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I've got another playthru idea you guys can have a go at... It involves playing as England, Scotland, and/or Ireland and trying to beat Queen Elizabeth's length of reign... Diamond Star Achievement - Elizabeth II - 70 years + Gold Star Achievement - Victoria - 63 years + Silver Star Achievement - Henry III - 56 years + Bronze Star Achievement - William of Scotland - 48 years + Brass Star Achievement - Elizabeth I - 44 years + Copper Star Achievement - Henry VIII - 38 years + Stone Star Achievement - William The Conqueror - 20 years +
Third time’s the charm, once again Laith, you can become Norse with these requirements: - Danish, Swedish, Norweigan, Icelandic or Norse as primary Culture - Is in Age of Discovery - Not had the country flag "had_norse_nostalgia" - is excommunicated OR has modifier "the_statue_in_restraint_of_appeals" - ruler has Scholar trait OR Sinner trait OR is at least 5/5/5 - Owns the province Bergslagen - Is independent Takes 100 years to happen, reduced by 0.5x (50, then 25) by having religious ideas and being excommunicated. There will be 4 events, and then your nation will slowly turn Norse.
14:32 - Remember the good ol' days of EU3 where you could just pick the advisors you want from the complete list? Why haven't they brought that back yet?
Good to see Paradox fixing all the flaws and missing features. Hoping they get around to fixing Lithuania and adding a branching path for Romuva revival or Hussite conversion Lithuania is also in serious need of historical flavor in regards the sucession crisis and Švitrigaila claimant to the thrones of Poland and Lithuania (he's still very much alive in 1444)
Working on "Almost Prussian Blue" as Livonia as my first 1.34 nation, but I will have to try Norway next, both your and Red Hawk's Norway video's really showed it off. Was also going to mix in "For the Emperor!" and try to get some use out of 40k Marines, so colony shenanigans when not fighting in the northern HRE.
Hi Laith, just wondering what happened to Tom? He hasn’t been in a video in a while and I always enjoyed his more serious/historical content in conjunction with your gameplay. Hope to see vids with the two of you again soon!
7:36 Honestly just find it hilarious that you posted this literally the day after RedHawk posted his guide for Norway and specifically mentioned being careful about which tier two gov reform to take depending on how far along getting rid of those two starting privileges you were.
The biggest issue i've found with not taking exploration ideas as Norway is that you cannot fabricate claims in the new world for your subjects. Meaning, once you have five provinces in a region you lose any ability to conquer natives unless you get REALLY lucky with your subjects AI. I'm really hoping Paradox fixes Norways ideas to grant that ability, since otherwise you HAVE to take Exploration or Espionage Ideas ;/ Both of which would be a waste of a slot.
If you set a province as vital interest your subjects should try and fabricate a claim there if they can, not sure how well that works with colonial nations though.
Well you can just wait for a native nation to declare on your CN and then enforce peace, take over the war, and conquer that way, so you should be able to conquer just fine without full exploration.
This is how you do it: -Take religions Ideas, (2 nd best admin idea and it is always useful, especially the +10% moral policy) -Start colony right next to anyone you want to kill -As soon as the colony starts you get the Deus Vult CB on them -land troops and declare. -Cancel colony.
Hey laith, Been messing about with Norway and the biggest issue for them is their economy (I find). It is really hard to get ducats rolling in. Yes, you can mothball forts, mothball your heavies, turn off army maintenance but then you are losing army tradition and professionalism, as well as impairing rebels, but even with all that the revenue stream is seriously poor. I tried not granting the mana privileges and that helped a bit as I had a good run with rulers so I could afford not to take them. In my run today I chose to take chunks of Sweden rather than PUing them and that helped a bit although rebels were an issue. The one thing I botched on both runs was trying to dev up the provinces to 8 before I had unlocked the Bhurger mountain dev privilege. That was a serious 'oopsie' as I discovered after I unlocked it and found all the bonuses for mountain dev!
