#EU4

[i-am-dulaman]

Decided to start collecting out of context post titles from PDX games and

[your-stepfather]

[elbiotipo]

Something about Paradox fans, especially in the Europa Universalis 4 community, being utterly obsessed with Rome and Byzantium. Europa Universalis is supposed to be a game about the rennaisance, the era of European imperialism, the rise of the Ottoman empire, the colonization of America, and the start of global geopolitics and trade, lots of things happening all over the globe, but you go to the forums and it's all BYZANTIUM ROME LEGIONS THEME SYSTEM BYZANTIUM BYZANTINES ROME

Which makes it even more curious is that the fall of Byzantium was usually set in historiography as the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Early Modern era. So instead of playing and learning about a period of tectonic social changes such as the Rennaisance and the age of imperialism, they just want to keep playing their Middle Ages fantasy which is actually an Ancient Rome fantasy, I don't know.

Anyways, Byzantium was if like the Romans sucked.

[nabokovsshedevr]

me and the boy who plays eu4

[homosexualasstransbian]

wow i did not expect an austria game in eu4 to actually go well for me, however, somehow i managed to unite the HRE into one country, conquered spain and thanks to that took over their colonial nations, portugal fell under a PU with me at some point, the spanish declared a succession war when that happened, it was an easy win though, just took time.

I started out the game basically by just speedrunning getting a bohemian and austrian PU, then went for poland, while also doing diplomatic fuckery to spread the habsburgs. This led to a Swedish, Saxonian, Portugese and British PU eventually, saxony and the brits were a claim on throne war. did some conquering in poland to finish the mission that gets you a restoration of union CB on poland, it wasn't that helpful unfortunately, russia also took a lot of their lands. then after taking i think it was venice and Milan, i got the restoration of union CB on naples and did that as well :3

so there i was with 7 personal unions at once + some subjects from the HRE, the religious league war was pretty fast, catholicism won, i revoked some free cities to enforce the religion, and i was left with a HRE free from heresy, this in addition to the historical center of Prague and austrian national ideas made getting imperial authority easy, and soon enough i disallowed internal wars, making centralization of the empire even easier, yippee ;3

once i revoked the privilegia i declared a couple wars, the vassal swarm was amazing, first i took some provinces from the ottomans to finish an austrian mission that wanted me to get some serbian provinces, then spain, thanks to the way they choose how to declare wars (iirc they don't consider subjects of an overlord when declaring war on a subject of of said overlord, which gave them the amazing idea to start a colonialism war against Holland, which was my vassal, this called the entire HRE and my PUs into the war) It was fucking horrible. fighting countries that have colonial subjects is SO fucking exhausting, I've had your entire mainland occupied for >15 years and we're still only at ~40% war score because their fucking colonial subjects are untouched. horrible.

Anyways, I now own all of the HRE, most of france, all of the nordic countries, the british isles, iberia, hungary, bohemia, poland, half of Lithuania, all of Italy, morocco, 90% of the americas, australia and half of south africa.

monthly balance is at 4.5k, my manpower pool was into 3 or 4 million, I don't remember exactly, army limit was at 3 million, and navy limit at around 3k iirc, as of rn i only have 1k ships, and around 2.5m bitches in the army, and i have 155 absolutism

[da-riya]

Current game's going great

[sexerxes]

My personal headcanon when I'm playing a Paradox grand strategy mega campaign that spans multiple games, each with different concepts regarding the role of the player (like how in CK3 you're playing a character, but from EU4 onwards you're basically playing as the whole state),

*big breath* is that the player is actually playing an alien parasite throughout all of the games, possessing the body of the current head of state, but also influencing the realm through altogether other means. The goals of the player, which might only get realized through multiple millenia and through the sometimes seemingly irrational sacrifice and dedication of many rulers, are the goals of this alien. A multiplayer game involves multiple such alien factions.

Idk, I feel like this brings a sort of continuity to the whole series of games. Maybe it should be the basis for some alien themed mods.

[cilantro1]

Well that is. Something.

[smoothestjazz]

if you like grand strategy games but want a more fantasy twist, please consider Anbennar, a total conversion mod for Europa Universalis 4

Anbennar comprises of a fantasy world inspired by modern fantasy, especially with d&d influences, though the ideas are expanded much beyond the in- universe equivalent of the sword coast. The "New world" is made up off elven remnant civilizations, devastated by a massive calamity that befell them over a millenia ago. The middle east equivalent is made of the remnants of elf Alexander the great, who actually made it to India and formed a massive empire. There's a ton of cool stuff in here, and if you're into fantasy world, i really recommend you check them out.

[i-am-dulaman]

Obsessed with this line from PCGamer about the latest update for EU5

[hella-hannah-art]

My boyfriend is going to DM his first D&D game and I made a character for it! The world is of the Anbennar mod from EU4!

[grimsby-is-hell-24601]

Call me the Principality of Theodoro the way I be torn between being a goth and restoring the Byzantine Empire

[nabokovsshedevr]

hottest thing a man can do is playing eu4 instead of lol

[15millionfireflies]

"Well if you wanted my slaves and gold you should have gone after the slaves and gold. Thou shall not covet thy neighbors slaves? You ever heard of that?"

[da-riya]

There literally is nothing worse then playing for hours to form a nation just for the map color to be worse

[im-literally-just-an-olm]

Man going from Vic 3 to Eu4 and relating specifically to the ottomans is wild cause in vicky 3 you can just basically bully then out of existence as anyone and in Eu4 its a Mare Nostrum of the black sea in 1563 shits terrifying.