• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 05:49
CEST 11:49
KST 18:49
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
[ASL21] Ro24 Preview Pt2: News Flash10[ASL21] Ro24 Preview Pt1: New Chaos0Team Liquid Map Contest #22 - Presented by Monster Energy18ByuL: The Forgotten Master of ZvT30Behind the Blue - Team Liquid History Book20
Community News
$5,000 WardiTV TLMC tournament - Presented by Monster Energy0GSL CK: More events planned pending crowdfunding0Weekly Cups (May 30-Apr 5): herO, Clem, SHIN win0[BSL22] RO32 Group Stage4Weekly Cups (March 23-29): herO takes triple6
StarCraft 2
General
Blizzard Classic Cup @ BlizzCon 2026 - $100k prize pool Weekly Cups (May 30-Apr 5): herO, Clem, SHIN win Rongyi Cup S3 - Preview & Info Team Liquid Map Contest #22 - Presented by Monster Energy What mix of new & old maps do you want in the next ladder pool? (SC2)
Tourneys
$5,000 WardiTV TLMC tournament - Presented by Monster Energy GSL CK: More events planned pending crowdfunding Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament RSL Season 4 announced for March-April StarCraft Evolution League (SC Evo Biweekly)
Strategy
Custom Maps
[M] (2) Frigid Storage Publishing has been re-enabled! [Feb 24th 2026]
External Content
The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 520 Moving Fees Mutation # 519 Inner Power Mutation # 518 Radiation Zone
Brood War
General
Pros React To: JaeDong vs Queen [BSL22] RO32 Group Stage ASL21 General Discussion so ive been playing broodwar for a week straight. Gypsy to Korea
Tourneys
[Megathread] Daily Proleagues [ASL21] Ro24 Group F Escore Tournament StarCraft Season 2 [ASL21] Ro24 Group E
Strategy
What's the deal with APM & what's its true value Fighting Spirit mining rates Simple Questions, Simple Answers
Other Games
General Games
General RTS Discussion Thread Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Nintendo Switch Thread Starcraft Tabletop Miniature Game Darkest Dungeon
Dota 2
The Story of Wings Gaming Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
G2 just beat GenG in First stand
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas TL Mafia Community Thread Five o'clock TL Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine Korean words The Chess Thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread
Fan Clubs
The IdrA Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
[Manga] One Piece [Req][Books] Good Fantasy/SciFi books Movie Discussion!
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion Cricket [SPORT] Tokyo Olympics 2021 Thread General nutrition recommendations
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
[G] How to Block Livestream Ads
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Loot Boxes—Emotions, And Why…
TrAiDoS
Broowar part 2
qwaykee
Funny Nicknames
LUCKY_NOOB
Iranian anarchists: organize…
XenOsky
FS++
Kraekkling
ASL S21 English Commentary…
namkraft
Electronics
mantequilla
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 2432 users

Europa Universalis IV - Page 70

Forum Index > General Games
Post a Reply
Prev 1 68 69 70 71 72 209 Next
porkRaven
Profile Joined December 2010
United States953 Posts
July 29 2014 04:37 GMT
#1381
What do you people normally do when you start up a new game? At first I just kind of did whatever but now I am trying to plan out where to expand, who to ally, and what idea build I am going to use.
SHOUTOUTS TO Aylear!!!
Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
12079 Posts
July 29 2014 06:06 GMT
#1382
On July 29 2014 13:37 SwatRaven wrote:
What do you people normally do when you start up a new game? At first I just kind of did whatever but now I am trying to plan out where to expand, who to ally, and what idea build I am going to use.


