When you play EU4 for the 1st time | EU4 MEME 

Reminds me of a friend who was constantly losing battles against african nations and couldn't understand why. He never picked a new soldier type when getting a new technology! When we asked him why he ignored the notification he said it didn't look important.

At least he captured a fort with 14% chance.

"The war situation has not necessarily developed to the Ottoman empire's advantage"

First game I played portugal, colonised a lot of the east coast of america and because I didnt like border gore, I declared war on britain, who was allied to Russia. I was surprised to see that there were russian troops sieging my capital. This was the first time I ever began savescumming- and from here I would never stop.

This was literally my first campaign. I had the exact same thought process and did the exact same things. This isn’t a meme, this is art. This is truth

Me that play byzantium as the first nation to play:🗿

Takes me back to when each nation had a difficulty rating on the nation selection screen. 😌

Ah yes, the time when i don't even know how to merge troops and warfare. First game as england and gets obliterated within 10 years, second game as passive Portugal

I started out as an Irish Opm back when Ireland hade literally 5 provinces and each had a development of 3 that could not be raised...And I kept wondering why the game was so hard

My first picked nation was Byzantium And boy did it hurt to get introduced to this game

Well, this makes you realize how good AI is compared to beginners

First time I played this game (as Ottomans), I accidentally changed the religion to Orthodox

In my first game as the ottomans I remember thinking that getting rebels was the worst thing so I stopped playing the save once the rebels popped XD

I remember playing of version 1.0. I remember dismantling my army as Castille because it was too expensive and then switching to Hungary and willingly spending half my game in personal union under Austria because I was afraid that my country will fall apart if i have a weak claim ruler

Playing the Irish clans for me was like trying to stave your inevitable doom every three days

Man, this is almost nostalgic. I began playing EU4 in the beginning of the pandemic. Took a day or two to finally understand how the game worked, but after that, I legit spent like two weeks straight ONLY listening to the income sound and the music present in this video. It was such an enygma... Now I'm going to university, oh how quickly time passes!

My first game after doing the tutorial was Portugal. I didn’t declare a single war the entire game. 1444-1821. I allied with everyone and just boosted relations and occasionally save scummed when Castille got upset over a PU I got by luck or when I lost to morocco when castille called me in. Just slowly colonized everything and made lots of money. I can’t imagine ever doing that again.

My first game was as Korea and it turns out that campaign (played from start to finish) was one of my best lol

First time i played was multiplayer with my family, i was france, it took me a while to learn the game. I had finally 100% on my first war and was very proud but couldnt take shit cuz i used humiliate rival cb :(

My first ever playthrough, back in 2017, on VANILLA EU4, was as the Ottomans. I did you one better, I declared a no-CB war on Venice, who was allied with France. That is the day I learned to fear Elan.

I did the tutorial so I had a slightly better idea of what was going on. I managed to conquer Byz and most of Hungary before I learned what a coalition was.

My first game was with ottomans and I was thinking how hard and complicated the game is. Until this day I’m still learning about new stuff. Eu4 needs a begginers guide cause I spent my 300 hours thinking that giving out autonomy just doesn’t hurt me at all. And I was thinking why other nations get good generals ahahahahah

Friend of mine, 1st game Scotland Makes claim to fight tyrconnell -white peaces Says: "oh i wanted to take land during that" Immediately truce breaks -5 stability

The first time I played EU4 I picked Hungary... well, I didn't understand many mechanics of the game. I thought it will be enough that I played Europa Univeralis a lot... it turned out quickly that wasn't the case.

First I played EU3 as England. I had kind of general understanding of the game, but couldn't understand why the hell I was in a perpetual warfare. After a year, I loaded that save and I was horrified when I saw infamy.

Fun Fact: My first "campaign" was with Russia and I lost the first war against Novgorod cuz I forgot up the maintenance of troops during all the fucking war XDDDD ... Now I have 3350 hours in that freaking game :p

I never had this experience since I watched a lot of RU-vid let's plays of the game beforehand, but I can imagine this sorta thing happening to someone who goes at it blind.

first time i didn't understand why my army couldn't move in a certrain province from the neighboring province (it was due to the fortress of course)

My first game, as Castile, actually went fairly well, until I tanked my economy and decoded to play poland instead. I also screwed up annexing Aragon (didn't know about the decision) and didn't realise how to colonise until way too late.

My first time playing EU4 I played as Aragon and I didn't know about the Iberian Wedding event so I just kept declaring wars of conquest on Castile. Also Granada and Morocco invaded Iberia and took huge chunks of portugal, and of course, instead of taking the land for myself or returning the cores to Portugal in the peace deal, I annexed the lands and then returned them to Portugal manually like a complete psychopath

I remember my first eu4 game, I lost the game as Ottomans in 1450.

My first game was with bengal... Played the tutorial properly to get the basics and had a super slow expansion around... Remember everytime i was in a verge of taking a loan i just flipped, reduced all maintainance as in my mind i felt like taking a loan is the absolute worst thing a nation could do. Also became a ming tributary by accident and was utterly outraged as why I have to give them stuff every year. Really helped me to learn the game tho as India is a really balanced place to start...

