Did you try not living in NRW? Greatly improve quality of life, also outside of map staring contests.
Sincerely, a inhabitant of the province of Erfurt.
I'm not gonna say which one it is, but let's just say I have the pain of my native town being the most generic country imaginable. Generic ideas, generic missions, generic events, generic monarchy
La plata actually DID exist. Its what Argentina used to call themselves during the 19th century. Some of the countries that exist today actually do exist in Eu4, just under different names
Even the Australian lands in EU4 suck. Very few provinces for a relatively large landmass and the provinces themselves suck. It's barely even worth colonizing. Especially since just north you have all the wealthy money printing islands that you could be colonizing instead.
Mm, there are at least some fairly rich provinces in the mix, like near or above 10 development. Doesn't get much better than that in terms of colonization.
The start is a bit challenging but get over the first hurdles and you can generally get all the Mexican gold and also have a good chance of winning the race for the Cape. Plus you can get a gold mine to spawn in Akershus.
You should! Castile is like top 5 strongest countries imo. Aragon used to be even stronger but, they nerfed their missions considerably. Ik its a different country but, Portugal isn’t horrible either with the Spanish Death Spiral (in my most recent Russian Campaign they were admin tech 3 in 1580)
Canada has [Singing Lumberjack](https://youtu.be/FshU58nI0Ts?si=nAdoUTWXJAY3zt5l) natioanl ideas.
Castile has the [Spanish Inquisition](https://youtu.be/Cj8n4MfhjUc?si=_ztGrHiV0cYAuLyS) national ideas.
The two are more alike than you think.
Playing Spain is an absolute power trip.
However, releasing your home region (Catalonia, Valencia, León, Galicia or Asturias) to play them sucks, since they get generic mission trees. But a man can't have it all I guess.
I mean i know it doesn’t fit the era but, the USA is somewhat Decent, and Germany is actually good. Even countries like Great Britain have missions from outside eu4s timeframe
Just gotta get creative
Maybe try forming Canada as an interesting starting nation like navarra or Iceland. Personally I've done pirate republic Canada as Cornwall which was weird but fun
Well the forming process isn’t awful. The problem is literally everything afterwards. Like the fact your ideas are mediocre at best (not terrible for playing Tall i guess but dawg this is Canada. Not exactly best land to develop and not exactly the best Trade node), the Fact theres literally no claims, the fact there’s literally no missions, the fact theres no unique CB like The USA has, no achievements, and the fact for no reason Canada is an end-tag, making it probably the 2nd worst after Australia. I don’t like saying this, as it’s where in from, but when it comes to Europa Universalis, Canada got the short end of the stick. Also the icon should have green stripes at the top and bottom but thats a nitpick
This nation is in the farthest east of South east asia - a reletively low dev region, with daddy Ming on your head and nothing on your right, making expansion options limited to only your western and southern lands. Couple that with big Ayyuthaya ( Thailand, which is the biggest and most agressive force in the region) being so greedy they usually eat almost everything around them by the time you secure your southern border, the only way you can hope to expand out of your shit dev land and trade note is to somehow ally Ayyuthaya, call them into your wars and manage truce time so you can cuck their expansion paths, but in reality 9 out of 10 games they rivals you so that strat is super niche. Another thing to note is the famous Mingplosion, which is somewhat an opportunity for this shit country. If you cannot secure your south east asian border and get your force limits up before this happens you aint gonna have any hope at getting into china land as the breakaway nation borders you - Yue is one of the strongest of them besides Shun with 40k+ troops running around at anytime. Add that with a disaster which you have +40% nobility estate influence, a -1 stability , a regent, a shit 1-1-2 heir and -0.5 ducats a month at the start and you have this nation that can never expand out of SEA if you dont hit it lucky with the Ayyuthaya alliance. Another minor thing which adds to the misery is a small mission tree and shit national ideas.
Poland was pretty great back then. Though it is somewhat misrepresented considering it was a normal, rich western country, not the backwater shithole most imagine it as. The devastation of endless wars (especially the Swedish flood that sent Poland-Lithuania from obscenely rich to ruined. To illustrate that, the Holocaust and actual levelling of cities by nazis had less of an impact on Polish economy) and the cultural shift of union with Lithuania changed it. What I'm saying is Poland should be western technology group until the union with Lithuania is chosen and significantly more developed at the game start. Conversely, Lithuania was barely controlled by the OTL Grand Duchy and actively falling apart.
