I got overrun by a central European coalition. I was doing pretty well but was gobbling up land and learned the danger of high aggressive expansion. My first decent length game was with France. I already have several other countries I want to try but it will be quite a while before I get to them. The political climate in other areas of the world are very different and I guess there's even a bunch of different mechanics available elsewhere. I've tried out a few different starting countries but they have all been in Western Europe. The replay value seems huge on this game. Sometimes you have to fight a war without the expectation of even taking any land - I've fought against Burgundy just to force him to release vassals that I can then befriend. You really have to think through what land you want to keep and prepare for that well ahead of a war. EU4 really punishes you for doing that with the coalition and aggressive expansion mechanics. I'm used to just smashing someone, taking all their land, and moving on to the next one. Military conquest is interesting and VERY different from Civ. The combat is not particularly exciting (my stack is bigger than your stack) but there are enough factors that influence the outcome that you have to be pretty careful about where and when you engage. There's a lot of ways to isolate or deter your enemies. Diplomacy is much deeper and seems a lot more powerful in EU4. I've been a Civ player for quite a while so the game is a significant change. So a week or two ago I watched a tutorial between a new player and a really experienced player which helped me get enough of a grasp to start playing.Ģ0-30 hours later, I'm having quite a bit of fun. I had attempted to learn this about a year ago but got frustrated with the huge number of mechanics and no clear idea of what the heck they did. Yes, I'm a few years late to this game but have finally broken through the steep initial learning curve.
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