Arg…never not once have I inherited burgundy without alt f4 one time at least…..I liked watching it happen unexpectedly. I’d bet He had forgotten burgundy was an ally
Norwegian historian here. I haven't watched the video yet so I can say I'll be surprised if you even manage to break free without getting England or maybe Muscovy to help out!
have you done the conquer the world achievement as ryukyu? seems like kinda tough start? the reason i mention it is cos im playing as golden horde and own most of russia, east europe, middle east etc and i found them quite plucky in invading me during my war against ming... seeing their little 4k stack wandering around taking a few of my eastern provinces was kinda cute...
Fun fact! Mikmaq is not the correct spelling or pronounciation of the tribe in that region of Canada, (also seen around new Brunswick and Maine which are both westerly to Nova Scotia) its spelt "Mi'kmaq", and is "Mi'gmaq" in english pronunciation
I've got another playthru idea you guys can have a go at... It involves playing as England, Scotland, and/or Ireland and trying to beat Queen Elizabeth's length of reign... Diamond Star Achievement - Elizabeth II - 70 years + Gold Star Achievement - Victoria - 63 years + Silver Star Achievement - Henry III - 56 years + Bronze Star Achievement - William of Scotland - 48 years + Brass Star Achievement - Elizabeth I - 44 years + Copper Star Achievement - Henry VIII - 38 years + Stone Star Achievement - William The Conqueror - 20 years +
The Title is actually just in the new language of England in this timeline due to higher Nordic influence with re-establishment of scandinavian control over the isles lmao. Fr tho Norway seems like an actually fun nation to colonise as - though still would kinda depend on how annoying natives are.
exploration is useful cos it allows you to build conquistadors and if u are warring some 5 tribes and only one is on the coast and the others are in unexplored lands ur basically screwed for getting warscore... also... exploring the world helps you build many colonies in many locations quicker... even if u go exploration just for a short period just getting the first 2 u can get rid of it later and get another idea.. so i still generally go for it first before expansion.. unless im not planning on going to the new world etc
I was trying to play as TO and Sweden was spamming me with support independence, I had two of those notification up there constantly for a while. It was very annoying and I didn’t want them independentl, I seen they had pretender rebels so I asked them for mil access shipped my army over there and killed them. Eventually I had to dec on Denmark to stop them asking for support. It was incredibly annoying because each time I ignored the notification I lost opinion, I didn’t want them to hate me I just didn’t want them free and allied to Lithuania and Muscovy.
2:00 why would anyone chose to reduce liberty desire while playing as a vassal unless they just want to be integrated and then stop playing? its kinda odd they even put that in the game
option for the AI and it is probably a heavily weighted option (meaning more likely to be chosen) so that playing as Denmark doesn't mean that Norway is guaranteed to rebel/be rebellious.
I propose another Discord plays video, Communist Parliamentary Japan Each player is a Daimyo and only gets 1 province and every province must be the same dev and every daimyo must have the same army size. Any increase in either development or army size must be approved by a majority of the parliament. Anyone who breaks this rule must contribute to the capital for a dev violation or provide a general to the emperor for a military violation, or commit seppuku for declaring an illegal war. Each state in Japan elects one of its daimyo to be in the parliament for their area. They will also act as governor for the area and commander for their state in war. The other daimyo of his state must attach to his army and the prime minister of Japan will direct them all. Have a channel just for Parliament and the Prime minister. Have Laith be Ashikaga and be a permanent MP as the Emperor so he can enact the prime minister’s justice. The emperor has to follow the wishes of the prime minister if he is not prime minister himself. Every 10 years each state elects an MP, who then immediately elect a prime minister from the new Parliament. You cannot vote for yourself. The MP’s must inform the prime minister and the emperor about troublesome daimyos so they can enact justice. After 3 violations the emperor DOW’s on the daimyo and they are annexed by their respective MP Bribery for votes is of course allowed
The songs are: Thief - Rossier Bebop Cats - Rossier Jam Street - T. Morri New York Minute - T.Morri Stolen Hearts - T.Morri Speak Easy - Alexandra Woodward (not in that order in this video) I believe they all came from Epidemic Sounds
does the less manpower thing only happen if youve bought the dlc or is it affecting us without it? cos i dont have it and am playing great horde/golden horde and ive got no manpower problems whatsoever.. been permanently warring & took quantity ideas, trade & humanist & have permanent 240k manpower reserves in 1560ish
Well i just finished the achievement to become the Mongolian empire as the Teutonic order so i think Norway will be next for me after this lol honestly after the Teutonic horde i cant wait to see what other people do because that it op and i am not that gd at the game and i managed this in 200 years and was slapping down 100K ottomen stacks with 40 k horses taking basically no damage
18:20 btw what is it that lets a colonial power just automatically steal my colony if they siege it down in a war? ive seen this happen recently.. id send a colonist or five then id war spain for their colony, they'd walk on my colony provinces and just steal it... one that hasnt yet finished colonising... has that always been a thing or is it new?
