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Since it's a strategy game, where the player is most of the time far better at snowballing than the AI (even at a mediocre lvl of skill - like myself), late game gets often tedious and boring with the lack of challenge. See also the ttm guide of reman, where he selects your own mind/fatigue as one of the biggest challenges for a wc.
@@maxf8805 I know that Until Death Do Us Apart, Victorious and That's Mine! are pretty hard achievements, but surely someone good enough to get THAT achievement must have gotten them before?
All of these achievements: "We're hard as fuck." Me, still trying to form the Roman Empire from Byzantium before the end date but keeps failing: "Fuck"
I still don’t even know how to survive as Byzantium I’ve only actually taken over th he ottomans as Byz like twice. Just seems super RNG dependent to me and not very fun.
Yeah man, I clicked on this video, saw the intro, and even though I knew I just clicked on this video my monkey brain went "wait no I didn't want to watch ISP"
So many of the recent changes are questionable. Too Many Territories, stupid conversion mechanics, Colonial Nations being complete clusterfucks, I just don't understand why paradox does it
@@RaidsEpicly There's been a lot of great changes too, overall I think the game's better now than it's ever been, but then there's those strange decisions they make that actively makes it worse. I really don't get it.
I wish the One Faith achievement was never in the game in the first place. It's totally incoherent with the way religion has ever worked in real life. Conversion should not take 6 months for you to do on a province that you just annexed.
@@hirocheeto7795 What's the point of actually opening the game and clicking play in the first place then? Just do whatever you want in the custom nation designer if you don't want any limitations. Always love argumentum ad there-are-silly-things-so-nothing-matters-eum
@@hirocheeto7795 Look. I don't fucking care about historical accuracy. That's not the point. I don't want the game to be a documentary you sit down and watch. What I do want is for things to feel more authentic and plausible. converting shit you just conquered in 6 months without even trying to be a religiously focused nation is absolutely absurd.
@@eragonshurtugal4239 yeah I don't know why he emphasised the Roman part so much. The roman culture is the easiest cause it converts all of you primary culture for free. The difficult ones are the obscure ones like gothic and the even harder ones are those like American, Mexican or the ones in unclonised provinces.
@@lps2013 Thats true, but as most people who are trying this are doing a true wc anyway it doent get anyharder (and it doesnt need to be almost impossiple )
For Basque in Glory, you need to convert 30 of the 59 provinces, the other two requiremets for the achievement is that you’re Navarra and that you’re Basque
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My favorite non achievement achievement was to start as the Sultanate of Sulu and reverse colonize and culturally and religiously purify the entirety of Iberia
BudgetMonk has also done a 1 faith 1 culture world conquest with the roman empire so with the emerging culture of roman on hard difficulty and on very hard difficulty
0:38 Gothic Invasion 2:13 The Third Way 4:32 Basque in Glory 6:49 The Three Islands 8:39 The Big Blue Blob 10:46 Where the Heart is 12:30 The Pheasant Strut 14:29 One Faith! 16:31 True Heir of Timur 18:11 Eat your Greens
@AlzaboHD 21:14 budgetmonk has done 1 culture roman culture twice now and is doing it a third time even now with no diplo banking,preaty amazing stuff imo
You can get the Kale achievement before 1610 by going for a shogunate vassal swarm (kinda like the Ryukyu strategy, but you have to culture switch first)
For the one Faith achievement, I believe reforming the Roman empire converts all provinces to orthodoxy or something similar and makes all culture roman, so starting as say France (From what I remember France IS capable of reforming Rome) you could very well conquer the whole world and then just reform rome to instantly convert all the provinces
@@AlzaboHD No, I meant historically. One random nation now controls all of France. French Scotland and French Scandinavia. Thank you, regardless, for the transparency!
Almost all of the harcore achievements you mentioned are simply not fun. I mostly go for hard ones, it's a perfect balance of challenge and fun, like Dracula's Revenge, Re-Re-Conquista or From Rags to Riches.
The time based ones are mind numbing but help you explore ae management and truce breaking. I specifically like the nation specific achievements. Once you get top 3 on world powers the game becomes very much like a chore at times due to rebels and pausing constantly.
Brian Vieane I don’t think BBB is that hard either but you have to pay attention to a lot of things. You are always low on adm, always with a coalition, always with low stability.
