Europa Universalis IV Developer diary 19 – War has never been so much fun...
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I'd love for the navy to be made more useful throughout the course of the game, anything that makes continual investment in new ships worthwhile would work for me.
Additionally (and going OT a bit), there should be certain classes of ships that can be refitted on the tech tree, rather than being outdated as soon as a new tech comes along. A lot of navies would repurpose older ships to keep them viable (or be able to sell them to lesser-powers), rather than having to rebuild a new navy every 20/30 years.
Agreed - there needs to be something to slow armies down. Maybe increase the usage of forts to inflict damage to an army that is only travelling-through an enemy province, or slow down the army speed? Make it so you can't just immediately rush to a capital without concern, but instead have to chip away at the periphery of a country (and perhaps help prevent you sending out 1-2 stack armies to siege every province in relative safety). It's all too easy to overrun a country without any great skill or planning.
Woah, so if you invade a nation that has full defensive ideas all your troops will cost double maintenance since they will always need some reinforcements? This sounds like it could make some larger nations, like Russia and France, more or less invulnerable to offensive wars.
I wouldn't go that far, but it would make it harder to invade. However taking that idea means you're sacrificing an Idea slot, which might be better spent on:
1. Increasing military offensive power(so that you're not on the defensive in the first place)
2. Increasing other things, like your economy.
Likely not; don't forget, for every nifty new trick they tease us with there's dozens of counters we don't know yet. Maybe Quantity makes replacement troops free and doubles your manpower. Until we see all the cards its hard to tell which ones are especially strong.
Alright, fair enough. It's just that with the cards that we _do_ have this one sounds extremely powerful with the given mechanics.
do you think its better than the march of eagles combat? as that looks really awesome & more detailed (yes i know its a wargame solely)...
I look forward to try this new battle system, giving more focus to morale, orders and tech looks like a nice and realistic addition 
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Those seem to be some nice changes, even if I don't tend to fight many wars.
I believe in one of the earliest design posts the stated intent was to make total war a losing strategy under most circumstances.
I believe in one of the earliest design posts the stated intent was to make total war a losing strategy under most circumstances.
The game is getting closer and closer to recreating conditions of the time which is very welcomed news.
When can we a expect a similarly detailed Dev Diary regarding the new and improved role of naval power?
When can we a expect a similarly detailed Dev Diary regarding the new and improved role of naval power?
This DD reveals a lot of cool changes to combat, but a big question for me (and one already asked) is whether there will be any changes when an army or battle is overseas.
Milan will be Fun(tm) for its starting defending from a war of conquest against an enemy with twice its army and thrice its economy.
as wars are now much more costly, do we also get nations supporting others(i.e. the duch republic supporting austria in their wars agaisnt france) financially more? and will it be easier to actually develop a warchest(maybe even allow a slider where the player can put gold in he can take only in certain conditions, like war) than in eu3? with thr bysmall income some realms have who actually warred a lot that could pretty much destroy them. maybe increase the importance of looting(so sending armies of 4k horses into enemy territory to harrass them actually has an impact now?)
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yes can we have a seperate fund in which we can designate our warchest (i.e, its own little interface). It Could have info roughly relating to how long our army (in its current size) could be maintained for - that would be good!
The changes seem really interesting. I particularly like the increased transparency in the battle interface. I´m one of those who really finds it difficult to get into the fine details of combat in EU3.
I am curious to know this too. With the other effects they're adding in for winter (graphical, freezing seas), hopefully waging war in Northern Europe during winter is not a very good idea.