Europa Universalis IV - Page 39

On December 29 2013 04:03 dismiss wrote:
I'm pretty noob when it comes to EU mods. Do they just add countries and so on or actually change the gameplay substantially? Would you mind linking me some good ones, please?

On December 29 2013 04:03 dismiss wrote:
I'm pretty noob when it comes to EU mods. Do they just add countries and so on or actually change the gameplay substantially? Would you mind linking me some good ones, please?

On December 29 2013 18:03 myzael wrote:
Wiki is pretty lacking atm, but we are working on that. Thanks for promotion, now I don't need to be shameless by promoting a mod that I develop 1.13 (dev copy) is pretty bug free I feel, perhaps we will at least get the chance to work on new features instead of constant bugfixing. Feel free to ask any M&T questions here, I will try to answer.

On December 29 2013 18:03 myzael wrote:
Wiki is pretty lacking atm, but we are working on that. Thanks for promotion, now I don't need to be shameless by promoting a mod that I develop 1.13 (dev copy) is pretty bug free I feel, perhaps we will at least get the chance to work on new features instead of constant bugfixing. Feel free to ask any M&T questions here, I will try to answer.

On December 30 2013 03:31 Sermokala wrote:

Sweet are you on the M&T team? I can't play with anything else now that I have it. my biggest complaint is how sloppy the lines for different provinces are. you can click in places and it'll get you to a different province then what you want. I enjoy the changes to provinces though and the look of the game as a whole.

On December 26 2013 09:55 Chocolate wrote:
So I'm playing a game as France right now (it was my first game and I picked France because I know it's easy) and I was wondering what you all do to make it interesting once you get yourself established in Europe as the baddest blob around. It's about 1520 and I had the Burgundy event fire extremely early + I managed to completely destroy Castille, Aragon, Portugal, and Austria's armies early on in a big war so I could just roll over everybody for a few decades. I have no colonies; this is what France looks like right now



With Baden and the purple in Flanders (hainaut) as my vassals, leading PU w/ Bohemia. I was wondering if you all find it worthwhile to just try to become the biggest blue blob that Europe has ever seen, or if you find the global colony/trade game more rewarding. Obviously I'd like to finish grabbing the area around Alsace and Baden and probably pick up Brittany and Genoa as well, but I don't know if it is usually fun to try to grab all of Germany or what. As for ideas, I have already maxed Quality and I'm really close to maxing Diplomatic (this one's a good idea for France). It is taking me a while to max economic ideas because most of the buildings that I am constructing require ten or more admin. power, which really adds up when you're France.

I'm also thinking about allying up a bunch of the HRE electors and going to war with Austria to dismantle the HRE. They already have a lot of territory, have passed three reforms, and lead a PU with Poland, and I kind of want Flanders or Alsace. Good decision, or no?

Oh I'm also papal controller and will be for many more years (5/7 cardinals are French rofl) so I can get up to some shenanigans with crusades too, I suppose.

On December 30 2013 09:35 Ramong wrote:
It is defiantly possible to "protect the Indians" in EU4, I colonized the hole of north and south america myself as Castile.
You just need to vassalize or annex Portugal and fuck up France, England always seems to get colonists later than France, Portugal and Castile for some reason.

On December 31 2013 04:17 419 wrote:
couple of factors here:

- The bigger the country, the lower the warscore cost for each province. For example, against a small country, you might typically need 16-40% warscore for each province. For one of my wars against Muscovy it was 4-9%, thus I was able to force them to return 8 cores with only ~25% warscore (they weren't opposing warleader so battles didn't count on warscore).

In the case of attacking big alliances / coalitions, this warscore cost reduction doesn't happen (it doesn't consider the total size of the coalition against you, its just factored for each country individually). This is fine for big alliance wars - in general, you can just separate peace out the individual combatants (that in effect allows you to get several hundred % warscore worth of concessions in a single war). However in coalition wars you can't separate peace the coalition members which means you can often only grab a handful of provinces for each war.

- Provinces with the distant overseas modifier have greatly reduced warscore costs - I think its -75% warscore. There's some fun things you can pull against the Mamluks and Ottomans specifically with this, as they have cross-continental empires. So if you can sever the land connection between the capital and the "wrong continent" provinces you can make a lot of provinces overseas.

- Picking proper CBs - overseas expansion (the CB you get for filling out expansion ideas) gives 50% warscore cost reduction I think.

On December 30 2013 03:55 rezoacken wrote:


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