breathing room.

Not so much trouble with Ireland as much as trouble getting enough time invested to get this game down. Lol

[Anners]

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1558 has come and here how the proud nation of Yorkshire is looking in Europe.

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New York is a bit lower down than usual...

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[martywebb]

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For anyone who's recently purchased the game, quill18 on YouTube really helped me out in learning the game before I got it. I purchased it as soon as it was released, and play it on and off every other week or so. Still absolutely loving it. If you go towards the release date(forgive me for not linking y'all to it) on quill's feed, it has some how-tos. EXTREMELY helpful.

I also invite you to check out a mod that I downloaded for extended time. I think you can start it in like the year 43, during the Roman Empire. Tough sledding, but still really awesome.

[Anners]

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For anyone who's recently purchased the game, quill18 on YouTube really helped me out in learning the game before I got it. I purchased it as soon as it was released, and play it on and off every other week or so. Still absolutely loving it. If you go towards the release date(forgive me for not linking y'all to it) on quill's feed, it has some how-tos. EXTREMELY helpful.

Arumba is also extremely helpful. Explains what he's doing whilst going along.

It may have taken about 150 years, but the British Isles has no single ruling power. I've been eying a war with England for a while and there's been a couple of times I nearly went but not all my allies would join. Alas, I finally got to the perfect moment which was England having about 13k army and about 18 ships.

All my allies, in this case Cornwall, Denmark, Scotland and Spain, joined whilst Portugal and Friesland sided with the English. The result? We smashed them. Whilst Spain took care of Portugal, Denmark landed troops in Northumberland to join Scotland and Cornwall sieging whilst I took care of the army.

This was the result:

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Only Denmark didn't get land (I am kind...). Scotland took Cumbria, Cornwall took Gwynedd, Spain took two parts of Southern Portugal and I got Lincoln, Norfolk and Essex. I won't be having a war for a while (150 manpower!), so we'll spend the remaining time of the 16th century content with what we've got. After that, another war with England awaits!

[gerg1234]

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After taking over Central Europe with Brandenburg> Prussia> Germany, I went back to Leinster.
Took out Munster and Connaught. Ulster was vassalized by England. Colonized Newfoundland. Then went Manhattan and made that my capital. We now have the entire eastern seaboard of the USA under the green flag.
Making money and building troops to take down England.

[KMRblue1027]

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So I picked this up on the steam sale awhile ago and just got around to it but I didn't grab the DLC due to not knowing whether or not I'd enjoy this. Needless to say I'm hooked but not sure if it's worth grabbing the expansions, do you guys think any of them are worth it?

[Anners]

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So I picked this up on the steam sale awhile ago and just got around to it but I didn't grab the DLC due to not knowing whether or not I'd enjoy this. Needless to say I'm hooked but not sure if it's worth grabbing the expansions, do you guys think any of them are worth it?

I'd like to think Conquest of Paradise is a must. It improves Native Americans quite a bit and can randomise the New World (Americas). I personally don't feel Wealth of Nations adds enough compared to Conquest of Paradise.

[JWR3232]

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For anyone who's been beaten up by the big blue blob before behold:

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To Bad I didn't take a screen of France completely sieged.

Edit: Oh man I just eclipsed 200 hours with this game.

[ImTellinTim]

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I'm in a Timurids/Mughals game and I'm pretty sure I didn't get far enough into Asia to have a large enough manpower to make up for the tech difference. France, Spain, and Portugal all have claims on my Indian trade provinces. I also let Spain onto the Indian mainland before I could get it all. This is not going to end well. I'm sure once one of them decides to attack, Russia will waltz on down too. I just hope I can convince the Ottomans to come to my aid.

This is not going to be fun. Karma for what I did to all the Indian nations I suppose.

Like I said earlier in the thread, this game is one I'll be coming back to every few months for years. So much replay value, and I haven't even touched the surface on mods and expansions.

After I'm done with the Mughals, I think my next game will be an attempt at Swedish Independence.

[JWR3232]

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If Spain is your neighbor couldn't you westernize? It's always rough but worth it.

[ImTellinTim]

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If Spain is your neighbor couldn't you westernize? It's always rough but worth it.

I'm debating it right now. I'm afraid if I do, beating down the rebels will cut into my manpower and encourage everyone to move in.

[JWR3232]

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Yea but if you manage to get through it you can steamroll through India and China. Maybe you could ally yourself with a western power to protect you from more invaders.

Just Finished my Austria game

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I have never done this well before, early in game I got the Burgundian Inheritance and was able to force a PU on Hungary. Almost all game I was a part of the super Alliance of me, Sweden, Castille/Spain, Poland, Lithuania and Portugal. Mostly I just played the HRE game but eventually was able to unify and then I decided to see what I could get away with because I was so far beyond the most powerful nation.
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I was able to steal Scotland from France, they were about to get a PU I fought it ended up vassalizing Scotland who actually did a nice job colonizing. Interestingly the USA formed from rebelling from Scotland and then became a Kingdom
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Dat manpower
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At the very end I started a war for Swedish succession France decided to join....not smart
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[ImTellinTim]

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Picked up a bunch of the DLC yesterday (think I dropped like $70 altogether on the main DLCs and a bunch of unit and music packs, lol). Totally worth it. It's like a whole new game with so much more depth in places other than Europe. Oh, and they are coming out with another interesting DLC next week called El Dorado that further explores the pre-Colonization Central and South American empires. The DLC also allows you to create your own nations.

https://www.paradoxplaza.com/news/El-Dorado-Expansion-for-Europa-Universalis-IV-Lets-You-Go-For-Gold/

I started up a Sub-Saharan game with Songhai. Allied up with Mali and we'll probably pick off the others around us until the Europeans come in a wreck us. I'm finding that it's good practice for smaller stack warfare as everyone is sort of equal and not advancing much. You really need to plan out your battles.

[ImTellinTim]

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Dropping in again because I picked up the game again this weekend. Played about a hundred years of a Sweden Ironman save where I got lucky with England offering to support our fight for independence. Broke Denmark and eventually took almost all their land in a series of wars. Made a huge mistake though in trying to be friends with Muscovy instead of trying to align with Lithuania et. al. and crushing them when I had the chance.

Was on my way to trying to just dominate northern trade as my game goal. Formed Scandinavia. Then Muscovy broke our alliance because I was getting too strong, and they wanted some land that I nicked off the Livonian Order. Buddied up with Lithuania at that point. Then I thought I was safe going after The Hansa and those sweet trade provinces but NOPE suicide war where a very strong Bohemia joined in and Lithuania turned against me and joined.

This might be the hardest game I've ever played, and I love it. The support Paradox has given this game has been nothing short of amazing. They are releasing yet another expansion called The Cossacks before year end. And since my last post, they released another expansion called Common Sense. The game is such a deep experience, and playing on Ironman is such a great experience because every decision must be made with careful planning.

[gerg1234]

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I've only had 1 successful Ironman game....that was Leinster to Exodus Ireland...then return and take the British Isles.

I'll need to pick the game back up for sure. I have Vicky 2 and it'd be cool to do a EUIV to Vicky 2 game.

I just don't know who I'd want to be. I've always wanted to try an Austria to Holy Roman Empire game.....or maybe Brandenburg>Prussia>Germany (on Ironman...it was the first thing I did in the game with massive save scum).

Lately I've been playing Kerbal Space Program and FIFA....perhaps it's time to try EU again.