Hue, I don't even have 1000 hours and i would argue that in many ways i am better than arumba (I think alot people are better than him honestly. Its a pretty simple game following certain steps and guidelines, when you play on very hard you can fail easily, but with a little luck you can easily snowball if the ai doesn't instantly kill you (mostly talking about minor nations not in europe) my point being is that eu4 is a fairly easy game, what makes you better than other people is how fast you grow in power, arumba is generally a fairly slow player) DDRJake though, that's another story...
StepOverGod now i want to play with you, just to beat the crap out of you. Of course you can play it very simple by not considering the most stuff, but this game is very complex. What makes you powerfull in this game is min maxing
I just took an EU4 break as long as its been since Arumba posted a non-mod EU4 game, and let me tell you, this is exactly the thing to get me back into this beautiful game.
I think their should be an option on how manned your fleet is. Like if you put your fleet on skeleton crew you can build a lot more ships but you can't fight with them.
There already is an option for that. Its fleet maintenance. Decrease the slider, slow reinforce rate and lower moral total similar to how the army maintenance bar works.
Just because there are less men on the ship does not make the actual ship building easier. What Bobber said is exactly what you were talking about, but not what you wanted.
He misunderstood them, he didn't say it would make ship building easier but if you had each ship have .5 man power you could have twice as many ships but at half efficiency, but you could spread your power out.
That would throw the whole naval force limit completely out of whack though. Trade nations are already kinda op, no need to throw even more strength their way.
Force vassalize navara, this will call you into the war against aragon defensively. You can then call your allies in for an easy war. Nom nom. Good to see you back in eu4 vanilla!
Your navy is taking attrition because you are out of sailors to replenish it. Navies only take no losses if they are in a port - if they are doing a mission or just in the open ocean they will need a constant supply of sailors to recover those that are lost. I believe for light ships it is 1 sailor per month, but I couldn't say for heavies.
I'll admit that I would have preferred a nation Arumba had not yet attempted. However, it isn't like I won't still watch every single episode of this thing...
I still like your plan from before of going primarily after Norway and Novgorod, but for now having Castille on side to get a decent chunk of the mediterranean sounds fun
The attrition you're navy is suffering is related to how many sailors you gain annually. When you move your navy out of port it uses up "X" amount of sailors per ship annually. If that number exceeds the amount you gain, then you receive attrition. I think that's how it goes at least.
I got the reconquest of main and it was like going to war with England but, none of England's allies joined like Portugal so it was basically just me and Castile vs England. I also automatically got control of main. Great event.
insaNitis two ways to counter that: keep transport ships near coast and reland them or highlight a province next to scottish border and hope that he gives it under you.
No. In my game as France I quickly conquered England by getting Military Access from Scotland and then declaring war on England while my troops were on the English border in Scotland. They do not get exiled since you have Military Access
Note: the surrender of Maine is an event the English get a couple of month from the start of the game. They get the choice to give Maine to France, or go to war over it, but France starts the war with Maine already occupied. I would imagine that the war would have been more benificial though.
Yeah cause England declares the war on France so France in a defensive war would pull in all your allies, as France its better to wait until that event fires before persuing a relationship with Scotland as well cause if you're allies with Scotland when that event fires then that easy land for England.
Drench it's right, it's far better to just declare a reconquest CB and take Pale in the peace deal. That way you can expand into ireland and scotland and then england with ease
its basically saying that a ship cant stay 100% effective if there are no more sailors to replenish the ones dying/dead/diseased/immigrated etc. makes sense cause people would just die or jump ship at port etc. plus the sailor upkeep for active boats makes sense
Sailors are still being square-peg-round-holed into the game far beyond what is reasonable. I haven't followed patch notes, but I did notice that I had sailor shortfalls as Muscovy for about 50 years which was odd. Mostly it is still meaningless. It is CERTAINLY not worth 100 ducats for the building...much less the waste of the building slot.
The iberian wedding doesn't fire if Castile has no provinces bordering Aragon. I'm a big fan of vassalizing Navarra, giving them the 4 Aragonese provinces that border Castile, and going from there. Also look up the Surrender of Maine event on the wiki, you got the less common result out of the 2 England gets.
The CB England declares with if they push the union is not good for retaking cores, it costs extra warscore and I believe it even costs diplo. I prefer them giving me maine then declaring on them myself later.
