Switzerland doesn't need coastlines. Even in our world, one of the biggest ocean shipping company has it's headquarters in Switzerland. So it fits, that Switzerland has landlocked colonies
@@totallynotjeff7748 I was going to say that, all they had was the Madeira island in the middle of the Atlântico and they still colonized a chunk of Europe haha
"The Basque are a mixture of Spanish and French right?" Actually, fun fact about the Basque: their language is completely different from any other modern European language, coming from a different language group than any other language.
There is a hypothesis that they are a remnant of the Vasconic Languages, a non-indo-european language family that might have existed in pre-celtic western europe
@@doggo6056 It's probably just pre-indo-european, it just has nothing to do with Indo-European languages because it was spoken before their arrival in the zone.
For context : the Basque have a language that's not part of the Indo-European family, which is very rare in Europe. Unlike Catalonia, they have a right to secede. Catalonia is the actual place where French and Spanish culture mixes.
@@adamcube5 ofc, I was just joking, but I'm kinda right on the Cataloanuans being a Spanish-French mix, the Basques can really pride themselves on being unique with their language though.
Styria represents the southern branch of the Hapsburgs in Austria, who were nominally independent from the main branch in Vienna for a good while from 1453 to the mid 1500's
Styria was a thing before the austrian habsburgs tho. Ottakar the first n shit. They were a duchy like everyone else. Basically like every other austrian state today except the og austrian lands and burgenland which was ceded by hungary after ww1
“the Basque are a mixture of Spanish and French right?” The Basque are an ethnolinguistic group that predate the Spanish and French by quite a bit of time. Actually, the Basque predate the almost all European ethnolinguistic groups as they retained their identity even after the Indo-European Westward Expansion from the Black Sea.
I heard closest related language to basque is Georgian and there is a theory that genetically both are simmilar. There are too many simmilarities in both languages to ignore.
@@kartvelianmapping808 the only reliable way to find out if two languages have a common ancestry is to find cognates. Two completely unrelated languages can be grammatically similar purely by chance.
5:47 The cause of the two Moroccos is a bug in the timeline mode. In the actual game, the second Morocco was actually a totally different nation. To make it easier to follow, nations are shown in their latest state in the timeline, instead of showing their constantly changing names and colors. At some point, the original Morocco was annexed by another nation, allowing the second nation to seize their land and reform the kingdom of Morocco through a decision. Their last known state was as this new Morocco, but that is also true for the original Morocco, so they are both shown as Morocco in the timeline.
@@adorayadoray1289 yeah might have confused the term with proto-basque. Still, same idea. It exists from way before the roman conquests and even the celts.
@Hernando Malinche like I said, I confused the term with proto-basque from typing without thinking, but the message remains the same; The oldest culture and language in europe.
Dru: "The most popular or known one in history is the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" The United Kingdom: Am I a joke to you? The Kingdom of Spain: Am I also a joke to you?
I was expecting Native American Peru and Mamlukian Australia to be in a union this video. Then I learned that it was incompatible for emus and llamas to be in the same union because of the family divorce
I have had such playthrough recently. I really cheered for them when I realised that they bite off more and more of English provinces but in the end Scotland went on so well that it eventually just formed Great Britain. Oh, and funny thing, there was still England alongside GB. I took advantage of the situation and vassalized England while leaving them no province in Europe. England moved their capital to America, colonizing for me at greater pace.
@@commentorbot3979 That's an unproven theory, they might or might not be related. If they are then they're both Neolithic nations, along with the Cucuteni-Trypillians, Etruscans, Minoans, and Circassians.
9:54 Basque is anything but related to the Indo-Europeans (Romance Languages eg Spanish, French and Italian. Germanic Languages eg German, Swedish, Dutch, English. Celtic Languages eg Scottish, Irish, Welsh. Slavic Languages eg Serbo-Croatian, Polish, Russian, Czech. Iranian Languages eg Persian, Balochi, Ossetian. Indo-Aryan Languages eg Hindu, Bengal. Armenian. Albanian. Greek.)
