Thread 723693559

2 weeks until Europa Universalis V releases. Who are you maining?

I will be torrenting it in five years when it is playable with enough expansions.

>>723693559 (OP)
I haven't decided exactly but I'm thinking I'll create Prussia or a German Empire and right the wrongs of history.

>>723694353
Based, save Europa and destroy that Jewish island. If Germany was ruling the world right now it would be utopia.

>>723693559 (OP)
>torrent game
>prussia playthrough
>delete
>wait a year for patches and dlc
>rinse and repeat

B U L G A R I A

>>723694550
The Prussia of the balkans. Make sure to kill those Serbs

>>723693559 (OP)
i basically only played korea at the end of eu4s lifespan beating up on ming for fun i will probably do that

>>723693559 (OP)
I'll wait 10 years.

>>723693559 (OP)
Wallachia

>>723693559 (OP)
I won't be fooled into buying a Paradox game on release for a third time

>>723694353
>prussia
how original
>german empire
daring today aren't we

>>723693559 (OP)
Portugal, maybe, I'm worried it has victoria 3 endless clicking in store. I never bothered learning imperator.

>>723696439
The only based answer in this thread so far.

>>723694508
>the Germans would save the world
>Germans

Aragon, cuck castille, take over western med, become new roman empire

>>723694508
>>723697237
Reminder that Germany has always been a destroyer, not a creator of civilisation.

>>723699615
It's not going to be my first game, but I will at some point do a colonial HRE playthrough

>>723693559 (OP)
Bohemia, I will tame the Germoids and elevate the HRE to sapience

Explain to me the 'fun' of your average paradox realtime history game with no real win condition. I tried CK2 and CK3 and just couldn't get into it. It just seems like too much shit to toy with for essentially nothing. Like a pure sandbox but stuck on the history channel. All of my other friends goon about slopping up some HOI4 or CK3 (with the elder kings mod) but I just don't get the fun.

>>723700863
If you don't have both an imagination and a love/knowledge of history 70% of the appeal of this game will be wasted on you. The fun comes from creating interesting historical scenarios

>>723701017
I have an imagination but I'm not much of a history gooner unfortunately.

>>723697341
>"oh noo, why wont you Germans just let us oppress you! noo stop fighting back!"

>>723701116
Play Stellaris

>>723693559 (OP)
Ottomans.

>>723693559 (OP)
I'm sticking with IV.

>>723693559 (OP)
I will be playing Muscovy, it's always comfy as fuck and I dont have to worry about navies at all

>>723704324
>I'm sticking with IV.
disgusting, atleast tell me you're playing anbennar

>>723704817
Explain how the fuck this feature barren pos shit isn't "disgusting" but the one I have most of the DLC for and has mods galore isn't
Go on

>>723693559 (OP)
I'm so fucking excited.
My first 3 campaigns are going to be about restoring rome, for sure.
First one I plan is komnenoi byzantium into hre emperor and form europe, no non-european lands owned.
Second is hellenic palailogos byzantium into roman empire with no colonies
Third one is papal states into revolutionary peasant roman republic with colonial gameplay
Fourth one is probably going to be kyiv into ruthenia and then basically russian empire with different colours.
Fifth is for sure timurids mongol empire

>>723697341
The eternal kraut

>>723704912
>EUIVtard so buck broken by paradox that he equates having DLC with being good
EU IV is inherently barren. It's a shallow game for retards. Only playable with MEIOU and even then the game fights back against any attempt to give it depth.

I'll be playing Holland and my literal only motivation will be to wipe the UK off the map

>>723705330
based

>>723705292
And how the fuck is V not? That was what was asked, mongoloid

>>723697341
People who associate Germans for only World Wars are low IQ. In both antiquity and modern era Germans are nasty warmonger destructive forces of Europa. Merkel is roughly half as bad as Adolf.

>>723693559 (OP)
i will play muscovy and wipe r*thenian "culture" and "language" off the map

>>723693559 (OP)
France, the main character.

>>723704912
pops good
mana and bloat bad
simple as

>>723706095
basé

>>723704912
eu iv is a shitty board game

>>723705543
>oh my EA!
>the new DLC I just bought ($39.99) gives Mali a 20% modifier to my manpower mana!
>when does the new DLC come out
>I'm quivering in my chastity cage at the chance to buy more downloadable content!

They fucked it up. It's too complex. Nobody plays games as a substitute for paying their taxes. EU4 was perfect and everyone knows it, why fuck it up on purpose?

>>723706658
>EU4 was perfect

Burgundy

>>723693559 (OP)
Florence -> Tuscany -> Italian Republic with aspirations to control the trade in all of the Mediterranean and Black sea, later expanding into Egypt and beyond the Red Sea.

>>723693559 (OP)
>The Netherlands
I wanna sink my teeth into the development and trade mechanics. I also wanna go through the actual difficulties of colonizing the east indies: The fact there's already established kingdoms there who you're going have to play against eachother if you wanna get a foothold.
>Russia
Probably my favourite nation in EU4 M&t. It's a big canvas with absolutely fuckall on it in terms of development which you can then 'paint' into whatever kind of nation you would like.

>Wehraboos ITT
Pulling out ol' reliable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPUOT46ucrk&

>>723697341
a retard made this

austria

Are Asian/American countries playable and fleshed out in Europa Universalis? I played very little of EU4 and don't remember, but I'd like to try Ainu or some American Indians.

>>723697341
>trying to blame the sack of Constantinople on Germans
That's an outright lie.

>>723693559 (OP)
I will play CK2 while complaining that other paradox games aren't CK2

I think I'll just play EU4 again.
Florence > Tuscany > Sardinia-Piedmont > Two Sicilies > Italy > Roman Empire > Holy Roman Empire
As usual.

>>723707473
It's just your typical anti-German seething. They'll pretend to care about the Wars of Religion then cry for a few hours about WW2.

>>723697341
kek it do be like that. imagine a world where Europe didn't go through two World Wars but kept developing in art and science instead of relying on Yankees and commies for everything because some asstard country decided to fuck things up (again).