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Europa Universalis III 46140 EU3 - After Action Reports (AAR)
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Hi, everyone, I've just tried EU3 and I've some basic (I mean, I think it's mostly stupid stuff but I couldn't find answers so...) questions:

1. Is there any simple way to select a province - especially when it's a small one, with an army, fleet, cot in it - without wasting 5 minutes trying to click the right pixel?

2. Is there any (fast) way to know how many provinces a nation owns and which one is their capital?

3. Is it possible to know the combined effects of ALL the modifiers (sliders, govs, ideas, adivsors, etc.) that affect your nation?

Thanks for the help!
 
1 - Generally, you can zoom in to where there's enough area to click, although there are a few provinces (small islands in particular) where that area is only a few pixels. I generally find that just inside either the upper or lower border works. It's far more difficult if you've just selected a military unit, so clicking a different province first can make the cursor less likely to choose the military unit instead of the province. Clicking a ship means that the cursor will prioritize ships if you're anywhere in the general vicinity of one, sometimes all the way into an adjacent province. Again, clicking on a province elsewhere will clear that.

2 - Without going into the journal and looking up the country to see how many provinces they own, there's no easy answer. I've occupied "both" provinces of a small country, and found myself at only 70-80% war score, then hunted around until I found their distant third province somewhere along the coast of Africa or South America (for what I thought was a landlocked country), because they had claimed someone else's colony in a previous peace deal. It can be frustrating when you realize that they own another province somewhere deep inland behind some other country of a rival religion, and that there is no way to gain military access. In one case, I had to save the game, quit, select the saved game, and use the world map there (without fog of war) to find the hidden province.

3 - Other than scanning down the long line of active effects in the first tab's screen, checking the second tab for the effects of your king and ministers, then the 5th tab for National Ideas and sliders, and adding it all up, it's not really shown. The journal shows a few specific things, but is far from comprehensive.

Basically, the game does some things very well, and others.....not so well. Since you don't have any icons showing in your signature block (game not registered on the Paradox site), I can't tell which expansions you're running to tailor the advice.
 
A couple of extra tips, Kovax covered it pretty well.

Clicking on a country on page 1 of the ledger will select its capital province.

I find there can be more pixels available to select the province if I zoom far enough out to turn the unit from a figure into a flag.
Moving units block a different set of pixels to stationary ones, so in some cases you can open up space to select a province by ordering a unit to move and then cancelling once you've dealt with the province. However in regions of the map with lots of small provinces all of which you are sieging, it can be virtually impossible to select a province where you want to send a spy in to speed up the sieges.
 
A couple of small islands, such as Corfu, can be nearly impossible to select, no matter what you do. There's a tiny "sweet spot", but hitting it isn't easy, and it varies from one province to the next. As said, zoom levels and your previous selection can affect it.
 
If you're at war with them, you can click the war icon on the right side of your screen, then select the country's capital by clicking on their shield.

The tools are generally there, they're just not overly intuitive in some cases, and poorly documented. Basically, par for the course for games of its era, but not for modern games.
 
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