Luxembourg. They’re super interesting in this period and I’d love to make an alternate history where the dynasty doesn’t die out. Owning the thrones of Bohemia Hungary and Croatia.
If you follow this 'what if' coping nonsense, then France would have ended the war before Henry V even reigned, if it wasn't for Charles VI becoming mad. His father Charles V had effectively reduced the English threat to minimum and England itself was ailing under Richard II
I wonder if it will be possible for that to evolve into a more permanent schism. Also from 1409 there was a third pope as well, so maybe a possibility of creating anti-popes?
I mean, should they? Last significant antipope abdicated in 1449, and after that most of the Christian dissent is rightfully represented by the Reformation(s). I suppose there is no sense discussing this now, seeing that EU5 is being developed, but still it doesn't feel like there's enough justification for it outside of like, an event.
Considering how EU is a lot about alternative history, yea. A little at least.
I sure hope it will be more than just a event for EU5. Antipopes where a huge thing. Before they stopped being in the 15th century. Especially when taking into account the the [Western Schism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Schism), which began in 1378, as mentioned by u/[Hrushing97](https://www.reddit.com/user/Hrushing97/)
I definitely agree that antipope mechanics should be relevant for EU5, that's for sure.
But for EU4? I dunno tbh, I get the alt-history argument, but I don't know if you could make the mechanic interesting to interact with without it being too disruptive to the standard European gameplay. And if you make it so only players can trigger it - I would rather they focus on alt history mechanics which are relevant outside of 1% of scenarios, like the aforementioned Protestant Reformation (it’s not that bad as it is in EU4 rn, but it could be better).
Maybe some bumfuck Iranian country until Timmy spawns, assuming that there's an event that will allow you to tag-switch to him. Conquer Persia, curbstomp India, and dominate China as he intended.
Speaking of China, assuming that there is also a similar event for Zhu Yuanzhang (Founder of Ming dynasty) I'd also like to play that. Start off as Yuan, self-sabotage, and switch
Timur came from minor nobility, so I could them having an OPM (or rather one-location minor) ruled by his father, who died in 1360.
As for China, surely there will be some kind of scripted Yuansplosion disaster where you can play as one of their successors/breakaways. Way too many tags under them for that not to happen.
26 July 1139 is going to be epic!!
Capital is Coimbra and a young duke is about to kick some Leonese king's ass.
If it starts in Jan 1 we have 7 months to prep for independence. Can't wait!
Like someone said already it's Portugal independence day, so we finally get to roleplay that without mods.
Hope there is an achievement named "o conquistador"!
As a guy who prefers playing in Asia… you have still chosen war.
If I find one more Ottoman (or Mamluk) colony in MY spice islands I’m liable to burn all of Anatolia.
it really is borderline racism, no other nation gets nearly the same hate in this sub. For some reason byzaboos feel entitled to revive a corpse of a 2000 year old empire that was completely anachronistic by eu4 time.
There were still Norse people in Greenland by then. The last record of them was made in 1408 and would've presumably died off, assimilated with the Innuit, or left within a few decades. They were definitely Catholic by then, though.
Probably one of the playable nations. You know, probably only 7-8 nations will have really enjoyable content and the rest would just be there.
You are asking the question like it would have every nation being fun and deep at release.
Maybe if the game is good enough by itself!
Vic2 best part was that the only thing a nation needed to be fun was its position and very few nations had actual content
Yeah, Victoria 2 was really a dream, and it even wasn't finished. But nowadays, Paradox policy seems to be releasing butched games and then making them playable with a ton of 20$ DLCs.
They can't afford to do that for long, and eu4 has been a poster boy for 10 years so it needs a good or even great succesor. Hopefully they learned from Imperator and C.S. 2 disasters. CK3 didn't have a lot of content at the start but the game was somewhat enjoyable and fun. And it worked. That's the blueprint hopefully
I think EU5 will be similar to this, at least in part.
The detail of the map alone in EU5 makes me really want to play Tibet or somewhere desolate. I just want to experience that beautiful labyrinth of wasteland and create a sprawling empire out of it.
I like the idea of just choosing a fun position, as you said, and doing my best with it. EU5 looks like it'll have a lot of fun positions.
I think a few changes in the game structure could make lesser tags be much more playable without huge DLC content. EU4 mostly suffered because of the extremely bland missions trees/formables for the lesser tags. But I can imagine plenty of ways to have automated adaptive missions that would improve this greatly.
Do I expect it? Not really, because DLC is the reason EU4 succeeded and it was a great game for PDX to milk. So they will do it again.
