@@Prof_Dr_col Suprisngly yea. I just saw it for myself a few minutes ago, as Songhai. They decided to intervene in some god damn colonial affair, and invaded MY homeland. I was outraged af. After liek ~20 years I somehow managed to stack-wipe their forces piecemeal.
In reality, this has a smidgen of truth to it. When he was younger he was strategic and intelligent with his maneuvers, then as he got older and leading up to the battle of waterloo, he just stopped strategizing and became mortal again, disabling his hax.
I remember when someone was sieging my fort i sent 30k troops to intercept his 100k stack, and my 100k stackwiped his 60k sieging the fort I felt like a genius then lol
I love these sorts of guides. Superiorly in depth and explanatory. I have 3500 hours in this game and like to think I'm pretty good. But always happy to learn from someone with more experience. Thanks, Zlewikk! Love from the USA.
This made me remember the time me and my mp allies had a 600k stack with like 5 backrows and we kept losing and losing against the ottomans on his mountainforts.
10:20 - you can plan around that, you can always send troops *before* the battle starts. If it takes a month for reinforcements to arrive, it also takes 30 days for the main force to arrive, you can always just time it. Send reinforcements every few days, rather than wait till the battle start. Also results in less battles loss for scorched earth
Heeeeeyyy, I saw Zlewikk's name pop up when he was picking a giveaway winner! Also, thanks for mentioning the map mode which shows river crossings - if there's one mistake I make far too often, it's going into battle on a river crossing.
Thank you for providing this guide! I have learnt a little as I play along, but this guide has provided me with some invaluable information. I love learning more about EU4, and it never seems to end :)
Im watching nearly all videos and stream replays of yours and habibis for the last month. Joined my first mp last week and every time i talk with people they just mention how well im doing considering its my first mp and im fighting a 1v3 against experianced players rn(idk if i win that im not a cobeligarent in the war so i wont lose much if i lose im just fighting to make a statement). I just want to thank you because you made it possible
Oh... We ended up having another combat tutorial over the estates one. I mean, you are always teaching us to fight in your vids, but estates efficient management is all along time. It is always nice to have a perfect tutorial though! Great video!
Another great guide - a lot of this knowledge is floating around some MP communities (except for that reinforcement trick, only seen that a few times in all my hours on MP), but it’s good that it’s all consolidated in one place. Hopefully this inspires more people to try out multiplayer also.
Thanks, that was very helpful. I had misunderstood how flanking range worked. I thought it was the depth of cavalry from the edges of the 2nd row which could participate in the attack, so I was generally keeping 4 cav in my back row. Time to get rid of them!
Me: Cavalry Zlewikk: Cavraly Me: OK, Cavraly Great guide Zlewikk, I was able to beat Ottomans with your advice. About time I learned to use combat effectively, I've just been throwing my full army into the fray for the last 1k+ hours.
I remember the first time i found out about the reinforcement trick, and i actually won wars against france with less troops, i felt like an absolute god lol
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already joined discord :D
People are super helpful on there if you need tips etc, great community
Good video, but what about cav nations like poland hungary?
“If you have a full artillery back row, make sure your front line doesn’t go”
Sun tzu, art of war
Art of War - Director's Cut
After trying this in my one campaign I was able to win war after war.
Great guide.
You make our eu4 live much easier.
Nice to hear that!
Nice this is a great video that I will recommend to my viewers when they ask about reinforcements!!
Thanks!!
well after this i think I am ready to beat the ottomans as ulm
beat ulm as ottomans*(maby)
Normally you should beat the Ottomans without any tactic in only a few months...
@@Prof_Dr_col What?! Please expand.
@@gavins9846 The Ottomans will just give up after a few months because of you beeing Ulm
@@Prof_Dr_col Suprisngly yea. I just saw it for myself a few minutes ago, as Songhai. They decided to intervene in some god damn colonial affair, and invaded MY homeland.
I was outraged af. After liek ~20 years I somehow managed to stack-wipe their forces piecemeal.
I really needed that, I always use just 2 big stacks.
