Europa Universalis IV - Page 140

Those 46k troops would be a lot more beneficial, if the AI would actually take attrition based on all armies and not based on the individual army sizes

Short rant: why can't the ai not have a trigger not to take more land then appropriate? Taking 61 AE in a peacedeal is just plain retarded. Doing it next to the HRE makes it less intelligent...

Do you even have the money for Quantity?

On July 11 2015 20:26 Skilledblob wrote:
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Over the course of 100 years I barely managed to annex all of Korea with the help of Manchu because Korea is always allied to Ming and Ming fields 100k troops.

in the last patches if you managed to beat ming a couple times their country would break down and rebels would pop everywhere but in my game Ming has 0 manpower and just runs around with 60000 mercs and 40000 normal troops and kills everything.

On July 13 2015 06:58 Blackfeather wrote:

Tbh I would just go through the north or try to go south through SEA, dodge Ming for as long as they dont collapse.

Ming is now a lucky nation, so they dont collapse unless mandate of heaven lost procs, which is only based on legitimacy and stability, effects that you can pretty much only influence by hoping that their king dies in a battle (not very likely).

Overall they get -4 for tolerance,-5 for mandate of heaven, -1 for lucky nation, -up to 2 for legitimacy, an average of -1 for stability and -5 for accepted culture in a defensive war for a total of up to -18 revolt risk in every province that is confucian and accepted (about 3/4 of their provinces at the start of the game).

On July 13 2015 19:26 nimbim wrote:
Is this just 1.13 AI being mean or has it always behaved like this? I have overextension, 0 manpower and currently in the civil war disaster, but Muscovy thinks I want to join their offensive war. They are such an awful ally, I should have ditched them after they made that suicidal attack on Novgorod+Commonwealth, but tribal government with -2 relations kinda got me stuck with them (I also have their dynasty) and Poland is only friendly 1month every 2-3years, so I have to get the timing right -_-

On July 13 2015 19:47 419 wrote:

Circassia is the worst start in the Caucasus imo, it actually gets completely hosed diplomatically.

AIs just going crazy this patch in general, haven't seen so many AI on AI coalitions so far.

On July 13 2015 19:51 Fildun wrote:
AIs are just going crazy in peacedeals, they take so much more AE then previously and it's not just Burgundy who does that.

Just had Austria basically full annex Bavaria in around 1460 or so (don't remember exactly) after which they got the entire HRE in a coalition against them and were forced to spit out Tirol.
It's just crazy how stupid the AI got this patch.

On July 13 2015 10:30 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:


Holy shit, I've never seen the Ottomans get this big so fast. They ate Hungary and a piece of Bohemia by 1515, and they just finished their latest Egyptian incursion by the end of 1522. Any advice on dealing with them? My strategy was going to be to conquer a bunch of their Muslim provinces so they convert to Christianity.

On July 14 2015 02:07 Broetchenholer wrote:


Exactly, after i destabilized the french region it's a complete clusterfuck of Coalitions. Toulouse, Burgundy, Auvergne, Nevers, they get created from thin air by me or a coalition war, then they blob themselves as everyone else is weak as well and then they get killed off by a coalition that creates another minor that blobs out afterwards and gets coalitioned again. The new mechanic for the AI must be: See 90 development in basetaxe with no allies laying around? Better eat it whole! It's funny to see the different colors i should just make a fast forward video of france being a christmas tree

On July 14 2015 03:18 Blackfeather wrote:

Another little hint to beat Ottoblob: Similarily to Russia, the Ottomans have a lot provinces in Asia, while their capital is in Europe. So if you cut their lands in half at near the Asian border, suddenly half of their provinces are distant over sea, produce next to nothing and cost you nothing in the next peacedeal.

419's method is obviously more throughrout, but takes more time and weakens your own country more. So it depends on how much you want to commit to beat them.
However if you follow 419's method, there is little that speaks against combining the two.

On July 14 2015 03:33 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:

I don't know how much will actually pop, or how effective it'll be. A lot of the nationalist rebels have become particularists, and if anyone will declare independence it'll be countries like Hungary which are on the wrong side for me to eat. Ottomans have a pretty big force, and I can't even do my favorite trick where I split them with a bunch of galleys because they have the largest navy in the world.

But I think I can definitely claim some quick Turkish land, have a not-too-long truce during which I can finish eating Lithuania or whatever, and then push them into Europe.

@419 I know you mentioned Humanism and Ottoman tolerance, but what would happen if I were to theoretically take all of their Sunni provinces, maybe even including Constantinople?

On July 14 2015 03:43 Blackfeather wrote:

If they took Hungary, I take that Austria is mad at them and you can get an alliance?
How much bigger are they? At some point their units get bad, so it might be advised to just dodge them until that happens. Russia has lots of options for expanding, going through timmy or oirat to India is going to give you a lot power relatively fast. Ottomans on the other hand dont have that many options left, the HRE is still the biggest coalition blob in the game, even Ottomans will get a bloody nose if they try to expand there to fast.

Nations that have their capital next to a strait now produce infinite amounts of galleys. They patched the old trick out.