1:39 Fun fact the King of Navarre gained a Union over France irl. Henry IV of France was actually King of Navarre before he became King of France. Upon his coronation, he took the primary title of King of France but was still king of Navarre. So if it was mirrored in EU4, Navarre would have a PU over France
*Chickasaws* and *Choctaws* see that they're united. "It's halito!" "No, it's chokma!" "I like yakoke waaay better than chokma'shki." "Hold up, that's how *my* family says it." Sorry fellas, this one's for the Indians.
Styria is a state of Austria. The Basque language is not related to Spanish or French, in fact, it's a langauge isolate, meaning it isn't related to any language in the world.
14:03 old Croatia????? That's the German word that refers to parts of Austria, Slovenia and Hungary formally mostly populated by kinda proto slovenians until the franksh and later HRE germainesed it
what if you get an unions with muscovy as novgrood who had an unions with lithuania who had a union with austria who had an union with france who had an unions with spain who had an union with mamaluks who had an union with ottamans who had an unions with hungary who had an unions with bohemia who had an unions poland who had an unions with denmark :?
Poland had a union with hungary till 1444 when the king died at varna, this is the start of the game and its even mentioned in the history text, poslka wegner dwa bratanski! Lengyel magyar két jó barát!
11:12 I love how even Switzerdland colonies in africa are landlocked
:)
Underrrated comment
Bro sauce needed
Switzerland doesn't need coastlines. Even in our world, one of the biggest ocean shipping company has it's headquarters in Switzerland. So it fits, that Switzerland has landlocked colonies
"There's nothing more Russian than Russia itself."
Russian Russia: "Hold my vodka. "
Yo dawg, I heard you like Russia
Russia considers Russia to be an integral part of Russia.
wagon
Let's impose sanctions against Russia for annexing Russia!
It's like Brazilian Brazil
@@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595 HUEHUEHUEHUEHUE
Even when Portugal didn't exist, they still colonized.
Portugal managed to colonize even when only African countries in the game.
@@totallynotjeff7748 I was going to say that, all they had was the Madeira island in the middle of the Atlântico and they still colonized a chunk of Europe haha
Wouldn't be historical if they didn't. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE KILING THEM. WHEN THEY ARE KILLED THEY COME TO LIVE 3 DAYS Later. Jesus? It's you?
I'm afraid to start new game in Stellaris because of that Portugal...
That says a lot of things about Iberians
"The Basque are a mixture of Spanish and French right?"
Actually, fun fact about the Basque: their language is completely different from any other modern European language, coming from a different language group than any other language.
Yep the closest language to Basque is Georgian
yeah they're pre-indo-european
edit: alright i changed the word, sorry for the ignorance
They are a few remains of Goths
There is a hypothesis that they are a remnant of the Vasconic Languages, a non-indo-european language family that might have existed in pre-celtic western europe
@@doggo6056 It's probably just pre-indo-european, it just has nothing to do with Indo-European languages because it was spoken before their arrival in the zone.
"The Basque are a mixture of Spanish and French right?"
ETA wants to know your location.
For context : the Basque have a language that's not part of the Indo-European family, which is very rare in Europe.
Unlike Catalonia, they have a right to secede. Catalonia is the actual place where French and Spanish culture mixes.
@@kristijanEX Catalonia has every right to secede from stinky monarchist catholic Spa*n.
@@kristijanEX I think Catalonia has a right to secede if that's what the people there want though - self determination is self determination, always.
@@adamcube5 ofc, I was just joking, but I'm kinda right on the Cataloanuans being a Spanish-French mix, the Basques can really pride themselves on being unique with their language though.
Geert Wilders Catalan communists have no right to secede from Spain, don’t kid yourself
"The Vajayjay nation does not exist cause they got *eaten* too"
Oh Drew.
