Hello /int/ i decided to do long play of EU4 Ironman today, so

Brandenburg -> Prussia lad

Play as Sweden, goal is to assemble the Kalmar union and then go full tredje rike on Europe.

I don't know, I only play Transylvania

rebuild roman empire in CK2 -> import to EU4 -> Take over the world

Italian medium/large sized state
Get some clay in morocco or something and use it as a base to colonize the Americas early
Alternatively get clay in Egypt and Colonise SEA from there
Form Italy if possible
Clain the throne of Spain and make the Siesta empire

>>70747982
Who would be best Italian minor to start with? I know Venice is biggest also Genoa gets claims in to Granada and other cool places.

>>70748197
noooo idea senpai, I don't even know how Italian states play, Genoa ended up as a colonial powerhouse in my last game though. Inspired me to try some Italian minor next. Some of them are republics though so no royal families or Siesta union.
Maybe Naples?

>>70747172
>starting as a junior partner in a personal union

>>70748197
Florence is interesting but you might get excommunicated and fucked. Savoy is the strongest by far and can ally France or Austria

>>70747055
>>>/vg/167299819

>>70747055
papal state and help Austria to create HRE

Portugal.

Colonize the whole African continent and India, liberate Galicia and keep Aragon and Castille separated.

>>70748488

Sweden is quite strong and usually gets independent quite early in the game.

Which German minor state is best for colonialisation?

>>70748553
I tried Both Milan and Florence and i conquered all of Italy except Papal State and he was allied with both France and Austria and they pretty much gang raped me.

>>70748668
hansa

>>70748553
Meiou is the best mod to play as Italian.

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>>70747055
form the Netherlands and colonize the world

>>70748668
Netherlands :^)

Play as Vietnam and take china over.
End game is ruling all slant eyes including finns.

russia is babbymode
so is france, brandenbug, poland, ottomans, ming and a bunch of others

Try Manchu and form Qing.

Some of my favorites are Qara Qoyunlu into Persia

Caddo

Ternate

Mutapa

Also you can't play as Finland because they don't exist in 1444 and subjects can't release subjects.

>>70748663
not when i play denmark they don't

>>70748775
;^)

>>70748697
been there done that

>>70748919
you just stack boats in the straight and its over you fucking DIRTY DANE DOG.

>>70748919
Try going online, everyone and their grandma will be on your ass by 1450.

The best Denmark strat is still to attack East Frisia ASAP, call Pomerania into the war and take both COTs.

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>>70747055
Genoa, Brandenburg, Holland and the palentine are my personal favorites

I suck at this game, I keep taking loans and failing to repay them
any advice

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r8 my campaign

>>70749106
1. Trade is god. Dominate a node first thing you do.
2. Kill everyone
3. ?????
4. Progress

Conquer and play as a nation with chile before 1500 then dominate south america and iberians

>>70749274
Cusco is the only viable nation in south america

>>70749183
Gosh anon you are pretty kind to actually give advice I was mostly joking there

>>70749331
I'm just glad to be able to talk about this game, it's softbanned on /gsg/.

>>70749298
First play with portugal or castilla to colonize chile then release as a nation. you can made it before reformist/protestant religions, its western with the same idea and technologies.
same for USA

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>>70749011
>>70749046

>junior partner

>>70749560
>Declare war
>New 6/6/6 king

Enjoy your 3/3/2 trash and low tier national ideas

>>70749106
great powers have the ability to repay your loans

>>70749411
What do you think of the new banner-mechanik for manchu?
I personally love it, then I can finally make my MP asia game with my fellow EU4 autist friend

Stop playing faggot and let's go fight niggers and leftist

>>70749739
After you Perkele.

Why do people like blobbing so much?
Playing tall feels so much more rewarding, for me at least

fucking manchildren lmao

>>70750021
you can't play tall in eu4, there is nothing to do

>>70749106
If there are small nations around you, declare war on them and clean out their treasury.

>>70749136
You shouldn't have let Great Britain form.

>>70747055
>Paradox games post Vicky 2
I don't like paying 100+ dollars to play the full game desu

>>70749702
Hate it. Hate the nerfed hordes too. Manchu has been ruined ever since they removed the ability to stack religious modifiers, you could shift between tons of religions and gain amazing boosts.

>>70750060
Every single Dutch anon is a notorious shitposter

>>70750337
You can take their gold without annexing everything
>>70750305
Colonize, fight in coalitions, vasselize nations expand a bit but not like in the super euro-blobs I see everywhere

>>70750487
Canadians and the Dutch, we're making progress in isolating the Faggot gene.

>>70750532
I like high-intensity blobbing. then again I usually stop playing around 1494 because by then I've dominated all my rivals and the rest of the game is just watching numbers change

>>70749106
Stop being so meta

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r8 my North American colonial partition

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post your blobs

>>70748197
Genoa is my personal favorite for the reasons that you mentioned.
Managed to form Italy in 1520 with only a few (small) coalitions, and by then I had my stinky Italian fingers in Granada, Ragusa, Constantinople and Alexandria.

>>70750648
>UK steals France's trade via Cheskapeke Bay
>Sends it into Canadian France
>Which then sends it to the English Channel

What in the absolute fuck have you done

>>70750728
Don't you start in crimea?

>>70750778
Same-continent coring and then moving his capital probably.

