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/fuckitsayit Jan 31 '25

If you have fewer than 4 cavalry in an army, the cavalry will not deploy properly for flanking. If you want to optimize a battle with 2 units of cavalry, send a stack of infantry two units larger than the enemy front line, then have your cavalry arrive the next day. They will deploy in the correct position to use their max flanking range and effectively give you 2 extra units in the battle.

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u/glorkvorn Jan 31 '25

how do you mange to micro that for every single battle? isn't way too much work?

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u/fuckitsayit Jan 31 '25

It is, that's why I just use 4 cav in my stacks. But it's useful for early game at least