8 Solid Minutes of Random EU4 Tips!
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2024
- Some EU4 Tips. Enjoy.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:13 - Outsmart the Stability
0:34 - Master Army Composition
1:10 - Gold Rush
1:44 - Mana Matters
2:10 - Fort Defense Tactics
2:57 - Spawning Gems
4:19 - War Annexation Trick
5:19 - Trade Node Mastery
6:31 - Age of Reformation
7:06 - Bonus!
![[EU4] An in depth guide to trade](/img/n.gif)
The Faceting can't happen in Venice because of "Murano Glass", Venice is historically known for its glass so it can't change the trade good
Also golconda India cant get faceting either, as it already has a production buff on the province.
And Venice also gets some flavour events specific to Murano glass making, which would be a bit more odd if the trade good changed to gems.
Also, in the video he missed one more requirement, you need renaissance embraced on the country level and fully present in the province, in single player this is less relevant but in multiplayer absolutely essential for beating other players to it.
@@ominousflames14well it must be a province in Europe.
@@Alaryk111 That is incorrect. I have spawned faceting in gem provinces outside Europe plenty of times. Harder to do? For sure, as you need to spawn the institution as well prior to spawning faceting.
Scorching earth is super important in single player and can mean the difference of winning and loosing a battle 10/10 tip
Definitely agree, was going to say that starting as a weak nation next to a massive one, scorching earth lets you wipe army after army as the AI sends small stacks onto your scorched mountain fort that you wipe with ease.
I've got over 4.5k hours in the game, (almost all of that single player) and I've never scorched the earth. I don't think it's as useful as you make it out to be.
@@TocsTheWanderer 4.5k hours doesn't mean ur good at the game.
@@TocsTheWanderer You should really start doing it, it really is that useful
@@gamgamesplayer4506 True, but I am.
I feel physical pain whenever I forget to turn off war taxes because I sometimes get it as my first age bonus... 10/10
I just turn them off when I saw the age tick down notification that usually start 80 months before it ends
I completely forgot about this because I rarely played past age of discovery, doing that the second i get back on. Thanks man
I once had turned it off at age of absolutism
bonus tip as france:
due to the french ideas getting -50% war tax cost, as well as another -50% war tax through tier 8 reform, you can get war taxes for absolutely free, making it even cheaper to have a massive army with the juicy -15% maintenance cost during war
You're able to get faceting as Oman. Getting all your cores from Hormuz gives you a bunch of prestige and if you move your capital and develop your trade centre for rennaisaince you can get faceting, very useful for expanding further and forming mughals
Oh yes, of course. You can do it as many nations, but the ones I mentioned are just the easiest. I also like getting it as Bahmanis in Golconda, very useful.
Why would I want to form Mughals as a non-Timurid Ibadi nation when I can go chad Red Flag Indian Ocean Trade Empire and dunk on my Sunni, Shia, Fetishist, Hindu, (Zoroastrian on occasion, yes it's happened), and Coptic neighbors with my mountains of gold and Mercs?
If you can't tell, Oman is my favorite Middle Eastern country to play. So many styles, so much seratonin.
Bonus tip as Ottomans: When you get an event which allows you to get +2 or -2 corruption. Before choosing, go to economy tab amd debase currency to get money and 2 corruption. Then click -2 corruption in the event. You got yourself free money.
Not only Ottomans, any Muslim nation can do this
this also applies to when you get an even that gives you legalism- before clicking it, check if you're already at 100, if yes then debase currency, reduce corruption with the button and only then click the event
@@IndependentObserver but ideally this should only be used as a last resort because losing legalism's bonuses just to get a loan's worth of money isnt worth it most of the time
@@hhhhhh-vi6sq Clicking the button costs 50 piety points, if you're already about to get +25 legalism from an event you only lose 5% tax 5% manpower and 2.5% tech cost... It's not like you're taking techs every other year so there's no need to bother with calculating that but let's entertain the notion that not clicking that button could theoretically actually be better (XD).
