Did you manage mana and paint some map today? Hows you manpower mana?
Do you do the tag switching and jump trough hoops for Johan like a circus monkey to gain modifiers?
Is pressing magical remove infation and increase "stability" buttons at the cost of paper mana grand strategy?
have a nice day animal.
>weebshit
kys
Get cancer pleb.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Still not really a grand strategy game.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Eu4 is not a grand strategy.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Nobunaga's Ambition is also not a grand strategy.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Nobunagas ambition sphere of influence is a grand strategy.
9 months ago
Anonymous
So is EU4 then.
9 months ago
Anonymous
see
Giving out unsolicited diagnosis and trying to label anons with them is telling more about yourself.
Pretending magical mana you spend on imaginary "development" and other instant click buttons are abstractions and simulating anything as in real grand strategy games is mental illness.
>recruit 5 generals by spending 250 sword mana >press the spend military professionalism mana button to gain manpower mana
Such loops are so moronic its not even toddlers tier crayon eating paint game.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Having abstract resources doesn't mean it not a grand strategy game.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Lack of grand strategy makes it not a grand strategy game.
Theres is almost no strategy in it as well as warfare is a RNG siege and battle shit fiesta as well.
9 months ago
Anonymous
You absolutely require strategy if you want to paint the map in your color unless you play powerhouse nations like the Ottomans.
9 months ago
Anonymous
mental illness
no suprise its a weebBlack person
9 months ago
Anonymous
Giving out unsolicited diagnosis and trying to label anons with them is telling more about yourself.
Pretending magical mana you spend on imaginary "development" and other instant click buttons are abstractions and simulating anything as in real grand strategy games is mental illness.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Money is mana therefore Nobunaga's ambition is not a grand strategy.
9 months ago
Anonymous
You absolutely require strategy if you want to paint the map in your color unless you play powerhouse nations like the Ottomans.
[...]
you dont know what grand strategy means dumb cuck
Eat shit, uncultured homosexual cattle.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>weebBlack person too dense to understand that his shitty total war knockoff is not a gsg
9 months ago
Anonymous
Lack of grand strategy makes it not a grand strategy game.
Theres is almost no strategy in it as well as warfare is a RNG siege and battle shit fiesta as well.
Get lots of allies, find someone with many allies that you can still win against
Start a war promising your allies land, and then take out our enemies 1 by 1 while taking all their land
Don't give your allies any land in the final peace
Break your starting alliance, its useless,
dont declare on the country just north of you since it has a fort and you cant siege a level 3 fort with your current forcelimit
ally eusugi and a country to the southwest.
suck up to the emperor so he wont force you to have a nice day
start declaring wars on countries that have no allies, have allies stuck in another war, or only have 1 ally (and you start next to them).
If they have 1 ally murder your target day 1, then occupy it and take care of the ally.
Improve relations with everyone to reduce coalitions
make alliances with nations you dont border to reduce the amount of AE you generate on them, break them once you expanded to them.
lower autonomy on everyone you conquer and just rape the rebels
once you have about half the island, you cant control the coalition anymore, you have to just declare, occupy the target, then declare on the next one without making a peacedeal with your previous target, once most of japan is occupied, then you can start making peacedeals. The AE will push you into a coalition, but everyone that could be part of it is already occupied by you.
Eventually you want to conquer the emperor, if you want to become a regular nation, make sure to eliminate every tag so all of japan is under your direct control. If you do this, you can form japan and get a bunch of mana
Go over force limit and blitzkrieg all the other daimyos as fast as you can, ignore the big boys like Hosokawa and Yamana and the ones with cancer forts like Ouchi until you can siege them without bleeding money.
You've got your bullshit sengoku CB and a totally isolated religion to make aggressive expansion irrelevant, not tearing into them as fast as possible is just time wasted you could be using preparing to expand overseas afterward.
The CB is good, but it only applies to countries you have a landborder with. sometimes youre stuck between a few enemies with good diplo, a few strong enemies, and some fort-Black person. In that case, you can still fabricate on nations you border via the sea. Fabrication is nice anyway since a claim gives you 10%CCR (although you probably have overworked diplomats as is).
Also a fleet is nice to blockade forts.
The only real good a fleet is for in japan is controlling the straits, as trying to fight Hosokawa is miserable otherwise. You should also be dragging in co-belligerents as much as possible, both for efficiency's sake and to get as many borders as you can so that scenario doesn't happen.
-go hosokawa to enable easy mode
-declare on yamana and its allies (cobelligerent)
-declare on ouchi and do the same
Allies: Uesugi andToki for the level 3 fort
Oda is the easiest daimyo by far, their traditions are tailor made for brainlessly steamrolling everyone around you. Hosokawa is just the babby option because they start too big to be threatened by anyone.
