At the beginning of the serie i thought it wasn't such a great idea playing any nation in alphabetical order... but omg this is actually the best eu4 serie i have ever seen... Great job Hawk
This one was interesting because it indeed looks like sometihing that would happen in real life. A tribal nation with a martial culture gets a great leader, the leader leads them into forming a great empire, and shortly after the empirer colapses. It happened more than once in history, most famous example: The Mongol Empire
I have a soft spot for Benin, not gonna lie. When I first started playing EUIV after finishing the Tutorial, I pressed random and got Benin. Didn't get very far(this is the time where you had to WESTERNIZE if you wanna get anywhere), but it was super memorable.
Beloozero sounds like below zero, so the challenge would be to conquer all 9 glacial provinces. 1 in Canada, 2 in Greenland, 2 in the Himalayas, 3 in Kamchatka and finally South Georgia.
This looked rough as hell, I’m glad you’re sticking with the A-Z challenge though even though some suck, it’s fun to watch and gives more ideas for nations to play (since we overlook them quite often)
I just finished a Benin on the extended timeline mod I started in 1330s. Had to do three restarts before I didn't die to Portugal. The Key to not getting eaten for me was choosing expansion ideas first and colonizing the coast (at a rate that required plenty of loans) before they could get a foothold. I also declared no cb wars on Morroccos allies in order to get vassals and take land from Morrocco to avoid fighting the Ottomans. Plus I used the cult of christianity to get better relations and I allied Czechoslovakia which had a Pu on France to take over Portugal and Castile. It was easy after that as I vassalized most of Middle East region and had the rest of Africa Stated and under my control. I was insanely rich since by 1950s I had 2 million soldiers the most I had ever had in a campaign; could have of taken over the world but It's a pain to micromanage that many men at that point. Now I'm Playing a tall Papal States game with help from your guide.
Well well well, who would've expected Hawk to keep the tradition after making us think this was another "serious" A-Z challenge? You had us in the first-half, not gonna lie
I used to play by nation's color and flag, didnt even check the national ideas. Benin and the Dahomey flag is very noticeable. Mong Kawng is one rare Black color.
As Brandenburg, have the Zulu as a March, so you can be Militirizaiton Mechanics Mutuals. I got separatists by colonizing South Africa. Alternatively, form Nepal, since they also have good ideas.
I found your channel and watched nearly all of your A to Z and some of your vs on zwelik! Keep it going man! I love Eu4 and your content Youre always interesting to watch and i hope to see many more A to Z vids!
Not much of a roleplayer it feels at times, am happy I managed to catch the you know ideas of Benin, but one of the main things I was excited about in this series was to actually maybe learn a tiny bit about each nation.
So yeah, maybe some kind of intro that goes over the history and shows the flavor text of their ideas might be cool, as well as their unique government/their religion. You know, bit of history since your going all around the world and you can maybe even get to shake your head at some historical inaccuracies, I know this could make the upload take longer but I do feel it would immensely improve them and make them a good jumping off point to learn more about nations that are interesting. Its why I mourne the loss of the ck2 wikipedia button, learned a lot from it.
Idea: when you go to observer mode and then go to exit to menu when the leaderboard popup above the exit is spectate. The one special thing is when you chose to spectate a nation you actually have control over it with the ai(its like coop but with ai). Challenge is to guide the nation while in spectator mode.
When you siege down Jenne (capital of Jenne) as Songhai, there’s an event where you can vassalize and royal marry them. I learned that last night playing Songhai.
Borders at the end are really interesting. i wonder what the map would look like if the AI took over from that point! I feel like this campaign had a cool growth and decline to it, as with a lot of campaigns in this series.
you should as Beloozero you should conquer Te Urewera (the province with the highest tag ID) so you can own both sides! below zero and above zero! :D Or you could try and conquer/colonize the province furthest south in the map (it's either Tasmania or that place in the south of chile/argentina)
You can avoid a stab hit by lowering relations below 100 relations, an insult or even scornful insult should do it since it doesnt matter if you like, its their relations that count.
