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Europa Universalis 4 thread
SLyM
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Europa Universalis IV
Europa Universalis 4 is a grand strategy game made by Paradox Interactive set in the age of exploration and enlightenment, from 1444 to sometime around 1800. A sequel to Europa Universalis 3 which I have played multiple hundred hours of, it is a game I am highly excited for.
In the game you chose any country on the face of the earth during the time period, and lead it in conquest, trade, exploration, diplomacy, and/or getting repeatedly wrecked by rebels and probably france. EU4 sees changes and improvements in a number of areas over it's predecessor, such as trade (individual centers of trades decentralized into areas and the change from local trade only to controlling the flow of goods from the far east and new world into Europe), the economy (a larger reliance on loans to finance wars, no more minting, monthly income instead of monthly expenses and yearly income) technology (monarch points instead of invested money) and just about everything else in some way.
The big change is monarch points. Your monarch (or president/doge/etc. if you're playing a filthy republic) generates points, based on how skilled they are in 3 different areas (administration, diplomacy, military) you use these points for everything. Creating a core? Administration power. Offering a peace deal? Diplomatic power. Recruiting a general? Military power. The thing is, there are tons of other uses for these resources too, and you also need a large number of them to advance technologily. Knowing when to horde and when to spend your points is going to be important.
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A very unhealthy amount of time playing these games.
Did I mention I love EU3? I really love that game! Probably my proudest achievements in that game are the two campaigns where I made Georgia and then Tibet the greatest powers in the world.
Sardinia-Piedmont fo' lyfe.
But EU3 will always be my favorite. It's amazing how each expansion they made for that game made it better and better.
Buncha rich fuckers that need to be put to the sword for glorious Sicily.
I own HoI3 and Vicky2 but I am terrible at them.
Probably because I refuse to play countries that are actually powerful in any of these games because I am dumb.
You're christian?
Cool! Enjoy these free extra colonists and diplomats then!
But it looks like you guys are!
One/All of you should do a Let's Play.
Ottomans should get all those perks and more.
We did try one. It stalled: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/124521/lets-play-paradox-succession-game-charlemagnes-heirs-the-thread-lives/p1
Also I like how you show the world map for everything but HOI3, it feels appropriate
There is always someone who will attack you no matter how much you try to please them and they will always do it at the worst time.
One thing that I like about them moving the start date back up for 4 is that it will hopefully make it so you don't reach that point before the reformation hits, because it usually isn't much more than a speedbump, even if you do try to convert.
When does it start?
As long as they don't move it back to 1453 though it's all good. Need my byzantium!
What will be annoying is that you don't have 50 years to rush colonization and/or neuter Portugal, Castille & England before they go all gung-ho colonizing if you want to rule everything on the cheap by 1500 like my last game, you'll actually have to take their colonies instead
It warms my heart whenever I see England get clobbered by continentals or Ireland.
Playing HoI as a minor power is... not something I'd bother doing, simply because you'll never grow enough to matter with the short timeframe available even from the earliest setting. And if you go from the earliest setting and you're not playing Germany, I find the blitzkrieg ends up being a slowkrieg and failing horribly because the AI is Not Good At This
I've seen France, Castille, and Aragon all wreckin shit in England. It's great.