
The real challenge is trying to survive as one of the smaller cultures, perhaps the islanders or one of the smaller North American peoples, they're pretty tricky to succeed with once the Europeans stomp into town as they inevitably will. They're big and powerful enough that with the foresight it's only a matter of time before the Europeans arrive you're easily capable of building up your defenses and preparing adequately. To use your China example playing as the Ming, Zhou, or Qing isn't even very hard. The nations in white are the ones Britain hasn't fought at one point or another, a good chunk of which took place during the time period in which EU4 is set.īut then half the fun of EU is that if you want you can try to prevent that from having happened.