Switch Army/Navy Maintenance down to get more money. Unless the nation in question is at war or I want to start an instant war. Other than that just plan your goals beforehand.
snailz
Profile Joined April 2011
Croatia900 Posts
July 29 2014 10:22 GMT
#1383
On July 28 2014 09:14 Yurie wrote:
[image loading]

Is there anything I can do to become an elector? Should I kill off all the other HRE nations? Wait even longer?


what the hell is this? 8 colonist and almost all europe (+middle east) conquered in 1549? mods, cheats, easiest difficulty, what? i don't get it
"I am saying that there are 300 current pros and semi-pros that have the potential to come in and dominate SC2 at any moment, with a latency of a few months from the day they switch." - intrigue
Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
12079 Posts
July 29 2014 10:27 GMT
#1384
On July 29 2014 19:22 snailz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 28 2014 09:14 Yurie wrote:
[image loading]

Is there anything I can do to become an elector? Should I kill off all the other HRE nations? Wait even longer?


what the hell is this? 8 colonist and almost all europe (+middle east) conquered in 1549? mods, cheats, easiest difficulty, what? i don't get it


Cheats. Max tech with policies/idea for extra merchants. Not relevant to the question stated.
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Profile Joined December 2010
Denmark697 Posts
July 29 2014 11:38 GMT
#1385
On July 28 2014 09:14 Yurie wrote:
[image loading]

Is there anything I can do to become an elector? Should I kill off all the other HRE nations? Wait even longer?


At that point it's probably easier to just dissolve the HRE. Only the Emperor can grant electorates, so if you are not in good standings with him (and not a member of the HRE), you won't get it. Besides, a HRE with less than 10 members is not worth the effort to get into.
Go try StarBow on the Arcade. TL thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=440661
Dangermousecatdog
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom7084 Posts
July 29 2014 12:38 GMT
#1386
On July 29 2014 19:27 Yurie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 29 2014 19:22 snailz wrote:
On July 28 2014 09:14 Yurie wrote:
[image loading]

Is there anything I can do to become an elector? Should I kill off all the other HRE nations? Wait even longer?


what the hell is this? 8 colonist and almost all europe (+middle east) conquered in 1549? mods, cheats, easiest difficulty, what? i don't get it


Cheats. Max tech with policies/idea for extra merchants. Not relevant to the question stated.

Your picture is also totally irrelevent. But hey, you was the one who posted it, of course people will ask why the fuck you have 64k and max monarch power and half of Europe at 1549. What, you think that people should only answer your question and not ask back or something?
iaretehnoob
Profile Joined June 2004
Sweden741 Posts
July 29 2014 13:23 GMT
#1387
On July 29 2014 19:27 Yurie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 29 2014 19:22 snailz wrote:
On July 28 2014 09:14 Yurie wrote:
[image loading]

Is there anything I can do to become an elector? Should I kill off all the other HRE nations? Wait even longer?


what the hell is this? 8 colonist and almost all europe (+middle east) conquered in 1549? mods, cheats, easiest difficulty, what? i don't get it


Cheats. Max tech with policies/idea for extra merchants. Not relevant to the question stated.

Tag switch to Austria, grant yourself the electorate, and switch back.
zer0das
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States8519 Posts
July 29 2014 23:00 GMT
#1388
I tried to unite the HRE recently, and fell a bit short (France allied the Ottomans and I didn't realize it and I declared war on the Ottomans... ooops). So I started a new run hoping my knowledge from the first run would help, and I got a wee bit lucky:

+ Show Spoiler +

[image loading]


I got a personal union with Hungary about 10-15 years in because their leader died and the Burgundy inheritance fired about 25-30 years in- long enough France was slowed down pretty substantially, and Burgundy was actually making inroads into the HRE at their Netherland holdings. Managed to successfully integrate Hungary after about 60 years, right in time for the Protestants.

I also figured out a cute way to game the truce system- Denmark keeps declaring on northern HRE states, and France is allied with them, so I just have to join the war, peace out (after paying Denmark a crap ton of gold... and breaking a vassal usually, but hey, I can go get a new one), and then I get 15 years to do whatever the hell I want.

I wasn't this big until like 1700 last run. I've only got one reform pushed through though (about halfway to the second one). I think gaining imperial authority by expanding the empire's borders will be fairly easy though.

