At what age did you grow into grand strategy games?

At what age did you grow into grand strategy games?

Never. I'm still trying to figure out how you play IH4 but there's just so much

Played Zeus first I think, around age 8 or 9. I couldn't believe a game like that could exist, it was a great time for me. Mostly just had shitty little crap shacks like pic related. The resource management and building placement blew my mind, same with random monster attacks.

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Can i ask someone who knows about Eu IV something, since i can't ask on /vg/ because the fuckers are too busy playing the same games of Victoria II over and over again.

Everytime i end up in battle my army ALWAYS starts with a fuckload of morale missing.
This makes it so that battles are almost unwinnable without an ally backing me up, even if my tech is better and my tradition is on the same level or better.
What the fuck is this shit
It's not fucking fair, even if i play on easy and with bonuses this shit happens

did you set your army upkeep budget low?

I think it does that if the enemy has a morale modifier higher than yours so it sets 100% morale to the max achievable by both armies. France has retarded morale bonuses so you're probably fighting them.

>EU IV

12.

>Army budget too low
Alternatively you're fighting kebab, they always have stupidly high moral when they decide it's war'o'clock

The budget is at full and it happens against everyone

I try to keep prestige and traditions high for the morale but even if it says that my morale is on the same level it keeps happening

Fucking

18. Any other strategy game feels lacking after 500h+ with EU, CK and HoI games. It's like an addiction, I play these games and I watch guides on strategies at the same time.

In my 20s. Currently got an EU3 game on the go with 3 friends. Player nations are England, Burgundy, Austria and Morroco.

When i was 10 i started playing EU3

I blob.

So what's best babies' first grand strategy?

18 i sunk a bunch of hours into victoria, ck, hearts of iron and eu but all that shit left my system by 21. Im just bored of them now

I wouldn't really say that I'm into Grand Strategy as a genre. The only one I play is CK2.
Although I have put about 1300 hours into it.

>vanilla /gsg/

oh please

I don't know, I'm pretty new to it. Stellaris acted as a gateway for me. If you can handle that you should be able to move onto EUIV. Maybe watch some getting started tutorial vids since the in game one pretty much just shows you what the buttons do.

EUIV is more about managing a country, economy and military, and CKII is very similar but involves managing people (heirs, fiefs) and has more personal events.

The battle screen shows your morale relative to theirs - if you have 3 max morale and they have 6, your bar will start half full. You still have your max morale

16. Grew out of those badly coded .ini simulators at 23.

Stellaris probably when they add more content, its pretty shit right now. For now id say EU4

>Buy the game
>Pirate the DLC
>Steam won't let me unlock achievements

I was practically done with my Ryukyu world conquest too, fuck everything.

Pretty sure you have to play on ironman mode to get achievements.