At 1000 dev your loan size is 530 (assuming we're between tech 10 and tech 13, after that it becomes 540) and your tax income about 30-40, unless you're playing some ultimate tax meta theocratic muslim or you're in a high base tax area like lowlands and so you spam churches everywhere- which you aren't, we're talking muslims so you're in a desert with a median of 7 base tax income per 3 provinces. That 500 ducats will be much more than about 3% of your tax income for... until you get a next event. Yes you lose 5% tax modifier but you're not sitting at 100% so losing 5% modifier won't equal to losing 5% of tax *income,* considering standard tax modifiers like stability, the remaining 75% of legalism, Iqta government and bonus from clergy on average you'd already have about 155% tax income (10 from +2 stab, 20 from legalism, 5 from Iqta, and 20 from Clergy) and go down to 150% tax income, which equals to about -3% tax income, and as you can see those aren't some special hard to get bonuses, you get all of that by just playing efficiently as a muslim, I'm not even counting +15% from Iqta big button, so that 155% vs 150% is very much realistic. That 3% lost is about slightly over A DUCAT per month, and that's assuming you're earning 40 from tax per month at 155% global tax bonus and going down to 150%... you'd need, over 33 YEARS of not increasing legalism for that trade to become EVEN.
Your manpower on the other hand shouldn't be sitting at max anyway so losing 5% of your max manpower only hurts you by slightly decreasing your manpower regen by like 20 a month, and again- you're not losing that permanently, just until another positive legalism event rolls.
@@IndependentObserver jesus christ just the first paragraph was enough
If you have exactly 1 glass province, you should give the burghers a monopoly on it for 1 mercantilism and a few months' worth of gold, right as faceting fires. Normally you'd lose production income from that province for 5 years, but now it's making gems!
Oh man, that's evil. But brilliant!
You can also do that if you're planning on releasing conquered territory as a vassal or transferring it to a vassal. So, say you're playing Dai Viet and you conquer those inland Cham states. One of them has Copper (or Iron, can't remember which), which is the only one you'll have in your territory, so you can give the privilege to the Nobles and then release it to give it the other inland Chams or whatever and you get your free mercantilism (you're not going to get much money since its autonomy is so high though).
Listened to this while playing Eu4. Netherlands in Age of Absolutism. Went to my Economy tab and turned of War taxes 😂
The one-way trade note trick is only applicable if no one is collecting there. So it can be very good in Bordeaux for example but stealing the trade out of other nodes can be worth it.
Also, faceting can also spawn in provinces that already have gems like Danzig or Königsberg.
Why does it matter if anyone is collecting? Your trade value still goes towards sending value downstream, regardless of however many other nations are collecting.
@@BlurbFish because then the amount collected vs. the amount pushed towards other nodes depends on trade power. With Merchant you'll have way more trade power in the node, so you can steer more money out of the node and into yours.
@@BlurbFishputting a merchant & a giant fleet (+20) of trade ships in Lubeck will allow you to push the trade OUT from those trying to collect in the node... it's not a technically wrong tip but it's very basic and not really applicable to anyone who is actually collecting in the English Channel. You should have a merchant in Lubeck & you should have a massive trade fleet there to steer all the money out of the node even while not controlling any of it.
@@Aldinth I think you're seriously overestimating what a merchant does. Assuming no other modifiers, you're looking at +2 trade power from merchant and +5% global trade power from trade policy.
How much extra share of the trade value does that come around to in a node where you have 250 power out of 500? Try opening a random save and just testing this, it only takes a few months of ingame time.
@@nationalsocialism3504 When each ship possibly adds more trade power than the merchant, do you think it is the fleet of +20 ships or the single merchant that is doing the heavy lifting?
Note that the video's advice has nothing to do with trade fleets, it is only about merchants.
Here's a tip: You can bypass the huge Loyalty penalties from Force Religion and Place Relative On Throne by releasing them from vassalage. They'll often end up in a situation where they'll immediately agree to be vassalized again due to the same religion and dynasty, and their likely being much weaker than you. Once they're re-vassalized they don't have the Loyalty penalty any more.
Another tip (that I often use in conjunction with the first as Muscovy) is that a nation's starting visibility of provinces is based on their culture (or is it tech group? I'm not sure), so you can get maps from newly-released nations in some places. When I play Muscovy, I usually conquer the Bashkir provinces from Kazan, release Bashkiria as a subject, use the above trick, then ask them for maps of Asia after they're released from subjugation (must do it before re-vassalization, because you can't trade for maps from your own subjects) because they have maps of north and east Asia due to being a Tatar culture nation (or Nomadic tech group).
