Europa Universalis IV announced

[Queequeg]

Doing a Reformed England (eventually Commonwealth) playthrough, Hard-Hard because I was afraid I'd get bored not having to constantly defend borders.  Formed UK by 1510, throne went from Edward V Lancaster to Jane I de Valois, went Reformed 1520, the moment I leave a pretty vicious period of prolonged civil war I get a PU with France, me leading.  Not totally sure how I can break it while keeping them in the dynasty.  I have another Edward coming up with near-perfect Stats and the British-French juggernaut will basically be able to do anything.

[Alcibiades]

When did I do that? 

One quick example is when Alci played France, and you played Spain.  France needed to be contained to keep the game balanced, and Brandenburg/Austria/Italy were willing to do that on the other side of it, but after one lost war you basically gave up on that and played for second place.

And you are painting a far grimmer picture about our MP games than I recall. I recall people having fun, even if PvP wasn't always perfectly balanced and even if someone went off to conquer places elsewhere on the map. Do we really need some rigid victory conditions and perfect balance to enjoy ourselves?

No question that we did have some fun, in some games more than others, but at the same time the fun was limited by those factors.

In his defense he joined mid-war when I was stalemated against the Pyrenees against you.....which resulted in me shifting in and demolishing all of his armies within 3 months and nobody launched an offensive against me in that time.

So I understand his frustration in that game. 


Not all of us have siblings to latch on to every game, instead. 

[Anatron]

Wow,the current battle system is really a shit.
The year is 1713 and my ally fighting with the nemy since a year now!!!!
1 sinlge battle takes a year!!!

[Queequeg]

I once had a battle that lasted for like 6 months.  It was deadlocked at near-zero morale.  I had to have a sieging army break off and finish it.

[Viking]

Wow,the current battle system is really a shit.
The year is 1713 and my ally fighting with the nemy since a year now!!!!
1 sinlge battle takes a year!!!

That usually happens in mountains where the armies are large enough and the attacking side has good enough leadership that little damage is done and the frontage of 8 regiments means that not enough damage is done. Rotating in and out used up regiments means that these huge battles at little to no frontage can last forever.

[Liep]

Is it me or does the Workshop for EU4 work poorly? Only about half of my subscribed mods show up.

[crazy canuck]

Is it me or does the Workshop for EU4 work poorly? Only about half of my subscribed mods show up.

some are not compatible with steam - read the descriptions to identify those.  There is also an odd delay before they show up after subscribing - but eventually they make it onto the list.

[Zanza]

Started playing a game as England. I gave France Calais and my claim on Armagnac to get out of the Hundred Years War. Took the mission to vassalize Scotland and did that. Conquered Ireland. By then France had depleted its manpower in a war against Burgundy and had annexed five provinces from Burgundy. So I got into a coalition against them with Switzerland and together with my ally Austria we decimated what was left of France. They fought against another coalition of Savoy, Provence, Lorraine, Milan, Venice etc. at the same time. I took their cores on my territories and Picardie and Calais back and ended their vassalization of Orleans and Bourbonais. The other coalition freed Guyenne. France is just engaged in a defensive war against Burgundy which has attacked their ally Liege. And in the meantime I got the mission to vassalize France...
I guess I'll need to free a couple of the French duchies first to cut them to a size which allows vassalization, but if I fight another two or three wars and then gain France as a vassal, it's basically game over. I can just feed them all their cores and then annex them. All of that doesn't even give me aggressive expansion. It will hurt my colonial aspirations, but I'll gladly trade a couple of colonies for France.

In hindsight I shouldn't have taken their cores on my territory, but I didn't plan to stay engaged in the continent and figured that without cores they would go for other targets first.

[Queequeg]

Goddamnit Ladislaus. I want the Hunyadis.

[Anatron]

Goddamnit Ladislaus. I want the Hunyadis.

Dont accept royal marriages till you dont have Mathias Corvinus.that increases your chance to have Hunyadi dynastie.

Anyway 1.3 is out.

[Queequeg]

Oh God damn it.  I married the Hapsburgs when I got Corvinus, but now my heir is Anna von Hapsburg.  I can't even get her killed on the fucking battlefield!   

[Queequeg]

FUCKING HAPSBURG RATS

[Razgovory]

You deserve it for all the mean things you said about the Haps.

[Anatron]

Oh God damn it.  I married the Hapsburgs when I got Corvinus, but now my heir is Anna von Hapsburg.  I can't even get her killed on the fucking battlefield!

There is an event for Hungary around 1453~1457.If you have any royal marriage during this time you will have Habsburg heir after Janos's regency will be over.If not you can choose Mathias Corvinus as heir.If you miss the chance till 1457 you have 0 chance to have Hunyadi ruler again.You better restart the game.

"
# Mattias Corvinus or an Habsburg king
country_event = {
   id = flavor_hun.2
   title = flavor_hun.2.t
   desc = flavor_hun.2.d
   picture = ELECTION_REPUBLICAN_eventPicture

   fire_only_once = yes

   trigger = {
      tag = HUN
      is_year = 1450
      NOT = { is_year = 1457 }
      has_heir = no
      has_regency = no
      dynasty = "von Habsburg"
      NOT = { num_of_unions = 1 }
      any_country = {
         dynasty = "von Habsburg"
      }
   }
   
   mean_time_to_happen = {
      months = 1
   }
   
   option = {
      ai_chance = { factor = 75 }
      name = flavor_hun.2.a
      define_heir = {
         name = "Mátyás"
         dynasty = "Hunyadi"
         adm = 4
         dip = 5
         mil = 5
         claim = 25
         birth_date = 1443.2.23
      }
      kill_ruler = yes"

[Viking]

what's the effect of the hunyadi ruler? apart from magyar pride