What OPMs do you enjoy playing? Have you played a campaign as any of these nations? Do you agree with my list? Let me know in the comment box below! If you have any ideas for future top 10 videos I'd love to hear your suggestions! Thanks for watching and see you on the next video.
I know it isn't an OPM, but Byzantium is a TPM(three province minor) that I am probably way to obsessed with playing. After I watched the video, I think I might try playing Trebizond to mix things up a bit...
Where is my boy shimazu? Not only rival their ideas the ones of oda but they also start with a core on one their neighbours. Plus i like their flag and colour.
@@FFFFFFF-FFFFFFFUUUUCCCC The real Question is how my Answer landed here. As i was writing it on the genereal Video. Used Mobile App tho so maybe its that.
@@cheddaboyant7817 yea, this could happens if, Morocco/Granada won Iberian war, Holland independence and have colony in near mali and somehow became Muslim (it's possible, trust me),
10:15 - Potato fields? POTATO FIELDS!? It's 1444 you sponge, there were no potatoes in the Western Hemisphere yet - they were all still in South America. Agh, it makes me so angry when people get their potato history wrong. You need Kilian to show you the light.
He missed the biggest thing those two minors can do. They can get to Australia and move their capital there hilariously early; and proceed to abuse Trade Companies since their capital is neither in Asia or Africa. Not to mention Australian Gold and the high development in New Zealand.
@@PAINNN666 I can't recall which update off the top of my head, but you can certainly roll back far enough to play a version where Tediore/Ternate get an extra colonist. I think it might have been Mare Nostrum.
@@raikaria3090 Not only this but with a capital in a colonial region, you can declare war on European Colonial Nations without fighting their European Overlords. It is pretty easy to conquer all the Americas, SE Asia, etc.
_WHAT_ !?! I thought for sure that was a Danish thing. Or, I guess, a Southern Jutland thing... Which is to say a Northern Slesvig thing...... Right, well, I guess it makes sense after all. Thanks for sharing :)
@@AlzaboHD on the other hand, France and Ottomans are fantastic allies. Ottomans in my experience never betrayed me, even still protecting me when i got coalition'd again when they are on low manpower and just finished a war in the middle east
Ternate is such a comfy playthrough and was even moreso when it had its extra colonist. Conquering your neighbor Tidore, then picking off the Sulawesi trio, and moving on to Brunei and Majapahit all while colonizing the Philippines, was just so good.
and many province in phillipines has trade goods gems and after unlocking mill it will gives fortune, not to mention the extra 15% tax that can be optimized by increasing the tax dev. the malayan countries are filthy rich.
@@AlzaboHD but its hard in the beginning because you literally have no Economy at all and the only one in the Region except theodoro who gets eaten by crimea is georgia but only as Long as you dont touch immeritia or scamzche and those are your only expanding chances. :(
The best campaign i had with trebizond was some while ago I allied byzantium when the ottomans attacked albania i attacked them and called byzantium it was a difficult war but i got like 3-4 ottoman provencies then conquerod caucasus aq then had to convert to islam cuz i wanted to ally the mamluks allied the mamluks went on a war against the ottomans lost never touched trebizond again
@@ilsmaniactv3936 its very hard to even deal with intern problems because you lose stability like every 2secs and your Economy is Like the worst in game
ilsmaniac TV yeah I tried to play trebizond yesterday again, had like 150 dev and most of caucasus at 1498 and was allied to russia, but the ottomans attacked and instant stackwhiped my whole army. I ragequit and wont ever load the save anymore :D
Migrating to Cuba as Carib IS fun. But you know what's more fun? Declaring a no CB war on an Incan nation, vassalizing them, then using their territory and claims as a foot step to conquer and reform into the Incan Empire with Carib's ideas and Intil religion mechanics. Nothing beats 5 colonists (6 if you have parliment). Getting 4-5 Military while the Incans are still at 2-3 thanks to migrating and showing strength against your starting rival and having +10 force limit from the native building will get you there. Its just finishing the Intil reforms before Spain murders you which is a problem. :P
@@martinhorvath4117 But it shouldn't be hard! English speakers just don't understand the umlaut. It's not difficult to use the long vowel for an English speaker.
You mentioned Oda, but personally I prefer Date and Shimazu. They both have insane ideas as well. I really love your videos. You have such a nice and calming voice. ;D
I was considering adding Shimazu to the list - I couldn't decide between them and Oda! Thank you for your kind comment and I look forward to seeing you on the next video.
Date's development, core and idea cost reduction along with their diplo rep and infantry combat ability are quite good. I'm not a huge fan of reduce AE though as it becomes just a number fairly quickly, especially if you pay tribute to ming to avoid coalitions entirely. The heavy ship idea also seems kinda weird. I like the technology cost reduction and trade modifiers though! Date seems pretty powerful but I think Shimazu and Oda are a bit better.
@@AlzaboHD When you expand outside Japan and meet British/Spanish fleet, you would know why Date idea works even better than ideas of Oda and Shimazu. I use Date idea in my current run. Britain is hostile toward me. I move my capital to Aleutian islands so that I can open trade companies in China, Indochina, and India to avoid corruption penalties from too many territories. Now you can stack Date's heavy ship cost reduction with unique building from trade companies, which means by the time I destroy the British fleet, each heavy ship only cost me 35 ducats! I also took quality ideas and stack heavy ship combat ability and durability with the bonus from Date. I managed to assemble a fleet with more than 100 heavy ships at 70% of the regular cost,25% extra durability as well as 20% combat ability to deal with colonizers. But if you take Oda and Shimazu ideas, life won't be easy to deal with the Armada and the Royal Navy.
Shimazu also starts with a free core on their neighbor Hyuga and are surrounded by OPMs they can eat as they wait for Ouchi, Yamana, and the one with Nara to fall apart.
