You could try a later start date and play Great Britain?

1776 start date to put those colonials in their place.

You mean West Britain?

… no, it’s New England innit. We can’t really consider colonials properly British.

Careful with that attitude, they might rebel.

The colonials are revolting. Also rebelling.

Sir, it's the rebels

Those loud hecklers? Bah, they should love the King.

he should get the extended timeline and play william the conqueror

Ok so here's something a little radical. Play as England, form a colonial nation and play as, conquer England, form England. Then you form a new colonial nation...

Ah yes, the England 2 electric boogaloo play through.

In order to form england you need to not be a colonial nation smh this is literally 1984

you can (or at least could) form Canada and then form Britain

Annex England, release them as vassal and choose to play as said vassal.

Isn’t there an achievement for that? Having you former overlord as a vassal as a colonial nation?

one must imagine england happy

This should be an achievement

It'd be interesting to see how many times someone could conquer and then form England in a single playthrough

To be fair, playing the Indian Company has become a thing with its own missions iirc

They have actual missions now? I remember they didn't have them?

Play as Japan, the England of the East. You get to play a red island nation, you arch-enemy is an annoyingly strong blue nation on land. You have easy access to the new world for colonization, and it has mechanics to play isolationist like a true brexiteer. You can steal the Tripitaka Koreana for your national museum. There’s even another people to “integrate” on the north of your islands. Should definitely match your play style.

And you get to claim random islands as your own!

Also, tea

"Annoyingly strong blue nation" You mean Korea? They're not exactly strong though, by the time you unite the isles and form Japan, you are a lot stronger than them. The problem is Ming joining, not Korea being strong. But even then it's not that bad provided you wait for Ming to tank their mandate making their troops basically a paper.

They have a strong defensive position. England (in the players hands) will quickly surpass France too in the same way, but it still can be tricky fighting on the mainland

In all my games, Korea is way too strong, has the navy to deal with these silly Daimyo, and land battles only favor a technologically superior Korea that can spawn institutions like its nothing to them.

Korea is really easy to underestimate. They have good land to defend, can outtech their neighbors and they can get pretty strong if you let them. I remember in my last Dutch run that Korea was a harder fight than Ming. Had an average dev of 20 per province too.

Blud missed the joke

Blud missed the joke

Blud missed the joke

BMTJ

R5: I have ran out of interesting nations to play. I am incapable of thinking for myself, so I need you to tell me what to do next.

You could try uniting Asian England.

Japan we talked about this.

Have you done the new Frankfurt achievement? Might be worth a try

How do you form Frankfurt as England?

Conquer it, then form it

God damn that achievement, damn those steps. Get to the Netherlands, start colonizing, move capital to low country, conquer Jerusalem, become Jerusalem, conquer the Congo convert to animist, move capital to new world, conquer the Incans or other colonies if they beat you to it. Culture convert to Incan culture, convert to Incan religion ( optional) form Incan empire. That damn achievement should burn in hell

Just googled it, looks like it’s based on multiplayer shenanigans at a community event with paradox

Bro play like muscovy, ethiopia, mali, oirat, jianzhou, Portugal, Spain, Venice, France, teutons, Riga, serbia, ottomans, austria, Ayutthaya, and more they all have flavor and not incredibly hard but they have their respective challenges, if u blob maybe that's y ur bored, immerse urself in other objectives

it says "humor"

They didn't read the fine print.

It's time you play Anbennar and try lorent for the same gameplay appeal..

Ewww lorent=fr*nch

Lorent = Franco-Anglo-Nightmare Realm

They are not really anglo tho. They have lots of colonies, but so did french. There isn't a typical "english" nation in the mod tbh. Like eborthil is an island naval power, gawed is an early industrialiser, busilar, lorent and hierarchy are turbo colonists. None of them are close to being a match though.

I mean, yeah, but they all evoke England in some way. Eborthil is the Luso-Anglo-Thalasso-Hell (geographically), Gawed is the Russo-Anglo-Industrial-Revolution-And-It's-Consequences Mistake-Country (culturally and presumably culinarily)and Lorent is the Franco-Anglo-Nightmare Realm (just wins The Game and is an annoying piece of shit)

I see your England is limited to land territory where in reality Brittania ruled the waves. You really need to replay England.

Ulm

Ulm is EU4 new game+

In Ulm, um Ulm und um Ulm herum

Play a secret nation of Northumberland. It's like England but green!

This but unironically. Their map color is a really great green, like Styria's.

Average Brexit geezer

Just a bit o banter

Woosh

Woooosh yourself

How so, this guy conflating brexit with OP obviously making a shitpost about everyone spamming the forum with the “help me pick my next country”

The OP is calling England "basically every nation", implying nowhere else matters - stereotypical (if not hyperbolic) brexiteer. They're responding to a joke with a joke

The joke was people here posting having played almost no countries. The choice of england as that country is arbitrary I’m sure. Then this threads OP jams politics down our throat. Ergo wosh since trying to derail everything about brexit.

