What are some games that let me feel like an emperor/politician and aren't too hard for a noob

What are some games that let me feel like an emperor/politician and aren't too hard for a noob

Dragon Age Inquisition

Total War series. You can snowball like all hell.

Just play on easy or use cheat tables if you're a noob.

Is Rome 1/2 any good? Also is it hard to learn the non-combat side to it overtime (funds etc )

Long Live the Queen

Victoria II or this

Dynasty Warriors: Empires

>aren't too hard for a noob
>Vicky 2

I know it's not a 10 on the map painting autism scale, but do practise some common sense.

Was really little when I played Rome I, didn't speak too much english back then, so I'll rather comment on Rome II.

Most of the stuff is self-explanatory, the game also has a built-in encyclopedia that will explain everything to you. Just browse through a couple of its pages before you make your first move. Attila is more polished and has some new, cool mechanics but I like Rome II's setting more.
The politics system needs a bit of figuring out but you get the hang of it after the first Civil War fucks you in the ass with an unlubed, uncircumsized, extra-size cock.

It's not that hard at all. Just jump in and learn the ropes. Playing other games won't make it easier and it is objectively the best grand strategy game out there.

Try out The Guild 2 if you want a more local scale where instead of ruling a country it's more about becoming the strongest family in a few cities.

It has some pretty cozy political system where you hold elections and stuff, and if you manage to get a good number of family members in the council and hold majority vote you can pretty much rule the town.

I have like 200 hours in it and I still don't know what the fuck I'm doing half the time.

Victoria 2

Get government you have realistic chance of keeping that has the most control over factory building

build wineries
build liquor factories

end

My biggest faults like with the market I think. I just have a hard time keeping up, and my capitalists only wants to build shit like furniture factories even though there are trees and shit in my country.

That's why you build your industry to decent level before handing control to the capitalists. Or just go conservative/commie and autistically micro your industry the entire game.

What is the penalty for switching a government while in a constitutional monarchy?

I second this, had lots of fun with The Guild 2.

>start as balls-to-the-wall criminal murdering, plundering and kidnapping
>wife shits out children and we save up money
>eventually shits catches up to me and dad gets beheaded
>got enough dosh to send kids to school
>oldest boy continues the kidnapping/extortion businness
>little girl and mom open a brothel
>spend 4k on youngest kid, he goes to university for like 2 years, comes back full of unspent XP points
>buff his charisma and other social traits
>run him for council seat
>he gets it
>all the politicians go to my brothel so I have good relationship with them
>whenever the oldest son gets into trouble I use bribes, the young boy's influence and my network of thugs to get him off the hook
>they start having their own children
>open money lenders, bakeries and taverns
>set on fire, bomb and poison the competiton's buildings
>anyone who looks at me funny gets kidnapped and slaughtered

What I like the most is you actually feel rich when you're rich. You can wear expensive clothes and jewelry that give you buffs and handing out bribes and flirting with officials to further your goals feels awesome.

None really. Some pop militancy might flucuate but for the most part it shouldn't be anything major. Just be aware that as a constitutional monarchy elections will roll around so you might have to reinstate your preferred party in the upper house every four years.

>play CK2
>always end up as at least a King with a decent land and 60-80k score
>play EUIV
>always get my ass handed to me regardless of starting as Castille, Portugal, France, England, etc.
These games are not similar at all and anyone who tells you that they are is lying to you.

it's just EU4 with jacobin rebels and resources

Probably because eternal Pan-European alliances of doom aren't a thing in CK2, its somewhat easier to succeed because of that.

I think a lot of it has to do with how titles in CK2 wax and wane a lot more. While in EU, if you play a smaller county and you don't have a fuckload of other smaller countries to eat up at the start it will take a lot of trying to get anywhere. At least these days now that they made alliances worthless so it's even harder to resist and overcome the blobbing neighbors.

The ai is also really exploitable with the marry chick - kill her family combo.

only if you turn down threat
in my mongol game literally the entire god damn world came to the defense of a tribal in the middle of the urals that declared its independence

Try Nobunaga's Ambition. It's quite simple yet surprisingly fun game.

Yes, and also how the strength of a state in CK2 depends on their king. Even a mega empire blob can be taken on by a tiny kingdom if the blob has gotten a foreign regency and there's 3 civil wars going on at once. There's a lot more ways to be opportunistic in CK2 than EU4.

>download and install it
>forget about it
>uninstall it a few days ago without playing it
>now I really want to try it

Dammit.

What games have great politics mechanics, and don't feel repetitive?

Also something interesting in CK2 is just how large your ability to rebound from a defeat is.

