I was planning on starting out with my converted nation from CK2. However, considering the fact that I've never played an EU game before, and I don't have the slightest idea what I'm doing, I pretty quickly discovered that this was a bad idea. lol
I'm now thinking that Spain might be a good nation to learn "learn the ropes" with. Conquering the Aztecs sounds like a lot of fun.
Ohh... it is finally out... arghhh more sleepless nights
I've spent so many hours of my life on the series. When I was in middle school I was playing the first one for hours. It was like "wow...this game is awesome". So much to the game I was blown away.
Just got it.. but it is getting a tad complicated now days plus I need to clean up the visual aspects.. everything seems so small.
I have not had a lot of time to invest into the game yet, but I have dabbled with Portugal to get a feel for the changes in both trade and colonization. I may quickly become bored with them and move on to someone else however. There really is little competition for them (with a 1444 start) - It is easy to ally Castille and Aragon right out of the gate, already allied with England, and you have a leg up on exploration and can jump right into settling and establishing trade in nodes with little competition (other than your home node and competition with Castille).
I am debating whether to play them further in order to set up a nice spice island/india/capetown/brazil/portugal trade dominance or to take on another nation with a bit more of a challenge. I am eyeballing Denmark with the 1444 start, or even Norway. I am also considering the Netherlands, but they are not established until later, and even then they are embroiled in war with Spain in their early days. Ireland might be fun to try to unify, but you are a small fish with big players around and that might be an easy wipe if you get picked on.
I frankly do not know who I want to play at this point - aside from that I do not want to play one of the established "big boys" and that I want to at least go with European/western tech for my first (several?) playthrough. Too many possibilities, such a dilemma.
That's where I'm at. I tried France to get a feel for the game. 100 or so years in, I'm the biggest, baddest guy around. No more challenge. I am thinking what to go for next. Muscovy, Poland, Brandenburg, Byzantine are on my shortlist. An extended list includes Japan, Austria, Hungary and Sweden.
I have found myself eyeballing Japan quite hard as well, that looks like a fun empire to establish from nothing through sheer force of will, but I do want to not incur the tech malus for my first serious play-through.
Poland or Muscovy is good. The tech malus on eastern tech group is just 20%. It's a bit of an extra penalty than it was in EU3. In EU3, eastern european tech had a 5% deficiency in research. Over there, western tech was research at 100% and eastern at 95%. I do think they should diminish the deficit in Eastern tech in a coming patch to either 110% or 105%.
same for ottomans, maybe after they conquer constantinopole and reorgnize their culture, they could go from maybe 125% to 120/115%.
I love that the game is so in depth, and that when you get going you have so much time invested in a single play through, but damn it makes it tough to determine which nation is to to be the one to invest all that time into :2razz:
I have been staring at the game map and clicking around for the last 45 minutes, I think I am just going to fire up Portugal and see about dominating the Indian ocean for now. There is also the possibility of continuing my viking/norse pagan save from CKII, but I am fairly sure I will leave that one for a rainy day.
i don't like importing my ck2 game. If I would, there would be a Carpathian empire stretching from the mediterranian sea in the south, the black sea in the east, the baltic sea in the north and all the way to Strassbourg in the west with the capitol in Byzantium. Oh, and the aztecs would own Spain. Quite a turn of events there
I feel you on that....I'm not a fan of importing ck games or importing EU games into Victoria
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