Your most liked and disliked AI countries

[Incompetent]

Like:

• PLC: They make a great ally and only expand into eastern Europe. If you're TO, Brandenburg, Muscovy, Hungary etc. it's easy enough to strike them down early.

Maybe if you strike super early you can prevent Poland and Lithuania teaming up, but it becomes awkward after that. (Breaking the PU is one thing, but you also have to break the 'historical friends' modifier.) If you don't, it's a huge amount of development to chew through even if you have the means to crush them on the battlefield.

• Sweden: They are mostly irrelevant to European Alliance systems since they rarely make an impact. But they rival you the very instant you do something on the Baltic and annoy the hell out of you with their strait, super soldiers and winter if you actually have to fight them, without offering nice territory to take.

Except the Copper Mountain. Always take the Copper Mountain for yourself as soon as you can.

• Ming: Their troops are not particularly hard to beat if you do not play something little/rotw obsessed but it's always such a draged out war.

While it stays intact, Ming annoys me not so much for what it can do, but for the bonanza of Broken China that I'm missing out on. Broken China is basically a second India for any European who wants to carve out an easy trade empire in Asia (or just a regular land empire in Asia), except that if the Ming vase has only just hit the concrete, it's much quicker and easier to conquer than India (given that India tends to consolidate into a few blobs if it's left alone for a while).

 

[A_Dane]

Muscovy and Austria - whenever I ally them they enter "don't know how to wage war without throwing 100k soldiers away"-mode.

When they're not my friends they dominate everything in sight and actively disrupt my carefully laid plans.

 

[Homusubi]

Like:
Oirat, providing they're still powerful by the time one gets to ally them. They're as good to ally as any of the other Asian major powers, but they don't sit on land that you want to conquer.
Portugal, because they're so colonial-focused that you can take half the New World by taking a few provinces in the Old World.

Hate:
England, because of the damned navy. I know a lot of people like them, but they probably haven't tried to invade Britain without making an uber-navy first.
France, because France.
Malwa, because they quite frequently manage to cover India in beige sultanate awfulness. I don't play in India often, but I can see what goes on there and I always mentally support the little Hindu nations which never win.
Pasai. Oh, bloody Pasai! It quite frequently turns into the Big Pink Blob of SE Asia, and has an annoyingly large navy that I can never seem to defeat. Plus, they're fond of allying everyone around them who's Muslim. If you're playing anywhere near the East Indies, don't annoy Pasai, or Brunei if they're bigger.

 

[Willem IV]

Love Byzantium, can't deny it. I'm one of those byzanphilies. Therefor I hate Venice and Ottomans.

Love The Netherlands, love the Dutch Republic in-game and it rich provinces.
I'm also biased as I'm Dutch. Therefore I dislike the Frech.

Love Sweden, as I'm in love with Stockholm, hate the danes...
Maybe this is also the reason I do like Paradox.

Hate any blobbing country, as I prefer to stay small, don't like the need to blob.
Also I don't like the papal game, therefore I always convert when starting as a Catholic nation.

 

[Woifee]

Hate:
Austria because they ruin the HRE.

Love:
Poland as BBurg. Feed TO to them, vassalise it as OPM and retake CB for less AE.
Ming: Because it's just huge and so much to siege in case of war. Takes forever.
Ainu: Easy Shinto Vassal as Japan and awesome to feed Asia to to core and convert.

Burgundy: Ruins France. France is to weaknow and can't even take france. Without BI France will fail.

 

[zamieo]

Like:
1. France as an ally is pretty great. I don't think they're that hard to kill, nowadays at least, as an enemy but as a friend, they excel with large and good armies. Since you usually can't take that many provinces from France due to AE, I don't see their forts as a big of a problem as I do with other states.
2. PLC. Like France except they rarely call you to arms since you're usually far away. I don't think they're that hard to beat either, if it comes to that.

Dislike:
1. Ming, mostly cause of their forts. It just takes a long time to siege them down, other than that they're not an issue.
2. A large Russia can be annoying as hell, travel time alone makes a war last longer than it should.
3. Ottomans. Lots of provinces, decent army. Not that hard to beat, but still fairly annoying in terms of the amount of forts and provinces.

 

[ArtayOfficial]

Let's open this scroll... Here, here, here..
Love:
León - I don't know why, maybe because they have pretty awesome flag and I like theirs color on the map. Sadly, they rarely seen.
Oman - You know why? They have the most awesome flag. It's just... red. And they have good trade-based ideas, liked it.

