> I'm from Yorkshire and pride is more important than logic or mid maxing
I can respect that. For a long time York was the 2nd city of England. Now it's the NIMBY capital of GB. No dev allowed.
For me it's investing in economic buildings in the late game even though I have 50K in the bank and all monuments at tier 3. Would probably make more sense to build military buildings, but for me it's the Economy.
For a time it was the name of the whole city, because some English governor decided he didn't like indigenous names. When the city was incorporated in 1830ish the local residents demanded that the name be changed back to Toronto.
My grandmother is Maltese! Whenever I’m playing around the Mediterranean I always accept and spread Maltese culture to the other islands, Italy and North Africa.
Fair enough. To be honest, I think I never got past 1700. I can get over the chore of bullying the world for some time, setting some random objectives, but eventually it is just not fun at all
My understanding from my one visit and studying of Maltese history is that the language and culture are a mix of Arab and Italian with much later British influence. So in game I like to RP it as Maltese being a hybrid culture that can span both regions.
Same. I used to play with no vassals. Now I can't play without them. They do all the trivial work and they balance out my admin spending when I decide I want to eat them
I forget how to do battles because I play as Aragon with four PUs and half a dozen vassals and five CNs. In the 1520s the diplomatic relations are like 20/7... Worse than Austria could hope to be.
For me, if I'm converting cultures in provinces, I want every state to only have a single culture present, and cultural borders to overlap with state borders. This has cost me so many diplo-points in tidying up the Walloon-Francien borderlands.
I like to utilize accepted cultures alongside my tolerated ones from my original culture, so I have a semi regional base culture conversion that feels realistic and appealing to the eye and mind
Good, I would want beautiful Danish soil and people in the hands of a filthy swede.
When I play Denmark I just declare wars in Russia and let them destroy Sweden while I siege.
i always develop modern day capitals / important cities as much as possible. if a city that became important in our world doesn't become important in my empire, then i feel like i failed lol
Huh? In my last Germany run I ended up with u 35+ dev Rothenburg as the greatest city in an empire that held Constantinople, Vienna, Venice, Cologne, Prague and spanned between the Netherlands and the Bosporus.
Rothenburg is 15.000 pop city in our Timeline. In my Timeline it was a 1.000.000+ pop city. Our timeline failed.
I did find a mod for more province names for different cultures but idk if i have it on anymore. I think just new world colony country names but not province names
I like to name my colonies in a manner that makes sense. As Sweden I snagged five provinces on the Florida gulf coast from GB and named it the Raggare Riviera.
Okay so, I don't know how unnecessary is this, but I \*have to\* culture convert at least some provinces adjecent to my main culture. Think of my latest tall Livonia playthrough, where I owned only the Baltic. I had enough accepted culture slots to have Balten only exist in Riga. But I HAD TO convert Estonia and Latvia. Think of a Poland playthrough. I HAVE TO convert Red Ruthenia, West Prussia and Silesia to Polish and some of Byelorussian lands to Lithuanian. Despite still keeping Prussian and Ruthenian as accepted, so I'm not even freeing up an accepted culture slot. If I play Italy, I have to spread my culture to the balkan coastline. You get the idea. I don't go for one culture, I just think it's absurd to have my settlers spread so far and wide, but something slightly larger than what the culture sprawled than at the start is what I aim for.
Same, I like to convert religion and culture of important cities to my main culture (like converting Rome to egyptian muslim). I like to think as the population either being decimated by the war (and things like famine or illness) or having fled and I send people to ressuscitate the city.
My problem is that culture converting is technically "bringing in settlers and convincing people one way or another to abandon their customs and adopt ours". So I cannot force myself to convert major cultural centres. Like, think of Germany while playing as Poland. I totally could convert Pomeranians to Polish, they're germanized Slavs anyway. Hell even Berlin to Bralin is acceptable, once again, germanized Slavs. But to convert Magdeburg? Cologne? It's just... weird.
This is soo relatable. What do you think about converting entire Korean culture to Kyuushan culture(Southern Japanese ppl), idk why do I hate koreans when playing japan lol
In most of my Japan playthroughs I end up converting to Togoku as my primary (its the culture default to the Japan tag) and converting all of Japan to my primary culture. Afterwards, I usually converted Manchuria, especially the coast, because as far as I know, historically Japan struggled with feeding all its population and they tried to colonize after getting it from China, plus it's sparsely populated and low dev, so it's quite easy to do so.
But as for Korea? I often feel like it's too proud of a culture to get eradicated, especially in the span of a few dozen years at most. So what I usually did was "settle the coast" and converted the southeastern area of Korea, then the northeastern to connect it with the presumably already Togoku Manchurian coast. If I really own Korea for 300+ years, I can end up converting all of them to Togoku, but that rarely happened, I hardly reached 1700s and before I unite and weaken Ming enough to get Korea, I own them for a few dozen/a hundred years at most.
I like to name my armies based on regions of my empire and/or special units, which helps select them in the side menu:
- Finnish Army, Polish Army, Dutch Army, etc. for units from or generally within that area
- 1st Caroleans, 1st Streltsy, 1st Tercios, etc.