Songhai is going to get Jenne as a vassal basically every game. All they need to do is control the capital of Jenne and an event fires that makes them a vassal. No AE no cost white peace treaty. Its a great event for Songhai.
Im so fucking sad that they did not give Benin a mission tree in the latest expansion, they were my fav nation to play in EU2 and have quite an interesting history and survived as an independent nation trading with the Europeans for a long time, especially considering they were a coastal nation.
If I remember correctly Benin was the first game that I played to the end but I was losing territory to Portugal and my country was on the way to dying after the end date of the game.
20:17 seriously? Yao, it's time to say... eh... goodbye? You had the greatest chance of your life so say "Yao, it's time to say Ciao" and you didn't use it! _angry noises_ :D
I think it's stupid that in the update for Africa, and the last update to add provinces, they didn't fix the Nigeria region. There should be a dozen new tags.
2:40 What is the benefit of having a fort defense guy? I mean I see people choosing that advisor fairly often when they don't have a morale or discipline choices, but I've never thought that forts were all that important, while maintenance reduction just pays for itself in my opinion. Anyone have any strong opinion on this? Do they give some sort of a benefit that I'm not aware of?
Like you said if you don't have morale or discipline it can be strong. I use it to just make my forts a pain to take. Since with some luck and extra fort defense you can siege down all of a rival country before they even get one fort early on. I like maintenance cost too, but it just makes things cheaper and later on you swim in money so it's not that valuable later. That's just my 2 cents.
Good for when you need to drain enemy manpower/you have less troops. Longer sieges last, more attrition the enemy takes, more time you have to gather/stop the siege. Forts are actually insanely useful when youre not the biggest boy in the block or when you are the biggest boi facing coalitions. Also lets you siege them before they siege you
@@sleepyboi8060 Thanks for the heads up, that makes sense. Draining the enemy's mp, seems like a good way of hurting them. Although, I personally, don't like for anyone to be in my lands that long. And if I'm doing a conquest run I try to wipe out the enemy asap.
Beloozero means White Lake in russian, so the only logical challenge as them is to completely surround the Black Sea and make it your Lacus Nostrum
Maybe it would be better to get full control over white sea trade route? (С русским на английском разговаривать это конечно м-да)
He must DEW IT
@@Wassuek Porque no los dos?
@@Wassuek it's Internet baby. And we on english speaking channel)
Dummy here, but what does Lacus Nostrum mean?
At the beginning of the serie i thought it wasn't such a great idea playing any nation in alphabetical order... but omg this is actually the best eu4 serie i have ever seen... Great job Hawk
Thank you I appreciate the kind words!
Redhawk: Pressing the reduce autonomy button is a sigma move
*2 minutes later*
Redhawk: You have no idea how many rebels I'm fighting!
Lmao true
Get army tradition by killing rebels sigma move
This one was interesting because it indeed looks like sometihing that would happen in real life. A tribal nation with a martial culture gets a great leader, the leader leads them into forming a great empire, and shortly after the empirer colapses. It happened more than once in history, most famous example: The Mongol Empire
History is chock full of such short lived empires.
Also Timur or Attila's Huns.
I have a soft spot for Benin, not gonna lie.
When I first started playing EUIV after finishing the Tutorial, I pressed random and got Benin. Didn't get very far(this is the time where you had to WESTERNIZE if you wanna get anywhere), but it was super memorable.
Like that mechanic in vicoria ii? It was in eu4 and then removed?
@@javierduenasjimenez7930 yes and everyone hate it
@@lorrdy7640 You liked that mechanic, you mean?
Institutions makes oh so much more sense though, lore-wise. One of the best change in EU4.
Fun game. Benin hit hard but the Europeans cheated by allying eachother.
