Yes. You could try the Thread about it, there is a lot of information on it in there. Other than that, starting with the tutorials, and afterwards playing a strong nation on a not-too-high difficulty is the best way in my opinion. England, Castille, France, Austria are commonly recommended for beginners. I would recommend not getting involved with the HRE in the first game, since that does add a lot of other mechanics that complicate things.

Most important advice regarding actual gameplay in my opinion is: Don't get too much infamy, don't get high inflation. Also, you have a lot of time. No need to accomplish everything until 1450, take your time.

Regarding buying the game, be careful. You should get Chronicles, NOT Complete. Complete is strangely enough everything but complete. It is generally agreed that all of the expansions make the game considerably better as a whole. Oh, and it is at sale on steam at the moment.

fofa2000

Canada548 Posts

November 24 2011 16:01 GMT

#233

Get Eu3 Chronicles with all the expansions so you can play with us

Start with a big country, keep your dishonor low, so don't annex countries in a defensive war or without any reason (you have plenty of mission and reasons which let you conquer new land and when you don't you are probably quite strong). Dishonor piles up very quickly and it negatively affect all your relations with others as well as other bad stuff.
You should spend your money to keep your stability at +3 and not save any money whenever possible to prevent inflation. Keep few but good allies. After a few game you'll get the rest
This is a long game, and everything can't be done in 20 years

Also don't forget to pick the Casus belli (reaason for war) when you declare, otherwise you get a whooping stability hit.

turdburgler

England6749 Posts

November 24 2011 16:02 GMT

#234

france is by far the best country to start with. an easy war to win right off the bat to get you experienced where the enemy rarely delcares on you first, amazing econ and decent in every other respect. when you want to learn about diplomatic expansion and options aswell as the HRE play austria. if you are confused just ask in the main thread, more than happy to help.

deafhobbit

United States828 Posts

November 24 2011 18:00 GMT

#235

Thanks for all the advice. Right now, I'm thinking I'll wait and see if the game gets discounted more later on in the sale, and if not I'll probably pick it up on the 27th.

As far as joining in, while i have a good background in 4x games (Civ 2-4, Galciv 2, and even Star Wars: Rebellion) I'm pretty sure I'd just mess things up for Sicily. If things keep going well and Sicily gets too far ahead, I could just mess things up to make it interesting.

fofa2000

Canada548 Posts

November 24 2011 22:13 GMT

#236

IT's your luck right now, Eu3 chronicles is at 11$ on steam right now, do not wait my friend!

beef42

Denmark1037 Posts

November 24 2011 22:58 GMT

#237

On November 25 2011 01:02 turdburgler wrote:
france is by far the best country to start with. an easy war to win right off the bat to get you experienced where the enemy rarely delcares on you first, amazing econ and decent in every other respect. when you want to learn about diplomatic expansion and options aswell as the HRE play austria. if you are confused just ask in the main thread, more than happy to help.

IDK if this is D&T specific, but Burgundy gets a buttload of powerful missions that lets her eat up all the minors in the Netherlands area and get cores on them. These provinces are all rich and set you up as a major power easily capable of declaring war on France. IMO it's a great country to start out with, since it starts out small and easy to manage, yet has great potential for expansion. It also teaches you to watch out for alliances before declaring wars and such.

It's also great fun for more experienced players 'cuz you can do crazy shit like killing France, joining the Empire, and then reforming France as the Emperor.

Holykitty

Netherlands246 Posts

November 24 2011 23:09 GMT

#238

On November 25 2011 07:58 beef42 wrote:

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burgundy gets a few missions in standard game to expand a little, but if you dont listen to exact objectives you will feel the wrath of the empire. you also get dow'd by france and england random times.

you cant join the empire as burgundy as you start in in.

when you form france your captitol moves to il de france making you illegible to be emperor. unless u set it up, hardly a good task for a first time player :D

fofa2000

Canada548 Posts

November 24 2011 23:12 GMT

#239

Not only a little, you can almost double your size thanks to those conquer missions! You have a core on Bar, and have 5-6 annexation missions. Of course you will inevitably be at war with France and Austria, but that's where it's most fun...
For a new player, you don't really need to be at the same time king of France and HRE emperor to still kick some ass, even though it's much better if you manage too.

beef42

Denmark1037 Posts

November 24 2011 23:13 GMT

#240

Burgundy doesn't start in the Empire, not in D&T at least.

You can join the Empire by joining your capital province in, all it needs is to be bordering an existing Empire province. You also need a good relation to the current Emperor to increase chances of getting accepted. Nevertheless it has never taken more than a couple of tries for me.

The one time I did this, I joined the Empire before reforming France. It was hilarious, after that I could start spamming gifts and RMs to become Emperor.