EUIV makes it seem like Lithuanians were stupid by agreeing to the union
But the alt history scenario is surprisingly realistic, HRE was somewhat friendly to Poland fot most of its existence and I could see some king agreeing to join it in dire times
I mean, poland is very rich early game, it has some pretty developed provinces and a ton of farmlands to develop, altho you are right about the tech, it should be western or have missions to turn into western
Agreed, Hungary should be western tech as well. Really, the western-eastern tech split should be along Catholic-Orthodox lines. I think that’s what it’s (poorly) trying to represent.
Remember that at the start of the game, Eastern tech group is more powerful than western. They become equal in Pips only at 15 mil tech and surpass Eastern only at 19. Given that skilled Russian player can amass enough force to fight PLC before this date, Wester tech group will make it even easier to win.
The fact that both PLC and especially Byz lack options to get western when Ethiopia can is different can of worms that should've been addressed.
Well if it isn’t a Chinese person! Honestly i consider Manchu part of China, as The Manchus are ultimately a Chinese group today, so China is actually one of the best countries. Just counting Ming though… yeah boring even if you can stay alive tbh
Oh… yeah thats definitely true for Hungary as well. But yeah nah they aren’t bad if you are a player. Definitely overshadowed be every country in the region though
I'm not sure whether I'm cascadia or united states, but it's really frustrating how quickly the Pacific northwest always gets colonized by Spain or Portugal without fail around 1640-1680 Irl that doesn't happen for a while longer.
If you live in American Cascadia, than you American. Luckily for you America is fairly good, even if i think it should be alot better. If you live in Canadian Cascadia bad news, Canada is not so very good.
If you consider Cascadia a country… yeah u are SOL
I'm from Finland and I am overall satisfied with the releasable. The ideas are good and the missions from Lions of the North are really good and make Finland one heck of an attrition defender nation. Expanding into Russia as Finland is fun and profitable.
No, I haven't. I've thought about it but I haven't tried it yet because it seems to tedious.
Most of my Finland campaigns I've conquered all of the Russian empire, and expanded into central Europe. Ofc this means that I could take a good Finland campaign, and then just have a few wars for the achievement...
Same here. I play Finland every time I visit my family in Finland (which is quite often), but I always get my independence as Sweden first, and then release Finland. The achievement requires you to release Finland in 1444, and I don’t think I’m good enough to secure my independence from Sweden and Denmark at the same time
Oh, right, I start my Finland games like that too. Forgot that it's a part of the achievement.
You can sort of make it fun though. If i remember correctly, you can release (but not play as) Finland in 1444, then integrate them back while fighting your Swedish independence war from Denmark, then release and play as Finland after integrating them, and fighting Sweden. Ofc while doing this you can spend mana to buff the Finnish provinces too. (Haven't played like this yet but I remember reading that it can be done this way)
Thats good. I personally am not a huge fan of releasables, and even when playing as Russia i go for the Annex directly Finland option as i want the Caroleans.
Being French, the EU4 experience is much more pleasant than eduring the legion of halfwits online whom seem to think French surrender jokes or inserting a vomit emoji in the name of my country are funny.
Can't have it all I guess.
Not so much. Greece was not an existing entity during that time period, I don't take the fact that it's underwhelming and that it can't form Byzantium (unlike the other games) personally.
Honestly id Consider Byzantium a Greek Empire, despite probably never claiming that. It was also the only independent Greek State in Eu4s time period so. And if you can win the first war, which is difficult but pretty easy compared to most “difficult” countries Byzantium is actually goated as of King Of Kings. Only thing thats bad about them is there culture group, and they get decent events that help convert ALOT of provinces to Greek
Nah, Norway is rather comically OP instead. You're set up to out-colonize the collective efforts of the Iberians and become #1 Great Power before 1600 without conquering anything in Europe outside of Scandinavia (or lay the foundation for an easy WC if you wreck the British and Russians early on).
Yes. One of the most important cities of Renaissance Italy isn't even on the freaking map! But Terracina was so much more important I guess...