I just think that Napoléon loose the battle of Waterloo because he didn't follow this guide
his artillery got in the front row, and the square infantry, why did it have to be the square infantry
Prussians reinforced
@@RyanPHoferJrdidn't he had column infantry and English had square?
In reality, this has a smidgen of truth to it. When he was younger he was strategic and intelligent with his maneuvers, then as he got older and leading up to the battle of waterloo, he just stopped strategizing and became mortal again, disabling his hax.
whenever i watch these guides i feel like i'm going to be a strategy game master... at least until i boot up the game and realise i'm still bad at it.
Daaang, didn't know you could shift consolidate. This is gonna save me a lotta ducats
Uncledad: Zlewikk's control of troops in MP is poor
Zlewikk 1 year later: It's time for vengeance!
xDDDD when did he say that? :p
@@ZlewikkTV it was at EU LAN party 2019, but he couldn't predict that you would strike back at creator's cup ^^
I remember when someone was sieging my fort i sent 30k troops to intercept his 100k stack, and my 100k stackwiped his 60k sieging the fort
I felt like a genius then lol
haha
i am so glad i started watching you, now i dont lose every single war
Happy to hear that!
i've watched you for awhile & i still lose wars no matter what......
I never knew how eu4 combat works, after using these tactics I feel so much more powerful!
I was waiting for this video for a long time thank you.
Meanwhile Swiss combat strategy: " "
Look angry and scare the eneny
Swiss be like ey yo wanna set up some profitable investment in my bank?
@@MichusubPl moustache man: actually i was wondering if you could hold all this gold i got from my friends for my birthday
+100 attrition
This video has supplemented my knowledge of combat in eu iv. Thank you :)
Me: i sleep
Zlewikk does guide on combat at which i suck without allies
Me: i watch and learn
I love these sorts of guides. Superiorly in depth and explanatory. I have 3500 hours in this game and like to think I'm pretty good. But always happy to learn from someone with more experience. Thanks, Zlewikk! Love from the USA.
Thanks! Always happy to help!
This made me remember the time me and my mp allies had a 600k stack with like 5 backrows and we kept losing and losing against the ottomans on his mountainforts.
Very useful! Keep up the great videos :)
10:20 - you can plan around that, you can always send troops *before* the battle starts. If it takes a month for reinforcements to arrive, it also takes 30 days for the main force to arrive, you can always just time it. Send reinforcements every few days, rather than wait till the battle start. Also results in less battles loss for scorched earth
Heeeeeyyy, I saw Zlewikk's name pop up when he was picking a giveaway winner!
Also, thanks for mentioning the map mode which shows river crossings - if there's one mistake I make far too often, it's going into battle on a river crossing.
Was just searching for this video. Keep up the good content!
finally i waited for this sooo long
Thank you for providing this guide! I have learnt a little as I play along, but this guide has provided me with some invaluable information. I love learning more about EU4, and it never seems to end :)
Glad I could help!
Awesome guide! That's what I have wanted for a long time! Retreating strategy is totally new for me.
Glad I could help!
Im watching nearly all videos and stream replays of yours and habibis for the last month. Joined my first mp last week and every time i talk with people they just mention how well im doing considering its my first mp and im fighting a 1v3 against experianced players rn(idk if i win that im not a cobeligarent in the war so i wont lose much if i lose im just fighting to make a statement). I just want to thank you because you made it possible
Nice! I'm glad that I could be of help!
Thank you so much! I really feel like I’n getting better as a player with each of your guide!
Glad to hear it!
I don't need any dlc, just wanted to comment to say that i really appreciate this type of informative video^^
I knew more or less all of them because of your videos.. but the one that is new to me is the retreat trick... very nice :D i'll use it
I've got a mp tonight, hope this will be helpful, thanks mr.Zlewikk
Oh... We ended up having another combat tutorial over the estates one. I mean, you are always teaching us to fight in your vids, but estates efficient management is all along time.
It is always nice to have a perfect tutorial though! Great video!
Okey, perhaps I treated you too harshly... It is only that I really want to know how to be efficient with estates, and there are not videos on that...
