EU4 War Explorer

created by jontiben in 2022

War info screen

This application reads EU4 savefiles (ending in the file extension .eu4) for information about past wars and then presents it in an easily readable format. It features:

• A searchable list of every finished war in the savefile (searchable by elements of the war title or by tags involved)
• Breakdowns of the overall casualties in a war by side which can be further broken down by individual nation
• A list of battles fought in the war plotted on a map, which can be exported to an image
• A breakdown of forces and losses for each battle
• A scrollable timeline showing major events over the course of the war with clickable links to battles
• Full mod support

Navigation is done exclusively through clicking, scrolling, the ESC key, and typing to search on the war list screen.

Note that the first 11 wars on the battle screen will always be the same on any vanilla EU4 savefile because they took place before the beginning of the game. The window needs to be at a minimum height of 800 pixels in order to fully display every item on the interface.

Planned features are:

• The ability to sort battles by total casualty count
• More information on the timeline

This project was written entirely in Python using Pygame and tkinter for the UI and PIL for modded map processing.

To contact me, please send me a friend request on discord where I am @jontiben.

Screenshots

War list sorted by casualties War info screen with the Anbennar mod Battle map and list Single battle Timeline

License

This project is maintained under the MIT License.

Other

Link to PDXPlaza forum post: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/eu4-war-explorer.1577174/