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[WealthyRadish]

Guarantee mzab.

[Iceblaster]

Oh god the new political map is ugly as fuck. Glad they have an option to toggle it off.

/irrelevant comment

[ein]

glad i'm not the only one who can't stand it

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Playing a game with the custom nation of Ny-Island. Presently things are going VERY well.

The issue, however, is Japan. Somehow they seem perpetually able to defeat my armies. Either they manage it through stupidly good rolls, stupidly good commanders, or, in my most recent invasion attempt, them somehow managing to maintain a fuckhuge army in spite of them owning Japan and nothing else.

It's hard to get an army bigger than theirs when the only province you own directly connected to Japan is that tiny little one to their north that starts off uncolonised. I have improved the fuck out of it and it still has a limit of 44, while Japan's fielding something like 80K men.

Lucky Nations maybe???

[ein]

japan isn't lucky, they just have godly ideas

attacking into pre-unification japan especially is suicide

[Uristides]

Playing a game with the custom nation of Ny-Island. Presently things are going VERY well.

The issue, however, is Japan. Somehow they seem perpetually able to defeat my armies. Either they manage it through stupidly good rolls, stupidly good commanders, or, in my most recent invasion attempt, them somehow managing to maintain a fuckhuge army in spite of them owning Japan and nothing else.

It's hard to get an army bigger than theirs when the only province you own directly connected to Japan is that tiny little one to their north that starts off uncolonised. I have improved the fuck out of it and it still has a limit of 44, while Japan's fielding something like 80K men.

After they changed the straits rules invading Japan has become terribly hard, indeed. Before that you could just galley spam, then bait one of their armies into an island, block the straits and deal with them one by one. And now that institutions spread like wildfire and you can't count on them having poor units + backwards tech anymore, hell, I don't even like to imagine what it's like.
Not sure how I'd aproach that other than maybe baiting them to attack me so I can cheese straits and blockades for war score.

[Loud Whispers]

1. Blockade Japan forever
2. Rack up war exhaustion
3. Multiple simultaneous fake strikes to lure army onto one end of Japan in time to launch real strike
4. Die anyways (or win)

[ein]

Yeah, Japans ideas ARE pretty good (10% discipline tradition OP) but even so, I'd never have thought that they'd be able to field 80K men using Japan alone. Pretty sure they haven't taken quantity idea either.

daimyou ideas, possibly

i forget how, or if the ai ever does, but it's possible to become japan and keep daimyou ideas

[Exerosp]

Anyone here want to MP? I suck at forum searching and I pilfered around at the Play with your friends subforum and didn't find a thread incase anything was planned.

[Iceblaster]

Started my first Austria > HRE game after hearing being the emperor is like being a kindergarten teacher. Any tips about what I should look out for?

[Kot]

Preschool children with several hundred thousand of soldiers under their command.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Question: I know it's been asked before, but what DLC is really needed to get the "full" experience--so to speak???

I'm getting an urge to blob.

[Loud Whispers]

Started my first Austria > HRE game after hearing being the emperor is like being a kindergarten teacher. Any tips about what I should look out for?

Make the Burgundians your waifu so you inherit their land instead of France or England, ensuring you reclaim the lands of the Empire. Then you only have to worry about an expansionist France (which if you are diplomatic, can usually avoid), allowing you to consolidate the Empire. You'll want to diplo idea up to spread your Hapsburg tentacles everywhere and ensure your best chances of inheriting princedoms, and it may be worth guaranteeing the independence of Byzantium (maybe not Venice, as they will have territories you will want in future) just to slow the Ottomans down very much. It is a good idea to support the Polish against the Teutonic Knights, in order to preemptively destroy a powerful protestant Prussia from interfering with the HRE.

Your main issues will be dealing with electors (easy enough with alliances and marriages, though they can occasionally during periods of reform, hand over control to one of your rivals) and dealing with rivals (best not to fight them if they're within the Empire - only fight to humiliate them in front of the electors). At all times try to maintain peace within the Empire. If you nommed Burgundy then prepare for the Dutch, if not, ignore them.

When the reformation happens prepare for all of your shit to be fucked up. You will be better off as Catholic, as to convert to Protestantism will momentarily disqualify you for Imperial inheritance - it's a lot easier to weather the storm as a Catholic maintaining the status quo.

[ein]

Question: I know it's been asked before, but what DLC is really needed to get the "full" experience--so to speak???

I'm getting an urge to blob.

art of war, common sense, rights of man

if you like micromanagement, get cossacks

if you want to play american nations, el dorado and/or conquest of paradise

[Persus13]

There seriously needs to be some sort of recommendation in the OP. I feel like that question gets asked every 5-10 pages or so.