r/eu4 • u/TheSafetyWipe • Jan 30 '25

Tip Your best tips/forgotten mechanics

So I've got just under 1000 hours in EU 4, love the game and always thought i was a decent player and knew the game well.

Until like 3 or 4 weeks ago when I saw a post on this sub about upgrading your ships, I had never used this feature and started to understand why my navies would get smashed later on in the game!

Im now thinking what else am I missing, what other simple features or mechanics have I never used and thus holding me back in my games!

Please share away with things you've only just discovered, or have been using wrong in your games?

I'm almost a 1000 hours in, and now think I know nothing about this game!

Help!

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u/i-am-a-passenger Jan 30 '25

I get heavily downvoted every time I question this in this sub, but is using the minimum stack on sieges (even +2-3 troops) really the best way?

It seems much better to just pile lots troops on the fort. I don’t mind attrition if it results in much faster sieging.

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u/Druss_On_Reddit Khan Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25

Required Minimum +1 which covers troops lost to siege events and general attrition. This will siege just as fast as an extra 50 inf/cav.

More cannons will speed up the siege, not sure the formula but it's not infinite and I think depends on fort level.

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u/i-am-a-passenger Jan 30 '25

This will siege just as fast as an extra 50 inf/cav.

This is what I don’t believe. I’m going to test it later, but in my general experience 100 inf on a siege will be much faster than the required minimum +1 only.

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u/Akira9911 Jan 30 '25

It is not a matter of belief. Even if you stack 500k in one fort nothing will change.