I can hardly believe how lucky I was though. First time I tested Austria, I didn't get the Burgundian inheritance or a personal union with Hungary, and I missed the boat to force the personal unions on Hungary and Bohemia.
419
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Russian Federation3631 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-31 00:04:26
July 30 2014 23:53 GMT
#1389
Been game-planning a Vijayanagar WC. Will be my first 1.7 game (after having taken a break since 1.6 release). With the latest discovered exploits innovations I strongly believe that they are very strongly positioned for WC, possibly the best positioned of any nation. The only competition I can see is a bugged fast-unification Japan assuming the subject-annex-subject bug hasn't been fixed.

Will be hopefully utilizing Jake's army tradition + protectorate exploit, then drastawi's holy war + release vassal everything strat. In practice this means no coalitions, and very little over-extension problems. The idea is to truce-break, say, France repeatedly, until you can full annex them, then release them as a vassal. You'll have to eat 400% overextension at -2 stab for a bit, but accept demands is pretty nice button.

One of the big issues I'm seeing is the American natives. By the point I am invading them I will be at -100 diplo power with no hope of escaping (in all likelihood I'll have something like 20+ vassals at that point). Without Holy War CB I don't believe I'll be able to annex them for free though. Colonial conquest CB doesn't offer free full annex either. Conquest is unreliable as CN formation will preclude me from being able to forge claim on everything.

Are there any other good CBs I'm missing? (needs to have zero dip cost for full annex)
?
Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
12079 Posts
July 31 2014 13:42 GMT
#1390
1.7.3 - Hotfix Released - Checksum 7d7e

- Support independence minimum opinion should now be -25. (no -1000 AI score)
- Fixed CTD where changing trade in CountryTradeView would assume that the merchant is currently trading.
- CTD when issuing the help command in console.
- National focus now saved.
- Increased precision in fabricate claim discovery, should now be better.
- You will no longer annex Japan when you try to annex a vassal to Japan
- Having national focus unchangeable, the tooltip will now tell you the reason for it.
- Religious unity values will not be super low when legitimacy is below 100.
- Increased precision in fabricate claim discovery, should now be better.
- Loot & Income from Peace is no longer considered as monthly income for income calculations.
- To become unexiled a unit must be fully loaded onto ships.
- Colonies no longer affect religious unity.
- You now no longer get both opinion bonus & penalty when winning elections in an Elective Monarchy.
- Truce now scales per month, not just per year.
- Legitimacy is now set to 90 if a foreign ruler goes on the throne of an Elective Monarchy.
- In an Elective Monarchy, you now get the same dynasty on your noble if current ruler is local.
- Valid opposing rivalries should no longer cancel for the stronger nation at a monthly tick.
porkRaven
Profile Joined December 2010
United States953 Posts
July 31 2014 14:08 GMT
#1391
On July 31 2014 22:42 Yurie wrote:
1.7.3 - Hotfix Released - Checksum 7d7e

- Support independence minimum opinion should now be -25. (no -1000 AI score)
- Fixed CTD where changing trade in CountryTradeView would assume that the merchant is currently trading.
- CTD when issuing the help command in console.
- National focus now saved.
- Increased precision in fabricate claim discovery, should now be better.
- You will no longer annex Japan when you try to annex a vassal to Japan
- Having national focus unchangeable, the tooltip will now tell you the reason for it.
- Religious unity values will not be super low when legitimacy is below 100.
- Increased precision in fabricate claim discovery, should now be better.
- Loot & Income from Peace is no longer considered as monthly income for income calculations.
- To become unexiled a unit must be fully loaded onto ships.
- Colonies no longer affect religious unity.
- You now no longer get both opinion bonus & penalty when winning elections in an Elective Monarchy.
- Truce now scales per month, not just per year.
- Legitimacy is now set to 90 if a foreign ruler goes on the throne of an Elective Monarchy.
- In an Elective Monarchy, you now get the same dynasty on your noble if current ruler is local.
- Valid opposing rivalries should no longer cancel for the stronger nation at a monthly tick.

That last change is going to be quite a relief, in one of my games I needed to constantly rival milan.
What does it mean that national focus is saved? Does it continue the one you selected even though you can choose again? Is that not how it worked before?

