EUIV - Quick Questions / Quick Answers

[TheBloke]

Can you core a province that's only within fleet based rights range?

You can core a province that's within your normal Colonial Range. This can be increased by getting Fleet Basing from nearby nations, and by adding new cores of your own, and by getting boosts to Colonial Range from Technology and Ideas.

Does fleet maintenance affect your power from light ships?

Yes, lowered naval maintenance will greatly reduce the Trade Power you get from Light Ships.

 

[Pornek]

Where is the file which contains the bonus for lucky nations located ?

 

[TheBloke]

Where is the file which contains the bonus for lucky nations located ?

You'd be better off asking in the Mod forum's Q&A thread.

I don't know. There's common/historical_lucky.txt which defines which nations will be Lucky, but I haven't found a file defining what bonuses they get. It may be hardcoded. But ask in the Mod forum to be sure.

 

[Pornek]

Thanks

 

[oilers41]

Can someone explain to me how the Expansion Idea group CB works?

 

[myzael]

Where is the file which contains the bonus for lucky nations located ?

common/static_modifiers/00_static_modifiers.txt

 

[unmerged(427153)]

Hey guys, so I'm playing as Germany and would like to expand into India because I'm running out of things to do. I've never done a game where I've colonized the East before so I was wondering how people usually expand there. Should I annex, core, and send missionaries or should I vassalize the Indian nations?

 

[PirateAE]

playing as france(Ironman), i go after the ottomans seeing a colition forming i dont get the colition CB so i sitting at +2 stab take the plunge and no CB the ottos, this trips the colition members, and castile and austria join me via CTA(side note austria had to walk all teh way around hungary to get at the ottos>.>) but having won several sieges, i cant claim ANY terratory? 40% WS, europe side of ottos is fully carpeted. it wont even let me pick the cede tab. plans were to open a second front (OPM in HRE got happy with a colition as i beat up burgandy). Why?

 

[PirateAE]

Can someone explain to me how the Expansion Idea group CB works?

if you have encountered the asians, and are in western or eastern tech group(think otto works as well) it should give you the CB much like with exploration CB agaist pagans

 

[Xerxes 8933A]

The tool tip mouse-over says this isn't an Ironman save. But the icon in the top right shows it is, and I created it as such. Am I still able to get my Poland can Into Space with this save? Or did something screw up and I've gotta start all over? Probably wouldn't be a bad thing really, France has rivaled me since the start of the game when I allied Austria. And he's running 160k/90k Force Limit. And even taking all of Russia's best provinces he's got 150k/120k. I've just got 100k/100k. Can't declare war on Russia because they are allied with both France and Austria. But have to fight them every decade because France declares war on HRE and pulls Russia in against Austria and me. Swear to god Alliances are broken in this save, every war people loose half their alliances because they are also allied to the other side.


Also, second question. Say there's a province that's gotten that Tax or Manpower bonus multiple times. So it's base tax is over 20. It costs more then 100% to take. If it's the last one you have, can it be taken anyway? Or does having a province that rich make you un-annexable?

 

[TheBloke]

playing as france(Ironman), i go after the ottomans seeing a colition forming i dont get the colition CB so i sitting at +2 stab take the plunge and no CB the ottos, this trips the colition members, and castile and austria join me via CTA(side note austria had to walk all teh way around hungary to get at the ottos>.>) but having won several sieges, i cant claim ANY terratory? 40% WS, europe side of ottos is fully carpeted. it wont even let me pick the cede tab. plans were to open a second front (OPM in HRE got happy with a colition as i beat up burgandy). Why?

When you're in a coalition against a nation, DOWing them with any CB, or no CB, invokes Coalition rules. Thus you can only take provinces that you have a claim or core on.

In future, leave the coalition before you DOW unless you plan to use the Coalition CB.

The Coalition CB is awesome when you do have claims and cores because it's 10% AE for those. The CB becomes available when there's at least three nations in the Coalition, and when you have some AE against the target.

 

[PirateAE]

When you're in a coalition against a nation, DOWing them with any CB, or no CB, invokes Coalition rules. Thus you can only take provinces that you have a claim or core on.

In future, leave the coalition before you DOW unless you plan to use the Coalition CB.

The Coalition CB is awesome when you do have claims and cores because it's 10% AE for those. The CB becomes available when there's at least three nations in the Coalition, and when you have some AE against the target.

thanks for clearing it up, i ended up just releaseing a serious chunk of the turkey side states, i got a proviance from syria before in a seperate peace; so overall at least part of the objective, open a southern front and get a proper CB was achieved

 

[unmerged(427153)]

Hey guys, so I'm playing as Germany and would like to expand into India because I'm running out of things to do. I've never done a game where I've colonized the East before so I was wondering how people usually expand there. Should I annex, core, and send missionaries or should I vassalize the Indian nations?

 

[TheBloke]

Hey guys, so I'm playing as Germany and would like to expand into India because I'm running out of things to do. I've never done a game where I've colonized the East before so I was wondering how people usually expand there. Should I annex, core, and send missionaries or should I vassalize the Indian nations?

Well it's not much different to expanding anywhere else. I'd get at least a couple of vassals in suitable places to feed newly conquered territory to, so as to save admin points and mitigate OE. Similarly I'd look for nations I can vassalise who have lots of cores lying around that you can Return Core to. Or find a dead nation, annex one core, Release as Vassal, then Return Core on the rest of them. That works for Syria, for example. But you'll need to do that before 1644 most likely else the cores will just disappear as soon as you release them (well, at month end) - unless the cores are mostly or solely owned by one nation then you can DOW them the moment you release as vassal, and that will extend the timer.

I'd recommend playing with my mod, Cores Never Expire, to work around the bugs in core timers and to prevent cores expiring in general; which personally I don't like. Only if it's non-Ironman of course.

I don't have any specific strategies for Asia, partly because I've not expanded there much but also because I don't think it has special strategies in terms of annexation, vassalisation etc - same applies there as for elsewhere. I know that certain areas are far more lucrative, like the Spice Islands, but I've not yet explored so can't give you specifics.

There's a useful CB you can get: complete Expansion Ideas and you get a CB for "less advanced nations in Asia." And it doesn't require that you border them. I'd highly recommend that for expansion into Asia, and completing Expansion Ideas is a good thing for most games anyway.

 

[IFA_Wartburg]

Where does one buy the Purple Phoenix DLC? I don't see it available through Steam.

 

[Mauer]

Where does one buy the Purple Phoenix DLC? I don't see it available through Steam.

It's part of the Pre-Order Pack.

 

[Stategem161803]

Not a question, but I just realized after over 600hrs of play that HRE members will not only buy their cores, but claims as well. I never knew that. Just in case I'm not the only one, there you go.

 

[Qoff]

Ofensive vs defensive troops, which are the best? Or they're situational? If so please explain.

 

[anomalacaris]

Ofensive vs defensive troops, which are the best? Or they're situational? If so please explain.

Situational.
e.g. when you have dispersed siege stacks and want them to hold as long as possible -> defensive
e.g. when you have lotta manpower and want to rapidly drain opponent manpower -> offensive
e.g. when you have 6 shock 6 fire general and don't want to waste high dice rolls -> defensive
e.g. when enemy split army in separate stacks and you want to wipe one before he get chance to reinforce -> offensive

 

[misterbean]

noob question just to be prepared: When the dlc arrives, do we install that first or the 1.4 patch? Or am I completely turned around and are they the same thing? (God, I love this thread; have learned more EU4 in the last 2 weeks than I have just playing it )