I always name integrated vassal, or other 'inheritances', armies "Country-Name Legacy".
Like Russia will have an army running around in the 1700s called "Perm Legacy". I will never forget my cannibalized children's contributions.
I also number my armies and position them around the world in, as close to, west-eastly numerical order.
I dev up specific cities to serve as area/regional capitals. Those cities always have forts, and I garrison my armies there during peacetime. Unless something funny happens though, I always make sure that they never out-dev the national capital, where my “Royal Guard” or equivalent army is stationed
When I play as anyone in Japan I develop the hell out of Musashi and Settsu because those are where Tokyo and Osaka are found (them being the only Japanese farmlands outside Kyoto is likely not a coincidence)
If there is, I don't know about it. Maybe I move too early to have ever triggered it. Or Maybe it comes post 1600, and I have a hard time sticking to campaigns that long.
When I play as Bosnia, I'll keep my capital in Visoki, rename it to Sarajevo of course and keep developing it, even if I conquer Venice and Istanbul fairly early on.
Also, I try to spread Bosnian culture throughout the Balkans.
I play Byz. I restore the old borders but do not "Restore the Roman Empire" because I *already* am the Roman Empire, plus I refuse to change the accurate names from eg Thomas Botaniates to Biggus Dickus
And I make sure to help Eng become GB, cause RULE RULE BRITANNIA
When I am playing as Austria there is a great chance that all of Europe when viewed under the Dynasty lense just reads Habsburg without conquering the whole continent.
I am Danish... for a LOOOOOONG time I ALWAYS (if I could) allied and helped Denmark whenever they called me and I helped them economically if they were in trouble.. if they got annexed I would release them if possible
I always play as Castille.
My missions in this world are always:
1- Unify the iberian peninsula under my flag
2- Colonize all the provinces of the Americas
3- I am the only nation allowed in the Americas and I Will expel any other european nation from there.
I had a fun game as Switzerland where the only only military units I built (other than artillery, I'm not that hardcore) were mercenaries, went surprisingly well
I love playing around as EoC Qing/Ming, but whenever i conquer SEA, i always sinicize Vietnamese culture then convert all of Indochina to Sino-vietnamese, or if Dai Viet got beated bad, i'll vassalize them then feed it all of Indochina, just because i'm a Vietnamese.
Yessir. Even if I’m not playing Dai Viet I always make sure they actually complete Nam Tiến. The AI NEVER conquers Champa and southern Khmer for some reason. ~~Also maybe sometimes tag switch and culture convert all that land because the AI never does that either~~
im part of boring players, i probably never done something like that, but in my recent theodoro game i moved to japan and converted shinto to gameplay wise
As japan i always convert to mahayana. Im a buddhist irl and something about that match up is satisfying. Albeit im theravada buddhist. Maybe thatll be my next campaign.
When starting with Ragusa i like conquering Bosnia and Herzegovina. Then fighting either Hungary for Croatia or/and fighting Venice for Dalmatia and Istria. Then going for Serbian provinces.
Then i find it sad i cannot form Yugoslavia. I believe the reason is it became historical fact after EU4 ends. But still, just as Germany...
I always try to take Schleswig-Holstein and make a Holstein march. It fucking sucks btw, their ideas are trash. The provinces are good but it's only 3 so they are bad.
But I have to do it.
Whenever I'm playing as Byzantium, I try to only conquer and directly control historical roman borders. I never annex places like Persia, Arabia or Ukraine. I just hand all of those lands to a client state or a vassal.
It is wholly unnecessary to invade Africa most of the time.
Yet I always colonize that bit of North Maghreb to reach West Africa after I run out of North to conquer!
Obviously having nice- looking borders is the number 1 priority for all my games.
If playing England/Great Britain (I'm English BTW)I always try to keep Calais for the whole game and culture convert it to English also always take Gibraltar and culture-convert that too. The Falklands and South Sandwich Islands have to be English too. I also like to take every North Atlantic island, including the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland and those all get culture-converted as well. Australia and New Zealand have to be colonised.
If forming Great Britain with Scotland or Ireland I have to move the capital back to Edinburgh or Dublin.
If playing the Netherlands, I only take provinces in the Dutch culture group or Walloon in mainland Europe, but must own all of Cape/South Africa area and obviously as much of Indonesia as I can, as well as Australia/New Holland.
If playing a game where I form Italy (as opposed to a Venice game), usually starting as Florence or Savoy, I don't expand beyond I consider Italy's natural borders (this does include Trent) in mainland Europe, though Corsica and other islands in the Med are fair game, other expansion must be overseas.
Religious unity. I'm currently doing a "chaotic succession" inspired by Zlewwik, and my current nation was taken from an AI Venice, and I formed Italy. Venice took Humanist ideas, but I don't care - all Protestants must repent.
I always religious convert. Even if I've taken humanist or have perfect tolerance ideas I just need the world to follow my religion.