Liked:
Cyprus - It's.. nice. I can't say why, but their position on the map is funny and if they live enough, they can conquer the Mameluks.

Hated:
Ottomans - Why they have so much morale? I know, they have a lot of piety, so they get this nasty bonus +10% morale boost, but hey. I can't even defeat them as Oman or.. everything, unless I am big as PLC.
Austria - Everyone claims they don't cheat, but they actually are! You have better army composition, better tech, better general, you are defending in mountains and... you lose. How? I don't know, they Habsburgers!
Qara Qoyunlu - They.. uh.. nomads. I don't know either, why they have so much morale and why they wreck my armies so easily.

The most hated nation on the globe:
Aachen - I can't say why. Maybe because they just global power in EU3? I have bad experiences with this little fricking nation.

 

[A Secret Friend]

Love: Austria (though only when I'm playing in the HRE). It's always such a relief when, say, you're playing as Hamburg and Denmark tries to conquer you because they think the Emperor is preoccupied, but then the Austrians swoop up there and save the day. Those moments make me forgive their blobbing in the south.

Hungary. They are often a decent and willing ally against Poland.

Hate: Poland (or rather, PLC). Not only because they can prove to be such an annoying obstacle when playing as a smaller power in Eastern Europe, but also because they just turn Eastern Europe into an uninteresting blob when you aren't playing there. I rejoice whenever they collapse into various Ruthenian minors.

Brandenburg. When playing as either TO or a minor HRE state in the North, the only thing worse than PLC or Denmark constantly looming over you is B-Burg forming an alliance with PLC and just going to town.

France. They are always a threat when playing anywhere near Europe, either directly or as an ally to a rival of yours. Granted, this is one of those "love to hate" sorta deals, since I think their strength (or lack of it) can take to world to interesting directions.

Münster. I don't know why, but it feels like they are always needlessly aggressive, and it somehow rubs me the wrong way.

 

[TenshiN]

Love:
Ternate/Tidore: One of the best non-military idea sets in the game, tons of money from trade/production, as well as 3(!!!) different agents, including an early colonist, as well as being in the awesome region of useful colonies which is indonesia
Tibet: Glorious white, nice balanced ideas, easy event to switch to Theocracy. Also love Yarkand for similar reasons
Novgorod: Merchant republic, early +RT boost, awesome coat of arms, fancy new unit models, also mostly free from lame european AE management.
Korea: Nice for playing a tall game with colonizing the americas, a sort of Portugal of the east
Ethiopia: Being the only existing coptic nation in the world opens up an interesting game of conquest and constant rebel management. Also has a strong enemy thorough the whole game, whether it would be the Mamluks, or Ottomans
Norway: Because they are so good at colonising, and all the danish islands make defending against even much superior armies a total joke. Always fun to trap an army on one of the islands to ensure a guranteed stackwipe

Hate:
Brandenburg: They don't usually grow large, but when they do, they are very hard to stop because of their monstrous army bonuses, and they also tend to go Protestant and ally Sweden
Ayutthaya: Whether i decide to play in indochina, they like to play the godfather and ally all my neighbours. Also hard to wreck right away because their first ruler is a really strong general
Mewar/Indian rajputs: BEGONE, THE HCC PLAGUE! They also happen to be successful a bit too often, which makes taking over india even more painful. Also hate all the caucasian tags for similar reasons

 

[Stadhouder]

LOVE
France, good as an ally, good challenge as an enemy.

HATE
Austria, somehow in my games always worthless as an ally as they seem to lose battles for no reason, but if they are my enemy, then they suddenly stomp everything.

BOTH
Ottomans, they can be great as an ally, but really annoying as an enemy, especially fi they ally Muscovy, France or Ming. They block ally your expansion because either you have to take them on, or they DOW if you're occupied elsewhere.

 

[petertel123]

I hate Austria with a passion, they are ridiculously OP (often stronger than France) especially if they get the inheritance, they love to warn all small nations around them and always demand back territory you take in the HRE while eating princes left right and centre themselves. Worst part is that the electors will still elect them emperor even if they just ate a dozen HRE minors.

 

[Number 7]

LOVE
France, good as an ally, good challenge as an enemy.

HATE
Austria, somehow in my games always worthless as an ally as they seem to lose battles for no reason, but if they are my enemy, then they suddenly stomp everything.

