The Ultimate Guide To Army Composition And Land Warfare In EU4

[@ЭрэлДьяконов-в1ъ]

"You can't build whole arty army" Bosnians disagree with that statement

[@OsmanAliman-c4f]

Artillerijjaa bosanac sam bekrijaaaa

[@hodajucidjedtv]

Aritiljeria!

[@joshuasims5421]

Recently I fought a tough war to PU France, and finally learned the morale value of reinforcements. Send in only enough to fill your front lines at first, then quarter stacks after that at intervals, only when your morale is low. Troops in battle take morale damage, fresh troops bring a huge morale boost. I’d seen it on KZbin in multiplayer but only now understand the value for winning at a disadvantage. (If I’ve gotten anything wrong, let me know!)

[@CoolBonobo]

Yup, always better reinforcing than doomstacking. That's why it's best to build multiple stacks to combat width (so you can reinforce), and not one that exceeds it.

[@lukaswilhelm9290]

​@@CoolBonobo yup but most of the times i missed couple of days earlier and got stack wipe instead. If you lazy or your fingers are incompetent it's better to doomstacking.

[@hititmanify]

@@lukaswilhelm9290 cries in british when 150 k angry bengalos ate my 20 k stacks when i was high checking my us colony

[@keoph4583]

4k hours in, it's time to watch some guides

[@biver1878]

I learned so much new stuff today and I‘m 1500 hours into the game. Thankyou sir… this video was amazing

[@DarthFhenix55]

2:26 High maneuver also decreases the attrition you receive in provinces with low supplies. Defensive ideas give you both attrition decrease and general maneuver so it's a good choice for countries near to China an Russia.

[@muzzammilshaikh4128]

STRAIGHT AND RIGHT TO THE POINT

[@tzardnickolasthelitromanov]

"You can't build a whole army out of artillery" *Angry Smolensk noises, in the background*

[@Krom5072]

Supply limit is annoying late game. AI walks around in 200k doomstacks so you are incentivized to do the same if you want to force a decisive battle. This forces you to suffer attrition casualties and lose manpower for no good reason. They need to rework supply based on something closer to HOI4 system but obviously not that complex. But generally France should not have any problems whatsoever if it wants to park 500k troops outside of Paris. While sending a 50k contingent to somewhere in Central Asia should be problematic for them no matter the local supply limit.

[@KKsKrissvs121]

Armies lead by Conquistadors can't use the automatic siege option as it is mutually exclusive with the exploring the new world option. The button for auto siege is still there but your conquistador army will just sit in the same province if you click it.

[@DarthFhenix55]

Also conquistadors just gain pips from army tradition up to 80 or so, so they will always be weaker than a good normal general.

[@ThePartyzanin]

​@@DarthFhenix55 also also conquistadors can't supress rebels

[@DarthFhenix55]

@@ThePartyzanin Yeah, true.

[@matthewhannigan1916]

1000 hours and I didn't know about control drag to select navy. I've been clicking on a random boat and shift+click+draging for almost 1000 hours...

[@MinedMaker]

I have an embarrassing amount of hours in this game and I still din't understand how combat worked until I watched this video. Thank you sir!

[@benjaminupchurch8551]

Hey man thank you so much for explaining this, I just got into trying to understand eu4 and this vid was SOOO much help thank you so much for your Indepth explanation and rock on brother.

[@qifei1788]

what a useful video tutorial! learnt so much in 20mins it's crazy good. more videos please... more!

[@Random-World-Eater]

Its also good to make a ruler a general if you have a better heir

[@sprc155]

Say that to female rulers (but there is s an event that they can become general)

[@Random-World-Eater]

@@sprc155 "bitch! Get out there and lead those men!" 🤣

[@imperator9343]

I'm pretty sure the movement lock cancelling trick only works if you have a transport ship. The Ctrl+click mechanic tells your units to travel by transport ships (if available) to where you clicked on, which can be useful to save some micro when you want to transfer armies around regions that they would be able to walk through. Without any transport ships, you won't get the popup.

[@CoolBonobo]

True, thank you for the additional information. I think good reason to build at least one transport once you get a port. This trick is too good to miss.

[@glurfikus5544]

I must confess this is quite interesting even for me who plays this slnce EU 2. Good work

[@joshlister4938]

bruv, dope vid, super dense with useful info

[@sprc155]

Great guide. Looting is also useful very early

[@FroDtje]

Maybe i havent heardit.. If you hover over your army you can aee the times they arrive. This is usefull if you can arrive a day early then you have the advantage. With forced march and some horde army even have 20% movement. Ypu have to wait till they are over 50% commited to moving. To wscape attacks use scorched earth

[@dasmeltorp4705]

What I heard " You need one thousand manpower and some buckets " xD

[@dsx7517]

Well, with some buckets they won't have to dig latrines. 🤣

[@yunusemremetin5123]

6:25 I thought artillery bonuses for sieges were like 1art=1 bonus, 4=2, 6=3, 8=4 and lastly 10artillery=5 bonus max. Ive never heard of multiply fort level with 5 to get maximum bonus, did i hear that right? is it really how siege bonus is calculated? if so.. damn... ive been doing 10 artillery max for every siege

[@CoolBonobo]

You can read about it on wiki, but if I understand it correctly: yes, it works like in the video. Your math works for level 2 forts (2*5=10), but not for more advanced ones.