As an addendum to stability: I like keeping it at +1 at minimum. Because if it goes from 0 to -1, I will raise it anyway. It's the same cost from 0 to 1, so might as well enjoy the benefits.
The reason venice cannot have the faceting event spawn in it's capital is because there is a seperate event tied specifically to glass that happens in that state
If you play as Holland or Flanders and break free from Burgundy, always go sure to also take Antwerp. Amazing province to spawn Faceting at. Getting the 50 Prestige is easily done when you fight guys like Gelre, Utrecht or Friesland. Break their allies rivalries and you ll be there quickly.
Last time i played EU4 was last January, it was the day my best friend died, i played through the night like a maniac, not knowing that he was dying alone, just upstairs from me. To be fair though i was with him the previous day and took care of him. After finding out, i uninstalled the game, i reinstalled it once, but never played it. I just cant, i will try again soon though, i really like the game. I dont know why im sharing this here, but this random EU4 video made me remember, sorry guys.
The death of a loved one can really take a toll on you. Take your time to be sad. Also accept that EU4 might not be the game for you at the moment. Maybe one time it will be again, or not. Who knows? Stay strong friend
sorry to hear this man, hope you're doing ok
If you get faceting on Bohemia’s starting glass province, you lock yourself out of the bohemian crystal modifier from your mission tree. Instead, grab your subject’s glass province and dev it there instead!
Merchant in a single direction node could be of use for a merchant chain length multiplier, isn't it?
For faceting, you can also get it as Austria in Breisgau, I believe. Yes, it takes a fair few points, but combine that & your gold mine & you're sorted for basically the full game
This map mod is beautiful, what's the name?
I swear the faceting event spawns in Konigsberg 90% of the time for me.
Keep up the series dude, cool tips 😂
underrated channel, the editing styles pretty superb
Much appreciated!
The One-Way Trade Node Tip just blew my mind. It makes sense, but i always sent a merchant to push towards the channel when playing the Netherlands or the UK.
That's cause you should... after you put a massive trade fleet in Lubeck then it will push all that trade to you
Tip no°8: except if you're building a nice chain for trade steering. But if you are at that point, money shouldn't be a problem anymore.
The reason Venice can't get gems is probably because they have several events based around Venetian glass.
Scorch earth is almost a must fighting the ottomans early gsme. Their early morale can only be mitigated with bad dice rolls from fighting on forts. At least before the get guns of urban.
#8 5:12 You should place a merchant there if you've got enough merchants in the chain. Chaining merchants gives a buff to each trade node along the route. So the merchant won't be doing much for that node but will for others.
I personally recommend that every so often you play around with moving your merchants around. It is extremely unintuitive how trade works, but guess and check usually comes to a reasonable solutions. (minus a month or two trade income, so don't do this too often.)
scorch earth can be super strong in single player. As a small nation bordering a major power like France or Ottomans this is practically your only chance of winning against them. Since they have multiple stacks that could engage against your single army you need to scorch earth so that you can fight single armies instead of them all joining up on you.
Me, who only use scorched earth to ravage my enemies territory and force them to spend dozens of years and a few bankruptcies restoring their country before having a decent economy again:
Suuure
You got me with disabling war taxes. In my last game, I completely forgot about it, and realized it was enabled by chance. It was already age of absolutism...
I have fired faceting event before, but I didn't know why. Thatnks for explaining it so I can do it intentionally :).
definatly did not know about the gold 50% goods produced. Now i know thank you
I have 2300 hours in this game and for some reason I thought that if you don't have a merchant in a node, the trade just doesn't flow at all and just stays in that trade node. Tip 8 very useful. Also I always forget to turn off war taxes and remember it back later in 1600s or 1700s.
Btw good underestimated place to spawn faceting is Danzig or Konigsberg. Both provinces already have gems, but screwing the turks as Poland or Teutons/Livonians is always worth it.
