maybe my best ever early defeat of the Ottomans. got this GOD TIER general. no doubt I will now fuck this up
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.
:hexbear-bi-2: By and large, Alexander was bi and large.:hexbear-bi:
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How the hell did you get that good of a general? Through an event?
I wish you good luck, the first war against the Ottomans is the hardest part, you should do fine with a general as good as this.
I see, well this is exceptionally lucky, because this is not just a good general, but a good general with 6 shock and 4 siege. You should be melting through armies and forts.
I mean, your post had 6 upbears, they probably just didn't see it. Although I would like to join the next time around, hopefully I get my internet connection fixed by then.
i dont remember how it works in EU4 but is there any way to get them as monarch?
he's literally named basilios!
I think the mod MEIOU and taxes might address this, and they just released a full overhaul, if you wanna check that out
This past year I attempted to get the Basileus achievement in EU4. It took dozen of restarts but I had a steady start where I beat the Ottomans 3 times, but all three times my campaign was derailed.
All three of those derailements were caused by POLAND. I will never forgive them
yeah, Poland rivals you a lot after you start to get a large amount of the Balkans. either they ally Hungary, or eat Hungary. they get a mission to get claims on the Balkans so they tend to always want your land