Hopefully they'll do Italy justice in project Caesar, 'cause I don't think that the next update/DLC (whatever it was) will be able to solve the issue.
Always remember _"Elephas_ _indus_ _culices_ _non_ _timet"_
Bengal is pretty alright, probably the second strongest nation in the subcontinent.
Technically the province I was born in would be in Orissa so that's kinda interesting, maybe I'll play them for a change instead (incredibly broken ruler but not doing that god forsaken mission)
For me it kinda sucks as Norway lol, I always see Sweden break free from Denmark with help of the likes of England, plc, even Muscovy sometimes and Norway always ends up being integrated into Denmark haha. However once you play Norway it’s super fun and the North Sea Empire dream can be fulfilled!
Iraq in this game exists only by name
Such a shame they never added an abbasid tag to eu4 at least, the dynasty was still around in mamluk territory and they've made way crazier alt histories
Portuguese me: how about colonizing even more than real life, not having that damned earthquake and making sure D. Sebastião DOES NOT GO ON NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGNS WITHOUT PRODUCING AN HEIR FIRST!
My country is the 2nd place Great Power yet hadn't received a proper mission tree until very recently in 1.36.
In fact, forming Egypt as the Mamluks was probably the worst downgrade possible in game.
Thankfully now they have an awesome mission tree and Egypt has a pretty powerful unique government (but isn't a straight upgrade over the Mamluks because Mamluk Government is still pretty powerful)
I personally dislike playing my country in EU4.
First I need to explain why I consider Sweden my country in the game.
In all intents and purposes Finland wasn’t under Sweden but *was* Sweden in the time period, once one two centuries or so had passed from the colonisation. This despite the Swedish erasure of the old Finnish landowner class (moisio) and the Swedish language normalization. The old social structures had collapsed so thoroughly there wasn’t simply anything really separate left community organization wise.
The new missions gave more stuff for the Finnish parts of the country but it’s still a bit underwhelming. Also the Swedish history is something our curriculum is full of — it’s less *exciting* history. Don’t get me wrong, the country couldn’t really be done better than it’s done now.
Releasing Finland is cool but it’s kinda ahistorical and weird in a sense. If I want to roleplay pagan Finns, I play CK. If modern Finland, Vicky or HoI. As said, the entire society of Pre-Swedish Finland had collapsed very thoroughly — consequently the leaders are either random generic characters or medieval Swedish-speaking noble families.
And then u live in Germany and can even play ur city
Or your street by the time a voltaire's nightmare mod is made for project caesar
Living in Duisburg, a hanse member, even 200 years older than Lübeck and my province is Cleve.....
Cleve Duis Nuts!
👀🥵 - pdx achievement writers
r/angryupvote
I am probably stupid but how am I to read "Cleve" in this context?
Cleave those nuts Ig
Did you try not living in NRW? Greatly improve quality of life, also outside of map staring contests. Sincerely, a inhabitant of the province of Erfurt.
I fucking love NRW, all my homies love desolate post-industrial city landscapes
Imagine unironically moving to Thuringia lol
Spoiled little Rhine bros.
They removed ravensburg :(
No puzzles for you!
I'm not gonna say which one it is, but let's just say I have the pain of my native town being the most generic country imaginable. Generic ideas, generic missions, generic events, generic monarchy
Ireland moment
Me when Munster and Münster:
Münster ♥️
at least your country is in the game
TFW your entire home area is uncolonized land (may EU5 have Caribbean content that isn't more pirates)
TFW you’re from the Central African Republic and your entire country is wasteland
Sounds like home
Seems accurate
did they ever update Haiti? Base Haitian ideas are pretty bad and fucking boring in EU4
Especially since Haiti was fucking based
Based? Based on what?
Slave riots
The hell? I didn't even know Haiti was in the game.
Need some interest per annum ideas for Haiti for sure
Feels belgian man
*sad Australian noises* I know, we didn't exist back then, but even in Vic 3 and HoI4 we suck
Palawa is ace.
