Playing as Burgundy, being attacked by France, I thought I might try to eliminate an 18.000 men stack of enemy forces in northern France with my 25.000 + 8000 allied troops. The engagement will take much too long, and from the depths of Poland or the Alps your opponent will draw in his forces and crush you. Isolating small enemy forces of 10-20.000 men and crushing them with 30-40k of your own troops is a nice idea in theory and might work in real life, but in EU4 you won´t succeed. Playing as Denmark -> Scandinavia I had several wars where this issue made itself felt. This has happened sooo often to me now that I´m absolutely sick of it. If you are not fortunate enough to capture the enemy in very small chunks where you have an extreme local superiority (killing off all the 1-2k stacks), you will lose because your enemy will always be able to draw in another army from somewhere else, prolonging the battle until he has amassed his entire army on the battlefield, pitting it against your entire army. With the current system and battles taking so long (weeks, but months or even years for big, decisive engagements) the entire strategic part of positioning your forces and establishing a local superiority against a more powerful opponent just becomes utterly pointless.Īs a small or even medium sized nation, there is no point in engaging any superior enemy unless his entire army somewhere on the same continent as your battlefield is not engaged as well or extremely attrited. Now, taking a deep breath and analysing the situation and explaining my point instead of just ranting :laugh: but the duration of the battles is breaking the game for me. The combat system itself works fine, I have no major qualms with it. There´s a single thing that annoys the heck out of me: And that is battles taking ages. I´m talking about you, warfare and battles. bad gamedesign, illogical and terribly unfun. Yet there is one single important part of the game that is just awful and causes me to ragequit sooner or later because it is just. I´ve tried picking up EU4 again today, I really like the game and I can lose myself in the peaceful aspects of it (especially trade, diplomacy). I have to open this thread after a looong abstinence from the forums.
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