GermanFTB I humiliated England and took their Irish province then you can get the AOD ability to take Norway from Denmark and eat the Irish minors then eat the Russian region
You can go to a different screen. Returning cores. You can also get your own cores that way for reduced AE. But he should have just declared a reconquest war on 11 december anyway. Even if he can't get Castille in the war, he should be able to beat up Portugal and England on his own.
The new sailor mechanic from Mandate of Heaven changed it so any boats that are sailing need sailor maintenence, this won't be a problem for long since now the shipyards come after ports/docks
The monthly sailors mechanic is new, now shockingly you might want to actually build docks! But more immediately, gotta put those two heavies you have that are currently in the trade protection fleet in port, they consume a lot of monthly sailors for no benefit.
Although I haven't done the BBB achievment, I have been trying out starts as France, and I have a usual early plan in my head of things to do that I go by: 1) Ally and improve with East Frisia immediately so you can soon vassalize him and make him claim Denmark´s coastal provinces, 2) Break guarantee with Scotland and alliance with Provence, 3) DoW England one ASAP for your cores one month after game start date, 4) Improve with Castile so you can get military access through them to Portugal's lands during the war with the English, which isn't as straight forward to get since they usually ally Portugal and that puts a malus on acceptance since you're at war with his ally, 5) Try fabricating on Castile as you're improving relations with him, a bit gambly though since you might get caught, 6) Fabricate on Aragon to take Rousillon so you can release Catalonia and reconquer his cores, 7) Fabricate on Navarra, 8) Vassalize Provence in excommunicate war (costs no diplo) if possible if they're still around after your truce from breaking alliance is over, so you can hopefully reconquer on nations like Burgundy, Brittany and the Papal State, 9) Take influence ideas first, since it gives you lowered AE from one of the ideas and you might be able to annex several of previously mentioned decent vassal options in bulk for reduced diplo, 10) Try becoming the Curia controller (quite easy with France), so you can excommunicate as well as get even more reduced AE impact, 11) You might wanna become emperor (easier to do if you're curia controller, since you get +1 diplomat) if possible since there's the possibility the Burgundian inheritance might happen, which would give you all of Burgundy and the Lowlands
A good tactic I found was to have a huge war with Aragon and just pay the diplo to take land from Naples early on so you can make claims over there. Hungary and Ottomans have cheap land.
Ok this may be a really stupid question but can anyone please explain why his world map in terms of texture looks far more like Vicky 2 than EU4? I'm used to the good old-fashioned plastic look of the "regular" EU4 provinces and a bit confused :/
New player, working mostly with the base game. The missions you're choosing to take here - in what expansion are they added, please? The only ones I currently access are the mission chains for each nation.
?? the iberian wedding actually CAN'T fire when castile and aragon are at war with each other. otherwise the war has no effects that would make the event more likely...
You took the 50 admin over the half price admin advisor... wut? How many times have you said "if you had a button where you could... spend 240 ducats and get 240 admin, would you?" 20 year advisor, 1 extra ducat a month/1 extra admin a month.
I wish this achievement was more inline with, y'know, conquering shit that makes sense. Not every 5 development province you can squeeze out of the coasts & Russia.
i still thinkj the best start is to no cb war a country in crimea that is at war (and cost less than 100 warscore) and then vassalize them before the war is over, so you take over the war and, since it's next to you vassals land, you can start coring land over there. lots of cheap land over there meanwhile, diplo vassalize east frisia so you can start fabricating on denmark
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Big Blue Bob attempt number 800?
Patchy more like 801.
lol "Big Blue Bob"
Oh god the nostalgia.
It returns...
Noob : 0--------1000 hours
average : 1000----------2000 h
Pro : I don't know ask Arumba
Platinum God: Ask Florryworry/Budgetmonk
Nightowl or ddr Who was so good that paradox hired him
Pro: FlorryWorry with 14000 hours.
Hue, I don't even have 1000 hours and i would argue that in many ways i am better than arumba (I think alot people are better than him honestly. Its a pretty simple game following certain steps and guidelines, when you play on very hard you can fail easily, but with a little luck you can easily snowball if the ai doesn't instantly kill you (mostly talking about minor nations not in europe) my point being is that eu4 is a fairly easy game, what makes you better than other people is how fast you grow in power, arumba is generally a fairly slow player)
DDRJake though, that's another story...
