Git Gudding

[Deadpooleon]

What is a good country and time period for me to use to practice and Git Gud, I want to like EU4 but I suck at it, it would seem... At least the combat/war

[Dwarf]

The best would be to focus on one specific aspect of the game.
Diplomacy : Austria or Papal States
Naval : England (Sweden maybe?)
Commerce : Genes, Venice
Expansive aggression : any state in italy (Papal States <3) or a country that borders the HRE

[SaNGMK]

Forming a nation like Russia, Germany or Italy is always a good first goal, besides that, Portugal is a good nation to fight a few small wars, learn how to colonise and other things cause you are pretty safe.

[CyPunk]

My First three games were Spain, Brandenburg/Prussia, and Savoy (to Italy maybe). I feel like I am getting good from those runs. I recommed some Italian nation (e.g. Savoy, but also Venice, Milan) since I feel that area can teach you all of what Dice Ex Machina said (but not colonization). Also, playing as Brandenburg too early gives you the wrong idea of how easy combat can be, with all their buffs... but the Italians have one or two buffs so you are not totally at a disadvantage.

[Pozz]

I would assume Ming to be a fairly newbie friendly nation these days as well.

Fairly safe, no big baddies for a while and a slow and steady start?

[Morbiusly a Beast]

Muscovy is probably the nation that helped me learn when I was new the most. They start with a pretty decent economic base and a lot of weak enemies to expand into. You get a lot of experiance in fighting large opponents like Poland and Ottomans as well as colonizing, converting, handling rebels, vassal feeding/annexation, dynasties/personal unions (as they are Christian) while easily maintaining a relatively safe position throughout the game untill you inevitably accrew 300+ land force limit without much effort and are unstoppable.

[SaNGMK]

Originally posted by Pozz:

I would assume Ming to be a fairly newbie friendly nation these days as well.

Fairly safe, no big baddies for a while and a slow and steady start?

Not really. Playing such a big nation with the need of making everybody around you a tributary would be really overwhelming.
On the other hand the Ottomans might be a good alternative.

[EricTheFritz]

I sent you a friend request, if you ever have any more questions PM me. I have a few friends who are also relatively new to the game, so maybe you can hop into MP with us sometime too(I just spew out knowledge during those sessions).

Also starting a discord group ' EU IV Public ' if you want to check it out, I aim for it to be a kind of hub of information and a playerbase for the game (similar to what I did with rust). https://discord.gg/5cpNhjt
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/EU4Public

[Vanorah]

best is probably england cos of channel protection, good access to americas and ez to develop

[gia]

Originally posted by Deadpool710:

What is a good country and time period for me to use to practice and Git Gud, I want to like EU4 but I suck at it, it would seem... At least the combat/war

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[Chadwbacca]

I always recommend Castille, you can have easy wars in Africa, or colonize, or try to fight european nations, this way, you can regulate your Agressive Expansion with two front. And after a few years you end up with Aragon in a personal union that works as really good vassal, and if you are lucky, you can get the territories from Burgundy.

[Pira]

I'd go Brandenburg or Austria. Austria is insanely easy because you can get like 2 PU's by 1500.

[Dwarf]

Originally posted by Mr.Batman:

I always recommend Castille, you can have easy wars in Africa, or colonize, or try to fight european nations, this way, you can regulate your Agressive Expansion with two front. And after a few years you end up with Aragon in a personal union that works as really good vassal, and if you are lucky, you can get the territories from Burgundy.

Ohhhh haven't done Castille in a while! Good idea, thanks man!

[luckymarine]

Just takes time and a varied country select.

Anyone can be good with an OP country, hit that random button a few times and give it a go.

[Caelus]

i always sucked at this game, i recently got into it and am now gitting gud by making a custom nation, and i picked pretty much the whole of taiwan to be my start nation (just 3 land tiles) and then from there i coloised bits of philipines and conquered the rest, changed my trade capital to philipines and mad eit badass due to taiwan having a bit of power in the node that feeds it. nava power is pretty OP for you to defend yourself..... japan formed, war deced me, has larger army and nation so i was worried, but i made larger fleet, beat their fleet, prevent them coming to my islands, then blockaded their fleet and their armies on a tiny island where they couldnt do anything while i took japan slowly getting warscore up.... i beat imperial japan, my first propper victory, me having like 17k troops them having around 40k troops :)

islands are OP man, i suppose this would work on any island game so long as you make sure you get fleet supremacy. i had to build the fleet capacity increase buildings to make sure i had larger fleets, just takes time of building and developing your stuff. my victory against japan was 100 years of development from start of game. still though that would have been a losing war if i picked a continent based nation. islands for noobs like us to learn from ;)

[Dwarf]

Originally posted by Caelus:

i always sucked at this game, i recently got into it and am now gitting gud by making a custom nation, and i picked pretty much the whole of taiwan to be my start nation (just 3 land tiles) and then from there i coloised bits of philipines and conquered the rest, changed my trade capital to philipines and mad eit badass due to taiwan having a bit of power in the node that feeds it. nava power is pretty OP for you to defend yourself..... japan formed, war deced me, has larger army and nation so i was worried, but i made larger fleet, beat their fleet, prevent them coming to my islands, then blockaded their fleet and their armies on a tiny island where they couldnt do anything while i took japan slowly getting warscore up.... i beat imperial japan, my first propper victory, me having like 17k troops them having around 40k troops :)

islands are OP man, i suppose this would work on any island game so long as you make sure you get fleet supremacy. i had to build the fleet capacity increase buildings to make sure i had larger fleets, just takes time of building and developing your stuff. my victory against japan was 100 years of development from start of game. still though that would have been a losing war if i picked a continent based nation. islands for noobs like us to learn from ;)

Just get Ulm man, most OP OPM in the game