10k hours played here. Rn attempting per second time 1 Faith achievement as Austria. Not gonna lie, its not difficult but still pretty hard since I have to fight against boredom after I get Revoke Privilegia Reform in 15XX. Most fun achievements to do were those like mzab into andalusia one or Navarra Basque culture thing, so there is no late game mechanics involved.
For theodoro its much easier to just declare war on east frisia, who's not yet in the empire and walk your way over there. If I recall you vassalize them and take a province next to them. The aggressive expansion is high and you have to wait until there is no coalition. This is really the only difficult part of the campaign as you just have to prevent the game from auto peacing you out due to war exhaustion. But from that point on you are just another member of the hre.
At this point I've gotten 7, 6, 5, 3, and 2. The Mughals there as perhaps the most intense and fun campaign I've done in recent memory. Though my one faith as the pope was kind of amusing.
Norwegian Wood is not that hard if you are willing to restart enough times, Get Sweden as ally, England and Lithuania supporting independence. Have Lithuania not get PU'ed by Poland. Have Bohemia Rivaling Denmark (to become HRE Emperor later). And preferable a good ruler once you declared independence.
This guy: True heir of Timur is the 2nd most impossible achievement. Pravus Gaming who was insane enough to do the achievement: I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you.
One Faith used to be an affiliate of world conquest. I did it with coptic ottomans in the patch that reworked coptics. You can acquire 7 missionaries and 12+ missionary strength rather swiftly. Now with more provinces, tougher openings, reworked estates, missionary costs and territorial debuffs... ffs that's totally different.
Doing One Faith with HRE as Austria is arguably easier. You get endless cash from vassals, you feed them provinces and with subsidies and the grace of RNG they start converting for you. Regardless, they do core the prorovinces themselves which makes the convertion 2% easier. Also the Iberians do a great deal to help you with New World provinces embrace the true religion.
Restarting a campaign 20 times. I know the feeling. when I was first learning the game, I tried for the Sunset Invasion achievement, reset that probably at least 300 times
Granted: I did One Faith before Dharma, which makes a HUGE difference, but Spain IMO is the best nation to do it. High missionary strength, and excellent starting position. I used vassals (like Nadj) to help me convert the world to Catholic. I finished the achievement 30 years early. I then proceeded to a One Tag, and finished about 10 years early. I think starting as Nadj is a lot harder, but I haven't actually tried it, so... yeah.
B4 Dharma I did it with Russia to leverage the insane orthodox power. Proceed to get tons of other achievements in the process. Finished in the early 1700s
I completed one faith achievement as Lithuania. Managed to become HRE when Austria's king died without an heir. I had enough Scandinavian and Russian lands to push for revoking the privilages with the league war never firing. Catholic vassal swarms in 1500s makes for an easy WC. Managed to get a couple of catholic turkish and nomadic princes for easy conquest of asia. This was also before missionary costs.
Any chance you would want to make a guide for naval combat anytime soon? Most of the videos I've been able to find are hugely outdate. Especially interesting would be when to build and how to design a flagship, galleys vs. heavies etc.?
Mewpix 77 Quick tip for Mamluks: No CB Byzantium and vassalize them as soon as possible then enable scutage on them Then go after the Beyliks to try and block eastern Ottoman expansion
@@punishedwhirligig3353 exactly, whenever the Ottomans are your biggest problem you should think about No CB on Byzantium asap. I've even done it as Timurids before because Ottos will rival you soon enough. You still have to kill Ajam first and hope you can get access everywhere (or paratroop when you basically won the Ajam war). I would recommend to annex Byzantium as soon as you can and then cheese your capital to be Constantinople. By the time you can do that you will most likely own most of the Caucasus, Arabia and Anatolia so it will also benefit your trade income and it will allow you to make use of the Indian provinces you conquered much more effectively.
