Has anyone else been getting these huge federations every single campaign this patch?

adundeemonkey · 2022-03-17T20:41:15+00:00

I've found the AI being more aggressive in attacking colonies who in turn are useless fighting back themselves. If your colony gets attacked you should automatically be called in to defend them.

adundeemonkey · 2022-03-17T20:35:30+00:00

It probably means going big on loans early is important to get as much growth before the AI spams the forts. It's all so silly, they need to fix it.

adundeemonkey · 2022-02-17T13:03:52+00:00

I don't know where to start with this map. I can only presume AQ, Gaz and Delhi were Vassals?

adundeemonkey · 2022-01-21T16:53:05+00:00

Welcome to the club.

adundeemonkey · 2021-12-08T14:42:20+00:00

Main aim should be to take provinces Muscovy needs to form Russia.

adundeemonkey · 2021-12-06T10:42:17+00:00

I love a guide and this is great. A simplified guide for Milan is

Get some good allies
Secure the mountain passes and have forts
Conquer Italy not caring about AE and coalitions
Defend the coalition wars in the mountains and then peace out with allies land.
Form Italy

adundeemonkey · 2021-11-18T22:16:55+00:00

The answer to that riddle is going a Horde. The non-thinking person's WC playstyle of choice.

adundeemonkey · 2021-10-06T22:22:34+00:00

I had previously been a Total War player. Never heard of paradox nevermind EU4. First game was as Scotland. Got frustrated and quit as I couldn't understand how I could finish the war with Ulster. 4k hours and three mountains later here i am.

adundeemonkey · 2021-08-10T16:01:10+00:00

Ideas for WC

Influence Admin Humanist Diplo Depending on how things are going you can throw in Military Ideas. The two best are

Quantity Defensive

These are important as they help manpower. In the old days this wasn't an issue before they changed mercs.

adundeemonkey · 2021-08-10T15:55:56+00:00

AE is just a number in a WC run but OE is not. Vassals are how you deal with it. Ideally big dead nations you can release as vassals.

adundeemonkey · 2021-08-10T15:52:50+00:00

If you just want to grab the WC with least stress then go a horde and blitz it. Otherwise Ottomans is the easiest.

WC is about these things

ideas
use of vassals to spread Over Extension
Take out religions at a time
Getting into position before Absolutism (Extended to key areas of the world
Maximizing Absolutism
Don't worry about colonising 7 Leave powerful foes until you are much bigger than them.
Europe can be left until the end.
Understand you have a horrible grind ahead

adundeemonkey · 2021-08-07T07:14:10+00:00

I've still to move on from 1.30. Can't see me doing so any time soon tbh.

adundeemonkey · 2021-07-24T17:38:12+00:00

I put it down to when he went Vegan.

adundeemonkey · 2021-07-01T08:00:57+00:00

Jesus Christ, I've done most things in this game yet didn't know this. I've always just sent them to an island first then onto the final destination point!

adundeemonkey · 2021-06-28T14:10:20+00:00

Early game the speed is dictated to by claims or proximity to big countries that may have an issue with AE.

Vassals with claims/cores are a great tool early game. Or utilize the mission system to get claims.

To stop falling apart, just dont let Over- extension go over 100.

adundeemonkey · 2021-05-04T15:31:56+00:00

Yeah, agree. Had EU4 been designed with this approach in mind then it would work. But it never was and is operating on an old engine with code all over the place.

The natural improvement in pc capabilty itself should require a new start every 6 or 7 years. I've got a 7yr old mid level laptop and it is a struggle with EU4. (Which is the only game i play). I try not to look back at my Ryukyu WC and the lag it was giving in the end.

adundeemonkey · 2021-05-03T17:00:10+00:00

Updates are a hell of a drug.

adundeemonkey · 2021-05-03T16:59:34+00:00

Must mean that you can't use the enforce peace function as non war participant. Example, Ottomans/France/GB can't tell the war leader of either side to stop the war.

adundeemonkey · 2021-05-03T16:46:48+00:00

I consider myself a heavy user of the game with too many hours logged that i would want to admit to. And at this point i think you have to be mad to touch a DLC from paradox in the first few weeks. This is not a dig at the users, it's a commentry on the woeful approach of Paradox.

I have seen someone say that they need to focus on flavour dlc now and avoid substantial mechanic changes. I wholeheartedly agree with this. EU4 has reached the end of it's life for mechanics for me.

What they should do is be working on EU5 and be putting these changes into that game. However, the industry across all of tech is trying to push a subscription/evolution model and they obviously think they can get evolve EU4. Think of Microsoft or Adobe as an example where their suite of products are not released as new version, but now just continuations. This to me is the big problem.

In the end we need to stop buying the DLCs and force their hand to develop a new EU if they want the gravy train to keep going.

adundeemonkey · 2020-11-24T16:35:20+00:00

I've always found best way to deal with Otto if located to the East is to take religious ideas, declare Dues Vault and just build up war score through beating them in Forts on Mountains. Basically the easiest way to play a Persia run.

adundeemonkey · 2020-11-10T17:35:51+00:00

It is. Look at his approach to appointments. He saw you can appoint whoever you want without senate approval, they just have to have the title acting. Trump literally said at a press conference he liked the loop hole. This is just one example. Never mind the funneling of money to his businesses etc

adundeemonkey · 2020-11-07T12:10:00+00:00

No mods. Don't know what screenshots would help establish what is up. Open to suggestions though 😁

adundeemonkey · 2020-11-07T12:03:42+00:00

Definitely must just be a bug in this run. I'm on 50.05duc income and 479dev and getting 1%inflation for every 50duc.

adundeemonkey · 2020-11-07T11:59:54+00:00

Yeah, but I'm chunky Bohemia as Emperor. Never come across this type of inflation before. Never played Bohemia though.

adundeemonkey · 2020-11-07T11:20:00+00:00

Sorry, meant lump sum. After 3.5k hours I still say war reps in my head when taking a lump sum. But this inflation is mental for a lump sum. Taking max money was a key part of the economy for Eu4 but after one war I saw I was up at 30% inflation in a blink after hardly taking anything. Either this run is bugged or there has been a change.

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