Europa Universalis IV announced

[DGuller]

I just tried to play the American Dream scenario as Great Britain.  Wow.  That was incredibly awful.  I lost all desire to even attempt to play EUIV for a loooong time off of that short experience.

Why, what happened?

[chipwich]

He didn't get the annual income he was promised.

[Valmy]

I just tried to play the American Dream scenario as Great Britain.  Wow.  That was incredibly awful.  I lost all desire to even attempt to play EUIV for a loooong time off of that short experience.

You let George Washington escape Long Island didn't you?

[Sophie Scholl]

I just tried to play the American Dream scenario as Great Britain.  Wow.  That was incredibly awful.  I lost all desire to even attempt to play EUIV for a loooong time off of that short experience.

Why, what happened?

Insanely large American armies with seemingly limitless manpower.  I was hoping for something vaguely historical and was rewarded with... awfulness.  The worst part was that Benedict Arnold kept kicking my ass.

[DGuller]

Insanely large American armies with seemingly limitless manpower.  I was hoping for something vaguely historical and was rewarded with... awfulness.  The worst part was that Benedict Arnold kept kicking my ass.

If they modeled it faithfully, it would be a never-ending ping-pong culminating in a lucky stackwipe.

[Sophie Scholl]

Insanely large American armies with seemingly limitless manpower.  I was hoping for something vaguely historical and was rewarded with... awfulness.  The worst part was that Benedict Arnold kept kicking my ass.

If they modeled it faithfully, it would be a never-ending ping-pong culminating in a lucky stackwipe.

More fun than massive initial American armies, no British armies within range to make a legit '76 NYC invasion, endless back country armies for the Americans, and endless manpower and money apparently.  I'm pretty sure I killed at least 150k American soldiers and still had more to wipe out when I said fuck it and quit around 1780 or '81.  Add in endless desire by the West Indies and Newfoundland for independence and constant rebellions of massive stacks in India, and you have an impossible effort even without a French intervention.

[Valmy]

We did have unlimited money, we bankrupted the French after all.

[Liep]

Another expansion will be announced tomorrow. They're really moving along with these things.

[chipwich]

Played my first Ironman game today and managed to ragequit as France. Got peaseants war + Burgungy-Castille-Austria-Venice enemy alliance. Did things I'd never thought i'd do, like negotiate with rebels and go bankrupt.

[garbon]

So here's what EUIV is getting:

http://www.incgamers.com/2014/08/europa-universalis-iv-the-art-of-war-dlc-revealed

As pre-trailed by Paradox, the company has revealed a new upcoming expansion for Europa Universalis IV. It's called The Art of War, which gives something of a clue as to what kind of additional features it may contain.

It didn't get a huge amount of stage time, but there was enough to give a sense of what the DLC will contain. The third full expansion for Europa Universalis IV will focus on the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) and the Napoleonic era. You'll be able to get stuck into the Reformation and/or (if you prefer) the Counter-Reformation period too.

There will be "loads of new features," including the Army Customisation Tool that will apparently allow you to create historical armies with a single click. The expansion will, says Paradox, help you to "bring out your inner Prussian." This may or may not be a good thing.

As with all of Paradox's grand strategy expansions, The Art of War will be accompanied by a large (and free) update patch that will bring additional fixes and changes to the game for those who don't buy the DLC.

[DGuller]

 

[Syt]

Didn't they say that the next EU4 expansion would be "their biggest expansion yet?" Color me skeptical.

[Zoupa]

Ive been playing for about 3 weeks and am already getting bored.

The random events are terrible. There's not much to do when not at war.

It feels very generic overall

[garbon]

Didn't they say that the next EU4 expansion would be "their biggest expansion yet?" Color me skeptical.

Yeah, I am wondering if that was meant actually for CK2. Though to actually get something like the 30YW and Napoleonic wars (and not simply the weak sauce that was Napoleon's Ambition for Eu3), they would need to modify quite a lot.

[garbon]

The random events are terrible. There's not much to do when not at war.

Weren't both of those true of EU3 (/really most of the series)?

That said yes, on the forums there had been a lot of agitation for things to do in peace so many seem dismayed that p'dox is offering up a dlc focused on war.