The check on leader maneuver rating is performed daily, so a high maneuver leader can still swing the tide of battle even if he joins an engagement late. It is also multiplied by discipline. No links to pirated materials, pirated game mods, or key resellers. You're probably not walking around with stacks this big or you'll be taking lots of attrition. The latter is caused by the defensive pips of cannons being divided by two, then rounded down and ultimately added to the frontline’s defensive pips. Unless you're a horde then it's CAV CAV CAV BABY, or a Muslim or eastern tech they can go up to 8 or 6 Cav respectively if you got the money. Here is a list of the types of terrain and the modifiers which they grant. A native army equal in size to the local native population (rounded to the nearest thousand) will spawn immediately and must be defeated in battle to clear out the native population. They will come into the battle fresh and not take pointless damage to their morale. Later technologies are limited to one cannon type. Deploy all infantry in the first row that can be positioned to attack enemy units in the first row, except for X. Don't worry too much about playing optimally. The garrison can be ordered to make a sortie to fight the hostile army, at the cost of 10 military power. [3] When a province's loot bar is empty no more loot can be taken from that province. You're probably not walking around with stacks this big or you'll be taking lots of attrition. If the fort does not surrender, add 1 to the breach status and 2 to the siege status. Armies that are forced marching do not recover morale. Fire damage becomes the undisputed main source of damage once players reach military technology 13. Combat is not only determined by mere numbers such as modifiers and dice-rolls, but through a complex simulation in which units deployed into two rows of positions for each side, allowing units to fight the enemy units in front of them, the enemies at their flanks if possible (with high enough flanking range), and move between different positions if needed. Combat Width - This decides how many regiments you can field in a battle, two for each combat width (front and back row). Land warfare is the deployment and maneuvering of military assets against an enemy, in most cases this results in combat between opposing armies. This typically occurs if the unit is facing an enemy artillery regiment or a particularly outdated unit; in this case the unit may choose to attack the flanks of a stronger enemy unit nearby. From military tech 7 onwards, defensive pips are to be prioritized over offensive pips for infantry and cavalry because artillery becomes available, which deals damage from the back row. http://www.discord.gg/ParadoxMP. The current formula is the result of developer input and further experiments. (The ‘Sortie from siege’ button is shown on the siege screen.) When a war begins, any army in a neutral or hostile province that it only had access to through a military access agreement is exiled. Armies exceeding their nation's ratio of cavalry to infantry receive the "insufficient support" penalty which applies a −25% military tactics to those armies until their ratio has been restored to normal. having 10 regiments with 100 artillery each is the same as 1 regiment with 1000. Forced march is available at administrative technology 15. By the time you actually reach the battle you are terrified and your spirit broken and retreat almost as soon as your friends begin to fall. e.g. The army can be detached at any time except in battle. Great Qing idea 7: The Ten Great Campaigns, Kiwi idea 6: Rejecting the Australia Constitution, Lotharingian idea 2: Glory of Charlemagne, Vermont idea 1: Home of the American Revolution, Veronese idea 4: Civil Blood and Civil Hands, Aragonese idea 7: Protect the Little Folk, Ayyubid idea 3: Righteousness of the Faith, Carib idea 3: Resistance towards the Pailanti'po, Chachapoyan idea 1: Warriors of the Clouds, Great Yuan idea 2: A Savage Kingdom Holy and Enchanted, Herzegovinian idea 3: Stjepan's Rebellion, Imerina idea 2: The Twelve Sampys of Imerina, Luban idea 4: Encourage the Kasala Tradition, Medri Bahri idea 5: Independent Traditions, Neapolitan idea 4: Crush the Power of the Barons, Perugian idea 6: The War of the Eight Saints, Timurid idea 2: The Mantle of the Great Khan, Trebizondian idea 5: The Lessons of the Fourth Crusade, Religious-Quantity: Field priests and Soldier's prayer books. Thus the defensive pips of the frontline regiments impact the kill casualty equation of two enemy regiments, while the offensive pips only affect a single regiment. Combat is not only determined by mere numbers such as modifiers and dice-rolls, but through a complex simulation in which units deployed into two rows of positions for each side, allowing units to fight the enemy units in front of them, the enemies at their flanks if possible (with high enough flanking range), and move between different positions if needed. [EU4] Complete Guide on EU4 Combat \u0026 Reinforcements [EU4] War Academy I: Army Composition \u0026 Basic Combat. For every 1 combat width, 1 additional regiment can be placed in the front and back rows, if sufficient troops are available. This prevents it from being permanently stuck in a place it can't get out of, as well as preventing several exploits. For an army bigger than the combat width, the game will prioritize to: The deployment of allied regiments within a multinational army is similarly