BOTH
Ottomans, they can be great as an ally, but really annoying as an enemy, especially fi they ally Muscovy, France or Ming. They block ally your expansion because either you have to take them on, or they DOW if you're occupied elsewhere.

i know what you mean about Austria, i've seen them flop fairly often as an ally, but the moment i don't need them as an ally i arrive in europe to find the unholy scandinavia/poland/austria alliance here...

Spoiler

 

[t6.28]

Love
Bohemia, I somehow only rarely end up at odds with them. Probably because they usually hate Austria and their lands are not really needed to form anything
Sweden, they are usually not too interested in your lands.
Aragon, mainly because they usually hate my enemies for some reason.

Hate
Austria, no matter what you do, you will always have to fight them sooner or later
Castile, I don't know why, but they tend to always ally my enemies.

 

[CassCD]

Love:
France. Because . . . France. I just love them to death, I am fiercely loyal to them in almost all situations and will actively go out of my way to help them in their own wars so long as I'm not busy. BFFs 'til the end.

Hate:
Portugal. Because screw Portugal that's why! Seriously, their rampant colonialism tends to jump all of the good and cool spots in the New World and Africa. And not just their choice of location, but their sheer stupidity in the fact that they have no stop button. Their colonies will ALWAYS grow too large and powerful and break away because the Portuguese don't know any better. They are a massive waste of space and will be obliterated straight out of the gate in every single Castile game I play. . I am an absolute ornery witch when it comes to Portugal. I enjoy letting them rot with only the Azores left up until I get my hand on the Imperialism/Nationalism CBs.

 

[Christopholes]

Love:
*Novgorod - Best bear
*Kurland - The real Prussians
*Perm - best flag in the game
*Bahamanis - Soothing color, reminds me of the Bahamas
*Mysore - Two hearded bird outside of Europe

Hate:
*Portugul - Weed nation almost impossible to permanently kill.
*Prussia - I don't hate Prussia so much as strategies for forming them as non TO/Blandenberg
*Castille - not as much hate has Portugul but still a jerk, tends to own part of Italy forever
*The Daiymos - I hate them so much. Least fun area to play in the game. Siberian minor play is less frustrating because I can read a book on speed 5 through the boring parts.

 

[Simoleum]

I hate PLC often cause they spill over both west, east and south.

 

[TheChrisD]

Love:
* BBurg/Prussia - Warhammer 40K in the 16th century.
* Venice - ALL OF THE DUCATS
* Any Italian minor that manages to blob - they make a great ally, with great devlopment and can punch well above their weight because they can afford to merc out the wazoo
* Persia - a much-needed strong army in that region, as well as a great easily-monopolised trade node that can siphon everything from Asia.
* Burgundy - If they don't die despite being railroaded into it, they are a great counter-weight to the luckies in the area.

Hate:
* EVERY SINGLE GOD-DAMN BS OP LARGE LUCKY NATION (except Russia because they couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag) - self-explanatory
* Non-exploded Ming - recent patches have made Ming far too powerful because they get far too much forcelimit, no military quality maluses, and are somehow able to rival Indochinan minors who are like one-quarter their size.

 

[MehuKattiMies]

Every goddamn blob. I prefer playing tall myself, and those are natural enemies.

But usually France, PLC, Ottos and Bohemia.

 

[Master of Times]

Love

-Austria: I just love the Habsurgs and almost always want them as allies.
-Switzerland: because I like the country in rl and their NI in eu4 + Switzerlake coolest achievement

Hate

-Castille/Spain: I'm Portuguese, I absolutely hate those guys and I make it my mission in most games to make sure they end up as some african minor. Besides, I hate how their provinces are so rich compared to portuguese, taking into account Portugal was pretty wealthy when the game starts.
-Sweden: Because they're OP as hell and I don't think they deserve such strong NI. I try to make them disappear every game I play closer to them.
-Ottomans: Because they just blob like hell and take forever to kill.

PS: I hate Castille so much that i did "Spain is the emperor" as Portugal, becoming emperor and only then taking the decision to form Spain. After getting the achievement, I instantly killed eu4 process so it wouldn't save the game. I just haaaaate them!
PS2: Same for "imperio espanol"

 

[xetios]

Hate
PLC: Always blobs too much and Russia never manages to become something decent since it gets stomped all the time by the pink blob
Austria: Since the last patch, it always blobs inside HRE but never takes Hungary, and that's really ugly.
France: One word: MORALE

Love
Burgundy: it's always nice to see it become a decent sized country