I had a lucky navarra game where I got an alliance with castille and france and used them to PU aragon. Then betrayed castile and used france to increase my territory so that Aragon and Naples wouldn't get any funny ideas about independence. France was my only ally so I never betrayed him before I shelved that game... maybe I should return and finish the game.
i love playing large nations so here are some of my custom achievements I have for those powerful nations. Note that with every nation you have to start on very hard difficulty: France: never have a great power ally, have no allies after 1550. Have the largest fleet/army/income and achieve all historical goals. Average province size in europe of 35. Control all west/north africa Russia: Never have an ally. achieve all historical goals and control Constantinople/berlin/wien/Beijing and vietnam Great Britain: No allies after 1600. Achieve all historical goals. (note that this is actually fairly hard). Any German Nation: no allies after 1700. Be at war with countries of France/Ottos/Russia at same time and win (can be separate wars). Have an average province development in Europe of 40 Poland: No great power allies. No allies at all after 1600. (ive yet to achieve this) I find the above to be much more interesting than playing OPM trying to do something silly like conquer some country across the world. Note that all of the above achievements are pretty hard on very hard difficulty settings. For comparison, its much easier to play some worthless OPM in Germany on normal difficulty, than it is to play Poland on hardest settings.
BudgetMonk has also done a 1 faith 1 culture world conquest with the roman empire so with the emerging culture of roman on hard difficulty and on very hard difficulty
Big Blue Blob is piss easy, you can get enough provinces just by conquering Ireland, Scotland, half of England and the Aragonese coast (using Catalonia and Valencia as vassals to limit AE) plus Baleares and Malta. Those areas plus the Burgundian Inheritance are more than enough, and depending on how much you can take from England, you might not even need the BI
Pate is hands down the easiest starting nation for The Third Way. There are 5 gold provinces in Mutapa and Swahili coast and you can easily conquer them all withing the first 20 years. After that money isn't such a problem. Additionally there won't be any coalitions no matter what you do since the countries around your starting area belong to three different religion groups.
Conquering the Entire world is indeed easier than anything else on this list. You get to choose the country you want to do it with, and that alone makes it pretty achievable
Another that could be on the list/ is on my list is the komnenoi Empire achievement. As Trebizond you have to become an Empire rank (1000+ dev) without tag switching or playing as a released nation. This is more difficult then it sounds because Trebizond is incredibly poor, surrounded by hostile powers like QQ, AQ and worse of all the Ottomans. Since the MUscovy/Russia AI is as broken/ incompetent as can be you will need alot of restarts and save scumming in order to survive let alone thrive.
Did the Kale one on VH without the delay age exploit. It sucked. Badly. The worst ones are inside Qara. If you are too late the Ottomans might have it. Might be able to beat Ming easier on the current patch than it was for me. A tip is to stay Buddhist so you can make tributaries.
One faith isn't hard. I did it a few patches ago as Catholic Ottomans. To make Otto's catholic and get One Faith achievement, do: 1) Random new world, repeat to get a small and easily accessible one. 2) give as many provinces to the dhimmi estate as possible. 3) conquer any easy targets, like Albania, Constantinopel, east Anatolia (may have to wait for truces to run out). 4) take catholic provinces from Bosnia. 5) lower dhimmi loyalty below 40 (requesting theologian from the religious estate and revoking orthodox provinces from the dhimmi estate). Then revoke your catholic provinces from dhimmi. Catholic rebels will spawn. When they take a non-catholic province, they will convert it to catholic. 6) declare war on a small weak country and park your army there. Being at war means your government will take some time to fall after catholic rebels take your capital. This means rebels have more time to convert provinces. Mothball all forts except your capital. If rebels take and convert a dhimmi estate province, revoke for more catholic rebels. Now wait until catholic rebels have converted most or all of your provinces. Government falls and Ottomans is a catholic country with most or all provinces catholic. You can even become emperor of the HRE (don't add your capital to the HRE). Finished world conquest in 1750, finished One Faith achievement a few years later.
i think that they should add automated mode for armies and fleets that will start around 1750, because the only thing that stops me from TTM is armies microing in lategame.
For the Gothic invasion you can nocb east frisia on 11.12.1444 if they have only 1 ally. Peace out the ally and wait until a neighbor attacks east frisia too. Then vassalize east frisia and annex the neighbor that attacked your now vassel. Lose Theodoro on purpose and your capital will be moved to the conquered province in the hre
The Big Blue Blob is considered difficult? I'm relatively new and only recently started achievement runs and BBB was my choice as a quick easy first campaign. I succeeded with nearly 10 years to spare and while I did get a late Burgundian Inheritance I could have easily just annexed my 10 province Catalonian vassal. I often had to wait to peace out due to coalitions but my AE was never so high that I had to send gifts or influence nations to prevent a coalition. If I want I could easily continue the campaign to a world conquest but I decided I would rather start a Castille run to do that, they make it easier to get all the random achievements out of the way. After that it's probably Empire of Mann for me so I don't have to see it in the list every campaign I play.