undocumented. Army besieging a fort always count as the attacker if a battle takes place and will receive the attacker penalty. The following modifiers are then applied: The highest possible starting bonus is +17: a capital fort (−1), obsolete by 3 fort levels (+3), with an insufficient garrison (+1), with a 6-siege general (+6) and at least 8 regiments of artillery (+8). Art of EU4 War - Stacks and Army Composition [EU4] Managing Stacks and Reinforcements correctly? Re… A province will only begin to recover two years after the last successful looting, at a rate of 10% each month. The base cavalry to infantry ratio is 50%. This can be devastating as an offensive tactic, but may also affect the player as well. Same as artillery barrage, but only available if the number of cannons on ships adjacent to the fort divided by 100 equals the fort level. The combat width used in a battle will be that of the highest value among the participants. If they are in between 50 and 75% of their strength, they will fight at 75% flanking range. The option to conduct an artillery barrage becomes available when a siege has at least one full artillery regiment per fort level. The player will lose income in the meantime, but if they were going to lose control of them anyway it could be a good idea to make them less valuable for the enemy. Units set to auto suppression reduce unrest by a greater amount than normal, to be exact they suppress unrest at 500% effectiveness. Game-trade threads are not allowed. Let's take a look on a real battle. No memes, image macros, reaction pictures, or similar. This number starts low and increases as your technology progresses. To progress, the attacker requires a minimum of 3000 men per 1000 garrison. Stacking your armies let's your enemy do bonus damage for free. During Age of Revolutions it is possible to enable Improved Force March ability, which reduces military power cost to 0 (requires Mandate of Heaven). Attacker penalties from terrain are applied to the siege army, while attacker penalties from river/strait crossings are nullified regardless of any leaders' Maneuver pips. The strangest thing I've seen in Eu4 - Spanish-Muslim Independent Cuba in 1559. A shattered army will get an extra morale bonus once it stops retreating. [–]dyldopolis 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (1 child), [–]AnachronisticYak 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children). When this occurs, the 0-strength regiment stays on the frontline until the first 12 days pass. If you want stricter quality control, go to /r/ParadoxPlaza. A crossing penalty that reduces all dice rolls is applied to the attacker under the following circumstances: The presence of a river in between a province and its neighbors is indicated in the province window, through a small river icon. During each combat phase, each unit will use its offensive pips to increase casualties dealt, its defensive pips to mitigate casualties received, and its morale pips to increase and mitigate, respectively, morale damage.[2]. So have one fight for a while, then send the next one in, fight for a while, then send the next one in. Here is a table of combat width by military technology level. All the while, the system retreats destroyed or low-morale units and deploys reinforcements and reserves as well. Besieging armies will always take at least 1% base attrition, even if the province is unfortified. Please help with verifying or updating this section. The attacker's casualties are dealt to the retreating defending regiments, whereas the defender targets the reinforcing attacking regiments. Saved games are set to the game version and checksum that are currently playing. 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For information on topics that are temporarily banned, please view our rules page. For example, if an army is fighting rebels in enemy territory when peace is signed, they will continue fighting despite being exiled. Military tactics is increased by military technology. Type the name of a console command into the search box to instantly search 305 EU4 commands.Hover over a cheat code to view detailed argument explanation. Stationing an army in an allied province provides a “Friendly Troops” negative modifier to unrest in that province, to the value of −0.25 per regiment, to a maximum of −5 at 20 regiments. Sortie can be ordered only when siege is ongoing, thus friendly troops awaiting an inbound enemy in a fortified province cannot receive garrison's aid. The garrison will recover at a normal rate after mothballing is cancelled. Oman -> Mughals -> Caliphate: Third Way + True One Tag + One Faith, POV when you take a province from the HRE, Umm guys i dont know, but i dont think Ming is suppose to be here. An army in an owned and controlled province may scorch the earth for 5 military power, as long as it has not already been scorched. In this video I delve into proper army compositions. The combat system, while not being entirely obvious or intuitive, can be seen through the combat interface which allows the player to see which regiment is fighting which, and which is moving where. In general the army can then only move to another province that has no more than one province that is not affected by a hostile zone of control between itself and the return province. Every round of combat, whether you are fighting, in the lines or just sitting on your ass, every unit takes morale damage. Also like land battles, these sea battles can go