I'm gonna release some dark ancient wisdom. Laith wanted to get better eco and with trade ideas. I would say right idea, but wrong group. In Laiths position meaning having a country that where navy can be extremely powerfull. Aside Espionage the 2 idea groups that gets flamed the most are Maritime and Naval. But people are sleeping on Maritime, because they look at it wrong. They see an idea group to up your naval military power. Which isn't needed in EU4, but they don't realize it is firstly and economic idea group and 2nd a military one. No joke best economic idea group when you have acces to a decent navy is Maritime Ideas. Why because Navy tradition boosts your trade steering, which is very important for getting your trade node as big as possible. Naval Tradition is best gained by having light ships protect trade. Protecting trade alone will boosts your trade power in the node + extra trade steering from naval tradion. In order to gain +1 yearly naval tradion you need 50% of your naval forcelimit in lightships protecting trade. The first idea will let you gain double so 50% lightships protecting trade means you will gain 2 yearly naval tradition. If you can find 1 more (national idea's, policies) having it capped 100 all the time is quite easy. some trivia, since this a section of the game a lot of players are uneducated on: High naval tradition will result you having 3 star admirals. It's nice to have high pips but what's important. Again very different from army general pips, the movement pips is the most important one. It will increase the value when protecting trade. It will allow for bigger combat width which means more ships in the battle at the same. A heavy costs 3 combat width, other ships 1. I suggest having some galley's in your fleet even if you want to go full heavy. Ship cost reduction also reduces upgrade costs. Light ships and protecting trade also kinda works like fortifications and army tradition. If it's outdated you won't get as much out of it, meaning those numbers above only apply when your light ship is up to date. Ships in general don't update too often, and it is worth to at least upgrade these. Is trade ideas useless then? No there are plenty countries that will have no or a few coastal provinces, if you can't fight for naval control or it is sus at best. Trade ideas will most likely be a better option. Trade ideas in general is focused on land trade, where maritime is best for sea trade. They are essentially both trade ideas just look at what is most important for you.
If you fancy getting CK3 for less than $13 (as well as other games AND giving money to charity) check out Humble Monthly here! (you get to keep *ALL* that month's games, even if you cancel!) - www.humblebundle.com/membership?partner=socialstreamers
I've got another playthru idea you guys can have a go at... It involves playing as England, Scotland, and/or Ireland and trying to beat Queen Elizabeth's length of reign...
Diamond Star Achievement - Elizabeth II - 70 years +
Gold Star Achievement - Victoria - 63 years +
Silver Star Achievement - Henry III - 56 years +
Bronze Star Achievement - William of Scotland - 48 years +
Brass Star Achievement - Elizabeth I - 44 years +
Copper Star Achievement - Henry VIII - 38 years +
Stone Star Achievement - William The Conqueror - 20 years +
Third time’s the charm, once again Laith, you can become Norse with these requirements:
- Danish, Swedish, Norweigan, Icelandic or Norse as primary Culture
- Is in Age of Discovery - Not had the country flag "had_norse_nostalgia"
- is excommunicated OR has modifier "the_statue_in_restraint_of_appeals"
- ruler has Scholar trait OR Sinner trait OR is at least 5/5/5
- Owns the province Bergslagen
- Is independent
Takes 100 years to happen, reduced by 0.5x (50, then 25) by having religious ideas and being excommunicated.
