I was CHALLENGED by Reddit to SAVE this IMPOSSIBLE Spain | Historical Ruined Campaign
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Saving Your Ruined Campaign is the series where I'm trying to repair the worst situations sent to me by casual players. Situations where is seems that the save is not playable anymore and it should be resigned.
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"I am firmly convinced Spain is the strongest country in the world. Century after century of trying to destroy herself and still no success." Otto von Bismark
Eastern Roman empire: centuries, those are rookie numbers, you gotta pump those numbers up
@@sasi5841 Ancient Egypt: hahahahaha
famous quote by an ottoman statesman in the 19th century: You know, the ottomans really are the strongest nation on earth. You guys have been trying to tear it down from the outside for centuries, and us from the inside.
He is wrong.
China is stronger. Tried to destroy herself and failed.
Don't worry, Bis. Last century they finally did it.
>37k Loan
Zlewikk: We saved Spain!
Yellow Greece
Historically accurate spain
Bankrupt n chill
Thats problems for the future, for now its saved
@@TheIronalvarohide Except for the military victories
I love how the only chance to win is to not fight Napoléon, this is historically accurate.
Portugal's main game. In fact, the only monarch to ever survive resisting him was João VI after fleeing Portugal.
@@ruffusgoodman4137 wdym by "survive him?"
@@glxyzera7532 missed "resisting" there, corrected, thanks!
@@ruffusgoodman4137 Alexander the 1st? Or did u mean the sovereignty thing?
@@popular_anime_hater No, I'm talking about surviving against Napoleon
The reason for the weirdness with the independence wars is because Paradox hasn't updated most non 1444 starts dates since EU4's release. Colonial nations weren't a thing in the game until the release of the first DLC. To simulate the independence wars Paradox just made them already independent for this start date.
I at least appreciate they went through the effort of making a full timeline, even though it contains a lot of errors and here and there, I was really impressed when I saw that they had basically made a different map for each month between 1444 and 1820
Since I am spanish and we get taught this in school I can share some of the history behind this. Basically Spain was a french ally, the gave them military access to invade Portugal since they were a Brittish ally but Napoleon betrayed Spain and invaded it. Fernando VII and his father gave away the crown to Napoleon's brother in exchange for some palaces in France. The spanish didn´t like the french at all at this time and weren´t happy a french was ruling them (quite ironic taking into account the kings were from house Bourbon). In 1812 Spainhad its first constitution made by the Cortes of Cadiz (who were opposing the French). Fernando VII promised to mantain the constitution if he got back in power after the revolts. The Spanish independence war had a important rol on the Napoleonic defeat. It was also at this time that the colonies seized the opportunity to become independent. After Napoleon was defeated Fernando VII returned to power, and stablished an absolutist rule, thus, breaking his promise to mantain the constitution, and this is how he became the most hated king in spanish history (and is still like that today).
PD: Some of the things have more depth but it already is quite a long comment. Any corrections or additional context is welcome :)
Insane how France didnt get -5 stab for that
@@TheLouisGreen Napoleon took diplo ideas ;D
i'm convinced that Spanish didn't cared a French was ruling them, but the fact that Napoleon's Brother was illegally placed on the Spanish Throne, a contrast from when the Bourbons came to rule for the first time in Spain
It's strange, because, spanish was the second enemy for the france, after england. And only after Bismark, germany was strong enough, to be an enemy
In fact, Napoleon took the crown of Spain for his brother, it was to more easily apply the continental blockade because the King and the Prince of Spain did nothing and there were problems with the inheritance of the crown. Napoleon thought he had the support of the elites, which he partly did. But the very powerful clergy in Spain managed to stir up the people, they were afraid that the church would be muzzled like in France. They portrayed him as Satan's envoy.
In fact, these revolts didn't make much sense, there would have been only a minor control of Spain, Napoleon had no ambition to make a vassal state. In addition, these brothers paradoxically always tended to favor the countries they ruled rather than France, which had the gift of greatly annoying Napoleon. The King of Holland (another brother) had also been dismissed for this reason since he refused, among other things, to apply the continental blockade. To favor the economy of the Netherlands.
Going back to Napoleon, he said himself after all that, that it had been a mistake and if he had known he simply wouldn't have done it.