on for many days, so they should be considered not as a single engagement, but as two fleets maneuvering to gain wind, standing off and skirmishing before the fleets finally collide. Once an army's overall morale value has been reduced to zero the army will attempt to retreat. Note that garrison will refuse to make a sortie if the besieging army is much stronger than the garrison. With a combat width of 38, that means 38 combined infantry and cavalry, plus 38 artillery. Ingame tests have demonstrated that the morale casualties equation previously found on the wiki was incorrect. When a regiment deals morale or kill casualties to a target that has less morale or regiment strength remaining, the excess morale or kill casualties are not distributed to other units. A battle will last until one side is routed or annihilated. When two hostile armies meet in a province a battle will commence. Users may only make one self-promotional submission per week. Looting is the main cause of devastation, which greatly reduces the owner's production income and manpower, as well as decreasing movement speed, supply limits and institution spread. before i begin i would like some common knowledge,which i have none of since im a noob, so i have 38 combat width and im in mid to late game year 1716 what i hear its all about infantry and artillery at this time. Anyone want the lottery numbers? Ilkhanid idea 7: Recruit Turkoman Gunners, Smolenskian idea 2: The Armories of Smolensk, Utsunomiya idea 2: Legacy of Nasu no Yoichi, Australian idea 6: Integration of the Bushrangers, Nagpuri idea 5: Light Cavalry Shock Tactics, for following or inviting a scholar from the, Andalusian idea 1: Stand Against the Reconquista, Leinster idea 4: He Who Is Not Strong Must Be Cunning, Russian idea 7: Broaden the curriculum of the Cadet Corps, Kanem Bornuan idea 5: Fixed Military Camps, Lur idea 1: Kingdom in the Zagros Mountains. Normally, the "attacker" is defined as whichever side moves into a given province last, while the "defender" is whichever one was already occupying the area. 38 infantry, 38 artillery. For attackers that originate from multiple provinces, they will all receive the crossing penalty if any one of them would normally receive it alone. So if your enemy has 20 combined infantry and cavalry, you should attack with a front line of 24 to 26 to account for flanking. Armies that win battles will gain a significant boost to morale, to prevent situations where an army is stack wiped due to winning a narrowly fought battle and then immediately being attacked. At the end of each siege phase, a die (1 to 14) is rolled. It increases attrition (hurting the enemy's manpower), and makes the provinces less valuable to the attacker while they're occupying them. Note that the leader skill bracket cannot be negative. They differ in that the casualties in the morale casualties equation are calculated with the morale pips of the respective units & without the fire/shock damage dealt & fire/shock damage received modifiers. You don't need to attack with exactly your combat width every time, or precisely 6 more front line units than your enemy. Pips prioritization for cannons differs in that offensive shock modifiers are marginal at best and defensive pips are only given effect by multiples of two. An exiled army can be identified by a black flag attached to its unit icon. The player can take this into account when building forts, as well as when choosing which provinces to siege and which besieged provinces to prioritize sending their troops to. Explanations should be posted as a reddit comment - referencing the title is not enough. The amount of morale regained depends on the strength of the enemy army defeated relative to their own strength. Sometimes you can just let them reinforce slowly, sometimes you need your already weakened army to fight again immediately. Flanking range determines the horizontal range in which a unit may make a flanking attack. If there are more units in the second row than the first, then it will redeploy artillery to the first row until both rows are even. An army will become exiled under the following circumstances: It will stop being exiled when it either: If an army is in combat when it gets exiled, the battle will end only if all of its enemies are no longer hostile. This is an example of a wider tendency to place the first units present in the battle at the front and center, with reinforcements placed to the fringes. Full strength regiments fight much more effectively than half strength. Combat tactics provide damage, defense, movement speed, and combat width modifiers in land battles.. Part 3 of a 4 part series on basics of combat and combat related mechanics. The attacker loses roughly 5 times as many troops as defender do and assaults on fully-manned forts are highly discouraged. This value scales linearly with the army maintenance slider. use the following search parameters to narrow your results: EU4 Wiki /r/Paradoxplaza Patch Notes Dev Diaries the country who arrived first, or to whom other nations have attached regiments) will have priority in placement, with allied regiments only added the edge of the lines of battle if combat width is left over. Hey guys, hope you enjoy this combat guide that will hopefully introduce you to the basics of combat in EU4! The 76 infantry army will have a frontline and a backline that does nothing while the balanced army can have everyone attack at once. If it is taking casualties from an enemy, additional morale damage will be inflicted. Eu4 japan army composition. 