3 ESSENTIAL Tips for War in EU4
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- Today we look at an EU4 tutorial or EU4 war guide featuring my top 3 essential tips for war. These include scortching the earth, shift + consolidate and surrounding sieges. A war strategy in EU4 is hard to come by so I thought I'd make this brief list to help you become the next napoleon! With this, you can defeat eu4 coalitions and even the ottomans!
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Also don't forget to declare war on the first day of the month to get an easy stacking plus also scoop up a few mothballed forts if your quick!
That's why army morale should recover every single day more like in HOI4, which would make more sense and make the game perform even slower.
@@piotr1561 Even slower 😂😂 What would be better is being able to declare two kinds of wars, formal war with warning of a few months for your enemy to prepare. And surprise war that costs more AE. But it would be a huge change, so EU5 maybe.
@Sam Wallace Truce breaking and no-cb isn't intended as a way to declare war, its just there as to not limit the player. The ai doesn't do it and doing it makes the player punished severely. Its not something an unexperienced player can do.
@Sam Wallace Regular wars don't give enemies time to prepare.
@Sam Wallace Yes, it is.
4: always trap 50k English stacks in Ireland
Unless you are in Ireland of course
@@prestonjones1653 Even if you are in Ireland.
@@Menno_3 5d chess
Only 50k? i trapped 250k there and another 100 in Cornwall
@@arekzawistowski2609 I never even allow the English to have that many soldiers to begin with. By 1600 I have all of England as Scandinavia.
Scorching the Earth was a recent but extremely welcome discovery in the game, it makes chasing down stacks in your country and defeating the enemy in detail much easier
I prefer strategic placing of forts over chasing down stacks in my own lands
Doesnt it work both ways? Always thought it would slow down your troops as well?
@@MrRoyalOss the country that occupies the province doesn't get slowed down, i believe
I believe if they occupy your forts it does apply, not so sure about the quicker occupations, it works best when you're on the defence though since you can reinforce faster than they can
i have trouble making ming collapse... ive seen youtubers say its easiest using ships to blockade... but also its supposed to help them collapse by scorching earth and creating devastation.. but, when i just played mughals i warred ming about 6-10 times.. i lost count... taking land scorching their whole nation every time, and they never collapsed..
Last tip is kinda odd since hostile forts crease zone of control, unlikely you could occupy all provinces adjacent to a fort.
And even if you were able to get them there, you’ll have split your forces and can’t easily consolidate them if the enemy attacks one of the armies. It would only really work if you outnumber the enemy greatly, and at that point why would you worry about terrain advantages?
These are great!
Nice seeing you here! Hope things are going well.
I'd love to see a 'how to make easy money' tutorial
Take trade ideas not the economy, trade is one of the most broken thing to have good economy
Choose trade gg ez win
Be Portugal
If you are playing as the ottomans. Debase currency then go to religions tab then click the button if you are legislative
Bankruptcy goes brrrrrr
It is worth noting that shift-consolidate will slow down your overall replenishment rate for an army, so it is only situationally useful.
In the most basic example - an army of 10 units with 100 casualties each if you shift consolidate the time to get back to 10,000 men in total changes from 1 month to 10 months (for 100% replenishment rate).
Also - the second obvious piece of advice is - don't shit consolidate to less infantry than you have regiments of artillery in an army.
If you've got 6,000 infantry in 10 regiments and 10k artillery in 10 regiments and you shift consolidate and go straight into a battle - you're going to lose 4000 artillery manpower from the units on either flank almost regardless of if you win the battle. You're better off having the infantry tank at 60% and letting all the artillery do their damage for longer in most situations.
good info, didn't even cross my mind when I shift consolidated a ton on one of my armies and it became so depleted after three engagements.
Exactly not to mention it costs more money by having to keep recruiting new units to replace the ones that were consolidated which is almost impossible early game with many countries as their income is nonexistent. It's generally easier to just let your units replenish as needed instead of consolidating.
Another tip is if you have allys sieging a fort, I like to throw in a small stack (even 1 stack) so progress isnt lost when AI inevitably hops off the siege for no reason.
CONGRATULATIONS ON 50K! Well done guys!
For a beginner like me, this is actually very useful!
One handy tip is that the AI can't coordinate with other AIs and is shockingly bad at coordinating with itself. It often won't merge its armies, so it won't attack big armies that you've got because your army is bigger than its little sub-armies, even if they overall outnumber you.