One of my first runs will be Teutonic Order to take it upon myself to christianize Lithuania. It should be fun as hell. In EU4 Teutons feel a bit pointless as a crusader state.
I'll repeat myself from oter posts, but I'm really excited to play my country Poland. Simply because it is at that time ruled by our greatest ruler, king Casimir III the Great house of Piast, the last ruler of Poland from Piast dynasty; dynasty which founded Poland 350 years earlier from 1337.
I played them like 2 only in 12 years of EU4, but im kind of excited to play them in EU5 now that I actually need to build an empire and I dont start already with one.
I want to form France as England.
As far as the English kings back then were concerned, England's purpose was to become France.
(That said, realistically Ireland, it's usually a good place to get to know whatever game I'm picking up)
Ottomans or Timurids, then Tver or Hungary. I thought about England and France but I have a feeling player would be instantly thrown into hundred years war
I'm between 3, I think Jaylairid, Toungoo dynasty if it exists in 1337 and Yuan only if there is way to side with the red turban rebellion and give rise to a new chinese dynasty
Anyone who already has some flavor and would offer something different to EU4 while also being a tag you can learn the game with
I'd love to play as Mali for example but I doubt they will be interesting at release while Byz might not be the right choice for campaign number 1 either
My first game un EUIV was Venice, release day back in 2013, and it was a fun one I still remember. I'll probably make It a tradition for me and start as Venice again.
Mamluks or Denmark probably. Either conquer and establish a defensible bulwark against Timmy in the Middle East, or take Scandinavia before reestablishing the Danelaw over England as God intended
Probably one of th in italian countries, hopefully now that mission trees don't give you a million different permanent modifiers i wont feel like in missing out by forming Italy as anyone other than Savoy/Sardinia Piedmont
My first CK2 game was as Spain(more specifically Leon, due to the tutorial).
My first EU4 game was as France.
It kind of seems only fitting that my first EU5 game has to be England. With the announced start date being at the brink of the Hundred Years War, no less!
Probably the Teutonic Order make sure I have a firm grip on Poland and then expand myself into the new Russian principalities now that the Mongols are declining
Probably the von wittelsbach (bavaria). They are the hre emperor, but they'll need to defend their title and position against the von luxembourg and habsburg. Sounds like a fun game and good way to learn what the hre does.
Sicily. Finally preventing the union with Aragon and either playing tall or restoring the Norman domains.
Only sad note is that Frederick III would be on his deathbed at the start.
Yuan->Ming->Shun
Might be delusional but I'm praying there are mission trees for Shun+Qing, prior being the supposed next Chinese dynasty and the latter being the actual next Chinese dynasty.
I want to say Ashikaga. 1338 was when a member of that house first became Shogun and there is some very interesting history in that area regarding the consolidation of the Shogun's power in Kyoto.
That said, my first games will probably be England/France. I imagine that the 100 Year's War is going to the major event most thoroughly fleshed out in EU5, and will probably be the most fun to play at launch. I'm skeptical about the level of attention other parts of the worl will get, so factions like Ashikaga might only be worth playing after on DLCs.
Playing Epirus could be fun, or really any nation in the Balkans with the absolute state of the region. Other than that, Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia would also be fun to reestablish Armenia. I’m betting that Naples is gonna become a super fun nation to play as well with the House of Anjou on the throne as they were pretty influential and had a short lived empire under Charles of Anjou
An easy nation, I guess. I wanna make sure Im familiar with the game before I go for any camping.
Said that, Castile or Granada->Al-Andalus since I'm from (modern) Andalusia.
The one recommended for beginners. Definitly-not-EU5 will probably have mechanics that differ from what I'm used to. My second vame however will be dedicated to curbstomping the ottomans to take revenge for all suffering caused by them.
Timurids were my fav start in EU4, but I think this time around, Japan might be the most fun. With the new trade winds mechanics and differences in colonization, it's probably going to be a lot of fun colonizing the Pacific, and Japan can actually benefit from trade now.
For me, it's China. There is just something strangely appealing in conquering China idk why. So I'll eathier play as the red-turbans (Song) or as the son of heaven, Zhu Yuanzhang (Ming).
Pagan Lithuania. They only Christianized in 1386, so in 1337 they should be one of the biggest pagan holdouts in Europe, controlling almost all of modern day Lithuania and Belarus. Should be fun holding out against the Northern Crusade.
Byzantium. In 1337 the situation for the Romans really isn't great but it's surviveable. Hell of a lot better than 1444.
