Hi I live in Canada and really love this game and would like a helpful friend to guide me along and play with me.
Need a friend and guide
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Best advice I can give you is to play as France you cant lose even if u dont do anything.
Worst idea ever. Never play as France. France is the bud guy you should strive to beat.
I like Castile for my first games... you're nice and secluded, yet not too weak.
I like Castile for my first games... you're nice and secluded, yet not too weak.
Castile en secure an alliance with France asap seems the best newby friendly for a first game.
France is not newbie friendly. You start surrounded by powerful enemies and have to learn the intricacies of vassals fast.
I just tried France as my first game and got dogpiled by Burgondy and Castille early on. That's not fun man ):
Am I the only one that played France as his first nation and got half of Europe in 200 years?
PS:The op should try England too since its quite remote and you could expand into Ireland quite fast.
PS:The op should try England too since its quite remote and you could expand into Ireland quite fast.
I think england is a good start as long as you expect to lose the HYW and don't put everything into it. powerful, easy to crush neighbors and then you have an easily defendable island to yourself and a great trade node to learn various mechanics.
Even the various rebels you get slapped with and can't often prevent (the Wars of the Roses, those bloody Lollards) are a useful experience in how to deal with rebels, without incurring much risk.
Your icons show that you already had a good lot of experience in Paradox games. That does not seem to be the case of the OP. These games aren't reputed to be newbie friendly.
For example, when I bought EU4 on release I had already been playing these games for 6 years... I started my first game as France, and after some time to adapt (I got crushed once by Burgundy, because I had overestimated MIL ideas relatively to MIL tech), I could consistently and easily expand.
But a guy who likes RTS, and to whom I recommended EU4 while it was on sale, tried France as well, was overwhelmed by the game and got crushed with rebellions everywhere.
Id say Portugal is probably the best newbie friendly game to play.
Just maintain your alliance with Castile and you should be pretty good.
You will get to learn the cololnization/trade aspects of the game and most nation will leave you alone, giving you free rein to do what you please.
Just maintain your alliance with Castile and you should be pretty good.
You will get to learn the cololnization/trade aspects of the game and most nation will leave you alone, giving you free rein to do what you please.
I think the Ottomans are also newbie friendly you got good finances, good army, great opportunity to expand in whichever direction you desire, and you start with cores on lots of stuff to get you in a conquering mood. and with good tolerance rebels are easier to manage as well.
If your colonies attack the Spanish colonies and Castile/Spain takes over then the game gets frustrating, that's why i'd recommend Castile for newbies. However, i learned to play as Portugal in EU4, bloody colonies fighting each other.
Btw I guess we should recommend nations outside Europe as well for example for Asia I would say Timurids especially if you ally the Ottos and for Africa I find Ethiopia very easy.Oman is a good choice too if you want something in Arabia.Btw this is all my opinion if you think of something please else tell me.
This advice was given to me when I started with EU3. I nearly gave up on the game because of it. Portugal is tediously boring to play (unless you do wierd stuff that a new player wouldn't be inclined to try).
Portugal isn't really going to teach you how to fight equal tech nations as you ally your only neighbour.
Vijayanagar's pretty decent (although you might find Europeans slamming into you in the late 16th/17th centuries when they decide they want your coastline) for a newbie start outside Europe. Challenging, but it's a pretty good starting position.
Best thing for a newbie start is to play someone who is not too easy and is moderately challenging, My first run was with Uesugi, a japanese daimyo, and i would advise to start with Japan too.