Jak's Game Guide: An EU4 Tutorial

[Rensslaer]

@jak7139 oh that was the other thing I was going to ask, related to @Cora Giantkiller's question.

How many merchants??

And I found the answer in your responses - I count 17. Good gosh!

Rensslaer

 

[jak7139]

Glad to have you caught-up @Rensslaer!

Neat trick with Spain and Morocco! I had no idea.

This game is always full of surprises and little tricks like that. It may be a lot to take in for a new player, but at the point I'm at, it's habitual.

Interesting about the movable monument.

Most of them aren't movable, since they're actual buildings, but a select few are. Part of me wonders why Paradox didn't just go all-in and let you move all of them.

You've annexed, essentially, both Portugal and Britain! Nice work! Changes the typical great power game alot.

The world of this AAR is certainly very different than our own. It might even be kind of dystopian, depending on how ruthless Brittany continues to be.

It's late in the game. You still have France to take your lands back from and take down a notch. I'm assuming there's no circumstance where you would want to risk losing Spain as an ally, it at least not going to war with her.

At this critical stage where we're nearly ready to attack France, no. I'll try to keep Spain as our ally for as long as we can or until France is dealt with. Even then, Spain has been so loyal that I'd kind of feel bad betraying them.

I'm sure there's more I meant to comment on but that's what I remember now.

I saw your merchant post on the next page. Yes, seventeen is quite a lot. And we could have even more if we took trade ideas or did what @mackwolfe is doing over in their Atwix AAR.

I'll need to remember to highlight our trade flow/setup in the next part.

 

[Bullfilter]

@Bullfilter I have never heard the white ant saying before. What does this mean?

Ah, a bit of an Australian expression. In my understanding, undermining, from a position of proximity or even trust. A white ant = termite, so burrowing in to surreptitiously weaken and take over or get rid of. An example in personal usage, white-anting a friend by quietly trying to become intimate with their girlfriend to eventually win her over.

Looked it up it Wikipedia to see if that was the general usage and it seems it is, in a work or political sense:

“White-anting is an Australian term for the process of internal erosion of a foundation. It is often used in reference to groups such as political parties or organisations where information from group insiders is 'leaked' or used to undermine the goals of the group. The Macquarie Dictionary says the verb "to white-ant" means "to subvert or undermine from within".[citation needed]

The term is derived from the action of termites (white ants) eating the inside of wooden building foundations, often leaving no outward evidence, until the structure crumbles.”