I don't know, should I?
Posted Oct 26, 2022, 1:52 PM UTC
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R5: I was doing a World Conquest and game decided to make it even easier for me. If I can win a War against their 500 000 combined troops.
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Half of their troops will hang out in South America and never bother you.
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Incorrect. They'll only stay over there if they're in the middle of another war nowadays. On the latest patch both they and their colonies transport troops over, and don't be surprised if they also attack through Siberia.
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Yup, had Portugal (ally) and Castile (enemy) come over while I was stomping France and their colonies as England today.
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That’s true, but colonial troops are usually so trash, you can’t even say that’s a manpower drain - more like high Army Tradition maintenance bonus.
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Interesting. I just had a war with Spain as France and I didn't see a single of their colonial troops, but there was like a 30k stack from one of mine. Maybe because they were busy sieging my colonies?
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If they're busy fighting in their own colonial region, either natives or other CNs they won't show, but if they're available they will land if you don't maintain naval dominance. I've rarely had a war with the colonizers where there weren't a couple of colonial stacks following after their overlords. Sometimes they'll go after your colonies in Africa instead.
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Not always true. I was able to win the league war against Austria, Otto & big Spain as GB because Spain was piss arsing around enjoying the beaches in central America.
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Nah, if your allies they’ll stay there. But if your enemies they wont
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Odd, I have still never had this happen to me. I've been at war with Spain 4 times and not once have their colonies made it Europe.
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If you can win, do it. Idk if you’re on Ironman, then the stakes are higher. You could play around with file location and backups. If you integrate Spain by 1730 you inherit their colonies. The colonies don’t count for dev so you’d have to just focus on getting enough diplo mana and diplo rep. Later, conquer Portugal and inherit their colonies. It won’t be too tedious to annex them unless they have overseas trade colonies.
Try to tc Africa and the area from Persia to India, as you are with the Transoxiana war. The campaign looks great, If I was playing Poland I would try to become the emperor.
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You will destroy them.
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If Spain is loyal to Austria you should be careful. If not, well, I don’t see an issue. That doesn’t look like a very powerful Austria so I can’t imagine Spain would want to be under their rule. And considering Austria would be the enemy war leader, you only have to worry about Austrias troops right? And their alliances ofc.
Also considering your sheer size I think their armies are gonna die from attrition before they can even get enough warscore to try and make a peace deal with you.
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Are you near a bankrupcy? If yes are you sure you arent able to restructure the debt?
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why do you ask if you already know what to do? bruh
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It was meant to be a joke. Since it's so obviously a great deal to get #2 Great Power in one war. But I guess it wasn't as obvious as I thought.
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Spain is probably gonna have a lot of liberty desire so effectively you’ll just gonna have to beat the troops of the Austrians and their allies and if it’s the Spain I know they’ll have 99% of their troops in the new world doing nothing
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It's really easy to manage LD of a single subject.
The only real problem is that PUs can break if your ruler dies before you get relations positive, even if you still have truce (which is basically a bug, even if it's been in the game for ages).
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Keep in mind you’re talking about AI here. I completely trust the AI to screw that up making the succession war a whole lot easier.
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Exactly, a big problem with forcefully making PUs isn’t actually winning wars, it’s having luck of being able to win the war quickly and then get the PUs opinion positive in time before your ruler dies, it’s not a problem if you have a youngish monarch, but if your rulers pushing 60 or older, it’s a race.
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If you have very old ruler you can prolong the war until you get a new one, then enforce demands.
If the ruler is only mildly old, there's always Task Manager.
It's a bit cheesy, but PU breaking during truce is a bug and nobody can convince me otherwise.
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You get restoration of union CB if they break off though, right?
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Which you can't declare because the truce is still there. And once you do you pay the AE cost again.
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Uh, OP owns half of two continents. I think liberty desire is a non-issue.
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PU liberty desires are nothing
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how is this even a question? you have an army at least 50 times of Austria probably and you get all of Spain for free.
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"Should I do a easily winnable war to get an entire colonial empire?"
