Anonymous #1 9w

Idk I tried eu4 a while back and couldn’t get into it so if it’s anything like that I don’t think I’ll enjoy it

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Anonymous OP 9w

I’ve never played EU4, but Victoria 3 honestly isn’t even really a map game. Like 80% economy simulator, 15% politics sim, 5% war sim. If you’re a spreadsheet type of autist you’d like it, but outside that I doubt you would

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Anonymous #1 9w

Yeah idk then. I have an issue enjoying strategy games when there isn’t any tangible progression. Like if it’s just numbers go up I don’t really get into it idk why stellaris is different ig it’s the role playing aspect and the fact that it’s procedurally generated

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Anonymous OP 9w

I mean, you research new tech, but a good amount of it feeds back into making the number go up faster. The war and politics parts I bet are more interesting and feel like a bigger part of the game once you get the economy stuff down to a science, but that’ll take a good while of not having fun while you learn what the hell is happening

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Anonymous #1 9w

If you like Stellaris though I bet you’d like Hearts of Iron 4. It’s like 40% war, 40% production (not economy), 20% politics, but it’s more “layered” than stellaris (if you play you’ll understand) and there’s a lot of progression in research and events. There’s also a lot more good mods for Hoi4 than just about any other paradox game.

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Anonymous #1 9w

Yeah out of all of the other paradox games hoi4 always looked the most intriguing to me. I just hear it’s ridiculously complex. Also not the biggest fan of the ww2 setting personally. Might check it out after stellaris tho

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Anonymous OP 9w

It is too much if you take everything in at once, but if you just take play the built in tutorial then from there just kinda wing it, looking up stuff when you need to, you can get rolling pretty easy. Most of the stuff that’ll make your head hurt (navy, some aspects of supply and air-force), don’t have as much sway on the game if you’re playing casually so you can just forget about it until later. As for the WW2 part, I’m not a massive fan either, but mods and turning off historical AI helps

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Anonymous #1 7w

So I tried hoi4 this game is so hard lol I just spent 4 hours preparing as Romania and got instantly wiped by the ussr

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Anonymous OP 7w

Lmao cause you played as Romania. Romania is a punching bag country, if the USSR doesn’t have a problem with you, Hungary and Germany will. You either gotta start as a country that starts problems (Germany, Hungary, Italy) or a country that is nowhere near problems (USA, Argentina, Japan). I personally like playing little countries too, so if you want a good, small starter country you should play Hungary.

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Anonymous #1 7w

Lmao I looked up best starting countries and everyone said Romania for some reason

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Anonymous OP 7w

They lied on grandmas ashes. Romania has two options: Go communist and become Russia’s bitch, or go Fascist and become Germany’s bitch. Either way you end up coughing up half your country and sitting along for whatever ride they take you on

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