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While I should have been spending time on PB11 or PB13, I jumped into EUIV. Prime lesson I've learned is that the skill of your monarch dictates how successful you'll be, at least to start, based on the accrual speed of Admin/Diplo/Military points. I don't think I'm breaking any new ground with that assertion. Started a Castille game with the beginning 1/1/2 King and am stymied against Aragon's 2/4 (or 2?)/6 God-King. Combat width, which lessens the effectiveness of zerg tactics, and the PU from Naples, for more armies, both protect Aragon from Castille's seeming manpower advantage. When my old king finally shuffled off this mortal coil, his 0/0/0 son took over, putting me even further behind the powers that be in Western Europe. I'm too nooby to overcome all of that, at least within the first 20 years of the game.
I don't think that having consecutive terrible monarchs would be so bad, if I had sufficient tech to allow me to start improving infrastructure. Based on the other online reports I've read, it seems that a skilled monarch allows for tech progression in leaps and bounds whereas your rejects are best suited for you to catch up on infrastructure.
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0/0/0 kings are best suited for the plague - find a way to kill him, hehe
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0/0/0 kings are best suited to lead a one regiment army into Russia during winter.
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0/0/0 kings are best suited for a cross-atlantic New World expedition in a one man canoe.
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I have to agree with wetbandit that the Castille start is not as easy as it may at first seem. Of course, my being a newb with next to no idea what I am doing is a big part of that. 
I blundered around for a few decades, not really managing to accomplish much of anything. I spent some admin points to boost my stability, then within 1 month got a random event dropping it back down again.  A couple years worth of accumulated points, straight to hell.  Aragon was too strong to take on, and I caught their agents multiple times trying to fabricate claims on my provinces. I tried to complete the Reconquista but the Moors had alliances with seemingly every other Muslim nation in existence, all of whom sent their combined fleets to destroy me. My cardinal died young, and I had nowhere near enough influence to bid for another. I am sure I would have chosen the wrong one anyway, or he would also have died instantly - -associating with Castille apparently was cursed. 
Oh well. I sort of learned a little bit about the mechanics of how to manage my realm, budget, etc. Just do the opposite of everything I do. 
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in Eu3 Castile and France are the two easiest countries, by far. France is probably easier for newbies, but Castille has a lot more potential after 100 years or so. I can't imagine its much different in Eu4.
Try France? it starts off a bit stronger and shouldnt have to worry about colonizing as much as spain does.
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Nobody says you HAVE to colonize, it's usually just profitable to do so. You could just go attack North Africa or whatever.
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yeah but its insanely suboptimal if you don't colonize with spain or portugal. France can do the Napoleonic thing and just conquer Europe just fine  .
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(August 14th, 2013, 19:47)BRickAstley Wrote: 0/0/0 kings are best suited to lead a one regiment army into Russia during winter.
This happened twice, sort of. I invaded Morocco and put King Incompetent in charge of "screening" larger Moroccan forces from the big Castillian siege armies. He kept winning. Gave him too many troops. Later on, he was tasked with a naval invasion of a province held by rebels, the battalion was wiped out, he survived; ostensibly clinging to a piece of wood which floated him back across the Strait of Gilbraltar.
Amusingly, Joao II was large and in charge (6/6/6), a Louis ruled France with decent stats (2/4/5), and King Incompetent's brother/cousin/family relation (!) was on the throne in Aragorn (5/6/6). King Incompetent was only good at one thing: living.
I'm going to roll another Castille game, once I recover from the shock.
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I'm having fun colonizing everything in sight with Portugal. Although I keep forgetting about boats I've sent out to explore I've lost half a dozen by now, easily.
Next up I'm going to grab Trade ideas. I hear merchants and Trade can lead to some big profits.
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