I think they should add one achivment. "Total Domination" -" Do a World Conqueror achivment on every country that exists in 11.11.1444" That would be fun
What are some achievements you'd like to see in EUIV? Mine is "I Am No Mere Prize": As either Alsace or Lorraine, conquer all of both the French culture and German culture provinces.
![Why So Few People Have This AWFUL Achievement [EU4]](/img/1.gif)
Pandemic Sound copyright claimed the last song of this video (which I thought was creative commons attributable, this is my fault) so there is now 2 minutes of silence near the end. Sorry for the inconvenience but luckily this only affects the last two minutes. Thank you to everyone for letting me know!
Can we get a transcript of what you said during that portion of the video, please?
RUclips handing out strikes like Oprah
Thank God! My ears popped right then and I thought I went deaf
What was the song?
@@beihnkwilitybaese ram ranch 16
Funny that one of the rarest achievements in the game is playing it to the end
Since it's a strategy game, where the player is most of the time far better at snowballing than the AI (even at a mediocre lvl of skill - like myself), late game gets often tedious and boring with the lack of challenge. See also the ttm guide of reman, where he selects your own mind/fatigue as one of the biggest challenges for a wc.
tinytaur 2 that was the first achievement i got
@@maxf8805 I know that Until Death Do Us Apart, Victorious and That's Mine! are pretty hard achievements, but surely someone good enough to get THAT achievement must have gotten them before?
WC and just AFK :D
Yeah it's funny on the EU4 subreddit the amount of people that have played something like 1500 hours but have never played till the end.
"anyone opting to start a campaign as the ottoma---"
I was about to fall asleep when that happened and it kinda freaked me out
Jeesaf Oceanleft it’s weirder when you turn on automated subtitles.
In the silence, it will just randomly say “you”
@@darturo454 That's spooky.
@@probablyyourgreatestally8992 _you_
All of these achievements: "We're hard as fuck."
Me, still trying to form the Roman Empire from Byzantium before the end date but keeps failing: "Fuck"
I still don’t even know how to survive as Byzantium I’ve only actually taken over th he ottomans as Byz like twice. Just seems super RNG dependent to me and not very fun.
#1: until death do us part
Royal Marriage in 2019 is practically impossible!
Every time I see that intro, I immediately think of ISP.
Hard to tell at this point if Ironside is sponsoring him or if it's the other way around.
Yeah man, I clicked on this video, saw the intro, and even though I knew I just clicked on this video my monkey brain went "wait no I didn't want to watch ISP"
“Where the Heart Is” should’ve been called “Big Ballin With Dahomey”
Don't forget the homies!
Randomly realised you and I have very similar subscriptions
I strongly appreciate all the shots at the current conversion mechanics. They're so bad.
So many of the recent changes are questionable. Too Many Territories, stupid conversion mechanics, Colonial Nations being complete clusterfucks, I just don't understand why paradox does it
@@RaidsEpicly There's been a lot of great changes too, overall I think the game's better now than it's ever been, but then there's those strange decisions they make that actively makes it worse. I really don't get it.
I wish the One Faith achievement was never in the game in the first place. It's totally incoherent with the way religion has ever worked in real life. Conversion should not take 6 months for you to do on a province that you just annexed.
@@hirocheeto7795 What's the point of actually opening the game and clicking play in the first place then? Just do whatever you want in the custom nation designer if you don't want any limitations.
Always love argumentum ad there-are-silly-things-so-nothing-matters-eum
@@hirocheeto7795 Look. I don't fucking care about historical accuracy. That's not the point. I don't want the game to be a documentary you sit down and watch. What I do want is for things to feel more authentic and plausible. converting shit you just conquered in 6 months without even trying to be a religiously focused nation is absolutely absurd.
Budgetmonk has done multiple one cultures for Roman. He’s doing one right now on his channel.
Yeah but i think he meant wich an rare culture not wich austrian culture(more or less the same as roman)
@@eragonshurtugal4239 yeah I don't know why he emphasised the Roman part so much. The roman culture is the easiest cause it converts all of you primary culture for free. The difficult ones are the obscure ones like gothic and the even harder ones are those like American, Mexican or the ones in unclonised provinces.