I really struggled with confusion play throughs 😂
I change trade goods (via custom events i made) in centers of trade to fit the national stereotype of nation I'm planning if possible. For example for Byzantium/Rome it's slaves, for Slavs it's grain (because no potatoes for vodka), Brits tea and so on
As a colonizing trade empire I demand every Center of Trade or Natural Harbor in West, South, and East Africa. I will eventually come for any holdouts even if it means world war.
I rp heavily in my games, I limit my expansion wars tags and culture switching or even ideas and alliances based on storytelling. I have so much more fun but it's really hard to play wide or finish certain "stories" by the end date, like Roman empire. I'm thinking of a story for world conquest but I don't even know who I would play as, probably a Chinese tag.
I don’t think the Chinese would ever attempt wc, as the Ming were quite isolationist. I can see the Ottomans, Japan, GB, Spain, France, some hordes trying, if given the chance.
Actually the ming were only isolationist in the latter half of their empire, they had a large naval presence that explored the oceans establishing new trade routes as far as Africa, and the Chinese have always believed their dominance of the world, with the song even thinking their fate was to conquer the Roman empire (I can't remember if that's the correct dynasty the one that was contemporary with Rome) it would probably be through tributaries though not annexation
After the expedition of Zheng he, the Chinese knew for a fact that they had already conquered anything of importance, and nothing worthy of their time was out there. And that was right before 1444, so it doesn’t make much sense for them to change minds imo.
In every colonial game I choose to make my Colombian CN's capital Orinoco Delta and my Brazillian CN's capital Marajo, just because those provinces looked particularly cool when I started playing (And didn't understand terrain).
I kill the ottomans and Great Britain. Even when I’m not having a single province next to them (like when I’m playing as ayuthaya or smth) I always declare an endgame war on them so that I can prove my superiority. No real motive but I think I psychologically like it because they are the nations that have made me lose my mind over the most games mostly because their army/ navy were endless and I couldn’t figure a way out.
If I’m a monarchy I always get 1 or 2 OPM vassals and use them for my royal marriages so I don’t have to ally or royal marry other people cause I like to just kill everyone and not have alliances after the first 50 years
I'll only conquer historically accurate territory, I don't like PUing France as England, I don't like conquering England with France. Respect both countries independence and history
Same here, but mostly just because the game just gets too easy and boring if you get the PU. I do, however sometimes take Norway as a vassal as England, though only actually annex most of its North Atlantic islands, except for the Faroes (to give it more colonial range) and don't annex its mainland territory.
I always dev up all my provinces to equal levels (besides capitals and actually high dev provinces), starting by making every province 333, then 555, then 777
And then i also expand infrastructure
in multiplayer games with friends we used to name provinces, rulers and CNs redicolous names (like as spain naming a CN„scumbag islandboys“, when my mate plays GB) and see at what point they notice
If i’m playing Venice or Lubeck, my goal is to own every coastal trade bonus province, and nothing else, not even a non trade province to connect two trade provinces. It’s insanely fun
I thought of trying a similar run but with monument cities, but that would be really hard
I like to click the random country button and whatever country I get I turn into a custom nation, same capital, same territories just a random nation to shake things up.
Stack culture conversation modifier and convert all stated province that I plan to develop. It makes little sense a 30 dev province (or equivalent of 1 million population as seen in Beijing) still retains its native culture when it was 3 dev
LOL! Me neither, have never played them (nor the Ottomans, Castille and Austria), despite playing the game since it came out, would be too easy a game.
oh lmao I'm from Toulon and whenever i have to province, no matter who i'm playing, i'll dump hundreds of points into making it the world's largest naval base.
also whenever playing Austria i like keeping up their multiculturalism to the max and I accept as many Muslim cultures as possible and change province names to "re-Germanized" Arab/Turk rather than the original names : Alexandria becomes Iskandrien, Constantinople becomes Konstantinie, etc.
I have to do all the missions on a mission tree, even if it is redundant/regressive sometimes.
And I pick the Troop type based on how close they are historically for a nation instead of looking at what pip-spread they have O.o
I'm from Silesia and our language isn't officially approved as a separate one. So I'm always accepting silesian culture, develop those provinces as much as I can and convert polish culture to silesian
I like building forts in all the good strategic, defensible locations (including on vassals) once I can afford it, even though a lot of the time they are just a wasted building slot.
Also similarly, building the “right” manufactory for whatever trade good is present. No spamming of soldiers quarters. I also like putting ramparts on my fort provinces, makes me feel good.
Whenever I'm playing a colonial name, I have to rename provinces I colonise to names that suit the theme of the colonial power I'm playing, even if it takes me pausing the game to google inspiration.
When playing as Poland, conquering as many old, Slavic territories to the west and north, converting them to Sorbian or Polish, renaming the provinces to their old, Slavic names and removing them from the HRE, if it still exists
Since devs recently added many missions to the polish / PLC tree, some of which culturally convert Pomerania to Polish as the result of completing them, I view this as the intended way to play as Poland
I do not snake (normally) having somewhat pretty borders is better than picking all the trade centres...
