I fell in love with EU4 but uninstalled it after two weeks. I played as Mali and expanded to become the largest African nation, all my neighbors were gone and I was campaigning in Kongo (who turned out to be Christians, for some reason?). I waged war against Scotland (they colonized a province in Guinea), Holland (colonized two provices in Sierra Leone) and my last target was France, who also colonized three provinces along the Guinea coast. All wars so far were successful, my Navy was good enough to fend off smaller eurocringe navies (I even defeated a somewhat large Portugese navy in the mid-1600s). By the 1700s I was waging war against the colonized territories of France, they were pretty weak (parts of France were annexed by Austria lmao) and they didn't have any major allies, so I struck them quickly and waited out for some time gaining war score to force them to accept my peace offer in which I was to take their african colonies...
But then appeared EU4's shitty army and allies mechanics. I was allied with the Mamluks and the Moroccans, but for some fucking reason France and their allies (a bunch of italian states) were able to send entire armies through neutral AND allied territories without anything stopping them, other than eating all the attrition which did nothing. They invaded me through the fucking SAHARA DESERT with 200k total troops, logistics? be damned, diplomacy? LMFAO
What a shitty game mechanic, absolutely ruins the entire experience. Seeing huge eurocringe armies marching through neutral territory and towards mine completely destroyed the experience, it's 100% unrealistic, it makes landlocked countries pretty strong because they can ignore neutral territories and still move armies through them. Fuck, even Kilwa, a nation I had good relations with, sent armies through the Kongo like fuck all. These motherfuckers had nothing to gain from this war, it had nothing to do with them, still they fought on the French side (cringe) because OH NO A DEFENSIVE WAR LET ME SEND 150K TROOPS TO FIGHT AND DIE IN THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE. Meanwhile my allies are like "bud your war is 80 days old lmfao fuck off".
Sorry for this rant and I didn't mean to hijack your thread. Fuck Parad*x.
Yea I've played EU3 and 4 and I really wanted to like the series, but I stopped playing both after just a few hours. Honestly at the end of the day EU is just boring dogshit that's designed to let European nations steamroll everything and win the game no matter what. At first glance it looks like a complex game where you can do all sorts of strategizing but really it's just a shallow genocide and map painting simulator.
I fell in love with EU4 but uninstalled it after two weeks. I played as Mali and expanded to become the largest African nation, all my neighbors were gone and I was campaigning in Kongo (who turned out to be Christians, for some reason?). I waged war against Scotland (they colonized a province in Guinea), Holland (colonized two provices in Sierra Leone) and my last target was France, who also colonized three provinces along the Guinea coast. All wars so far were successful, my Navy was good enough to fend off smaller eurocringe navies (I even defeated a somewhat large Portugese navy in the mid-1600s). By the 1700s I was waging war against the colonized territories of France, they were pretty weak (parts of France were annexed by Austria lmao) and they didn't have any major allies, so I struck them quickly and waited out for some time gaining war score to force them to accept my peace offer in which I was to take their african colonies...
But then appeared EU4's shitty army and allies mechanics. I was allied with the Mamluks and the Moroccans, but for some fucking reason France and their allies (a bunch of italian states) were able to send entire armies through neutral AND allied territories without anything stopping them, other than eating all the attrition which did nothing. They invaded me through the fucking SAHARA DESERT with 200k total troops, logistics? be damned, diplomacy? LMFAO
What a shitty game mechanic, absolutely ruins the entire experience. Seeing huge eurocringe armies marching through neutral territory and towards mine completely destroyed the experience, it's 100% unrealistic, it makes landlocked countries pretty strong because they can ignore neutral territories and still move armies through them. Fuck, even Kilwa, a nation I had good relations with, sent armies through the Kongo like fuck all. These motherfuckers had nothing to gain from this war, it had nothing to do with them, still they fought on the French side (cringe) because OH NO A DEFENSIVE WAR LET ME SEND 150K TROOPS TO FIGHT AND DIE IN THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE. Meanwhile my allies are like "bud your war is 80 days old lmfao fuck off".
Sorry for this rant and I didn't mean to hijack your thread. Fuck Parad*x.
Yea I've played EU3 and 4 and I really wanted to like the series, but I stopped playing both after just a few hours. Honestly at the end of the day EU is just boring dogshit that's designed to let European nations steamroll everything and win the game no matter what. At first glance it looks like a complex game where you can do all sorts of strategizing but really it's just a shallow genocide and map painting simulator.