You forgot a 12/10 tip..... Turning on defensive edict on fort states
war taxes one hit hard
The tio about vaasalls is in fact useless.on timurids. You do 1st war and by the time you end it, you've secured them, meaning that annexation won't be problem, especially that they annex almost instantly.
Ive seen Bohemia get faceting most often and Ive gotten it by accident as Brandenburg with Koningsburg
4:18
That SOMALIA❤
What if I always have excess mil power (with ahead of time tech and full mil ideas and heavy development of provinces and too many generals)?
I almost never turn war taxes off because unless I have terrible terrible leader I never seem to lack mil points... but it's always handy to have more mercenaries.
In fact.. the only way I could ever see war taxes being off as useful is if I wanted to never take quantity and really really needed to max my mil dev...
isnt attrition not good to prioritze due to the AI ignoring most of it? up to 5% extra iirc
That annex vassel one is nice bro. 1.8k hours here
What map mod are you using? Thanks in advance
It’s Atlas Aesthetic!
I know (or had the idea of its existences and reasoning) about most of them - especially the last one (War Tax). Few weeks ago I noticed I had it still active after like 250 years playing ... Well, I think I will not forget about it for some time :D. But on the other hand, I never heard about the Gold Rush one. I guess it is for reason I rarely play Christian countries, and if I do, I tend to expand in christianity :D But it definatelly cought my attention :)
3:15 sharty reference
Really cool about the facetting
6k hours in the game, yet I didn’t know about the gold one. I never play as European nations that get gold provinces that early.
thanks man
hey , what is your font mod ?
Tnx forthe vassal scrutage tip
The war taxes tip - depends on the campaign. If you are playing the HRE game and don't control great land or trade nodes to support the emperor's force limit, you can kind of float your economy on war taxes and reparations into the age of reformation by spending that 1 mil a month, and depending on leader you can end up with a lot of extra mil points you really don't have a good alternative means to spend otherwise.
Faceting needs Renaissance in the province not embraced
I just double-checked the Wiki and it says that it needs both. It could be wrong tho
@@theeu4guy You need it to be both embraced in your country and at 100% presence in the province. This is what the wiki says, and it matches my experience with triggering the event.
3K hours in EU4 and didn't know about the starting mana formula
11K hours and I didn't know either.
Good Video :)
privateering is a thing and can often make you more money than boosting trade power especially if you have near 100% trade power in your money making node
I always face palm whenever I forget to toggle off war taxes after the reformation. I still do it 2897 hours later 🤦♂️
diplo and trade advisors sir for 400 mana
Great vid
However facetting is a 10 Out of 10 for small Nations Like Hesse, Sienna or Liege.
Tips, always disinherit 0/0/0 heir
What is the mod name to get the map like that?
scorch earth is really good against ming since it reduces their mandate
Nothing more fun then a trip through the countryside.
I still put merchants in one direction trade nodes, but that is for the AE reduction and trade steering.
While Lubeck doesn't do much for the steering part it will definitely help with northern German AE while I take Scandinavia, then help with the AE when I take northern Germany.
Faceting has happened in Königsberg before in my games. I guess because ottomans didnt have prestige
the first tip may not always apply
and the trade node mastery only applies when you own all of it, you don´t get lübeck trade without a merchant if the hansa trade leage is still there
ps i don´t get what the age of reformation one is about, wasting money to save mana was better before and is still better after reformation
War taxes being free during the renaissance I believe
Age of Discovery gives free war taxes
i am really trying to learn this game, but the learning curve is massive
You're not kidding. I have 11k hours in and I'm still learning new things.
What map mod do you use
Atlas Aesthetic!
Haven't played EU4 in years, if the last update is the last DLC then I'm going to jump back into it. Saw that Navarre has been sorted out Persian ideas have improved. Does anyone play EU4 on a Steam Deck? I'm thinking of buying one second hand purely for EU4 purposes...
there will be one more update or so.
but no more dlc's
What map mode do you use?
Atlas Aesthetic!
I got faceting as a custom nation in assuncion
5:23 Correction to the one here. There is an exception to this when you have high trade power and it is a very valuable trade note. Putting a trader in the node increases the trade vale by 5% (iirc, might be more).
it can thus be very useful to put a trader in a node that only flows into 1 direction.