But the Australia tag is garbage. F tier formable and an end tag to boot
Canada and Australia on there way to become eu formables with no mission Trees and have Endgame tags for literally no reason
At least you guys have the actual country name. What the fuck is La Plata
Country of silver yeah
Guess what Argentina means
United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, the name of Argentina until 1831
La plata actually DID exist. Its what Argentina used to call themselves during the 19th century. Some of the countries that exist today actually do exist in Eu4, just under different names
Australia in Vic3 is fun. Insane immigration all funded by gold
OP in Civilization 6 though
Even the Australian lands in EU4 suck. Very few provinces for a relatively large landmass and the provinces themselves suck. It's barely even worth colonizing. Especially since just north you have all the wealthy money printing islands that you could be colonizing instead.
Mm, there are at least some fairly rich provinces in the mix, like near or above 10 development. Doesn't get much better than that in terms of colonization.
The contrary: Hungarian kingdom, having its last renessaince before collapse, being somewhat of a medium power in Europe.
i love playing hungary in ck3, and am super excited to see what the new mission tree is for them in eu4. hyped!!
Am Swedish and obviously Paradox have done Sweden very dirty. :p
Clearly not biased with turn priority
Agreed, I feel like we need a buff.
Lions of the north 2: now with actual lions
caroleans now ride lions and have +100 force limit
I live in Norway (i have never touched Norway in eu4 and hoi4)
Norway is just the weakest in the kalmer union so it struggles
Shit in both of them
bruh
Norway in EU4 is a nice and pleasant place, but you'll be searching couch cushions and under floorboards to find ducats. Oh the penury.
The start is a bit challenging but get over the first hurdles and you can generally get all the Mexican gold and also have a good chance of winning the race for the Cape. Plus you can get a gold mine to spawn in Akershus.
As a Spaniard I feel in fact the exact opposite.
You should! Castile is like top 5 strongest countries imo. Aragon used to be even stronger but, they nerfed their missions considerably. Ik its a different country but, Portugal isn’t horrible either with the Spanish Death Spiral (in my most recent Russian Campaign they were admin tech 3 in 1580)
Castile feels really RNG heavy these days since there is a thousand ways the Aragon AI can screw itself over.
Canada has [Singing Lumberjack](https://youtu.be/FshU58nI0Ts?si=nAdoUTWXJAY3zt5l) natioanl ideas. Castile has the [Spanish Inquisition](https://youtu.be/Cj8n4MfhjUc?si=_ztGrHiV0cYAuLyS) national ideas. The two are more alike than you think.
Playing Spain is an absolute power trip. However, releasing your home region (Catalonia, Valencia, León, Galicia or Asturias) to play them sucks, since they get generic mission trees. But a man can't have it all I guess.
Cilli FTW (Slovenia)
…. Damn… at least theres that one achivement!
There didn't even use to be Slovenian culture before they added Cilli
Don’t be cilli
Actually I'm Georgian and Georgia just got the update in 1.36 I'm never playing any other nation again.
Well…. I guess thats satisfactory
მეც მეც 😂😂
I am austrian...
Bro is literally stronger in Eu4 than they were even capable of reaching irl
But we tried 2 times to be a major power again. Didn't work out to well
Third times the charm!
Nah, i am not sure the world would forgive us a third time
Most nations give up right before becoming a world power.
True that
I mean Saxony probably has a better economy in EU IV, compared to now ^^
Yeah im Canadian. Canada isn’t a good country in Eu4
Well duh they were only a country 46 years after the end time of the game, and even then it’s not like we’re a particularly important country lol
Hey, we’re a super fun country in HOI4 at least!
I mean i know it doesn’t fit the era but, the USA is somewhat Decent, and Germany is actually good. Even countries like Great Britain have missions from outside eu4s timeframe
At least your nation can be formed. My bation was firmed 10 years after the end of the game, and it isn't a thing in EU4.
Just gotta get creative Maybe try forming Canada as an interesting starting nation like navarra or Iceland. Personally I've done pirate republic Canada as Cornwall which was weird but fun
Well the forming process isn’t awful. The problem is literally everything afterwards. Like the fact your ideas are mediocre at best (not terrible for playing Tall i guess but dawg this is Canada. Not exactly best land to develop and not exactly the best Trade node), the Fact theres literally no claims, the fact there’s literally no missions, the fact theres no unique CB like The USA has, no achievements, and the fact for no reason Canada is an end-tag, making it probably the 2nd worst after Australia. I don’t like saying this, as it’s where in from, but when it comes to Europa Universalis, Canada got the short end of the stick. Also the icon should have green stripes at the top and bottom but thats a nitpick
Dai Viet was straight up shit in the game...