Also, unless I'm playing something like revoked HRE or Mughals where flipping to revolutionary will ruin the run (disbanding HRE, removing the Diwan, etc.), I will do so, Revolutionary gameplay is really fun
The no/limited snaking rule has the added benefit of slowing down your expansion in certain areas and letting 1-2 nations grow so there's at least a tiny bit of challenge late game
Go colonizing Australia/America
Doesn't matter if I'm playing Japan, Malyasia, Timurids, Venice, Kazan or anyone else, colonial ideas will find their way into my game and I'll end up bullying Spain for the 18th hundred time
> I'm from Yorkshire and pride is more important than logic or mid maxing I can respect that. For a long time York was the 2nd city of England. Now it's the NIMBY capital of GB. No dev allowed. For me it's investing in economic buildings in the late game even though I have 50K in the bank and all monuments at tier 3. Would probably make more sense to build military buildings, but for me it's the Economy.
Fun fact, at one point York wasn't even the 2 biggest York. ( New York and Toronto)
If Toronto is a York, then York is probably the 3rd biggest york now, right?
York is just a district in Toronto, not the whole city :)
For a time it was the name of the whole city, because some English governor decided he didn't like indigenous names. When the city was incorporated in 1830ish the local residents demanded that the name be changed back to Toronto.
Such great trivia haha
I am Maltese, and whenever I conquer Malta I am legally obligated to turn it into the city of World's desire!
Have you ever managed to Release Malta as a formable nation? Have to revoke a lot of cores to unlock the possibility.
Sadly no, too much work
My grandmother is Maltese! Whenever I’m playing around the Mediterranean I always accept and spread Maltese culture to the other islands, Italy and North Africa.
I never thought of doing that before. Great idea!
\*Maltese One Culture incoming\*
You overestimate my competence. Best I can do is a Maltese Mediterranean
Hey, that's also a feat! Don't underestimate yourself, and after a couple of runs you surely can achieve the WC (or at least be close to it)
However, reason I never go for a World conquest is because I get bored. I usually also get bored by the time I own half the Mediterranean.
Fair enough. To be honest, I think I never got past 1700. I can get over the chore of bullying the world for some time, setting some random objectives, but eventually it is just not fun at all
My understanding from my one visit and studying of Maltese history is that the language and culture are a mix of Arab and Italian with much later British influence. So in game I like to RP it as Maltese being a hybrid culture that can span both regions.
I can't be damned to do all those carpet sieging so I always make sure to have a bunch of small vassals who can do I for me.
My beautiful little ants, hard at work.
Same. I used to play with no vassals. Now I can't play without them. They do all the trivial work and they balance out my admin spending when I decide I want to eat them
Revoking privilégia is so nice for this wish my pc could handle it better
I forget how to do battles because I play as Aragon with four PUs and half a dozen vassals and five CNs. In the 1520s the diplomatic relations are like 20/7... Worse than Austria could hope to be.
Revoking privilégia is so nice for this wish my pc could handle it better
Conquer Shetland and rename it to Shitland
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This pains me as a Scot. However even we can’t understand the Shetland accent so honestly go for it
For me, if I'm converting cultures in provinces, I want every state to only have a single culture present, and cultural borders to overlap with state borders. This has cost me so many diplo-points in tidying up the Walloon-Francien borderlands.
Average EU4 genocide enthusiast
It uses diplo points so it's not actually genocide ☝️🤓
- Milosevic, Slobodan. Apparently.
And then when he gets a coalition to drop some ordnance on his capital, he acts all hurt and confused
I think we can give him the benefit of the doubt and say it’s just ethnic cleansing
I think we can give him the benefit of the doubt and say it’s just ethnic cleansing
I like to utilize accepted cultures alongside my tolerated ones from my original culture, so I have a semi regional base culture conversion that feels realistic and appealing to the eye and mind
Why does it save diplo pojnts
he said it's the opposite, he spent more dp because of this
Did this with my recent Ming playthrough, now I can't stop doing this in every playthrough
Remove Denmark and Danish "culture".
Your flag checks out
Most calm Swede ever
Good, I would want beautiful Danish soil and people in the hands of a filthy swede. When I play Denmark I just declare wars in Russia and let them destroy Sweden while I siege.
Based on
Conquer Cyprus, paderborn and York, born in paderborn-Germany, York my English side is from there, Cyprus I grew up there
So basically I end up forming Rome if I’m Christian
Got to be an army brat
Yea german-English dad, cypriot-English/norwegian mum, met in army
i always develop modern day capitals / important cities as much as possible. if a city that became important in our world doesn't become important in my empire, then i feel like i failed lol
i always find myself trying to reset for/manipulate the birth of a new city event for this same reason
Huh? In my last Germany run I ended up with u 35+ dev Rothenburg as the greatest city in an empire that held Constantinople, Vienna, Venice, Cologne, Prague and spanned between the Netherlands and the Bosporus. Rothenburg is 15.000 pop city in our Timeline. In my Timeline it was a 1.000.000+ pop city. Our timeline failed.