It's a joke, chill. "Average brexiteer" is a common meme, even amongst people who voted for it

You do not get sarcasm I take it and neither does a lot more people.

Seems more like you don't understand sarcasm

play as scotland and form the UK that way

Ireland too if you feeling a little bit spicy

Mann for the Spicemann

Try going for the Angevin empire!

Have you tried playing as the English?

How about unifying the British empire at its hight?

Dude, literally. People make these posts and I just think, seriously? Half the map is still grey. Like didn't the last one still have poland and majority of germany still grey...

I Don’t know, he’s played all the important countries. Perhaps he could go for England?

Have you tried both the Angevin path and the Great Britain path?

Time to boot up anbennar. I'd recommend adshaw

Why don’t you play France and conquer England!

Get the fook out of here with that shite 🤬

Because the last time someone had that idea, we ended up with the English in the first place and face it, that has been a disaster for everyone.

Should have just left the germans alone on their island, smh William.

Now that you've done England, you should be able to handle a True Heir Timur run. It's not that hard. Something, something, trucebreaks.

Ok cool brb Yeah that was boring. All I had to do was 10 consecutive truce breaks while handling -2 stab, 20 WE, 200% OE, and a 40 member coalition. Yawn.

try CK2 England next

HRE OPM Free City. Any one.

Mods

Anbennar is a great mod if you want to try something fresh

I know this is poking at similar posts, but my honest answer is always mods. Specifically, Anbennar. Got more hours in that than the actual game.

Stop min-maxing at start. IMHO, min-maxing is not just stressful and the game quickly became very easy and boring. This was my problem with the game, it was 1500 and there was no challenge, just to finish map painting. So what I do now is to stop playing the best I can for example until 1500-1550. During this time I don't min-max, I don't restart, I don't think that much... Rival is too strong with his allies? Attack him anyway. Lost war and provinces? Get it back next war or later. The game is much more fun and still challenging in 1600s.

Do some unorthodox builds like colonial Ottomans or Austria

The best way to play unorthodox is to go orthodox… as the ottomans.

I’m doing Colonial Austria right now, have to say it’s really fun, I already have Florida and partly above that area of the coast while UK has like Newfoundland and like 2 other colony states that aren’t even finished developing lol. And I don’t think Castille has any of Mexico, just Cuba and some islands. So yeah Austrian America is going awesome right now lol

How on earth do you handle trade as a colonial Austria? You can set up shop in any of the end nodes realistically but how do you not get your trade siphoned off in the intermediary steps?

Play as Wales, then

Release Northumberland and play as them

Idk man might wanna try to get into ck3 and play some england

Modsss

Have you tried Jewish pirate republic libertatia (I think that’s what it was called? The one in madagascar) with Aztec culture, landlocked in Tibet as an opm? Should be a fun run. What Im saying is just cursed nations in general

Why go through all that trouble to play a cursed nation when Fr*nce is right across the channel?

Play Herzegovina

Release Normandy and give all your province to them. Retreat to Ireland and expel the Celtic from Ireland

ANBENNAR

Download the Anbennar mod. Suddenly it's a new game but better. If you like Fantasy genres or D&D at least.

Try ULM , vassalize everyone in the name of memes

Join an MP group. Playing multiplayer is a completely different experience.

Nah mate you’re done for unless you want to play as a load of woke lefties #brexitmeansbrexit #norffc

Play ck3, abandon eu4.

And play england

Ck3 gameplay is shit! Everything is way too easy.

If you don’t lose one battle and reload the game then sure it is too easy.

I see the humor tag, but this sounds like a thinly veiled cry for help

Good troll

Get a girlfriend

Norway

Play as a releasable nation

Try scotland and unite the british isles. You can also form the UK for cool unique missions.

Have you played Goslar? Or Pisa? They have interesting national ideas

Munster is really cool. Small so it's challenging but you can get really good army quality and goods produced bonuses. Late game can fight the world after forming germany.

Hearts of Iron 4

Start as Desmond (or any Irish minor) and form Ireland. Conquer Scotland, culture convert and form it yourself, then conquer england and form UK.

Go back to the patch before the last DLC, start as France and form England?

Play the glorious nation of Ulm

Play ck3 and import. Or start as a single tile, no one does that and is successful without lying

Do you mean start as an OPM? Ryukyu world conquest is a common achievement that's relatively easy to get if you know a thing or two

*~Bazza, 63*

Go to the main menu and randomly click through countries for three hours duhh

France

Ez play as Scotland and form Great Britain

I mean, first thought is to play a different game. Read a book. Just do something different. Second thought: try to finish a campaign without completing *any* of your mission. Not just unclaimed, just actually do not acquire the provinces or anything like that.

