EUIV - Quick Questions / Quick Answers

[Theoden]

OK, so playing as Portugal, capital is Lisbon, home trade node is Seville, almost fully controlled. In Genoa, I have 28% trade power so far (total, not province, as seen in trade map mode).
IF I would move my collecting merchant in Genoa, instead of Seville, will it mean that I would collect in 2 trade nodes, so I will lose the cumulative bonus of 10% for every merchant that ... (you know the story)? I mean, because in the home mode I would by default collect, I assume, right? If I would still collect in Seville, won't I actually send such a small amount forward to Genoa, that it would make no sense to collect there too?

I will soon control English Channel and Venice as well, but they do not compete with Seville, in ducats arriving there.

In such a case, would it generally pay off to collect in all 3 of them, instead only in Seville?

 

[Sian]

I'd move your trading port to Genoa

 

[Lamartine]

Two odd questions,

1) I've seen let's players resize their armies before they send them into combat so that their stack is the same size or slightly larger than the enemy stack. What's the advantage of being the same size or slightly bigger than an enemy in combat? I've always assumed that bigger is always better - but I'm probably overlooking something.

2) How do I take an enemies' colonial nations in a peace deal? If I'm France and I occupy all of Spain in a war, how can I transfer lordship of their colonial nations from them to me? Do I need to 'release vassals' and then vassalise the CNs in another war, or do I take the provinces, core them and then the colonial nation fires for me? I hear that by taking another nation's CNs you can get two or three separate CN vassals in a single colonial region.

Thanks in advance

 

[James The Red]

Do mercenaries fight with the same combat stats as your regular forces? Thanks

 

[brifbates]

Two odd questions,

1) I've seen let's players resize their armies before they send them into combat so that their stack is the same size or slightly larger than the enemy stack. What's the advantage of being the same size or slightly bigger than an enemy in combat? I've always assumed that bigger is always better - but I'm probably overlooking something.

2) How do I take an enemies' colonial nations in a peace deal? If I'm France and I occupy all of Spain in a war, how can I transfer lordship of their colonial nations from them to me? Do I need to 'release vassals' and then vassalise the CNs in another war, or do I take the provinces, core them and then the colonial nation fires for me? I hear that by taking another nation's CNs you can get two or three separate CN vassals in a single colonial region.

Thanks in advance

1) All units in a combat take morale damage so by starting slightly larger then bringing reinforcements in a week or so later you end up with better morale on your reinforcements than if you start with all of them.

2) If you use an appropriate CB then one of the options under the treaty menu in the peace screen will be "cede colonial x" where x is a colonial region. If you choose it then you will get all provinces your target and any of their CNs hold in that region. Check the wiki to see which CBs qualify.

Do mercenaries fight with the same combat stats as your regular forces? Thanks

Generally speaking, yes. There's at least one instance where they fight better than your normal forces (one of the splendor bonuses gives + mercenary discipline)

 

[londoner247]

Two odd questions,

1) I've seen let's players resize their armies before they send them into combat so that their stack is the same size or slightly larger than the enemy stack. What's the advantage of being the same size or slightly bigger than an enemy in combat? I've always assumed that bigger is always better - but I'm probably overlooking something.

2) How do I take an enemies' colonial nations in a peace deal? If I'm France and I occupy all of Spain in a war, how can I transfer lordship of their colonial nations from them to me? Do I need to 'release vassals' and then vassalise the CNs in another war, or do I take the provinces, core them and then the colonial nation fires for me? I hear that by taking another nation's CNs you can get two or three separate CN vassals in a single colonial region.

Thanks in advance

As well as brifbates' answer to question 1, you also need to consider the flanking abilities of your cavalry. If, say, your enemy is fielding a stack of 6 infantry and 4 cavalry and you send in 20 infantry and 8 cavalry then your cavalry won't get involved in the battle because your infantry will take the centre of the line and the cavalry will be too far away to engage the enemy.

Early game, when cavalry is generally far better in battle, this is a real loss to you. This is probably one reason that you are seeing people carefully balance their armies so that they can maximise the involvement and flanking bonuses for their cavalry units.

 

[Theoden]

I'd move your trading port to Genoa

You mean moving the home trade node, from Seville to Genoa, or collecting in Genoa, instead of Seville?

 

[Sian]

You mean moving the home trade node, from Seville to Genoa, or collecting in Genoa, instead of Seville?

Changing your home trade node

 

[pesgores]

Am I really distracted or is there no thread in this forum about the upcoming expansion for EU4, Third Rome?

