Europa Universalis IV

[Duerer]

Tell some of your wonderful stories of your way to entire world domination:



I managed to beat the Teutonic Order and the Livonian order and now I try to takle Muscovy apart, piece by piece. As I allied myself with Sweden, in the process, they lost their heir and made a Personal Union with me. However, the Austrians were not as satisfied and went on a war against me, which I won in the end. So what to do next?

Allies:
Lithuania (PU)
Sweden (PU)
Moldavia (Vassal)
Bohemia

Rivals:
Muscovy
Austria
possibly Ottomans

[Vami IV]

Keep relations with Lithuania and Sweden as high as possible. Melt support for Austria by befriending as many HRE members as you can.

[Duerer]

So, Sweden has been fully integrated and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth has been formed. Muscovy has been reduced to the city of Moscow itself and Tver is still inside my borders. Should I go for the Ottomans, once I'm done with the Russians?

BTW, how could I amass Monarch points faster, in order to get access to more technologies?

[Vami IV]

Assuming Norway isn't Catholic, I would tell you to annex them, but that's a lot of land to manage.

If Tver doesn't hate you, you should try to vassalize them and then annex / integrate. If they do, crush them / leave them alone for now.

Befriend Denmark?

Hungary is still your buffer against the Turks, but I don't think it'll last long against those rebels.

Befriend Crimea?

[Vami IV]

As the game was free a while ago, this is so far the lovechild of my experiences in EUIV:
http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc ... 248D71D97/
I had other provinces renamed (Like "Mani" was renamed to "Mami"), but I never took a screenie.
I was also a complete greenhorn so I was continuing from where the Spanish Empire tutorial left me (this gave me LOTS of problems with colonial nations or the huge ass native Aztec and Friends that constantly revolted. Also, no country ever fought back in a war so they would just have bands of badass pagan rebels siege-ing shit and then rebuilding the empires that I destroyed like the year before .)

[tahthing]

I am not good at making friends.


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Savoy -> Sardinia Piedmont is quite fun, though you do kinda need to suck-up to france. Went diplomatic so have 7 relations slots, really nice for my vassal-feeding fetish.

[Natalya]

You should have allied with the Livonian master race.

[Vami IV]

You should have allied with the Livonian master race.

nah man Knights Hospitaller is where its at.

[Vami IV]

Double post.
We should all get together and play EUIV. It would be badass.

[tahthing]

Multiplayer would be pretty cool. Not played multiplayer so would be interesting.

Also knights aren't a thing anymore, i kinda gave them to sicily as it's their core. Interestingly got an event that gave the option to give it back to the knights, had some nice benefits to give it back but given the pope hates my guts most of them were worthless.


Something you don't see everyday;

[Zupponn]

Ha. I remember in EU3 France would just be like, "Well, sorry vassals, you're France now."

And then there was the time France took over Sweden through a royal marriage. That was horrible...

[Duerer]

Been fooling around with El Dorado's Nation Designer a bit. Might do something bigger, if I got more time.

[Duerer]

K, I might do a map of BW factions for EU4. However, I need to add factions right at the beginning of the game, if they want to border each other. Thus it would be beneficial, if you could tell me, what National ideas, cultures, governments etc. I should include.

This game world will be mostly based on that Europe Map, I've been working on, for a while.

[lawmaster]

Bought the game today, any tips?

[Duerer]

Bought the game today, any tips?

Depends on the country, you're playing.
If you play as Denmark, for example, you have to keep Sweden and Norway as the lesser partners of your Personal Unions for like 50 years. Then, you could annex them and form Scandinavia.
As Poland, on the other hand, ally yourself with Lithuania asap and get them to be the lesser partner of a PU (the Poles got a national decision for that one). Poland starts without a king, that could do basic stuff like declaring wars and conquering provinces, which you'll need for dealing with both, the Teutonic and Livonian Orders, if you want to expand and form the Commonwealth, later on.