God, I remember my Taungu game from like a year ago! I allied with Ayyuthaya and Bengal, formed a massive triple alliance, and began to eat into China post-Mingsplosion (I'm poor and don't have all the dlcs at all, rip) I probably would've had the achievement too, I expanded so fast I think the game updated and the save got lost :c it was my greatest game
Lübeck always gets all the attention, glad to see you also mentioned Hamburg. Personally I almost like Bremen more, but thats just because Hannover is one of my favorite nations.
@@AlzaboHD the only word what made me laugh was "bunte Kuh". Because this was completly wrong pronounced, but the rest was pronounced like someone outside of Germany would pronounce it and I can't blame you for that 😉. But I don't have any idea how to write how you pronouce Bunte Kuh. You can pronounce it: Bu-> of Bull nt-> of n't (e.g. don't) e-> of episode But I don't have any idea how to do this with Kuh. But as I said I don't blame you for pronouncing it wrong 🙃. Edit: Kuh-> like cool but without the l at the end.
@@wythore u instead of an o (more like you would say the u like ultra). The problem is that it is so hard to write an english person how to pronounce a german word.
“My tribe was able to build the worlds largest metropolis in a savage wasteland in less than a decade.” This is why a lot of people don’t like the development system
@@josephgilboy6259 Yeah compared to Mesoamerica, the british isles were a backwater, if not 3/4's of Europe, save for the a few cities near the Mediterranean like Constantinople and some Italian cities.
What program do you use to edit your videos? Your videos look of a similar quality to Reman's Paradox, and I was extremely suprised to see only 10k subscribers!
Hello Adventurer32! Thank you for your nice comment. I use Sony Vegas to edit and record. You comparing my videos to Reman is quite the compliment! I hope he returns to YT as I love his videos.
It's a bit confusing when the -0.02 monthly war exhaustion is praised in this one but criticized in the "worst nations" list. Either way, thanks a lot for these videos. They're a hoot and a half to watch. :)
Holy shit my most recent EU4 campaign was precisely with Ternate, I'm at the start of the 17th century and I already control most of modern day Indonesia, parts of the Philipins and almost all of Australia and New Zeleand colonized. I didn't know how powerful it was when I initially chose it, I just wanted a peaceful colonization game with little to no competition . Surpised it's the #1 OPM you chose!
I used Ulm to form Germany and get the Early Reich achievement. Memes aside, the weak ideas and traditions really start to show through in the mid game and I got repeatedly stomped on by the Brandenburg proto-Space Marines. Had to make lots of allies and adopt the Soviet strategy of just overwhelming them with hordes of cannon fodder...
I love Oda ideas. They’re not quite as strong as certain sets (Prussia, Mughals, Yuan, etc) but it really doesn’t have any bad ideas. It says a lot that -5% tech cost is probably the worst one on there
@@AlzaboHD If you think of ü as y you will do much better. Lybeck with the y pronounced as the y in gladly is probably close enough for most German speakers.
@@AlzaboHD ü = y, u = o, o = å (like in oar). ending a word with g can sound a bit like k /ˌɡuːtn̩ ˈtaːk/ and t as d. there's a reason the rest of the germanic language group slowly left german phonetics behind in favor of more consistent pronunciations ;)
I had a game with a friend. I was vijayanagar. He was augsburg as his family comes from there. When I finally met him. He literally took over almost all of the HRE and was in constant war with Europe. Massive debt from all the mercenary armies he had to raise but if he needed money, he would just start selling off provinces to take them back later
Man after seeing this video, started a taungoo run and it's fun AF, the mission tree is maybe as powerfull as the byz one, though i'd recommend converting to hinduism
I’m surprised there’s no Navarra, I’m in the middle of playing a navarra game (not Ironman, I’m not cheating but I am saving and loading sometimes) and Navarran ideas are great, and it’s in a good position to start a large colonial empire, including an idea giving +20 global settlers. I’m still in the play through, and so far I colonized the almost the entire Caribbean, Louisiana, some parts of Africa to put my navy, the Phillipenes, Taiwan and the spice islands, and some other minor colonies. As for the mainland, I took all the basque land and bearno and argamanac , and I recently broke into 8th on the global powers list
Navarra is a great OPM! It was tough to decide which nations made the list but I think if I could go back I'd replace Trebizond with Navarra. Thank you for watching and good luck with your campaign!
Thesupermrluc both Britain and Spain allied me, they were pretty unstable as they were both domineering sometimes but whenever they broke the alliance they wanted it back later on.
I think Jan Mayen starts anywhere from a 1-3 province nation: I've seen them spawn at varying sized. Dude I love your videos too! Keep up the awesome work thank you so much for watching.
Playing as Tidore/Ternate is absolutely insane. I remember forming Malaya through it - after you whack your islander rival, once you capture Luwu and Makassar you're just as tough as say Majapahit and can easily gobble Sunda.
There's no record of the mainland Carib people practicing cannibalism. You're confusing them with the island Carib, to whom they are possibly related despite speaking unrelated languages, and even then current scholarship does not agree on them being cannibals (and that if they were, it was ceremonial rather than a regular thing). Doesn't make any sense to call the Ottomans "barbarous" either.
Thank you for the correction, Santiago! I completely mixed up the Carib tribe in SA with the island Caribs. Thank you for watching.edit: "barbarous ottomans" was a play on words referring to the barbary pirates who raided European shipping lanes and who were the enemies of the knights of saint john. They were an ottoman protectorate but I agree I didn't really explain that lol
Firstly, I'm not a westerner, I'm mostly Hungarian. (The country whom the Türks occupied for 150 years) And for your statement, for those times they were living in, and those place(mainly Iqta goverments) the ottoman goverment was beyond any Western European goverment(at the time, mainly 17th century) They allowed religion tolerance(Dhimmi) for non-muslims. European engaged in piracy, mostly the Brits and Nordic regions. (And the spanyard corsairs) No one said westerners didn't pirate, mostly because this whole "pirate" culture comes from the Vikings. (Do you know how big religious tolerance is in that time? I don't think you know. The 30 years war ring a bell?