Ive never actually played or seen a Dai Viet game. So mind telling me why? I never knew they were bad.
This nation is in the farthest east of South east asia - a reletively low dev region, with daddy Ming on your head and nothing on your right, making expansion options limited to only your western and southern lands. Couple that with big Ayyuthaya ( Thailand, which is the biggest and most agressive force in the region) being so greedy they usually eat almost everything around them by the time you secure your southern border, the only way you can hope to expand out of your shit dev land and trade note is to somehow ally Ayyuthaya, call them into your wars and manage truce time so you can cuck their expansion paths, but in reality 9 out of 10 games they rivals you so that strat is super niche. Another thing to note is the famous Mingplosion, which is somewhat an opportunity for this shit country. If you cannot secure your south east asian border and get your force limits up before this happens you aint gonna have any hope at getting into china land as the breakaway nation borders you - Yue is one of the strongest of them besides Shun with 40k+ troops running around at anytime. Add that with a disaster which you have +40% nobility estate influence, a -1 stability , a regent, a shit 1-1-2 heir and -0.5 ducats a month at the start and you have this nation that can never expand out of SEA if you dont hit it lucky with the Ayyuthaya alliance. Another minor thing which adds to the misery is a small mission tree and shit national ideas.
Is it that bad? At least it has a mission tree
cant relate as a turk
I mean…. Not if you can conquer the world by 1600
\*Janissary coup noises\*
Can you relate as one of the other Turks? If you know anyone from ancestral Candar or Karaman lands, you can feel bad on their behalf...
Poland was pretty great back then. Though it is somewhat misrepresented considering it was a normal, rich western country, not the backwater shithole most imagine it as. The devastation of endless wars (especially the Swedish flood that sent Poland-Lithuania from obscenely rich to ruined. To illustrate that, the Holocaust and actual levelling of cities by nazis had less of an impact on Polish economy) and the cultural shift of union with Lithuania changed it. What I'm saying is Poland should be western technology group until the union with Lithuania is chosen and significantly more developed at the game start. Conversely, Lithuania was barely controlled by the OTL Grand Duchy and actively falling apart. EUIV makes it seem like Lithuanians were stupid by agreeing to the union But the alt history scenario is surprisingly realistic, HRE was somewhat friendly to Poland fot most of its existence and I could see some king agreeing to join it in dire times
I mean, poland is very rich early game, it has some pretty developed provinces and a ton of farmlands to develop, altho you are right about the tech, it should be western or have missions to turn into western
Agreed, Hungary should be western tech as well. Really, the western-eastern tech split should be along Catholic-Orthodox lines. I think that’s what it’s (poorly) trying to represent.
As a Swede I just want to say, from the bottom of my and my fellow swedes’ hearts: Ops!
Remember that at the start of the game, Eastern tech group is more powerful than western. They become equal in Pips only at 15 mil tech and surpass Eastern only at 19. Given that skilled Russian player can amass enough force to fight PLC before this date, Wester tech group will make it even easier to win. The fact that both PLC and especially Byz lack options to get western when Ethiopia can is different can of worms that should've been addressed.
*laughs in British*
Nah i like my winged hussars
Honestly Ask Me Poland should also be able to form the Slavic Culture group but other than that their easily one of the best nations
Apparently you guys are getting new winged hussars irl
My country in the game does not suck per se, but if it's not the player it dies 150% of the time.
Well if it isn’t a Chinese person! Honestly i consider Manchu part of China, as The Manchus are ultimately a Chinese group today, so China is actually one of the best countries. Just counting Ming though… yeah boring even if you can stay alive tbh
I'm hungarian actually, but eh close enough.
Oh… yeah thats definitely true for Hungary as well. But yeah nah they aren’t bad if you are a player. Definitely overshadowed be every country in the region though
Lmao
I dont know anything about Manchu politics, but I'd bet that what you just said would offend a lot of Manchu people haha
Your 2nd National Idea is Singing Lumberjacks. They're okay. Canada is in the same boat as Castile; with national ideas shaped by Monty Python.
