EU4 Guide for Complete Beginners | Part 1 | Base Game, No DLC | First time playing EU4? | Tutorial 

Lolz relatable ... I directly went to a war tutorial... Then i came here...

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How do I justify the war goal? How do I go facist, aahhh?!?!!?!?!?

Why won't the game let me build Civies?! My infrastructure is trash!

Relatable

I know the feeling. I just learned that you can send diplomats on automatic missions in the production interface (Why the hell would they hide that there and not in say, the diplomatic tab..)

@@survivalizer wtf!!!!!!! which dlc is that Lol

@@survivalizer yeah game's not intuitive at all. i have 300 hours and i can do some stuff pretty well now after watching many tutorials. still working on my first world conquest with a not major nation though Lol. i love the learning curve in this game but a proper tutorial wouldn't hurt. best would be a tutorial/demo mode where you can also try all the dlcs and where it's being explained so players could try and see what DLC they want to buy. with all the updates though i can imagine that such an advanced tutorial would be a lot of work but then again they could really at least try to attract more noobs. i love "hardcore" games but hardcore doesn't have to mean only your core audience can learn it. But better than dumbing the game down for sure. i still think those two things aren't mutually exclusive. very few devs manage to pull it off though. good entry for noobs and hardcore steep learning curve. the biggest problem for noobs IMO is all the DLCs. you watch a tutorial on say youtube and then you realize after 3 hours that you don't have those features in your game. kind of stupid.

Gosh. I thought taking 500 hours to learn the ins and outs of Civilization IV was a bit much.

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Well back in my day I had to play the text based game Zork on my Commodore 64 without a manual! 😉

Back in my day there wasn't a pile of trash the size of texas floating in the pacific ocean.

Ok boomer

I dont own eu4

@@RobloxAciko thats sad

Finally i can skip months instead of days

ikr i cant wait on the war part lool

@@mencot89 war is easy

Haha just give it a few hours, you will get a hang of it

Oh dear god

YES, i literally screamed at my scream when my 15k danish soldiers couldnt take lübeck (which was empty)

The thing is, after 600+ hours I have pretty much done everything in hoi, so I have to find a new paradox game to get into

@@johnathan2041 play multiplayer, than the game gets 10x better and 100x toxicer and 30x more competetive

OMG SAME , i am a veteran HOI4 player and i have no idea how to play EU4

@@johnathan2041 same

Are you a beginner now or is beggininer above beginner? lol

This is easier than HOI4 at leat i can win wars when i have 5h of experience even after 15h of hoi4 i cant even delcare a war

hoi4 is very easy after you get the hang of it@@johnnytopside9215

Johnny Topside hoi4 way easier

what... EU4 is a good game and all, but i had over 200 hours of hoi4 the first 2 weeks, i don't understand anything of any other paradox game... no matter how hard i try.. help..

Glad it helped! :)

Thanks! More beginners guide will follow in between usual nation guides.

Thanks!

I have both of them. And I terrible at both lol

I'm in the same boat. I'm waiting until a sale to get EU4 so I can play with a friend and I have no idea how this game works, I have been trying to learn for years but it scares me

Me the other day after 10 minutes of confused staring at the screen: *No longer here.*

Here I am friend. I play Ck2 and a friend of mine plays EU4, so we are trying to get each other into the respective games

I’m from ck2

Trying to make my friend to play CK2 so I don't have to learn EU4, which neither of us knows. Can't be always playing l4d2 and vermintide.

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I'm glad it helped! welcome to the game!

do it! :)

Glad this helped!

Want to check CK2 beginner tutorials just to see what don't know :D

CK2 is the most fun and most complicated of there titles. Hoi4 and this game are probably there most polished games though.

sounds unhealthy man

Thanks. Glad its helping. My plan is to make a separate guide for just DLCs, so you can decide which feature you want and which DLC you should buy.

They are on the list. Thanks!

See part 2 of this tutorial :) Basically, put navy in the province of your army. Click army, press A. Move your navy to wherever you want it to go. Click on transport, then right click on the province you want to land troops.

only a little bit :)

Stop trying to make drama no one cares if you dont have a gaming PC this aint GTA 5 and EU4 runs pretty good with low spec /med spec computers

Get the mod fast universalis

@@washikaafrozi1469 thank you

Advisors and luck, if you get a 1 0 2 king i'm sorry but you are just gonna get behind.

Let us know if you have questions. If you already have a few hours to gametime, I would recommend watching other nation specific guides here. That might help more.

Same but if the game was Victoria ii and my biggest accomplishment was *Uniting Italy*

@@matt7745 *oof* i've never had a problem with vicky 2

@@skele3310 niether have I but I was chosing whether to buy the heart of darkness dlc or Europa universallis iv

@@matt7745 oh, vicky 2 without the dlc is nearly unplayable. i'd also recommend the hpm mod, it streamlines and improves a lot of the game, and makes things more historically accurate to the time period.

@@matt7745 dude I got the dlc before I had the game

Britain

not exactly

Vic 2

Eduardo Freitas not for me

@@RyanPHoferJr really? Thats interesting. For me its the hardest paradox game and eu4 the easiest

@@eduardofreitas8336 For me its ck2 》 Vic 2 》 Eu4. Since i started from HOI3 and went to ck 2 and vic 2 then HOI4(easiest). which and the EU4.

welcome!

Planning that in 1.28!

There have been a few updates to the game since this video came out, so there are some new regions, factions and updates to the existing ones/ :) A few mechanics covered have also changed, but 90% of this guide is still applicable! Good Luck!

no you're not crazy

1812 overture from Tchaikovsky

@@ophanim7308 thanks

You can attack anyone, even without a CB.

only a little bit... EU4 is a different beast.

I have also only really played HOI4 and ck2, a little bit of EU3. I don't know if my body is ready

See part 2 of this tutorial (out in few hours), it covers very basics of war.

@@RadioRes thanks, i finished my first campaign, now i can return playing better.

*Breath In* BOI

I don't have a ton of experience with MP. But its a good idea. I will put more thought into it. Thanks!

@@RadioRes I know this is sort of a late comment, but if you reach out to some other EU4 youtubers, you can find some that love to play MP with other youtubers.