The new missionary cost seems to be a big nerf to ethiopia, russia and other countries that dont have amazing economies and need to convert their conquests
Expand into south and control all zanzibar. Make it your main trade city area. Make sure to control most of gulf of aden too and then expand on all islands in indian ocean and indonesia and india. Then you can force trade to zanzibar from pretty much the entire southern asian area. Your economic power then can outmatch even strong ottomans. After that conversion is super easy.
Remove Talos I moved my capital early to a gold mine and developed it to get renaissance and focus on getting Africa horn and Kilwa in the south. That plus lots of war including attacking Arabian peninsula guys kept me with just one or two loans max usually without most of the play through. You can start colonizing soon after getting second idea and getting the island in Indian Ocean help make Zanzibar amazing.
You just have to take religious ideas first, than it's easy to convert every single conquered province fast (and keep unity high :) Just don't start with exploration, you cant afford slow conversion AND colonizing this early ^^
There's a very different way you can go about an Ethiopian playthrough. Mamluks LOOK powerful early on on paper, but in reality you have many advantages over them at game start: 1.) God-like ruler. You can easily get a mil tech advantage early. If they start developing rennaissance early, you can even go two mil techs ahead. I prefer getting the first idea in quality and 1 mil tech over them. 2.) Mamluks are muslim tech units and you are African. You start with the same tech level, but African units have way more pips. 3.) You can rival weak neighbors for pp and "show stregnth" for even more monarch points. 4.) You have amazing Portuguese events that add disc and morale to help you beat them. Personally, I try to attack the Mamluks before the events fire so I can have them if the Ottomans attack, but if you just want to take Alexandria and you're new to the game, you can use them on the Mamluks. 5.) Mamluks never have good allies because they just try to vassalize arabian minors. So the best thing to do, imo, is save mp and attack Mamluks early. Developing institutions in the Ethiopian mountains is a terrible long term strategy. Better to get an early tech advantage and rush them. Supply limits in the early game are low, so the Mamluks will divide their army in two- you should vassalize your coptic neighbors and have them attach to you during the war. With all of Ethiopia's early game buffs you can easily defeat Mamluk stacks much larger than your own. Once you get far enough north QQ will almost always ally you and the only real threat from there will be the Ottomans until you can start to see Europe and find stronger allies.
As Ethiopia as ideas i would always recommend: 1. Religious, 2. Defensive, 3. Admin and then 4. Diplo (Trade/Explo) Religious is for me a must pick as coptic nation, so you dont die to rebellions and you will always be at max prestige, because of the conversion. This works handy with ethiopias national ideas +50% Chance of new heir, because you can always kill your heir when he is useless and you dont need do worry about any prestige hits. Defensive works well with −10% Land attrition form NIs so you can get without any policies -35% attrition, wich is huge in the regions to save manpower and war exhaustion. Also the +15% Moral is really usefull against mamulks in the early and midgame, because they only get discipline. Admin is a nobrainer form me: with the second blessing (easy to get + NIs) you get - 45% core reduction, wich is insane. You can argue with the 4. Idea group, but the the new rework Diplo is insanely strong, maybe you can swap it with Def if you have AE problems early on. Because fight most of the time against sunnis, diplo is key to avoid a massive coaltion. If you conquered something in india (with no CB) and have a established foothold in sansibar, then trade is the way to go, you will literally print money, so you dont need eco ideas to handle the inflation from the gold mines. Exploration was great, but with only 1 Colonist now, it is rather medicore & you dont want to spend your admin points on expansion if you are not a major colonizer. The policies from the build are not insanely good, but two of them are: +20% relgions unity/ +1 missionary strength (Diplo/Relgious) to help against rebels and corruption. +1 Relation/+1 Diplomat (Diplo/Def) helps to avoid a coaltion The Into on the episode was insanely good with the free camera, keep up the good work.
No need for defensive. African units shine earlier in the game with better pips (mil tech 5 through 12), especially the cavalry. Early game doesn't need attrition reduction because combat width is low. Religious + quantity yields +10% morale if you're wanting higher morale.
Quantity is better for larger armies. Exploration is great as a second pick after religious for expansion into indonesia and indian ocean islands then hit india and control those nodes. Plus if you control most of aden then you pretty much have full control over all southern asian trade. Make it flow into zanzibar and it can rival end nodes in power.
@@Tearakan Exploration is great if you don't know about territory you want to conquer. AFAIR Ethiopia had knowledges about Indonesia islands for free, so Expansion is better choice.
My current Ethiopia run I went with economy, exploration, offensive, humanist. Had no struggle converting. No issues with rebels, just place troops where they will spawn. Manpower was good except the first decade. I smash all my enemies. 1580ish, empire stretches from South Africa to Antioch. Just coring Constantinople atm. I did not have any free knowledge of Indonesia so exploration was a must.
I always look forward to your videos and I was excited to see this specific topic. I've seen others say you keep getting better and improving and I agree. This is a channel I think I could show a younger sibling or younger fans as it's wholesome and informative. Keep up the great work Res and thanks for the entertainment.
Great Tutorial, days after conquering the last of the last of the mamluks the Ottomans lined up on the border and declared war. They stack wiped my entire army in Cairo. 10/10 got close.
Great guide as always! One question I have about it is, wouldn't it be worth it to go for Humanist ideas somewhat at the start? Even if you don't finish the group until later, just the first two bonuses, +25% religious unity and -2 National Unrest would be absolutely great for dealing with early rebel problems and the rest is always useful for later. Also, do you plan on doing the votes for Guides on Patreon again? Would love to see those back ^~^
Thanks Quas! I see humanist and religious as opposing ideas. If I take one, I will never take the other one. So when playing a minor religion as Coptic, you will have so many heretic/heathen provinces that even with extra religious unity/tolerance with humanist, the religious unity will suffer and there will be constant rebel problems. Plus some of the religious policies give extra religious unity and unrest. I was just thinking about making a poll yesterday when I made the post! I will do one this week! :)
@@RadioRes If you pick relgious ideas early you can still take humanist ideas in the age of absolutism, because you dont want to increase the autonomy in this age anymore. The other way around (humanist early) it is nonsence like you said.
@@RandomNub0815 agree with this, bubt there's better admin ideas to take generally. Usually after religious + admin you'll have to use your entire rest of your adm stock to core anyways
Deus vult is sooo good for ethiopia in this situation. Can attack everyone pretty much and helps with attacking enemies in india and indonesia which I highly recommend you expand into. Trade company money flowing into zanzibar is ridiculous and with me controlling all land in that node I was able to keep control anout 93 percent or above so europeans in horn of africa got jack shit.
Blessed Prester John was the first big achievement I ever got, only because the Ottomans got memed on by Venice HARD, but not hard enough that they took Constantinople, but not weak enough that they got eaten up by the Turkish minors, leaving them in a perfect docile state, just waiting to be eaten. There was a bunch of other weird stuff too, like a thriving Armenia, slow Mamluks, and a Mega Spain who owned the entire new world because of a PU with Portugal. Had I realized just how lucky I was, this being my first big achievement run, I would've taken my chances and expanded into Zimbabwe before the European powers did. I still wake up in the middle of the night cursing myself for not taking advantage of that game sooner.
I would recommend getting both Economic Ideas and Quantity Ideas as fighting all these wars eats into your funds and manpower, controls inflation from the inevitable loans and goldmines and the edict lowers development cost even further which helps spawning institutions. Also AI look at your army size, not quality, when they decide whether to declare war in which case the increased force limit from Quantity Ideas can help deter power-hungry Mamluks and Ottomans. Getting Religious Ideas is also a must with all the converting you'll be doing. Getting Alexandria, Jerusalem and Mecca as soon as possible will give you more missionaries than you'll ever need as well as near infinite prestige. Combined with Ethiopia Ideas this allows you to disinherit every heirs that isn't a 5/5/5 or better for the rest of the game.
I tried this one before watching the video and I the problem I ran into was that the Ottomons had allied Russia, Persia didn't form (stayed Timurids), and the Commonwealth collapsed until combined Ottomon/Russian teamwork. I managed to conquer more of India, colonized Australia and California, but I wasn't really able to build up enough of an army against the powerhouse that was the Ottomons. They also allied Tunis (which had most of North Africa) so I couldn't expand that way either. I decided to bail and got the "Sleepless in Seattle" achievement instead :D
I went religious ideas first while conquering areas. Ended up converting quick. Got the aden trade node and full controlled zanzibar. Made zanzibar my main trade area. Then I got colonization. Took all the islands in indian ocean to slow down european colonization. Then made trade companies in india and indonesia. Used merchants to push all trade to aden and zanzibar. In between all of that I vassalized medri bahri and fed them the northern provinces in between me and mamluks. Mamluks never declared on me. While getting power in asia I was able to ally bengal and persia. Kept them as allies as I expanded north. With the powerful trade I waited until otto went to war with mamluks then split them in half by taking egypt areas. Went quantity for 1st mil idea. After that engaged with more wars vs mamluks to take all african holdings then waited until I could get persia and bengal to help with otto. After 1st war with otto they got weaker and weaker as I was a dominant force in indonesia and india and was trying to force all trade to zanzibar. Get trade ideas and late game you become a beast.
Very good video as usual. I wrote a guide for Ethiopia about 9 months ago on the eu4 subreddit, and it looks like we followed the same general path. I took exploration as my second idea group and expanded into the East Indies for some valuable development. I imagine this is an even more viable option since the trade routes were redirected a bit in that part of the world. Here's the guide: www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/8fow4f/prester_john_an_ethiopian_success_story/
You would think but all the territory in that area is going to have a penalty regardless, and they will be close to other nations borders. So it is probably best to do so on ethi capital.
if you force vassalise the nations between you and mamluks doesnt that mean they can never declare war on you (unless no cb war)? cos you cant get a claim on a vassal.. surely thats the safest option to stop mamluks attacking you rather than just leaving the nation for them to possibly attack later?
If you were to play a full game as Ethiopia I wonder what direction you'll take it in. Probably forming some nation in Europe to than get trade companies in all the African and Asian provinces freeing up state slots for those valuable Egyptian, Ottoman and European provinces. Than playing the trade game with trade companies and possibly even colonial nations depending on which nation you formed. Coptic is an amazing religion, arguably the second strongest in the game(after Orthodox) so staying Coptic is ideal, especially with religious ideas giving you a free very powerful CB against literally the entire world.
So, you never had problems with the fact that Mamluks eventually become the defender of faith and you cant expand nowhere? I mean in my first run they did that after 20-25 years, but on my second they have done that by 1559, and i cant even expand south to Ajuuran. What would be your suggestion?
In my game i don’t make buffer with mamluks but they don’t attack me very long. And when they come I have same dev(~480) and taking 1 merc stack win them taking a lot part of asia, but I still can’t see ottomans and it’s most irritating I see 1 province but can’t diplomats with them
What's your strategy for picking which provinces to develop for institutions? Obviously the first two were capital provinces, but what made you pick Ankober for Printing Press?
If you think Austrian PU over Britain was insane, let me tell you about my Aragon campaign where I got PU's over Brandenburg, Ferarra, France, Scotland, Poland (sadly without Lithuania), Portugal (through mission tree), the usual two of Naples and Castile, and Anhalt with my family also being on the throne of England. I was able to form Rome that game.
i took missionary ideas as the first idea group and most of the time and vassalized coptic nations to feed them only sunni provinces. they can either convert it or hold onto my religious unity as i convert under provinces before annexing them. by 1550 i full annexed mamluks. almost all of saudi arabia, pushing into ottomans expanded along the coast towards south africa and had 2 vassals in central africa with religious unity being more than 70% most of the time. oh yea my first coptic blessing was missionary strength because 2.5% disiplin isnt a very big bonus early game for ethiopia as starting out with a 6/5/5 ruler and exploiting estates for monarch points meant that you'll be ahead of tech for most of the early game until the institutions start racking up, even then you can either focus on your idea or force spawn the institution . i forced it because at this time the yemeni countries were hostile towards me and institution couldn't spread through the sea lane whilst mamluks rivaled me hence institution spreaded slow there as well.
I just started my Ethiopia run. Relatively similar start, buffer allies to the north, rapid expansion into the south. I keep swapping my 2nd vassal. right before i finish annexing one, I pick up a new one. The two i started with are gone, while Adal is next to be annexed and Pate after that. This lets them deal with Cores, Religion and Rebels... I have my doubts that I can stand up to the Mamluks... They rivaled me and I can't see Ottomans or Europe yet... I have a feeling this one will end before 1480s when they attack me.
i got my fist blessing of Coring Cost Reduction, it was a huge mistake. because of religion there is always a rebelion somewhere and its hard to have a descent manpower
talking of austria getting a PU over england.. i tried to play Granada and England got a PU over Castile within 10 years of playing so I quit... I must be the most unlucky player of EU4 ever.
i tried to get this achievement a few months ago but the ottomans got way too strong too fast. They were already invading austria/hre in 1670, and winning too. so i couldnt get the 5th coptic city and Constantinople
Opinion on feeding released Sunni vassals near the enemy while forcing coptic on them to minimize religious problems. Having them near the enemy makes them a bulwark even though they refuse to fight for us. I just made up that strategy while watching this guide. I have no experience as Ethiopia.
@@RadioRes I tested it another game, it doesn't work, the bulwark part doesn't work as there will be no fighting. However I'm currently in 1459 and am aproximatly 10 years ahead on your conquest, my main changes are: - I made haddiyya a march (damot has the goldmien so I want to integrate them sooner than later) letting them win basically every war pretty much on their own. I'm constantly at 0 manpower but that doesn't matter as haddiyya is doing the fighting I just siege. - I vassalized marehan when I attacked adal the 2nd time (and marehan was their ally) and taking "Werder" from them to be able to keep conquering to the south - I took influence first due to obviously doing this the vassal-way - dumping quite alot of diplo on the goldmine (don't know if you did so aswell you don't state it in your guide) anyways. great guide, thanks alot. you're a great youtuber. Maybe you read this :) if not maybe I help someone else.
I swear, every single time I declare war on Adal, they're allied with like 2 or 3 people already and my vassals don't listen for shit sometimes. I keep getting my ass kicked lol. I'm going to go a different route.
I dont really see the point you take economic ideas first since its mostly for tall play and you try to expand as fast as possible so not really tall play. That doesnt sound right to me. Also, inflation is not bad, as long you use the borrowed money to conquer decent provinces. I would probably take admin first. Also, if playing outside of Europe i would look at unit pips if im not used to play in other areas. African units outshine muslim unit type for quite a while. This knowledge could have made you pick defensive ideas early and defeat Mamluks with clever tactics (Coptic religion got fort defense and you have favorable terrain) and the better unit type. I know there is a lot of ways to play this game and your way of doing it is fine and works. But I think its fair to suggest to players, that there is other ways of doing it as well. Like taking admin, dont care about loans, as long you expand fast enough and conquer good provinces (gold , securing trade etc.). Taking advantage of your government rank and raising autonomy and giving away land to estates while autonomy is high. There is so many other ways of doing this achievement.
Without allies i managed to beat the mamluks by 1480. later I fought more than 4-5 wars with the ottomans, whom I lost the last one, since i was tired of war and all my allies betrayed me, then i rage quitted and decided to never play ethiopia again, since then ottomans are too OP
it seems like you had gotten extremely lucky (or im extremely unlucky), everytime i play this the ottoman declare 2 wars on mamluks before they declare in your timeline. it is interesting the direction you took but like i said normally the ottoderp it a bigger threat to my future expansion, forcing me to play less productively. nice video though
If ottomans take out mamluks early, that's even better for you! You can eat up rest of the mamluks. Then grow bigger, secure alliances and take care of ottomans later.
Great video! I'd love to see a guide for jewish semien as not many people know about them from what I can tell. Great guide though thanks for all the great vids.
I've got to be honest, I almost didn't watch this in large part because of the egregious border gore crimes on display in the first few seconds (and also because I already knew the strategy)
I’m really really sorry, but this video wasn’t that good The Audio was pretty good but the intro wasn’t that good at all. Otherwise the video was very good and I can see that your editing skills are getting better and better and you are still the best eu4 you tuber by far! Keep up the good work, just change back the intro to the one before, would be great!
Name placement CB is my favourite CB alongside bordergore CB.
Loptr Laufeyson lol actually bordergore was thr main reason of Conquest of Constantinople 😂
*Haile Selassie wants to know your location*
oof
Rastafari!
@Patrick McCarron he may think about rastafarians this "what an infidel heathens worshipping me, oh Lord throw your light to them"
The name placement CB is the most important CB in the game. well played! (damn near spit my drink out on the keyboard when you said that)
Radio Res: "Adal doesn't usually have a strong ally"
Me : *Gets into 3 games in a row where he allied half the Arabian Peninsula*
3 or 4 allys all the time :D
Lol same
I hate playing at Arabian peninsula
Its hardcore region
New mic? Audio quality is nyce. Keep it up brother! Enjoying watching you grow.
Same mic. New audio workflow :)
Haha nice! I appreciate the effort you’re putting in to your channel, and I know others are thinking the same thing. Keep it up man :)
The new missionary cost seems to be a big nerf to ethiopia, russia and other countries that dont have amazing economies and need to convert their conquests
Expand into south and control all zanzibar. Make it your main trade city area. Make sure to control most of gulf of aden too and then expand on all islands in indian ocean and indonesia and india. Then you can force trade to zanzibar from pretty much the entire southern asian area. Your economic power then can outmatch even strong ottomans. After that conversion is super easy.
Remove Talos I moved my capital early to a gold mine and developed it to get renaissance and focus on getting Africa horn and Kilwa in the south. That plus lots of war including attacking Arabian peninsula guys kept me with just one or two loans max usually without most of the play through. You can start colonizing soon after getting second idea and getting the island in Indian Ocean help make Zanzibar amazing.
It’s not hard to win and convert as Russia or get a good economy.
Michael Lopez russia’s economy is not particularly strong, especially with the fact that they have so much force limit
You just have to take religious ideas first, than it's easy to convert every single conquered province fast (and keep unity high :) Just don't start with exploration, you cant afford slow conversion AND colonizing this early ^^
In the words of Count Dooku, I’ve been looking forward to this
A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one
haha I remember you asking for Ethiopia guide wayyy back. I'm getting through the backlog slowly :)
There's a very different way you can go about an Ethiopian playthrough. Mamluks LOOK powerful early on on paper, but in reality you have many advantages over them at game start:
1.) God-like ruler. You can easily get a mil tech advantage early. If they start developing rennaissance early, you can even go two mil techs ahead. I prefer getting the first idea in quality and 1 mil tech over them.
2.) Mamluks are muslim tech units and you are African. You start with the same tech level, but African units have way more pips.
3.) You can rival weak neighbors for pp and "show stregnth" for even more monarch points.
4.) You have amazing Portuguese events that add disc and morale to help you beat them. Personally, I try to attack the Mamluks before the events fire so I can have them if the Ottomans attack, but if you just want to take Alexandria and you're new to the game, you can use them on the Mamluks.
5.) Mamluks never have good allies because they just try to vassalize arabian minors.
So the best thing to do, imo, is save mp and attack Mamluks early. Developing institutions in the Ethiopian mountains is a terrible long term strategy. Better to get an early tech advantage and rush them. Supply limits in the early game are low, so the Mamluks will divide their army in two- you should vassalize your coptic neighbors and have them attach to you during the war. With all of Ethiopia's early game buffs you can easily defeat Mamluk stacks much larger than your own. Once you get far enough north QQ will almost always ally you and the only real threat from there will be the Ottomans until you can start to see Europe and find stronger allies.
As Ethiopia as ideas i would always recommend: 1. Religious, 2. Defensive, 3. Admin and then 4. Diplo (Trade/Explo)
Religious is for me a must pick as coptic nation, so you dont die to rebellions and you will always be at max prestige, because of the conversion. This works handy with ethiopias national ideas +50% Chance of new heir, because you can always kill your heir when he is useless and you dont need do worry about any prestige hits. Defensive works well with −10% Land attrition form NIs so you can get without any policies -35% attrition, wich is huge in the regions to save manpower and war exhaustion. Also the +15% Moral is really usefull against mamulks in the early and midgame, because they only get discipline. Admin is a nobrainer form me: with the second blessing (easy to get + NIs) you get - 45% core reduction, wich is insane. You can argue with the 4. Idea group, but the the new rework Diplo is insanely strong, maybe you can swap it with Def if you have AE problems early on. Because fight most of the time against sunnis, diplo is key to avoid a massive coaltion. If you conquered something in india (with no CB) and have a established foothold in sansibar, then trade is the way to go, you will literally print money, so you dont need eco ideas to handle the inflation from the gold mines. Exploration was great, but with only 1 Colonist now, it is rather medicore & you dont want to spend your admin points on expansion if you are not a major colonizer. The policies from the build are not insanely good, but two of them are: +20% relgions unity/ +1 missionary strength (Diplo/Relgious) to help against rebels and corruption. +1 Relation/+1 Diplomat (Diplo/Def) helps to avoid a coaltion
The Into on the episode was insanely good with the free camera, keep up the good work.
No need for defensive. African units shine earlier in the game with better pips (mil tech 5 through 12), especially the cavalry. Early game doesn't need attrition reduction because combat width is low. Religious + quantity yields +10% morale if you're wanting higher morale.
Quantity is better for larger armies. Exploration is great as a second pick after religious for expansion into indonesia and indian ocean islands then hit india and control those nodes. Plus if you control most of aden then you pretty much have full control over all southern asian trade. Make it flow into zanzibar and it can rival end nodes in power.
Neah, I prefer Humanist idea group instead of religious. You can practically ignore other religions completely, and almost get no rebels at all.
@@Tearakan Exploration is great if you don't know about territory you want to conquer. AFAIR Ethiopia had knowledges about Indonesia islands for free, so Expansion is better choice.
My current Ethiopia run I went with economy, exploration, offensive, humanist. Had no struggle converting. No issues with rebels, just place troops where they will spawn. Manpower was good except the first decade. I smash all my enemies. 1580ish, empire stretches from South Africa to Antioch. Just coring Constantinople atm. I did not have any free knowledge of Indonesia so exploration was a must.
Loved this guide! Loved your Aragon playthrough! I love you Radio Res! Looking forward to see the future of this channel! Hats off to you man
quality is way better than before, keep it up!
I always look forward to your videos and I was excited to see this specific topic. I've seen others say you keep getting better and improving and I agree. This is a channel I think I could show a younger sibling or younger fans as it's wholesome and informative. Keep up the great work Res and thanks for the entertainment.
That's probably the nicest thing anyone has said to me on RUclips
First time watching one of your videos, really pleasantly surprised with the quality of this guide! Will definitely be checking out a few more!
Loved the intro, great idea!
Great guide, and nice work on the intro ! Cheers man
Anything your name covers is automatically a core
Great Tutorial, days after conquering the last of the last of the mamluks the Ottomans lined up on the border and declared war. They stack wiped my entire army in Cairo. 10/10 got close.
Woah this quality is awesome
Amazing as always! Continue on with the nice job!
Great guide as always!
One question I have about it is,
wouldn't it be worth it to go for Humanist ideas somewhat at the start?
Even if you don't finish the group until later, just the first two bonuses, +25% religious unity and -2 National Unrest would be absolutely great for dealing with early rebel problems and the rest is always useful for later.
Also, do you plan on doing the votes for Guides on Patreon again? Would love to see those back ^~^
Thanks Quas!
I see humanist and religious as opposing ideas. If I take one, I will never take the other one. So when playing a minor religion as Coptic, you will have so many heretic/heathen provinces that even with extra religious unity/tolerance with humanist, the religious unity will suffer and there will be constant rebel problems. Plus some of the religious policies give extra religious unity and unrest.
I was just thinking about making a poll yesterday when I made the post! I will do one this week! :)
@@RadioRes If you pick relgious ideas early you can still take humanist ideas in the age of absolutism, because you dont want to increase the autonomy in this age anymore. The other way around (humanist early) it is nonsence like you said.
@@RandomNub0815 agree with this, bubt there's better admin ideas to take generally. Usually after religious + admin you'll have to use your entire rest of your adm stock to core anyways
Deus vult is sooo good for ethiopia in this situation. Can attack everyone pretty much and helps with attacking enemies in india and indonesia which I highly recommend you expand into. Trade company money flowing into zanzibar is ridiculous and with me controlling all land in that node I was able to keep control anout 93 percent or above so europeans in horn of africa got jack shit.
intro was well done, props to you man
You definitely upped your audio quality and the intro is nice! The increased effort into your videos is showing
Wow the sound quality is good!
Finally an informative guide. Nice job
Back to guides I see or should I say back on fire 🔥🔥
I do love your guides, but not as guides but as a summary of successful games
Blessed Prester John was the first big achievement I ever got, only because the Ottomans got memed on by Venice HARD, but not hard enough that they took Constantinople, but not weak enough that they got eaten up by the Turkish minors, leaving them in a perfect docile state, just waiting to be eaten.
There was a bunch of other weird stuff too, like a thriving Armenia, slow Mamluks, and a Mega Spain who owned the entire new world because of a PU with Portugal. Had I realized just how lucky I was, this being my first big achievement run, I would've taken my chances and expanded into Zimbabwe before the European powers did. I still wake up in the middle of the night cursing myself for not taking advantage of that game sooner.
When trying this, Adal always allies 4 nations at the start of every save, making it impossible to win that first war..
Thank you. You really are master of this game, very inspiring to watch.
my tip for ethopia is to vassal yemen early (when they are small) they have decent development and nice cores to reconquest :)
wow i was just thinking about doing this run, was sad you didn't have a guide for it yet. Request granted!
Very nice as always. Looking forward to an Ethiopian game when I get back home
Did funj actually convert for you?
Nope... classic AI vassal
Ayyy you did my suggestion, thanks!
love it! great game, great video
Thanks!
I thought you were afk. Turns out I didn’t have notifications on. Btw you are my favorite eu RUclipsr.
Thanks!
I would recommend getting both Economic Ideas and Quantity Ideas as fighting all these wars eats into your funds and manpower, controls inflation from the inevitable loans and goldmines and the edict lowers development cost even further which helps spawning institutions. Also AI look at your army size, not quality, when they decide whether to declare war in which case the increased force limit from Quantity Ideas can help deter power-hungry Mamluks and Ottomans.
Getting Religious Ideas is also a must with all the converting you'll be doing. Getting Alexandria, Jerusalem and Mecca as soon as possible will give you more missionaries than you'll ever need as well as near infinite prestige. Combined with Ethiopia Ideas this allows you to disinherit every heirs that isn't a 5/5/5 or better for the rest of the game.
Nice guide! What's the name of the track in the end (during the timelapse)?
nice video as always! I especially love the new icon. What mod are you using to tilt the screen?
Tilting Mod. Look for version 1.4 for most stable version.
Thanks! No mod. Its a console command.
I tried this one before watching the video and I the problem I ran into was that the Ottomons had allied Russia, Persia didn't form (stayed Timurids), and the Commonwealth collapsed until combined Ottomon/Russian teamwork. I managed to conquer more of India, colonized Australia and California, but I wasn't really able to build up enough of an army against the powerhouse that was the Ottomons. They also allied Tunis (which had most of North Africa) so I couldn't expand that way either. I decided to bail and got the "Sleepless in Seattle" achievement instead :D
I went religious ideas first while conquering areas. Ended up converting quick. Got the aden trade node and full controlled zanzibar. Made zanzibar my main trade area. Then I got colonization. Took all the islands in indian ocean to slow down european colonization. Then made trade companies in india and indonesia. Used merchants to push all trade to aden and zanzibar. In between all of that I vassalized medri bahri and fed them the northern provinces in between me and mamluks. Mamluks never declared on me. While getting power in asia I was able to ally bengal and persia. Kept them as allies as I expanded north. With the powerful trade I waited until otto went to war with mamluks then split them in half by taking egypt areas. Went quantity for 1st mil idea. After that engaged with more wars vs mamluks to take all african holdings then waited until I could get persia and bengal to help with otto. After 1st war with otto they got weaker and weaker as I was a dominant force in indonesia and india and was trying to force all trade to zanzibar. Get trade ideas and late game you become a beast.
No Medri Bahri PU attempt? They're great to feed the Upper Nubia poor provinces.
If your lucky and RM them, you can insta integrate them if u annex enough of Adal right off the bat
Nice Guide !
Very good video as usual. I wrote a guide for Ethiopia about 9 months ago on the eu4 subreddit, and it looks like we followed the same general path. I took exploration as my second idea group and expanded into the East Indies for some valuable development. I imagine this is an even more viable option since the trade routes were redirected a bit in that part of the world.
Here's the guide: www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/8fow4f/prester_john_an_ethiopian_success_story/
Wouldn’t it be better to develop a capital that isn’t mountain terrain because of the increased development cost?
You would think but all the territory in that area is going to have a penalty regardless, and they will be close to other nations borders. So it is probably best to do so on ethi capital.
It would. But all the provinces are Arid there with desert, mountains, hills. There are no good provinces to develop.
if you force vassalise the nations between you and mamluks doesnt that mean they can never declare war on you (unless no cb war)? cos you cant get a claim on a vassal.. surely thats the safest option to stop mamluks attacking you rather than just leaving the nation for them to possibly attack later?
The increasingly spidery bordergore at the start physically hurt
My mistake just found idea discussion right at the end, sorry!
If you were to play a full game as Ethiopia I wonder what direction you'll take it in. Probably forming some nation in Europe to than get trade companies in all the African and Asian provinces freeing up state slots for those valuable Egyptian, Ottoman and European provinces. Than playing the trade game with trade companies and possibly even colonial nations depending on which nation you formed. Coptic is an amazing religion, arguably the second strongest in the game(after Orthodox) so staying Coptic is ideal, especially with religious ideas giving you a free very powerful CB against literally the entire world.
So, you never had problems with the fact that Mamluks eventually become the defender of faith and you cant expand nowhere? I mean in my first run they did that after 20-25 years, but on my second they have done that by 1559, and i cant even expand south to Ajuuran. What would be your suggestion?
In my game i don’t make buffer with mamluks but they don’t attack me very long. And when they come I have same dev(~480) and taking 1 merc stack win them taking a lot part of asia, but I still can’t see ottomans and it’s most irritating I see 1 province but can’t diplomats with them
What's your strategy for picking which provinces to develop for institutions? Obviously the first two were capital provinces, but what made you pick Ankober for Printing Press?
does manpower recovery speed affect how fast manpower in the nation recovers or how much it recovers in your armies?
If you think Austrian PU over Britain was insane, let me tell you about my Aragon campaign where I got PU's over Brandenburg, Ferarra, France, Scotland, Poland (sadly without Lithuania), Portugal (through mission tree), the usual two of Naples and Castile, and Anhalt with my family also being on the throne of England. I was able to form Rome that game.
What do you do if mamaluks becomes the defender of the faith?
i took missionary ideas as the first idea group and most of the time and vassalized coptic nations to feed them only sunni provinces. they can either convert it or hold onto my religious unity as i convert under provinces before annexing them. by 1550 i full annexed mamluks. almost all of saudi arabia, pushing into ottomans expanded along the coast towards south africa and had 2 vassals in central africa with religious unity being more than 70% most of the time. oh yea my first coptic blessing was missionary strength because 2.5% disiplin isnt a very big bonus early game for ethiopia as starting out with a 6/5/5 ruler and exploiting estates for monarch points meant that you'll be ahead of tech for most of the early game until the institutions start racking up, even then you can either focus on your idea or force spawn the institution . i forced it because at this time the yemeni countries were hostile towards me and institution couldn't spread through the sea lane whilst mamluks rivaled me hence institution spreaded slow there as well.
I played as Ethiopia but mameluks got me
I did not know about the perks
I just started my Ethiopia run. Relatively similar start, buffer allies to the north, rapid expansion into the south.
I keep swapping my 2nd vassal. right before i finish annexing one, I pick up a new one.
The two i started with are gone, while Adal is next to be annexed and Pate after that. This lets them deal with Cores, Religion and Rebels...
I have my doubts that I can stand up to the Mamluks... They rivaled me and I can't see Ottomans or Europe yet... I have a feeling this one will end before 1480s when they attack me.
i got my fist blessing of Coring Cost Reduction, it was a huge mistake. because of religion there is always a rebelion somewhere and its hard to have a descent manpower
What do you think of benin, res?
Super strong and underrated. You can get very aggressive playing as Benin and you can colonize at the same time.
talking of austria getting a PU over england.. i tried to play Granada and England got a PU over Castile within 10 years of playing so I quit... I must be the most unlucky player of EU4 ever.
i tried to get this achievement a few months ago but the ottomans got way too strong too fast. They were already invading austria/hre in 1670, and winning too. so i couldnt get the 5th coptic city and Constantinople
Now that 1.3 adds incentive to become PotF, how do I deal with a game where Mamluks become Sunni Protector of the Faith?
Your opinion on vassalizing gold mine provinces, taking their gold and leaving them to deal with inflation ?
I like to keep my vassals in good shape so they can give me more troops
Opinion on feeding released Sunni vassals near the enemy while forcing coptic on them to minimize religious problems. Having them near the enemy makes them a bulwark even though they refuse to fight for us. I just made up that strategy while watching this guide. I have no experience as Ethiopia.
Might work. But the enemy might also support their independence which will complicate things.
@@RadioRes I tested it another game, it doesn't work, the bulwark part doesn't work as there will be no fighting.
However I'm currently in 1459 and am aproximatly 10 years ahead on your conquest, my main changes are:
- I made haddiyya a march (damot has the goldmien so I want to integrate them sooner than later) letting them win basically every war pretty much on their own. I'm constantly at 0 manpower but that doesn't matter as haddiyya is doing the fighting I just siege.