There will be 4 events, and then your nation will slowly turn Norse.
Really? I'll try that out.
Hope Laith reads this!
If you fail to do this you can get it in the age of reformation by getting a animalist rebell troop in Scandinavia
@@TheColombianSpartan yeah its on the EU4 wiki, it takes a really long time to happen though
Stay tuned.
@@TheSocialStreamers We are always tuned to see you suffering
Oh boy, I do love it when SS posts a new video.
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And this is why I’m rebranding, in a nutshell.
@@TheSocialStreamers what's wrong, SS?
@@ywoisug8845 Schutzstaffel aka the naziest of all Nazis
@@ywoisug8845 I dunno SuperSinners kinda suspicious thoe 😳
Always take Dalskogen, it is such an over powered province. Produces copper, and has a +5.0 goods produced modifier
they have changed the +5 good produced to a monument now so not as overpowered at game start
@@charliebainbridge5852 ah, have they? That sucks
@@connortheandroidsentbycybe7740 not really, the level 3 monument produces +9 goods and I think it has -20% artillery cost
@@DonutOfNinja Yeah but level 3 costs 5K
@@randomdude4255 yeah, but copper is insane
POV (as Norway): you expel the danes from your lands
*You try to reunite with Danemark-*
Kinda counter productive-
*Expel danish nobility. And imposed union on danes.
Essentually, it reversed the situation.
eh, just send them to Greenland
"makes NORWAY is" quick everyone screenshot the video title typo to make fun of him with before he changes it
Don’t know what you mean mate
14:32 - Remember the good ol' days of EU3 where you could just pick the advisors you want from the complete list? Why haven't they brought that back yet?
Because that wouldn't be painful and Eu4 players are known masochists. Not that I'm speaking from experience...
Good to see Paradox fixing all the flaws and missing features. Hoping they get around to fixing Lithuania and adding a branching path for Romuva revival or Hussite conversion
Lithuania is also in serious need of historical flavor in regards the sucession crisis and Švitrigaila claimant to the thrones of Poland and Lithuania (he's still very much alive in 1444)
That was the most random inheritance I've seen in a while
I've been waiting for this since I started playing EU4!
PLEASE keep this one going!
Absolutely love Leif's introduction to EU4 1.34! As entertaining as it is informative.
Angevin Empire part 2 when?
Working on "Almost Prussian Blue" as Livonia as my first 1.34 nation, but I will have to try Norway next, both your and Red Hawk's Norway video's really showed it off.
Was also going to mix in "For the Emperor!" and try to get some use out of 40k Marines, so colony shenanigans when not fighting in the northern HRE.
Hi Laith, just wondering what happened to Tom? He hasn’t been in a video in a while and I always enjoyed his more serious/historical content in conjunction with your gameplay. Hope to see vids with the two of you again soon!
There is one community post about a month ago about that
Tom quit the channel. There was a community post about it.
i love how neither you nor hawk realised it's heavies *or* lights for the mission
I love your content!
nice greetings from Germany
7:36
Honestly just find it hilarious that you posted this literally the day after RedHawk posted his guide for Norway and specifically mentioned being careful about which tier two gov reform to take depending on how far along getting rid of those two starting privileges you were.
I was hoping you would get the event chain to switch to Norse. Still, another great video!
Iv'e tried the Greenland event +60 times. It's intended to be 1 in 10 chance but I think it's broken.
Might be decided when you first pick the option, and not at the 2nd event spawn?
Looking forward to the Venice play through showing their new national ideas
7:28 The Red Hawk is in pain
Try Lübeck and Gotland!