Get the Burgundian inheritance as Brandenburg to form Brandenburgundy.
Could Kongo get the Burgundian inheritance?
@@Yaratoma if you explored Europe early enough and married them
@@thegodfather_8455 goodie
Ss ordenstat burgund
HOLY FUCKING SHIT IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING TNO REFERENCE??
Beloozero sounds like below zero, so the challenge would be to conquer all 9 glacial provinces. 1 in Canada, 2 in Greenland, 2 in the Himalayas, 3 in Kamchatka and finally South Georgia.
Haha. Cool! I just had pretty much the same idea. But instead, I recommended taking over iceland.
6:48 "I told you guys, Benin, super powerful nation... Mission fulfilled- *slave trade* uuuuuuuuuh"
Lmao yeah
Benin was always my top3 African nation, not as good as Songhai/Butua though
Too bad they didn't get proper missions in latest DLC though
Butua coming soon too!
I think Ethiopia deserves a place on that list tbh
You know I don't mind when an empire falls under the hand of a player by mistake,it makes for a good story.
Yeah for sure
This looked rough as hell, I’m glad you’re sticking with the A-Z challenge though even though some suck, it’s fun to watch and gives more ideas for nations to play (since we overlook them quite often)
I just finished a Benin on the extended timeline mod I started in 1330s. Had to do three restarts before I didn't die to Portugal. The Key to not getting eaten for me was choosing expansion ideas first and colonizing the coast (at a rate that required plenty of loans) before they could get a foothold. I also declared no cb wars on Morroccos allies in order to get vassals and take land from Morrocco to avoid fighting the Ottomans. Plus I used the cult of christianity to get better relations and I allied Czechoslovakia which had a Pu on France to take over Portugal and Castile. It was easy after that as I vassalized most of Middle East region and had the rest of Africa Stated and under my control. I was insanely rich since by 1950s I had 2 million soldiers the most I had ever had in a campaign; could have of taken over the world but It's a pain to micromanage that many men at that point. Now I'm Playing a tall Papal States game with help from your guide.
As Brandenburg form european union ( just own Germany, France and Italy)
+ lowlands
+Lowlands and humiliate GB
Actually this would be more interesting as flanders, brussels being like the capital of the EU and all! Though much more difficult
@@PJsutnop in that case you should go Brabant.
@@Baul3680 true that may be event better! Still incredibly difficult though haha
"Strengthen Noble Martial Society" is quite the mouthful, but the combination brings the best of "Martial Society" and "Strengthen Noble Privileges"
Well well well, who would've expected Hawk to keep the tradition after making us think this was another "serious" A-Z challenge? You had us in the first-half, not gonna lie
“Yao, it’s time to say uh.. time to say goodbye.” CIAO, RED HAWK. YAO, ITS TIME TO SAY CIAO.
22:54 What is going on in Europe? Neither Ottomans, nor France, nor Russia are great powers.
"Belo ozero" means "white lake" - take over all the lakes in the world.
I used to play by nation's color and flag, didnt even check the national ideas. Benin and the Dahomey flag is very noticeable. Mong Kawng is one rare Black color.
As Brandenburg, have the Zulu as a March, so you can be Militirizaiton Mechanics Mutuals. I got separatists by colonizing South Africa.
Alternatively, form Nepal, since they also have good ideas.
8:48 King Bobby B is such a Chad that he's manifested himself into a different reality entirely
20:20 you missed the opportunity to say "Yao, it's time to say Ciao!"
I found your channel and watched nearly all of your A to Z and some of your vs on zwelik! Keep it going man! I love Eu4 and your content Youre always interesting to watch and i hope to see many more A to Z vids!
This series is so fun I love watching these vids while eating and just chilling!
Enjoy!
23:05 Been waiting so long for this to make a return. Finally a proper, traditionalist run. o7
14:00 deving a province in 1499 be like
A to Z challenge is one of the most chill series I've been watching. Keep it up your great work!