I would have added Lucca to the list. As an Italian state you get very quick access to the Renaissance, +2 Papal influence so you get considerable religion bonuses and can expand into some of the most developed provinces in the game. You eventually have the option of forming Italy which has some good national ideas. Plus you can go for the Lucky Lucca achievement which is a fun one.
as desmond, at my height, i had all of ireland, half of scotland, greeblabd, iceland, the northern islands off of scotland and the notwegian coast.( i would lose the notwegian coast and all of scotland minus the islands soon after but amazed)
I think Date and Shimazu ideas are also very good. For rapid expansionists like me, Date idea is arguably top3 among OPMs along with Oda ad Desmond. Date Ideas: Traditions: +10% Infantry combat ability +1 Diplomatic reputation Ideas: −10% Core-creation cost −10% Aggressive expansion impact −10% Idea cost +10% Land fire damage −5% Heavy ship cost +10% Heavy ship combat ability −5% Technology cost −10% Development cost Ambition: +15% Global trade power
@@maltvinegar436 Noone starts with 200 provinces at game start. Even Ming only has 138 provinces in 1444 if I remember right. So not really much ambiguity here.
The trick is to go west and not north at the start. If you migrate north, then hop west on the mainland three times over the sea zone you can eventually reach the north western tip of south america. From there you hop to Jamaica and then Havana - all possible before 1500 if you take the "Travois" native ideaset. Thank you for watching.
Already tried it, I think the shortest way is Uyapari > Cumana > Caracas > Coro > Guajira > Jamaica > Havana. I stayed longer on the continet in order to get monarch points from migrating and humilliating Arawak, But the sooner you get to your destination the more you can develop your provinces before the europeans arrive. It has been a fun campaing. Portugual, Castile, Great Britain and France want me dead and love each other, but I managed to conquer their colonies.
The map mode is a UI mod "Graphical Map Improvements" for EU4 available on steam: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=253263609, thanks for watching
Two things. 1. Ming no longer protects the player from coalitions 2. Caddo and Carib no longer gain both the native reforms and the reformed religion bonuses from Mexico (which was the reason they were so powerful when discovered).
Tidore and Ternate are practically identical! I forgot to mention this in the video, oops. Ternate is only marginally better as they start off with a slightly stronger ruler. Thank you for watching.
Although maybe not an overpowered opm, I find Ramazan to be quite enjoyable as an opm. Good national ideas with a nice starter with 5% dicipline and -20% core creation cost. A capital that can spawn an institution pretty fast, unlike it's northern trebizond neighbour. Can usually get help from the Mamluks to attack the Ottomans with you, if you choose to expand more into Anatolia, or vice versa and expand into the Levant area. And last but not least.. who doesn't like the colour they start with?
I don't know why, but I've been playing a lot as Trent and either trying to survive or expand from there. I'm rather new at the game, I've only 120 hours, but I played my first, 3rd and 4th game as them with the 4th being in Voltaire's Revenge. My first game sucked, lasted until the end but lost a war to Venice, and to some random African country I tried to take over (didn't know you couldn't take land if you declare war on someone else's land) and then Austria decided to end me in 2227. Next time was better, I got land from Venice to allow me access to water, which then allowed me to defeat Iceland and colonized Greenland, as well as taking two African Vassals, an improvement. 4th game is different as in VR2 Trent is actually rather large and that clearly changes up the vibes, but have so far managed to annex 3 other OPM's on my border, have gained 2 provinces from Venice and 3 from Tirol, so the expansion is happening finally. 4th largest army and have among some of the upper levels of development and economy due to focusing on having all my provinces up to 30 development to get as many trading posts and church's out to get my money strong early, as well as pumping along institutions. Was at 12 military while my neighbors were at 18, but by embracing everything and having high development along with economy, I was able to level up my tech rapidly to being ahead in just a few years thanks to my ideas I'd unlocked over tech unlocks. So much tax and trade income along with being able to have the manpower and army size of Bohemia while being 1/3rd the size. 99 Ducats a month income means I can have max level advisors to just max out techs and when I catch up, bolster my development even further. I own the Venice trade node now basically lol It's probably the opposite as to how other players choose to play, as I've seen online that many don't focus on buildings, and I'm out here with 13 Provinces all with 6 buildings each.
Played Oda cause of historical events and also the Nobunaga's Ambition games. Then realized how chaotic everything gets after a few seconds of playtime.
Same I always played as Uesugi just because it has 3 provinces at the beginning and not so powerful neighbours. But when I saw Oda in this video I was like "nothing makes sense anymore".
@@axelmuller7946 Yep. Uesugi wastes too many idea slots on army tradition which player can obtain quite easily. It's also not as useful as the discipline in late games. By the time Uesugi expands outwards, it has no core-cost reduction, Diplo-reputation or reduction on Diplo annexation. It does not have a trade, colonist or naval buff either that makes colonial competition easier.
@@heavenwatcher100 you are completly right. I mean it doesn't matter when you form Japan but to do exactly this, Uesugi is not a good choice. When I played as uesugi It to took me more than 200 years to form Japan and by this time, my only choice was to take the expansion ideas and try to colonice if possible. I think other countries are better to form Japan.
I will say that I am surprised that Hisn Kayfa wasn't included in this list. While their initial starting position is poor, their ideas are great and if they can secure an early alliance with the Ottomans they can expand rapidly and easily become a leading great power
What OPMs do you enjoy playing? Have you played a campaign as any of these nations? Do you agree with my list? Let me know in the comment box below! If you have any ideas for future top 10 videos I'd love to hear your suggestions! Thanks for watching and see you on the next video.