This entire video was innuendo, amazing
*France take England *
every other nation: chuckles I'm in danger
Styria represents the southern branch of the Hapsburgs in Austria, who were nominally independent from the main branch in Vienna for a good while from 1453 to the mid 1500's
Styria was a thing before the austrian habsburgs tho. Ottakar the first n shit. They were a duchy like everyone else. Basically like every other austrian state today except the og austrian lands and burgenland which was ceded by hungary after ww1
Which states do you mean by og states?
“The Basque are a mixture of Spanish and French right?”
Me: Mom, can I have a peach?
Mom: No we have peaches at home
Peaches at home: Can Pech
Norwegian Florida, good luck dealing with hinga dinga durgen Florida Man
@DANIEL BIN OMAR - but can i say except delete this!
Instead of meth and bath salts he does Pinnekjøtt and meatball
Hey thats Swedish!
Hi Kimmy
Floridian vikings... That sounds so terrifying.
“the Basque are a mixture of Spanish and French right?”
The Basque are an ethnolinguistic group that predate the Spanish and French by quite a bit of time. Actually, the Basque predate the almost all European ethnolinguistic groups as they retained their identity even after the Indo-European Westward Expansion from the Black Sea.
ok boomer
I heard closest related language to basque is Georgian and there is a theory that genetically both are simmilar. There are too many simmilarities in both languages to ignore.
@@kartvelianmapping808 Yes but it's far from proven and there's a lot of pseudolinguistic bs in that area
@@kartvelianmapping808 the only reliable way to find out if two languages have a common ancestry is to find cognates. Two completely unrelated languages can be grammatically similar purely by chance.
The basques has different cultures
Drew: Is that old Croatia?
Me, knowing Austria's states: Yeah, "Croatia". It is the southern state of Austria
@@mihasmradovic6486 well, Styria IS an Austrian state
11:20
Swiss first oversea colonies are landlocked.
Did they do that on purpose?
"Russian Russia"
Hmm, yes, the Russia here is made out of Russia
France did surprisingly bad considering their starting advantage
yeah they always mess up for some reason lmao
14:08 it's a part of Austria, Steiermark
Nah, it's old Croatia, jk.
5:47 The cause of the two Moroccos is a bug in the timeline mode. In the actual game, the second Morocco was actually a totally different nation. To make it easier to follow, nations are shown in their latest state in the timeline, instead of showing their constantly changing names and colors. At some point, the original Morocco was annexed by another nation, allowing the second nation to seize their land and reform the kingdom of Morocco through a decision. Their last known state was as this new Morocco, but that is also true for the original Morocco, so they are both shown as Morocco in the timeline.
Norway annexing Sweden and creating an Empire "happy Norwegian noises"
**Sad Swedish noises**
*Weird Danish noises*
**Confused Finnish noises**
@@efulmer8675 *Çøñfüßêd Fìñnïßh Ñöîßës*
Drew: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is the most popular union
*United Kingdom and Austro-Hungarian Empire left the group*
Drew has a feet footish confirmed
Footish
Foot fettish Edit: Oh wait Drew Durnil said feet footish
It's okay to have a feet footish.
Rule Britannia listen I the video
We all do
Drew: "The Basque are a mixture of Spanish and French right?"
The Basque: "Do you want to explode?!"
Morocco: *lets split up gang*
Also Morocco: *well yes, but actually no*
"the most famous union is the P-L Common wealth"
The entire UK: say sike right now
UK be like "rule Britannia!"
crys in austro-hungarian
@@jamesmacdonald1116 Polish-Hungarian union better
"The Basque are a mixture of Spanish and French right?"
Why did I get ticked off by this I'm Danish
I got ticked off by it and I'm a grumpy Hungarian.
@@martinhorvath4117 that's like a mix of Austrian and Romanian right?
ZteffenTheBatFan Aren’t the Danish just a combination of German and Swedish?
I lost my shit and I'm English
I’m danish too and I felt the same way
France consumes England.