StepOverGod now i want to play with you, just to beat the crap out of you. Of course you can play it very simple by not considering the most stuff, but this game is very complex. What makes you powerfull in this game is min maxing
Good luck Arumba. Show Europe the great baguette
Viva la baguette!
I just took an EU4 break as long as its been since Arumba posted a non-mod EU4 game, and let me tell you, this is exactly the thing to get me back into this beautiful game.
I think their should be an option on how manned your fleet is. Like if you put your fleet on skeleton crew you can build a lot more ships but you can't fight with them.
There already is an option for that. Its fleet maintenance. Decrease the slider, slow reinforce rate and lower moral total similar to how the army maintenance bar works.
That's not really what I'm talking about.
Just because there are less men on the ship does not make the actual ship building easier.
What Bobber said is exactly what you were talking about, but not what you wanted.
He misunderstood them, he didn't say it would make ship building easier but if you had each ship have .5 man power you could have twice as many ships but at half efficiency, but you could spread your power out.
That would throw the whole naval force limit completely out of whack though. Trade nations are already kinda op, no need to throw even more strength their way.
The first thing i thought when i saw this video was the start of the song at the end of Portal 2
"well here we are again
It's always such a pleasure"
Force vassalize navara, this will call you into the war against aragon defensively. You can then call your allies in for an easy war. Nom nom. Good to see you back in eu4 vanilla!
This is my intro to EUIV as a game, as a fan of CKII and a huge history nerd I think this will be pretty great.
Round ??? Electric Bugaloo.
Ahhhh FINALLY AN ARUMBA EU4 VIDEO
This reminds me how I skipped college to watch Arumba play his first try of this campaign, fun times.
Invading England is easy if you get military access and fleet basing rights in Scotland, and just ferry some troops all sneaky-beaky like.
Your navy is taking attrition because you are out of sailors to replenish it. Navies only take no losses if they are in a port - if they are doing a mission or just in the open ocean they will need a constant supply of sailors to recover those that are lost. I believe for light ships it is 1 sailor per month, but I couldn't say for heavies.
oh boy! here we go again!!! best of luck Arumba!
YESSSS. I missed eu4 so much, Arumba! I'm glad you picked it up again (:
I'll admit that I would have preferred a nation Arumba had not yet attempted. However, it isn't like I won't still watch every single episode of this thing...
Holy F! Really want to see you do more achievements and seeing this just made my day
I still like your plan from before of going primarily after Norway and Novgorod, but for now having Castille on side to get a decent chunk of the mediterranean sounds fun
The attrition you're navy is suffering is related to how many sailors you gain annually. When you move your navy out of port it uses up "X" amount of sailors per ship annually. If that number exceeds the amount you gain, then you receive attrition. I think that's how it goes at least.
oh boy. here we go again
I got the reconquest of main and it was like going to war with England but, none of England's allies joined like Portugal so it was basically just me and Castile vs England. I also automatically got control of main. Great event.
Finally! I've been waiting on some EU4 goodness!
Arumba, you can always ally and ma scotland and place army or two in there and conquer england from the north with aid of scots.
Maggotman Wont the army get exiled if the army starts in Scotland?
insaNitis two ways to counter that: keep transport ships near coast and reland them or highlight a province next to scottish border and hope that he gives it under you.
and if i remember correct, it might have a day- or two before they get exiled
No. In my game as France I quickly conquered England by getting Military Access from Scotland and then declaring war on England while my troops were on the English border in Scotland. They do not get exiled since you have Military Access
they do get exiled unless you call scotland into the war
Happy to see a new EU4 series =D
Iberian Wedding can't fire if Aragon doesn't have a land border with Castille
here we go again.
you can do it this time arumba!!
Note: the surrender of Maine is an event the English get a couple of month from the start of the game. They get the choice to give Maine to France, or go to war over it, but France starts the war with Maine already occupied. I would imagine that the war would have been more benificial though.
Yeah cause England declares the war on France so France in a defensive war would pull in all your allies, as France its better to wait until that event fires before persuing a relationship with Scotland as well cause if you're allies with Scotland when that event fires then that easy land for England.