@@flimpeenflarmpoon1353 i meam roman it not the easiet but only as difficult as your original culture
@@eragonshurtugal4239 Its difficult because off the new world provinces that don't turn roman.
@@lps2013 Thats true, but as most people who are trying this are doing a true wc anyway it doent get anyharder (and it doesnt need to be almost impossiple )
For Basque in Glory, you need to convert 30 of the 59 provinces, the other two requiremets for the achievement is that you’re Navarra and that you’re Basque
"The homies in Dahomey"
Perfect.
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My favorite non achievement achievement was to start as the Sultanate of Sulu and reverse colonize and culturally and religiously purify the entirety of Iberia
BudgetMonk has also done a 1 faith 1 culture world conquest with the roman empire so with the emerging culture of roman on hard difficulty and on very hard difficulty
Thank you for the quietness at the end that made me restart my wireless headphones multiple times and make me think they were broken
0:38 Gothic Invasion
2:13 The Third Way
4:32 Basque in Glory
6:49 The Three Islands
8:39 The Big Blue Blob
10:46 Where the Heart is
12:30 The Pheasant Strut
14:29 One Faith!
16:31 True Heir of Timur
18:11 Eat your Greens
@AlzaboHD 21:14 budgetmonk has done 1 culture roman culture twice now and is doing it a third time even now with no diplo banking,preaty amazing stuff imo
i was there for that... history in the making
Slow down there Arumba xD Lost it...
"that even the aztecs would find it distasteful" Huitzilopochtli is amused.
Missed your eu4 content, glad to see something new again
Regular content is coming now, thanks for sticking by!
I was expecting "The Victorian Three" to be up there. Not because it's hard to do but because who has the patience to keep playing until 1800?
LOL, the advice you gave for the Eat Your Greens achievement was hilarious!
The commentary is golden. Laughed so hard at it.
"Rockstar games achievements are hard and take a long time to 100%"
Paradox: hold my beer
“Grab your popcorn and lather it in Tabasco sauce”
AlzaboHD MMIXX~
There should be a “Close Call” achievement for preventing Mughal Empire from shattering after the achievement.
You can get the Kale achievement before 1610 by going for a shogunate vassal swarm (kinda like the Ryukyu strategy, but you have to culture switch first)
14:10 😂😂 I was already forgetting how much I love these comments and videos. Blessings!
The prequel memes immediately gave you a subscribe and like in my book
For the one Faith achievement, I believe reforming the Roman empire converts all provinces to orthodoxy or something similar and makes all culture roman, so starting as say France (From what I remember France IS capable of reforming Rome) you could very well conquer the whole world and then just reform rome to instantly convert all the provinces
Does this really work?!?!
@@dsago7725 fairly sure it does, though I have 0 hours and this is from watching others play, so Take my words with a few tons worth of grains of salt
If I'm not mistaken, only your primary culture provinces get converted to Roman.
@@giovdb weird, I remember it was every province, I'll have ți check
I just checked, it does indeed only convert your primary culture provinces.
Every map you show us as to getting the achievements, I say, "What is this? This is not real. It can't be real, right? This looks so wrong..."
Everything except the first two (theodoro and mzab) were console commanded to save recording time - you are correct!
@@AlzaboHD No, I meant historically. One random nation now controls all of France. French Scotland and French Scandinavia. Thank you, regardless, for the transparency!
Almost all of the harcore achievements you mentioned are simply not fun. I mostly go for hard ones, it's a perfect balance of challenge and fun, like Dracula's Revenge, Re-Re-Conquista or From Rags to Riches.
The time based ones are mind numbing but help you explore ae management and truce breaking. I specifically like the nation specific achievements. Once you get top 3 on world powers the game becomes very much like a chore at times due to rebels and pausing constantly.
Brian Vieane My favorite is one is white sheep and big blue blob, they hurt your mind.
@@francogiobbimontesanti3826 I didn't think white sheep was that bad but I had a couple retrys. I think second time I got RNGD out of the achievement.
Brian Vieane I don’t think BBB is that hard either but you have to pay attention to a lot of things. You are always low on adm, always with a coalition, always with low stability.
At every continent the Georgia one and form the Mongol Empire true way of learning to play horde
Another outstanding guide!
Thank you Patrick!
End of the video music: *plays*
Me: EVERY MAN A KING!