The biggest issue i've found with not taking exploration ideas as Norway is that you cannot fabricate claims in the new world for your subjects. Meaning, once you have five provinces in a region you lose any ability to conquer natives unless you get REALLY lucky with your subjects AI.
I'm really hoping Paradox fixes Norways ideas to grant that ability, since otherwise you HAVE to take Exploration or Espionage Ideas ;/ Both of which would be a waste of a slot.
If you set a province as vital interest your subjects should try and fabricate a claim there if they can, not sure how well that works with colonial nations though.
Well you can just wait for a native nation to declare on your CN and then enforce peace, take over the war, and conquer that way, so you should be able to conquer just fine without full exploration.
This is how you do it:
-Take religions Ideas, (2 nd best admin idea and it is always useful, especially the +10% moral policy)
-Start colony right next to anyone you want to kill
-As soon as the colony starts you get the Deus Vult CB on them
-land troops and declare.
-Cancel colony.
Livonian Order -> Livonia and getting the Prussian Militarisation mechanics would be a fun video, but might need to be a 2-parter for Protestantism?
Would like too see a colonial empire tutorial from you one of these days.
Hey laith,
Been messing about with Norway and the biggest issue for them is their economy (I find). It is really hard to get ducats rolling in. Yes, you can mothball forts, mothball your heavies, turn off army maintenance but then you are losing army tradition and professionalism, as well as impairing rebels, but even with all that the revenue stream is seriously poor. I tried not granting the mana privileges and that helped a bit as I had a good run with rulers so I could afford not to take them.
In my run today I chose to take chunks of Sweden rather than PUing them and that helped a bit although rebels were an issue.
The one thing I botched on both runs was trying to dev up the provinces to 8 before I had unlocked the Bhurger mountain dev privilege. That was a serious 'oopsie' as I discovered after I unlocked it and found all the bonuses for mountain dev!
Arg…never not once have I inherited burgundy without alt f4 one time at least…..I liked watching it happen unexpectedly. I’d bet He had forgotten burgundy was an ally
Norwegian historian here. I haven't watched the video yet so I can say I'll be surprised if you even manage to break free without getting England or maybe Muscovy to help out!
he did without them
Norwegian farmers killing their local Danish noble lord is just basically Braveheart
Hey SS im a big fan
have you done the conquer the world achievement as ryukyu? seems like kinda tough start? the reason i mention it is cos im playing as golden horde and own most of russia, east europe, middle east etc and i found them quite plucky in invading me during my war against ming... seeing their little 4k stack wandering around taking a few of my eastern provinces was kinda cute...
Fun fact! Mikmaq is not the correct spelling or pronounciation of the tribe in that region of Canada, (also seen around new Brunswick and Maine which are both westerly to Nova Scotia) its spelt "Mi'kmaq", and is "Mi'gmaq" in english pronunciation
I've got another playthru idea you guys can have a go at... It involves playing as England, Scotland, and/or Ireland and trying to beat Queen Elizabeth's length of reign...
Diamond Star Achievement - Elizabeth II - 70 years +
Gold Star Achievement - Victoria - 63 years +
Silver Star Achievement - Henry III - 56 years +
Bronze Star Achievement - William of Scotland - 48 years +
Brass Star Achievement - Elizabeth I - 44 years +
Copper Star Achievement - Henry VIII - 38 years +
Stone Star Achievement - William The Conqueror - 20 years +
Love the vid, but did you not see Red Hawks easy Norway breakaway vid?
The Title is actually just in the new language of England in this timeline due to higher Nordic influence with re-establishment of scandinavian control over the isles lmao.
