Europa Universalis IV

Furry said:

Absolution is a big deal because it raises administrative efficiency, which has a lot of really, really powerful bonuses. It's one of the most important numbers to get high in EU4.

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Time to tackle this monster France today. Do I feel bad for doing that to england? Not one bit. It's weird having castile and portugal both as my PU's. Since the coalition against me is spanning three continents, I think it's time for me to chill for like a decade, and then aim for figuring out a war that would let me dismantle the HRE. Seeing a fat brandenburg like that makes me happy. France has a missions that let you subjugate naples and commonwealth both, which is kinda crazy.

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I don't know why, but I always loved taking out England and it looked pretty much exactly like that. Looks like a pretty good situation there with Austria being pretty well neutered.

Finally got control one of my favorite Great Projects.



One reason I loved Portugal so much was getting both this and Alhambra before 1600 (though I don't think I maxed them until after).

I wish Spain didn't have Malta Forts because that's another great one I miss.

Edit: Obligatory fuck overextension and rebels, I need that land!

Some people really know how to break the fuck out of this game.


Here's all the nations he was: TO -> Jerusalem -> Kongo -> Sardinia-Piedmont -> Austria -> Poland -> Manchu -> Qing

Unreal, but seems super sweaty. Playing with 150-300 OE for a large portion of the game feels like a huge hassle, though he might have had the unrest reduction to not make it suck.

I decided to restart my TO run because of a few different reasons after reaching about the 1720s or 1730s. I was still rusty so there was a bunch of things I kind of missed or just didn't know about and they kind of bugged my min/maxer personality. A big one was learning that at Tech 12 or 13 you start getting diminishing returns on the Horde razing as TO. With regular hordes it's 4 but I never played a Horde before so I didn't know about any of it. I wasn't really careful about following the mission tree so I didn't even get to be a Horde until I was tech 20 or 21. I also ran across some other TO campaigns that made me want to try some different things, like tag switching, since I've never done stuff like that before. I think I'm going to try for a true one tag, one faith, one culture run with this campaign. There's a bunch of other minor things that I didn't know or forgot about that I'm keeping track of this run.

Anyway, after a handful of restarts of the first 10-20 years, I've arrived at a pretty damn good place compared to my first run. 1547 and #1 world power. I'm already down to Jerusalem and past the Black Sea (Kazan is my vassal). I think I'm probably 40-60 years ahead of my last run and that should only snowball, ideally. Austria is mega strong this campaign (and is actually the Emperor this time), so that should be a fun battle down the line. After the first decade, I think I've spent 80% of my time in war, which has been fun but hectic.

Furry said:

In my chill kilwa game, Spain has turned into one of the most grotesque monsters of a nation I’ve ever seen. They got a PU over England now, and allied Portugal and ottomans again. If I were to attack them I’d be facing an army of almost 2 million soldiers in the early half of the 1600s. It’s the most obscene force I can recall seeing an AI nation make… and France decided to contest the English PU. They made a lot of gains at first, but when the horde showed up they went down in flames fast.

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Yeah, I was reading that the 1.34 turned Castille/Spain into absolute monsters. Way more likely to take Italians areas and PUs or alliances with the other big powers (not to mention the armies all the vassal force limit shit gives them). It's not a fluke that you've seen that, apparently. It seems like they're almost the new Ottomans in that not crippling them early can lead to some real ungodly power. I'm avoiding most of Western Europe for a while so I kind of hope they turn into a monster. The worst part about the late game if you've had a good early/mid game is there isn't much of a challenge left.

EU4 is such a crazy deep game.

I just completed a culture shift to Qirat and then formed Jerusalem. I now have (after completing almost the entire TO mission tree), both the Jerusalem and Mongol mission tree to work on. This is going to end up getting me Malta without war (-15% WS reduction to different religions) and some nice permanent modifiers (-3 unrest, -15 WS for anyone, other small nice ones). My economy took a small hit but after restating what I could, it was honestly a pretty small blip.

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1694 and pretty much everything has been colonized. Time to start integrating Portugal. Surprisingly it will only take 5 years? I figured it'd be closer to 30 like Castile. Gonna integrate my other colonizer, Tidor while I'm at it. They get a mission tree colonist, so whenever I see them colonizing I like to vassalize them, even if I have to No-CB it. Nobody cares about them for the AE to matter much.

I could have spent the last two wars trying to kick the ottomans out of europe, but I want the HRE to die in a fire so I can subjugate the Commonwealth, so I've been pushing them out of africa and the middle east with my vassals the mamluks and syria, and really, what's the difference between germans and turks anyways.

One of the stranger things going on in this game is the AI just stomped the Japs into the ground, Usually they're pretty safe on their island. I had no part in this. Only the brave samurai of Hojo still stand.


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I always love seeing how the rest of the world turns out when I've played no part in it. Transoxiana being huge seems pretty uncommon too. I think the oddest thing I've ever seen is Ryukku having like ten of the Philippines islands. No idea how that happened.

On the topic of things I don't like... not being able to choose your own country. Can't even mod it without disabling Ironman.

This shit... ugh. Two different countries that look just about the same and there's nothing I can do about it outside of wrecking Austria's shit (which I'm doing). I'm 100% going Poland -> Commonwealth after I finish the Jerusalem/Mongol trees just to change my color.





My favorite color I've played is Asturias... such a pretty, non eye-raping blue.

I feel dumb. Just today I realized that co-belligerents (not just war allies, but one's specifically marked as co-belligerents) don't get the CB reductions that the main belligerent gets. So, doing shit like a holy war with 75% AE reduction only applies to the country you attacked and won't apply to marked co-belligerents. I feel that's kind of lame. Making someone a co-belligerent makes them bring in their allies, so why shouldn't they get discounted by the CB as well.

Alas.