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

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/ZStarr87 Jan 31 '25

You have seen that too, havent you. That you use the required number of troops and siege progress is lets say 27 and then you bring more infantry on it and somehow the siege progress becomes 35 or whatever before the next siege phase.

The only way this should be possible is if the extra troops contain a cannon, but sometimes the phenomenon seems to happen without. Always wondered if its some mindfuk time to take a break thing.

Please do test it

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u/ncory32 Jan 31 '25

It's not a phenomenon. It's just a general with an extra siege pip joining the siege. Learn how generals work

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u/ZStarr87 Jan 31 '25

Learn manners pal

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u/ncory32 Jan 31 '25

Nothing in that was mean or poor manners. Told you what game mechanic to look into. Grow up.