Europa Universalis IV

**Hooahguy** · 03-31-2014, 06:07

So, I have finally completed my first EU4 game, after many many hours (20 in the past week which is a lot for me). I started out as little ol' Norway where I was a subject of the Kingdom of Denmark. Then I broke away in a bloody war. Then I got strong enough to annex Denmark. Then I took over Sweden. Then I created the mighty Scandinavian nation. I then colonized the eastern seaboard of the united states, whch is now New Norway and Vinland. I then took over Britain and Ireland, absorbing the Thirteen Colonies and Newfoundland. Then I got a foothold in mainland europe where I spent 120 years conquering from northern Germany down to the Netherlands, upsetting giants such as Poland, France, and most importantly, the Holy Roman Empire. It was probably one of the greatest gaming experiences ever, after the Mass Effect games of course. Gahhh now I dont know what to try next, maybe Ill create Prussia and take over the HRE. as you can tell I have a lot of time on my hands sometimes. 20 of the past 35 hours was in the past week. I should be ashamed, but I just dont tell anyone or when I do I tell them its a geography simulator.

Anyways, here are some pics!

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And here is a map of the world. Warning: lots of border gore.

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Also is there anyway to copy the country history into a word document or something? Mines pretty long and I like to read about my exploits...

**naut** · 04-10-2014, 02:31

Norway is an interesting choice to make Scandinavia! I did it with Sweden. And because Russia never formed I stretched from the North Sea well into Alaska! Great game!

Maybe try a different area of the map? Japan or Oman are good fun, especially if you can Westernise. In Europe forming France is enjoyable because the Great Blue Blob is just such a formidable base once you get all your cultural lands. Portugal is also a good one too, although maybe a little too similar to Norwegian game-style. Another really good one is Morocco, rush to colonise all of Africa and use your navy to prevent Portugal/Spain from getting a North African foothold.

Or you could go with a minor. My most recent attempt was forming the Netherlands with Gelre. Very hard though.

**Hooahguy** · 04-11-2014, 22:46

Ive actually been playing as Brandenburg. Started out small, then eventually went on to form Germany. Wanted to form Prussia first but the Polish/Commonwealth were my allies and were helping me take over rival nations, so I didnt want to bother them just yet. Now that Im pretty advanced in the game its getting a bit easy, as my troops kinda roll over everything (that +20% infantry combat ability and discipline is incredible!). Im now the HRE emperor and Im trying to form the HRE as a unified nation, while I deal with internal politics.

For my next game I think I might try the Ottomans...

**Hooahguy** · 05-30-2014, 21:13

So if you havent been following, patch 1.6 has been released and oh boy what a storm of hatred. Rebels have been made much much stronger so it basically broke everyones game and basically made minor nations unplayable, as they would have 30k armies rise up with good troops which are almost impossible to beat early on. So of course they are patching it but we will see what that will do. Holding out on playing Wealth of Nations DLC until this is resolved, either through hotfix or mod.

**Greyblades** · 05-30-2014, 21:25

yeah, apparantly that was fixed like 6 hours ago

**Hax** · 05-31-2014, 03:25

Playing as Poland, formed the Commonwealth, completely wrecked Crimea and took their provinces, and I just won a very costly trade war against Muscovy. I had a 50k+ army that has been reduced to around 14k, and most of them just through attrition.

It's 4.25 AM here, so it's time I go to bed, but I can't remember the last time that a game grabbed me so strongly.

**GenosseGeneral** · 05-31-2014, 12:19

It is on sale at Steam and my bank account looks like I can afford spending some money on games this month. Are there any must-have add-ons/DLCs? Most of the DLC looks like eyecandy to me, how about the 2 expansions?
I do not want to repeat the mistake I made with Civ 5, which was getting on only G&K and BNW because I was too cheap.