Top 10 Worst Formable Nations in EU4
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- In this video we will be looking at the worst formable nations in EU4. These countries are equal parts awful and difficult to play, and in this video I will showcase them and play them so that you do not have to in Europa Universalis IV.
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Heya folks! So with the chrome slickness (reworded to avoid demonetization) going about I'll be quite a bit more active on RUclips! Expect 1-2 videos per week for the forseeable future - my country of residence (France) has a 45 day lockdown where I will have to stay at home. More CK2 and other content coming soon! What do you guys want to see?
Your top 10's are always great, i don't even play EU4 (ck2 only) but watched every one of your video's on it, the top 10 rare/interesting/awfull are your best IMO, keep it up!
More CK2!!
Didn't even know you're a French person.. a quite interesting fact of the day!
Anyways, more CK2 meme videos would be fun to watch
Cheers from Toulon mate, happy lockdown to ya
Wait you're French? Ubsubbed.
Forming Germany isn't about ideas or missions. It's about sending a message.
*Angry French Noises*
PLACE
IN
THE
SUN
BABY
I was looking forward to this
Though couldn't you form Germany and keep Prussian ideas? So does it matter if German ideas suck?
@@jbdbibbaerman8071 yea if you form it with Brandy (or Prussia)
it is still a terrible formable nation though, would be nice if they flavored it up, changed it's god awful color, etc.
You forgot to mention how forming Scandinavia as Norway actually prevents you from getting the Norwegian Wood achievement
Yet another reason why you should never form scandinavia lol
amazing content keep up the great content
You could also form Scandinavia as Gotland
Also if you form it as Sweden you won't get any of the OP Swedish events relating to military and absolutism
@@Hay1hiho He did mention that.
Actually greece has one good thing about it: the ability to form byzantium
Underrated comment, totally forgot this mechanic!
I conquer byzantium to form byzantium
GameDominator //XennonGDM
I conquer Rome to form Italy... Wait
It'd be outrageous otherwise.
10% ccr :^ ]
8:40 "bukhara transforms your nation from a formidable horde into an overextended and pathetic sultanate"
this is historically accurate can't understand why are you complaining
@İnsan Ended up as the Emirate of Bukhara, got wrecked by the kazakhs and then by the russians
"Unlike more historically relevant post-colonial states..." Oof, you didn't have to cut us Aussies that deep...
Australia doesn’t even exist
The only salve to that wound is that at least we're more relevant than New Zealand
As an apparently more relevant post-colonial Yank, I'll tip my hat to y'all down in Oz. Someone had to be at Gallipoli for us.
Australia is America's greatest ally
@@yeetptrson4575 fuck america Australia number 1
Greece does have one thing going for it: That cool deep blue map color.
same for Iceland
Well when you wanna paint the map, colours are very important.
It's good for the achievment. I did Athens academical to grecce achievement. Their tradions are bad. But all there ideas are decent/good -10% core creation, 10% info combat ability, -10% advisor cost, +2 tolerance to true faith is actually really good. It's hard to form which is the thing. But otherwise as a vassal/March mid to late game I think it's top 20.
@@someorclad9738 genius
Imagine playing as Norway, selling off all your provinces to become Iceland, then conquering Sweden Norway and Denmark to form Scandinavia.
It fellt cool, when I formed Scandinavia, that counts for something right?
I bet it felt cool - Scandinavia is freezing!
I formed scandinavia once. I was like: now what? Then proceeded to play whack a mole with the countless rebels in my russian territories.
Isn't that a big factor, though? I don't really play for the best decisions, so much as a fun experience.
If it weren't only formable after admin tech 20, than it at least would be worth the claims you get. admin tech 20 is just too late for my taste...
I played as Sweden and kept Denmark and Norway as marches. Looks better on the map.
I have like 15 minutes in this game why am i watching this
Good question but I thank you for the support!
Jokes one you I don't even olay the game (yet)
@barred toaster no
@@maximidze2286yes
I was expecting ISP after the intro
I was expecting this comment, and then another comment exactly like this x20 - 30
amazing content keep up the great content
List: *Worst formable nations playable in EU4*
Me: Oh hey, let's send this to ISP, and tell him to have fun.
Us ironside boys have to stick together!
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Also top 10 AlzaboHD roasts of EU4-nations
Just some ideas for you for the days to come. Stay healthy!