24:05 That tiny Ethiopia in the east is cute.
Not much of a roleplayer it feels at times, am happy I managed to catch the you know ideas of Benin, but one of the main things I was excited about in this series was to actually maybe learn a tiny bit about each nation.
So yeah, maybe some kind of intro that goes over the history and shows the flavor text of their ideas might be cool, as well as their unique government/their religion.
You know, bit of history since your going all around the world and you can maybe even get to shake your head at some historical inaccuracies, I know this could make the upload take longer but I do feel it would immensely improve them and make them a good jumping off point to learn more about nations that are interesting.
Its why I mourne the loss of the ck2 wikipedia button, learned a lot from it.
As Belozeero own all glacier terrain provinces in the world (it sounds like 'below zero' so I think it's fitting)
Benin: Touches Saoura
Portugal: So you have chosen... *DEATH*
Benin: Fuxking dies
I just hope redhawk has as much fun making these as i have watching them.
I love that you let yourself fail, this is definitely my fav EUIV series rn.
Idea: when you go to observer mode and then go to exit to menu when the leaderboard popup above the exit is spectate. The one special thing is when you chose to spectate a nation you actually have control over it with the ai(its like coop but with ai). Challenge is to guide the nation while in spectator mode.
I think you missed Beloozero,they have unique national ideas
Coming soon, didn’t miss them
20:17 missed opportunity to say ciao
As Beloozero; if you haven't already; get the Kinslayer achievement.
Benin sure got the most badass flag in the game.
Gotta say thanks to the a to z, I almost always disband my cavalry in 1444 and it helps my economy so much.
Well that war went downhill fast...
As for Beloozero... Would forming Russia and having all 3 romes be too obvious a task?
Most badass flag in the history of humanity.
Ah, good old Air, one of my favorite A to Z ao far. The last Air Bender was a great combo of clever and difficult.
When you siege down Jenne (capital of Jenne) as Songhai, there’s an event where you can vassalize and royal marry them. I learned that last night playing Songhai.
You can use "Threaten War" to get around the opinion modifier and not lose stab.
For Burgundy you should try and switch all of your provinces with France, reverse inheritance
I was watching these in order but suddenly this title drew me in early
You should stream the A-Z to increase the pace and then post the vod to speed up the rate at which this wonderful series comes out.
"I've allied a Stronghai"
-Red Hawk, 2022
As Beloozero Form Ruthenia, as true hier of catholic-orthodox and turn defender the religion, that is a challenge for you, thx for video !
One way I've found of getting around the good relations penalty is threatening war for something they will reject.
Borders at the end are really interesting. i wonder what the map would look like if the AI took over from that point! I feel like this campaign had a cool growth and decline to it, as with a lot of campaigns in this series.
you should as Beloozero you should conquer Te Urewera (the province with the highest tag ID) so you can own both sides! below zero and above zero! :D
Or you could try and conquer/colonize the province furthest south in the map (it's either Tasmania or that place in the south of chile/argentina)
You can avoid a stab hit by lowering relations below 100 relations, an insult or even scornful insult should do it since it doesnt matter if you like, its their relations that count.
What to do with below zero? Take Iceland, obviously.
Now THIS is a Red Hawk classic.
As beloozero form Russia and reach eastern Siberia coast like that achievement
Wielki człowiek to jedyna słuszna racja dla tego państwa
Songhai is going to get Jenne as a vassal basically every game. All they need to do is control the capital of Jenne and an event fires that makes them a vassal. No AE no cost white peace treaty.
Its a great event for Songhai.
Take all the most northern provinces so all your land's temperature is below zero
Im so fucking sad that they did not give Benin a mission tree in the latest expansion, they were my fav nation to play in EU2 and have quite an interesting history and survived as an independent nation trading with the Europeans for a long time, especially considering they were a coastal nation.