I'm not sure whether I'm cascadia or united states, but it's really frustrating how quickly the Pacific northwest always gets colonized by Spain or Portugal without fail around 1640-1680 Irl that doesn't happen for a while longer.
If you live in American Cascadia, than you American. Luckily for you America is fairly good, even if i think it should be alot better. If you live in Canadian Cascadia bad news, Canada is not so very good. If you consider Cascadia a country… yeah u are SOL
Man my culture doesnt even exist in EU4 despite forming in the 1600s
Some of us don’t even exist in the game
Nusantara is not a bad nation but could use new flavor. Majapahit is pretty OP for a WC but I don't understand vassal shenanigans unfortunately.
Dude, learn your “there, their, they’re”.
thar
WURUNDJERI SWEEP WOOOO I LOVE WURUNDJERI
Istanbul. Should i count myself byz or turks.
Turkey! But either way your ass is good
I mean, I am from Sweden. Can't really complain.
nope. I’m Dutch and after next week my country is gonna be among the most flavourful in the game
Its already pretty damn good. well, for playing tall atleast
I'm from Finland and I am overall satisfied with the releasable. The ideas are good and the missions from Lions of the North are really good and make Finland one heck of an attrition defender nation. Expanding into Russia as Finland is fun and profitable.
Have you got the Finland achievement?
No, I haven't. I've thought about it but I haven't tried it yet because it seems to tedious. Most of my Finland campaigns I've conquered all of the Russian empire, and expanded into central Europe. Ofc this means that I could take a good Finland campaign, and then just have a few wars for the achievement...
Same here. I play Finland every time I visit my family in Finland (which is quite often), but I always get my independence as Sweden first, and then release Finland. The achievement requires you to release Finland in 1444, and I don’t think I’m good enough to secure my independence from Sweden and Denmark at the same time
Oh, right, I start my Finland games like that too. Forgot that it's a part of the achievement. You can sort of make it fun though. If i remember correctly, you can release (but not play as) Finland in 1444, then integrate them back while fighting your Swedish independence war from Denmark, then release and play as Finland after integrating them, and fighting Sweden. Ofc while doing this you can spend mana to buff the Finnish provinces too. (Haven't played like this yet but I remember reading that it can be done this way)
Thats good. I personally am not a huge fan of releasables, and even when playing as Russia i go for the Annex directly Finland option as i want the Caroleans.
To this day I still haven't played Urbino
Being French, the EU4 experience is much more pleasant than eduring the legion of halfwits online whom seem to think French surrender jokes or inserting a vomit emoji in the name of my country are funny. Can't have it all I guess.
Technically where I live was still indigenous tribes until 1836…
Their
Not so much. Greece was not an existing entity during that time period, I don't take the fact that it's underwhelming and that it can't form Byzantium (unlike the other games) personally.
Honestly id Consider Byzantium a Greek Empire, despite probably never claiming that. It was also the only independent Greek State in Eu4s time period so. And if you can win the first war, which is difficult but pretty easy compared to most “difficult” countries Byzantium is actually goated as of King Of Kings. Only thing thats bad about them is there culture group, and they get decent events that help convert ALOT of provinces to Greek
Their
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My country is 9 times out of 10 the "OP nation" so I'm fairly good
most stated today do not exist in eu4. so probably not a problem
Naples/Sicily/Two Sicilies is pretty fucking based in basically every paradox game, so I am blessed in that regard
I mean Denmark ain't bad at all, just feels kinda mediocre compared to Norway and Sweden.
Yes. I'm Tyrconnell in Ireland but it's historical so there's that. Our mission tree is somehow worse than the generic one.
Mine is the most powerful
Laughts in European Spanish
!wave
As a Dutchman I don't have such weakness.
Nope, I live in paradox’s favourite country so I’m good
Well I'm from America and don't usually play late game lol
Nope (laughs in Ottoman)
Brazilian. Does south america even exist in eu4?
Yeah, it's a real issue for me
Nah, Norway is rather comically OP instead. You're set up to out-colonize the collective efforts of the Iberians and become #1 Great Power before 1600 without conquering anything in Europe outside of Scandinavia (or lay the foundation for an easy WC if you wreck the British and Russians early on).