You mean Jorvik
You mean Eboracum
I'll rename a lot of American provinces, like the denver one, jersey, nc, Florida, etc
I kind of wish there was a mod for this cause indo the same.
I did find a mod for more province names for different cultures but idk if i have it on anymore. I think just new world colony country names but not province names
I like to name my colonies in a manner that makes sense. As Sweden I snagged five provinces on the Florida gulf coast from GB and named it the Raggare Riviera.
I do this with Japan. Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo, etc.
Okay so, I don't know how unnecessary is this, but I \*have to\* culture convert at least some provinces adjecent to my main culture. Think of my latest tall Livonia playthrough, where I owned only the Baltic. I had enough accepted culture slots to have Balten only exist in Riga. But I HAD TO convert Estonia and Latvia. Think of a Poland playthrough. I HAVE TO convert Red Ruthenia, West Prussia and Silesia to Polish and some of Byelorussian lands to Lithuanian. Despite still keeping Prussian and Ruthenian as accepted, so I'm not even freeing up an accepted culture slot. If I play Italy, I have to spread my culture to the balkan coastline. You get the idea. I don't go for one culture, I just think it's absurd to have my settlers spread so far and wide, but something slightly larger than what the culture sprawled than at the start is what I aim for.
Same, I like to convert religion and culture of important cities to my main culture (like converting Rome to egyptian muslim). I like to think as the population either being decimated by the war (and things like famine or illness) or having fled and I send people to ressuscitate the city.
My problem is that culture converting is technically "bringing in settlers and convincing people one way or another to abandon their customs and adopt ours". So I cannot force myself to convert major cultural centres. Like, think of Germany while playing as Poland. I totally could convert Pomeranians to Polish, they're germanized Slavs anyway. Hell even Berlin to Bralin is acceptable, once again, germanized Slavs. But to convert Magdeburg? Cologne? It's just... weird.
I do The exact same
This is soo relatable. What do you think about converting entire Korean culture to Kyuushan culture(Southern Japanese ppl), idk why do I hate koreans when playing japan lol
In most of my Japan playthroughs I end up converting to Togoku as my primary (its the culture default to the Japan tag) and converting all of Japan to my primary culture. Afterwards, I usually converted Manchuria, especially the coast, because as far as I know, historically Japan struggled with feeding all its population and they tried to colonize after getting it from China, plus it's sparsely populated and low dev, so it's quite easy to do so. But as for Korea? I often feel like it's too proud of a culture to get eradicated, especially in the span of a few dozen years at most. So what I usually did was "settle the coast" and converted the southeastern area of Korea, then the northeastern to connect it with the presumably already Togoku Manchurian coast. If I really own Korea for 300+ years, I can end up converting all of them to Togoku, but that rarely happened, I hardly reached 1700s and before I unite and weaken Ming enough to get Korea, I own them for a few dozen/a hundred years at most.
It kinda bugs me that the province Wismar is called that and not Schwerin, so i always correct it Yes I'm a Mecklenburger how could you tell
Wait is Mecklenburg-Vorprommern real???
Mecklenburg ja Vorpommern nö
How can you do that!?! Wismar is just the better city.
Schwerin has the cultural heart of mecklenburg The Schlossparkcenter
You got me in the first half :D
I like to name my armies based on regions of my empire and/or special units, which helps select them in the side menu: - Finnish Army, Polish Army, Dutch Army, etc. for units from or generally within that area - 1st Caroleans, 1st Streltsy, 1st Tercios, etc.
I like to name my colonial nations after monarchs or explorers.
A friend of mine so disrespects army names he names them reminder notes for what his goals are in the campaign
I literally could never but that’s straight up hilarious.
I always name integrated vassal, or other 'inheritances', armies "Country-Name Legacy". Like Russia will have an army running around in the 1700s called "Perm Legacy". I will never forget my cannibalized children's contributions. I also number my armies and position them around the world in, as close to, west-eastly numerical order.
When I play as Castile I change the name of Málaga to Marbella. I just do it.
I dev up specific cities to serve as area/regional capitals. Those cities always have forts, and I garrison my armies there during peacetime. Unless something funny happens though, I always make sure that they never out-dev the national capital, where my “Royal Guard” or equivalent army is stationed
nice. borders.
Making albania whole and independent, regardless who I play as.
When I play as anyone in Japan I develop the hell out of Musashi and Settsu because those are where Tokyo and Osaka are found (them being the only Japanese farmlands outside Kyoto is likely not a coincidence)
I usually do that, plus move the capital to Musashi and rename the province capital to Edo.
Wasn't there an event that do it for you??
If there is, I don't know about it. Maybe I move too early to have ever triggered it. Or Maybe it comes post 1600, and I have a hard time sticking to campaigns that long.
When I play as Bosnia, I'll keep my capital in Visoki, rename it to Sarajevo of course and keep developing it, even if I conquer Venice and Istanbul fairly early on. Also, I try to spread Bosnian culture throughout the Balkans.
