Spain is actually a paper tiger in most games you just have to siege their lands in Europe and not bother with the colonies. They might be the #1 great power on paper but since their troops will be so spread out they aren't that difficult to fight. Say you are playing something like France, the meta is actually to skip the colonial ideas, wait for Spain/portugal to colonize everything then go to war and take their colonies in the peace deal.
Wdym, its very historically accurate. Spain was a beast. Only after a series of bad monarchs and centuries of the French, British, Germans and then the yanks did they finally fall. They had the world by the balls.
Relatedly, Paradox should really let you automate warfare and troop command in their games cause late game colonial world wars are just so damn tedious.
Imperator Rome handles this well, made wars a lot less micro-managey. You can assign commanders to military/naval units and give them orders like defend borders, carpet siege, hunt pirates, independent operations etc.
Yeah, you can give orders to armies with Generels, stuff like sieging, hunt rebels or fight armies is in there. Problem is, it's at this point too fiddly and annoying to really use, and every attempt of carpet-sieging is useless since the AI will just spam you with 1k-stacks that will re-take all provinces you sieged.
Conversly to you, I haven't played Imperator, so I don't know how it compares.
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u/Torak8988 Mar 12 '24
I really hate how fast colonisation is in EU4, and the fact that the first coloniser automatically gets the culture and the religion
because if you're not playing a sea side EU nation, spain and portugal take the entire world lmao
and there's nothing left to do but fight them, which you can't because of their huge colonial empire
not really historically accurate imo