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Best not to ally France early to get the triggered event to rent mercenaries to them during 100 years war. Ally them afterwards and use them to fight Burgandy and Austria. Also good to hit Austria sooner rather than later to grab Tirol and potentially spawn diamonds district. Switzerland is my favorite HRE start. I just wish their mission tree was more fleshed out.
Also just a general tip for those who might not know: There is a scripted event for Switzerland if you form an alliance with the Three Leagues and have high enough relations, you are going to get them as a vassal. This is only worth it if there is some kind of alliance block that you cannot work around with though. Otherwise even though it'll be free to integrate them, since you have cores on them, this is going to mean you are going to have to wait for 5 years till you are gonna be able to annex them. Oh and also, if you offer condottieri to either one of the sides and if the side you are supporting has more than 10% war score on the Hundred Years War, there is a scripted event for that too which gives army professionalism and army tradition. And other than that, great video all around as always Hawk!!
You can just ally the three leagues and turn them into a vassal via an event. Just improve relations and you can annex them quickly, their lvl3 mountain fort is VERY valuable to fight against Austria early!
it only happens if it breaks free and gets Burgundian as a supporter. So far it only happen twice in around 200 games ive startet since the dlc dropped.
@@TheMcgreary nice. Tbh it's a little disappointing that Sweden rarely breaks free. Sadly the AI is afraid to break free even if it has like 3 big nations. It had once england, Burgund, Poland and Muscovy and didn't declare. Maybe it should be more aggressive
it's because Denmark starts with an interest in the GB area,so the Burgundy Ai assume they both want Calais and starts hating Danemark,so Sweden ends up becoming friend with them since they share hatred of the Danes. Yes,it is THAT dumb.
Swiss was my first succesful gameplay, playing for the achievement. I had so much fun with this game, whole gameplay on the edge of my seat against insane coalitions and last minute alliances. Eventually, the achievement fulfilled, I formed Germany and the game shifted to a broader more complex set of mechanics. Fun fact, I only tackled switzerlake achievement because I hated and couldn't understand naval battles.
@@nofoxgiven6561 it was, but now its +1 to all stats. Most of them are old so you get to switch often, meaning you get quite balanced monarch points over time.
I still don't like it that they made Switzerland the country that is hiring mercs when in reality men from Switzerland were the ones who were hired in other countries. There were at least some battles where mercenaries from Switzerland were on both sides of foreign armies. The way it is implemented is simply wrong. Still a fun way to play, it is fairly overpowered right now. Good time for the Switzerlake achievement.
Disagree. You could easily take advantage of the condottieri bonuses if you wanted but players decide to always go an alt history path. Its like complaining about Byzantium players beating the ottomans when they were the losers.
@@jacobschmidt8441 But Switzerland does have a lot of merc bonus in their ideas. Switzerland was poor, they never hired mercs. It is not what the player makes out of it, it is simply a wrong preset.
Switzerland during early EU4 dates is very strong like this is the same country that defeat Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy in his wars to united Burgundy into one nation state and we know what consequences of that by looking at centuries of wars between Germans and French.
It's no coincidence that the guys you wanted to fight are allied in the beginning, Red. It's highly recommended that you hold off on setting rivals until you're about to go to war. Patience my man. I see you do this almost every game. lol
"Because this is time to listen to the video of Swiss Confederation"? (I googled it) When I was a kid, my school had a Nations Fair once. My group got Switzerland. My mom helped me run the research and once we got in contact with Swiss Consulate in my city, we were golden (this was before the Internet was a thing). It was the sweetest most endearing treatment we've ever had from pretty much strangers which best case scenario were acquainted to our native language (portuguese, we're from Brazil) and we knew 0 english back then. The material was in english so I had help from my aunt, that is proficient, to translate a little and get a hold of it. Swiss to this day is a dear memory from my childhood, the fair was a great success and we landed a great score from that schoolwork. My childhood crush was in my group and we presented our work that afternoon together that day to all families that visited the fair.
Yeah, I transitioned my army to in-house once I was too big to play with merc toys. This militarizing mercs weren't in my game, I believe this is a Lions of the North or later DLC mechanic?
Nice video as usual, Im just curious why you dont get Sorition as a T3 gov. reform since it gives an additional +1+1+1 to your random choice. I find it usually as VERY valuable in my runs. Cheers!