No it's not you have to use the re conquest cb to get reduced ae, it also saves diplo points
Drench it's right, it's far better to just declare a reconquest CB and take Pale in the peace deal. That way you can expand into ireland and scotland and then england with ease
Jeroen Nouwens 25% aggressive expansion, the CB also reduces the autonomy is those provinces straight away
Ooh my body is so ready for this run
Attrition. Because you have zero sailors and use more than you earn monthly.
With only three ports it will be a bit bothersome.
your out of sailor's, so now your ship's rot away. It's new.
its basically saying that a ship cant stay 100% effective if there are no more sailors to replenish the ones dying/dead/diseased/immigrated etc. makes sense cause people would just die or jump ship at port etc. plus the sailor upkeep for active boats makes sense
Pohorex Gaming - He wasn't talking to you. Look at OP.
Sailors are still being square-peg-round-holed into the game far beyond what is reasonable. I haven't followed patch notes, but I did notice that I had sailor shortfalls as Muscovy for about 50 years which was odd. Mostly it is still meaningless. It is CERTAINLY not worth 100 ducats for the building...much less the waste of the building slot.
"new"
Do you really pluralise everything with an apostrophe? You must be a nightmare at texting.
Eat everything, and if anyone tries to stop you, eat them, too. Delicious.
The iberian wedding doesn't fire if Castile has no provinces bordering Aragon. I'm a big fan of vassalizing Navarra, giving them the 4 Aragonese provinces that border Castile, and going from there. Also look up the Surrender of Maine event on the wiki, you got the less common result out of the 2 England gets.
your Maine event was bad for you ! usually it trigers a war and england is the aggressor. if you are out of sailors your boats get dmg
The CB England declares with if they push the union is not good for retaking cores, it costs extra warscore and I believe it even costs diplo. I prefer them giving me maine then declaring on them myself later.
Also, getting the land with zero AE is nice in this achievement.
Yeah you can't even take your cores back if Maine fires without getting a coillition
GermanFTB I humiliated England and took their Irish province then you can get the AOD ability to take Norway from Denmark and eat the Irish minors then eat the Russian region
You can go to a different screen. Returning cores. You can also get your own cores that way for reduced AE. But he should have just declared a reconquest war on 11 december anyway. Even if he can't get Castille in the war, he should be able to beat up Portugal and England on his own.
You can do it!
I'm looking forward to watching this run.
He's back at it again! That madman ;)
The new sailor mechanic from Mandate of Heaven changed it so any boats that are sailing need sailor maintenence, this won't be a problem for long since now the shipyards come after ports/docks
I want to believe, I've seen 3 of these already
@arumba think it was patch 1.21 that started having ships useing sailors when out from port. so wouldnt call it a new anymore
Attrition at sea is occurring because your sailors are down to zero. Any boats at sea use a set number of sailors.
Go Arumba, you can do it!
Ah! It's the first video of you I'm watching, and as a French viewer, I might say it's funny to hear you try to pronounce French names xD
The monthly sailors mechanic is new, now shockingly you might want to actually build docks! But more immediately, gotta put those two heavies you have that are currently in the trade protection fleet in port, they consume a lot of monthly sailors for no benefit.
lmao sure thing arumba im sure you got it this time
I have 6000+ hours and still, has not finished a game yet
Let's see if this time we will have a big blue blob and not a failed blue pancake
In that patch the ai never take any military acess into others country. It's a little bit broken and will probably be hotfixed soon
Although I haven't done the BBB achievment, I have been trying out starts as France, and I have a usual early plan in my head of things to do that I go by:
1) Ally and improve with East Frisia immediately so you can soon vassalize him and make him claim Denmark´s coastal provinces,
2) Break guarantee with Scotland and alliance with Provence,
3) DoW England one ASAP for your cores one month after game start date,
4) Improve with Castile so you can get military access through them to Portugal's lands during the war with the English, which isn't as straight forward to get since they usually ally Portugal and that puts a malus on acceptance since you're at war with his ally,
5) Try fabricating on Castile as you're improving relations with him, a bit gambly though since you might get caught,
6) Fabricate on Aragon to take Rousillon so you can release Catalonia and reconquer his cores,
7) Fabricate on Navarra,
8) Vassalize Provence in excommunicate war (costs no diplo) if possible if they're still around after your truce from breaking alliance is over, so you can hopefully reconquer on nations like Burgundy, Brittany and the Papal State,
9) Take influence ideas first, since it gives you lowered AE from one of the ideas and you might be able to annex several of previously mentioned decent vassal options in bulk for reduced diplo,
10) Try becoming the Curia controller (quite easy with France), so you can excommunicate as well as get even more reduced AE impact,
11) You might wanna become emperor (easier to do if you're curia controller, since you get +1 diplomat) if possible since there's the possibility the Burgundian inheritance might happen, which would give you all of Burgundy and the Lowlands
Crash and Burn Simulator, attempt 3.