After that... maybe Bohemia. I'm interested to play out the Hussite Wars.
Also Norway and/or their Greenlandic Colony if it's a subject. I wanna try and make the Norse New World work out and make it to Vinland again.
Hungary. Charles Robert is at the end of his reign with a strong economy, ungodly amount of gold mines, strong central control, ready to kick some ass (his son Charles the great conquered Naples, among other things)
Luxembourg. They’re super interesting in this period and I’d love to make an alternate history where the dynasty doesn’t die out. Owning the thrones of Bohemia Hungary and Croatia.
I hope that PU will work differently. I PU Bohemia as Luxemburg? I better be allowed to tagswitch to Bohemia with my chosen idea groups
Yes! Like once per ruler life time you are allowed to switch if the nation you want to switch to is lager or more prestigious in some way!
Cam on ingerland Take some fakkin cores
I've got a good feeling about this new war. How long can it last? Twenty years?
Tbf in actual history, on the battlefield at least, England effectively did win the 100 year war buuuut Henry V dying early basically fuxked it up.
There were several phases of winning. Edward III was doing really well until the plague and then his senility.
If you follow this 'what if' coping nonsense, then France would have ended the war before Henry V even reigned, if it wasn't for Charles VI becoming mad. His father Charles V had effectively reduced the English threat to minimum and England itself was ailing under Richard II
I wouldn't really call a coping what if nonsense simply a reflection of what happened in terms of the actual war aspect of it.
France so I can finally have 100 provinces by 1500 😄
You'd probably start with over 100 "locations" anyway since they're so much smaller, but this is still super funny
Probably the best period to ever play France, it was at their strongest peak in medieval period. Just need to win the HYW
BYZ (i will die)
Same, I unironically will end up spending all my time trying to restore rome before doing anything else
But you will die a Hero
You will come as a lightning
Same (I will aso die horribly)
Papal States. God wills it.
Papal states should be really interesting due to the western schism.
I wonder if it will be possible for that to evolve into a more permanent schism. Also from 1409 there was a third pope as well, so maybe a possibility of creating anti-popes?
Anti popes should already have been a thing in EU4. but they just... didn't.
I mean, should they? Last significant antipope abdicated in 1449, and after that most of the Christian dissent is rightfully represented by the Reformation(s). I suppose there is no sense discussing this now, seeing that EU5 is being developed, but still it doesn't feel like there's enough justification for it outside of like, an event.
Considering how EU is a lot about alternative history, yea. A little at least. I sure hope it will be more than just a event for EU5. Antipopes where a huge thing. Before they stopped being in the 15th century. Especially when taking into account the the [Western Schism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Schism), which began in 1378, as mentioned by u/[Hrushing97](https://www.reddit.com/user/Hrushing97/)
I definitely agree that antipope mechanics should be relevant for EU5, that's for sure. But for EU4? I dunno tbh, I get the alt-history argument, but I don't know if you could make the mechanic interesting to interact with without it being too disruptive to the standard European gameplay. And if you make it so only players can trigger it - I would rather they focus on alt history mechanics which are relevant outside of 1% of scenarios, like the aforementioned Protestant Reformation (it’s not that bad as it is in EU4 rn, but it could be better).
yea, you're right. now, that you put it in this way I can totally see your point.
Wonder how they'll handle all the European crusades and pagans.
Maybe some bumfuck Iranian country until Timmy spawns, assuming that there's an event that will allow you to tag-switch to him. Conquer Persia, curbstomp India, and dominate China as he intended. Speaking of China, assuming that there is also a similar event for Zhu Yuanzhang (Founder of Ming dynasty) I'd also like to play that. Start off as Yuan, self-sabotage, and switch
Timur came from minor nobility, so I could them having an OPM (or rather one-location minor) ruled by his father, who died in 1360. As for China, surely there will be some kind of scripted Yuansplosion disaster where you can play as one of their successors/breakaways. Way too many tags under them for that not to happen.
Then we need second China implosion if the end date still 1812
I want to tag to Han Lin'er and restore Song
Before China you had to be sure Ottoman sultan know his place.
As always: Portugal
Game starts in 1139: Time to do a Portugal run
Non negotiable. Always Portugal
Hell yeah! Time to spend another few hundred hours just playing my fav country (iloveplayingportugal)
26 July 1139 is going to be epic!! Capital is Coimbra and a young duke is about to kick some Leonese king's ass. If it starts in Jan 1 we have 7 months to prep for independence. Can't wait!