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Do it! Spain is a great vassel and once you integrate you get all their colonies
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Absolutely always do it, even if you need to take every loan and hire every merc.
In this case, it doesn't even look hard.
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"It's gonna be easy", "home before Christmas". That war was an absolute ASS to fight.
First I had to go through ~20 forts in Germany and Italy that Austria and her allies had. That was OK because Spain chilled at home. But the war goal was Madrid. I had to go through up to date mountain fort in Navarra and up to date hill fort with river penalty in Burgos, while 200k+ Spanish kept fighting me. And they had morale and discipline advantage. I lost 600k, had to hire mercs and ruined my professionalism. That war took 9 years.
It was worth it, but god damn.
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At least you had fun, so it worked out in the end.
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Slapping Austria... always a good Idea
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How so much land???
I only half like Poland+Lithuania+Crimea+Hungary+Bohemia+Teutons+Bulgaria and Byzantium+ Novgorod in my Commonwealth game. (I’m in 1602)
Any tips on how to expand faster as Poland (TBF i have no DLC so barely and missions.)
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BTW how u start? Idk what to do as Poland until Invade Moldova or Danzig happens. Also i might get DLC so pls suggest which ones are the best.
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Why conquer so fast as poland, all you need as poland just hit 100%profesionalism asap and take the lifetime of war mission to get 50% cav to inf ratio. After that no one can beat your army even outnumber you 40 : 1. Because soldier of poland are second to none!
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profesionalism comes with a DLC
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Oh crap i didnt see he didnt have dlc at all
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Get the dlc subscription (if you have the economic space for it ofc, I am unsure what individual dlcs are best so I just recommend the full package)
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Unfortunately there is no way to do what I did without DLCs. I got polish missions, mongol missions, and took Mandate of Heaven to get free cores on all of China.
New missions in the latest DLC give you a lot of early expansion avenues as Poland. You get claims on Novogrod, you can PU Bohemia and Hungary.
Here's guide on most important DLCs: https://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/taunjj/133_dlc_tier_list_which_dlc_to_buy/
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Thanks, for the guide.
Should i just get the subscription instead though?
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Hard for me to say since I had most of the DLCs when the subscription was introduced. So I never looked into it.
I can say, that it's definitely not worth it to buy DLC for full price. They are often enough on -50% sale that it's worth waiting for one. There are also online stores that sell steam codes for much lower prices then steam. So it's your decision to make. If you think you'll still be playing this game in a year, it's probably better to buy DLC outright. If you'll be playing in two years, then it's defiantly worth it. If you'll grow bored of it in six months, subscription will be better.
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EU4 subreddit be like "the game just got handed to me on a silver platter, do you think I could take it?"
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After all, why not? Why shouldn’t you have Spain?
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Please explain rival PUs !
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Spain and Austria both had habsburgs. Spanish ruler died with no heir, so the throne would have gone to the Austrians. Because PLC is Austria's strongest rival, they can contest the PU and try to take it for themselves iirc.
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It's 1600 and you're the commonwealth. This is the peak of your power. Hit them on plains with hussars. and curb stomp them. Let them invade you and pick off stacks until you bleed the actual nation of spain and austrias troops (not the CN's) dry enough to seige them down.
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Would be a good plan, unfortunately disloyal Spain chilled at home and the war goal was Madrid. I had to send 600 000 brave polish men to their death up these mountainous forts.
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Nah ... would make WC attempt to easy đź’€
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You probably should. It’s time to start working more through Europe anyway if you ask me.
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Go big or go home
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Are you going for a world conquest this run?
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Yes. WC, One faith and see how close I can get to One Culture, since I've never done it before.
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Go
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Austria seems pretty week so ig you should
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Dude, if you win you'll have one PU more than before
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Give me a reason why you shouldn’t
Game will become too easy and boring
WC is gonna be easy and boring anyway.
Look at the size of him. It is already. It's a power fantasy simulator at this point he might as well.
Judging by the size of his country I'd say this isn't an issue.
that ship has sailed when he conquered china bro :D
Bro, his PLC owns China
At this stage anything you do will be easy and boring
Too many diplomatic relations obviously 🙄