10k hours played here. Rn attempting per second time 1 Faith achievement as Austria. Not gonna lie, its not difficult but still pretty hard since I have to fight against boredom after I get Revoke Privilegia Reform in 15XX.
Most fun achievements to do were those like mzab into andalusia one or Navarra Basque culture thing, so there is no late game mechanics involved.
yeah the game always turns to a slog late game, barely got Empire of mann because of how slow it was to play the game in 1700
Forming minghals was pretty fun
Hardest achievement: Learning how to play the game.
I'll do you one better: Playing the actual game
Horde wc without knowing how economy works
Try Victoria 2
Viky has no achievements
@@GAndreC why are you need to be set goals from another people?
For theodoro its much easier to just declare war on east frisia, who's not yet in the empire and walk your way over there. If I recall you vassalize them and take a province next to them. The aggressive expansion is high and you have to wait until there is no coalition. This is really the only difficult part of the campaign as you just have to prevent the game from auto peacing you out due to war exhaustion. But from that point on you are just another member of the hre.
Doing Eat Your Greens without gaming the age: "He chose the path of perpetual torment"
1 culture done also by Budget Monk on vh. Now the guy is doing this without dip banking also
a one culture with roman culture!
At this point I've gotten 7, 6, 5, 3, and 2. The Mughals there as perhaps the most intense and fun campaign I've done in recent memory. Though my one faith as the pope was kind of amusing.
With the rather simple "This Revolution Was Crushed" as the last success I have managed to get all
Thank you, great choice, please more achievement-related content.
I have none of the ones you mentioned, lol. No Norwegian Wood though?
Norwegian Wood is not that hard if you are willing to restart enough times, Get Sweden as ally, England and Lithuania supporting independence. Have Lithuania not get PU'ed by Poland. Have Bohemia Rivaling Denmark (to become HRE Emperor later). And preferable a good ruler once you declared independence.
@@SepulchureValen these are a lot of requirements 🤣
surprisingly hilarious video!
I was just considering going for Unlikely Candidate, Third Way, and Dar al-Islam in one campaign with Mzab and NOW you're telling me it's hard...
That elephant does look really bad. What happened, Paradox?
The historical one isn't much better: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_sovereign_states#/media/File:Dahomey_kingdom_flag.png
This guy: True heir of Timur is the 2nd most impossible achievement.
Pravus Gaming who was insane enough to do the achievement: I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you.
Ayyye i sometimes put Tabasco on my popcorn lmao
Since when u started making content like this daddy ISP
My voice sounds... different *laughs in new zealandish*
AlzaboHD your voice is way better and sexier
Great video :)
I feel bad for Radio Res who had to do True Heir of Timur as Afghanistan.
tbf he said he chose it on purpose to be more historically accurate, acknowledged that Transoxiania was the better choice.
Siu-King hasn't done one culture in a looong time, also. RadioRes took Afghanistan to get THoT
Plz do a till death do us part tutorial
"1701: Vassalized Brittany (capital in Papua New Guinea)"
That is incredibly cursed
I did BigBlueBlob this week and it was quite easy with a good burgundy inheritance, all Netherlands and Burgandy was cored for free.
Just in time for my Ladakh world conquest.
Lol'd hard at the Aztec sacrifice crack
One Faith used to be an affiliate of world conquest. I did it with coptic ottomans in the patch that reworked coptics. You can acquire 7 missionaries and 12+ missionary strength rather swiftly.
Now with more provinces, tougher openings, reworked estates, missionary costs and territorial debuffs... ffs that's totally different.
Doing One Faith with HRE as Austria is arguably easier. You get endless cash from vassals, you feed them provinces and with subsidies and the grace of RNG they start converting for you. Regardless, they do core the prorovinces themselves which makes the convertion 2% easier. Also the Iberians do a great deal to help you with New World provinces embrace the true religion.
I really thought i clicked an ISP video from the intro
ve aleykümselam AlzaboHD! Thanks for the tips. :) much love and respect. :)
Restarting a campaign 20 times. I know the feeling. when I was first learning the game, I tried for the Sunset Invasion achievement, reset that probably at least 300 times
I will never get used to alzabo having the iron side intro
"Only transoxiana"
*laughs in afghanistan*
IIRC BudgeMonk did a One Culture with Roman culture.