Fr tho Norway seems like an actually fun nation to colonise as - though still would kinda depend on how annoying natives are.
exploration is useful cos it allows you to build conquistadors and if u are warring some 5 tribes and only one is on the coast and the others are in unexplored lands ur basically screwed for getting warscore... also... exploring the world helps you build many colonies in many locations quicker... even if u go exploration just for a short period just getting the first 2 u can get rid of it later and get another idea.. so i still generally go for it first before expansion.. unless im not planning on going to the new world etc
I was trying to play as TO and Sweden was spamming me with support independence, I had two of those notification up there constantly for a while. It was very annoying and I didn’t want them independentl, I seen they had pretender rebels so I asked them for mil access shipped my army over there and killed them. Eventually I had to dec on Denmark to stop them asking for support. It was incredibly annoying because each time I ignored the notification I lost opinion, I didn’t want them to hate me I just didn’t want them free and allied to Lithuania and Muscovy.
So Laith, buddy, fella, pal, how did you get an explorer without Exploration ideas?
Check out Norway's national ideas! :D
How is manpower harder to come by in this patch?
My game as Norway went VERY very differently.
I had to rage quit =)
laith complains about money
also laith refuses to go down the economy missions
How did he recruit conquistador with no new world quest idea
I can’t see Laith, I only see Wahbi Khazri playing EU4
You can be Norse, and damn even can have culture and ideas.
makes NORWAY is
I'll wait for Karelia gameplay
But can you colonise as Galicia Volhynia?
when are you continuing the Byzantine campaign to form Rome?
Laith, what mods do you use?
People spam the right arrow key at the start of the video
2:00 why would anyone chose to reduce liberty desire while playing as a vassal unless they just want to be integrated and then stop playing? its kinda odd they even put that in the game
option for the AI and it is probably a heavily weighted option (meaning more likely to be chosen) so that playing as Denmark doesn't mean that Norway is guaranteed to rebel/be rebellious.
you are the best player to ever wear the tunisian jersey.
What happened to the other feller on this channel
Balkan Bros rebirth 26 when?
Fyi Leif is pronounced just like your name but with an f instead of the th.
Laith, did you know you can become Norse from a chain of events?
JAAA VI ELSKER DETTE LANDET
I played Poland in this dlc and it was sooooo easy and OP.
Day 43 of asking Laith to play as Krakow
for our tier 2 gov reform we're going to be taking: strengthen noble privilege.... what
I propose another Discord plays video, Communist Parliamentary Japan
Each player is a Daimyo and only gets 1 province and every province must be the same dev and every daimyo must have the same army size. Any increase in either development or army size must be approved by a majority of the parliament. Anyone who breaks this rule must contribute to the capital for a dev violation or provide a general to the emperor for a military violation, or commit seppuku for declaring an illegal war.
Each state in Japan elects one of its daimyo to be in the parliament for their area. They will also act as governor for the area and commander for their state in war. The other daimyo of his state must attach to his army and the prime minister of Japan will direct them all. Have a channel just for Parliament and the Prime minister.
Have Laith be Ashikaga and be a permanent MP as the Emperor so he can enact the prime minister’s justice. The emperor has to follow the wishes of the prime minister if he is not prime minister himself. Every 10 years each state elects an MP, who then immediately elect a prime minister from the new Parliament. You cannot vote for yourself. The MP’s must inform the prime minister and the emperor about troublesome daimyos so they can enact justice. After 3 violations the emperor DOW’s on the daimyo and they are annexed by their respective MP
Bribery for votes is of course allowed
Can someone tell me the name of the background song?
The songs are:
Thief - Rossier
Bebop Cats - Rossier
Jam Street - T. Morri
New York Minute - T.Morri
Stolen Hearts - T.Morri
Speak Easy - Alexandra Woodward
(not in that order in this video)
I believe they all came from Epidemic Sounds
does the less manpower thing only happen if youve bought the dlc or is it affecting us without it? cos i dont have it and am playing great horde/golden horde and ive got no manpower problems whatsoever.. been permanently warring & took quantity ideas, trade & humanist & have permanent 240k manpower reserves in 1560ish
it was a nerf as a part of the free update 1.34 Sweden
Well i just finished the achievement to become the Mongolian empire as the Teutonic order so i think Norway will be next for me after this lol
honestly after the Teutonic horde i cant wait to see what other people do because that it op and i am not that gd at the game and i managed this in 200 years and was slapping down 100K ottomen stacks with 40 k horses taking basically no damage
Go Shirvan if u can )
SS when are you going to do a video with your fellow nazis Friends(1939 Germany)
Ah good old mass qonqwest
sapmi prayer circle
I enjoyed Norway.