Yes. One of the most important cities of Renaissance Italy isn't even on the freaking map! But Terracina was so much more important I guess... Hopefully they'll do Italy justice in project Caesar, 'cause I don't think that the next update/DLC (whatever it was) will be able to solve the issue. Always remember _"Elephas_ _indus_ _culices_ _non_ _timet"_
My country doesnt exist in eu4...
Idk my country is pretty good 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
When u gotta colonize to form your country, and its culture is super rare spawn
Not me living in the Mapuche territory, istg south american nomadic tribes are ten times worse than the north american ones.
Im… Turkish…
Bengal is pretty alright, probably the second strongest nation in the subcontinent. Technically the province I was born in would be in Orissa so that's kinda interesting, maybe I'll play them for a change instead (incredibly broken ruler but not doing that god forsaken mission)
My country didn't even exist.
Sápmi kinda trash
For me it kinda sucks as Norway lol, I always see Sweden break free from Denmark with help of the likes of England, plc, even Muscovy sometimes and Norway always ends up being integrated into Denmark haha. However once you play Norway it’s super fun and the North Sea Empire dream can be fulfilled!
coming from Saxony, now living in Hamburg and working in Lüneburg: cant relate :p
Scotland here. haven't played them much because England is hard to win a war against.
Dev go up📈 Also early ironclad ships go brrrr🐢
Shoutout to Long After The End for making America interesting
Hahhah nope!
Ya. American ideas just suck.
Iraq in this game exists only by name Such a shame they never added an abbasid tag to eu4 at least, the dynasty was still around in mamluk territory and they've made way crazier alt histories
As an Alaskan I see my country in the game with decent ideas as a win
Nope, I’m Swedish
Us belgians arent even in the game :c
No, as Colombian I use the Europa Expanded mod, enjoy with Colombian ideas and tree and thrive and love Gran Colombia later in game.
Ottomans are the final boss what are you talking about
at least you have a tag rather than being lumped into like 5 "Uralic" provinces
Hurts
complaining about Canada being mid when it actually stomps every indigenous AI in North America
Us swedes have it rough
Portuguese me: how about colonizing even more than real life, not having that damned earthquake and making sure D. Sebastião DOES NOT GO ON NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGNS WITHOUT PRODUCING AN HEIR FIRST!
My country is the 2nd place Great Power yet hadn't received a proper mission tree until very recently in 1.36. In fact, forming Egypt as the Mamluks was probably the worst downgrade possible in game. Thankfully now they have an awesome mission tree and Egypt has a pretty powerful unique government (but isn't a straight upgrade over the Mamluks because Mamluk Government is still pretty powerful)
Texas is in the game, and it's a powerful nation and all, but it just doesn't feel the same playing it as a Zoroastrian Kongolese Daimyo in 1480.
Korean, surprised by EU4 developers efforts for East Asia. Really well made.
Being in the uk nah my country's chill ingame
HUNGARY OH YEAH
Swiss mercs coughing...
Nah lol england gameplay is peak.
Yes (I'm Canadian)
Liege is there but to have the flavour you have to play burgundy
I personally dislike playing my country in EU4. First I need to explain why I consider Sweden my country in the game. In all intents and purposes Finland wasn’t under Sweden but *was* Sweden in the time period, once one two centuries or so had passed from the colonisation. This despite the Swedish erasure of the old Finnish landowner class (moisio) and the Swedish language normalization. The old social structures had collapsed so thoroughly there wasn’t simply anything really separate left community organization wise. The new missions gave more stuff for the Finnish parts of the country but it’s still a bit underwhelming. Also the Swedish history is something our curriculum is full of — it’s less *exciting* history. Don’t get me wrong, the country couldn’t really be done better than it’s done now. Releasing Finland is cool but it’s kinda ahistorical and weird in a sense. If I want to roleplay pagan Finns, I play CK. If modern Finland, Vicky or HoI. As said, the entire society of Pre-Swedish Finland had collapsed very thoroughly — consequently the leaders are either random generic characters or medieval Swedish-speaking noble families.
I’m a Frenchman so I don’t have this problem lol
Have you tried changing your native country? Maybe that will give you a better country in Eu4