20:57 YEEHAW
BudgetMonk did a 1 culture run on Very Hard. He has a RUclips and twitch VOD with proof. Just wish to give him credit.
Granted: I did One Faith before Dharma, which makes a HUGE difference, but Spain IMO is the best nation to do it. High missionary strength, and excellent starting position. I used vassals (like Nadj) to help me convert the world to Catholic. I finished the achievement 30 years early. I then proceeded to a One Tag, and finished about 10 years early. I think starting as Nadj is a lot harder, but I haven't actually tried it, so... yeah.
B4 Dharma I did it with Russia to leverage the insane orthodox power. Proceed to get tons of other achievements in the process. Finished in the early 1700s
I completed one faith achievement as Lithuania. Managed to become HRE when Austria's king died without an heir. I had enough Scandinavian and Russian lands to push for revoking the privilages with the league war never firing. Catholic vassal swarms in 1500s makes for an easy WC. Managed to get a couple of catholic turkish and nomadic princes for easy conquest of asia. This was also before missionary costs.
Was excited to watch this, but less excited as time went on. Guess what I need is a Top 10 Most Fun Achievements video.
For the ibadi achievement - vassalizing Syria is a good idea!
My boy budget monk is doing a Roman 1 culture with no diplo banking.... The mad lad
Any chance you would want to make a guide for naval combat anytime soon? Most of the videos I've been able to find are hugely outdate. Especially interesting would be when to build and how to design a flagship, galleys vs. heavies etc.?
Tributaries are subject that could work for the eat your greens achivement
That intro made me think I was watching iSorrowproductions
Could you do a mamluk guide, Rome guide, easy wc(like France or Otto or something), or Prussia guide?
Mewpix 77 Quick tip for Mamluks: No CB Byzantium and vassalize them as soon as possible then enable scutage on them
Then go after the Beyliks to try and block eastern Ottoman expansion
@@punishedwhirligig3353 exactly, whenever the Ottomans are your biggest problem you should think about No CB on Byzantium asap. I've even done it as Timurids before because Ottos will rival you soon enough. You still have to kill Ajam first and hope you can get access everywhere (or paratroop when you basically won the Ajam war). I would recommend to annex Byzantium as soon as you can and then cheese your capital to be Constantinople. By the time you can do that you will most likely own most of the Caucasus, Arabia and Anatolia so it will also benefit your trade income and it will allow you to make use of the Indian provinces you conquered much more effectively.
Just did #8
I had a lucky navarra game where I got an alliance with castille and france and used them to PU aragon. Then betrayed castile and used france to increase my territory so that Aragon and Naples wouldn't get any funny ideas about independence. France was my only ally so I never betrayed him before I shelved that game... maybe I should return and finish the game.
i love playing large nations so here are some of my custom achievements I have for those powerful nations. Note that with every nation you have to start on very hard difficulty:
France: never have a great power ally, have no allies after 1550. Have the largest fleet/army/income and achieve all historical goals. Average province size in europe of 35. Control all west/north africa
Russia: Never have an ally. achieve all historical goals and control Constantinople/berlin/wien/Beijing and vietnam
Great Britain: No allies after 1600. Achieve all historical goals. (note that this is actually fairly hard).
Any German Nation: no allies after 1700. Be at war with countries of France/Ottos/Russia at same time and win (can be separate wars). Have an average province development in Europe of 40
Poland: No great power allies. No allies at all after 1600. (ive yet to achieve this)
I find the above to be much more interesting than playing OPM trying to do something silly like conquer some country across the world. Note that all of the above achievements are pretty hard on very hard difficulty settings. For comparison, its much easier to play some worthless OPM in Germany on normal difficulty, than it is to play Poland on hardest settings.
I made Third way by Oman (post-Cradle), culture-shifted to Persian and then formed Mughals.
me too
BudgetMonk has also done a 1 faith 1 culture world conquest with the roman empire so with the emerging culture of roman on hard difficulty and on very hard difficulty
budgetmonk has done a one culture world conquest with the roman culture. it was one tag too
Big Blue Blob is piss easy, you can get enough provinces just by conquering Ireland, Scotland, half of England and the Aragonese coast (using Catalonia and Valencia as vassals to limit AE) plus Baleares and Malta. Those areas plus the Burgundian Inheritance are more than enough, and depending on how much you can take from England, you might not even need the BI
Me: Alive
AlzaboHD: HOW CAN SHE SLAP?