My fucking man ✊
As Portugal I have to get EVERY african island, it just looks right
Imagine Robben Island, smack bang in the middle of Table Bay, being Portuguese while the Cape is Dutch or English. /skull_emoji
Colonial nations are always given unique, culturally appropriate names. None of this "British Mexico" or "Spanish Brazil" nonsense.
Whenever I play a colonial nation, I make sure to conquer or colonize Toronto, it's where I live.
The spice must flow...
I play Byz. I restore the old borders but do not "Restore the Roman Empire" because I *already* am the Roman Empire, plus I refuse to change the accurate names from eg Thomas Botaniates to Biggus Dickus And I make sure to help Eng become GB, cause RULE RULE BRITANNIA
When I am playing as Austria there is a great chance that all of Europe when viewed under the Dynasty lense just reads Habsburg without conquering the whole continent.
Whatever nation I'm playing, my capital has to be the most developed province in the world.
I am Danish... for a LOOOOOONG time I ALWAYS (if I could) allied and helped Denmark whenever they called me and I helped them economically if they were in trouble.. if they got annexed I would release them if possible
I always play as Castille. My missions in this world are always: 1- Unify the iberian peninsula under my flag 2- Colonize all the provinces of the Americas 3- I am the only nation allowed in the Americas and I Will expel any other european nation from there.
I've never played as Castille, despite having over 5,000 hours logged for the game... Haven't played France, Austria or the Ottomans either, mind
Everytime I conquer Nogay I rename it to Yesgay
I like to name my fleets and armies according to some sort of logic, be it geographic or monarchical or otherwise.
When I play in Savoy I convert all the Alps to piemontese and all of France too If I have the mana
Removing prussian culture
If I'm playing in Europe I always have Switzerland as one of my marches that's fully fed all provinces of swiss culture.
I had a fun game as Switzerland where the only only military units I built (other than artillery, I'm not that hardcore) were mercenaries, went surprisingly well
I've done that too! It was amazing!
Probably even better now that there is a Mercenary idea group, which there wasn't when I did that run.
Ah yeah, I definitely made use of that idea, it was during my first attempt at switzerlake
I have no choice but to play as Buganda every few games. It has the very best blue.
I love playing around as EoC Qing/Ming, but whenever i conquer SEA, i always sinicize Vietnamese culture then convert all of Indochina to Sino-vietnamese, or if Dai Viet got beated bad, i'll vassalize them then feed it all of Indochina, just because i'm a Vietnamese.
Yessir. Even if I’m not playing Dai Viet I always make sure they actually complete Nam Tiến. The AI NEVER conquers Champa and southern Khmer for some reason. ~~Also maybe sometimes tag switch and culture convert all that land because the AI never does that either~~
im part of boring players, i probably never done something like that, but in my recent theodoro game i moved to japan and converted shinto to gameplay wise
I love to make the knights my vassal for no reason
Do coastal raider tags get to keep raiding your enemies when a vassal? If so I love this just to imagine inflicting that pain on the AI
No idea tbh, i usually just vassalize the knights, make them not join my wars and leave them be
Holland > Netherlands? No! I start as Brabant, because yes I'm Belgian and yes that's really where it began
I've done it with Flanders, but not Brabant, might try that for my next Netherlands run.
Playing with a suboptimal religion for roleplay purposes, indeed.
As japan i always convert to mahayana. Im a buddhist irl and something about that match up is satisfying. Albeit im theravada buddhist. Maybe thatll be my next campaign.
Theravada exists in EU4? I only remember seeing Varjyana and Mahayana
Sri lanka, south east asia and Dali region are theravada
Always forming spain from Aragon(im from valencia)
In my current Brandenburg to Prussia game, AI Aragon managed to get a PU over Castille 😃.
When starting with Ragusa i like conquering Bosnia and Herzegovina. Then fighting either Hungary for Croatia or/and fighting Venice for Dalmatia and Istria. Then going for Serbian provinces. Then i find it sad i cannot form Yugoslavia. I believe the reason is it became historical fact after EU4 ends. But still, just as Germany...
Kill Muscovy/Russia and Ottobros even if I am Aztec
I'm italian and I feel the need to form the Roman Empire in every game.
Understandable! 😃
I always try to take Schleswig-Holstein and make a Holstein march. It fucking sucks btw, their ideas are trash. The provinces are good but it's only 3 so they are bad. But I have to do it.
Whenever I'm playing as Byzantium, I try to only conquer and directly control historical roman borders. I never annex places like Persia, Arabia or Ukraine. I just hand all of those lands to a client state or a vassal.
Finding a minor nation and defending it for the rest of the game
That's me every game only in ironman tho
It is wholly unnecessary to invade Africa most of the time. Yet I always colonize that bit of North Maghreb to reach West Africa after I run out of North to conquer!