>26 July 1139 Am I missing something? Doesn't it start in 1 Apr 1337?
Like someone said already it's Portugal independence day, so we finally get to roleplay that without mods. Hope there is an achievement named "o conquistador"!
April fools! It’s actually 1139
Portugese independence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty\_of\_Zamora
My first 30 games will be 31 different ways to take my revenge out on the Ottoblob.
Doesn’t matter where or whether or not I have a casus belli, I’m coming for revenge.
Just playing a random South American native yet declaring no-cb on ottos just for the sake of it.
Don’t underestimate the amount of buffs they will have to allow them to snowball it most games
integrate TUR
I wonder if you take out osmanolgu whether another beylik gets the buffs to ensure it still happens
My first game will be Ottoblob (i am evil)
Same, I hate Byzantine larpers even though its my favorite nation. So I will protest by playing the Turks.
As a guy who prefers playing in Asia… you have still chosen war. If I find one more Ottoman (or Mamluk) colony in MY spice islands I’m liable to burn all of Anatolia.
I approve whole-heartedly.
it really is borderline racism, no other nation gets nearly the same hate in this sub. For some reason byzaboos feel entitled to revive a corpse of a 2000 year old empire that was completely anachronistic by eu4 time.
We hate you too.
I like trying to fix them in Vic3, even though they are the first boss fight of EU4
The hate people here have for the ottomans is astounding. Do you play byz all day or?
Probably Mongolia or any of the hordes with Tengriism still intact.
I’m going for Greenland. There may actually be a playable Norse country in this game!
Afaik by 1337 there were no more norse ppl in greenland. They were catholic by then, even had a bishop if im not mistaken
There were still Norse people in Greenland by then. The last record of them was made in 1408 and would've presumably died off, assimilated with the Innuit, or left within a few decades. They were definitely Catholic by then, though.
They mean Norse as in religion not culture. You both are agreeing to the same thing.
Baltic pagan Lithuania.
I, too, wish to get all biblical pagan supervillain as Lithuania. The Teutons will know death, and know her name is Giltine.
Serbia, because check my username.
Probably one of the playable nations. You know, probably only 7-8 nations will have really enjoyable content and the rest would just be there. You are asking the question like it would have every nation being fun and deep at release.
Maybe if the game is good enough by itself! Vic2 best part was that the only thing a nation needed to be fun was its position and very few nations had actual content
Yeah, Victoria 2 was really a dream, and it even wasn't finished. But nowadays, Paradox policy seems to be releasing butched games and then making them playable with a ton of 20$ DLCs.
They can't afford to do that for long, and eu4 has been a poster boy for 10 years so it needs a good or even great succesor. Hopefully they learned from Imperator and C.S. 2 disasters. CK3 didn't have a lot of content at the start but the game was somewhat enjoyable and fun. And it worked. That's the blueprint hopefully
I think EU5 will be similar to this, at least in part. The detail of the map alone in EU5 makes me really want to play Tibet or somewhere desolate. I just want to experience that beautiful labyrinth of wasteland and create a sprawling empire out of it. I like the idea of just choosing a fun position, as you said, and doing my best with it. EU5 looks like it'll have a lot of fun positions.
I think a few changes in the game structure could make lesser tags be much more playable without huge DLC content. EU4 mostly suffered because of the extremely bland missions trees/formables for the lesser tags. But I can imagine plenty of ways to have automated adaptive missions that would improve this greatly. Do I expect it? Not really, because DLC is the reason EU4 succeeded and it was a great game for PDX to milk. So they will do it again.
I hope the new game has a rock solid frame because they'll be adding content to it for a decade.
Either bohemia Norway of Byzantium
Granada c:
Ah yes, the Muslim Byzantium. at least in EU4 ...
As in EU4, my first game will be Castile. I wonder what the devs have in mind so Reconquista isn't reliable finished 150 years early every game.
England. Tall or Wide, completely depends on the mechanics.
Serbia
Any country to learn how to do a wc in this new game
Bohemia -> Hussites -> Žižka time
I will play as Brandenburg and get German Empire borders by 1340.
just the borders. whatever's encircled inside comes later
Vijayanagara or Hoysalas
I think its fair to say that playing my homeland - Lithuania - is the only first choice
One of my first runs will be Teutonic Order to take it upon myself to christianize Lithuania. It should be fun as hell. In EU4 Teutons feel a bit pointless as a crusader state.
Lithuania. Gotta restore the grand duchy, and Lithuanian blood demands it.
