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Demon_Corsair posted:In the last 24 hours I have gotten a river crossing penalty while sitting on a fort trying to take it and getting attacked, as well at as attacking someone sitting on my fort trying to take it. I am 99.99% sure it's impossible for the defender to ever have a river crossing penalty. If you got one when attacking someone sieging your fort, the most likely explanation is that they had taken the fort without you noticing. This happens to me sometimes that the siege will end while I'm in the process of moving to break it.
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IceG posted:Thanks for the tips about the fun countries to try. I will definitely check out a guide before I start another Mali run that's for sure. Tbh during the middle of the game, the best options for dealing with the Ottomans are either to chip away at them while they're involved in other major wars and just take 20-40 warscore peace deals, or spend several years getting favours with all of their enemies and starting a horrible hellwar. Or both, preferably. If you're playing as Ethiopia (or any other large-ish Mamluk adjacent country), what you can also do is ally the Ottomans when you're fighting the Mamluks and just repeatedly declare wars on the Mamluks and call the Ottomans in every time. This way you can decide who gets what land in the peace deals, you can assign all the land to yourself, and Ottomans will always have a truce with the Mamluks and they won't be able to expand into the Levant and Egypt and become gigantic. If you're coptic, you can also normally use this strategy to pick up a Syrian province from the Mamluks, release Syria as a vassal, convert it to coptic and then use the favours system to get the Ottomans to gradually return all the Syrian cores, including the coptic holy site in Antioch.
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Red Bones posted:Tbh during the middle of the game, the best options for dealing with the Ottomans are either to chip away at them while they're involved in other major wars and just take 20-40 warscore peace deals, or spend several years getting favours with all of their enemies and starting a horrible hellwar. Or both, preferably. This is effective, but it does add a tragic element to your campaign as you eventually turn on your trusted ally and strip bits off of them over the course of several wars with their most hated enemies, all to get a sweet cheevo when you take Constantinople.
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That favor tactic of getting allies to return cores is crazy, I guess that was part of the new dlc? My tactic was having unbelievable luck in the reformation war where the ottomans were fully occupied by Austria and friends. This made them bankrupt and easy pickings, even though I had to make sure the war was finished by the time the debuff wore off as they still outnumbered me 4-1. Hopefully they are in a death spiral now as Morea, Albania and a few opms have appeared from nowhere. The only small worry is they can coalition me now even though I am half their size :/
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Lmao in my current France game I nearly got the 10 PU cheevo and then I inherited 2 of them at once 
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So Anbennar's magic system just got a big fat overhaul and cleaning up. It's absolutely nuts what they have gotten this game to do.
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Rynoto posted:So Anbennar's magic system just got a big fat overhaul and cleaning up. The folks they have doing their UI work are, ironically, doing enough black magic to be considered Witch Kings. This one, the Expeditions interface in the Dwarovar, the Raj menu...
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There's a new Sunday EU4 multiplayer on the discord if anyone wants to join. European minors only.
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Sri.Theo posted:There's a new Sunday EU4 multiplayer on the discord if anyone wants to join. European minors only. That's age discrimination.
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Sri.Theo posted:There's a new Sunday EU4 multiplayer on the discord if anyone wants to join. European minors only. Oh the mods are organizing a game?
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Torrannor posted:That's age discrimination. If you’re gonna read it like that there’s a much worse type of discrimination going on there
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Wafflecopper posted:If you’re gonna read it like that there’s a much worse type of discrimination going on there I didn't know the appropriate word. Geographic discrimination? Sounds too tame to me.
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Rynoto posted:So Anbennar's magic system just got a big fat overhaul and cleaning up. Dear Lord that’s amazing. I loathe programming UIs and admire anyone who can do a decent job.
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To add a bit more detail to our upcoming game on Sunday: We're Mapgoons (https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3973361), a discord community of people who play Paradox games (and now other games, including Football Manager, Elden Ring, Total War, whatever.) The link to our discord is in that post. We're starting a new eu4 game on 1.32 patch vanilla where we will be playing as small nations in Europe only. This won't be a huge game with dozens of players which is why we are limiting the starting area. There is a prize of cider to be raffled out when the game concludes. It's a great game to get started playing multiplayer eu4 with because minor nation games tend to be a bit more chilled out and co-operative, at least in the beginning, and we are always on the lookout to invite new cool people to the community. We will play 7pm UTC on Sundays for 4 hours. Hop into the discord and say hello in the sunday-eu4-7pm-utc channel to join up.
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 for (I think) everything except for Origins. https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1506692542556909571?s=20&t=lsIhR7oAkWS90H-5cZ1uOg
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Are there any decent youtubers who play vanilla EU4 without ridiculous clickbait titles? I follow a couple of Anbennar content already but I'd be interested to see what vanilla looks like nowadays. I did find an interesting-looking series where the guy plays every country A to Z but the video titles are clickbait as hell which makes me not actually want to click them, a mildly amusing irony.
