3 ESSENTIAL Tips for War in EU4

Today we look at an EU4 tutorial or EU4 war guide featuring my top 3 essential tips for war. These include scortching the earth, shift + consolidate and surrounding sieges. A war strategy in EU4 is hard to come by so I thought I'd make this brief list to help you become the next napoleon! With this, you can defeat eu4 coalitions and even the ottomans!

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[grant]

Also don't forget to declare war on the first day of the month to get an easy stacking plus also scoop up a few mothballed forts if your quick!

[galaxypl]

4: always trap 50k English stacks in Ireland

[AmariFukui]

Scorching the Earth was a recent but extremely welcome discovery in the game, it makes chasing down stacks in your country and defeating the enemy in detail much easier

[RingoStarr_]

Last tip is kinda odd since hostile forts crease zone of control, unlikely you could occupy all provinces adjacent to a fort.

[martinaustin]

Another tip is if you have allys sieging a fort, I like to throw in a small stack (even 1 stack) so progress isnt lost when AI inevitably hops off the siege for no reason.

[heresyhunter]

I'd love to see a 'how to make easy money' tutorial

[Klongu_Da_Bongu]

I always found the whole "Attack your own fort and get a defensive bonus" thing pretty funny.
"Sir, the enemy army is coming, we will fight an uphill battle if stay near the fort"
"Roger that, let's literally move 100 meters away from the fort or something"
"Sir, the fort is uh... Following us"
"WHAT?!!"

[matthewmcneany]

It is worth noting that shift-consolidate will slow down your overall replenishment rate for an army, so it is only situationally useful.

In the most basic example - an army of 10 units with 100 casualties each if you shift consolidate the time to get back to 10, 000 men in total changes from 1 month to 10 months (for 100% replenishment rate).

Also - the second obvious piece of advice is - don't shit consolidate to less infantry than you have regiments of artillery in an army.

If you've got 6, 000 infantry in 10 regiments and 10k artillery in 10 regiments and you shift consolidate and go straight into a battle - you're going to lose 4000 artillery manpower from the units on either flank almost regardless of if you win the battle. You're better off having the infantry tank at 60% and letting all the artillery do their damage for longer in most situations.

[Arthur-jxbm]

CONGRATULATIONS ON 50K! Well done guys!

[PavltheRobot]

For a beginner like me, this is actually very useful!

[erikreid]

The last tip was rlly useful never thought of that

[mijkolsmith]

Trapping on crossings is a really good one as well, even if you don't have a big navy just send a transport to it's death but get a free stackwipe

[lethargicpuppy]

One handy tip is that the AI can't coordinate with other AIs and is shockingly bad at coordinating with itself. It often won't merge its armies, so it won't attack big armies that you've got because your army is bigger than its little sub-armies, even if they overall outnumber you.

[sandercohen]

consolidating troops can sometimes be a bad idea: it reduces your reinforce speed, because reinforce speed is based on the number of soldiers in a given regiment, to a point, but also can hurt you in combat, if you end up having a significantly lower combat width.

[dishonorableknight]

So are you saying that the defensive bonus transfers from the enemy country to you as long as your army controls the provinces adjacent to the fort, or are you simply instructing that one should fight on a province away from the fort so the enemy doesn't get any bonus?

[thCriticOfAnime]

I only found out about shift-consolidating after about 1700 hours, and I feel stupid.

[shaynemc]

Wait so shift clicking consolidated doesn't remove the empty ones but fills full squads ?.
Thousands of hours in and I didn't know that one.

[tigrecito]

should you not scorched earth the provinces that you want to take? or doesnt matter, do whatever is necessary to win the war?

[frozenfeet]

thank you so much for the short form video. i have adhd and often cannot tolerate the 40+ minute "tutorials" people make that go into every modifier and bit of math in the code.

[jammerlammer]

morale feeding deserved to be in this video