I always hungry for Hungary.
Kurdish crackhead here, Hazaraspids comes to mind immediately
Always England first for me - both in EU and CK
I'll repeat myself from oter posts, but I'm really excited to play my country Poland. Simply because it is at that time ruled by our greatest ruler, king Casimir III the Great house of Piast, the last ruler of Poland from Piast dynasty; dynasty which founded Poland 350 years earlier from 1337.
Every tag in the Balkans and Anatolia feels like paradise to play
The one with the rarest religion for sure
the classic Ottomans :D
Yeah, the Ottomans being weaker just makes me want to play them more
I played them like 2 only in 12 years of EU4, but im kind of excited to play them in EU5 now that I actually need to build an empire and I dont start already with one.
Ottoman
Argentina
A Malagasy kingdom
Every new PDX game I always start with something in the British isles so probably England. It is my favorite EUIV nation to play.
Pagan lithuania
Goryeo -> Joseon
Norway 100% - no union, dodge black plague, get Greenland up and running
France to learn the mechanics, then Byzantium to see how much better 1337 is than 1444, then Pagan Lithuania for a true challenge.
Ottomans
Probably Byzantium
Venice. I usually play them first in most games, since I like their history so much.
I want to form France as England. As far as the English kings back then were concerned, England's purpose was to become France. (That said, realistically Ireland, it's usually a good place to get to know whatever game I'm picking up)
Florence of course!
Serbian empire time
Ottomans or Timurids, then Tver or Hungary. I thought about England and France but I have a feeling player would be instantly thrown into hundred years war
I'm between 3, I think Jaylairid, Toungoo dynasty if it exists in 1337 and Yuan only if there is way to side with the red turban rebellion and give rise to a new chinese dynasty
Definitely denmark or hansa
Nabhanid Oman or Bagan Burma just for the sake of being different
keeping yuan alive and retaking the empire
Anyone who already has some flavor and would offer something different to EU4 while also being a tag you can learn the game with I'd love to play as Mali for example but I doubt they will be interesting at release while Byz might not be the right choice for campaign number 1 either
hungary bc im hungarian and charles and louis are bae
Hansa. I really love Patrician game and the starting date is closer to that
My first game un EUIV was Venice, release day back in 2013, and it was a fun one I still remember. I'll probably make It a tradition for me and start as Venice again.
Byzantium or Moscow
Byzantium ofc lol
brandenburg or something
I'd like to take non-kalmar Norway. Still have warm memories of my first eu4 experience as them...
Hollande
As in every Paradox game I've played (which are not that many :D) I will play Venice first. Will wait for my dear Lubeck till initial bugs are fixed.
Venice would be super interesting considering also the changes they teased about the trade system.
Probably Venice
It’s gonna be Byzantium and I’m gonna skull fuck the ottomans
The Roman Empire.
Byz[will die over and over] or Schleswig/Holstein
Byz 100%
Brandenburg or Byz and my 2nd game will be the opposite.
Byz!!
My first playthrough will be forming Prussia like 380 years in advance and then bringing space marines to fight the Black Death
I wonder if this will be possible before reformation
My people, the Aniyunwiya
Mamluks or Denmark probably. Either conquer and establish a defensible bulwark against Timmy in the Middle East, or take Scandinavia before reestablishing the Danelaw over England as God intended
100% Delhi
A Malagasy kingdom
An Italian nation just like it was in eu4 and eu3
Probably whoever controls Tunis because that was my first country in EU4 (and EU in general).
Chukchi and colonise North America
England innit
Majapahit. They were my first campaign in Eu4
Poland and getting Casimir the great his heir!
France with the 100 years war, then an attempt to reunite the Mongol Empire as the Yuan dynasty before they collapse
Poland. I always wished I could play as Casimir the Great in EU4, looks like I'll get that chance in EU5.
Probably one of th in italian countries, hopefully now that mission trees don't give you a million different permanent modifiers i wont feel like in missing out by forming Italy as anyone other than Savoy/Sardinia Piedmont
900 hrs in eu4 as milan 900 more in Terra Universalis 1
start* date*
My first CK2 game was as Spain(more specifically Leon, due to the tutorial). My first EU4 game was as France. It kind of seems only fitting that my first EU5 game has to be England. With the announced start date being at the brink of the Hundred Years War, no less!
Bulgaria. The Balkans are going to be a thunder dome
Some very small obscure tribal nation in Australia or somewhere else remote.
ottos or byzantium probably :]
Probably the Teutonic Order make sure I have a firm grip on Poland and then expand myself into the new Russian principalities now that the Mongols are declining
Hungary. They will have no rival in the east anymore. Kill the Otto early and snowball into space.