Lauge Christophersen yes top 10 marches
all of them have ottomans as #1
@@oORoOFLOo Damn, you are right. How did I not notice that. Guess I'll go play Ottomans then
Lauge Christophersen
The funniest achievements one sounds interesting...what would it primarily be?
Top 10 Government forms/reforms
1:12 big *OOF* right there...
"Sokoto is awful"
*laughs in Vic2*
When you are by default the most powerful Nation in West Africa because nobody else is there.
@@WillTheForests I was moreso referencing the fact that (at least in base game, haven't played HPM yet) they're colonization fodder and are invaded by any player wanting to set up in Africa within 5 years of gamestart
@@AppleBiscuits Yeah fair enough
@@WillTheForests It's also a nation of an insane number of soldier POPs. Just like it is a mistake conquering the wrong provinces in east Asia due to having too little literacy and too many of the wrong POPs, grabbing Sokoto to boost your soldier count is great.
@@AppleBiscuits sokoto is powerful as fuck in HPM.
#1 USA: Made by King George gang.
This really rustled my (yankee) jimmies, good work!
USA is not fun to play in Eu4. The mechanics of the game(designed for early modern Europe) doesn't really work for the US. On the other hand US is one of the most fun nations to play in Victoria 2.
amazing content keep up the great contentv
Great Wolf
It sucks that the AI rarely does anything in the Western Hemisphere unless the players do something. The US in Vicky 2 just sits there and occasionally takes cores but doesn’t do too much else.
@@hyperion3145 It is historical though isn't? US didn't really do all that much outside the Americas until World War 2. A game set in post war era would completely different though. It would be Europe sitting there doing nothing.
I would love to see the Oceanic region and Aboriginal cultures expanded on. They’ve essentially disappeared from memory since European settlers wiped them out or assimilated them.
I'd rather have the polynesian culture expanded like Hawaii then aboriginals who didnt do shit
Guess you got your wish
0:31
My nightmares have followed me to reality.
AlzaboHD: makes video
Everyone in the comments: I was expecting ISP After that Ironsides intro
,,EU4. Playing with Scandinavia is CURSED.(End me)"
'German American?? Don't you mean Nazi POS traitor American! And please don't bitch at for me pointing out the obvious. YOU chose that moniker, not the German flag to make a statement. I am not into pro genocide fuckwits who wanted to wipe out not just the Jews but the Slavs too. Lebensraum'! Ask the Russians- Still with McCarthyism being now practiced by the DNC and MSM we are now offically pro Nazi in the West now what with the US spending $ 5 BILLION to overturn Ukraine's democracy and put in a Nazi backed oligarch and with all the SS Div Galicia fans of the Death camps like the Azov Brigade you are not so alone these POISONED days!
@@vladdrakul7851
Imagine being this butt blasted about someone else's username. "Vlad Drakul" is fucking cringe.
@@taliesin7913 Vlad Drakul is a historical name for the father of Vlad Tepes using Rumanian spelling. Second it was NOT HIS NAME which bothered me fuckwit but his choice of the Nazi flag not the German one. (which is ironic as you attack my name which is a Metal name I have used since the 1990's for music. Think Slayer). Only Bieber level tweens still use the word 'cringe' btw. My son quit using that lame expression 5 years ago. Are you 12? We know why you made that pathetic lame attempt at an insult. You did not like the point I had to make. IE your a POS defending Nazism; As a German I find little shits like you to be the worst. Little fuckwit can't handle push back. GO fuck yourself Lil Adolf or was it lil Dickie?
@@taliesin7913 Wow the White Knight rides in to rescue the Nazi sympathizer. Jerk!
You know you've been watching too much ISP when you associate the Ironside logo with memes
I don't even get how it is possible to make Scandinavia bad, *just mix the Scandinavia nations together*
How hard can it be?
5:07 EU4 ASMR when?
april fools!
Could be good actually
This might as well be renamed "Top 10 AlzaboHD roasts of EUIV Factions"!
10. Australia - 0:31
9. Greece - 1:37
8. Westphalia - 2:55
7. Shan - 4:05
6. Germany - 5:26
5. Sokoto - 6:55
4. Bukhara - 8:20
3. Iceland - 9:32
2. Holy Roman Empire - 10:52
1. Scandinavia - 12:16
As an Icelander I’m very offended. I’ll have you know that aside from eating rotten shark we also eat sheep balls stored for months in fermented whey.