Oda is the easiest daimyo by far, their traditions are tailor made for brainlessly steamrolling everyone around you. Hosokawa is just the babby option because they start too big to be threatened by anyone.
oda will be a little difficult for newcomers, you can certainly do it if you take your time but that's detrimental in a japan game since you need to unify before colonialism and spawn the institution.
everyone can play whatever the frick they want, I spent hours playing as maltese knights on rhodes in EU3 as a newb and eventually went on to conquer the holy land and the entire europe with it
they're a semi-pirate nation in the sense that they can raid coasts but they start out as a theocracy
it's a classic survive and cripple ottomans conundrum, then you can do whatever
9 months ago
Anonymous
fun. they can raid and frick around with a fleet. cucking the ottomans to death with boat shenanigans is fun.
I actually found imperator rome comfy and simple in its first iteration. They totally changed the systems and UI for version 2.0 because of seething paradox troons. Is it worth relearning? I love the map and the time period, version 1.0 was like a sandbox generic grand strategy game.
Speed is the name of the game, I would argue that the faster you do it the easier you can conquer.
You just have to front load shit ton of mercs at first to put your country into debt for years casually though, use that as leverage to take over weaker territories and weak alliances
nobody can predict the alliance rng, adapt as you move forward. One tip is to ally those pretty far away from you so your conquest territory does not overlap with each other.
Staying shogun until the mid 1500s or so is better than rushing to unify otherwise all the debt and devastation will slow you down considerably, ideally you eat your state and a couple of neighbors while showing strength on rivals, ally one or two other daimyos that did the same then steal the shogunate (make sure to occupy Kyoto before your allies or they're the ones that will become shogun) and then annex the remaining daimyos you inherit.
Also concentrate on killing Korea as soon as you secure the islands, the longer they're left alive the harder they are to defeat.
>play as serbia because fun >getting the balkans under my wiener >want to munch wallachia out of hungary >france >france demands peace or they will make me at least 3 different new buttholes >they do this TWICE
remind me, why shouldnt the french be exterminated ?
Oh, and how's Victoria 3 now?
Still shit, but I'm having fun anyway
Not grand strategy games.
Says who?
Says the one that I fricked you.
Nobunagas Ambition sphere of influence.
>Nobunagas Ambition sphere of influence
Not a grand strategy game.
More of a grand strategy than EU4 and Victoria 3.
No, not really.
Did you manage mana and paint some map today? Hows you manpower mana?
Do you do the tag switching and jump trough hoops for Johan like a circus monkey to gain modifiers?
Is pressing magical remove infation and increase "stability" buttons at the cost of paper mana grand strategy?
have a nice day animal.
Get cancer pleb.
Still not really a grand strategy game.
Eu4 is not a grand strategy.
Nobunaga's Ambition is also not a grand strategy.
Nobunagas ambition sphere of influence is a grand strategy.
So is EU4 then.
see
>recruit 5 generals by spending 250 sword mana
>press the spend military professionalism mana button to gain manpower mana
Such loops are so moronic its not even toddlers tier crayon eating paint game.
Having abstract resources doesn't mean it not a grand strategy game.
Lack of grand strategy makes it not a grand strategy game.
Theres is almost no strategy in it as well as warfare is a RNG siege and battle shit fiesta as well.
You absolutely require strategy if you want to paint the map in your color unless you play powerhouse nations like the Ottomans.
mental illness
no suprise its a weebBlack person
Giving out unsolicited diagnosis and trying to label anons with them is telling more about yourself.
Pretending magical mana you spend on imaginary "development" and other instant click buttons are abstractions and simulating anything as in real grand strategy games is mental illness.
Money is mana therefore Nobunaga's ambition is not a grand strategy.
Eat shit, uncultured homosexual cattle.
>weebBlack person too dense to understand that his shitty total war knockoff is not a gsg
you dont know what grand strategy means dumb cuck
>weebshit
kys
name a gsg then
There is a lot of funny buttons that allow you to RP your dream state, but in gameplay terms you're pretty much doing the same thing whole game
You don't
Play as America.
Get lots of allies, find someone with many allies that you can still win against
Start a war promising your allies land, and then take out our enemies 1 by 1 while taking all their land
Don't give your allies any land in the final peace
Guns
Yes, I'm going to play Oda clan.
Oda shouldn't even be a playable faction in 1444
Break your starting alliance, its useless,
dont declare on the country just north of you since it has a fort and you cant siege a level 3 fort with your current forcelimit
ally eusugi and a country to the southwest.
suck up to the emperor so he wont force you to have a nice day
start declaring wars on countries that have no allies, have allies stuck in another war, or only have 1 ally (and you start next to them).
If they have 1 ally murder your target day 1, then occupy it and take care of the ally.
Improve relations with everyone to reduce coalitions
make alliances with nations you dont border to reduce the amount of AE you generate on them, break them once you expanded to them.
lower autonomy on everyone you conquer and just rape the rebels
once you have about half the island, you cant control the coalition anymore, you have to just declare, occupy the target, then declare on the next one without making a peacedeal with your previous target, once most of japan is occupied, then you can start making peacedeals. The AE will push you into a coalition, but everyone that could be part of it is already occupied by you.