I know it isn't an OPM, but Byzantium is a TPM(three province minor) that I am probably way to obsessed with playing. After I watched the video, I think I might try playing Trebizond to mix things up a bit...
Tyrone over Desmond!
I like Navara, but I haven't played in months, my computer died so I'm stuck with a 16 years old laptop, cant wait for the new expansion
I really love Ardabil.
Albania is interesting with their initial diplomacy options and Skanderbeg.
"trebizond is really good" *shows trebizond getting smacked around like a tetherball*
yeah that happens if u play them
Yeah, tetherball is a good sport!
That was the perfect example to go with "Trebizond is really good" because after all that, they won and stack wiped the enemy, lol.
Ulm isn’t the best one province minor, *its the best nation in the game*
Yea opms cant own the moon at game Start.
It's the best one province MAJOR
meme needs to die
What you doing here for honor xxxpunisherxxx?
666th like!
I swear if Ulm isn’t first...
First in dreams and in memes, Ulm will always lead in our heart.
Well if a (dis)honorable mention at the end counts as "first," I guess you got what you wanted..
Where is my boy shimazu? Not only rival their ideas the ones of oda but they also start with a core on one their neighbours. Plus i like their flag and colour.
@@CH-Sibrand
Shimazu purple boys are my favorite in Japan as well. Good combat ideas too
@@FFFFFFF-FFFFFFFUUUUCCCC The real Question is how my Answer landed here. As i was writing it on the genereal Video. Used Mobile App tho so maybe its that.
Played as Carib. Followed instructions.
England came.
Sunni Nation..
Instructions unclear. Ended up smoking hashish.
Real shit?
@@cheddaboyant7817 yea, this could happens if, Morocco/Granada won Iberian war, Holland independence and have colony in near mali and somehow became Muslim (it's possible, trust me),
Im smoking hash too rn
*Sees title*
Let the Ulm and Ryukyu commence.
let the memes be dreams
And Caddo
10:15 - Potato fields? POTATO FIELDS!? It's 1444 you sponge, there were no potatoes in the Western Hemisphere yet - they were all still in South America.
Agh, it makes me so angry when people get their potato history wrong. You need Kilian to show you the light.
I need a potato history lesson
don't you mean eastern hemisphere?
I do. I was so filled with untold rage I lost my bearings. I've calmed down a bit now though.
You're right. More right rice fields.
@@AlzaboHD Eire is pronounced "AIR-EH".
Ternate used to have a free colonist but paradox nerfed it :(
He missed the biggest thing those two minors can do.
They can get to Australia and move their capital there hilariously early; and proceed to abuse Trade Companies since their capital is neither in Asia or Africa. Not to mention Australian Gold and the high development in New Zealand.
When? From what update?
@@raikaria3090 Direct rule from SYDNEY!
@@PAINNN666 I can't recall which update off the top of my head, but you can certainly roll back far enough to play a version where Tediore/Ternate get an extra colonist.
I think it might have been Mare Nostrum.
@@raikaria3090 Not only this but with a capital in a colonial region, you can declare war on European Colonial Nations without fighting their European Overlords. It is pretty easy to conquer all the Americas, SE Asia, etc.
Well Ulm was technically on here so we're good
You've mastered the algorithm. Every list video ends up in my recommended.
Thanks for watching! I think the secret is massive text thumbnails and >10:00 video duration.
People from Hamburg say “Moin Moin” instead of “Guten Tag “
Fetov people also say moin/mojn in southern Denmark
No, it's a single "Moin", and it always has been
moin means guten tag, moin moin invites to a klönschnack, smalltalk.
So it's like saying _Night Night_ for good night? Except for _Morning Morning_ for good day?
_WHAT_ !?! I thought for sure that was a Danish thing.
Or, I guess, a Southern Jutland thing... Which is to say a Northern Slesvig thing...... Right, well, I guess it makes sense after all.
Thanks for sharing :)
Gonna be real with your chief. Muscovy is the most untrustworthy ally I’ve ever had throughout all my games. All my homies hate Muscovy
If you think Muscovy is bad just wait until you ally Great Britain! We only make that mistake once lol
@@AlzaboHD or castille/spain. THEIR ARMIES JUST SIT THERE!!!
@@AlzaboHD on the other hand, France and Ottomans are fantastic allies. Ottomans in my experience never betrayed me, even still protecting me when i got coalition'd again when they are on low manpower and just finished a war in the middle east
Ternate is such a comfy playthrough and was even moreso when it had its extra colonist. Conquering your neighbor Tidore, then picking off the Sulawesi trio, and moving on to Brunei and Majapahit all while colonizing the Philippines, was just so good.
and many province in phillipines has trade goods gems and after unlocking mill it will gives fortune, not to mention the extra 15% tax that can be optimized by increasing the tax dev. the malayan countries are filthy rich.
Also easy to change to sulawesi culture so you can form Malaya
"Hamburger Potential"
HAMBURGER KINETICS
"Hamburger Ideas"
Byzantium can into OPM
Byzantium can into No province minor
@It's r/swoosh
@@mikeoxsmal8022 r/subsithoughtifellfor. Also, nice name.
@@oscarword775 thanks. As a leftist I must praise our daddy and god also we live in a Society
@@mikeoxsmal8022 yes we live in a society
Everytime I play Trebizond I get turbo eaten by Ottomans until 1500 :(
Trebizond is tough! If you can expand fast enough you can sometimes get Poland-Lithuania or Muscovy as an ally. Keep trying you got this!
