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lilwayne168

Kilwa Dev Troll?

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In Eu4 kilwa is a powerhouse and on paper they have insane techs in eu5. However the person that designed the country clearly never played it even one time.

The game starts you with kilwan shipwright buildings that cost so much in upkeep they will instantly bankrupt you even if you immediately max out naval supplies.

This is on top of starting with negative stab and low legitimacy and being by far the smallest military nation in the region, you also have wrong culture and half your country unaccepted off game start Then if you make it somewhat stable through that, the game gives you a pop up to build an amazing building and so obviously you press accept, but the market demands from the building ruin your early game economy and basically game over.

My solution right now is to delete the boats and not build the flavor Capitol building but why were these things added if they are entirely untenable in the 1.10 version of the game. Feels like this iteration was designed around old trade systems and has not been updated so you can make a profit.

Posted Dec 7, 2025, 11:46 PM UTC

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