A cool historical note would be that term "guerrilla" has it's roots coming from this exact rebellion. Spanish called this guerilla, (guer=war, guerrilla=little war) , since usually they couldn't decisively fight against napoleons battalions in battlefield but they tired them down with cutting supply and picking skirmishes here and there until British and Portoguese armies gain stronger stance and French driven away for good.
Zlewik: I use everything to win the battle
Spanish order for +1 dice in the state: Am i a joke to you?
18:40 Zlewikk goes "do they (France) have any artillery though?" Bro it's Napoleon, ofc he has all the artillery
you didn`t wear the construction hat. please redo
F
That's why he ended up with so much debt
One of the very few people who could've saved this campaign, I'm not gonna lie I thought there was no way you could've won the war against France. Really, really impressive!
We need more ruined campaigns. An infinite supply. Please.
Probably my favourite eu4 content
100%
@@gryfalis4932what about Florry making random autistic noises? XD
I fucking LOST IT when Columbia became blue and you were flabbergasted lmao. That whole situation was fucked lol.
These is my favorite series you do. So different from our normal games and even to regular saving your ruined campaigns. Please keep em coming!
I really want to be annoyed at PDX for not fixing it, but realistically who uses the alternative start dates for anything other than a small campaign like this one where it doesn’t matter
He should have allowed the pretenders to win after the peace deal with France. Pretenders would have given him independence then he could have taken the territory in the new world for himself.
Fernando VII was one of the biggest jerks in Spanish history. During the napoleonic ocupation he was imprisoned in Valençay, France and when the Cortes created the Constitution of 1812, they were expecting him to come back after the war to swear the Constitution, which would establish a constitutional monarchy and even saw him as a hero, calling him Fernando "the wished". But, since he wanted to be an absolutist monarch, instead of going to Madrid, he went to Valencia, where the monarchist were waiting for him and abolished the Constitution, destroying one of our earliest efforts of modernisation and democratisation and submerging Spain in almost 20 years of poverty, unrest, feudalism, illiteracy and sorrow, and many more to come. He was also one of the main reasons we lost our colonies.
Yeah, one of the first things I learned about Spanish history: José Bonaparte - actually decent, we just don't like our way of life being changed, Fernando VII - complete disaster of a ruler.
Zlewikkk
First Commeeent :)))
With amount of changes and new units it's must worth a new season!
Napoleon: Destroys Continental Europe in battles
Austria: Ol' Reliable *starts marrying peeps off*
Gabriel Suchet's Anti Guerrilla Warfare tatctics are studied too this day, he was the only Napoleonic Marshall in Spain who managed to keep the relative peace and gather support of the peopple, by estabilishing order and law, paying his soldiers and forbidding looting, and gaining over the population by making deals and cooperating with local leaders. He was so beloved that when he died, one of the villages he occupied erected a statue to that stands to this day. Think about it, someone enforcing the will of another nation was beloved enough to get a statue of his own!
The spanish were taught to hate the french by their catholic clergy, the people had absolutely no idea what was going on nor did they know anything about france or it's governement, the spanish were fooled by their enemy into commiting national suicide, at least they were the ones who lost the most from their own mistakes
Hey Zlewik, Portugal should have it's capital in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil during that time, the royal court just went to Brasil so Napoleon couldn't capture install a pupet government basically. Portugal should get a decision to switch capital to Rio de Janeiro in the case of occupation with issues long term wise like a disaster, in the European possession if it does not switch back to Lisbon after a war
The Peninsular War started with uprisings in Spain after Napoleon invaded Portugal.
Because of the drain on resources the fighting caused, Napoleon referred to the war as his "Spanish ulcer."
All starts with a petition from Napoleon for crossing through Spain to conquer Portugal. Fernando VII (Spanish Ruler) accepted, then the french started conquering spanish land instead Portugal's.
Obviusly, french army was way better and bigger than the spanish one at this period of time, so the french occupied the majority of Spain and Napoleon forced Fernando VII to abdicate in favor of his brother (Jose Bonaparte). The idea of being betrayed and controlled by french people didn't like to the majority of spanish people (except a small group of people, called "Afrancesados" here in Spain).