18:20 btw what is it that lets a colonial power just automatically steal my colony if they siege it down in a war? ive seen this happen recently.. id send a colonist or five then id war spain for their colony, they'd walk on my colony provinces and just steal it... one that hasnt yet finished colonising... has that always been a thing or is it new?
Its been in the game a good while. Maybe CoP? When you select your armies there's a "seize colony" button next to the "raze colony" button.
its always been a thing. If you siege a province that is in the process of being colonized you can either raze it or steal it with your army
@@232mumboy i never knew you could insta take them i always took them in the peace deals wasting points i could have spent elsewhere then.. lol
@@a-drewg1716 its weird though that after 1-2000 hours of playing i only noticed it happen recently a few playthrus ago
@@tigrecito48 idk know when exactly it was added but I believe it was Conquest of Paradise
THANKS FOR THIS AMAZING VIDEO :) xcdddsadadasd
lithiunia?
Yay my country😁😁😁
makes norway is tho
Day 2 play bengal
I'm gonna release some dark ancient wisdom. Laith wanted to get better eco and with trade ideas. I would say right idea, but wrong group. In Laiths position meaning having a country that where navy can be extremely powerfull. Aside Espionage the 2 idea groups that gets flamed the most are Maritime and Naval. But people are sleeping on Maritime, because they look at it wrong. They see an idea group to up your naval military power. Which isn't needed in EU4, but they don't realize it is firstly and economic idea group and 2nd a military one. No joke best economic idea group when you have acces to a decent navy is Maritime Ideas.
Why because Navy tradition boosts your trade steering, which is very important for getting your trade node as big as possible. Naval Tradition is best gained by having light ships protect trade. Protecting trade alone will boosts your trade power in the node + extra trade steering from naval tradion. In order to gain +1 yearly naval tradion you need 50% of your naval forcelimit in lightships protecting trade. The first idea will let you gain double so 50% lightships protecting trade means you will gain 2 yearly naval tradition. If you can find 1 more (national idea's, policies) having it capped 100 all the time is quite easy.
some trivia, since this a section of the game a lot of players are uneducated on:
High naval tradition will result you having 3 star admirals. It's nice to have high pips but what's important. Again very different from army general pips, the movement pips is the most important one. It will increase the value when protecting trade. It will allow for bigger combat width which means more ships in the battle at the same.
A heavy costs 3 combat width, other ships 1. I suggest having some galley's in your fleet even if you want to go full heavy.
Ship cost reduction also reduces upgrade costs. Light ships and protecting trade also kinda works like fortifications and army tradition. If it's outdated you won't get as much out of it, meaning those numbers above only apply when your light ship is up to date. Ships in general don't update too often, and it is worth to at least upgrade these.
Is trade ideas useless then? No there are plenty countries that will have no or a few coastal provinces, if you can't fight for naval control or it is sus at best. Trade ideas will most likely be a better option. Trade ideas in general is focused on land trade, where maritime is best for sea trade. They are essentially both trade ideas just look at what is most important for you.
I know you changed the title. You cannot silence me. I know the truth. You cannot hide. I will find you.
lmao Burgundy
Hang on, although your living in norway in game, you live in UK Irl, so whats this funny Z in coloniser ?
Oh boy, I love gay se- i mean EU4!!
hello
Correct pronounciation of Leif is actually much closer to the way you say your own name than to "leaf".
Day 41 of asking him to play Georgia
Lubec
In the 60's Norway was the poorest country in EU but than.. they discovered oil in the sea around.
And denmark gave them some sea territory too
:)
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IM GAY!!
Uh oh
Sorry for your handicap
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