Eventually you want to conquer the emperor, if you want to become a regular nation, make sure to eliminate every tag so all of japan is under your direct control. If you do this, you can form japan and get a bunch of mana
>Nanbu 南部
>Far north
Did they not have a sense of cardinal directions back then?
Go over force limit and blitzkrieg all the other daimyos as fast as you can, ignore the big boys like Hosokawa and Yamana and the ones with cancer forts like Ouchi until you can siege them without bleeding money.
You've got your bullshit sengoku CB and a totally isolated religion to make aggressive expansion irrelevant, not tearing into them as fast as possible is just time wasted you could be using preparing to expand overseas afterward.
The CB is good, but it only applies to countries you have a landborder with. sometimes youre stuck between a few enemies with good diplo, a few strong enemies, and some fort-Black person. In that case, you can still fabricate on nations you border via the sea. Fabrication is nice anyway since a claim gives you 10%CCR (although you probably have overworked diplomats as is).
Also a fleet is nice to blockade forts.
The only real good a fleet is for in japan is controlling the straits, as trying to fight Hosokawa is miserable otherwise. You should also be dragging in co-belligerents as much as possible, both for efficiency's sake and to get as many borders as you can so that scenario doesn't happen.
-go hosokawa to enable easy mode
-declare on yamana and its allies (cobelligerent)
-declare on ouchi and do the same
Allies: Uesugi andToki for the level 3 fort
>hosokawa
But I want to play Oda...
Oda is the easiest daimyo by far, their traditions are tailor made for brainlessly steamrolling everyone around you. Hosokawa is just the babby option because they start too big to be threatened by anyone.
oda will be a little difficult for newcomers, you can certainly do it if you take your time but that's detrimental in a japan game since you need to unify before colonialism and spawn the institution.
Newcomers shouldn't start in Japan to begin with. The puny forcelimit and income you start with isn't representative of how other OPMs play at all.
What are some fun OPMs with potential?
Anyone in the HRE, preferably a free city like Hamburg or Frankfurt
everyone can play whatever the frick they want, I spent hours playing as maltese knights on rhodes in EU3 as a newb and eventually went on to conquer the holy land and the entire europe with it
Talk about the Knights, how are they in EU4?
they're a semi-pirate nation in the sense that they can raid coasts but they start out as a theocracy
it's a classic survive and cripple ottomans conundrum, then you can do whatever
fun. they can raid and frick around with a fleet. cucking the ottomans to death with boat shenanigans is fun.
You pick a color and then spread that color on those other colors.
What's a good entry point for grand strat? I've played Civ, but I know that's a 4X. What should I look into?
EU4 is probably good all round for a newbie since it has a bit of everything.
eu4 is babbies first grand strat. Just play portugal until you feel like you've learned the ropes
Any fun small size countries?
holland
irish minor
granada
florence
byz
albania
lubeck
ardabil
delhi
daimyo
I actually found imperator rome comfy and simple in its first iteration. They totally changed the systems and UI for version 2.0 because of seething paradox troons. Is it worth relearning? I love the map and the time period, version 1.0 was like a sandbox generic grand strategy game.
I found it incredibly boring every time the few times I tried it over the years
the update literally fixed everthing that could be fixed in this turd you moron
getting rid of the stupid mana alone is a huge improvement
Speed is the name of the game, I would argue that the faster you do it the easier you can conquer.
You just have to front load shit ton of mercs at first to put your country into debt for years casually though, use that as leverage to take over weaker territories and weak alliances
nobody can predict the alliance rng, adapt as you move forward. One tip is to ally those pretty far away from you so your conquest territory does not overlap with each other.
Watch SpiffingBrit
Never reply to me again
Have you tried dropping a nuke on it?
Sengoku Jidai
I hate forming Italy but it's so fun
>humanist
>diplo
>humanist+diplo policy
>italy ideas
>lose like 6 aggressive expansion per year
This game gets so boring when you unify a mid-size tag IMO
I heard they update the AI. Playing on very hard now should be somewhat a challenge.
>start as a OPM
>restart the game a few times for the majors around to do exactly what you need them to
>start as a minor
>by 1600 the game is trivialized
>start as a major
>by 1500 the game is trivialized
Staying shogun until the mid 1500s or so is better than rushing to unify otherwise all the debt and devastation will slow you down considerably, ideally you eat your state and a couple of neighbors while showing strength on rivals, ally one or two other daimyos that did the same then steal the shogunate (make sure to occupy Kyoto before your allies or they're the ones that will become shogun) and then annex the remaining daimyos you inherit.
Also concentrate on killing Korea as soon as you secure the islands, the longer they're left alive the harder they are to defeat.
>play as serbia because fun
>getting the balkans under my wiener
>want to munch wallachia out of hungary
>france
>france demands peace or they will make me at least 3 different new buttholes
>they do this TWICE
remind me, why shouldnt the french be exterminated ?
>revolutionary France