Does anyone know if I should be able to load up units by clicking them unto the water tile from one of my provinces that I was taking back? It was attacked by rebels and I couldn't seem to be able to put the extra troops back unto the ship until I broke the siege.
SHOUTOUTS TO Aylear!!!
SKC
Profile Joined October 2010
Brazil18828 Posts
July 31 2014 16:31 GMT
#1392
On July 31 2014 23:08 SwatRaven wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 31 2014 22:42 Yurie wrote:
1.7.3 - Hotfix Released - Checksum 7d7e

- Support independence minimum opinion should now be -25. (no -1000 AI score)
- Fixed CTD where changing trade in CountryTradeView would assume that the merchant is currently trading.
- CTD when issuing the help command in console.
- National focus now saved.
- Increased precision in fabricate claim discovery, should now be better.
- You will no longer annex Japan when you try to annex a vassal to Japan
- Having national focus unchangeable, the tooltip will now tell you the reason for it.
- Religious unity values will not be super low when legitimacy is below 100.
- Increased precision in fabricate claim discovery, should now be better.
- Loot & Income from Peace is no longer considered as monthly income for income calculations.
- To become unexiled a unit must be fully loaded onto ships.
- Colonies no longer affect religious unity.
- You now no longer get both opinion bonus & penalty when winning elections in an Elective Monarchy.
- Truce now scales per month, not just per year.
- Legitimacy is now set to 90 if a foreign ruler goes on the throne of an Elective Monarchy.
- In an Elective Monarchy, you now get the same dynasty on your noble if current ruler is local.
- Valid opposing rivalries should no longer cancel for the stronger nation at a monthly tick.

That last change is going to be quite a relief, in one of my games I needed to constantly rival milan.
What does it mean that national focus is saved? Does it continue the one you selected even though you can choose again? Is that not how it worked before?

Does anyone know if I should be able to load up units by clicking them unto the water tile from one of my provinces that I was taking back? It was attacked by rebels and I couldn't seem to be able to put the extra troops back unto the ship until I broke the siege.

National focus is currently bugged, it wipes if you reload a save and you are unable to set a new one.
419
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Russian Federation3631 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-31 20:36:31
July 31 2014 19:34 GMT
#1393
http://www.twitch.tv/ddrjake/b/553104398

The latest in Jake's WC. Will he make it to the Bosphorus by 1700?

+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]
?
zer0das
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States8519 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-01 14:22:42
August 01 2014 14:21 GMT
#1394
I managed to unite the HRE as Austria, given the start I mentioned earlier.

[image loading]

I've got a personal union with Great Britain and I can integrate them fully in about 20 years.

+ Show Spoiler +

Prussia formed and I was a bit worried that they'd be my doom because they were Protestant very early. I managed to get Saxony to convert back to Catholicism successfully, and then... my emperor died in his early 30's when I was doing some super aggressive stuff to try to deal with the Protestant Reformation. Saxony ended up taking over the emperor title. Fortunately it was short lived, and it was actually a remarkably peaceful time where I got my economy and military in good order. They also continued my reconversion of Brandenburg and Prussia that I had started, so when I regained the throne they were both largely Catholic. So I got to ally Prussia and they were my bulldog for a few hundred years. Saxony tried to defend a part of the empire and they were expecting me to join them as an ally, but I stabbed them in the back, and they got reduced to a single province. So I declared war on them, took their capital, and reclaimed the throne.

Ended up getting a personal union with Great Britain too- because Russia was given one, and I got a war to stop it and take it for myself. I had to fight Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia- the Prussian officers coupled with the masses of Russian troops were a huge headache, along with the British landing troops landing in the Netherlands and Italy. I had to get 60% war score, and against Russia that was a slog fest that took 20 years. I booted Prussia out of the war pretty early, thankfully, or I probably would have lost. I completely wiped out all of Russia's manpower several times, but they just kept coming- only started to turn because they got like 16% inflation and started to run out of money for their troops.
genericname92
Profile Joined October 2009
United States148 Posts
August 04 2014 06:53 GMT
#1395
I finished my 2nd ironman game today with Poland start. I feel like it was a pretty good run. Every game my goal is to kill Russia, France, and the Ottomans, so in that respect I feel like I did fairly decently, though the core French lands remain unfortunately barely touched.

