What's your favorite country to play in EU2?

[Dinner]

I started out loving Spain and Austria but these two were so powerful that it took much of the fun out of the game. So I moved on to playing second tier powers like Venice, Denmark, and Novgorod. These were more challenging but still became predictable even with the AI on the hardest setting thus I once again had to move on.

Now I'm trying nonEuropean powers like Ethiopia and Rajputana. They are hair pullingly hard to play well unless you cheat or loan shark but they aren't impossible. Try being the only Hindu state completely surrounded by richer & larger muslim states. That's fun but not my favorite.

No, that honor would have to go to either Byzantium or Suizdul. Both of these are small powers with big potential to become major powers if properly played though the road will not be an easy one.Next I think I will try a Kingdom of Jerusalem game (I've never actually finish a KoJ game) or maybe a game as Crimea. If I really wanted to punish myself I could conquor the Crimea as Genea and convert it to Catholicism before releasing the Crimea. The goal would be to conquor all the mongol cultured proviences and convert them before the end of the game. Any what that's one of my ideas for the future.

[Sava]

Serbia all the way

[Apocalypse]

Bavaria is kinda fun. One of the more minor French ones can be challenging.

[ravagon]

At the moment I'm trying Navarra.
Nations i still haven't tried (but hope to someday) -

Denmark/Sweden, Savoy, Aragon, Prussia, + many others ...
Sooo much to choose from.

[Main_Brain]

The Small German Sub-countries are the most fun.

[Nikolai]

In 1.05, Ottomans and Byzantium is the favourites.
In thje latest patch(silly Paradox made the game much more difficult), Byzantium is unfortunately out of the question for my skills, so I usually play medium to great powers, no particular favourite.

[GePap]

Malacca was fun- I set up an Indonesian colonial empire.

Of the Huge powers, China I think gives you the biggest challange, not from outside, but come the nasty internal collapse.

[Dauphin]

I have a penchant for Savoy, for some inextricable reason.

[Serb]

Novgorod without being a bad boy. I capture only core provinces. I also knew the guy who've conquered whole world as Trapezund (sp?).

[Akka]

Actually playing my first time as Byzantium, and I'm pretty sure it'll stay my favourite even after I've tried others.
It starts very small, in a VERY difficult situation (entirely surrounded by an hostile power quite more powerful than itself...), has an extremely glorious past, and can have a bright future.

I think I'll love France too, but it'll probably be partially because of some nationalistic love ^^

Originally posted by Nikolai
In 1.05, Ottomans and Byzantium is the favourites.
In thje latest patch(silly Paradox made the game much more difficult), Byzantium is unfortunately out of the question for my skills, so I usually play medium to great powers, no particular favourite.

What are the changes that were made to make the game more difficult ?

[Sandman]

Venice and Persia are the biz.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Serb
Novgorod without being a bad boy. I capture only core provinces. I also knew the guy who've conquered whole world as Trapezund (sp?).

I read that thread and found it to be very interesting. Unfortunately, I don't think he could do the same in 1.08 as things have been made much harder.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Akka
What are the changes that were made to make the game more difficult ?

They have a huge list of changes just look at www.europa-universalis.com

[adi321]

France or Russia.

yes its pretty easy playing with them but I have lots of fun anyways.

[Agathon]

I like France.

I tried playing as Wallachia, so that I could be Vlad the Impaler, but it was too hard.