And that's it, really. A player with even a little experience will start noticing that the AI doesn't haul around in massive death-stacks looking for battles (well maybe late-game, but all stacks are death-stacks by that point).
@@classiclife7204 except when I'm in a death war and they stack 80k on the one fort I really need to hold just so I can't attack them with my measely 30k.
@@IceNinja18 True, heh!
Yeah totally agree, playing as Tver with vassal swarm and easily beat commonwealth by sieging with like 20k while his 40k+ walk around un-merged in panic lol
The last tip was rlly useful never thought of that
The last one was pretty good tbh
I only found out about shift-consolidating after about 1700 hours, and I feel stupid.
I never shift consolidate, I do it manually. I hate the dangling 126 size regiment, so I aim for all regiments over 900.
consolidating troops can sometimes be a bad idea: it reduces your reinforce speed, because reinforce speed is based on the number of soldiers in a given regiment, to a point, but also can hurt you in combat, if you end up having a significantly lower combat width.
Could we have a part 2 sometime soon
So are you saying that the defensive bonus transfers from the enemy country to you as long as your army controls the provinces adjacent to the fort, or are you simply instructing that one should fight on a province away from the fort so the enemy doesn't get any bonus?
If the fort is on defensive terrain, the besiegers get the penalty for all combat on that fort, so what you want to do is force the enemy to not fight you on their own forts. A fun way to use this is that rebels are always the attacker on forts even if you are at war with their nation, so you can fight an enemy army on an enemy's fort and the rebels will get the penalties, and you can steal the siege of a fort from them.
It refers to the second one, in eu4 you don't get any bonus by surrounding a fortified province
@@dr0g_Oakblood Love when that happens
@@dr0g_Oakblood Plus you keep siege progress so you can pretty much let rebels do most of the sieging and then swoop in for the occupation
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yes!
Hire mercenaries & call a lot of allies
That's how i defeated all congo region as a small African country "kalundwe"
Stable video 👍
morale feeding deserved to be in this video
MAN, I didn't know you could shift consolidate, I always just got new regiments normal consolidating
thank you so much for the short form video. i have adhd and often cannot tolerate the 40+ minute "tutorials" people make that go into every modifier and bit of math in the code.
Also remember to create an army
Next one: How to choose your units in EU4
Get the colored unit type mod
I don't consolidate because hate hiring new regiments
its sometimes a must if you need to fight with stack that is not consolidated.
they are much weaker if the regiment is not full
so having like 10 regiments of 500 manpower is much worse than having 5 regiments of 1000 manpower
Wait so shift clicking consolidated doesn't remove the empty ones but fills full squads ?.
Thousands of hours in and I didn't know that one.
"For the low price of 5 mil points"
Russia, with hundreds of provinces: 😢
You don't have to scorch every single province lol. Just 3-4 key provinces with forts and their adjacent ones
@@lesnoyelf228 but wouldnt it be silly to collapse the economy
Wouldnt the AI just target the smaller stacks and u lose everything?
What if there are two neighbouring forts in bad terrain that cannot be surrounded?
Bring more cannon fodder or reduce the enemy number enough that they won't attack you. You may also try breaking an opening in the walls for 50 mil points for a quicker siege. If that is still not good enough you can make an opening in the fort and then assault the fort. Only do this if you have the numbers to spare as even a 1000 defenders will wipe out a ridiculous amount of your men. I personally only do this when the fort has a maximum of 400 men defending it. Also, only assault when the enemy isn't nearby as your morale and troop count will plummet very quickly depending on the number of men defending the fort.
should you not scorched earth the provinces that you want to take? or doesnt matter, do whatever is necessary to win the war?
I mean, provinces immediately after the peace deal don’t provide much money anyways
Actually scorching earth's negative bonus to movement speed works only if you control province.
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If you dont control the province your trying to defend it comes down to chance wheter you or the enemy get the minus terrain
Oh wow, I didn't know that
Cool
Bruh, you can learn all of these from DDRJake's old streams
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I always found the whole "Attack your own fort and get a defensive bonus" thing pretty funny.
"Sir, the enemy army is coming, we will fight an uphill battle if stay near the fort"
"Roger that, let's literally move 100 meters away from the fort or something"
"Sir, the fort is uh... Following us"
"WHAT?!!"