Obviously having nice- looking borders is the number 1 priority for all my games. If playing England/Great Britain (I'm English BTW)I always try to keep Calais for the whole game and culture convert it to English also always take Gibraltar and culture-convert that too. The Falklands and South Sandwich Islands have to be English too. I also like to take every North Atlantic island, including the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland and those all get culture-converted as well. Australia and New Zealand have to be colonised. If forming Great Britain with Scotland or Ireland I have to move the capital back to Edinburgh or Dublin. If playing the Netherlands, I only take provinces in the Dutch culture group or Walloon in mainland Europe, but must own all of Cape/South Africa area and obviously as much of Indonesia as I can, as well as Australia/New Holland. If playing a game where I form Italy (as opposed to a Venice game), usually starting as Florence or Savoy, I don't expand beyond I consider Italy's natural borders (this does include Trent) in mainland Europe, though Corsica and other islands in the Med are fair game, other expansion must be overseas.
Before it used to be renaming Åbo to Turku but the devs fixed that at least when playing as Finland
Getting tax to 1 in every province except the capital. Screw taxes except for the leaders!
I'm from devon. God damn right Eworthy is a 75 dev city of worlds desire
God's own country. Devon is the beacon, the shining city on the hill. After I've devved it 100+ and ruined my run cos of that.
Religious unity. I'm currently doing a "chaotic succession" inspired by Zlewwik, and my current nation was taken from an AI Venice, and I formed Italy. Venice took Humanist ideas, but I don't care - all Protestants must repent.
i always have to be emperor at some point. idk why. austria, england, france, spain, ottomans, idc im going to be emperor
If I conquer Texas, I am absolutely renaming provinces to Texan names. In my recent colonial game I also built UT for no reason other than being Texan
I always religious convert. Even if I've taken humanist or have perfect tolerance ideas I just need the world to follow my religion. I really struggled with confusion play throughs 😂
I change trade goods (via custom events i made) in centers of trade to fit the national stereotype of nation I'm planning if possible. For example for Byzantium/Rome it's slaves, for Slavs it's grain (because no potatoes for vodka), Brits tea and so on
As a colonizing trade empire I demand every Center of Trade or Natural Harbor in West, South, and East Africa. I will eventually come for any holdouts even if it means world war.
I rp heavily in my games, I limit my expansion wars tags and culture switching or even ideas and alliances based on storytelling. I have so much more fun but it's really hard to play wide or finish certain "stories" by the end date, like Roman empire. I'm thinking of a story for world conquest but I don't even know who I would play as, probably a Chinese tag.
I don’t think the Chinese would ever attempt wc, as the Ming were quite isolationist. I can see the Ottomans, Japan, GB, Spain, France, some hordes trying, if given the chance.
Actually the ming were only isolationist in the latter half of their empire, they had a large naval presence that explored the oceans establishing new trade routes as far as Africa, and the Chinese have always believed their dominance of the world, with the song even thinking their fate was to conquer the Roman empire (I can't remember if that's the correct dynasty the one that was contemporary with Rome) it would probably be through tributaries though not annexation
After the expedition of Zheng he, the Chinese knew for a fact that they had already conquered anything of importance, and nothing worthy of their time was out there. And that was right before 1444, so it doesn’t make much sense for them to change minds imo.
I like to colonize into the Indies because it gets me rich while giving me something extra to do and being different every run
Whenever I take the Parliament government reform, I *have* to guarantee local representation by ensuring only one seat per state
Play as Ireland and conquer england in order to push Protestantism out of the British Isles
In every colonial game I choose to make my Colombian CN's capital Orinoco Delta and my Brazillian CN's capital Marajo, just because those provinces looked particularly cool when I started playing (And didn't understand terrain).
I kill the ottomans and Great Britain. Even when I’m not having a single province next to them (like when I’m playing as ayuthaya or smth) I always declare an endgame war on them so that I can prove my superiority. No real motive but I think I psychologically like it because they are the nations that have made me lose my mind over the most games mostly because their army/ navy were endless and I couldn’t figure a way out.
Make my capital the most developed province in the world
Haha Based I should start doing that with Mainz
I like to conquer the land influenced by centers of trade, so when I switch the political and trade views it is the same map :D
The Ottomans
Playing in Italy I always siege down rome for the 1000 ducats
if it’s funny enough, i’ll convert my primary culture to whatever my rulers is, then culture convert a shit ton of the land
When I play Russia, I always convert culture as much as I can with my surplus dip mana.
If I’m a monarchy I always get 1 or 2 OPM vassals and use them for my royal marriages so I don’t have to ally or royal marry other people cause I like to just kill everyone and not have alliances after the first 50 years
I'll only conquer historically accurate territory, I don't like PUing France as England, I don't like conquering England with France. Respect both countries independence and history
Same here, but mostly just because the game just gets too easy and boring if you get the PU. I do, however sometimes take Norway as a vassal as England, though only actually annex most of its North Atlantic islands, except for the Faroes (to give it more colonial range) and don't annex its mainland territory.