@@AlzaboHD but its hard in the beginning because you literally have no Economy at all and the only one in the Region except theodoro who gets eaten by crimea is georgia but only as Long as you dont touch immeritia or scamzche and those are your only expanding chances. :(
The best campaign i had with trebizond was some while ago
I allied byzantium when the ottomans attacked albania i attacked them and called byzantium it was a difficult war but i got like 3-4 ottoman provencies then conquerod caucasus aq then had to convert to islam cuz i wanted to ally the mamluks allied the mamluks went on a war against the ottomans lost never touched trebizond again
@@ilsmaniactv3936 its very hard to even deal with intern problems because you lose stability like every 2secs and your Economy is Like the worst in game
ilsmaniac TV yeah I tried to play trebizond yesterday again, had like 150 dev and most of caucasus at 1498 and was allied to russia, but the ottomans attacked and instant stackwhiped my whole army. I ragequit and wont ever load the save anymore :D
Migrating to Cuba as Carib IS fun. But you know what's more fun? Declaring a no CB war on an Incan nation, vassalizing them, then using their territory and claims as a foot step to conquer and reform into the Incan Empire with Carib's ideas and Intil religion mechanics. Nothing beats 5 colonists (6 if you have parliment). Getting 4-5 Military while the Incans are still at 2-3 thanks to migrating and showing strength against your starting rival and having +10 force limit from the native building will get you there.
Its just finishing the Intil reforms before Spain murders you which is a problem. :P
I wince at your pronunciations despite not knowing much German. But I agree with your list
bunte kuh
@Cheetah Man LUBBIC *screams*
I can't really blame the guy. German pronounciation is hard for native English speakers (even though you literally have to say it like it's written. )
@@martinhorvath4117 But it shouldn't be hard! English speakers just don't understand the umlaut. It's not difficult to use the long vowel for an English speaker.
Try the Japanese, he fucking said NIPPEN instead of Nippon eughh
When he first said Lubeck I was like "wait, Lubbock is in Texas"
I'm from Texas. Oops. Guess it shows!
@@AlzaboHD Awesome! Best state in the Union!
Texas is featured in the next video, it wont dissapoint!
@@AlzaboHD Cool! I forgot Texas could form in EU4
Thanks for the video, I'm definitely going to have to try the Aungu, Ternate, Carib or Caddo just for a change of pace
I wondered when ternate would turn up. It is soo freaking good being able to always rush an appropriately sized enemy
It's always nice to find someone looking at EUIV without doing shitty facecams or other lame gimmicks. Great vid!
Thanks for the awesome comment and for watching. I'm not a fan of face cams, I totally agree.
You mentioned Oda, but personally I prefer Date and Shimazu. They both have insane ideas as well.
I really love your videos. You have such a nice and calming voice. ;D
I was considering adding Shimazu to the list - I couldn't decide between them and Oda! Thank you for your kind comment and I look forward to seeing you on the next video.
Haha, I can totally see why you'd pick Oda tho. How do you think Date compares?
Date's development, core and idea cost reduction along with their diplo rep and infantry combat ability are quite good. I'm not a huge fan of reduce AE though as it becomes just a number fairly quickly, especially if you pay tribute to ming to avoid coalitions entirely. The heavy ship idea also seems kinda weird. I like the technology cost reduction and trade modifiers though! Date seems pretty powerful but I think Shimazu and Oda are a bit better.
@@AlzaboHD When you expand outside Japan and meet British/Spanish fleet, you would know why Date idea works even better than ideas of Oda and Shimazu. I use Date idea in my current run. Britain is hostile toward me. I move my capital to Aleutian islands so that I can open trade companies in China, Indochina, and India to avoid corruption penalties from too many territories. Now you can stack Date's heavy ship cost reduction with unique building from trade companies, which means by the time I destroy the British fleet, each heavy ship only cost me 35 ducats! I also took quality ideas and stack heavy ship combat ability and durability with the bonus from Date. I managed to assemble a fleet with more than 100 heavy ships at 70% of the regular cost,25% extra durability as well as 20% combat ability to deal with colonizers. But if you take Oda and Shimazu ideas, life won't be easy to deal with the Armada and the Royal Navy.
Shimazu also starts with a free core on their neighbor Hyuga and are surrounded by OPMs they can eat as they wait for Ouchi, Yamana, and the one with Nara to fall apart.
As a Texan, I find your pronunciation of Lübeck absolutely glorious.
What does being Texan have anything to do with it
Steven Brock wtf is that
This dude sounds like an old cars seller
That would be an awesome job! Thank you for watching.
"This bad boy can fit so many Ideas in it!"
@@MrARCN7 xD
God, I remember my Taungu game from like a year ago! I allied with Ayyuthaya and Bengal, formed a massive triple alliance, and began to eat into China post-Mingsplosion (I'm poor and don't have all the dlcs at all, rip)
I probably would've had the achievement too, I expanded so fast
I think the game updated and the save got lost :c it was my greatest game
"It's up to you if memes can become dreams" this man just earned himself a sub
I love how the entire time he's explaining why trebizond is powerful, he's just getting absolutely cucked.
me: Lübeck is probaly #1
Alzabo: On number 2 ist Lübeck.
Damn, so close.
Lübeck always gets all the attention, glad to see you also mentioned Hamburg.
Personally I almost like Bremen more, but thats just because Hannover is one of my favorite nations.
He had to ban Ulm from the list because it's too powerful, every spot would just be a Ulm.
My God, these are some of the worst pronunciations, usually I wouldn't mention it, but there's just so many in one video.
I think I pronounced "The Knights" correctly! Thanks for watching.
@@AlzaboHD the only word what made me laugh was "bunte Kuh". Because this was completly wrong pronounced, but the rest was pronounced like someone outside of Germany would pronounce it and I can't blame you for that 😉. But I don't have any idea how to write how you pronouce Bunte Kuh. You can pronounce it:
Bu-> of Bull
nt-> of n't (e.g. don't)
e-> of episode
But I don't have any idea how to do this with Kuh. But as I said I don't blame you for pronouncing it wrong 🙃.