The result of this unrest was the start of something called "guerrillas" here in Spain (small groups of spanish peasants ambushing french armies and cutting off their suplies). During that years the french army lost their first battle (during the Napoleon period) and it was the start of the Independence War.
"We can fix the economy of Spain" - this is what's called "foreshadowing"
Damn, what an epic challenge issued by u/AChickenOnReddit
Indeed
Well done, but those miltech 23 African mercenaries probably hurt more than they helped, probably explain a good chunk of your devastating battlefield casualties
Better cannon fodder than nothing!
it's merc manpower, he would have dismbanded them after the war anyways (and lost all the manpower and reserve they still had)
On top of that, it's GOOD to kill mercs, because regular troops have a reinforce cost, mercs DO NOT, if 90% of a merc army dies... they cost 9 times less money, AND they'll still recover, but unlike normal troups it costs them nothing to recover! So mercs should really be thrown at the enemy like trash, the more they die, the less you have to pay them
Great to see him manage it. I think he should have checked to build ramparts first in the main 3 forts in the north. The +1 dice roll would help a lot, and the attrition isn't negligible.
Also, the Canadian in me can't help but notice that the war of 1812 was mentioned. It's such a silly thing, but hey, we won, so we're proud.
Wanted to see you play anbennar or ante bellum. There are some difficult starts in those two. The Nestorian assyrian nation in ante bellum is VERY difficult.
I didn't know you could continue playing after 1821, thought you could only do that with ET mod. Guess you learn something new after thousand of hours as usually with this game.
you can if ironman is turned off
@@nicodemus7774 I was wondering too, now it makes sense, thx!
Will there be Diplo idea groups tierlist? The Admin one was very helpful
Yes, it just takes time
Historical France in 1813: Oh God, not another f*cking Coalition! I can't take this anymore! *surrenders* ''
EU4 France in 1813: ''Dont you worry pal, here's a spare army until i smash those fools in Europe. *proceeds to smash the fools in Europe* ''
It's annoying that there is no coalition mechanic for revolutionary countries in EU4, remember France got a coalition the size of the moon that went as far as russia, even though they had taken no land, and should have 0 AE by EU4 logic
You should get 300 AE on all christian and muslim nations for going revolutionary, and compensate that with bonuses to morale and tech cost, that would at least be historical
Everybody's at war, cause its the war of the Sixth Coalition. I'm pretty sure this is the one where they finally beat Napoleons ass
the first coalition was before napoleon came to power, I think he rose to power in the middle of the second coalitiob iirc, the coalitions had nothing to do with napoleon, they were to crush the revolutionaries, in EU4 terms, they should be "crush the revolution" CB
1:11 That's better than what you get if you start in the bookmark selector.
The general that was helping Zlewikk fight the pretenders in Spain, Field Marshal Suchet, was so highly regarded by Emperor Napoleon that he once stated: "If I had two generals like Suchet, I would have won the war in Spain."
When asked who his finest commander was after his final exile, he said "It is difficult for me to say, but it seems to me that it is Suchet."
Suchet was the Governor of Aragon during the Peninsular War, and was the only French commander establish and maintain order within his province and within his army. He forbade his troops from looting and pillaging, even when such actions were commonplace throughout the rest of French occupied Spain. After his death, a prayer service was held for him by the people of Aragon, so highly respected he was even there.
Ahh yes, playing with Spain at any point since the Napoleonic wars. Thats the definition of "Ruined campaing" xD Even in Victoria or HOI xD
As another EU4 survivor of Independence War from France as Spain this deserves one and only thing: GGWP!
OH NOOO I guess I'll just cross that off my video plan for next week :( :(
Seriously, the moment I saw that thumbnail, I just KNEW :( Looking forward to watching how you saved it though :D
Ohh, sorry! Blame the people that pinged me on reddit I guess 😅.
I dont have licence for these anyway so you should go ahead and try as well!
@@ZlewikkTV hah, can’t exactly blame you, it was perfect for you! Plus they literally tagged you xD I like the idea of trying a few disaster time periods throughout eu4 though, might give it a try!
Revolutionary France has Napoleon God-tier general.
Guillermo Elcano "Hold my beer"
you had a napoleon, maybe not in the game but he was sitting in front of the computer 👉👈
Napoleon a 6 6 6 2 general, you know the guy famous for his artillery skill, is a 2 star siege.