It's not that much complicated. Thanks gor video idea :). I promised combat guide together with army composition one so it was expected :)
Me and my friends started playing EU4 yesterday after 2 years whit hoi4. Got rekted in every battle. This guide is a blessing. Thanks!
I really needed this video. Thanks Zlewikk.
You're honestly the most underrated eu4tuber. I learn more from each of your videos than from the rest I've watched combined 💜
Thanks man!
Great video man. I’ll share this with my friends that are new to the game 🙂
Love your guides before watching you I was a real noob
Really nice and informative video, thanks
Can’t wait, got a MP game coming up soon
This video is really good and helped me fill in some knowledge gaps. Thank you for posting it
Happy to help!
Great video, as always. You really helped me to improve to a new level since I subscribed!
Another great guide - a lot of this knowledge is floating around some MP communities (except for that reinforcement trick, only seen that a few times in all my hours on MP), but it’s good that it’s all consolidated in one place. Hopefully this inspires more people to try out multiplayer also.
I needed to learn how to do this. Thanks Zlewikk :D
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for!
yes !! cant wait to see this & thank you for your time & effort
this video makes me realise how much i have yet to learn in this game
Damn this really helped me understand the decisions you make in multiplayer
thanks to you i am doing an incredible mp run with byzantium
Very nice combat guide! Looking forward to more :)
More to come!
Thanks you so much!Now i can finally beat Teutonic order as Brandenburg after this video...
I really needed this!!!
I love your content! It’s so good
This was more useful than i expected
nice one ! thanks for the help zlewikk
the reinforcement strategy has helped me alot!!
I have been waiting for so long :333
Guide without Artillery: Send millions of units someone will capture it.
I have never heard about that last trick but i will definitely try it.
my man did it, nice job lad
Exactly what I needed.
That retreat thing is crazy! Wow!
Thanks, that was very helpful. I had misunderstood how flanking range worked. I thought it was the depth of cavalry from the edges of the 2nd row which could participate in the attack, so I was generally keeping 4 cav in my back row. Time to get rid of them!
congratulations winner ))❤
Me: Cavalry
Zlewikk: Cavraly
Me: OK, Cavraly
Great guide Zlewikk, I was able to beat Ottomans with your advice. About time I learned to use combat effectively, I've just been throwing my full army into the fray for the last 1k+ hours.
Never understood why throwing your entire army into the battle at once is considered bad until now, thanks
Cool. This video teached me alot about army composition :)
Thanks, this’ll be very helpful for my Italy game
I remember the first time i found out about the reinforcement trick, and i actually won wars against france with less troops, i felt like an absolute god lol
Thank you for the tips! Now im gonna cheese with the retreat trick
The retreat trick is some 200 IQ move
Thx for the guide, I really needed that
Thank you. Really need this guide :)
Very useful, thanks 4 uploading
Using your strategies i won against crimea,ramazan,candar,dulkadir and AQ at the same time with starting karaman recently, reinforcing helps a lot
also scorching earth
Happy to help!
TY for the guide, it was really helpful :)
Glad it helped!
nice tipps they realy helped me to improve my battles
Lovely vid, as always!
Glad you enjoyed it! :D
Wow Nice, finally i will know how to use the troops
good guide as always!
I really hope one day I will be good at this game thanks to your vids
Neat! Will be useful in my Englad campaign!
Great guide, I think it will be very helpful for me
Glad to hear!
This video helped me so much thank you :)
Nice video as always
Appreciate that :D
Thanks for this guide!
Wreszcie
film na który czekałem!
Just what I needed !
Really Useful guide
that's what I've been waiting for
great shit! finally i understand this stuff^^
Thanks for the advice, immediately won against the Ottomans!
scorched earth actually slows the enemy down by 51.2% bc of the extra 5 devastation it adds as well
Thanks for the video!
perfect , i lost a lot of battles but after this video all is clear also how to win
Big thumb for retreat trick, and for guide
AI nations really need to follow your guides
Thanks Zlewikk!
Me before this guide: Just throw my unit to die without checking anything. Thanks Zlewikk
Damn this was actually really useful in my Byzantine campaign against the ottomans.
Happy to hear that!
Thank you! This game has as many layers to it as Shrek!