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Ibblebibble posted:Are there any decent youtubers who play vanilla EU4 without ridiculous clickbait titles? Lmao, no
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Ibblebibble posted:Are there any decent youtubers who play vanilla EU4 without ridiculous clickbait titles? I follow a couple of Anbennar content already but I'd be interested to see what vanilla looks like nowadays. I did find an interesting-looking series where the guy plays every country A to Z but the video titles are clickbait as hell which makes me not actually want to click them, a mildly amusing irony. Unfortunately, The Algorithm is a soulless god to which all who produce YouTube content must make obeisance.
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That dude is making a point of coming up with wacky amusing goals for each nation, though. Entertaining.
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Groke posted:That dude is making a point of coming up with wacky amusing goals for each nation, though. Entertaining. Fair, I might give one of his videos to watch to see how he actually is before I judge from the titles.
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Twitch is vastly better than youtube if you want to just see games with someone fun commentating, but I get that goons are all old fuckers who have Opinions about twitch. I won't even post suggestions, you can just go to twitch, type "Europa Universalis IV," and find someone you like. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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Nothing wrong with, some, twitch streamers.Ibblebibble posted:but the video titles are clickbait as hell which makes me not actually want to click them, a mildly amusing irony. 
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Ibblebibble posted:Are there any decent youtubers who play vanilla EU4 without ridiculous clickbait titles? I follow a couple of Anbennar content already but I'd be interested to see what vanilla looks like nowadays. I did find an interesting-looking series where the guy plays every country A to Z but the video titles are clickbait as hell which makes me not actually want to click them, a mildly amusing irony. Florryworry streams on Twitch is the best I've seen. Ludi et Historia is the only one really doing it right now on YouTube.
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Ibblebibble posted:Are there any decent youtubers who play vanilla EU4 without ridiculous clickbait titles? I follow a couple of Anbennar content already but I'd be interested to see what vanilla looks like nowadays. I did find an interesting-looking series where the guy plays every country A to Z but the video titles are clickbait as hell which makes me not actually want to click them, a mildly amusing irony.
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Poil posted:Nothing wrong with, some, twitch streamers. As opposed to youtube, where it doesn't matter what you're watching, if you fall asleep you're waking up to Why SJews Have Cucked Thing I Like, part 4/17 Also MordredViking on twitch does regular Anbennar runs.
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Terrible Opinions posted:Who was the Anbennar video makers? I follow Poiuymew, decent game knowledge and his voice doesn't want me to tear my hair out.
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The Red Hawk posts fairly basic guides that are free of the usual 4chan-style crap Ludi et Historia drives me up the wall with his meme-y 4chan patter and ridiculous RNG-dependent strategies
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the official paradox forums has a stickied thread reminding eu4 posters to not use "kebab" as an anti muslim slur, and it has hundreds of downvotes finding non 4chan meme poisoned garbage humans in the eu4 community is close to impossible and that goes double for those of them that choose to become youtubers
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Randallteal posted:This is effective, but it does add a tragic element to your campaign as you eventually turn on your trusted ally and strip bits off of them over the course of several wars with their most hated enemies, all to get a sweet cheevo when you take Constantinople. Is there a way to make the Ottos like you, though? In all my Ethiopia games they ignored me until the borders got close, and then promptly rivaled me.
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Or you could watch bewaretheblobber on twitch and the most annoying thing will be he loves his doggo too much while doing incredible achievement speedruns
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Anno posted:
I wish there was an easy way to tell what's different between the bundles. I have quite a lot of DLC already and don't want to double buy more than necessary.
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Groke posted:That dude is making a point of coming up with wacky amusing goals for each nation, though. Entertaining. I love when he relentlessly attacks old war criminals' names and facial features. "Ol' Stalin-Balin" is hilarious, but I'm a simple person.
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Sephyr posted:Is there a way to make the Ottos like you, though? In all my Ethiopia games they ignored me until the borders got close, and then promptly rivaled me. It's definitely possible but it's been long enough that I can't remember if there's a specific trick to it other than rivaling their rivals, allying thsir allies, improving relations and bribes. Timing is probably really important. Exploiting the gold mines in east Africa and maybe capturing and deving the mines in Mutapa could help you build a strong enough army to capture the Ottomans' interest before they eat through the Mamluks and turn hostile. It's a bit high risk but getting an Ottoman ally makes everything easier so worth it IMO.
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Anno posted:
This is a really good deal. I was missing the two most recent gameplay expansions and a bunch of cosmetic odds and ends and now I'm completely current for around $34. It has a 10% off coupon for Origins and then there was one new music pack released a week ago.
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Is “bird mana” and its ilk from 4chan?
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Lum_ posted:The Red Hawk posts fairly basic guides that are free of the usual 4chan-style crap Funnily enough Red Hawk was the one who I was talking about with the A to Z series with the clickbaity titles. I watched the first one, I don't hate his style so I guess I'll keep watching.
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Jay Rust posted:Is “bird mana” and its ilk from 4chan? it's what everyone on earth who isn't a crochety ancient goon says, practically nobody goes to loving 4chan in TYOOL 2022. My cousin turned soon to be large adult son from bumfuck altay kray Russia plays EU4 with me and talks about paper, bird, and mil mana and it's not because he's secretly lurking nazi forums. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Mar 25, 2022 |
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