Edit:
Kuh-> like cool but without the l at the end.
Axel Muller so "boont-eh Koo"?
@@wythore u instead of an o (more like you would say the u like ultra). The problem is that it is so hard to write an english person how to pronounce a german word.
I'm glad someone one else noticed.
i realy do love Top 10 Videos about Eu4
Comments like yours keep me going! Thank you for watching and being an awesome person : D
“My tribe was able to build the worlds largest metropolis in a savage wasteland in less than a decade.” This is why a lot of people don’t like the development system
That's why i like it. If the AI would use it tho it would be even better
To be fair though, Tenochitlan was a bigger and more developed city than London in 1444
@@CausticSpace yeah but all Britain had up until the 17th century was sheep and rain, of course London was historically small
@@josephgilboy6259 Yeah compared to Mesoamerica, the british isles were a backwater, if not 3/4's of Europe, save for the a few cities near the Mediterranean like Constantinople and some Italian cities.
What program do you use to edit your videos? Your videos look of a similar quality to Reman's Paradox, and I was extremely suprised to see only 10k subscribers!
Hello Adventurer32! Thank you for your nice comment. I use Sony Vegas to edit and record. You comparing my videos to Reman is quite the compliment! I hope he returns to YT as I love his videos.
Why am I watching this? I have never booted up EU4
just recently happened to me and after a bunch of videos ive now started playing.
Nice video! :D
Grazie!
It's a bit confusing when the -0.02 monthly war exhaustion is praised in this one but criticized in the "worst nations" list. Either way, thanks a lot for these videos. They're a hoot and a half to watch. :)
As a guy from Trebizond, i like this video💁🏻♂️
Trapezous*
Or Trabzon if you like a spice of Turkeys.
Bu arada selam Türk olan bir insan
Interesting, thank you!
Holy shit my most recent EU4 campaign was precisely with Ternate, I'm at the start of the 17th century and I already control most of modern day Indonesia, parts of the Philipins and almost all of Australia and New Zeleand colonized. I didn't know how powerful it was when I initially chose it, I just wanted a peaceful colonization game with little to no competition . Surpised it's the #1 OPM you chose!
Ulm isn't the best one province minor. *Change my mind*
Ulm has memes. Get ready for the ultimate atack of '' I changed my mind'' :D
KAAAAAMEEEEEEHAAAAAAMEEEEEEEHAAAAAA!!!
but.......but Ulm!
Ulm-y a meme?
Ulm is all.
Ulm is life.
I used Ulm to form Germany and get the Early Reich achievement.
Memes aside, the weak ideas and traditions really start to show through in the mid game and I got repeatedly stomped on by the Brandenburg proto-Space Marines. Had to make lots of allies and adopt the Soviet strategy of just overwhelming them with hordes of cannon fodder...
how dare you disrespect god emperor ulm you heathen
I have +3 tolerance of heathens
I love Oda ideas. They’re not quite as strong as certain sets (Prussia, Mughals, Yuan, etc) but it really doesn’t have any bad ideas. It says a lot that -5% tech cost is probably the worst one on there
Oh comrade the Germanic language is not for you is it. Ü = OOoooooh sound looooooooobeck x
Guilty as charged - I don't speak a word of german outside of "Guten Tag". Good thing I apologized in the video haha
@@AlzaboHD If you think of ü as y you will do much better. Lybeck with the y pronounced as the y in gladly is probably close enough for most German speakers.
@@AlzaboHD ü = y, u = o, o = å (like in oar). ending a word with g can sound a bit like k /ˌɡuːtn̩ ˈtaːk/ and t as d.
there's a reason the rest of the germanic language group slowly left german phonetics behind in favor of more consistent pronunciations ;)
Nah, I like Lubbock better
Even though I don't speak a word of german, people pronouncing Ü as U annoys the shit out of me
hamburger ideas oooh mann.. they must have some kind special sauce
Well done, I actually descended from King Desmond
Great video. Subbed
Thank you for watching and for your sub! Cheers
I had a game with a friend. I was vijayanagar. He was augsburg as his family comes from there. When I finally met him. He literally took over almost all of the HRE and was in constant war with Europe. Massive debt from all the mercenary armies he had to raise but if he needed money, he would just start selling off provinces to take them back later
With Carib you can migrate to Central Americas get the Mayan religion and become really OP.
I love these videos
Man after seeing this video, started a taungoo run and it's fun AF, the mission tree is maybe as powerfull as the byz one, though i'd recommend converting to hinduism
The list helped me very much I started an Hamburg Kampagne and managed to firm Germany by 1800
I’m surprised there’s no Navarra, I’m in the middle of playing a navarra game (not Ironman, I’m not cheating but I am saving and loading sometimes) and Navarran ideas are great, and it’s in a good position to start a large colonial empire, including an idea giving +20 global settlers. I’m still in the play through, and so far I colonized the almost the entire Caribbean, Louisiana, some parts of Africa to put my navy, the Phillipenes, Taiwan and the spice islands, and some other minor colonies. As for the mainland, I took all the basque land and bearno and argamanac , and I recently broke into 8th on the global powers list
Navarra is a great OPM! It was tough to decide which nations made the list but I think if I could go back I'd replace Trebizond with Navarra. Thank you for watching and good luck with your campaign!
AlzaboHD thanks, keep the good eu4 videos up
Navarra will lose coastline which is nerf :(
How were you able to survive the early game? I lost like 6 times and then gave up.
Thesupermrluc both Britain and Spain allied me, they were pretty unstable as they were both domineering sometimes but whenever they broke the alliance they wanted it back later on.