1. Rendered by PID 21345 on r2-app-0d6fa4feb21c1ca03 at 2021-02-21 10:01:45.429815+00:00 running a57cb06 country code: US. Through observation and controlled experiments, the community has suggested a theory that the game seems to follow, dependent on the rough size and composition of each army. Yeah, a diseased one preferably to help you break sieges. This is more effective than simply stationing troops for a single area, but less effective (but usually still more efficient in manpower) across multiple areas. The base cost and time of a regiment depends on its type; this is then adjusted by any modifiers, in particular any buildings the province might have. This allows the player to control the destination of the shattered retreat. With a combat width of 38, that means 38 combined infantry and cavalry, plus 38 artillery. The attacker needs at least a net +6 bonus to have a chance of ending the siege. As you can see there is two lines available for deployment for each army the white squares represents the available space for deployment that's left, as you may or may not know not every one of your troops are deployed in a battle if they exceed your Combat Width . If space is left in the second row, deploy as much infantry in the second row besides the artillery as there are positions available behind the infantry in the first row. The mentioned "casualties" are not to be confused with the kill casualties. Ingame tests have demonstrated that, before patch 1.30, the defender had an advantage caused by the targeting mechanics. 1) Game version - Observe that the graphic shows game version 1.5.4 and checksum 1503. The game uses an undocumented algorithm to automatically deploy land units on the battlefield for each side of the battle. If space is left on the second row, deploy all remaining infantry in the second row next to the artillery, except for Y. Don't fight with severely depleted units unless you have to. An attached army cannot board transports. © 2021 reddit inc. All rights reserved. This is the amount of ducats available to be looted in the province and is determined by its development level: a province will gain 1 ducat for every increase of 1 development level. Since infantry tends to take more casualties than cavalry, it is advisable to take at least a bit more infantry than the ratio would suggest. Cavalry and infantry can only attack in the frontline. to:Recruit & Deploy: Then click “Edit” on the desired division Sheet1 Ideal army composition for every tech Mil tech,Combat width,Infantry,Cavalry,Cannons,Total,Comments 0,15,17,4,0,21 You can … Contrary to popular belief, reducing the enemy army to 0 morale before they can retreat is not sufficient to stackwipe. With both perks on, the cost can be reduced down to 10 military power. So instead, bring your armies in one at a time. New comments … Was having terrible luck as England, and then this came out of nowhere. Terrain shows a natural-looking map, while simple terrain color-codes each province by its terrain type; both have tooltips showing terrain type, fort level, and the current winter, if any. When hostile troops enter a province and stop moving, a siege/occupation will begin. Each day of combat a unit will take a morale hit of 0.03 regardless of damage taken from an enemy regiment. Adhere to the Reddit content policy and the reddiquette. A full strength infantry/cavalry/artillery regiment loots 0.1/0.3/0.05 ducats per months. Only infantry can assault. 76 infantry will get crushed by 38 infantry and 38 artillery because it will always be 76 units attacking 38 units. I disinherited my 3/0/2 heir and got this event. Just the title of the post being relevant does not qualify. We may occasionally ban specific topics that have flooded the subreddit. Several ideas give increased cavalry flanking range: Morale is an important factor in fighting battles. All units present in a battle, including reserve troops, take 0.03 base morale casualties per day on top of the calculated morale casualties. Terrain for each province is shown in both the terrain and simple terrain mapmodes. Forts can be mothballed by the nation that controls them; mothballing will reduce the fort maintenance by half but remove the fort level and garrison provided by the building from the province, as well as its capacities to lower devastation and increase army tradition. The amount of loot taken depends on the number and type of troops in the province. [–]AnachronisticYak 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (2 children). It will not attack rebel armies it thinks it cannot beat. While retreating, it cannot be engaged in combat or controlled until it reaches the safer province (or in extreme circumstances if it recovers to 100% morale before reaching the destination). Secondary priority is to be given to the defensive fire or shock pips depending on the military technology, then to offensive morale, then to offensive fire or shock pips depending on the military technology. The base cost is 50 military power which can be further modified by Portuguese naval doctrine and flagship modification. This action attaches the player's army to a friendly army, causing their army to travel and fight alongside the friendly unit without further input from the player. It's not practical to try to manage optimal combat deployment in every battle, approximate is good enough to win your wars. Military tactics reduces the amount of damage