I always enjoy playing as Portugal, and it's also a good choice if you're looking for something completely different from Russia (who I've also played). Keys are planning attacks at the right times and making sure that you don't piss off any superpowers too early without stronger allies.Ĭastile- Probably should be lumped with Ottomans/France as the super easy map painter nations but I like Castile more due to the ease with which you can form Spain and the fun of relatively easy colonization. Tuscany- Great ideas for technology bonuses and in one of the best positions to form Italy at game's start. Timurids seem to be the easiest by simply releasing Persia at the start to avoid massive rebellions and either striking the Ottomans immediately or capturing all of India and SE Asia before returning to the west.

Manchu should wait to attack until China is overrun by rebels as tends to happen due to the Chinese Govt Type and then strike to release some of China's hidden subjects. Manchu/Timurids: Fun horde nations with decisions to follow history and form powerful empires in China and India respectively. Really, really, really tough to mess these up. Ottomans/France- Easiest countries to play by far and can simply paint the map greenish/ blue.

Pretty simple from there on out as long as you don't do anything too stupid. Carpet siege Norway and any Danish province you can reach and try to get the best peace you can. Make a galley fleet and blockade Sjaelland so that the Danish can't get into Sweden. Thankfully you are Sweden and are ridiculously OP. You are in a PU and therefore can't ally anyone else and can't call for help with independence without one of the DLCs. Sweden- You start out in a bit of a bummer scenario. Eventually you can form either the HRE or Germany and be pretty much unstoppable. Form there you can culture shift and form Prussia for some pretty spectacular mid-late game armies.īrandenburg/Teutonic Order-Form Prussia and then use your amazing national ideas to stomp across Europe and dethrone Austria and France. You can get a easy PU with Lithuania through a decision and then more decisions to form Commonwealth. You start with the Ottomans on your doorstep, sandwiched between Austria and rapidly expanding Muscovy. I found Poland to be one of the most flexible plays in the game.

Eu4 most fun nations