Europa Universalis V confirmed

[Tamas]

Pretty cool story here: https://www.reddit.com/r/EU5/s/9TLQrns0nl

As I understand the guy built a super powerful Venice, having his market control Italy and Central Europe, to the degree that the AI Italian small states all turned themselves into cities and specialising into what sold on the market, importing food from the other parts of the Venetian market. Which worked swimmingly until Austria and Bohemia started some huge war devastating food stockpiles to the degree that Venice was paying like 800 a month for food imports at some point, going from being absolute awash in cash to almost going bankrupt.

Pretty cool.

[Solmyr]

Anyone mind sharing a picture or the numbers for Poland? I'm curious. 

Here's Poland. 70 dynamic historical events and 21 unique things (advances/units/etc).



For comparison, the most content-rich countries (England, France, Castile, Ottomans) can can a number of historical events approaching 200. The number of unique things is pretty typical.

[Sophie Scholl]

Awesome. Thank you! 

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

How many thousand does Sweden have?

[crazy canuck]

How many thousand does Sweden have?

 

One other tip is don't forget to build the non revenue producing buildings. Libraries, hospitals, and bridges are important in the early game.

Marketplaces are also important because they generate revenue indirectly by boosting trade but that is not obvious if you are just looking at gold production tab.

[Razgovory]

Pretty cool story here: https://www.reddit.com/r/EU5/s/9TLQrns0nl

As I understand the guy built a super powerful Venice, having his market control Italy and Central Europe, to the degree that the AI Italian small states all turned themselves into cities and specialising into what sold on the market, importing food from the other parts of the Venetian market. Which worked swimmingly until Austria and Bohemia started some huge war devastating food stockpiles to the degree that Venice was paying like 800 a month for food imports at some point, going from being absolute awash in cash to almost going bankrupt.

Pretty cool.

That is really awesome.

[Solmyr]

How many thousand does Sweden have?

Only 63 events and 16 country bonuses. Denmark actually has more events.

[Valmy]

How many thousand does Sweden have?

Only 63 events and 16 country bonuses. Denmark actually has more events.

Mainly events about how Denmark sucks and is not as cool as Sweden.

[Josephus]

My advice is stop thinking about blobbing like you did in the EU I-IV.  You need to think through your expansion carefully and consider all the cultural, religious, economic, political and tactical reasons for expanding or you will end up with a bunch of useless territory. Or worse, territory you cannot hold. 

And man...territory is very useless without control. I think I get zero tax or anything from some of my largest cities. The most they contribute is a few hundred levies for wars.

In my current Naples game, I own a lot of territory in Serbia. I am making .1 ducats a month from them.

[Josephus]

How many thousand does Sweden have?

 

One other tip is don't forget to build the non revenue producing buildings. Libraries, hospitals, and bridges are important in the early game.

Marketplaces are also important because they generate revenue indirectly by boosting trade but that is not obvious if you are just looking at gold production tab.

This.

While I'm slowly grasping the mechanics, I'm having a hard time with strategy. Do I build this? Do I upgrade that? Should I turn my towns into cities? etc....it's all trial and error, I guess, for now.

[Norgy]

I tried Venice, hoping that this periode before the decline would be, well, some fun.

It was not. 

The Ghuelphs and the Gibelins event really makes a difference in Italy, while in Eastern Rome or Norway, who gives a toss.

So I found myself at war with Verona
They did not control Ancona
Whatever we did
It all went to shit
I felt I was all alon-a.