EUIV - Quick Questions / Quick Answers

[Trin Tragula]

We read all as always but I only reply when I have something that I can contribute I also spend my days making games so forum time is always going to be somewhat limited from actual developers.

Still a couple of replies a week is IMO not really "dead"

 

[KaiserJohan]

Hi guy's

Whats the best way to play with massive amounts of devastation caused by big multiplayer wars that are fought on your Land in the Lategadme

And no im not rich enough to build a fort's over the entire area

Very specific but in this case playing as orthodox Russia with Third Rome Consecrating Metropolitans will also give areas monthly ticking -devastation

 

[KaiserJohan]

I think that's a solid army setup.

 

[KaiserJohan]

Is 40 a cap for war score form battles?
How can I win a coalition war without sieges? I won every battle killed 200k man to my 60k and still got +47 to -60 in demads for white peace.

40 is max for battles alone. Another 25 for ticking warscore. Why do you want to win one without sieges?

The best ways to deal with coalitions -

1. Keep all egligble members on separate truce timers and/or in active wars. Annex the smallest ones to reduce the number of potential members.
2. Declare on the coalition after roughly ½ of the egligble members have formed to fend of the smaller one before the other half can kick of
3. If god forbid all members have joined, your best bet is to pre-emptively declare on the smallest member (perferably an OPM) and keep him fully sieged.
4. Keep very strong AI allies to deter the coalition declaring
5. If all else fails, bribe them

 

[Trin Tragula]

Does artillery combat ability also influence ship artillery?

No.

 

[KaiserJohan]

I'm the Shogun. I have a CB on Ainu, who are allied with Korea, who is a Tributary to Ming. If I declare on Ainu, can I safely co-belligerize Korea or would that call in Ming?

More broadly: Is there a way I can become a Tributary myself once Ming has rivalled me? It's my first game in Asia and my first game with MoH and 2 months after becoming Shogun Ming rivalled me out of the blue (despite having like 800% my military strength). They never even asked whether I wanted to become a Tributary. Every country around me is a Tributary and I'm kind of stumped as to what to do. Play tall and colonize, I guess? Right now I'm serially declaring on OPM Ainu while only taking land from their ally, hoping nobody else ever declares and breaks the alliance. It's a bit of a crawl eating Korea 2-3 provinces at a time.

I'm pretty sure Ming would be called in if you co-belligirent Korea.

 

[KaiserJohan]

I wanted to attack Dithmarschen, but I cant, because it says "you are allied with the emperor and the emperor recently has gone to war."
that war is as ally of Hungary against somebody else. Do I now have to wait (maybe for years) till I can have my war?
Or how long does "emperor has recently gone to war" apply?

I assume Hungary also pulled in the Emperor? It is to prevent exploits where you call in the Emperor, lock him in an endless war and kill of HRE minors meanwhile.
I don't think there is a timer on it but I might be wrong.

 

[KaiserJohan]

You will also instantly stackwhipe an army if your army is 10x larger than theirs, although it's just for smashing small stacks

 

[KaiserJohan]

You should also try ally other large countries to lower the AE they gain from you, use them as cannon fodder and they will deter any coalitions/other large nations to jump you

 

[KaiserJohan]

You can use this to great effect, especially if you are in Asia. Start as a landlocked, weak OPM? Go over forcelimit, get ahead on mil. tech, go to Malaysia and vassalize Sunda or someone and then laugh all the way to the bank. Or vassalize a Manchu horde and become tributary to Ming.

 

[KaiserJohan]

I like having four for +2 siege early on

 

[KaiserJohan]

Good allies typically means countries with several other alliances - so they are more unlikely to get declared upon by a third party, and thus more likely to help you in case of trouble.

 

[KaiserJohan]

Hi, can anyone give me tips about technologies and ideas for a Great Horde play ? I'm behind in tech (except military one), and I've yet to chose my first idea group.

I can't really afford a military group since I'm already having trouble to keep up, I'm really behind on administrative tech, and not sure if diplo is any worth as a Horde... So yeah pretty much lost here. My economy isn't thriving either, I'm in positive only because Ottoblob is subsidizing me 3 ducats / month. Idk if more infos are necessary, thanks !

Are you razing every province you conquer? It should give you more than enough, or what is your pace? Are you disinheriting / making generals out of bad monarchs? Developing institutions (except Feudalism?)
Generally a few screenshots will help in identifying the bottlenecks

 

[KaiserJohan]

3. I plan to take provinces for myself, not core them, but build a manufactury and then give it to my vasall. Could it happen that the vasall is an idiot and deletes the manufacties to build something else or to build nothing ?

Is there a reason you are not building in the vassals provinces directly?

 

[KaiserJohan]

What's the Trick behind forcing the Burgundian inheritance? I declared war on Burgundy as emperor and occupied them. But I couldn't stay in the war for too long as war exhaustion (call for peace) killed my country.
Does it make a difference if Burgundy has an heir or not because in my case they had one.
Wiki said nothing about that, only that Burgundy must be at war while the HR emperor is not at war with France.
Judging by that I had all requirements satisfied yet the event did not fire.

It is not guaranteed but the chances increase. If you are unlucky you'll have to sit on them for some time. You can still eat the warexhaustion and knock down the rebels as they spawn though, presuming you've peaced out all other participants.
Remember also you have to do it before year 1500.

 

[KaiserJohan]

You can use the "non-friendly neighbor province" to slow the spread of institutions you embrace to your neighbours

 

[KaiserJohan]

How could I get a CB against someone I do not border, who is far away, so that I could wage a war and make them release someone?
Its Lithuania, they shall release Livonian Order...

No-CB, best CB!

 

[KaiserJohan]

the wiki says about the coring range
"If a country's vassal has a core in province B, then the country can core any province adjacent to B in its home continent. B doesn't have to be owned by that vassal."

does this still apply if I make that vasall a march??

If I am papal state and I have TeutonicOrder as a vasall, but I turn TO into a march, will I still be able to core next to TO for myself?

Interesting question. I believe so - if not it's definately a bug.

 

[KaiserJohan]

I don't understand why 20 tributaries love killing Ming's rebels, unsiege provinces?
It shouldn't be like that.

It's because of high trust but I agree it's wierd.

 

[KaiserJohan]

In all my time I played EU4 I never really gave my self the effort to breakdown all the things that make my army strong, all I've taken with me is that:
- up-to-date military tech is a must (because of tactics/morale or something)
- super high morale makes me stake wipe the bad People
- discipline reduces causalities (?)
- combat ability increases enemy causalities

Now while these are the basics (right...?) I was wondering what else I could do to increase my military forces. For instance am I currently playing as Prussia and all I really did was focusing on stacking morale with my advicors and a military policy. As it happens I noticed that I could also stack extremely high infantry Combat ability (20 from Prussian Ideas, 20 from quality and another 10 from a policy).
Now I don't know what my benefit would be, which is why I am asking this.
Which military thing is best to stack and whats the impact? Is it perhaps better to mix it or just go all in on one modefier?

Is there perhaps a thread that deals with this topic?

Thank you

I think this very recent topic might help you - https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...and-getting-used-to-battle-mechanics.1272353/
It's hard to go wrong with Prussia but besides modifiers (don't forget discipline!) think of your army composition. Backrow of cannons gets more and more important as time goes on.