All of these requirements make the surprise sneak attack utility of the marines kind of… low. …Except the enemy has to either be drilling their troops, not pay them because they can’t afford them or, y’know, actually place their army on their coast instead of any inland province. Normally, it takes 36 days for armies to disembark transports, giving your opponent enough time to get a morale tick, so marines could theoretically be able to do a stack wipe in the very opening stages of a war. Now, as to why disembarking is not very useful, is simple, you’d only really use it once when declaring war. Really, the only possible use you’d have for this would be if your army breaks and can only retreat to transports, but even then, the usefulness is limited. Now, why is it useless and situationally useful you may ask? Well, there is flat out no reason why you would ever want to willingly embark your troops on a transport fleet considering that you could do the exact same, except almost instantly if you tell your ships to go to port and only then move your army onto it. Their main selling point is that they can embark onto ( which in practice is all but useless ) and disembark off of transport ships 50% faster ( which is only extremely situationally useful ). This, as you might realize, is a bit of a problem considering how much focus there is on land-based gameplay in EU4. Rather, marines, like the name suggests, are very much bound to the ocean and naval gameplay. Now, to be fair, they aren’t exactly useless, but their utility is very much bound to their niche. I’ll be honest with you, marines aren’t really that good. So many in fact, that a great many strategies can be developed depending on which you choose to use. And, just like in real life, EU4 has plenty of specialized kinds of troops available to a wide variety of nations for you to choose from. That being said, not all troops throughout history were levies or conscripts. Throughout the course of a campaign the only thing that will enable you to protect, and expand, your domain will be the various legions, hordes, and cohorts your nation will be able to raise.
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