Watch this video before your first Europa Universalis Multiplayer Game - EU4 Guide

This is a guide video for players who are either new to multiplayer or are about to play their first multiplayer game. Although that's the case, I believe that are many tips in this video to learn for experienced players and single player players.
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Special thank you to all those who responded to me, these players are:
-Cerkies, Flappy, Erling, Cookie, Szyna, Hilldric, Zlewikk, Terminator, Assano, Tsunami, Dragonican, QQQQQ7 and special shout out to Distinct who sent me an essay in response. Really awesome members of the community thanks again.
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[@AbsoluteHabibi]

Join my discord here: discord.com/invite/aDfwx9r Btw the game time is 10am PST not CEST (which 7pm CEST) on my discord. my mistake.

[@ZlewikkTV]

Habibi coming with great stuff again! Really good idea for a video :>

[@aaronjiang878]

What you did but more concise

[@ZlewikkTV]

@@aaronjiang878 well, my vid is almost 2 years old :p

[@saribey3375]

@@ZlewikkTV time for a new video then

[@aaronjiang878]

@@ZlewikkTV you should remake it then :D

[@Jayako12]

Not like we didn't ask you ever, Zlewikk...

[@Dumdragoon]

certified desync classic

[@Seagull512]

ok Kärntner This meme was made by Graz Kunsthaus gang

[@henrikselbk2762]

Finally a good an actual honest guide that goes deep into the actual gameplay and not just overall tips. Thanks man. Owe you one!

[@MyUsersDark]

"Watch this video before your first Europa Universalis Multiplayer Game" Too late

[@TheLazyG1t]

This video is great! It helped me to better understand what makes MP unique, even if I have no intention playing it. Highlighting differences compared to single player shows just how different the mindset is.

[@henry23223]

solid video very good tips that are great for mp a couple other brief things(if you covered them and I forgot I apologize in advance) - consolidate as much as you can always, shift + k if you want to keep the regiments. Your troops will deal less damage and take more if they aren't consolidated. Always consolidate when assaulting a fort. - use event timings in wars or plan to use them before a war(20% morale from level 3+ land maintenance, level 3+ disc advisor +10% disc, army reform, mission or specific country events quality bonuses) - tech timings are massive as well, at tech 6 a nation with half the troops can beat a nation at tech 5, biggest techs are 4, 6, 12 and 15 for the early game. One of the most common new player mistakes is taking a couple mil ideas at tech 5 instead of saving for tech 6 ahead of time and getting run down by a veteran player. Cav techs are also absolutely insane for cav nations, tech 8 cav can win 3 v 1s against strong opponents - if you can afford it or know you are gonna be fighting a tough war, invest in a good fort line - take corruption in a war after you have exhausted other sources of cash and pay it off as much as you can afford without bankrupting while at peace. It can be the difference between winning and dying, but corruption long term is absolutely horrible for your nation since it increases autonomy and gives all powers cost so getting rid of it is worth taking loans. It's often worth it to bankruptcy pay it off if you have to while at peace if you are at 20+ corruption - even if you benefit in a war in terms of land, keep in mind your relative strength after the war. For example, 2 stronger nations near you are rivals and hostile to each other, both offer you majority of the land in a war to fight the other. You choose one, but have to take the brunt of the fight and now are in a much weaker state despite gaining land while the other has eliminated a rival and weakened a potential enemy in you. You are then at his mercy and he may backstab you or just continue to outscale you. It would be better to allow them to 1 v 1 and then vulture the loser, while the winner is weakened. - Practice your 1444 start for the first 10 years or so. This is massive in terms of understanding how fast you scale, how strong ai is, and what the best opening decisions are. It is even more important if you have an early int war you need to practice(arguably the biggest factor is a good opener in an 1444 int war)

[@pickleman2196]

Does int war mean independence war

[@AbsoluteHabibi]

@@pickleman2196 Int is an overused term that EU4 MP players use a lot, it comes from league of legends when you intentionally feed (int or inting). In EU4 it usually means destroying your nation for a war.

[@henry23223]

@@pickleman2196 in this case its refering to early mams/turk war and vj/bah war for example

[@randomdude4255]

When I first joined MP I didnt even know trade mapmode and I accidentally opened it first time in MP lobby, had fun choosing between champagne and bordoux

[@theemperorofmankind7706]

Habibi: in some games I bankrupt at least once Florryworry: that's baby numbers.

[@AbsoluteHabibi]

True!