@@GlizzyGoblin757 That's what I always do. Consolidation of powers + Noble families (I guess, the one that allow reelection and election from the family) does wonders. Too bad you got a limit for reelection
Dropped the ball a couple of times on the edits haha. Noticed two parts where hawk says something that's slightly wrong, stops and then repeats, which I assume gets cut normally.
6:38 btw switzerland is not fully protestant historically its like 50% catholic and 50% reformed (different evangelical like calvinism) there even was a civil war called Sonderbundskrieg because of religion and other reasons.
I don't know how exactly the Catholic/Protestant ratio was in Switzerland but today there are more Catholics than Protestants. And as far as I know that was always the case in Switzerland.
@@sagittariusa9012today it's pretty even, historically there were more catholics. the historic conflict is between the reformed wealthy cities and the catholic countryside
@@sagittariusa9012 Counting the various reformed and protestant denominations together, it's about 30%, with a little under 37% catholic, the difference is not huge.
Isn't there an event to inherit the three leagues if you get like 150-200 opinion with them? Edit: I checked the wiki instead of being lazy and while it is 120 months mtth, it might still be worth, also it's 100 opinion not 150-200.
The original Anhalt ruler starts at an old age with no heir, I believe they are age 67 at game start. They die really quickly really often. Poland likes to ally nations in North Eastern Germany, often Stettin, Wolgast, Saxony, Mecklenburg and yes, Anhalt. So the times where they do ally Anhalt puts them at increased odds of getting a PU over them.
@@ExperiencePlayers It seems like it does if you're going for the early war with the three leagues, since you need the cores for the cb before they get allies. I did try for the scripted event, but 10 years is a long time to wait.
One more thing, I think I stumble upon a glitch, I'm not sure if the game is supposed to work like that... One of the rep gov reforms is "Consolidation of Power" which gives you -50% rep trad loss at reelections. I got that going with "Political Dynasties" that gives +1 random candidate bonus. Thing is... For some random reason, I got TWO reelections instead of one. Not only that, each reelection my ruler would get +1 in each attribute, adm, diplo and mil. I don't know how, but at the cost of rep trad, I kept rulers going that would have at least one attribute 6, other 3 or 4 at the end of their terms (all candidates in reps starts as 4/1/1, 4 being their expertise if bureaucrat, military or diplomat) Once I got the "Military Principle" going, the game was done. I was pouring monarch mana all over the country, I had such excess of monarch points and no reason at all to not reelect whomever got the ruling chair. Seriously, beyond broken. Win war? Rep trad = 100 again. Reelection? Your ruler is 6/6/5 now. I'm pretty sure something wrong was going on, but since this game is usually broken AGAINST the player (AI map hack for example), I wasn't ashamed at all of exploiting this one.
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Thanks once again Red Hawk! Amazing guide!
Can we get one for Great Horde?
@@fabianbartoszek7442he’s already done one just recently! Check it out, it’s awesome!
Best not to ally France early to get the triggered event to rent mercenaries to them during 100 years war. Ally them afterwards and use them to fight Burgandy and Austria. Also good to hit Austria sooner rather than later to grab Tirol and potentially spawn diamonds district. Switzerland is my favorite HRE start. I just wish their mission tree was more fleshed out.
Solution to the mission tree situation is forming Swabia
Also just a general tip for those who might not know: There is a scripted event for Switzerland if you form an alliance with the Three Leagues and have high enough relations, you are going to get them as a vassal.
This is only worth it if there is some kind of alliance block that you cannot work around with though. Otherwise even though it'll be free to integrate them, since you have cores on them, this is going to mean you are going to have to wait for 5 years till you are gonna be able to annex them.
Oh and also, if you offer condottieri to either one of the sides and if the side you are supporting has more than 10% war score on the Hundred Years War, there is a scripted event for that too which gives army professionalism and army tradition.
And other than that, great video all around as always Hawk!!
Not to mention you could maybe exploit the France call to arms to get the White Company achievement as well. Great idea, btw, gonna test this later
You can just ally the three leagues and turn them into a vassal via an event. Just improve relations and you can annex them quickly, their lvl3 mountain fort is VERY valuable to fight against Austria early!
I didn't know that, it wouldn't matter in my game since they rivaled me. I get that you can Alt+F4 and try again, but I was fine with that run
Yup, all you need is for them to have at least 100 opinion of you, very noice event.