Also note that in the example there is another nation (East Fresia here) that is steering trade. If they were not the trade power you have there would not be used in this manner and no trade value would flow out.
Playing as lübeck with Europa Expanded mod, if you hold your merchant on i think Lübeck trade node and collect from there, the money is supposed to go english channel is just cancelled because of your trade power. And whenever you got 1-2 trade provinces from english channel, just collect from there and transfer trade, its just like a flush
Whats the map texture mod xP
Atlas Aesthetic!
I thought that a merchant was essential to move your trade value and otherwise it stays as retained trade value in the node and isn't pushed forward. Was I wrong?
It will move even without a merchant, especially if it’s a one-way node. However, you can get more out with a merchant. Just try to experiment and see what works best for you.
@@theeu4guy That's what I usually do, I shuffle the merchants around and see if my trade income goes up or down. Never thought about leaving a trade node in my chain empty though.
So let me get it straight - trade always flows forward by default and a merchant or trade capital can stop it, not the other way around. And all a merchant does is directing the flow in one direction, rather than dispersing it among all exits? (apart from adding some trade power)
"I have so many questions that I want to ask". So let's constrain an actual historian by giving him movie snippets that he should rate instead of asking the burning questions.
I have 100% cavalry to infantry ratio so tip #2 is worthless to me
Running away from Ming, scorching their earth is always fun.
1:37 *G o l d ?*
So to spawn gems I need to have glass province, it should be at least 15 dev and have at least 50 prestige, then when I embrace renaissance I'll get the gem province? You didn't let it clear, the way you phrased it it didn't matter if we embraced renaissance before or after the requirements.
Yep, I don’t think it matters if you complete the requirements before or after embracing renaissance. If you already have such province, it will automatically get gems when you embrace renaissance (if no one else got it, that is)
there are events that give stability?
I know it sounds unreal, but it’s true
Music name?
Intro - EU4 A New Way
Afterwards Vishnu - Patrick Patrikios
I never use war taxes anyway
1300 hours and i never thought of using scorched earth 😅
Gems and no coal? This is my kind of game!
Shame that I am playing as England right now.
Helpful, think about it. Make another!
That's the plan!
venice can't trigger faceting because historically venice's glass products are very famous and iconic.
What's wrong with War Taxes ?
well, some tips needs DLC so.... can be good to mention that
What is this map mod?
Atlas Aesthetic!
Bruh nine got me but its only bc I'm new I swear
only new thing is faceting, didn't know it was once per campaign , thought it was once per nation
3:34 a typo the 300 developement were new thx
Why is scorching the earth useless in Singleplayer?
What's the name of graphic mod?
Atlas Aesthetic!
5:20 i dont understand this? we should or shouldnt or what the what ahhh
Pretty cool
2 things
first of all regarding the second tip best choice is to usually not have any cav as cavalry cost more then its worth and unless you are a really small nations the cavalry wont make much of a diffrence
and for the trade tip remember that what you said applies only if you dont have any trade power in this node or there isnt a single country with trade capital in that node otherwise all your trade power is just split between countries with merchants
Best to always have 2 or 4 cav in a stack with just how much power they have early game when force limit is tight
@@battlez9577 Force limit is just a cost multiplier. If you can afford a mixed force at force limit, then you can afford a pure infantry force above force limit. 2 Cavalry in an army is worse than having none at all, seeing as you're still paying extra for cav, but you're not even getting any extra effective combat width.
Muscovy can easily get a gold province from Kazan
The Ural region is a part of the Eastern Europe sub-continent in game so it doesn't qualify for the bonus from the event.
One game I went all the way to 1614 before I realized war taxes was still on.... It's a useless tip because even knowing it, you still just forget to turn it off.
some1 knows the graph mod he is using?
I know, it’s atlas aesthetic
@@theeu4guy wounder how u know
what is your graphics mod it looks so good
It's Atlas Aesthetics
I use Atlas Aesthetic + 3d map shading graphics mod
@@theeu4guy forgot to say this 3 months ago, thank you!
Having zero Cav is actually very dumb at least get the starting Cav killed in battle then delete at very low troops.
You're right, that's what I try to do, but then I forget that I still have cav in my army :/
Good prononciation of "Caux" :)
:))