EU4: 10+ Essential Tips & Tricks in Europa Universalis

EU4 is an incredibly dense and complex game. If you're new, intermediate or returning to the game, these tips will revolutionize your strategies and greatly improve your chances of success!

Special thanks to the following Patreon users who support me:

David Johnson, Sheamus Byrne, Harry L, Imperialfish, Jack, Charles Nadeau, Shamir Khodza, Dylan Steele, Marco Spiess, Michael Blachowicz, Kim Harder Fog, Nicholas Walker, Peter Hayward, Andre Bach

The music used in this video is "Travel the World" , "The Stonemasons", "Eire" and "Alba" from the EU4 / Guns Drums and Steel OST and ""Takeda Sunrise" from the EU4 community music pack.

All music is owned and copyrighted under their respective owners. Europa Universalis IV is a grand strategy games published by Paradox Interactive. All rights reserved.

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#europauniversalis4, #eu4, #eu4guide

[RWnope]

I swear to god. I keep thinking I've clicked on an ISP vid by mistake with that intro.

[captinobvious]

"consume your trade good of choice"


Man, do I love fried Slaves with a side of Naval supplies, and of course, a molten copper drink.

[bigworm]

00:50 National Outliner - useful for looking at each province and culture
03:11 Personal Union mechanic
05:40 Trade Steering
08:56 Aggressive Expansion - using influence nation to remove them from coalition
13:25 Institutions - how to develop them
15:16 Culture mechanic - Primary Culture, Same Culture Group, Different Culture group - promote accept culture, culture conversion (easier with religious ideas)
17:28 Ignoring Events for six months
17:59 Rebels always spawn in highest dev provinces that have unrest
19:10 Absolutism and Administrative efficiency

[Ryuu]

Videos on PU and Trade sound like a great idea.

[laynaTheLobster]

"Era of exploration to the era of *mindless blobbing.*"


Well...he ain't wrong.

[lan]

Damn, bro. Didn’t realize how many ducats I could get from trade until I tried establishing colonies as the OPM of Munster. I made it the most developed city in the world to be wealthy enough to establish them. I colonized the mostly unclaimed region of Colombia and the western coast of North America. These colonies seemed untenable at first, but then I realized that I could use my fleet to protect trade and use merchants to collect from trade nodes outside my home node. I also grabbed the Ivory Coast because I heard you can’t grow wealthy off of trade without them. Unfortunately I don’t want to continue the save game as I got boggled down into a war with Great Britain, due to them wanting valuable provinces I had. Regardless, thank you Alzabo, for publishing this video and recommending different ways to play the game for better results.

[lombii]

Oh no, Ironside Is spreading everywhere!!!

[Roland____]

I thought this was ramens paradox. Don't give me hope.

[Kasperi_A.]

Or if you are just terrible you can always leave the console open.

[PinkMawile]

A really helpful tip for culture conversion is; when you have several cultures of the same foreign culture group, embrace the largest of that foreign culture group and then convert the others to that embraced one. Going between cultures in the same culture group is much cheaper than going from a foreign culture to your home culture.

[PyroManZII]

You are the ruler of Khmer, and suddenly you are shown a vision where you are told to develop a field into a new city... after many years of construction, the city is finished, and seemingly without reason, the entire population learn about the ideas of Enlightenment!

[archdukefranzferdinand]

Absolutism and it's benefits are not locked behind Mandate of Heaven, the age bonuses are though. Also I would argue that the revolution disaster is also quite useful.

[georgeflorescu]

"If you're interested in more in-depth guides and any mechanics outlined in this video, please let me know in the comment box" Do you expect us to say no, or what? Anyway, I don't want this comment to sound harsh, therefore please, bring more of this! I can learn something from your each video, since they are all informative in one way or another. Anyway, cheers!

[nebulastaralex]

@AlzaboHD, I would love a PU guide video, I have seen many but they always seem to gloss over or miss one or 2 things, it would be nice to see a full video that has everything in one place and I think you could do this.

Please, I only want to get random PU's on people while not playing Austria or Castile.

[derekshot]

Your EU4 videos are the most helpful videos I've seen for someone trying to learn to play The Game. But they are hard to find. So I am just making this comment to help feed the algorithm

[WilliamLawrence]

Very good video bud, lots of useful tips and tricks to help out even veteran players. I'm coming up on 400 hours in game and stillanaged to learn a thing or two from this video. Thank you very much for your time in putting this together!

[sagewaifu]

I'm kinda new to the game, got around 50 hours played so far and PUs are really a thing I don't understand at all, a video on it would help a lot.
Also, great video, really helpful.

[imokin]

Thanks! Maybe a time-lapse of this marvelous Chavchythingy run? Would love to see the Walrus Invasion!

[ziggy]

quick note, the alexandria node does NOT flow into the tunis node, even tho he shows this to be the case in the video, and it looks like it, zoom in to see it goes to genoa

[jordimiddelkoop]

Oh dear god the Dutch colonisation memes are leaking