Editing Europa Universalis (section)

==Recommended Nations to play==

===For Beginners===
Castile: Castile is tied with Portugal and the Ottomans for being in the best position in the beginning of the game, it holds a large amount of well-developed territory that is easy to defend with no immediate enemies around it and has a lot of harbours, making achvieving a dominant position in your trade nodes a rather easy task. Additionally, you can get Aragon into a Personal Union very quickly and then start playing the colonial game and become filthy rich in the process. 

Portugal: Even easier then Castile and remains strong and rich throughout a playthrough. With absolutely no enemies anywhere in sight, starting with an Alliance with England and a generally friendly Castile to the east, you can 100% focus on a colonial game and expand your territories gradually and afford the luxury of choosing your wars against other competing powers. Being the westernmost nation of Europe also means that you have the easiest access to the americas and will start colonizing very quickly. 

France: France starts with a shitton of Vassals at the beginning of the game that you will gradually absorb into your state and English encroaching on your territory, it is however not hard to push them out since France has a ludicrously strong starting military that will only increase in strength as time goes on. France is for people who want to play a more land-centric nation but still don't want to miss out on colonial adventures. Kick the English out of the mainland, build up your army and fuck up the HRE all on your own, like Napoleon did. Vive la France! 

Ottoman Empire: So ludicrously overpowered that it has been meme'd to death, the Ottomans are what you play when you don't quite understand the basic concepts of the game yet. They start in a strong position with a sizeable military and developed provinces and only continue to grow from there. You can go east, you can go west (although west is generally more desirable) you can completely choose your own adventure here. 

Poland: Kurwa! Poland is what you play when you really want to learn about warfare and want a strong basis with lots of potential. The Polish start with Lithuania as their junior Partner very early on and your primary goal is not really to expand, but to consolidate your lands and defend them from aggressions from the German, Ottoman and later Russian side. Poland is notable for having a raging garbage fire as an economy at the start, since the majority of your lands are vastly underdeveloped with only a few centers of industry and commerce. 

England: England is very tricky to start out as and really nails the point home that the rise of the British Empire as a globally domineering superpower was anything but a given. At the start you will struggle a lot with internal instability and defending the remainders of the Angevinian Empire in France. If you rise to the challenge however, your massive Navy and colonial capabilities will see you rise to the top in no time. Smash the Irish, exploit the diplomatic connections of Scotland to keep them out of Alliances with France (which might be tricky sometimes) and eventually form the British Empire. Spot of tea? 

Munich: If you want a general taste of the jist of playing one of the countless minor nations in the Holy Roman Empire, Munich might be your best choice. Starting out with a Vessal and the strongest military out of the three Bavarias, you are in prime position to at first reunite Bavaria proper and then to slowly start expanding to build a German power to rival Austria and Prussia. Diplomacy needs special attention, as does Aggressive Expansion. Being in the HRE also brings the boon of being virtually unassailable from Non-HRE threats. 

===For experienced players===
Austria: Austria finds itself in an interesting position at the start of the game, being the largest and most coherent of any of the states in the HRE. The challenge with Austria is to balance your own expansionist drive, which will mainly be directed against the Italians and later the Ottomans with the squabbling of the HRE member states in order to remain Emperor. There is no easy answer to this and to add to your problems, it is often very hard to predict in which direction the HRE will eventually go. The main benefits Austria has going for it are a shitton of candidates for Personal Unions down the road, with the obvious candidates of Bohemia and Hungary but also Spain and its strong military and economic base. 

Bohemia: The Anti-Austria. In a way, Bohemia plays like an inverse of Austria, with much of your strategy depending on outmanuvering the Austrians in order to become Emperor yourself (unlike the Austrians however, you are an Elector Count, so that's one vote always cast in your name). 

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===For Professionals===
Holland/Brabant/Flanders: 
Ming: 
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===For Masochists===
Byzantine Empire: 
Theodosia: 
Genoa: 
Teutonic Order: 
Livonian Order: 
Ireland: