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Burgundy was the second nation I played after Poland. They have a ton of super interesting history! Burgundy was basically the pinnacle of Feudal Realm. It was so obscenely rich that it's hard to visualize. When the Duke of Burgundy rolled up to the Emperor of HRE, he made the Emperor look like a poor peasant: Finest plate armour entirely covered in gold; cape of finest silk with best gems woven into it; a retinue of knights dripping with gold, silver and gems; the Duke's Banner made entirely out of Silk, Gold and Silver; even the horses' armours were plated in gold and covered in gems. Burgundy was the IRL High Fantasy feudal realm. Look up pictures of Toussaint from The Witcher 3 and you'll have a good idea of how Burgundy looked in its prime. EVERYBODY in Europe wanted a piece of it. It had some of the richest lands in all of Europe with fertile soils, an abundance of natural resources and world-class artisans.
I just looked up those pictures of Toussaint from the Witcher 3 like you suggested, and suffice to say I'm thoroughly impressed. It's definitely a welcome change from the Burgundy that I initially knew about in HOI4's The New Order mod.
This is exactly how ancient and medievel Indian hindu kings used to look like, except the knights and the armour stuff, even a small weak hindu kings had such massive wealth lol
@@yigon5412 the Indian subcontinent was for the longest time the most developed and prosperous part of the world. Fertile soil, tons of valuable goods, huge population. There's a good reason why it produced so many great minds- mathematicians, architects, engineers, philosophers, poets. And why so many empires fought for control over it.
@@furioussherman7265 I, uhh... I didn't know what TNO Burgundy was so I looked it up. I was not ready for the baby event- the worst part is that things like that actually did happen in Third Reich. Never thought there would be a day I'd say "I'd rather live under INGSOC", but here I am... horrified. Bonus points bc I'm Polish...
You *want* Netherlands to form - but on your terms ;) Release Holland as a vassal, give them 2 more Dutch culture provinces and wait for an event. Here's your superpower vassal Netherlands. (and yes Dutch minors join them)
2:55 When you have a similiar case with Provance (They have like 2-4 provinces) there is a very cool thing you can do. Instead of annexing you vassalise them and try to make them complete their first mission, wich gives them CORES on the whole naples. So not only do you get a reconquest on a part of france, but also on half of the italy. You can actually do this in every campaign but it's the most helpfull when you are playing as the burgundy.
As much as I love Ludi, he does some pro gamer shit sometimes that the average player cant pull off consistently or effectively, and thats why your guides are so great, it's stuff that just decent players can understand and do pretty easily
with the latest patch (1.31.5), the claim of your heir decreaces by -1 every month, so it will be 0. If your heir has a claim that is less then 40 when Charles dies, you will get the inheritance every time.
Oh this is a very welcome one! I was planning on doing a French campaign following your guide this very evening but I might give Burgundy a try and restore Lotharingia to make my forefathers proud! As always, amazing job, Mr. Red Hawk!
Really good guide. I'm probably going to try this next when I play again. I really like how you suggest strategies that are relatively accessible and cover a lot of the variables so you don't have to rely on a set of extremely specific circumstances occurring. Also you don't suggest to just immediately plunge yourself into instability and debt that you have to be extremely good and consistent at the game to handle successfully.
Just so everyone knows, the reason you can't release Gascony from Labourd is because you can't release a nation from a province that is in a different culture group than their primary culture.
An interesting workaround here is that you can return that province to gascony, but not release them. If you return it to them they will be an opm that loves you for giving them land. Its trivially easy to then rm + ally and diplovassalize. Of course taking bordeaux is easier but its still possible to do it wirh labourd.
I just recently played Burgundy for the Lotharingia achievements and it was a lot of fun. I did manage to make all of France's vassals my own by stack wiping France's troops in the war while doing my best to avoid his vassals troops.
Going with the Emperor can be super risky. If you wait too long or you were previously allied to austria, the risk is there that they could literally dismantle your entire country through the imperial incident. IF you go with austria, you should break off immediately after the event, either alone (cuz you'll be ridiculously strong after inhereting all subjects and their armies) or with their rivals
You can guarantee nabbing the vassals by fulfilling the conditions for King of the franks first, then take the two missions at the one time. If you dont then France might improve relations/placate them.
I remember when I played without any DLCs that I got the event "Dutch Nobility demands General Estates" whereby one of the Dutch PUs (in my case Brabant) could gain all provinces in the Lowlands region and form Netherlands, thereby giving you a single subject which could invite other members to join it via "X joins the Republic" event but this was around 1536-1539 which can be quite a gap albeit I am not sure whether same events are available with all DLCs. PS: This does prevent the disaster of the Dutch Revolt
one thing you can do if you have 1 available rival slot without: don't rival anyone wait for a chance like(in this case) savoy being excommunicated. suddenly you can declare a war on a rival and get lots of pp. I like to try and keep 2 if I can rival quite a few nations. doing a separate peace humiliation on a rival also gives you the age bonus. it's free pp(just with a bit more micro) and ofc, sometimes you get a *very* weak rival and can just show strength
@@dsago7725 yeah but you dont need all the electors, smaller ones like Mainz, Trier and Cologne would be enough to gain emperorship since Bohemia is likely to rival Austria
@@dsago7725 AE from enforcing PUs is quite tolerable. Just avoid pillaging capitals in side peace deals, and aim all ur diplomats and traders to improve relationships. Also the trick is allying some elector monarchs along the way, and give them lands in these wars, so later u PU a larger country. Especially bohemia is gonna be happy with austrian land, and with their help and releasing styria and tirol you can erase austria in 3 wars and take HRE title much faster
super useful guide, thanks a lot. in my second run, i got super lucky and somewhat unlucky at the same time so here's how it is: both france and provence got excommunicated like really super early and for a long time. and on top of that, france decided to say fuck off to papacy and that caused provence to annul their alliance. i used this exco to attack them at least twice. sadly, surrender of maine didn't happen and england-castille-portugal decided to create triple alliance which prevented me to attack early on because austria and rest of my allies were reluctant. after france reduced to dust, i finally managed to get austria on war with england.
One thing you can consider doing, especially if Austria loses the imperial throne to a weaker state (sometimes they elect Hesse since they have +1 dip rep) is tank your relationship with the emperor, activate the mission to join the HRE. If the emperor denies you entry you get subjugation cbs on all the bishop electors and personal union cbs on the other electors. Much easier to fight a gaggle of HRE minors than to fight Austria-Hungary.
the problem is that you can't immediatly declare a independence war no matter what you pick until the imperial incident is done wich no matter how you look at it probably ends up bad if you choose to be pu'd under anyone. this should be thoroughly looked into what is the best option now
My burgundy game was kinda wild. I initially allied Austria and they helped me out with France but afterwards they constantly called me into unwinnable wars and bankrupted themselves. So when the Burgundian inheritance rolled around I decided to fall into a pu with some random HRE prince and Austria was too scared to demand the lowlands. I joined the empire and then was able to become emperor
Did you see when JustBlazin inherited the whole HRE using the BI before 1500? Basically he did a lambda revoke and when the BI fired, he choose "integrate with france", just like you did. But France was his vassal, so he inherited France (together with all the other vassals of the revoked HRE) instead of becoming a junior partner.
Here is a definitive answer Mr Red Hawk, good sir. Yes. Moving your capital to the Netherlands prevents the separation. I move my capital to Bruges, but there's probably a better province and I'm just a noob. (I've done 3 campaigns as burgundy)
If you decide to stay independent from France or Austria, the lowland countries can partitions to band together and remain a subject under you. Since the Netherlands have formed, the other Dutch and Friesian minors get the event to join the union. Which means you're able to get a United lowlands
In the current patch with the buff to Catholic it is definitely better to stay burgundian (as you will still inherit your personal unions, you keep your good leader and you can join the HRE, and with the new privalage you don't get a diplo reputation malice for annexing subjects)
Never played burgundy but I heard you should choose to enter the HRE but first you want to ruin your relation with Austria(no alliance, insult, embargo etc). This way Austria will block your enterence and you get subjugation cb on all electors.
Wait, does a regent or queen count towards Marie of Lotharingia? For example, lets say I Royal Marriage Castille and I get a consort. If my ruler dies and my heir is young, couldn't it count towards the achievement?
It does, I just got this achievement with my 60 something year old queen regent with my male heir at 14. The game took some mercy on me for how OP the ottomans were...
is there a limit to which subjects you annex with the succession event? or would you just inherit all the subjects no matter where they are? because if thats the case then wouldnt it be good to just PU small HRE minors left and right as long as charles is still alive? wouldnt that just be free land? and would it be possible to just get a free annexation on a former GP aswell? im thinking a PU with aragon/castille. would you just immediately annex those guys aswell?
@@TheRedHawk Burgundy inherits every subject country that: Is AI-controlled. Is not Flag of Nevers Nevers. One of the following must be true about the capital: Is in the France region Culture is in the French culture group. Culture is Dutch or Flemish. Is in the HRE.
@@TheRedHawk Is the wiki wrong and you can actually inherit any vassal even outside HRE? Coz in my run i intentionally gave all of scotland and ireland to dutch vassals so i inherit them. Also i didnt go for any iberian or italian PU coz they were outside of HRE/dutch/french. But if its possible, you have a high chance to get half of spain or italy for free as well
Burgundy is potentially the country with the most potential in EU4 In my game with the Calais war I took a province in northern England to release Northumberland as a vassal next war returned all the cores plus took there Irish province rushed Ireland feeding a vassal I released there While taking all the French stuff then integrated all of Ireland and half of England plus the normal French vassal and lowland stuff potentially saving over a thousand diplo in anexxing vassals. And Im not even that good at the game that alongside gascony which I couldn't take France beat me to it would have been insane. I did get Normandy though.
I avoided playing Burgundy for the longest time because I was afraid I would get inherited at some point but little did I know this event can't fire when you are playin
For some reason france and England never went to war, the event didn't fire, so I did league of the public weal, and couldn't call in any allies cuz aragon was at war with byzantine, but I was ahead in tech so I bit the bullet, I sieges down much of the north and beat superiorly sized French armies, but then the Scottish came and tipped the scales just as french troops entered Burgundy, the silver trumpet came, shockingly it was Austria not aragon with some extra support I won the war
oof restarting the game is pretty rough even only a year in setting the game up with the estates and rivals and stuff takes a while plus the excessive loading screens
England is still supporting Neverre’s independence in my game even after the war, they rivalled me and Neverre’s Liberty desire is over 100, how can I possibly fix this?
It might actually be a good opportunity. If Nevers declares independence with England, just siege down Nevers, annex them and you don't even need to take the 10 years -3 diplo rep for what ends up being an OPM
Hey I recommend everyone to try to vassalize france quickly, then pick the option to integrate with them, because you inherit all your subjects when you do it you will inherit france instead of falling under PU with them because you are their overlord, you will own all of france after the event
This was an interesting guide on Burgandy thanks Hawk. Any chance you could show a guide on Karabakh to Armenia? I've tried it but it's pretty hard, if you have any pro tips to use I would love to see them.
Real question, may just be stupid. What DLCs do I need for my game to look like this? I have a few, but i'm missing key features that mostly have to do with managing my vassals.
Is there any reason why all you guys pick yours rivals at the very begining of your game? Im doing it day before starting the war to make sure that i won't end up with rival that i can't attack because he gain some game changing ally.
Losing the Low Countries in the imperial incident isn't that big of a set back. Yeah it's annoying. But if you're joining the HRE anyway, 10ish years of Reconquest wars isn't a big deal. Also important to note is that it doesn't just release the Low Countries, but other HRE nations as well like in Lorraine and Geneva and you DON'T get cores on them unless you stated them, so make sure you state Lorraine and Romandie if you take them.
In my experience with Burgundy, influence is a waste of diplo points, because of Burgundian Inheritance and that you don't save that many diplo points at the end of the day. I just don't think it's worth the unbalanced research, and influence is pretty weak compared to just diplomatic (which gives diplomats, improve relations, diplomatic rep, and better ability to fish for PUs; what does influence give? Vassal income? Vassal force limit? Ok, who cares when you're taking god tier French land). Frankly going admin or innovative or even defensive first is definitely better. Also, I recommend releasing Holland as a vassal and giving it the lowlands to avoid the Dutch Revolt disaster, and to avoid a nasty event that has the Netherlands declaring independence with Austria.
In my game I got a regency council at 6 and France allied Castile. Luckily it was after the first French war, so it doesn’t matter. But still very annoying
Could have demanded ducats for for the Scots to end their alliance with France since you had over 10 warscore and they were probably at low enthusiasm.
... this seems like super gamey lmao! theoretically, ae permitting, you could even just go and vassalize brittany and/or provence before the inheritance fires and inherit them for free too. wow
Okay look I know you're an absolute god at this game but please don't tell beginners to invade France solo (source: as a beginner, I forgot to ally Castille, tried it, and couldn't get more than like 30% war score afte rsave scumming a bunch)
A lot of great tips, thanks, but after several tries, I have been loosing my first war against the French every time. We're either on par, or he's got more troops, and I am struggling to get a positive warscore, piling up huge debts and reserves are down to zero. What's the secret to beating them?
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You should do one of the Indian nations, like Vijayanagar or Bahmanis for example.
Lithuania please!
Trebizond to Roman empire guide 😁
What about a Jewish Ethiopia guide that sounds interesting
What about one of the native American tribes.
the release champagne trick is absolutely inspired
Not a lot of people know about it!
Saw it on reddit 3-4 days ago if I remember correctly
Burgundy was the second nation I played after Poland.
They have a ton of super interesting history!
Burgundy was basically the pinnacle of Feudal Realm. It was so obscenely rich that it's hard to visualize. When the Duke of Burgundy rolled up to the Emperor of HRE, he made the Emperor look like a poor peasant: Finest plate armour entirely covered in gold; cape of finest silk with best gems woven into it; a retinue of knights dripping with gold, silver and gems; the Duke's Banner made entirely out of Silk, Gold and Silver; even the horses' armours were plated in gold and covered in gems.
Burgundy was the IRL High Fantasy feudal realm. Look up pictures of Toussaint from The Witcher 3 and you'll have a good idea of how Burgundy looked in its prime.
EVERYBODY in Europe wanted a piece of it. It had some of the richest lands in all of Europe with fertile soils, an abundance of natural resources and world-class artisans.
I just looked up those pictures of Toussaint from the Witcher 3 like you suggested, and suffice to say I'm thoroughly impressed. It's definitely a welcome change from the Burgundy that I initially knew about in HOI4's The New Order mod.
This is exactly how ancient and medievel Indian hindu kings used to look like, except the knights and the armour stuff, even a small weak hindu kings had such massive wealth lol
@@yigon5412 the Indian subcontinent was for the longest time the most developed and prosperous part of the world.
Fertile soil, tons of valuable goods, huge population.
There's a good reason why it produced so many great minds- mathematicians, architects, engineers, philosophers, poets.
And why so many empires fought for control over it.
@@edim108 yep :)
@@furioussherman7265 I, uhh... I didn't know what TNO Burgundy was so I looked it up.
I was not ready for the baby event- the worst part is that things like that actually did happen in Third Reich.
Never thought there would be a day I'd say "I'd rather live under INGSOC", but here I am... horrified.
Bonus points bc I'm Polish...
"They can't get enough of war score to get all their cores back"
France when I play Burgundy : *NAVAL INAVSION ON ENGLAND GOES BRRRRRRRRRR*
Lmao
If you move your capital to Netherlands, you avoid the bad events.
And lore wise it makes sense. Making concessions to the low lands aka making them the seat of the kingdom/empire might placate them.
You *want* Netherlands to form - but on your terms ;)
Release Holland as a vassal, give them 2 more Dutch culture provinces and wait for an event. Here's your superpower vassal Netherlands. (and yes Dutch minors join them)
2:55
When you have a similiar case with Provance (They have like 2-4 provinces) there is a very cool thing you can do. Instead of annexing you vassalise them and try to make them complete their first mission, wich gives them CORES on the whole naples. So not only do you get a reconquest on a part of france, but also on half of the italy. You can actually do this in every campaign but it's the most helpfull when you are playing as the burgundy.
Thats truly genius. AFAIK its the only mission with free cores in europe, isnt it?
@@ruslantyshtykbayev9719 I think so
As much as I love Ludi, he does some pro gamer shit sometimes that the average player cant pull off consistently or effectively, and thats why your guides are so great, it's stuff that just decent players can understand and do pretty easily
He consistently does some "Rest of the Fucking Owl" type stuff in his guides that makes them near impossible to follow easily
@@Kirbap890 and his jokes distract me too much, they're not that funny either "schtacken wipen" all that shiz.
with the latest patch (1.31.5), the claim of your heir decreaces by -1 every month, so it will be 0. If your heir has a claim that is less then 40 when Charles dies, you will get the inheritance every time.
Oh this is a very welcome one! I was planning on doing a French campaign following your guide this very evening but I might give Burgundy a try and restore Lotharingia to make my forefathers proud!
As always, amazing job, Mr. Red Hawk!
Thank you I appreciate the kind words! Go for them both!
I'd be really cool if you did guides on countries in West Africa, they tend to be a bit more difficult to play.
Yeah I'll cover a bunch of nations in West Africa for sure
they are mostly flavorless sadly
@Maximillian Nechiporuk Portugal has ended up in a pu with Spain in every game I've played this patch
Really good guide. I'm probably going to try this next when I play again.
I really like how you suggest strategies that are relatively accessible and cover a lot of the variables so you don't have to rely on a set of extremely specific circumstances occurring. Also you don't suggest to just immediately plunge yourself into instability and debt that you have to be extremely good and consistent at the game to handle successfully.
Thanks I appreciate it! I try to make the guide the least RNG dependent so I'm glad you find them helpful
Remember much like loans and interest, diplo points are just a number
Just so everyone knows, the reason you can't release Gascony from Labourd is because you can't release a nation from a province that is in a different culture group than their primary culture.
An interesting workaround here is that you can return that province to gascony, but not release them. If you return it to them they will be an opm that loves you for giving them land. Its trivially easy to then rm + ally and diplovassalize. Of course taking bordeaux is easier but its still possible to do it wirh labourd.
*Himmler liked this video*
[Burgundian Lullaby plays]
STRENG GEHEIM
Love your guides, do them for every nation, I'd love to watch whatever it might be!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoy them!
I just recently played Burgundy for the Lotharingia achievements and it was a lot of fun. I did manage to make all of France's vassals my own by stack wiping France's troops in the war while doing my best to avoid his vassals troops.
I’ve been waiting for this video and I’m very happy how it turned out great job! :)
Thanks I appreciate it!
I'm just glad that this Burgundy doesn't play any lullabies.
And isn't ruled by a madman...
STRENG GEHEIM
Your guides have helped a lot on my achievement runs for some of these nations.
Glad I could help!
I've been playing burgundy and I absolutely love them. So many neat little tricks are needed to truly flourish.
Going with the Emperor can be super risky.
If you wait too long or you were previously allied to austria, the risk is there that they could literally dismantle your entire country through the imperial incident.
IF you go with austria, you should break off immediately after the event, either alone (cuz you'll be ridiculously strong after inhereting all subjects and their armies) or with their rivals
Really awesome guide. Every game is different but the advices are really useful. Thanks
Thanks I appreciate it
ur guides r so good! very knowledgeable and helpful
Happy to hear that!
You can guarantee nabbing the vassals by fulfilling the conditions for King of the franks first, then take the two missions at the one time. If you dont then France might improve relations/placate them.
didn't even knew it was underrated, one of the overpowered nations imo
Maybe not underrated but definitely overlooked
I remember when I played without any DLCs that I got the event "Dutch Nobility demands General Estates" whereby one of the Dutch PUs (in my case Brabant) could gain all provinces in the Lowlands region and form Netherlands, thereby giving you a single subject which could invite other members to join it via "X joins the Republic" event but this was around 1536-1539 which can be quite a gap albeit I am not sure whether same events are available with all DLCs.
PS: This does prevent the disaster of the Dutch Revolt
Congrats on 20k subscribers
Thank you!
one thing you can do if you have 1 available rival slot without: don't rival anyone
wait for a chance like(in this case) savoy being excommunicated. suddenly you can declare a war on a rival and get lots of pp.
I like to try and keep 2 if I can rival quite a few nations. doing a separate peace humiliation on a rival also gives you the age bonus. it's free pp(just with a bit more micro)
and ofc, sometimes you get a *very* weak rival and can just show strength
Good point!
Man, that is just becoming the HRE with extra steps, so many subjects lol.
I love a good vassal swarm what can I say
Playing my first burgundy campaign right now and having just a ridiculous amount of fun
Pro gamer moves right there
i’m pretty sure everyone knows how op burgundy is after 1.30
It's even more OP in 1.31 with the fixed vassal missions
@@TheRedHawk yeah the champagne strat is awesome, never thought of doing that before.
25:13 yes it does work, worked in all my runs
I'd love to see you do a part 2 of this where you show forming Lotharingia.
With Charles you only dodge Burgundian Inheritance chain if you get a male heir with a strong claim (which is quite unlikely).
Burgundy is so OP, their mission tree is only second to Provence to me. You forgot to mention the requirements to get the pu cb on all electors.
You’re right!
Though the cbs are kinda useless, given the time limitation and the huge amount of AE
@@dsago7725 yeah but you dont need all the electors, smaller ones like Mainz, Trier and Cologne would be enough to gain emperorship since Bohemia is likely to rival Austria
@@dsago7725 AE from enforcing PUs is quite tolerable. Just avoid pillaging capitals in side peace deals, and aim all ur diplomats and traders to improve relationships. Also the trick is allying some elector monarchs along the way, and give them lands in these wars, so later u PU a larger country. Especially bohemia is gonna be happy with austrian land, and with their help and releasing styria and tirol you can erase austria in 3 wars and take HRE title much faster
super useful guide, thanks a lot. in my second run, i got super lucky and somewhat unlucky at the same time so here's how it is: both france and provence got excommunicated like really super early and for a long time. and on top of that, france decided to say fuck off to papacy and that caused provence to annul their alliance. i used this exco to attack them at least twice. sadly, surrender of maine didn't happen and england-castille-portugal decided to create triple alliance which prevented me to attack early on because austria and rest of my allies were reluctant. after france reduced to dust, i finally managed to get austria on war with england.
One thing you can consider doing, especially if Austria loses the imperial throne to a weaker state (sometimes they elect Hesse since they have +1 dip rep) is tank your relationship with the emperor, activate the mission to join the HRE. If the emperor denies you entry you get subjugation cbs on all the bishop electors and personal union cbs on the other electors. Much easier to fight a gaggle of HRE minors than to fight Austria-Hungary.
the problem is that you can't immediatly declare a independence war no matter what you pick until the imperial incident is done wich no matter how you look at it probably ends up bad if you choose to be pu'd under anyone.
this should be thoroughly looked into what is the best option now
Is there someone who underrates Burgundy?
BTW are you going to make a guide for my nation, Genova? ;)
Yes! Lots of people (it's often overlooked since it's between the HRE and France) and yes I'll do a guide for Genoa for sure!
@@TheRedHawk Make a guide for my nation, Sirhind
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Many thanks
You're welcome!
My burgundy game was kinda wild. I initially allied Austria and they helped me out with France but afterwards they constantly called me into unwinnable wars and bankrupted themselves. So when the Burgundian inheritance rolled around I decided to fall into a pu with some random HRE prince and Austria was too scared to demand the lowlands. I joined the empire and then was able to become emperor
One thing: when you recruit a mercenary company, it decrease army profesionalism by 5, so before that it's a good idea to slack recruiment once
Did you see when JustBlazin inherited the whole HRE using the BI before 1500? Basically he did a lambda revoke and when the BI fired, he choose "integrate with france", just like you did. But France was his vassal, so he inherited France (together with all the other vassals of the revoked HRE) instead of becoming a junior partner.
Here is a definitive answer Mr Red Hawk, good sir.
Yes. Moving your capital to the Netherlands prevents the separation.
I move my capital to Bruges, but there's probably a better province and I'm just a noob.
(I've done 3 campaigns as burgundy)
If you decide to stay independent from France or Austria, the lowland countries can partitions to band together and remain a subject under you.
Since the Netherlands have formed, the other Dutch and Friesian minors get the event to join the union. Which means you're able to get a United lowlands
Burgundy is very fun!
It really is
As long it is one ruled by Himmler...
@@oznelnavnaekal6679 No
In the current patch with the buff to Catholic it is definitely better to stay burgundian (as you will still inherit your personal unions, you keep your good leader and you can join the HRE, and with the new privalage you don't get a diplo reputation malice for annexing subjects)
Great guide as always! Is there a Castile guide in the making?
Thanks! I’ll do Castile for sure! Probably not in the next 3/4 guides though
@@TheRedHawk just take your time...I am looking forward to see the other guides too
If Austria refuses your entrance into empire it gives you restore Union CB and subjection cb on all the electors and i think Austria as well
can you do ryazan?
Never played burgundy but I heard you should choose to enter the HRE but first you want to ruin your relation with Austria(no alliance, insult, embargo etc). This way Austria will block your enterence and you get subjugation cb on all electors.
Yeah that's true, to be honest I forgot to talk about it, I hadn't played Burgundy in a long time before this guide
Tier 6 government reform for -10 % autonomy in territories is really awesome when you have a lot of TC land.
Yeah but I don’t think Burgundy would be played in that direction, unless you form The Netherlands of course
Burgandy? You mean Habsburg Lowlands?
Not in this guide ;)
Savoy excommunication was due to an event
how did you get 400 ducats 1:09
me: looks funny, I'll try
the burgundian inheritance at 1447: go cry
SOULS FOR THE ALGORITHM GOD
I have moved my capitial to the netherlands, it works everty time, you also have to accept a dutch culture for it to work
To prevent the dutch revolt you need to move the capital to the Lowlands and have their cultures accepted.
I am not playing EU4 and i will not play it any time soon, but i like this videos :)
I'm glad you like them!
Wait, does a regent or queen count towards Marie of Lotharingia? For example, lets say I Royal Marriage Castille and I get a consort. If my ruler dies and my heir is young, couldn't it count towards the achievement?
Lol it’s so rare, so I don’t know, I don’t see why it wouldn’t count though
It does, I just got this achievement with my 60 something year old queen regent with my male heir at 14. The game took some mercy on me for how OP the ottomans were...
@@JMC924-lmt15 That's nice news. Thank you!
Why did the burgundian cross apears in Spain in the Habsburgs
What mod are you using for the bigger diplomacy view? Everyone on the workshop is outdated...
Bigger UI 1.31.3+
is there a limit to which subjects you annex with the succession event? or would you just inherit all the subjects no matter where they are? because if thats the case then wouldnt it be good to just PU small HRE minors left and right as long as charles is still alive? wouldnt that just be free land? and would it be possible to just get a free annexation on a former GP aswell? im thinking a PU with aragon/castille. would you just immediately annex those guys aswell?
I think you integrate every subject you have pretty much
@@TheRedHawk Burgundy inherits every subject country that:
Is AI-controlled.
Is not Flag of Nevers Nevers.
One of the following must be true about the capital:
Is in the France region
Culture is in the French culture group.
Culture is Dutch or Flemish.
Is in the HRE.
@@TheRedHawk Is the wiki wrong and you can actually inherit any vassal even outside HRE? Coz in my run i intentionally gave all of scotland and ireland to dutch vassals so i inherit them. Also i didnt go for any iberian or italian PU coz they were outside of HRE/dutch/french. But if its possible, you have a high chance to get half of spain or italy for free as well
Burgundy is potentially the country with the most potential in EU4 In my game with the Calais war I took a province in northern England to release Northumberland as a vassal next war returned all the cores plus took there Irish province rushed Ireland feeding a vassal I released there
While taking all the French stuff then integrated all of Ireland and half of England plus the normal French vassal and lowland stuff potentially saving over a thousand diplo in anexxing vassals.
And Im not even that good at the game that alongside gascony which I couldn't take France beat me to it would have been insane. I did get Normandy though.
the absolute CHAD guide
did 3 restarts, 3 times england decided to give up on maine.... I'll retry tomorrow or something
I avoided playing Burgundy for the longest time because I was afraid I would get inherited at some point but little did I know this event can't fire when you are playin
For some reason france and England never went to war, the event didn't fire, so I did league of the public weal, and couldn't call in any allies cuz aragon was at war with byzantine, but I was ahead in tech so I bit the bullet, I sieges down much of the north and beat superiorly sized French armies, but then the Scottish came and tipped the scales just as french troops entered Burgundy, the silver trumpet came, shockingly it was Austria not aragon with some extra support I won the war
İf burgundy has heir succession still can happend
İf charles older than 74
Or year is at least 1484(year might be wrong)
Yeah it's something like that
Is it possible to avoid the inheritance?
is it possible to truce break while being under the PU?
Yes
@@TheRedHawk thanks for tje quivk answer, beeing under PU and needing to truce break is a scenario that doesn't happen to often 😂
how do you manage loans? in 4 tries i went from bancruptcy into bancruptcy loosing all my cores in wars.
I followed your instructions but for some reason when austria passes the reichs reform the lowlands just pop out of my country, how do i stop this?
oof restarting the game is pretty rough even only a year in setting the game up with the estates and rivals and stuff takes a while plus the excessive loading screens
England is still supporting Neverre’s independence in my game even after the war, they rivalled me and Neverre’s Liberty desire is over 100, how can I possibly fix this?
You need to select that option in the peace deal when you beat them in a war
It might actually be a good opportunity. If Nevers declares independence with England, just siege down Nevers, annex them and you don't even need to take the 10 years -3 diplo rep for what ends up being an OPM
Moving to the netherlands does prevent it
Hey I recommend everyone to try to vassalize france quickly, then pick the option to integrate with them, because you inherit all your subjects when you do it you will inherit france instead of falling under PU with them because you are their overlord, you will own all of france after the event
This has been fixed for 1.31
@@TheRedHawk Ohh that’s unfortunate, thanks for telling me though I was about to do that wih burgundy
This was an interesting guide on Burgandy thanks Hawk. Any chance you could show a guide on Karabakh to Armenia? I've tried it but it's pretty hard, if you have any pro tips to use I would love to see them.
Glad you like it! Yeah I might try and do a guide for Armenia
@@TheRedHawk Yes Please! Thank you for thinking about it!
I got under PU with french and they decided to release half of my land to princes of hre 😭😭
Real question, may just be stupid. What DLCs do I need for my game to look like this? I have a few, but i'm missing key features that mostly have to do with managing my vassals.
Is there any reason why all you guys pick yours rivals at the very begining of your game? Im doing it day before starting the war to make sure that i won't end up with rival that i can't attack because he gain some game changing ally.
Yeah you can do it like that too, it depends on the nation tbh, in my Mughals guide I do it the way you’re describing
Losing the Low Countries in the imperial incident isn't that big of a set back. Yeah it's annoying. But if you're joining the HRE anyway, 10ish years of Reconquest wars isn't a big deal. Also important to note is that it doesn't just release the Low Countries, but other HRE nations as well like in Lorraine and Geneva and you DON'T get cores on them unless you stated them, so make sure you state Lorraine and Romandie if you take them.
STRENG GEIHEM
In my experience with Burgundy, influence is a waste of diplo points, because of Burgundian Inheritance and that you don't save that many diplo points at the end of the day. I just don't think it's worth the unbalanced research, and influence is pretty weak compared to just diplomatic (which gives diplomats, improve relations, diplomatic rep, and better ability to fish for PUs; what does influence give? Vassal income? Vassal force limit? Ok, who cares when you're taking god tier French land).
Frankly going admin or innovative or even defensive first is definitely better.
Also, I recommend releasing Holland as a vassal and giving it the lowlands to avoid the Dutch Revolt disaster, and to avoid a nasty event that has the Netherlands declaring independence with Austria.
In my game I got a regency council at 6 and France allied Castile. Luckily it was after the first French war, so it doesn’t matter. But still very annoying
What dlc do u use
All of them
Could have demanded ducats for for the Scots to end their alliance with France since you had over 10 warscore and they were probably at low enthusiasm.
... this seems like super gamey lmao! theoretically, ae permitting, you could even just go and vassalize brittany and/or provence before the inheritance fires and inherit them for free too. wow
I can’t seem to placate subjects
Thanks, my 2nd time playing burgundy and will use this guide. Is it not better to take Paris in 1st war?
You could take it, it's a bit more aggressive expansion
STRENG GEHEIM
Okay look I know you're an absolute god at this game but please don't tell beginners to invade France solo (source: as a beginner, I forgot to ally Castille, tried it, and couldn't get more than like 30% war score afte rsave scumming a bunch)
I don't like taking out colonial nations early on. It removes strong end game enemies and it slows down the colonial aspect
last nigth i tryed that for like 2 hours.. england never stared a war.. i think my ai is just the worst.. :/
A lot of great tips, thanks, but after several tries, I have been loosing my first war against the French every time. We're either on par, or he's got more troops, and I am struggling to get a positive warscore, piling up huge debts and reserves are down to zero. What's the secret to beating them?
Focus on military points and get tech 4 before them, then you will just anhilate their armies, and if you want to play safe pick mercs
I thogut I was the only one thnking of tweaking France and becoming junior partener