 

[grommile]

Am I really distracted or is there no thread in this forum about the upcoming expansion for EU4, Third Rome?

I wasn't aware they'd announced the DLC yet.

 

[Theoden]

Am I really distracted or is there no thread in this forum about the upcoming expansion for EU4, Third Rome?

You mean this one?

https://www.paradoxplaza.com/europa-universalis-iv-third-rome

 

[Theoden]

Changing your home trade node

So not collecting in all 3 end trade nodes (Genoa, Venice, English Channel), but change home trade node to Genoa and thus collect only there would be more beneficial, right?

 

[pesgores]

You mean this one?

https://www.paradoxplaza.com/europa-universalis-iv-third-rome

Yes, I ended up finding it but it's not listed on the main forum directory, had to get a direct link from the PDXCon announcements thread.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...-iv-to-get-immersion-pack-third-rome.1020999/

 

[Theoden]

Yes, I ended up finding it but it's not listed on the main forum directory, had to get a direct link from the PDXCon announcements thread.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...-iv-to-get-immersion-pack-third-rome.1020999/

There is already a pinned thread since 10:30 this morning in the forum about this DLC

 

[Khaciv]

Can i watch eu4 video's in China? I don't think i can use my regular site to watch eu4 which is youtube..

 

[netherlink]

So not collecting in all 3 end trade nodes (Genoa, Venice, English Channel), but change home trade node to Genoa and thus collect only there would be more beneficial, right?

You can't tell that for sure.
The End Nodes are almost always better then any Node before, at least in late game europe.
As Iberian you always should try to achieve as much Influence in Genoa as possible, since all the money you make in Seville would be more valuable in Genoa (More Distance = More Value).

Regarding collection in other Nodes:
If they are rich and you have decent influence, you probably might check to see how much you can grab there. Important is to note, that it's not just you are making money there, but your enemies will get less

It really depends on the situation, if England is doing well with colonizing etc., English Channel can be really rich.

If you don't have noticeable influence there, you might be better with privateers there.

Summary:
Almost always go to an end node and steer to it.
Grab at other end nodes only if they are rich and you have influence there.
Use privateers if they are rich and you don't have a lot of trade influence there.

 

[Yxklyx]

Two odd questions,

1) I've seen let's players resize their armies before they send them into combat so that their stack is the same size or slightly larger than the enemy stack. What's the advantage of being the same size or slightly bigger than an enemy in combat? I've always assumed that bigger is always better - but I'm probably overlooking something.

Resize? Do you mean consolidate regiments? Regiments do less damage the more losses they have suffered. So if you have 20 infantry regiments but only 15k infantry troops - they will fight better if you consolidate them to 15 regiments.

 

[Theoden]

You can't tell that for sure.
The End Nodes are almost always better then any Node before, at least in late game europe.
As Iberian you always should try to achieve as much Influence in Genoa as possible, since all the money you make in Seville would be more valuable in Genoa (More Distance = More Value).

Regarding collection in other Nodes:
If they are rich and you have decent influence, you probably might check to see how much you can grab there. Important is to note, that it's not just you are making money there, but your enemies will get less

It really depends on the situation, if England is doing well with colonizing etc., English Channel can be really rich.

If you don't have noticeable influence there, you might be better with privateers there.

Summary:
Almost always go to an end node and steer to it.
Grab at other end nodes only if they are rich and you have influence there.
Use privateers if they are rich and you don't have a lot of trade influence there.

Thank you!
I control Americas almost entirely, half of Great Britain and Netherlands, so I have most of English Channel control. Genoa will be soon Portuguese trade node, but with Venice it's gonna still last for quite a while.
Anyway, will give it a try and see how do I perform better actually, in which scenario. Will start with moving my home trade node to Genoa, as already advised, and then collect in all the 3 end nodes. I was rather skeptical about it, because I cannot control the whole Venetian route, only the other two. At least for the moment.

Anyways, will come back with an update after trying it. It shouldn't ruin my game, after all.

 

[Theoden]

When having a hired advisor which provides a specific bonus and firing all the others from the pool, is it intended not to receive advisor(s) with the same bonus as the hired one at the beginning of the new month? Because I don't recall to get such one, and I'm trying over here for several months in a row already...

PS: I just want a +3 advisor with a specific bonus, since I had only a +1 one with that bonus available when my previous hired advisor died, so...

 

[Alsark]

I'm looking through disasters on the Wiki... When it says, "Spawns rebels with size 1", or, "Spawn rebels with size 2", what exactly does that mean?