[@theemperorofmankind7706]

@@AbsoluteHabibi that man's inability to care about negative income fascinates and terrifies me

[@henry23223]

@@theemperorofmankind7706 uve clearly never triple bankrupted in a war heh

[@klodpraisor]

@@theemperorofmankind7706 money is just a number

[@theemperorofmankind7706]

@@henry23223 nop

[@MasterofRoflness]

dragoon was here

[@Dumdragoon]

NO

[@MasterofRoflness]

@@Dumdragoon kärntner

[@AbsoluteHabibi]

Habibi was habibi

[@husomeyro]

Nice timing before I consider playing mp after 500 hours

[@gordoawesome8590]

Weak. I’ve played 4000 hrs only single player

[@adwans1491]

@@gordoawesome8590 thats nothing to be proud of

[@FinanceFrance]

@@gordoawesome8590 impossible, you have to be lying

[@bossenes5020]

@@FinanceFrance its not İ have over 7000 But never played a mp campaign An yeah thats nothing to be proud of

[@husomeyro]

@@gordoawesome8590 You definitely have more experience with the game than Leviathan DLC developers

[@juliusaurelius9815]

Just started playing MP and Habibi uploads this! Good stuff this advice is sure to help me out

[@adamprielipp7228]

Thank you for this guide! Your my fav KZbinr!

[@rockbert6482]

Love this video. Didnt know about the Combat Width thing . This is actually the video i needed bc this evening is my first ever MP Game after 400 Hours of Singleplayer

[@schimertp]

Its weird seeing my thic Georgia in a video about first time MP games in the background when its my first MP game lol! Nice vid. I kind of accidently figured out some of the stuff you said in the vid which is why I am still alive. Also you can get the streamer/youtuber to subsidize you to save your income early game that's a tip you forgot to mention.

[@joeyweinstock1944]

The tip about loans is good life advice too

[@Vako93]

Great tips! I'll make sure to use them next time I'm in a lobby! :D

[@AleeeeexS]

Thx for this really interesting

[@Adrian-dp7vq]

Hey thanks man for the video, still after 1 Year. I just started playing Eu4 before a almost a year and now its my most played game. Still with 650 hours of playtime, I still don´t know how to be that good with your nation. Its a very good video and especially the tipps are really helping.

[@dualrotorhelicopter]

This is very helpful. man

[@juliang8676]

Great video ty bby 🙏

[@grayclouds9712]

Almost 2,000 hours and have never touched multiplayer. I'm thankful that this video exists I might actually try it now.

[@nucleounitedforce]

same man

[@BillLeBo]

Thanks Habibi

[@Dingeman_]

Habibi so wholesome

[@Soussouni1]

Pog content idea sir

[@megadwarf4714]

A tip for any new players out here is to join NA comp for eu4 games if u play hoi4 they are very receptive to hoi players

[@NeoMicy]

Dragoon makes some great EU4 memes! Btw i asked in the community about advice. And get gud is not as helpfull as someone migth think xD

[@AbsoluteHabibi]

have you thought about getting good?

[@NeoMicy]

@@AbsoluteHabibi Yes but than I took an arrow to the knee and that is that :(

[@hansjorgkunde3772]

The cat really loves the keyboard, or maybe its you? Cats are amazing. I got a couple things that make MP sessions not very appealing to me. Just watched a vid where Zlevikk juggled around 3 million Soldiers in over 70 stacks. Kind of insanity and certainly not fun. And one late reinforce might collapse your whole front. Granted he's probably one of the best players. Battles until the first world war lasted only one or a couple days. So getting in reinforcements where near to be impossible. They had to be in the range. So careful planning played the major role. The Prussians at Waterloo were late because they were attacked. But one of the most important battles in history lasted only one day. It was 73.000 on French side and 118.000 on Allied side. with roughly 60.000 killed or wounded. Battles you see in MP could not be happened at the time the game is suited. There was simply no economy to supply these huge numbers of Soldiers or create their equipment. That said, Have you ever tried to move 3 million Soldier through mountainous regions ? Not gonna happen... So not only these troops can force march over months (should be one province only) they are generally way to fast and never run into supply problems, even if they wander 10,000 km from Moscow to Beijing. Before the invention of railways simply impossible. Enough ramblings, the way EU4 is balanced in MP really need a overhaul.You are forced to stick to the Meta data and do what all other do, just faster if you really want to survive. Wars are lost because one or both sides run out of Soldiers or money. I really can not see that in EU4 MP. Troop numbers are insane. Geography play almost no role, lets go with 100.000 man through the Sahara. Or through the Caucasus region. All fine and dandy. Heh Germany tried that in 1943 and failed with the methods and material of that time. You can hold a pass with a few thousand soldier against a army. I really appreciate your and the other streamers videos especially named Zlevikk. They are good and entertaining. Still i think MP in EU4 is utterly broken and reduced to sit on a fort with 500.000 man and occasionally drop another 50k stack into over half a year or more. There is no tactic depth to this. Its a timing and resource problem. Therefore the one wo runs out of reinforcements usually lose this fight. PS: sorry for the wall of text :D TLDR ^^

