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I've been enjoying CK2 but not been so into the focus on lineage/inheritance, and EU4 is -75% on Steam, so goodbye money goodbye life! Any suggestion on the best bundle to pick up? The OP makes it seem like the Starter Bundle (Art of War, Common Sense, Rights of Man) is the obvious choice, but it's also 4 years old by this point so wondered if there was anything more modern that's absolutely necessary to grab
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Various Meat Products posted:Patch comes out on the 25th, in case anyone missed it This is my first EU4 patch - am I best off trying to finish off any 1.33 saves I've got going before it drops?
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Aug 15, 2022 12:17
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I'll probably still try and get it to a satisfying finish before the patch, it'd be fun to start a new one when the patch drops and I'm already mid-late 1600s
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Aug 15, 2022 13:47
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Poil posted:Trip report. None of my allies were willing to join except the Papal States but I went ahead anyway to see how it would go. I had my entire 100% professionalism army sitting just outside of Ulster to get the British to cross and as soon as they did and had their movement locked I went in to defend as all of theirs piled in as well. With their strait crossing into a woodland province with a fort I managed to not get stackwiped at least. Such a slaughter. Afterwards they just zoomed across the island and obliterated my armies before they could even group up again. It took me a number of attempts to get a game in Ireland going properly. That first war against England is an absolute killer and pretty much determines if you're going to live or die - if you can win it, you're set and can beat them in any future wars.
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Aug 17, 2022 16:22
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I mean, they're currently getting a fiver a month out of me for the DLC subscription - that humble bundle needs to come back around so I can catch up
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Aug 29, 2022 11:02
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Firebatgyro posted:# Units I'm definitely going to have to prioritise getting a fat spy network on enemies now, goddamn
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Sep 7, 2022 14:50
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canepazzo posted:Yeah that's what I meant, if you're landlocked do you get the penalty no matter what? Presumably not, that'd be incredibly cruel
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Sep 12, 2022 20:39
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AI naval invasions are absolutely better in the current patch - you can spend about 5 minutes playing as an Irish OPM with a couple of mainland European allies to know that
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Sep 26, 2022 18:14
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Yeah, I need a really good reason to not pick Mil
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Sep 30, 2022 06:23
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Groke posted:They changed in in 1.34 and really the previous way made no sense at all, conjuring up fully-settled and productive provinces out of someone's hunting grounds where nobody was living permanently at all... It made new world poo poo exceptionally easy
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Oct 24, 2022 09:51
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I always love rinsing allies for subject cores using favours, never not hilarious
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Feb 13, 2023 12:09
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On a similar note (they cast eu4 together), I like TheRedHawk
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Mar 20, 2023 19:37
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Groke posted:What I like about his videos is he will make mistakes and have horrible poo poo happen, and just roll with the pain. I dread to think how many hours he flushes on failed runs where he's given himself way too much to do, especially when trying to break free as a vassal of a huge powerhouse
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Mar 21, 2023 13:16
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Badger of Basra posted:My personal EU5 wish is fewer provinces. There are way too many, especially ones that are IRL so not-notable they don’t even have Wikipedia pages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5dmxBUbzBU Rynoto posted:Speed 5 with regular pauses is the true path to warring. This is the way
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Mar 21, 2023 19:18
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CommonShore posted:rofl I think Red Hawk's video today is probably the strongest evidence to date that he doesn't cheat  absolutely flawless
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Mar 24, 2023 16:45
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Playing the Angevins is fun once you reach the point where AE is just a number, because goddamn does the HRE hate me now
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Apr 19, 2023 00:49
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Sheep posted:Are the Union parliamentary acts only doable via first pressing the decision button? Yeah, as far as I can tell. I had the same issue, I'd let them get to 28 provinces and it sucked. I ended up having to release a couple of nations that still had cores on French territory and then use favours to return cores. Somehow still quicker to farm a couple hundred favours than the 40+ years to integrate Mooseontheloose posted:Laith is that you? Pfft, as if I'd be someone who did videos about Hogfarts Legacy
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Apr 19, 2023 10:05
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Pop out a vassal with cores on both your territory and theirs and use favours to ask for them back
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Apr 21, 2023 11:33
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Jay Rust posted:France is already my PU. Can you get favours with a junior partner? Yeah you get favours pretty fast in my experience. This is how I fixed France having 28 provinces pre-nerf in my current Angevin playthrough
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Apr 21, 2023 19:20
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The worst part about the HYW is hoping the War of the Roses doesn't fire at the same time
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Apr 21, 2023 21:57
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DJ_Mindboggler posted:If I'm reading this right France is your Vassal. I'm pretty sure you can just seize individual border provinces in exchange for Liberty Desire. You don't get to do that if they're a junior partner in a PU (which France almost certainly is, the HYW CB makes them one)
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Apr 22, 2023 15:28
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Detheros posted:
It really really is, having seen multiple guides suggesting moving your capital to avoid it, I couldn’t be arsed this time as England > Angevin and it’s a cakewalk. Leave a couple of stacks in northern France/the lowlands and go on your merry way
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Jun 23, 2023 11:07
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cheetah7071 posted:it is a bit disappointing that a disaster whose real-world equivalent is called "the eighty years war" is so underwhelming The Twenty Years Mild Inconvenience
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Jun 24, 2023 06:40
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Detheros posted:Greece game going well. Noted old colonial power Brazil
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Aug 1, 2023 09:17
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Once you're the undisputed #1 great power, how's best to convert that into an actual world conquest? I've revoked as the Angevin Empire and have pretty much the entire of Europe as my vassal, but I'm really struggling with the diplo point requirements from unjustified demands. I thought the general advice was to use the Holy War CB but I'm finding that crippling. Is there a different CB I should be using?