- I vassalized marehan when I attacked adal the 2nd time (and marehan was their ally) and taking "Werder" from them to be able to keep conquering to the south
- I took influence first due to obviously doing this the vassal-way
- dumping quite alot of diplo on the goldmine (don't know if you did so aswell you don't state it in your guide)
anyways. great guide, thanks alot. you're a great youtuber.
Maybe you read this :) if not maybe I help someone else.
I would not expand into arabia early because mamlucs get some claims in there and they always ataccs you
I’ve actually seen AI Ethiopia get a PU over France before (didn’t last long)
I would move the capital to a gold mine and then jump start instition
How'd you get the camera like that?
its a console command using controller
@@RadioRes Which command, if you don't mind me asking?
Also Ethiopia has the best flag in the game
I'm new to eu4, can ethiopia have colonization ideas. I noticed there's lots of empty land in Africa you left completely untouched
Yes they can. It depends on how you want to play. Colonization is definitely you can do as ethiopia (or any other nation)
How do you get adal to have 1 ally? What magic is this?
Its RNG. You don't have to attack Adal first, pick whoever has the weakest allies.
Have you done any Mughal playthrough strategy ?
I did one a while back. But I might do another as some things have changed since that patch.
Majapahit is real fun, you should do them next
I was actually thinking about it the other day!
@@RadioRes its all fun and games till the ottomans want the spice islands
I swear, every single time I declare war on Adal, they're allied with like 2 or 3 people already and my vassals don't listen for shit sometimes. I keep getting my ass kicked lol. I'm going to go a different route.
Please Ming and if it still exists can you do ming-hals?
You can't do Minghals now
Why not Offensive Ideas first? It is great for aggressive game 'cos give to your generals extra pips. And this pips influencing whole army.
So i missed prester John achievement by switching into Egypt. Oh Damn.
Greetings from Italy 🇮🇹
Man... Im ı was playing netherlands and portugal went to war kilwa, they lost the war after that castile went to war and they lost too
Not Im goddamit auto writer
Wow when i play as ethiopia and expanded all over east africa and egypt but apperantly i converted to sunni at some point and didnt notice ;-;
what dlc is the trade city in
Wealth of nations
Dude can you make Shimazu to Japan guide like that ?
I did an Oda - Japan guide. All daimyo play is mostly similar.
You don't mention idea groups. Otherwise a very useful guide.
Love the intro on this one, though it’s obviously a bit limited by the fact that eu4 is just a map, so not very visually impressive
Can you do a guide on najd? Jihad achievement
I should do that one. Its a long one though, might take a while
How to get name palcemant CB? XD
Could you please do a armenia guide
love your vids!
I dont really see the point you take economic ideas first since its mostly for tall play and you try to expand as fast as possible so not really tall play. That doesnt sound right to me. Also, inflation is not bad, as long you use the borrowed money to conquer decent provinces. I would probably take admin first. Also, if playing outside of Europe i would look at unit pips if im not used to play in other areas. African units outshine muslim unit type for quite a while. This knowledge could have made you pick defensive ideas early and defeat Mamluks with clever tactics (Coptic religion got fort defense and you have favorable terrain) and the better unit type.
I know there is a lot of ways to play this game and your way of doing it is fine and works. But I think its fair to suggest to players, that there is other ways of doing it as well. Like taking admin, dont care about loans, as long you expand fast enough and conquer good provinces (gold , securing trade etc.). Taking advantage of your government rank and raising autonomy and giving away land to estates while autonomy is high. There is so many other ways of doing this achievement.
Without allies i managed to beat the mamluks by 1480. later I fought more than 4-5 wars with the ottomans, whom I lost the last one, since i was tired of war and all my allies betrayed me, then i rage quitted and decided to never play ethiopia again, since then ottomans are too OP
Guide to how to form romania plz :))
In my game Adal managed to ally Mamluks. GG
Everytime!
more guides pls
on it
Do scotland
it seems like you had gotten extremely lucky (or im extremely unlucky), everytime i play this the ottoman declare 2 wars on mamluks before they declare in your timeline. it is interesting the direction you took but like i said normally the ottoderp it a bigger threat to my future expansion, forcing me to play less productively. nice video though
If ottomans take out mamluks early, that's even better for you! You can eat up rest of the mamluks. Then grow bigger, secure alliances and take care of ottomans later.
Great video! I'd love to see a guide for jewish semien as not many people know about them from what I can tell. Great guide though thanks for all the great vids.
Thanks! I should do a Jewish religion guide at some point.
@radiores naples guide pls
Its on the list :)
I've got to be honest, I almost didn't watch this in large part because of the egregious border gore crimes on display in the first few seconds (and also because I already knew the strategy)
All is fine and dandy. Till the chin gods personal union Britain.
how the fuck do you freecam like that
I’m really really sorry, but this video wasn’t that good
The Audio was pretty good but the intro wasn’t that good at all. Otherwise the video was very good and I can see that your editing skills are getting better and better and you are still the best eu4 you tuber by far! Keep up the good work, just change back the intro to the one before, would be great!