I've never seen Sweden get the Burgundian Succession. Moving up in the world to become a true Lion!
it only happens if it breaks free and gets Burgundian as a supporter. So far it only happen twice in around 200 games ive startet since the dlc dropped.
I remember getting it as my first 1.34 campaign as sweden, good times😁
@@TheMcgreary nice. Tbh it's a little disappointing that Sweden rarely breaks free. Sadly the AI is afraid to break free even if it has like 3 big nations. It had once england, Burgund, Poland and Muscovy and didn't declare. Maybe it should be more aggressive
it's because Denmark starts with an interest in the GB area,so the Burgundy Ai assume they both want Calais and starts hating Danemark,so Sweden ends up becoming friend with them since they share hatred of the Danes.
Yes,it is THAT dumb.
Swiss was my first succesful gameplay, playing for the achievement. I had so much fun with this game, whole gameplay on the edge of my seat against insane coalitions and last minute alliances. Eventually, the achievement fulfilled, I formed Germany and the game shifted to a broader more complex set of mechanics.
Fun fact, I only tackled switzerlake achievement because I hated and couldn't understand naval battles.
I think not considering Sortition government reform is a mistake. it is on par with the others now that every candidate gets +1 to all categories
Isn’t it only +1 to a single random stat?
@@nofoxgiven6561 it was, but now its +1 to all stats. Most of them are old so you get to switch often, meaning you get quite balanced monarch points over time.
I still don't like it that they made Switzerland the country that is hiring mercs when in reality men from Switzerland were the ones who were hired in other countries. There were at least some battles where mercenaries from Switzerland were on both sides of foreign armies. The way it is implemented is simply wrong. Still a fun way to play, it is fairly overpowered right now. Good time for the Switzerlake achievement.
Disagree. You could easily take advantage of the condottieri bonuses if you wanted but players decide to always go an alt history path.
Its like complaining about Byzantium players beating the ottomans when they were the losers.
@@jacobschmidt8441 But Switzerland does have a lot of merc bonus in their ideas. Switzerland was poor, they never hired mercs. It is not what the player makes out of it, it is simply a wrong preset.
Switzerland during early EU4 dates is very strong like this is the same country that defeat Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy in his wars to united Burgundy into one nation state and we know what consequences of that by looking at centuries of wars between Germans and French.
The duke''s name was Charles! Charles of Ghent, later Emperor Charles V was named after him, his great grandfather.
u mean charles, phillip the bold died in 1404
@@НилИванов-ж1ц yeah I mix them up sorry.
@@adamyang3264 fix it
"And by the time colonialism spawns, your game should look a little like this" **Shows Swedish France** God, please, no.
Finally a guide I've been waiting for thanks Red Hawk!
It's no coincidence that the guys you wanted to fight are allied in the beginning, Red. It's highly recommended that you hold off on setting rivals until you're about to go to war. Patience my man. I see you do this almost every game. lol
I read somewhere that sadly Merc discipline modifier works like combat ability instead of discipline. So it is a glorified Infantry combat ability.
yeah its really not great
140% merc disc is worse than prussian national ideas
As a swiss myself, I approve of this video!
Denn jetzt ghört s Video dr Schwiizer Eidgenossenschaft!
But in all seriousness, great video!
"Because this is time to listen to the video of Swiss Confederation"? (I googled it)
When I was a kid, my school had a Nations Fair once. My group got Switzerland. My mom helped me run the research and once we got in contact with Swiss Consulate in my city, we were golden (this was before the Internet was a thing). It was the sweetest most endearing treatment we've ever had from pretty much strangers which best case scenario were acquainted to our native language (portuguese, we're from Brazil) and we knew 0 english back then. The material was in english so I had help from my aunt, that is proficient, to translate a little and get a hold of it.
Swiss to this day is a dear memory from my childhood, the fair was a great success and we landed a great score from that schoolwork. My childhood crush was in my group and we presented our work that afternoon together that day to all families that visited the fair.
Once I really started blobbing, I had issues getting enough mercenary companies to keep adequate numbers of troops for my army.
Yeah, I transitioned my army to in-house once I was too big to play with merc toys.
This militarizing mercs weren't in my game, I believe this is a Lions of the North or later DLC mechanic?
Nice video as usual, Im just curious why you dont get Sorition as a T3 gov. reform since it gives an additional +1+1+1 to your random choice. I find it usually as VERY valuable in my runs.
Cheers!