I'm really happy my roommate coached me throughout my first game, I would have definitely quitted because of the sheer amount of information to process. 2960 hours in and still going strong.

Lithuania was my first pick, I didn't even know how to move my armies so i just thought the armies would conquer nations by themselves. Somehow i occupied Kola Peninsula as Lithuania without even sending my armies there. Also the no casus belli thing was very accurate.

Thanks for the upload !

I played my first game as Castile, and it was hard tho I've read some guides on "how to do X" in some situations. I didn't know how to merge fleets and armies until the mid game so I just recruited a ton of 1k armies and used them all together. I remember my second game as Portugal, and I couldn't complete the mission to get 75% of Seville node because I didn't know how to upgrade trade nodes. I was afraid to go to war with Castille, I think they'd kill me easily, but they were constantly at war with France and mega France took Seville instead.

One phrase: internal power struggle

I appreciate that this shows actual battles. I've watched several EU4 videos, and they never show how battles are resolved. Seems very much like battles in Risk.

Gosh I remember playing this for the first time and wondering why the troops were moving so slowly from provinve to province instead of one continuous line xd

In all fairness, not the fastest lost game of EU4 I've ever seen. :)

My first game was in the demo in which you could edit the files to play as any nation to 1820 so I played Vaginagar and took all of india so I didn't have to deal with all the european mechanics. Also there used to be a 1399 start date in the files in the original release which you could host as a save file in multiplayer. So basically everyone capped out in mana points for 50 years because you could only get 1444 year tech or higher

I remeber the first time I played as Fance, and I was following Red Hawk's guide for a while until I realized that half of the things he wanted me to do wasn't possible without DLC. After that I decided to quite the guide and go on a conquering spree. Not before long I had to learn what aggressive expansion was the hard way.

Most of my suffering was in EU3. So i knew a few things when entering EU4.

I remember trying Venice a few times, and got game-overed by Austria and/or Hungary every time. My first successful game was a passive colonisation game as Portugal where I reached the goldcap. This was back with the old building system, when buildings cost monarch points to build, and you could only build a limited amount of each. I eventually got killed by a France that had eaten all of Spain during the 1700s, but until that point it was great :p

Honestly I played like 5 games before I even realized what attrition was why my manpower was always gone lol

This is exactly the same as my first campaign. Me(In the past): Oh Ottoman is for beginners? Sure I will play as them. (Later): why their army has star on top of them? What do you mean I cannot take everything I conquered in a peace deal. Why the hell do those poor German states join a coalition against me when I take an Italian province and why the hell do they have this many troops? What do you mean I cannot separate peace a coalition member? This game is bullshit! Me(now): lol just wipe them off the map so they cannot join a coalition.

This is kinda how my first real war went up to that point I only had fought opm and I was blown away by how long fighting large nations takes

Eu4 for me atleast was really hard at first. Mainly because i was stubborn and decided to learn it all myself. It took around 70 hours just to start not getting destroyed on ironman mode

The first minute alone is just absolutely hilarious

Bruh, the stinky one had me dying xd

Lmao the left clicking army is great

I love how whoever play eu4 just know history from the get go

In my first game I didn't play the tutorial (had watched hours of tutorial videos at that point), but still played as Castile. I lost land to Granada because I couldn't deal with Morocco, I was a bit ashamed.

I don't remember my really first game, but my earliest memory of Eu4 is playing as Roman Empire on greatest extrend with the timeline mod and getting killed from all sides

That was fun!

Exactly my experience. I played as Castille, lost the first battle against Granada because I attacked them in the mountains

My first run was with Castile, somehow managed to conquer all of Ireland but for some reason I completely fell behind on tech and rebels whittled my army away into nothing

This was funny yet somewhat painful to watch 🤣

My first game I didnt understand aggressive expansion or truce timers, so I just kept No CB'ing all over till a massive coalition formed

My first game I played the demo as portigal. I was so confused I didn’t even know how to move my units. I just remember being really happy that I adopted standardized weights and mesurements before quiting due to not knowing how to play.

So true! And even after 150 hours playing the game, and a similar number of hours watching playthroughs and reading the Wiki, I still consider myself a beginner even though I know a few things. (Rule #1: choose your battles carefully!)

the part where he had to redirect the second army got me 😂😂😂

I got hypnotized by the music

everything in this video is extremely relatable to my experience. now that I have 1000 hours in this game it look so funny.

I played as Poland in my first game and couldn’t understand that provinces had supply limits. So after my first war with the Teutonic Knights, I was getting annoyed that my manpower and armies wouldn’t refill because I had them sitting on low development provinces.

The thing I always tell people who've never played it when I talk about EUIV being my favorite game: "There is a learning curve."

