Best nation to play as in EU4?

Best nation to play as in EU4?

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Sweden.

Karaman.

Burgundy

I'm too much of a pussy to start that close to the Ottos. I haven't even played Serbia.

1444 released Transylvania vassal state

I'm in a Holland->Netherlands run rn, very fun! For once I'm making lots of money, no need to keep everything at low maintenance, and I can hire 3 advisors.

Byzantines

Milan

Venice is the most balanced fun nation

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austria, milan, burgundy, brandenburg, aragon, england

england would be fun but the english monarchy system is shit

Venice

UGH...

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Easy Start and Easy Going
>Portugal
>England
>Castile

Hard Start, but fulfilling end game and great bonuses
>Byzantium
>Form Japan as Oda

Granada

Manchu/Oirat/Burgundy/Lithuania/Any japanese/italian minor/Papal/Byzantium/Provence/Palembang

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>very easy difficulty
>muscovy
>ironman
>minmax shit with constant pauses
>world conquest as fast as possible
funniest thing I've ever had with that game

Unironically Portugal

>Best nation
slavshits, mamcucks and venetian jews all get BTFO at once

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I like spain and colonization

Portugal and England are so stupid overpowered for nothing its disgusting to even consider playing them, i spit on you *ptooh*

By the way, did they remove that shit with omnipresent military access? That kinda ruined the game for me.
Makes no sense playing Portugal or something since your navy is irrelevant and French just march doomstacks across Spain.

If you have never played out of europe you should check out Mughals if you are a noob

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>byzantium

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My best Byzantium game. No cheats or mods.

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who do you mainly focus on as venice, balkans or italy?

Also, Zig Forums eu4 lobby never?

Cringe.

How is Portugal overpowered? Mediocre ideas, mediocre mission tree

Is riga your subject?
Byzantium is kinda boring if you dont have the 2€ dlc with their missions

Not him but a lot of troops, buddies with Castile, perfect position (especially for colonisation)...that's a pretty great country to play as.

I don't think so. I wanna say I was using Riga to help me dismantle the HRE. I managed it just before the end of the game.

France is easy mode

I unironically like playing Poland in strategy games. It's usually strong enough to be able to conquer a lot, without being too easy, and it's placed in such a position, that it's got a lot of viable expansion routes. It's got contact with both protestantism, orthodoxy and islam if Ottomans are close at the time. Also in EU4 you've got the option to get personal union early, form commonwealth later, and it's also got a unique form of government, so it's just more interesting than many other european picks.

if you want op then castile->spain is the way to go

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ahhh

This
Lol Bohemia still without sea acces

I don't know...
Yes, it's a very strong country, but countries like England and France are often your rivals...not a good thing. With Portugal, you're comfy, you can invade Africa and become strong pretty quickly...I suppose. Hell, I'll soon start a Portugal game to see if it's the case!

In Europe try Trebizond or Theodoro. It's fun playing in the shadow of the Ottomans and these nations aren't quite as frustrating as say Byzantium.

In Asia the Burma region has a lot of nations with fun achievements (Kale, Manipur, Tauga(sp?))

Delhi or Bahmanis are stupidly OP. You can basically ignore religious unity for the whole game.

Yeah but castile gets a bunch of free PUs + great ideas + great mission trees + good position to colonize too
Portugal is kinda mediocre imo. might as well play morocco

Anhalt

It would be lots of fun, in half an hour of this thread being up we already have 25 posters
How hard can it be to find 20-30 players and make a lobby, it would be amazing...

>Aragon
Aragon can be fun if you're planning to do a trade game, as they're pretty big in the Genoa trade node. You'll be pinched in between Castille and France though.
>Norway
A liberated Norway with a strong economy can colonize pretty early on. However, both Sweden and Denmark can be pretty substansial threats.
Pro-tip: Conquering Scotland is a great way to control the north-sea trade.
>Poland
Poland is great is you're into big empires. However, it's geographical position, means that you have threats all around you.

Bahmanis would be better if you can form deccan earlier. but I guess that would make them too op