Good day to you.
I love how these videos are not just about the game itself, but it is also full of clever joked and references. Alzabo really comes across as a knowledgable person.
“I will spare you the contrived Voltaire quote”
Thank you.
Love the humour and shade mingled in those videos, it makes them not only educational but also very fun too watch, keep up the good work 😃
Rest in peace Aral Sea
What's wrong with draining a sea? Farmland was obtained that way
@@austinmontgomery117 What do you think is gonna happen once that sea dries up? No water which can be irrigated for that farm land.
@@kubilayvurak8256 It’s not Salt Water.
@@austinmontgomery117 well the drainage of the sea was not the goal of the operation. Sure they made farmland, but not for edible crops but for cotton. The drainage also has tons of negative effects like the destruction of the whole ecosphere and with that the fisheries on the lake. All shipyards closed, lots of jobs were lost and health problems caused by dust from the lake bed, contaminated by heavy pesticides used in the farmlands by the river, which became a desert, appeared. Furthermore did the local climat change; a large body of water lessens fluctuations in temperature. And also an old laboratory which studied bio weapons like anthrax on an island in the lake became accessible.
@@kubilayvurak8256 no. The lake used to contain sweet water but since it has almost completely dried up the water has become salty.
I don’t understand why it took them so long to give the HRE and Germany missions and flavor. They should have at lest had their own national ideas.
How long does it take most players to form them? Sort of to the point that it was probably very low on their to-do list.
@@artofthepossible7329 Fair enough. But I still think this is a bit silly that it took this long
@@ryanhodges2201 Look at the amont of DLCs CK2 got.
It's silly but welcome to video game development, too many things to do and not enough time to do them is an excuse that is perfectly valid.
10:44 - That was a good, but tragically failed attempt at trying to pronounce the names in Icelandic. xD
Honestly I'm pretty interested how this list would look now, since after the recent updates Australia, Westphalia and Germany would probably not be on the list anymore and Iceland along with the HRE would probably be lower on the list since they actually have really nice ideas now
Checkmate Alzabo, Westphalia now has one of the best idea sets in Germany and you can stack idea cost modifiers on them to get ideas for 150 mana.
I'm really surprised Egypt isn't on this list.
- requires admin tech 20
- gives claims on Egypt, which the mamluks, the only nation that can form them without culture shifting, already own at the start
- if you have the Mamluk government, you turn into a normal monarchy and lose 1 stability
Alzabo I don't know if anyone has said this but you feel like the Taureor of Eu4 (With that calm bob ross-esque voice)
Cheers mate I love Taureor's content, thanks for the compliment!
amazing content keep up the great content
8:27 It says "R.I.P. Aral Sea"
Can confirm Shan. Since I started my first formable was Japan, next I painstakingly bumbled my way to a Shan from Mong Kawng and found out I was actually stronger pre-formation and fell apart in minutes.
You're the greatest. Thanks for the effort you put in these videos
5:07
"They never got Thailand"
This was damn entertaining, getting covered in "piss yellow" was particular hilarious! cheers
Great video as always. Looking forward to more videos (especially CK2 content) to get me through this lockdown lol
The casual puns in between your explanations make the video funny and enjoyable. I always have a laugh.
Westphalia was listed to get new missions in the latest dev diary, so that could make it far more interesting.
Woud love to see an updated version of this now!
Love your videos!
More videos from my favourite PDX channel is the single best thing the recent quarantines have caused.
Good video mate ;)
Good video has always, Alzabo. Personally I would like to see a guide about how to play with super overlooked Interlacustrine (aka Central African minors) nations or the South American Natives OPMs. Greetings from Brazil and watch out for the yellow virus
A final note on Germany: if you were playing as Prussia before (which is very likely) you won't be able to get the unique ability "Prussian Discipline" during the age of revolution which grant −20% Fire damage received.
I'd love to see a video of the best colonial regions, particularly with an eye towards breaking away and becoming independent.
The fact that someone that is not iSorrowProductions can be sponsored by Ironside makes me rethink my existence
I’ve been waiting for this one
#8 Westphalia: I actually formed it as Cleves, after a few conquests. And actually ended up as leader of a PU with France (which is hard to control, however, due to Westphalia being so much smaller than France).
