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The Jurchen -> Manchu -> Qing experience is probably my favorite path in basegame Eu4. Off the top of my head, Nuugdan Tsarai, Gnollakaz -> Konolhatep, and Zongji -> Lianzhao are probably the closest that Anbennar gets to this experience, but I want to know if I've missed anything.

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Seriously ik how to deal with devastation but how tf do i get varlengeilt to help me, i don't like relying on rng

Hello fellow Anbennarics (Anbennar enjoyers?)!

A small question here - I've heard that Karakhanbar mission tree was removed for some reasons. I am just wondering if it's going to be reworked or something else?

What are some fun not obvious to go necronomancy army with?

From what I've seen so far, both in the subreddit and in game, 99% of mage-centric organizations/countries tend to be deeply autocratic, self-serving, and corrupt. Are there any countries out there that buck that trend (and preferably lets me incinerate the smug faces of artificers and Ravelians)?

Edit: Guess I should say morally good-ish, obviously any country is gonna have at least a few flaws to it.

Now that the latest update has been out for a few weeks, what are everyone's favourite new or updated MTs?

I quite enjoyed Flying Hound (loved the writing, it was a cute take on the goblins) and the new Reveria (a nicely polished version of a classic MT).

I liked the idea of Overclan, the religiously tolerant Jadd tag, but the dev requirements for the Voltoj academies feels excessive. Also I tend to dislike artficery+magic 'cus it feels like worst of both worlds, so being forced to go combined was frustrating. The narrative delivery of being bureaucratic reports from the Voltoj was exceptional though. A+ on the vision

Iochand seemed promising but I dropped it after succeeding at taking the Small Countries. It felt like a punishment rather than a reward, 'cus you lose a bunch of your most profitable land and also have a fairly large vassal that's immediately very disloyal. I'll give it another go at some point now that I know I need to expand elsewhere way more before I even try to take the Small Countries.

I also tried Olenvalyam but I did it as Ameion and realised that the optimal way to play it RP wise is to play a Taychendi 'cus it's supposed to be a slave revolt and stopped before actually experiencing the MT, so I'm interested to hear what people think of it before I give it another go.

My favorite tag not just in Anbennar but in EU4 is Redscale. I love how these little guys are forced to get creative to take on the dangerous powers that surround them. Seeing the kobolds go from helpless to genetically engineered freaks gives me a great deal of satisfaction. It gets a little tiresome towards the end when it just says “take 10 provinces on the other side of the world” but otherwise it’s peak. I’m looking to find other tags that bring this vibe.

I’m really enjoying the new magic update. Magic can be very powerful, and it should be. But after trying all of them, Conjuration summons stand out as incredibly powerful, and not in an interesting way, in my opinion.

First, conjuration summons don’t take forcelimit. This is fine by itself, but it can become a problem with the other two issues. It also allows small nations to double or triple their army size.

Second, conjuration summons are incredibly cheap. They don’t incur force limit costs and also don’t cost much money to hire, maintain or reinforce. The animals and elementals do have a mana upkeep, but even base regen can outpace it.

Third, they have massive reserve manpower pools. This allows you to ignore attrition and take very lopsided casualties without issue. As a Dwarf, I was able to colonize the serpentspine extremely aggressively with conjuration summons. The uprisings normally destroy your manpower at low techs, but the summons have a nearly infinite stockpile.

I think conjuration summons should allow smaller countries to punch above their weight class, but currently it feels trivial. Other spells are powerful, but they feel powerful in line with the game mechanics. The next game I start, I’m going to avoid conjuration, at least for the beginning of the game, so I can have a challenge.

There are several changes you could make to resolve this, but here are my ideas:

Feral Animals don’t reinforce. I imagine this as the regiment having 0 reserve manpower. They would still be cheap and not cost forcelimit. This would give the caster a quick shot of manpower and allow them to match a larger opponent in a few key battles, but would not be a long term solution anymore. I think it is also thematically fitting for feral animals to be a short term deal

Elementals would be expensive to summon and reinforce. They would still not cost forcelimit and have a large manpower reserve. This would allow the caster to convert money and mana into military strength, much like regular mercenaries. This thematically fits because mass summoning should require expensive material components, and reinforcing is basically summoning more.

Extraplanars should require forcelimit and cost as much as regular soldiers. TBH extraplanars feel a bit out of place to me. But since the regiment is a fixed size and gets powerful buffs, I think it should need to be supported in a standard way. Extraplanars are a long term unit, so they would behave like one.

Another idea I had was to have all the summoned units have low manpower pools, and change one of the other conjuration spells to replenish their manpower, but I don’t know if thats possible programmatically or if it would be annoying to play.

I was just considering which cities are split into multiple provinces in game. I did come up with Viswall, Castonath, Amldihr (if holds count), and Sarisung. Maybe also Qasr but I don't know any lore about that area? Did I miss any other ones?

I'd love to try out a tag in South Sarhal, since I never played there before. I basically have no idea what usually goes on down there though🤷

I was thinking on playing either a halfling or lizard tag, but maybe there are also interesting human tags?

Anyways, would appreciate any recommendations 🙌