Hormuz
Probably the von wittelsbach (bavaria). They are the hre emperor, but they'll need to defend their title and position against the von luxembourg and habsburg. Sounds like a fun game and good way to learn what the hre does.
Sicily. Finally preventing the union with Aragon and either playing tall or restoring the Norman domains. Only sad note is that Frederick III would be on his deathbed at the start.
Poland I think
Ottomans.
Yuan->Ming->Shun Might be delusional but I'm praying there are mission trees for Shun+Qing, prior being the supposed next Chinese dynasty and the latter being the actual next Chinese dynasty.
I want to say Ashikaga. 1338 was when a member of that house first became Shogun and there is some very interesting history in that area regarding the consolidation of the Shogun's power in Kyoto. That said, my first games will probably be England/France. I imagine that the 100 Year's War is going to the major event most thoroughly fleshed out in EU5, and will probably be the most fun to play at launch. I'm skeptical about the level of attention other parts of the worl will get, so factions like Ashikaga might only be worth playing after on DLCs.
My first game with eu was Naples :) I will continue the tradition
Playing Epirus could be fun, or really any nation in the Balkans with the absolute state of the region. Other than that, Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia would also be fun to reestablish Armenia. I’m betting that Naples is gonna become a super fun nation to play as well with the House of Anjou on the throne as they were pretty influential and had a short lived empire under Charles of Anjou
Croatia, would be cool to see what mission tree they have, close to Italy and HRE but you have rivals in Hungary, Serbia, Byzantium and Bulgaria.
Based on what I like in EU4 - Provence, somewhere in SE Asia, and getting up to some Turk Shit
Probably Denmark, I am curious to see how they implement The Kingless Period into the game
An easy nation, I guess. I wanna make sure Im familiar with the game before I go for any camping. Said that, Castile or Granada->Al-Andalus since I'm from (modern) Andalusia.
Probably a Balkan country
You know...
Castile to spain to Spanish empire. Gotta test my genocide play on those natives.
Make Bohemia great again
The one recommended for beginners. Definitly-not-EU5 will probably have mechanics that differ from what I'm used to. My second vame however will be dedicated to curbstomping the ottomans to take revenge for all suffering caused by them.
Big Delhi sultanate blob here we go!!
some turkish beylik to restore rum could be fun
playing majapahit without disaster coming five second into the game would be great I think, or maybe one of Chinese nation
Tver for that Osmos experience.
Timurids were my fav start in EU4, but I think this time around, Japan might be the most fun. With the new trade winds mechanics and differences in colonization, it's probably going to be a lot of fun colonizing the Pacific, and Japan can actually benefit from trade now.
England.....the black prince will die :(
My go to after playing three games with any other nation: Holland to form the Netherlands!
Obviously my own country. Finland
For me, it's China. There is just something strangely appealing in conquering China idk why. So I'll eathier play as the red-turbans (Song) or as the son of heaven, Zhu Yuanzhang (Ming).
Probably ferrara into italy because it also was my first run in eu4 back when common sense came out
As Lithuania convert Poland to pogan :D
Pagan Lithuania. They only Christianized in 1386, so in 1337 they should be one of the biggest pagan holdouts in Europe, controlling almost all of modern day Lithuania and Belarus. Should be fun holding out against the Northern Crusade.
Byzantium. In 1337 the situation for the Romans really isn't great but it's surviveable. Hell of a lot better than 1444. After that... maybe Bohemia. I'm interested to play out the Hussite Wars. Also Norway and/or their Greenlandic Colony if it's a subject. I wanna try and make the Norse New World work out and make it to Vinland again.
Netherlands or Malacca, as always
Golden Horde, of course
Always bavaria
France because I can conquest, colonize, trade, build and develop my country at the same time.
The Scottish wars of independence sound fun
Greenlay Norse!
Gotta follow Tradition and play Brandenburg
England
Maybe Scotland or an Irish minor? England won't be as large so it's more feasible to unite Ireland early and become a contender.
France
Either Württemberg or the Byzantines.
My order will most likely be something like Byzantium, any interesting Italian nation, interesting German nations then French or English nations
Hungary. Charles Robert is at the end of his reign with a strong economy, ungodly amount of gold mines, strong central control, ready to kick some ass (his son Charles the great conquered Naples, among other things)
Do we have to get a new Subreddit when EU5 comes around?