Scandinavia is especially bad since if you play as Sweden there's a handful of events which can give you some of the best permanent modifiers in the game. But of course that isn't favoritism by the devs...
Turning from a horde into a settled state was useful in EU3, where hordes had huge difficulties staying stable, abysmal income and a tech group with 10% research speed and no unit upgrades beyond tech 1, and settling was the first step to westernization. Now in EU4 hordes can do most things settled nations can, and have an array of powerful abilities on top.
Stay safe out there! I’d personally like to see your personal top 10 favorite campaigns
Great videos! How about top 10 best/worst trade nodes?
What a great video isp 👍
I've been playing a game as Hesse in which I maintain the emperorship of an entirely protestant HRE. Hesse's ideas are superior to Westphalia's, but I ended up forming them without new traditions and ambitions because Hesse's mission tree includes tolerance and a permanent +.1 monthly imperial authority modifier, and for an emperor game that seems valuable to me. Plus I get claims on northern Germany when before the missions focused more on pushing West over Rhinish culture provinces. I already got the Hessian mercenaries achievement and I'm not aware of any super great ideas past the 1670s for Hesse so it seemed like a good move.
You actually sound pained when you talked about forming the HRE, I'm sensing a lot of past personal struggle with that one.
Not gonna lie, I've never played EU
I clicked on this video out of curiosity
Had no idea what was going on, but was not disappointed!
Thanks for watching! EU4 goes on sale quite often, if you're interested in history or strategy gaming it's definitely worth checking out. Cheers!
I formed Bukhara when i played Uzbek years ago & i'm continuing the save on Vicky2 for a RUclips playthrough
6:15 interresting factoid that makes germany even worse to form:
IF you form it as prussia, you are no longer able to use the prussian age b onus in age of revolutions, even though this should be more then obvious if you think about it, there really is no reason to form them at all if you intend on finishing the campaign aside from roleplay porpuses.
Before I watch I bet Scandinavia is the worse
You are a scholar and an oracle
I spoiled myself, lmao
@@waywardstoner9416 oops
Atleast germany can be formed by prussia so thats a plus
Yea i mean it is kind of weird that there isn't a northern european expansion that includes Novgorod, Iceland and some north German nations...
Also PS, that was the absolute funniest Eyjafjallajökull pronounciation that i think was intentionally bad?
It's EYYY (like EYYY (OOO) (JA sound ) AAA... hard F-JA (hard double L) LL A (prounounced the same as the JA A)... Jö (sorta like J uhh) K (hard) U (like uhh) and hard double L again (as in let air escape!). Idk maybe too much text but i have absolutely no idea what you said so it goes for both of us. Hilarious!
Það er tilgangslaust að reyna með greyin, þau ná þessu aldrei
@@Dmitrisnikioff Já því miður...
Awesome to see Icelandic people here! Hey at least I can say " Þingvellir", better figure out a way to get that into a script. Your language is super hard!
Seems like a slightly odd time to release this before a major patch which is updateing some idea sets [EG: Sardinia-Peidmont]
I wouldn't agree with Greece being #9 with Reduced Core Costs. They're not brilliant but have use. It's certainly better than Westphalia and Shan...
And how does Malaya get a pass when it also offers you nothing; Shan can change your ideas if you form it as someone without Shan ideas.
I have no idea what his thinking process was, but as far as I know, the only thing going for malaya asides pirates is that you have the ability to access one of the best trade nodes in game which could turn you stupid rich
@@gamedominatorxennongdm7956 well that's the point, as Malaya you can easily become one of the richest countries in the game, and EU4 is a game where you can effectively throw money at problems that prop up to solve them.
Higher number is better, lower number is worse. #1 is the worst. #9 is almost the least bad on the list.
I'm doing a Malaya playthrough right now, and yeah, I'm stupid rich. That alone makes it good.
@@DiamondDust132 You would be just as rick as before you pressed the button.
Of course ideas and so on are nice, but for me, the roleplay aspect is just more important. Up the HRE!