LOL, I know we've all been there, but my eyes are still bleeding watching

I played my first game at Very Easy difficulty and I'm happy from that, I would probably quit this game if I would lose wars while playing as strong nations while also being overwhelmed by pretty much everything else

The first game I played as brandenburg, I keep reading EVERY messages that popped up. I thought it was super boring.

Love the left clicks

la primera vez que jugue eu4 fue puro sufrimiento porque empecé desde Chimú (donde vivo) y me demore como 5 horas en darme cuenta que si ataco a Cuzco en el 11 de diciembre (perdiendo 2 de estabilidad) y los vasallizo y anexo en 10 años puedo al menos llegar a ser el Imperio Inka igual pierdo como en el 1600 cuando portugal con su alianza en GB y españa me atacan Ñ

Loved it

This is literally on the dot, no CBing Byzantium and losing

I played the tutorial before starting a campaign, then my first campaign was as Albania. When I saw Skanderbeg, I immediately invaded Venice, didn't go as planned and I restarted, though my next campaign (which was again as Albania) ended up quite successfully and I took much of the Balkans, Anatolia and the Levant.

My first game was Austria. I have all the DLC at the time and I have no idea how things works, I just keep inheriting Hungary, Bohemia, Burgundy, and Spain lol

At least I played the demo for 1 month, before buying the whole game, so I learned something

My first play through was as Mapuche which is a opm in South america, was pretty good tbh since I learned most of the mechanics before anyone could even attack me

Nothing scars a man as that godforsaken "WAR DECLARED!" sound.

Back in the early days you England started in a succession war with France after like 10 full game times I had a great game I started by winning the succession war and taking the Northern France the a succession war with Portugal and then castlile all before 1600 after that it was all great I just fed land to my PU allies and annexed them all by late 1700 never had a game like that again😔

the first time i played this, i run on 2, waiting each day to pass because everything was confusing.

This is really hard to watch! Sadly I don't remember my first time because it happened in around 2014, but when my friends tried eu4 for the first time it looked somewhat similar to this

Anyone who has played Paradox Interactive games before. *Prepares to study game mechanics for 3 hours and watch at least 2 guides

This is so true and so relatable

This is literally the Ottomans when I decide NOT to play a Byzantium game

After many hours in Crusader Kings II, my brother and I started playing Europa Universalis IV last week. He played as Morocco, I played as Aragon. Everything was going well, he was conquering Africa, while I had all these personal unions and started some colonization in America. Until one day Castille decided it's stronger than me and doesn't want a union anymore. They were so strong they obliterated both my borther's and my armies. Concede defeat in war? They wouldn't accept! Grant independence? They wouldn't accept! Reload game and dissolve the union peacefully before they attack? I didn't find such an option. At this point it was basically 'no matter what you do, Castille destroys you because reasons'. We ended up using a cheat to integrate them before they attack, because this war completely ruined an otherwise pleasant campaign. And it was the first time I used a cheat in any game in years! (I mean cheating to win, not using cheats for fun) And there's also my single player campaign as Florence, where I dared to take a province in northern Italy :P

Someone 1st time playing eu4 know how to declare war? Impossible

I like how many mistake are made here, it could have been real! Thanks for the fun

I learnt how to play EU4 in nearly 2 years after all experiences... My first nation what i played as were Vijanajagar (idk how to type it) and i declared war with no casus belli... then i hated this game for 6 months because i could'nt understand it. Right now i have 659 Hours in the game.

my first ever action with personal computer was the Office Word in 2004. I had learnt that I can press any button and that most buttons have thorough description of what it does and why. My first ever game was as Oirat with cheats - i spent 2 days learning all the Ideas, all notifications, battle, diplomacy, trade and economics. I formed Yuan in a week or so. Thing is that Oirats were historical enemy of our government and they are constantly shitted on in our history books. Beating the shit of my own country was primal reason to try EU4 in a first place, lol

Reminds me of the first time I played EUII as a kid. I didn't notice my ducats were going negative and thought I was making loads of money...

Its the loud music for me lol

First time I played the game I tried to fo Prussia as Brandenburg. 2 years later and I still can't do it. However I had a great time forming Prussia as the tuetons, that might've even been my best run of the game

Looks like me playing as castille, but not upgrading my techs and not undestanding why my 50k army (mil tech 3) keeps lossing to the 20k french (mil tech 8). T-T

Mamluks was my first nation in EU4, while Germany was my first in HOI4.

Nailed it 😆

Still better than my first campaign..

The first game I played I didn't even know how to move troops

That's me but for some reason I've learned quick and I currently took a big chunk of europe, united Anatolia, got a few countries as vassals including crimea and I'm about to launch an attack on Mamluks. The game is really fun to play

Started my first game a few days ago with the Oda, who in hindsight might not have been the most sensible choice. Due to very easy difficulty i still managed to unite Japan even though the Shogun tried to get everyone to murder me. And now i don't have a clue how i am supposed to deal with Ming.

my first game was castille, well somehow i managed to get into crippling debt because i didnt know how colonization works and when colonizer arrived in a colony i immediately sent him to another location, this didnt work out well