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>>70750778
yes

>>70750778
I don't know what his starting strat was but I managed to no-CB East Frisia and put myself in the empire as catholic Theodoro.
Fuck Crimea

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>>70750728
Can your eyes behold the beauty?

>>70750879
you can see by my client states (Ukraine, Greater Armenia) that I just slowly and steadily blobbed towards Europe

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>>70750728

>>70750940
That was my first guess.
Good on you, every time I blob past Poland I feel a level of disgust and release client states as well.

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>>70750981
Suffer not a Poland to exist

lmao go get laid nerds!

>>70747055
I want to get into this game but I can't be fucked to learn the trade mechanics, and I imagine that's pretty essential since trade is like the biggest source of money

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>>70750938
noice, did you manage to do Ryukyu WC?

>>70750954
check out my WielkoKrakowiums

>>70750577
I guess you like the competitive aspect of gsg, I'm more of a roleplayer :3
no bully

>>70751029
>Can't learn the simplest, most babby of Paradox games

Basically, you direct money towards the place that you have the most trade power in, where you then collect the cash that's flowing through that node.

>>70751055
I can't even remember last time I played a GS game for the gameplay, RP is all that keeps them from being the same shit over and over

>>70751046
>noice, did you manage to do Ryukyu WC?

Nah, I got so insanely bored dismantling Europe that I quit. It was a lot of fun until then, especially dominating Persia.

>>70751029
Ignore >>70751126 and learn which nodes are good for collecting and which are good for transferring. Just look up a guide you-know-where

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what I'm most proud of. However fucking Poland and Austria killed me later on. The commonwealth in too powerful

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also r8 my ethnic cleansing

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>>70747055
Rate my Europe /int/

>>70751155
The gameplay is everything to me. The variety in alliances and constant patches means history rarely repeats itself.

>>70751210
It's really bad >:(

>>70751046
If this were hpm you could have actually formed poland

>>70751196
That's really impressive, how did you manage it? Did you cheat?

>>70751185
i really like TYW in EU4, makes mid-game in Europe more interesting, especially if you've started as a minor and want to just survive the meatgrinder

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>>70751185
and this. Pissed that I learned afterwords that there was an achievement I just missed. I've never been anyway never is I was in this round. I doesn't even survive the first 10 years anymore

>>70751231
>If this were hpm you could have actually formed poland
I don't play mods that make the game too easy.
Also, I only missed 2 provinces to form the PLC, but Germaniums in that game was too strong and France completely useless.

>>70751265
What do you mean ? Early expansion is fairly easy for France vs Belgium and Spain. And Prussia is a piece of cake when you have Russia as an ally since they'll send 3/4 of their troops on the eastern side.

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>>70751229
You haven't seen anything yet son.

>>70747225
It's too easy to conquer whole Europe if you start in one of the earliest dates in CK2. You literally can start as OPM pagan country and still conquer whole Europe

Any ideas how i can acchieve catholic muscovites?

>>70751282
Sometimes I like it and sometimes I don't. Fucking AI doing stupid shit

>>70747055
Nepal, unite the whole India.

Great Horde, form Golden Horde and recreate the Mongolian Empire

As Daimyo unite Japan, focus on colonization and be rival for European in Americas.

>>70751432
1. blob into poland/lithuania/baltics/sweden
2. get some religious rebels, let them capture and convert provinces
3. wait till they convert more than half of your country
4. switch religion

also, you may also try just moving your capital to a catholic province and then trying to convert, but i don't remember if this works in eu4

>>70751432
Conquer west with Muscovy until you have more caths than orths or play as literally anyone and form Russia.

>>70751592
>>70751600
yeah but how can i fight against poland + lithuania or scandinavia if i havent blobbed too much already (which would make the conversion pretty much impossible)?

>>70751637
if you take novgorod and other russian minors (which you should have anyways), then you should be strong enough to take poland + lithuania alone with some good tactics and planning

get some strong ally, attack when they are busy in another war

also, you start with a 4 shock general, that's a massive advantage

>>70751717
hmm alright i will try.
and how do i get a 4 shock general?
from the nobel estate?

>>70751757
you start with one as muscovy

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>>70751907
hows my reich so far?

>>70751388
I think he refers to your iteration of Alsace and Brittany

>>70751999
>02/03/17(Fri)12:14:45 No.70751999
I fucked up by doing extremely costly war with ottomans that fucked me up economically, should have blobbed africa/new world next time.

>>70751999
oh shit nigga, why aren't you colonizing? did you spend last 100 years conquering sand in north africa?

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>>70751377
yeah I know that but about how well you ethnically cleansed

>>70752240
when you start cleansing in 1870, it isnt surprising.

>>70751999
you going for restore rome achievement?

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R8 no hate.

>>70752627
Allahu akbar

>>70751424
But it takes time.

>>70752627
>Hindustan
I know it's a historical name, but I still giggle.

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r8, im close to jihading Sweden and converting Stockholm to Sunni mashallah

>>70754215
Aside from Kola, beautiful Norwegiums

>>70752627
Your shekel game is too strong, I unified India as Ceylon and I only make like 200+ a month.

>>70754215
>jihading

A true tatar horde should be Tengri, with Sunni as syncretism.

>>70757933
Theres no Tatar tengris in that game.