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Jazerus
May 24, 2011


England. While it's hard to lose completely, it's deceptively tricky/expensive to maintain a powerful presence in continental Europe while also being an imperialist jerk around the world.

Also, please don't use timg. Reading a Paradox LP is really a pain if you have to click on every screenshot.

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Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Fister Roboto posted:

I'm looking forward to this being more or less obsolete in a month.

In any case, the Ottomans are generally agreed upon to be the best starter nation. Please do that. To be honest, if you really want this to be a guide, I'm not sure why that's even up for a vote.

Any of the listed nations other than Venice and Poland are perfectly appropriate for a guide :shrug:

The Ottomans are not any better or worse for a new player than the others.

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Yeah, I meant you should put up images resized to a forums-friendly size. This is often done by cropping out irrelevant parts of the screen for whatever you are showing. Full-size is too big.

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


thetruegentleman posted:

This vote is kind of a catch-22: only people who have already played a fair amount of EU4 are likely to vote, but they probably don't remember what new players are actually looking for. New players might be watching the vote, but they wouldn't want to risk voting for a country that isn't fun, since nobody likes a boring LP, even if the end result is playing as a complicated country that dissuades them from playing.

Sweden isn't really hard to play when compared to the minor states (like Aragon and Scotland), but it requires an early finesse that makes it an awkward choice at best. Venice is...an odd duck.

Other than breaking the Kalmar Union Sweden is pretty similar to England, which has to deal with an early war with France anyway. Potentially you're even in a better position to colonize really early, if you take Iceland from Norway. It's not really that awkward unless you're comparing to the Ottomans or Portugal.

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