Maybe Sortition combined with ruler as a general, but you lose control on what specialty the new ruler will get, isn't it?
reelect to get a 6/6/6 instead, republican tradition isnt hard to gain
@@GlizzyGoblin757 That's what I always do.
Consolidation of powers + Noble families (I guess, the one that allow reelection and election from the family) does wonders.
Too bad you got a limit for reelection
Dropped the ball a couple of times on the edits haha. Noticed two parts where hawk says something that's slightly wrong, stops and then repeats, which I assume gets cut normally.
Going Reformed is SUPER powerful in Switzerland, and fun! Milleanist gov reform is also broken af, stacking enforce religion modifiers.
War score cost against religion*
It’s basically infinite mana.
6:38 btw switzerland is not fully protestant historically its like 50% catholic and 50% reformed (different evangelical like calvinism) there even was a civil war called Sonderbundskrieg because of religion and other reasons.
I don't know how exactly the Catholic/Protestant ratio was in Switzerland but today there are more Catholics than Protestants. And as far as I know that was always the case in Switzerland.
@@sagittariusa9012today it's pretty even, historically there were more catholics.
the historic conflict is between the reformed wealthy cities and the catholic countryside
@@telcharthegreatsmithofthef7585 37% catholic and 25% reformed isn't "pretty even"
@@sagittariusa9012 Counting the various reformed and protestant denominations together, it's about 30%, with a little under 37% catholic, the difference is not huge.
@@telcharthegreatsmithofthef7585 The official states reformed is 24.4% and rest christian (mostly orthodox) is 6%. You can't add those together!
Switzerland in EU IV: Awesome
Switzerland in HoI IV: Who?
Isn't there an event to inherit the three leagues if you get like 150-200 opinion with them?
Edit: I checked the wiki instead of being lazy and while it is 120 months mtth, it might still be worth, also it's 100 opinion not 150-200.
👏👏👏
Burgundy seems to go with Sweden pretty often now. The devs are Swedish after all.
Man a lot of his early issues could have been solved if he knew about the Three Leagues vassilization event at 100 relations
is it just me, or does poland pu anhalt weirdly often?
i don't remember anything like this in their mission tree, is it an event?
The original Anhalt ruler starts at an old age with no heir, I believe they are age 67 at game start. They die really quickly really often. Poland likes to ally nations in North Eastern Germany, often Stettin, Wolgast, Saxony, Mecklenburg and yes, Anhalt. So the times where they do ally Anhalt puts them at increased odds of getting a PU over them.
Why declare on Three Leagues when you can ally them, get relations above +100 and inherit them via event in a couple of years for 0 AE
great video
Laughs in mercenary Prussia
The constant mispronounciation of Bregenz quite grows on you
Outer Heaven… it’s real…
yes my nation is rising
Europa Expanded Switzerland is even more fun
Switzerland more like Switzerlake
I'm unsure why you're starting with 98 admin points, I'm starting with 84...
Edit: Looks like it scales with your starting ruler, which is random.
It doesn't matter whether you have 14 points more or less
@@ExperiencePlayers It seems like it does if you're going for the early war with the three leagues, since you need the cores for the cb before they get allies. I did try for the scripted event, but 10 years is a long time to wait.
One more thing, I think I stumble upon a glitch, I'm not sure if the game is supposed to work like that...
One of the rep gov reforms is "Consolidation of Power" which gives you -50% rep trad loss at reelections.
I got that going with "Political Dynasties" that gives +1 random candidate bonus. Thing is... For some random reason, I got TWO reelections instead of one.
Not only that, each reelection my ruler would get +1 in each attribute, adm, diplo and mil. I don't know how, but at the cost of rep trad, I kept rulers going that would have at least one attribute 6, other 3 or 4 at the end of their terms (all candidates in reps starts as 4/1/1, 4 being their expertise if bureaucrat, military or diplomat)
Once I got the "Military Principle" going, the game was done. I was pouring monarch mana all over the country, I had such excess of monarch points and no reason at all to not reelect whomever got the ruling chair. Seriously, beyond broken. Win war? Rep trad = 100 again. Reelection? Your ruler is 6/6/5 now.
I'm pretty sure something wrong was going on, but since this game is usually broken AGAINST the player (AI map hack for example), I wasn't ashamed at all of exploiting this one.
afghanistan or timurid guide pls
YES SWITZERLAND SHALL RULE ALL OF EUROPE
Someone just pulled a ludi