Artillery ≠ siege
Napoleon should be a 6376 general, and a 626 leader
@@michaelhaderach277 ever heard of a long siege commanded by napoleon? No because he won any siege instantly, artillery pretty much was siege back then, and Napoleon learned to become an artillery commander after he fled Corsica to spain
(when the french revolution happened, Napoleon wanted corsica to remain part of france, but local mafia wanted corsica to become independent(under their rule of course), so they went to the house of napoleon and tried to kill him and his family(for being against corsican independence), he was warned by friends and barely escaped, but they burned his house down, after that he sailed with his family on a tiny raft accross the mediteranean to france, then joined the revolutionary army, where he would rise through the ranks)
I need to send you my NA native american campaigns. I get to a point where I'm stuck with no money to fight the brits, spanish or porteguese. I usually play as Quizquiz cause they are already at gov ref 3.
Meanwhile at the British court:
- My liege, our enemies of old, the Spanish, they've just beaten Napoleon. The Napoleon.
- They did what now? o_0
I would have probably just left the rebels win xd
I don't know exactly, but you are right with what you are saying that Spain was give Napoleon problems once they turned against him.
A bit late to the party but would you be interested in saving Hungary from the Ottomans in 1526 August?
A bit of historical context:
Just before the battle of Mohács which left the nation in two (and a bit later three) pieces: Royal Hungary controlled by the Habsburgs (western Hungary and most of modern day Slovakia) and The Ottoman occupied territories (Central Hungary, in hungarian Hódoltság) (And a bit later on the principality of Transylvania as an Ottoman vassal). It is one of the biggest disasters in the history of Hungary as it is esentially Hungary's fall from grace, not long before it was the golden years under king Mathias Corvinus and after it Hungary became a subject of the Habsburgs up until 1918.
The hungarians had fought several independence wars against the Habsburgs if you are interested, such as between 1703 and 1711 (if I recall correctly) with Ferenc Rákóczy II as leader in an anti-Habsburg insurgency (although I am unsure if this can be found in EU 4).
could you do a fall of the Ming historical ruined campaign?
suchet was a brilliant general in the peninsular war, very underrated
27:08 - Victory against Napoleon:
+2 Prestige. +1.34 War Exhaustion.
Napoleon: +30 Army Tradition.
I bet he retreated like "Actually, I didn't retreat. I merely got bored of the battle and decided to come back and f*ck my wife."
And ordered that to be published in every continent.
He got 30 Army Tradition, not Prestige. France lost 0.49 prestige in the battle.
@@imperator9343 Oh true that... Still really f'd up
Que fane Fernando VII es bad ending y que ganen los franceses también, no hay manera de salvar esta partida.
La pena es el poco tiempo que queda de juego, con algo más se podría derrotar a ambos xD
It's a shame the lack of ingame time, with a little more time, it would be possible to defeat both of then xD
@@Luis_Manuel_Suarez pues si, y volver a poner un austria quizás…
this is the end of most of my campaings. often in the late 1600s or early 1700s.
7:36 bro chill
Couldn't you have sortie'd in the first battle against france?
Well you still won, well done!
Waste of mil points with not enough impact as far as I remember
To be honest I would just integrate colonial nations via console if I had enough war score if there is no proper peace option.
Will you be taking part in the Grandes Lan Party this year?
Clash with Napoleon was amazing 😎👍
Crazy. We saved the city :D
Man didnt got rid of José Bonaparte, but saved the country, weird feelings I have
How has Mexico got those fogged up provinces... surely the Terra incognito would have been cleared if they were a colonial subject
And no missions completed?
@@saulgallagher5668this is a later historical start date so there’s all sorts of weird janky stuff that happens
Wait is this an AI nation, and the actual player was on France?
@@Andrew-jb2iy oooooh right, that makes alot more sense
This is an EU4 start date, different than 1444
This is historically accurate
Solid play thru
Why would Joseph Bonaparte (Napoleon's puppet on the Spanish throne) be at war with France?
The rebels are at war with him, not joseph.
Zlewikk vs Napoleon who is better general?
hey, at least stability didn't start negative
AI France did save herself from the turmoil lol
Hey, I'm not a pro EU4 player or anything and am just genuinely curious, why didn't you just delete the fort in Burgos, so the french just go to the fort in Nevarra with mountain terrain so they would get -2 to their rolls?