I saw Iceland form in a game once. I think a bunch of other rare nations appeared in that game too but Iceland was the one I thought was craziest
Wait, aren’t you able to keep your previous TAG’s national ideas and other associated functions by an event when you form Germany? With that by forming Germany you get bumped to empire rank and gain claims on both north and south German regions while still being able to keep Prussian or whatever ideas
You're right when you say that hitting the button to form Germany isn't going to be a detriment to your nation.
However, the opportunity cost is massive and the tag change doesn't give you anything substantial.
But, yes, if you happen to meet the requirements to form Germany, you usually might as well do it. Well, unless you had any tag-related events that were still to come.
I love the sass in this vid. :D
I love your comment
@@AlzaboHD I still can't get over how you dissed Australia so hard lol
EU4 videos: exactly what I think of when I want a video with a Wilhelm scream.
Oh gosh, I can hear all the Aussies lining up to give you a piece of their mind. You have my sympathies. Whatever you do, don't drink the Fosters!
We only sell Fosters overseas, we don't drink it ourselves.
Yeah don't drink it, it tastes awful, it's why we export it.
Oh God, don’t even say Fosters.
I come from the future to say that some of these countries already have their own missions and content in the 1.30 update
about Westphalia - you need to play as Frankfurt cuz it has missions about forming Westphalia.
Dang I didn't realize how recently these videos were made. I was under the impression that these were years old.
I found that in my All Greek to Me run that even though the Greek ideas are bad, they’re still better than the Venetian ideas.
I am a simple man. I see a new Alzabo video, I click.
For a video Idea for EU4, top ten most interesting cultures to play as?
From the developer comment on the latest dev diary, I doubt that they have improved the Scandinavia Events and Mission tree. He said that they haven't worked on it and that it is for future updates and are only focusing on central Europe.
In CK2's new After the End Old World mod, top 10 interesting starts!
In one Castile game greece somehow appeared on Cyprus before being re-annexed by the ottomons. I think that there were greek rebels on Cyprus and the ottomans were too busy having their navy shitstomped by me to take them down.
bruh i havent seen alzabo for a while and sae the ironside intro thought i accidentaly clicked on an isp video
Can you please make the top 10 worst military advanced states (with less morale/ less discipline and worst troops)?
I associate the IronSide intro so much with iSorrow that I was like, “AM I sure I’m not on iSorrowProductions’ channel?”
I love playing as greece is very good and you can form Macedonian empire and Byzantium
South Australia would like to have a word with you about your prison colony reference...
"Your disapointement, is sure to be immersurable..." AND....? Finish the quote!
Since 2020 it is much easier to form Westphalia. I did it playing as Aachen. I guess it is all about Empereor DLC. But it is funt to play as them now.
Do top 10s for civ 6, you can do worst and best civs, and pantheons etc
To be honest I don't have civ 6 yet, was hoping for a "complete GOTY edition" at some point so that I can get it without paying too much for DLC
just played eu4 just played eu3
but fantastic video
(do a eu3 list plz)
shan is kinda useful because if you ally all shan cultured nations you can essentially form it just through the mission
It´s astonishing what people go through for some flavour. Because that´s what you really get from forming them
(though not playing as them, lacking specific mecanics...)
Many (ok, some) of these nations are also "dream goals" you can aim for - but once you´re there, you basically won and don´t have anything to do.
Yes, playing as HRE is boring. But getting there is what its all about - what else would you even aim for once you have this tag?
Things are different for smaller "stepping stone" nations.
For me, they are more like easter eggs when once in a dozen games the AI forms one of them. Like "hey, what´s that? And I thought I´d seen everything by now"
I am a simple man. I see an al AlzaboHD video. I watch it. I send a like.
God I love you roasting those nations. I remember playing Denmark and thinking "Oh I can form Scandinavia to get better ideas right? I bet they are Sweden on steroids" BOI was I wrong
I have no problem with talking down Westphalia but Cologne is quite a nice pick in the HRE it's easy to become emperor and their idea set isn't all that bad if u like to play a smaller nation for a change it's quite good.
10:44 iceland would be out if the list if the name change to this
love the humour in this vid
It’s about to be April Fools Alzabo...
Lord Haida is watching
forming scandinavia promotes all scandinavian cultures to accepted without occupying a slot which means you can have an obnoxious amount of fully accepted cultures if for example you decide to claim the british isles for yourself.
this list would make a lot more sense if you swapped iceland and scandinavia around as there are actual benefits to the latter.