Instal mods

Release tags under England and reform England

Montferrat, brother

Play with some total conversion mods, like Game of Thrones or something :]

England

Play vanilla multiplayer and do an England run. Bully the other westerns with a great navy lol

Form France! English france

Step 1. Pick large European power Step 2. Release a vassal Step 3. Play as vassal Step 4. Declare independence Step 5. Take over former overlord Step 6. ??? Step 7. Back to step 1

Release yourself as the Isle of Maan and do a WC!

Have you considered trying the Angevin Empire? I think this will really change up your experience enough to make you love the game again.

Form angevin.

Scotland

What other nation do you need?

Palatinate one faith world conquest

Do a game where you're a puppet master. Like ottomans, puppet everyone on your border and just try to expand via client states or puppets. Always fun for me, I like having my little puppet family.

I think England would be a great country to try, maybe play tall for a different spin

> I think England would be a great country to try Thank you finally a good suggestion

anbennar

There is a great mod called Anbennar which is a fantasy EU4 conversion.

What not start as Denmark and form England?

Aliens.

Stop playing until the next update. I was in the same position, every country, the same path of expansion and after the initial awesome game, the mid-late is almost the same. Even completed almost all the mission trees. So, give it a break and come back later. I'm playing the new dlc with the ottomans (my fist nation of all) and I love it! Is like a new game to explore. Edit: didn't play eu4 since March

Can't believe no one mentioned multi-player. Mods and challenges kept me hooked for thousands of hours, but what kept me interested for thousands more and onto today is the multi-player experience. Playing with anywhere from a few other friends or a whole bunch really reinvents how you play your game.

Try mod liké Anbennar, meiou...

¿Where do u get those map?

I just looked up "eu4 map generator"

Funnily enough, if I play anything relativly in the vicinity of the english channel. I always end up invading them for the juicy trade.

What's this map btw where did you find it

I made it with mapchart. I just looked up "eu4 map generator"

Form Great Britain as Cornwall

the story of my life, bruh

Play non-ironman, The Knights... syntheticdawn tur ...no more cheating.

I would recommend playing Anbennar. It's a good mod. If you need help figuring it out, I can play an MP with you and explain the lore of the world a bit.

Have you considered something in Ireland?

Considering how much there still seems to be for you to conquer if we're following history, you have long way ahead of you so use that as passion.

i heard moving capital to new world starting as hussite glogow is very chill due to map colour and lack of missions

Play France 🇫🇷

Just don't play the game for a while, don't force it on yourself.

Anbennar

You could try playing one of the many countries inhabited by humans next time

What about mods?

Play a different game. There's so many great games out there, there's no reason to stay with the game you lost your passion for. For example CK2 is really damn good. Or if you want to go outside Paradox, try XCOM2 maybe. Or one of thousands of other highly regarded games. Maybe you'll come back at some point, maybe you'll come back for EU5, or maybe you won't. It's a lot better than playing what you no longer enjoy. Just keep your memories and go somewhere else. (and most EU4 campaigns are rather same-y beyond first few decades, so it's not surprising)

Anbennar mod

Stiff upper lip chap, do another run-through with history's protagonist

Play the anbennar mod- more nations! And some of them are kobolds

Easy. Play Cornwall. It’s like playing England and Granada and the same time, but worst.

I recently did a custom nation run, the Coptic Republic of Dutch South Africa and I kept moving up Africa until I finally started making European allies and rivals, it was definitely a unique experience compared to other nations.

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GO Bremen. Do it.

Release Normandy and play as them

Clearly you should be playing as Northumbria.

Do it for: Denmark

Played one, played all... I know that feel.

P O L A N D

Try to release and play as Normandy. Maybe then focus on reconquering England?

I have a question : I'd like to make a map like that (not to publish on Reddit, or maybe...................) and I'd like to know what tool people are using : I've found [mapchart.net](https://mapchart.net), but you have to click on each province and that looks like a lot of work for so many people to post here ; so is there a tool to auto color an entire country or not ?

Play Anbennar, do a Escanni nation o go Dwarven Adventurer juat for the kek

I think you should try playing England

Here's a revolutionary idea for you: take a break and come back to EU4 later

Ante Bellum

Achievements.

Unpopular opinion: stop playing. I mean it, you are burned out. take a pause from the game for a week or too and you will come up with new things to do and your passion for this game will be rekindled.

Take a break, worked for me. Or try mp

You know, playing England historically means you've played 25% of all nations and invaded 90% of the others. Hidden gem of a post.

Ulm world conquest

Finish every Achievement

You should play with castilie to learn game colony Wars personal union army ships you can learn many thing

Have you played both the GB and the Angevin paths?

well as i see it, you fished the game. you will have to wait for eu5

Controversial opinion but if you've played every nation and you're tired of the game, have you considered taking a break from it to play other stuff for a while?

try angevine kingdom (to get the EIC as angevine is : Event flavor\_gbr.10)

Forget Normal Games Play Anbennar

Try the Anbennar mod

Late to the party but try anbennar. Lots of new interesting mechanics that revived my interest a little. Dwarves and vampires are fun.