[@flowerpower2067]

completly agree with you, had this mp a little bit ago as france, i made this massive 65k strong army in 1670 i was so proud. i attacked the austrian player for loraine, then i see 120k cross the alps and obliterate me. in no way could i see that actually happening. plus painting all of africa in 70 years? what about malaria and disease, or the thousands of cultures that would rise up, or the logistics of collecting tax in the middle of the congo. it sucks lobbies with people who think the same are surprisingly hard to find but map painting lobbies are around every corner.

[@baltswed1]

this is a lot of words for what amounts to cope

[@Sokul15]

Good video

[@civi4ever460]

or don't listen to any of this and int into a France that has tech 23 while you're at tech 22 and proclaim to be a real chad

[@spectrum838]

Tip for all paradox games, there’s always a tryhard but there’s also always the guy who’s secretly a god and never tries. Find the guy who’s there to take the piss because they’re usually the most fun and helpful person

[@joshjohnson721]

I’m such a noob, still so much to learn and figure out (about 250+ hours) but online appeals to me so god damn much!!

[@luke-ric]

Nice

[@spudeism]

EU4 multiplayer in nutshell: Quality + Economic + Quantity.

[@AbsoluteHabibi]

unless its modded!

[@ipsylon9833]

Great video Habibi! I recently had my first MP lobby which turned out quite decent. I will definitely be applying the tips here that I didn't apply then. A question for you, during that gameplay, I tried focusing on advisors, even going to an early 3/5/5 even while using quite a big chunk of my economic profit. By doing so I could develop quite a lot but later I felt that it took me too long to get a strong amount of buildings down, specially manufacturies in my main trade nodes. I considered an intentional bankruptcy, but the diplomacy was too unstable to do safely. Should I have cut down a bit on advisors to keep a decent amount of buildings in constant production? Basically, if you have any tips on how to balance the advisor use vs building contruction. Thanks a lot, love your videos and stream!

[@AbsoluteHabibi]

you need to know when to save up money for buildings. workshops and manufactories are the biggest ones. Cutting down on advisors before these timings to build a huge amount of buildings is usually what I do.

[@ipsylon9833]

Thanks a lot@@AbsoluteHabibi ! :)

[@d4s0n282]

@@AbsoluteHabibi if u still look at thesem any recos for noob mp person to play in? I have been playing in mp for a while but I am complete trash

[@tonalddrump804]

This is fax

[@chronsquared3682]

can you do a video on how to deathwar / int

[@beaub152]

Can we get another video that focuses on a lot of very specific tactics, (why you shift consolidate when you assault)

[@Arexsis]

To answer the shift consolidate question, it's because troops fight better when at full strength AND only so many men can fight - by Shift Consolidating every day you're reinforcing the army to full strength after each damage tick rather than letting battle end in a loss immediately. Shift consolidate, if anyone (or you) doesn't know makes it so you don't remove units when you merge them, you just transfer men over from one to another to make a bunch of full troops and a bunch of empty troops that will reinforce every month tick

[@nathanc939]

Absolute Universalis server will be starting a new game on the 15th of June. It is advertised on Habibi's server for those interested. It is a medium sized lobby usually with between 30 to 40 players of massively varying skills. There is a place for memes as well as tryharding in that server. Come and check us out, our host is god tier!

[@manooxi327]

tnx

[@SpicyFiur]

Dragoon got good Anime taste.

[@ilikepankakesuk]

Very helpful but what madman uses lightmode for Twitch??

[@sprites75]

i've been demolished in eu3 MP... never played it again!

[@henry23223]

everyone gets demolished their first games, even the best players now were dog shit when they started. Just how it goes. The tips in the video will hopefully help you avoid getting demolished.

[@kmonsen]

Just like real life, that loan button is my only friend.

[@ALittleMessi]

For the drilling thing, is it worth it as Brandenburg/Prussia? They have the mission for 50%, or should you just dump extra mil into generals for it?

