where you dropping, /v/?
if you wanna learn about any of the playable countries in the game, summon /his/fags ITT
I will briefly samefag to drop explainers and country examples.
>what is EU5
A strategy game in which you can play any country on earth between the years 1337 and 1836.
The series is very popular for those who wish to play through "historical periods" like the colonisation of the new world, the French Revolution, various Chinese dynasties, and so on.
You can follow history, or change it; avert or curtail the Protestant Reformation, fight back the colonisers as the Aztecs, unite Ireland and invade England, restore the Byzantine Empire, and so on.
>paradox shills
Remember that most Paradox DLCs can be gained for free through various means, all of which are incredibly easy; cream api being the most popular at the moment. If you are paying for these expansions you are a retard, EU4 has hundreds of dollars worth.
>gameplay loop?
If you're a total stranger to these games, the "gameplay loop" depends on your nation. For example, if playing Portugal you'll be trying to explore the world and set up colonies/trade posts. If you're playing France, you'll have to focus a lot on diplomacy and administration to try unify your realm. If you're over in Japan, you'll need a strong military focus to unite the island and see off threats-and so on.
The games aren't half as hard as autists like to pretend; I would consider EU4 to be the most casual friendly of all Paradox games, and the widest in scope.
>tl;dr
Pick a country, play 500 years of its history.
A very popular question is
>what is this shitshow
Most of central Europe in 1337 was in what's called the "Holy Roman Empire."
It was a decentralised Empire which was ruled by a Holy Roman Emperor-with the Emperor being chosen by a group of electors. All those tiny little nations are playable, and many have serious potential. The Holy Roman Empire (HRE) has two main types of nations;
>HRE formables
>HRE unifiers
The "formables" are nations which can later reform into larger nations that may leave or even overtake the HRE. Examples are Holland/Brabant, which can later become the Netherlands, or Brendenburg, which can later become Prussia/Germany.
The unifiers are nations like Austria, who are based around maintaining their hold on the Imperial Crown and reforming the HRE to be a more traditional "unified realm." Since you probably won't be doing much colonising, your focus will instead be on diplomacy-and religion. When the Protestant reformation hits, the HRE will fall into religious conflict-which usually erupts into massive wars.
In our timeline, the HRE ended when Napoleon defeated Emperor Francis I at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805-leading to a chain reaction of events that resulted in its dissolution. Now, you can either save it-or destroy it even sooner.
Another very popular choice will be Byzantium.
In EU4, the start date was 1444; just 10 years prior to the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. This time, you've an extra century to try get things back on track; saving Byzantium in EU4 was a hugely popular campaign, and it probably will be in EU5 too.
this shilling is getting fucking ridiculous
>>716306428 (OP)whatever this shit here is, im going to conquer the world with them
>>716306428 (OP)I hope there's good internal/tall gameplay for Japan since it starts united. I don't want to be making the East Asia Co-prosperity sphere by 1400 but I also don't want to just sit on speed 5 with nothing to do.
>>716306428 (OP)Ottomans since I'm assuming they're in a prime state to blob
>>716306428 (OP)Armenia was my favourite run in ck3 so that might be my first In eu5
>>716306428 (OP)Im always interested in the shape of england in historical games like ck3 bookmarks. So no normandy, but aquitaine.
Also why the hell is denmark is in lithuania?
>>716306428 (OP)Duchy of Auschwitz, will make sure to kill all the jews.
>>716306428 (OP)Is Ireland an easy start to learn the game like in CK?
>>716306446>cream apiOoooooooorrrr you can just pirate it and not risk your main steam account being deleted by evil gaben?
>>716309418nta, have used creamapi for years openly and my account is still fine
>>716307539Looking for that little guy was like finding Waldo.
>>716310227tomorrow in game magazines
>>716310273Wee I suppose you thought that was terribly clever.
im going to play hungary of course
>>716306428 (OP)Milan
Never forming Italy
Genoci- ehm, I mean, culturally converting the south
>>716306428 (OP)The HRE microstates should be recolored according to the Emperor.
The Kingdom of Castilla, of course.
>>716306428 (OP)For me it's Tyrone
Also
>HREI'm surprised that shit lasted as long as it did.
>>716310227Next year if we're lucky this year of we're unlucky.
Probably Poland
Like always
>>716306428 (OP)Not anything anymore from paradogs
They are dead to me
>>716306428 (OP)Unironically when is this game coming out?
And compared to EU4 how barebones will be, like CK3 on release?
>>716314602>And compared to EU4 how barebones will be, like CK3 on release?Worse, it will be like 2 on release
>>716314696optimistic considering they still havent fixed vic3 almost 3 years after release
>>716306873>>716307345not shilling, just a /his/fag who likes the period and talking history
>>716314602>And compared to EU4 how barebones will be, like CK3 on release?Do you really have to ask?
>>716306428 (OP)How did Ibadi Oman stay around despite the major superpower muslim nations being nearby throughout history?
>>716315201>>716314602CK3 wasn't barebones at release.
>>716306428 (OP)Byzantine empire then England
Same as 3 and 4. Although i wont get this till like 2030 as paradox are jews
>>716306428 (OP)Restoring the natural borders of France ofc.
>>716308768>Normandy not English, etcThis game starts *before* the 100 years war starts. My assumption is that in that event, large chunks of France will end up aligning with England.
>why the hell is denmark is in lithuaniaIn the 1200s the Pope told the King of Denmark he could have as much land as he wanted in Estonia as part of the Livonian Crusade. Thus was born the "Duchy of Estonia", which was sold by Denmark about 10 years after the start date for EU5.