Prussia, smallest Italy I've ever seen, massive france. Looks like a fun game
Its historical start I think
@@JaTonda ahh, I'm dumb
playing as the brother of napoleon ( king of spain) being a subject but still be considered at war with france WTF ???
23:23 a jakbyś zrobił Sortie to skoro wcześniej mówiłeś że to fort 8 to garnizon nawet ma + powiększony o idee defensywne a Francja miała też już artylerię samą na pierwszej linii to czy bitwa była by wygrana ?
Francja 18 regimentow z przodu wiec raczej by duzo nie zmienilo
I am very sorry Zlewikk, but you left José Bonaparte on the throne. Other than that, better than historical Spain.
-loses 130k troops in 1 battle
“This is fine guys”
He learned that strat from the russians
Love u zlewikk 🎉❤🎉❤🎉
Hey, Zlewikk please we need a campaign where you are playing as Taiwan (real China) and liberating it's lands
lmfao
eu4 should really just stop pretending it has other start dates
I love your hat where did you get it?
Would letting the pretenders win make you independent?
I don't think so
Generally pretender rebels enforce independence on the country if the nation is in a PU, i. e. if Aragon was a PU under Castile and the pretender rebels enforced demands on Aragon, then Aragon would be free. I'm not sure if Spain was a PU or a direct subject of France in this save.
@@xryphon it's a direct subject on that start date
I think in independence wars you only need the subject to accept defeat and it will remain a subject. Am i wrong?
Yes, even a white peace is enough to make them remain as a subject. The subject itself has to make demands
Rebels cant break a country if your at war, so as long as your at war, the rebels cant force demands even at 100%
They cant break a country but they surely can enforce. And they did in these 16 months in my test run :)
huh? why would you fight France while still having Napoleon's brother on the throne? Thats the weirdest roleplay ever
So you think there are no conflicts within families?
Historically i think it was pretty stupid for the spanish to fight the french, they lost their whole empire because of it.
I am subscribed to hats.
At the moment you kept being a french vassal you lost the challenge for me
Feel free to do it your own way. Looking forward to seing the results :p
And jokes aside, it's literally either dealing with rebels or French. These rebels enforce in 18 months if you do not kill majority of them, so I personally prefered to deal with rebels->colonies->french and it's a matter of strategy, not a braidead challenge approach. Personally I think it's better to take care of all 3 instead of just 2, isnt it?
Guys if you have excess manpower when you're at peace forcefully spawn the rebels after 50%. I do this every run and never have rebel problems and all my provinces have the lowest autonomy possible after lowering it throughout my run.
part 2 pls
YES!!
7:34 kinda sus ngl
hm?
@@ZlewikkTV "yes" "come at me bros" "come at me" lmao
@@ZlewikkTV "Come at me"
Some folks are more dirty minded than others
@@elseggs6504 oh well, found that funny ngl
Do you intentionally not use movement cancelling or forgot about it? I guess it is kinda an exploit
You mean with the transport ships? Yeah, not a big fan
@@ZlewikkTV Yeah that's what I meant. Fair enough!
¿cómo puedes jugar ese escenario? ¿es un mod?
A mi nunca se me rebelan tantos enemigos.
It's a vanilla start date
SAVE this IMPOSSIBLE
O bratku
Damn, you can't even make jokes anymore
Zajebisty!
Delete Burgos fort to force mt. Battles, no?
Bankrupt and lose junior partner france
Pierwszy. Polska gurom
If you white peace subject, shouldn't he remain subject?
Literally said and showed that in the video, not in this scenario
Жалкая пародия на воеводу😂
Where are you form ZLEWİK? You like a russian
Polonyalı gibi bir hali var valla
@@emregungor7853 yok be slav tipi var bu adamda, alman tipi yok
@@cemilkaganunal abi ruslar da slav. Onu geçtim, adam slavım diye bağırıyor, bence %99 doğu avrupalı
im a simple man i see zlewikk i like comment for algorithm and share with my friends :D
I have never played untill the end screen. Can you still get achievments past it? Also all the modifiers that are ''untill the end of the game'', do they expire?