[@AbsoluteHabibi]

If you aren’t making mercs, which happens after 1550s, then just making generals will give you enough professionalism

[@Gokaes]

this video is "how to play competitive eu4 mp" but like I myself am part of the MP in discord "paradox community" i can say not all but some of us do this I myself don't min max because i don't play for victory nor for dominance its all about the RP but yes I still do 90% of these things I just don't minmax with estates nor advisors

[@flowerpower2067]

same

[@gut8433]

Only thing that you skipped in this guide is that you have to get a good internet to play MP. *laggs again*

[@AbsoluteHabibi]

true

[@cryed0]

Id try multiplayer if i had decent internet

[@kuzeykeklik2506]

Amogus Just lissen to megadwarf and setmask and you play as good as a 5k hour player

[@pho4950]

never listen setmask to be good eheh

[@nexos634]

Hm good Video just too little of that sebsible neutralist guy

[@BoeJiden_]

anyone know what mod is being used for graphics?

[@hummussapien7.6billion68]

Are there any good newbie multiplayer lobbies?

[@hamarta1006]

Backstab Universalis IV

[@DaDARKPass]

8:53 ROFL!

[@mostaverage_gamer]

[@skidadle3071]

CET is European time right

[@user-nv6tc6eb9l]

what graphic pack is he using during this video?

[@AbsoluteHabibi]

Illusionary flat political map mod

[@willw9204]

What mod is used for the map texture

[@AbsoluteHabibi]

illusionary political flat mod

[@reinvskha]

So what dlc-s do you need to play mp

[@AbsoluteHabibi]

You do not need any DLCs, the host has all the DLCs usually meaning all players in the game will also have the DLC

[@vincentas1]

you get every dlc the host has for free, only in mp

[@adri1156]

Graphics mod?

[@davidhart5344]

Ok how many people actually play this multiplayer? would consider if good

[@AbsoluteHabibi]

a decent amount of people, good place to start is my discord channel

[@RsgNoise]

i would play when the meta change, deving is not fun to me

[@AbsoluteHabibi]

There's many mods that heavily nerf devving like Aapmonger and HashMP

[@frizzykid100]

I'm kind of torn on the drilling comment. I used to feel the same way, and while the bonus you get for the troops you're specifically drilling only lasts a battle or two, the boosts you get from professionalism are quite worth it (at 100% professionalism you get 10% land fire, 10% shock, 20% siege ability, -15% merc cost +15% merc manpower, -50% general cost +100% dril gain modifier -50% regiment drill loss) You also get a chance of your general that is drilling getting a bonus random pip every so often. I also don't think its worth it to do, but you can sacrifice a bit of your professionalism to recover a bunch of extra manpower as well. I can agree that the monarch points are super crucial to the dev meta and you need to have money to get the best advisors, but when you have an economy I don't think drilling your armies should be that difficult to afford. Even with elite regiments enabled.

[@AbsoluteHabibi]

Well i agree with you I do not recommend drilling until you have completed your build up. Additionally if you arent getting mercs, just hiring generals will get you to 100 professionalism by the age of revolutions without drilling

[@lawrenceofarabia7474]

smh now kenos will be a a good player now what have you done

[@pho4950]

kenos never gonna be good player kekw

[@ivanbenkovic610]

Nah, death before dishonor, would never betray a friend, thats ma roleplay, rather die than betray

[@AbsoluteHabibi]

to each his own

[@elgirl19]

Take quantity ideas

[@mrdino9534]

to int or not to int

[@AbsoluteHabibi]

I N T

[@mrdino9534]

@@AbsoluteHabibi I N T I N G M A K E S Y O U B E T T E R

[@lordhendrik6226]

larp

[@TheLethalGuy]

Competitive EU4 just doesn’t seem fun at all. Too many exploitable mechanics. I’ve never played any form of MP but I want to try role play. Seems more fitting for the style of EU4

[@flowerpower2067]

rp is the only fun way if you ask me

[@logoncal3001]

nice tips, except the overextension. If your OE isn't above 200, you're playing it wrong

[@abatedrogue3755]

Ill simplify this whole video real quick; be cynical

[@imcruse2249]

I'm not sute that is the best guide. Because it's not like that you died on every competetive polish campaign?

[@AbsoluteHabibi]

I played once in polish campaign

[@imcruse2249]

@@AbsoluteHabibi OW YEA I FORGOT. you played once but you died twice XDD

[@AbsoluteHabibi]

@@imcruse2249 true

[@nozone58]

Ive never played this and im about to with friends and to be honest, this video didnt help whatsoever

[@ebix3]

I am gay.

[@franzlubeck9669]

nice dude

[@ebix3]

@@franzlubeck9669 are you gay????

[@ebix3]

@@hellomynameisjoao ğ

[@adwans1491]

Thats bad

[@ebix3]

@@adwans1491 what is bad