[@imalyve]

i cannot believe that all this time i thought offensive and defensive pips were determined by who the attacker and defender were in battle 😭

[@pascholatti]

Thanks for the video, pretty helpful!

[@MrShaleur]

Best army comp guide out there

[@harku123]

Nice you did it! I saw someone comment on an older video that you should do this, Idk if that's why you did it but nice to see you did

[@Gamerpower]

Liked & Subbed very good guide learned a lot! Thanks

[@o_O29866]

Bro...do this kind of tutorials for all the aspects of the game! Great job! Thank you!

[@CoolBonobo]

Thanks!

[@mitchellvon9619]

3:05 big fan of pissing out quickly

[@arminhergl5388]

Nice vid, best summary I have seen so far. One question, wasn't there previously a button to detach unnecessary units in a siege in order to save manpower, so to automatically match fort size and stack size?

[@CoolBonobo]

There is actually, it's d on the keyboard. The problem with it is that it detaches the minimum necessary amount of troops, so if some of them die because of attrition - the siege stops. You can use it, though it's good idea to put at least 1k troops more

[@arminhergl5388]

@@CoolBonobo thanks for making that clear 👍

[@ArtemisShanks]

Love this guide. I’d love to see a video where you break down revolutionary mechanics :)

[@CoolBonobo]

They're quite simple actually, I think wiki explains it well enough.

[@thome7318]

One day I will find an EU4 channel without a super strong 2nd language accent that I can actually understand without concentrating. Hopefully 🤞

[@SancaktarMali]

Very very helpful thank you!

[@mehdiaridhi203]

what if i stack cav cost reduction like say -45% is it worth it to have more cav ?

[@CoolBonobo]

Yes, the main drawback of cavalry is its cost. If it's relatively cheap, only the cavalry to infatry ratio is your limit.

[@amilavxilmen5632]

Thanks, this seems helpful

[@ricardohoyos4418]

Since the battles changed in 1.35 if I have the exact combat width of cannons, and I put in reinforcements at a rate that prevents the cannons from going ahead... they end up leaving of the battle at some point, which is pretty bad. Because it happens? It can be avoided? Is it worth having cannons in reserve? I'm talking about great battles in multiplayer. Thanks in advance!

[@CoolBonobo]

No troops should leave the battle for no reason, at least on the paper. You can try putting in more infantry than cannons, maybe that will work (maybe some cannons get in the front row and get slaughtered).

[@mttokrnk]

I always loose so many wars because the AI keeps reinforcing with dozens of armies

[@Arpitan_Carpenter]

nice video

[@carltonleboss]

Vey informative video

[@ionian600]

I don't wanna make you upset but I would say I did not understand some parts of the video because of your harsh accent nevertheless video is good and helpful

[@sprc155]

Me too. Are you russian?

[@MostlyEvilKittens]

"You can't build whole arty army" Smolensk Also disagree's with that statement.

[@1992zorro]

Very good video but it's hard to keep up with what you're saying as you speak so quickly and jump over words in your phrases. Thank you nevertheless very informative and I learned a lot

[@johnnotrealname8168]

I have had this game for closing up to two years and because of Pride I have refused to watch a tutorial on War. I failed as you can tell.

[@ber-ruang7616]

me roleplaying as mongol timurid 2/20/0

[@Durovnax]

The video structure, pace and the way you talk is so confusing

[@JohhnyBasedDepartmentDab]

hoi4 is a much better game i am having such a hard time on eu4

[@getsomeboy321]

War wise yes, but after 1941 nothing is really going on.

[@Saberu_o_oppai_de_momu]

what you think bout vassalizing an anatolian minor and building troops in their land to get the anatolian best tech troops in the early game

[@CoolBonobo]

It's good, if you're willing to micro that much. Also you can vassalize horde (Crimea for example) as anatolian nation for nomad cavalry.

[@Saberu_o_oppai_de_momu]

@@CoolBonobo but crimea has nomad units anatolian tech could really level the advantage Ottobros have against everyone

[@CoolBonobo]

Nomad cavalry is the best in the early game (for a first few mil techs), so paired with anatolian infantry it should be good.

[@funnyspoon5120]

IS that how that works? If you build troops in a vassal they have that vassals military tech group, regardless of your own?

[@Saberu_o_oppai_de_momu]

@@funnyspoon5120 ye