+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]
Ramong
Profile Joined March 2011
Denmark1706 Posts
August 04 2014 11:59 GMT
#1396
Ahh, all that lebensraum for the Polish people
"Yeah buddy"
Qbek
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Poland12923 Posts
August 04 2014 12:07 GMT
#1397
I think I read a book about something like that once
This space left intentionally dank /)3(\ http://i.imgur.com/RmeEUcF.png
LaNague
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany9118 Posts
August 04 2014 15:01 GMT
#1398
good beginner country for 1.7 and all dlcs?


Still the usual? Havent played much since release and i heard this version is enjoyable.
Ramong
Profile Joined March 2011
Denmark1706 Posts
August 04 2014 15:15 GMT
#1399
Yes, France and the Ottomans are still the easiest countries for beginners. With castile or Portugal being good if you want to colonize.
"Yeah buddy"
WindWolf
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
Sweden11767 Posts
August 04 2014 17:15 GMT
#1400
I'm planning on buying the DLC that I'm missing, but I'm wondering how my existing save will be affected. Can I buy it safely or should I finish my game first
EZ4ENCE
Prev 1 68 69 70 71 72 209 Next
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Replay Cast
09:00
KungFu Cup 2026 Week 3
CranKy Ducklings91
LiquipediaDiscussion
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
Codebar 29
ProTech29
StarCraft: Brood War
Jaedong 519
scan(afreeca) 439
Shuttle 257
Larva 196
Leta 158
Rush 150
Soma 150
PianO 145
EffOrt 96
Stork 91
[ Show more ]
Pusan 86
Aegong 81
Bale 73
910 72
Shinee 67
hero 41
HiyA 38
Sharp 34
ZerO 33
zelot 24
sSak 22
ToSsGirL 21
soO 18
Terrorterran 14
Noble 12
Backho 11
GoRush 9
ajuk12(nOOB) 8
SilentControl 7
Dota 2
XaKoH 508
XcaliburYe376
Counter-Strike
olofmeister3473
edward65
Super Smash Bros
Mew2King190
Other Games
Liquid`RaSZi790
crisheroes249
Happy159
ZerO(Twitch)4
Organizations
Counter-Strike
PGL13061
Other Games
gamesdonequick586
BasetradeTV165
StarCraft: Brood War
lovetv 12
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 12 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• CranKy Ducklings SOOP3
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Jankos1047
Upcoming Events
Kung Fu Cup
1h 11m
Replay Cast
14h 11m
The PondCast
1d
CranKy Ducklings
1d 14h
WardiTV Team League
2 days
Replay Cast
2 days
CranKy Ducklings
3 days
WardiTV Team League
3 days
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
3 days
BSL
3 days
[ Show More ]
Sparkling Tuna Cup
4 days
WardiTV Team League
4 days
BSL
4 days
Replay Cast
4 days
Replay Cast
4 days
Wardi Open
5 days
GSL
6 days
Replay Cast
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

CSL Elite League 2026
RSL Revival: Season 4
NationLESS Cup

Ongoing

BSL Season 22
ASL Season 21
CSL 2026 SPRING (S20)
StarCraft2 Community Team League 2026 Spring
Nations Cup 2026
PGL Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 1
BLAST Open Spring 2026
ESL Pro League S23 Finals
ESL Pro League S23 Stage 1&2
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026

Upcoming

Escore Tournament S2: W2
IPSL Spring 2026
Escore Tournament S2: W3
Acropolis #4
BSL 22 Non-Korean Championship
CSLAN 4
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
HSC XXIX
uThermal 2v2 2026 Main Event
RSL Revival: Season 5
WardiTV TLMC #16
IEM Cologne Major 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 2
CS Asia Championships 2026
Asian Champions League 2026
IEM Atlanta 2026
PGL Astana 2026
BLAST Rivals Spring 2026
CCT Season 3 Global Finals
IEM Rio 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.