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Aug 22, 2023 13:33
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canepazzo posted:What's crippling about Holy War? Especially with the vassal swarm you should be breezing any war. Otherwise you need Diplo tech 23 for imperialism. It's not about fighting the war, absolutely no-one can stop me even ignoring my vassal swarm. The problem is that taking provinces, vassalising or feeding vassals is costing a fortune in diplo points. I'm at -900 or something stupid.
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Aug 22, 2023 16:09
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Groke posted:With the Deus Vult CB, you pay 0 diplo points for anything you take from the primary war target. You will have to pay for unjustified demands if you take something from their allies though, so do that only sparingly (you can afford a bit, just don't go overboard). Alright this makes sense, I think I've been getting screwed over by co-belligerenting allies and taking their provinces. I tested just taking the primary target's stuff and yeah, no diplo cost. That's a frustrating loss of time and diplo points that I might not recover from
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Aug 22, 2023 16:37
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canepazzo posted:At that point in time you'll get the dip back in 4-5 years, I wouldn't worry. It's not like being behind in diplo tech will screw you, and you're not integrating or annexing anyone anytime soon anyway. It’s more a race against the 100 years left on the clock, though that said I do have control of the whole new world already which from what I understand is the hardest part (thanks Portugal/Spain!)
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Aug 22, 2023 16:44
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canepazzo posted:If there is 100 years left you should have the imperialism CB already, no? I'm a diplo tech short because I've been taking so much stuff through unjustified demands  Jay Rust posted:Can you demand things that cost diplo points in a peace deal if you're already in negative diplo points? Yep! As long as it wouldn't put you below -999 its fair game
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Aug 22, 2023 19:25
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THE BAR posted:Didn't even know there was a negative cap. That sounds rough. Have you reached India/SEA? You might have to sit and recuperate those points to get diplo 23, but I don't envy taking all those stupid Oceania islands with less than 100 years left. Yeah, I'm currently at war with Delhi. It'll be a race for sure 
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Aug 23, 2023 14:06
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Ah well, at least all the YouTube guide makers can get another video out
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Sep 27, 2023 19:00
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I feel like the game has gotten better at giving you a regional and world end boss to take on, but also you only ever get one satisfying war against them, because win that and they're not a challenge any more
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Oct 1, 2023 15:59
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Groke posted:You can still progress in your mission tree if you just dismantle the drat thing instead, I believe? You can, but if you're playing as the Angevins it'll lock you out of the Brentry achievement
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Oct 12, 2023 01:42
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OctaviusBeaver posted:I'm thinking about trying the DLC subscription for a month on Steam. Is that the type where you cancel right after subscribing and it lets you keep it for the rest of the month? I don't want to have to remember to cancel before the deadline. Yeah, this should work. Careful though, I found I really liked EU4 with the subscription and couldn't go back
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Oct 13, 2023 17:20
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Magissima posted:https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/europa-universalis-iv-king-of-kings-recap-1-36-free-qol-features-new-monuments.1602564/ drat, these are some great QoL changes
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Oct 17, 2023 18:55
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atvrager posted:Yeah, HRE provinces can't be in a TC. There was something with it you used to be able to cheese with the add all button, but I believe that got patched out a while back. Yeah, you'd be able to stack a huge amount of imperial authority by repeatedly TCing and HREing provinces, leading to incredibly fast revokes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm6mC3SGQ6U
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Nov 12, 2023 19:42
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Jazerus posted:eu4 becomes a slog at the exact moment when you start to feel that declaring war on spain is your best option Yup this is exactly where I get bored too
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Dec 31, 2023 13:30
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I see the EU4 DLC subscription price has been bumped up in price
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Jan 16, 2024 22:00
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Is it still really labor-intensive to do a full world conquest? I'd like to try it sometime since I've conquered half the world many times but never got close to a WC. Pretty much, though it's less awful if you do it with an HRE revoke
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The Paradox Tinto (EU4) studio manager is starting to get feedback on <unannounced game> You've got to imagine this basically has to be a soft announcement of EU5.
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