"It's next to the Gold Coast"
I didn't know Benin was in Australia
attacking portugal without checking their allies was a mistake
If I remember correctly Benin was the first game that I played to the end but I was losing territory to Portugal and my country was on the way to dying after the end date of the game.
20:17 seriously? Yao, it's time to say... eh... goodbye?
You had the greatest chance of your life so say "Yao, it's time to say Ciao" and you didn't use it! _angry noises_ :D
I’m starting to think that it’s not the nations that you play that are OP, it’s you.
Zazzu makes for a neat ally, they have an amazing ruler general at the start of the game.
So close to victory yet victory never came
hi i am new to the channel But i love your videos you are so cool
Welcome!
21:07 classic Red Hawk 😏
This is why you get european allies before attacking colonizers.
Awesome video! To me, this is still a success.
just how couldn't you check Portugals allies before attacking? xD
I forgot lmao
One day, we will see a Zazau video
Become Russia, make the white Sea mode the richest in the world and conquer Minisk
Benin guide when?
If you have good relations with a nation you wanna fight you can insult them and don't loose stability!
Can't wait to see you play my home province of Cebu
20:19 Yao it's time to say ciao
1:02 CmonBruh
Why didnt you say " That is unique enough of course." When the video started. I felt missing. 😞
My bad lol
I think it's stupid that in the update for Africa, and the last update to add provinces, they didn't fix the Nigeria region. There should be a dozen new tags.
Hardest ive laughed at one of your videos was when you actively avoid saying "time for yao to go ciao"
I really did looool
9:40 Couldn't you give them Marching rights and immediately revoke it. Or ally a rival of them?
2:40 What is the benefit of having a fort defense guy? I mean I see people choosing that advisor fairly often when they don't have a morale or discipline choices, but I've never thought that forts were all that important, while maintenance reduction just pays for itself in my opinion.
Anyone have any strong opinion on this? Do they give some sort of a benefit that I'm not aware of?
Like you said if you don't have morale or discipline it can be strong. I use it to just make my forts a pain to take. Since with some luck and extra fort defense you can siege down all of a rival country before they even get one fort early on. I like maintenance cost too, but it just makes things cheaper and later on you swim in money so it's not that valuable later. That's just my 2 cents.
Good for when you need to drain enemy manpower/you have less troops. Longer sieges last, more attrition the enemy takes, more time you have to gather/stop the siege.
Forts are actually insanely useful when youre not the biggest boy in the block or when you are the biggest boi facing coalitions.
Also lets you siege them before they siege you
Also dont forget +1 mil point
@@Sacredearthproject No one forgot about the '+1 mil point,' since all advisors give at least a '+1 mil point.'
@@sleepyboi8060 Thanks for the heads up, that makes sense. Draining the enemy's mp, seems like a good way of hurting them.
Although, I personally, don't like for anyone to be in my lands that long. And if I'm doing a conquest run I try to wipe out the enemy asap.
*checks alphabet*
You forgot aboht Beloozero didn't you?
Wow they named a country after me lol
Ludi got so pissed when someone told him to delete cav for ducets recently. Shit was funny thought of u
I love benin's flag so much.
"all nations have manpower issues"
me: who plays mali has 5 mercenary company in 1450
What manpower issue?
Hell yeah I always used to play Benin
Bruh I wish I could play any nation and do well like you lol, I get to a stable point then blunder In a war I thought I could win.
Damn, Songhai is a Strong gai
Why not send insult, before the war with Dagbon, too avoid stab hit?
Dhundhar on India near Meawar
The bini are a interesting people not much is known in the west about them but they have a lot of descendants in the west
cant believe you didnt ally dahomey 😔
Random thing but will "The Knights" and "The Palatinate" be considered part of (K,S) or (T)?
That's great man
I'm curious to know how the Balkans look if the Ottomans aren't even a great power
how do you get colored mission tree?
Graphical Mal Improvements