English People: *Confused Screaming*
As a proud basque I love seeing Navarra taking over Iberia.
But saying it's a mix with french is kinda insulting. It's a PROTO INDO-EUROPEAN language.
@@leonardobanazalazar3249 Pre-indo-european*
@@adorayadoray1289 yeah might have confused the term with proto-basque. Still, same idea. It exists from way before the roman conquests and even the celts.
@Hernando Malinche like I said, I confused the term with proto-basque from typing without thinking, but the message remains the same; The oldest culture and language in europe.
@Hernando Malinche ok, boomer
"I've got a feet-footish"
-Drew Durnil, 2019.
French and england: do a union
The world: ok i am dead
Kiev still on the map
Drew: Maybe Kiev formed Russia
Yeah it was unquestionably Ryazan that did.
There's a noticeable Ryazanian culture pocket in Siberia, so yeah it was obviously them.
“Basque is just a mix of French and Spanish, right?”
I pray for you, Drew. I really do.
Dru: "The most popular or known one in history is the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth"
The United Kingdom: Am I a joke to you?
The Kingdom of Spain: Am I also a joke to you?
*Yes, yes u are a joke to me*
I was expecting Native American Peru and Mamlukian Australia to be in a union this video. Then I learned that it was incompatible for emus and llamas to be in the same union because of the family divorce
Broke: Two Sicilies
Woke: Two Naples'
Does anyone else want an OP Scotland. Like, just in any game. They seem to try a lot, so just give them a boost.
Alba Gu Brath.
A game where England is removed from the map
I have had such playthrough recently. I really cheered for them when I realised that they bite off more and more of English provinces but in the end Scotland went on so well that it eventually just formed Great Britain. Oh, and funny thing, there was still England alongside GB. I took advantage of the situation and vassalized England while leaving them no province in Europe. England moved their capital to America, colonizing for me at greater pace.
As a Brit, I spat out what I was drinking when I saw french Britain. I don't think I'll ever recover
Styria means "Steiermark" in German and is Part of Austria
The Basque language actually isn‘t related to any other existing language in the world.
the closest related language to Basque is georgian
*boneless* no.
@@commentorbot3979 That's an unproven theory, they might or might not be related. If they are then they're both Neolithic nations, along with the Cucuteni-Trypillians, Etruscans, Minoans, and Circassians.
4:48 that needs some context. ;)
14:03
Styria is a part of Austria and not old Croatia lol
"the most popular/most well known one is ofcourse the polish-lithuanian commonwealth"
Iberia: "Am I a joke to you?"
"i got a feet footish" - drew durnil, november 2019
0:14 down left there is a union called air.
“Dong over here is starting to expand”
Vikings and sirup
Imagine the power
Drew: the most popular union is the polish-Lithuanian commenwealth
Austria-Hungary: am I a joke to u
United Kingdom - amateurs
Morocco: you stole my name
Morocco: no u
2:02 that's what I call a swicharoo
2:41
"There is no Vajayjay nation in India, by the way because they got eaten too"
-Drew, 11/19/19
Styria is a part of Austria. They used to be independent a long time ago
Drew: Exists
Basque people, linguists, ethnologists and historians: *angry as fugg*
Wow, the last time I got here this early Spain wasn’t in a civil war
Wizard Michael no time in history
Styria is an Austrian country that doesn’t appear at the start of the game
"The most famous PU is the Commonwealth"
*Cries in Castile and Aragon*
no one:
*portugal*: colonize random places
Ah yes officer Sanchez covering mouths. 4:41
Imagine how many more Florida man articles would exist if they were also descendants of vikings
Sweden how does it feel? That's how it felt for us in the 1800.
You too Denmark
9:54
Basque is anything but related to the Indo-Europeans (Romance Languages eg Spanish, French and Italian. Germanic Languages eg German, Swedish, Dutch, English. Celtic Languages eg Scottish, Irish, Welsh. Slavic Languages eg Serbo-Croatian, Polish, Russian, Czech. Iranian Languages eg Persian, Balochi, Ossetian. Indo-Aryan Languages eg Hindu, Bengal. Armenian. Albanian. Greek.)