Guess third time's the charm?
Ah the illusive big blue blob. The one that is out of reach for even Martin "wiz" Anward.
Hey, BBB is back. Third times the charm!
A good tactic I found was to have a huge war with Aragon and just pay the diplo to take land from Naples early on so you can make claims over there. Hungary and Ottomans have cheap land.
Ok this may be a really stupid question but can anyone please explain why his world map in terms of texture looks far more like Vicky 2 than EU4? I'm used to the good old-fashioned plastic look of the "regular" EU4 provinces and a bit confused :/
Here we go again
Let the detrimental min/maxing begin!
New player, working mostly with the base game. The missions you're choosing to take here - in what expansion are they added, please? The only ones I currently access are the mission chains for each nation.
This is going to be a great time.
You don't need naval superiority over England, you just need an alliance with Scotland and land troops there before the war starts.
Hey, love your content! Was a big inspiration to start my own channel and share my love for games like EU4 :)
The blob is back!
IT RETURNS!!!
The Blue Blob again, lets see how you fare.
Oh and the new mic is lovely.
You should go for the auld alliance reversed achievement next
He already completed that one I believe
he should go for trustworthy Kappa
Arumba, please consider having another run in Japan. The Japan area is very different from when you last played it.
What mods does Arumba use?
which DLC should I get?
?? the iberian wedding actually CAN'T fire when castile and aragon are at war with each other. otherwise the war has no effects that would make the event more likely...
Finally some EU4 ;D
He started this again. It really has to be thorn in his side -_-
Anyway let's watch how it goes this time ^^
so this is big blue blob take 93629?
good luck you shall overcome.
the attrition is because you are out of the completely useless resource that is never ever a problem that paradox should just get rid of
Arumba I feel it this is the one
YEEEEEES! It's back!
Are you aiming for the english channel trade node or the genoa trade node?
conquer Scandinavia, practicality free development
A good strategy is to diplo vassalize east Frisia and get them to fabricate on Denmark
You took the 50 admin over the half price admin advisor... wut? How many times have you said "if you had a button where you could... spend 240 ducats and get 240 admin, would you?" 20 year advisor, 1 extra ducat a month/1 extra admin a month.
lord6617 the 50 admin now is worth more than 1 admin per month for a ducat
IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN!!!!
you are suffering naval attrition because you don't have enough sailors - you 'consume' more than you 'produce' monthly
This'll be good.
The legend!!!
I wish this achievement was more inline with, y'know, conquering shit that makes sense. Not every 5 development province you can squeeze out of the coasts & Russia.
Attempt number 4?
Naval Att. likely cause you have no sailors (your favorite).
Oh dear God...
RIP my sleep
Are you ever finishing your series with filthyrobot? Did you have a falling out?
It's that time of year, huh?
i still thinkj the best start is to no cb war a country in crimea that is at war (and cost less than 100 warscore) and then vassalize them before the war is over, so you take over the war and, since it's next to you vassals land, you can start coring land over there. lots of cheap land over there
meanwhile, diplo vassalize east frisia so you can start fabricating on denmark
How does he get the map to look like that? Is it a mod or part of a dlc?
mod, I think mods that only affect "skin" can still let you go for achievements.
Thanks, I'll have to find it.
Graphical Map Improvements its called.
Does anyone know which mod makes the map look like that? :)
What is this, 2014?
You were suffering naval attrition because you didnt have enough montly sailor gain to cover it
What map graphics mod is that?
Hopefully you can finally get this achievement is this your third play through
What is this graphic mod? It's so pretty.
Why can I only upvote once? :/
EUIV is back in town! :)
What attempt number is this?