I Once Started A Game As Bavaria, And Right Off The Bat, Ulm Had Atleast 125% Of My Income.
Would you consider Jan Mayan as a OPM? Don't they start off with one province when they spawn :P (if they spawn)
Love your vids!
I think Jan Mayen starts anywhere from a 1-3 province nation: I've seen them spawn at varying sized. Dude I love your videos too! Keep up the awesome work thank you so much for watching.
Playing as Tidore/Ternate is absolutely insane. I remember forming Malaya through it - after you whack your islander rival, once you capture Luwu and Makassar you're just as tough as say Majapahit and can easily gobble Sunda.
I didn't know that Lubbock, Texas was in Germany. I'd always assumed that was where Lübeck was.
To be honest Germany did own Texas in real life as a colony and lost it
Always refreshing to see other people understand the power of Ternate.
There's no record of the mainland Carib people practicing cannibalism. You're confusing them with the island Carib, to whom they are possibly related despite speaking unrelated languages, and even then current scholarship does not agree on them being cannibals (and that if they were, it was ceremonial rather than a regular thing). Doesn't make any sense to call the Ottomans "barbarous" either.
Cliche.
Thank you for the correction, Santiago! I completely mixed up the Carib tribe in SA with the island Caribs. Thank you for watching.edit: "barbarous ottomans" was a play on words referring to the barbary pirates who raided European shipping lanes and who were the enemies of the knights of saint john. They were an ottoman protectorate but I agree I didn't really explain that lol
But the Ottomans never raided Europe with pirates. Those are the Moors and the Tunisian.
I retract my statement, there were ottoman pirates, but not govermentally funded, they raided North Africa most often.
Firstly, I'm not a westerner, I'm mostly Hungarian. (The country whom the Türks occupied for 150 years) And for your statement, for those times they were living in, and those place(mainly Iqta goverments) the ottoman goverment was beyond any Western European goverment(at the time, mainly 17th century) They allowed religion tolerance(Dhimmi) for non-muslims. European engaged in piracy, mostly the Brits and Nordic regions. (And the spanyard corsairs) No one said westerners didn't pirate, mostly because this whole "pirate" culture comes from the Vikings. (Do you know how big religious tolerance is in that time? I don't think you know. The 30 years war ring a bell?
I would have added Lucca to the list.
As an Italian state you get very quick access to the Renaissance, +2 Papal influence so you get considerable religion bonuses and can expand into some of the most developed provinces in the game. You eventually have the option of forming Italy which has some good national ideas.
Plus you can go for the Lucky Lucca achievement which is a fun one.
Good video
Thanks for watching. Now I'm hungry - I love Pizza and your username!
as desmond, at my height, i had all of ireland, half of scotland, greeblabd, iceland, the northern islands off of scotland and the notwegian coast.( i would lose the notwegian coast and all of scotland minus the islands soon after but amazed)
I think Date and Shimazu ideas are also very good. For rapid expansionists like me, Date idea is arguably top3 among OPMs along with Oda ad Desmond.
Date Ideas:
Traditions:
+10% Infantry combat ability
+1 Diplomatic reputation
Ideas:
−10% Core-creation cost
−10% Aggressive expansion impact
−10% Idea cost
+10% Land fire damage
−5% Heavy ship cost
+10% Heavy ship combat ability
−5% Technology cost
−10% Development cost
Ambition:
+15% Global trade power
Why does your map look different from mine? The borders and colors i believe look so much cleaner in yours. How do i get it also?
Hello Tigran, you can download the graphical mod that I use here : steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=253263609. Thank you for watching.
Most of the time i pick a fun Tpm nation.
Suggestion for the next video:
Top 10 Tpm's
Tpms would be a great idea. Either that or mid sized nations ! Thanks for the recommendation
Do you mean a two province minor or a two hundred province major
@@maltvinegar436 Noone starts with 200 provinces at game start. Even Ming only has 138 provinces in 1444 if I remember right. So not really much ambiguity here.
@@heavenwatcher100 fine tone hundred and thirty eight province minor
@@maltvinegar436 LUL Nice try.
Regarding Carib what DLCs did you play with? I have Carib separated from Arawak by an unsettled province and no rivals available. Thanks
Ragusa is interesting as it starts guaranteed by Ottomans.
Ragusa is great! I once formed Croatia as them and conquered the balkans. Thanks for watching.
I played the Sultanate of Sulu as my OPM run, I managed to reverse colonize the Iberian Peninsula and fully religiously and culturally purify them
I was expecting to see Albania as an Honorable mention, Skandenberg (forget the right spelling) is such a powerful general and deserving of a mention.
Skanderbeg. Yeah, I think that, after a certain point, his reputation won battles by itself. Legend.
How do you reach Havana as Carib? I tried it once and got stuck in the Lesser Antilles since St. Martin and St. Thomas are Terra Incognita :c
The trick is to go west and not north at the start. If you migrate north, then hop west on the mainland three times over the sea zone you can eventually reach the north western tip of south america. From there you hop to Jamaica and then Havana - all possible before 1500 if you take the "Travois" native ideaset. Thank you for watching.
Thank you for helping!
I' m sorry but i couldn't understand your exact steps of migration. Can you describe it step by step the provinces you have to occupy? Thank you.
Already tried it, I think the shortest way is Uyapari > Cumana > Caracas > Coro > Guajira > Jamaica > Havana. I stayed longer on the continet in order to get monarch points from migrating and humilliating Arawak, But the sooner you get to your destination the more you can develop your provinces before the europeans arrive.
It has been a fun campaing. Portugual, Castile, Great Britain and France want me dead and love each other, but I managed to conquer their colonies.
Nice! Thanx!
I played a ternate game back when they had +1 colonist instead of +1 dip. It was awesome.