"I have a foot footish"
-Drew 2019
Switzerland is going for the Switzerlake Achievement
*Poland ate Hungary*
Me: Welp, i thought it'll be something more peaceful and friendly but, k. At least we are with Hungary now
we were! 1370 -1382 and 1440 -1444 :)
The fact that Byzantium didn't integrate the Ottomans makes me so sad.
This is more than made up for by Navarre though right?
Repeat with me: [insert noun] is doing WELL
Ming appeared after the explosion so they TECHNICALLY survived for once! Yay!!
1:39
Fun fact the King of Navarre gained a Union over France irl. Henry IV of France was actually King of Navarre before he became King of France. Upon his coronation, he took the primary title of King of France but was still king of Navarre. So if it was mirrored in EU4, Navarre would have a PU over France
Columbus is excited to witness the power of Ulm
0:06 that’s my first guess, but wouldn’t most people say Austria-Hungary (not really a union per say but it technically counts)
it's like the Thanos snap, except instead of the nations disappearing they are eaten by their neighbors
*Chickasaws* and *Choctaws* see that they're united.
"It's halito!"
"No, it's chokma!"
"I like yakoke waaay better than chokma'shki."
"Hold up, that's how *my* family says it."
Sorry fellas, this one's for the Indians.
As soon as I saw french Britain I unplugged my internet.
11:22 only Switzerland can have landlocked colonies
fun fact: in 1680 polish lithuania had moscow for (i believe) a couple of days
and in 1920 poland beat early USSR with medium help
Styria is a state of Austria.
The Basque language is not related to Spanish or French, in fact, it's a langauge isolate, meaning it isn't related to any language in the world.
Drew: "wow navarra took over castille"
Morroco: VORETUGAL
Drew this was a good video format. Do more like this.
France: I am the best!
Black Ottomans: Baa Baa!
14:03 old Croatia????? That's the German word that refers to parts of Austria, Slovenia and Hungary formally mostly populated by kinda proto slovenians until the franksh and later HRE germainesed it
Sees unions
*billionares every start sweating*
What mod is this? I can't find it on the Steam workshop anywhere.
14:01 it is Styria, Austria
I appreciate shoutout to PLC, but I'm pretty sure that UK is a tiny bit more known union, after all it's, you know, the United Kingdom
4:36 its like that spiderman ponting at spiderman me-me
this was a good one we need more of these
7:20 whuo saw the country of mamluks under Fadi
Moldavia:Who ARE you?
Romania with only Transylvanina: *I'm you,but better*
I read the title as ‘Onions for all’
I love seeing Bavaria and Austria united!
"the most well known one is the polish lithuanian commonwealth"
UHHHH
THE AUSTRO HUNGARIAN EMPIRE?!
I like when drew asks a question he could very easily answer himself and then chooses not too.
what if you get an unions with muscovy as novgrood who had an unions with lithuania who had a union with austria who had an union with france who had an unions with spain who had an union with mamaluks who had an union with ottamans who had an unions with hungary who had an unions with bohemia who had an unions poland who had an unions with denmark :?
Drew: unions for all
Industrialists: WOAH THERE PAL!
This was a really fun scenario, I would like seeing another one of these
Poland had a union with hungary till 1444 when the king died at varna, this is the start of the game and its even mentioned in the history text, poslka wegner dwa bratanski! Lengyel magyar két jó barát!
6:04 How did the netherlands form without any dutch province?
02:24 - And we know something new in our life.
9:53 You're confusing Navarra with. Aragon. In terms of language at least
Mixing up Syrmia and Styria was a little smarter than I was expecting.
Portugal:"Haha, you may think you have won by invading my entire country, but watch this!"
*runs away to their colony*
You should do a mega campaign that uses this mod