>>716311226It's a very interesting time in Ireland in 1337. Still in the wake of the failed Bruce invasion, Ulster has been thrown into chaos with the death of William Donn de Burgh-splitting his lands between claimants. Fighting between the Burkes lost England immense influence in Ireland, while the O'Neills pushed to unify Ulster. Tyrone the based Irish OPM imo
>>716306428 (OP)Baden (small HRE province). It's where my dad's line originates from and it's a fun start to try to rise in the HRE.
>>716310603I love doing Florence -> Medici Tusacny -> Medici Italy
This feels like it will be a headache to try to form Germany
Probably Bulgaria, into taking over the Balkans and Anatolia.
Then we go east until China.
>>716315665It's probably another minigame of pressing buttons to reform the hre
>try to play as anything other than European nation
>get curbstomped by their technology prowess by late game
I hope it wont be like this for the new game
If I can release Nice, then Nice
If I can't then I will mod in Nice
>>716315865You don't know what you are talking about, you have never played the game, you are screeching at phantoms of your own creation.
>>716314602You haven't been paying attention to the dev diaries at all if you think the game will be barebones
This is Johan's magnum opus unironically
>>716315964I just want to be able to westernize and have the same level of troops. Maybe I just suck at the game but I always get destroyed by yuros when colonizing and that
>>716314602They are working with experience, its not going to be barebones
>>716306428 (OP)Either Byzantine or Muscovy first, then Japan, China, Milan, England, Brandenburg, France and at last Austria.
>Denmark
>Unite Scandinavia
>rape the baltics, north Germany and north biritain
>>716306428 (OP)I like to play in South East Asia, so probably there. I’ve got a specific type of autism where I like to be boxed against an ocean with lots of peninsula to expand into, and that whole region is effectively that. More importantly, I like games that let me mine for gold and gemstones, which SEA is famously abundant with.
Alternatively; Italy, Vidyanigger, Spain and Poland.
>>716306428 (OP)The little pink blob inside Austria.
>>716315224The land is hard to occupy
>>716306446>>gameplay loop?>If you're a total stranger to these games, the "gameplay loop" depends on your nation. For example, if playing Portugal you'll be trying to explore the world and set up colonies/trade posts. If you're playing France, you'll have to focus a lot on diplomacy and administration to try unify your realm. If you're over in Japan, you'll need a strong military focus to unite the island and see off threats-and so on.And how does one learn these things?
>>716309527Got it in less than a second, it's smack-dab in the middle
>>716315865Mallaca controlled by a human player is the richest nation in EU4 without blobing
>>716306428 (OP)i'm probably playing aragon first, seems like a nice place to start
>>716306428 (OP)Was Finland just uninhibited around 1337?
>>716317140it wasn't considered to be part of sweden because they basically had no control over it, but at the same time it wasn't actually a country it was a bunch of tribes
>>716316057Just build a big enough navy and sink the honkies when they try to land troops.
Its a lot easier to just drown them then have exactly the same military tech
>>716315665It should be.
Germany didn't actually form until the late 1800s. The timeline for EU5 ends in 1836, aka just before the mass movements to unify Germany really stated to take off. Endgoal for Brandenburg for "history" in EU5 would be to form Prussia and make sure Napoleon eats it.
>>716306428 (OP)>where you dropping, /v/?Naples (kingdom of Sicily)
>>716306428 (OP)Assuming they aren't saving pope mechanics for a dlc I will do kingdom of god first.
>>716316808Playing it is enough to learn it. It sounds silly, but you start with basic shit like;
>okay, keep my money in the positivesSo you hover over your balance, see what's costing you money, and find ways to lower those numbers-by building stuff, or by raising taxes, or by temporarily underfunding the army, etc.
Game tells you all need to know, the 9 hour youtube tutorials are usually a waste. Just get core mechanics down and you're fine, it's not that different to some 4X games. Just balancing mana; diplo/military/admin points are used for everything.
>>716317358Being paradox I assume they will and the papal states will be a basic theocracy at first
Muscovy -> Russia is an extremely kino campaign.
>Start off under the tyranny of mongol hordes
>You slowly unite your people
>Take the fight to the horsefuckers
>Kill them all
>Gain freedom
>Bastion of your faith+culture, surrounded by enemies
>Push east
>Declare the Tsardom of Russia
>Become the 3rd Rome
>Exterminate the Ottomans
absolute beauty of a campaign
>>716317595I hate it when you become too big. Moving troops becomes a pain. I think the most interesting part of the world is Western Europe. France/Austria/Netherlands/Prussia/Sweden are my favorites.
>>716306428 (OP)what the hell is Balliol?
>>716318169>I hate it when you become too big. Moving troops becomes a pain.That's the biggest hassle of late game EU4 or even early game Mongolia.
>>716318253>what the hell is Balliol?Edward Balliol was a guy that England supported as claimant to the throne of Scotland to try and undermine their rivals, the Bruces. At this time Scotland was ruled by David II, the son of Rober the Bruce.
>>716318253>>716318549EU never did do a great job of modeling sustained pretender rebellions
>>716318260Everytime I want to play Qing and I remeber I have to chase the fucking hordes over half the map.
>>716319218Funniest one for me is England's "Hugh O'Neill" event.
Hugh O'Neill was the leader of the Irish Alliance in Tyrone's Rebellion, a massive war that brought English rule in Ireland to the brink of collapse. There was involvement from Spain, and it was probably the closest at any stage in Irish history that the island came to independence from England.
The event in game is; spawn 5k rebels kek