6:11 Playing Hamburg in leviathan is fun as hell, managed to become an OPM great power though then my game kept crashing past 1780
I used to think OPM stood for "OverPowered Minority"
Jews be like
Taungu is pronounced two-on-goo? Where does the first u sound before the a come from?
The Knights can be really interesting, but hard to get right
Hisn Kayfa is also a very good opm.
You pronounced Eíre so wrong that it made me cringe 😂☘️🇮🇪 good video though mó chara
Thank you for your nice comment! I'm notoriously bad at pronouncing different languages and will look into how to pronounce Ireland right now lol
Isn't it pronounced Ireland, without the land?
Liam O'Connell no
Liam O'Connell it’s more like air-a
Henry Chan yeah that’s how u pronounce it
as cariben on new patch cant migrate over the terra icognita to reach havanna and so on ?
Didn't see the video yet, but already left a like!
Thank you for the support and thank you for watching! Cheers
how did you manage to migrate into the habana as the carib? because the land separiting the islands has terra incognita in the middle
I dont get it, is this a map mode, or a new patch? I havent played in a while, but I like how the map looks in this video.
The map mode is a UI mod "Graphical Map Improvements" for EU4 available on steam: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=253263609, thanks for watching
@@AlzaboHD Thanks, it looks great! More regions and details too, if I see correctly, I might start playing again because of this
No ragusa?
Two things.
1. Ming no longer protects the player from coalitions
2. Caddo and Carib no longer gain both the native reforms and the reformed religion bonuses from Mexico (which was the reason they were so powerful when discovered).
Thank you
yo can you please make top 10 most powerful provinces in EU4?
You pronounced Lubeck exactly like we say the city of Lubbock in Texas, don't know why but it made me laugh.
Im from Texas, guilty as charged
@@AlzaboHD Lmao should have known.
I was wondering if you were going to mention tidore. They are by far my favorite opm to play.
Tidore and Ternate are practically identical! I forgot to mention this in the video, oops. Ternate is only marginally better as they start off with a slightly stronger ruler. Thank you for watching.
Although maybe not an overpowered opm, I find Ramazan to be quite enjoyable as an opm. Good national ideas with a nice starter with 5% dicipline and -20% core creation cost. A capital that can spawn an institution pretty fast, unlike it's northern trebizond neighbour. Can usually get help from the Mamluks to attack the Ottomans with you, if you choose to expand more into Anatolia, or vice versa and expand into the Levant area. And last but not least.. who doesn't like the colour they start with?
"Bunte Kuh" means "Colorful Cow"
Lmao these puns and jokes tho. This is very helpful, thank you for posting. Bless your German pronunciation, may it rest in peace :p
nice
Thank you for watching!
Just an FYI, you seem to pronounce Taungu as Tuangu haha. I had to check to make sure I wasn’t misreading or mishearing.
I don't know why, but I've been playing a lot as Trent and either trying to survive or expand from there. I'm rather new at the game, I've only 120 hours, but I played my first, 3rd and 4th game as them with the 4th being in Voltaire's Revenge.
My first game sucked, lasted until the end but lost a war to Venice, and to some random African country I tried to take over (didn't know you couldn't take land if you declare war on someone else's land) and then Austria decided to end me in 2227.
Next time was better, I got land from Venice to allow me access to water, which then allowed me to defeat Iceland and colonized Greenland, as well as taking two African Vassals, an improvement.
4th game is different as in VR2 Trent is actually rather large and that clearly changes up the vibes, but have so far managed to annex 3 other OPM's on my border, have gained 2 provinces from Venice and 3 from Tirol, so the expansion is happening finally. 4th largest army and have among some of the upper levels of development and economy due to focusing on having all my provinces up to 30 development to get as many trading posts and church's out to get my money strong early, as well as pumping along institutions. Was at 12 military while my neighbors were at 18, but by embracing everything and having high development along with economy, I was able to level up my tech rapidly to being ahead in just a few years thanks to my ideas I'd unlocked over tech unlocks. So much tax and trade income along with being able to have the manpower and army size of Bohemia while being 1/3rd the size. 99 Ducats a month income means I can have max level advisors to just max out techs and when I catch up, bolster my development even further. I own the Venice trade node now basically lol It's probably the opposite as to how other players choose to play, as I've seen online that many don't focus on buildings, and I'm out here with 13 Provinces all with 6 buildings each.
Played Oda cause of historical events and also the Nobunaga's Ambition games. Then realized how chaotic everything gets after a few seconds of playtime.
I play in Japan a lot and kinda ignored oda a lot holy hell I should have been playing them this hole time
Same I always played as Uesugi just because it has 3 provinces at the beginning and not so powerful neighbours. But when I saw Oda in this video I was like "nothing makes sense anymore".
@@axelmuller7946 Date and Shimazu ideas are also insanely good.
@@heavenwatcher100 but uesugi does not have any good ideas compared to date 😣
@@axelmuller7946 Yep. Uesugi wastes too many idea slots on army tradition which player can obtain quite easily. It's also not as useful as the discipline in late games. By the time Uesugi expands outwards, it has no core-cost reduction, Diplo-reputation or reduction on Diplo annexation. It does not have a trade, colonist or naval buff either that makes colonial competition easier.
@@heavenwatcher100 you are completly right. I mean it doesn't matter when you form Japan but to do exactly this, Uesugi is not a good choice. When I played as uesugi It to took me more than 200 years to form Japan and by this time, my only choice was to take the expansion ideas and try to colonice if possible. I think other countries are better to form Japan.
I will say that I am surprised that Hisn Kayfa wasn't included in this list. While their initial starting position is poor, their ideas are great and if they can secure an early alliance with the Ottomans they can expand rapidly and easily become a leading great power
Unironically - why haven't You mentioned Ryukyu? I know the starting position is hard, but they have great ideas