In EUIV if, as a small country, you lose a decisive war that's game over. in CK2 you'll still hold some of your land even if you're now being ruled over by a foreign conqueror.
Sure you might be forced to convert to their religion, have your sons taken hostage and be required to plant your mouth firmly up their asshole for the next 50 years, but you can start to rebuild and maybe not you, nor your son but your son's son can lead that critical rebellion.

The thing is, it stops being fun after you blob too large and have to autistically micro everything.

That basically happened to me in my first ever laythrough when I played the duke of Apulia. I got 2 separate declarations of war from the Byzantine empire, which had somehow become an elective monarchy, looking to conquer my duchy, so I offered my vassalization to them to stop the attacks. Some generations later I drove the Muslims from Italy and crowned myself king of Sicily, then got elected emperor because everyone loved me so much. Changed the inheritance to primogeniture and finished the game as Basileus of Italy, Greece, and Anatolia.

But that's exactly why there's province system so you just order them to do what you want. It's actually brilliant system to avoid micromanagement. Also makes things more challenging.

Its a nice game but jesus christ these fucking combat models and animations.LITERALLY ps1 tier

>start out a game as some random shitty Russian lord
>become ruler of Rus
>three rebellions and invasions later my soon to be empire is almost gone, few southern holdings left
>FUCK this shit
>manage to conquer parts of Lithuania
>while the Russian lords are busy fighting over their failing kingdom I've built a prosperous Polish-Lithuanian Empire and is making my way towards Germany

Man I love this game. Even in massive failure you can have so much fun.

have you met the mongols yet? they're a fun endgame boss

They spawned, took over like 10 provinces, then converted to Islam and didn't to anything else of note after that and just sat in the northeastern part of the map.

Man. Now I got in the mood for a new game. What are some interesting lords/locations to play for a less blobby roleplaying focused experience?

the AI is broken as shit and it generally has lots of bugs and glitches, some mechanics straight up don't work

but it's still fun

Guild 3 soon

if you don't want to blob but still feel powerful you can always play as part of a merchant republic

if you lose the election you gotta clean up the mess the AI left when you get back in power

Kernev 769

My favorite start in the game. You start with primogeniture as a one county in Brittany, next to daddy Charlemagne

Hope it turns out fun.

It's also a bit of a shame that it's a bit badly balanced and a lot of mechanics are tied to multiplayer games. Like just spawn mines and you will be in a mansion before your first character has died, open up a tavern and you will struggle a lot.

Hm. That sounds fun actually. Never really played republics. The trade zone thing always made me so confused about what the do.

guild 3 never

I expect it will be shit, I just don't see a different developer living up to what made The Guild great after over 10 years since the last one.

things is guild 2 wasn't great

the concept was great. the execution was terrible. i've recently been playing it, and after a while you start to notice how dysfunctional the whole game is.

it has a decent publisher, and the concept is the same. as long as the dev is at least half-competent, i'm sure we'll be fine

start with shogun 2, the best tw.

the dev has made only one other game, although it is a management game, and it's good (apparently)

so yeah i suppose the odds aren't that bad

check out the guild 3 on facebook. they're actually actively posting their progress, it seems to shape up. last update was literally just 2 days ago so yeah.

h o p e

superstates mod on eu4 is the best shit
>tfw you pick your home province/state and btfo your neighbours

well that's cool, graphics are shite but if they improve on The Guild concept I'll be happy with it

Speaking off CK2, was it CreamAPI or SteamFix that allowed you to have pirated DLC on the Steam version?

Big coalitions existed from 1450 onward for a reason.

Release when.

2016

Honestly playing an economic/trade focused country in EU4 is some of the most fun I've had in the game. Blobbing and expansion becomes really one dimensional, while with trade you need to incorporate all aspects of the game.

Bringandine, they even have some new translation patch.

CK2 as Trade Republic is great fun.
Try Venice senpai.

Any tips on how to manage trade zones and posts?

EU4 strikes a perfect balance between fun and autism, prove me wrong.

Sounds like you're just trying to rationalize not trying out CK2 or Victoria 2

I prefer CK2 because of the character driven roleplaying and all the completely random shit that can happen, like one time for example my Persian cousin inherited the Byzantine empire and his dynasty turned it into a Mazdaki Shahdom. EU4 is honestly pretty boring to me, it's fun for a playthrough but it doesn't have the battles of Total War or the politics of CK2. You just paint the map, wait until your peace treaty expires and then paint the map some more.

Yes.
When you start a game, pasue immediatly.
And buy the one closest to Venice, take even loan, get them all.
The more males you have the more trade posts you can get.
Always make sure it's the oldest in family will be the succesor, family, not son, unless he is old enough to have a lot of prestige.