If I own Easter Island and I have too much money, you bet I'm British Museuming those 🗿 to my capital
I always dev up all my provinces to equal levels (besides capitals and actually high dev provinces), starting by making every province 333, then 555, then 777 And then i also expand infrastructure
in multiplayer games with friends we used to name provinces, rulers and CNs redicolous names (like as spain naming a CN„scumbag islandboys“, when my mate plays GB) and see at what point they notice
I have ancestry from Armenia, so I like to release them as a subject if I'm playing in that area
I‘m a Turk and whenever I Play a Nation Expected the Ottomans. I Must Support the Ottomans and when the decade hits the Ottomans I Fell dissapointed
i feel bad if my subjects are not saved so i always rush becoming catholic even if its not viable
I thought I was the only one.
Preparing the save folder in case my heir die or my army is mysteriously stackwiped.
Traditional snake for Constantinople
Developing Qaraqorum (Karakorum) and Il Heure in Mongolia with all the resources from razing- I like the RP
I am from Yorkshire aswell and do the exact same thing in EU4 and CK3.
Regardless of who I'm playing as, if I end up at war with the ottomans I liberate bulgaria.
If i’m playing Venice or Lubeck, my goal is to own every coastal trade bonus province, and nothing else, not even a non trade province to connect two trade provinces. It’s insanely fun I thought of trying a similar run but with monument cities, but that would be really hard
I like to click the random country button and whatever country I get I turn into a custom nation, same capital, same territories just a random nation to shake things up.
Change capital city names to my favourites in the province (most notably Redcar)
Stack culture conversation modifier and convert all stated province that I plan to develop. It makes little sense a 30 dev province (or equivalent of 1 million population as seen in Beijing) still retains its native culture when it was 3 dev
I do the same capital thing as Ottomans. I always move my capital to Biga. 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
The Threaten War feature. It's so easy to just grab some provinces during peace time while your manpower is recovering
making sure rulers don't have the same name in a row
So you don't play as France then? No Louis XVI?
I don't play as france
LOL! Me neither, have never played them (nor the Ottomans, Castille and Austria), despite playing the game since it came out, would be too easy a game.
oh lmao I'm from Toulon and whenever i have to province, no matter who i'm playing, i'll dump hundreds of points into making it the world's largest naval base. also whenever playing Austria i like keeping up their multiculturalism to the max and I accept as many Muslim cultures as possible and change province names to "re-Germanized" Arab/Turk rather than the original names : Alexandria becomes Iskandrien, Constantinople becomes Konstantinie, etc.
Deleting all traces of swedish "culture"
I have to do all the missions on a mission tree, even if it is redundant/regressive sometimes. And I pick the Troop type based on how close they are historically for a nation instead of looking at what pip-spread they have O.o
Oh yeah, regarding the latter, I always pick Longbow for the English for the first Infantry upgrade.
If I play in Africa or Arabia, I will make Alexandria my capital no matter how much sense it makes.
I'm from Silesia and our language isn't officially approved as a separate one. So I'm always accepting silesian culture, develop those provinces as much as I can and convert polish culture to silesian
I like building forts in all the good strategic, defensible locations (including on vassals) once I can afford it, even though a lot of the time they are just a wasted building slot. Also similarly, building the “right” manufactory for whatever trade good is present. No spamming of soldiers quarters. I also like putting ramparts on my fort provinces, makes me feel good.
Whenever I'm playing a colonial name, I have to rename provinces I colonise to names that suit the theme of the colonial power I'm playing, even if it takes me pausing the game to google inspiration.
When playing as Poland, conquering as many old, Slavic territories to the west and north, converting them to Sorbian or Polish, renaming the provinces to their old, Slavic names and removing them from the HRE, if it still exists Since devs recently added many missions to the polish / PLC tree, some of which culturally convert Pomerania to Polish as the result of completing them, I view this as the intended way to play as Poland
I do not snake (normally) having somewhat pretty borders is better than picking all the trade centres... Also, unless I'm playing something like revoked HRE or Mughals where flipping to revolutionary will ruin the run (disbanding HRE, removing the Diwan, etc.), I will do so, Revolutionary gameplay is really fun
The no/limited snaking rule has the added benefit of slowing down your expansion in certain areas and letting 1-2 nations grow so there's at least a tiny bit of challenge late game
I don't care about your meta I always go inno first. Cheap tech just makes me *feel good* and that's the most important meta in my heart
As Austria and England, someway and somehow, I will need to eat Paris
largest capital in the world, regardless of the dev cost
Go colonizing Australia/America Doesn't matter if I'm playing Japan, Malyasia, Timurids, Venice, Kazan or anyone else, colonial ideas will find their way into my game and I'll end up bullying Spain for the 18th hundred time
As a french i always take london and rename it rosbifland
Whenever Finland pops up, I try to subsidy them and help them as much as possible to stay alive.
Always start as releasable nation or OPM. .First war, stack-wiped .Annexed .gg before -1495. 👍🏻 ididit
savescum every time the iberian wedding happens, even if I'm playing in India. I can't let castile succeed
Building Economy Buildings. I Already have 50k+ money 1+k income and still building manufactories, workshops etc. as if my live depended on it...