Me: dead of laughter.
I can't see ironside intro without hearing ISPs voice.
Pate is hands down the easiest starting nation for The Third Way. There are 5 gold provinces in Mutapa and Swahili coast and you can easily conquer them all withing the first 20 years. After that money isn't such a problem. Additionally there won't be any coalitions no matter what you do since the countries around your starting area belong to three different religion groups.
Conquering the Entire world is indeed easier than anything else on this list. You get to choose the country you want to do it with, and that alone makes it pretty achievable
I feel like one faith is now spectacularly easy as long as you can pull off an ottoman WC since everywhere can be made into trade companies
I opened this video and immediately thought I accidentally opened an ISP video lol.
Another that could be on the list/ is on my list is the komnenoi Empire achievement. As Trebizond you have to become an Empire rank (1000+ dev) without tag switching or playing as a released nation. This is more difficult then it sounds because Trebizond is incredibly poor, surrounded by hostile powers like QQ, AQ and worse of all the Ottomans. Since the MUscovy/Russia AI is as broken/ incompetent as can be you will need alot of restarts and save scumming in order to survive let alone thrive.
11:11 For Where The Heart Is, you don't actually have to convert any provinces. Only the owner has to be Fetishist.
Sound cuts out at 20:14 on my phone, don't know if anyone else has had this problem
Did the Kale one on VH without the delay age exploit. It sucked. Badly. The worst ones are inside Qara. If you are too late the Ottomans might have it. Might be able to beat Ming easier on the current patch than it was for me. A tip is to stay Buddhist so you can make tributaries.
Budgetmonk also did a roman one culture on very hard and is in the process of completing another one on very hard
One faith isn't hard. I did it a few patches ago as Catholic Ottomans.
To make Otto's catholic and get One Faith achievement, do:
1) Random new world, repeat to get a small and easily accessible one.
2) give as many provinces to the dhimmi estate as possible.
3) conquer any easy targets, like Albania, Constantinopel, east Anatolia (may have to wait for truces to run out).
4) take catholic provinces from Bosnia.
5) lower dhimmi loyalty below 40 (requesting theologian from the religious estate and revoking orthodox provinces from the dhimmi estate). Then revoke your catholic provinces from dhimmi.
Catholic rebels will spawn. When they take a non-catholic province, they will convert it to catholic.
6) declare war on a small weak country and park your army there. Being at war means your government will take some time to fall after catholic rebels take your capital. This means rebels have more time to convert provinces. Mothball all forts except your capital. If rebels take and convert a dhimmi estate province, revoke for more catholic rebels.
Now wait until catholic rebels have converted most or all of your provinces. Government falls and Ottomans is a catholic country with most or all provinces catholic. You can even become emperor of the HRE (don't add your capital to the HRE).
Finished world conquest in 1750, finished One Faith achievement a few years later.
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Budgetmonk has also archived one culture. he also has done it without diplo banking.
i think that they should add automated mode for armies and fleets that will start around 1750, because the only thing that stops me from TTM is armies microing in lategame.
For the Gothic invasion you can nocb east frisia on 11.12.1444 if they have only 1 ally. Peace out the ally and wait until a neighbor attacks east frisia too. Then vassalize east frisia and annex the neighbor that attacked your now vassel. Lose Theodoro on purpose and your capital will be moved to the conquered province in the hre
The video is mute after 20:15
The Big Blue Blob is considered difficult? I'm relatively new and only recently started achievement runs and BBB was my choice as a quick easy first campaign. I succeeded with nearly 10 years to spare and while I did get a late Burgundian Inheritance I could have easily just annexed my 10 province Catalonian vassal. I often had to wait to peace out due to coalitions but my AE was never so high that I had to send gifts or influence nations to prevent a coalition. If I want I could easily continue the campaign to a world conquest but I decided I would rather start a Castille run to do that, they make it easier to get all the random achievements out of the way. After that it's probably Empire of Mann for me so I don't have to see it in the list every campaign I play.
I think they should add one achivment. "Total Domination" -" Do a World Conqueror achivment on every country that exists in 11.11.1444" That would be fun
What are some achievements you'd like to see in EUIV?
Mine is "I Am No Mere Prize": As either Alsace or Lorraine, conquer all of both the French culture and German culture provinces.