a country's troops take in combat. All giveaways, surveys, and petitions must be approved by the moderators first. The side having Initiative gets an increased chance to counter their enemy's tactic. After a battle is fought, an army must spend some time without fighting for its morale to recover. Units in the front row can attack any enemy unit within their horizontal flanking range. To be noted that the success rate shown on the screen only reflects the probability of getting the modified die roll ≥ 20, and when the garrison is very low the modified die roll 5-19 might immediately end siege due to loss of garrison. I give general tips and show several examples of good army builds that can be used in your campaigns. To maximize the effectiveness of an army, a proper mixture of troops is important. If the garrison army, which consists only of infantry, loses the fight, the province and fort will become occupied. However, if a given army is besieging a province that contains a fort and is attacked by troops owned by or allied with whoever currently controls the fort, the roles are switched: the siege army is treated as the "attackers," and those attempting to break the siege are the "defenders." Post those in /r/ParadoxExtra. If the saved game version and checksum do … The main exception to this rule is that the army can always move to a hostile fort. Paradox Forums Livestreams Teamspeak Discord. Get an ad-free experience with special benefits, and directly support Reddit. The army can then be immediately re-engaged, often with very low to even no morale, if a monthly tick has not yet completed. The army also moves slightly faster, and will recover morale at a normal rate during the retreat. A breach occurs if: When a war ends, any army still in territory it doesn't have peacetime access to is exiled. A unit that has its morale drop below 0.50 is flagged as disorganized, which is indicated by a small flame next to its morale bar on the map and interface. Each day, two casualties computations occur, one for actual casualties using units' fire or shock pips (depending on the day's phase) and a second for "morale casualties" (the casualties value used in the morale damage formula) using units' morale pips: There are several unique national ideas which modify the amount of damage inflicted and received in both the fire and shock phases. This is essentially what happens to stacked armies. A fort cannot be mothballed or de-mothballed while the province is under siege. Consolidate regiments when they get weak. Recruiting regular forces requires an owned, unoccupied province to recruit in, and three resources: manpower, ducats, and time. Deploy all remaining cavalry in the second row, beginning from the edge and going inwards. boards a transport ship that moves into a sea zone or is currently in one. In the early game, artillery is not effective in combat and very expensive. Various ideas increase looting speed; this bonus increases the amount of ducats looted each month by the stated amount (and thus decreases the time taken to fully loot a province). Retreat cannot happen until both two fire and two shock phases have completed, and army that has its morale reduced to 0 and is outnumbered 2:1 before that point will be destroyed. It may be a good idea to become familiar with the information displayed, the various button and tab names, and the functions of those buttons and tabs before clicking the game Play button. I create 60 stack armies (37/3/20) which when merged into a 120 stack has a (72/6/40) as 40 is the max combat width and I have more than 150% infantry to ensure that my artillery is safe and never pushed forward. If multiple armies have converged into a battle, it is possible that some armies will have enough morale for a controlled retreat, while others may not (often the initial stack in the battle). If the morale of an army is less than 0.50 the player can not control the destination. A few tips. All crossing penalties are removed if the attacking leader has a higher maneuver rating than the defending leader. In total, these add +3 permanent siege status. This rule only applies to enemy-owned provinces, however - when besieging friendly provinces to retake them from the enemy, this rule is ignored. This is a sub-reddit for Europa Universalis IV. They will prioritize to retreat to a province with high development, a fort, and no adjacent enemies. The elimination of all natives in a province will prevent any future raids on the local colony or any passing armies. Rolling a natural breach is still possible and will affect the siege status but will not add another breach. This costs 50 military power and creates 3 breaches in the walls. All countries other than Native Americans start with tech level 2 or 3, so their starting combat width will be 20. The respective effect of pips depends on the shock and fire modifiers of military technology and ideas. For example: if your opponent's general has 3 fire pips & your general 6 fire pips, ceteris paribus, your general nets you 15 base casualties in the fire phase, whereas your opponent's general nets him 0, but not -15, base casualties during the fire phase. Top priority is to be given to morale defensive pips, because morale pips affect both fire and shock phases. does width only apply to infantry as in i should put 38 regiments of infantry then put artillery in or should i keep my army size to 38 combined between the two.

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