New video is finally here! Another mystery video is also dropping this weekend - what videos would you like to see in the future? PS: ironside sponsorship is in the works!
Well, you always make nations look interesting. Like seriously. You are narrating so well, I can enjoy almost ANY nation. I do not know how you do that, but I for one am pretty sure, I'm not the only one. Anyway, personally I'd like to see some CK2 guides for beginers - I merely got 40 hours into the game, still got no clue how to play it. Well, good luck with your future projects, I for one, am surely thrilled for upcoming content!
Oh, and if you need any ideas for EU4 content - cover Denmark. It is quite an interesting nation, for there are a lot of strategies open. For instance, you can keep your current dynasty, and try to PU Bavaria and the Palatinate - or, change history by letting the pretender Eric Gryf win, and therefore trying to get a PU on Pomerania(which is what I prefer)
I will never forget the game where I finally got the Switzerlake achievement. I got an unexpected PU over Muscovy which allowed me to take provinces in Lithuania which made the achievement disappointingly easy.
I think Milan deserves a spot on this list. They have good national ideas and get the ambrosian republic government type. I achieved my first world conquest with them. Edit: spelling
der_ast I agree, Milan is a very good nation and has a lot of options for expansion, along with the ambrosian republic being one of the best governments for monarch point generation
@@НилИванов-ж1ц true lol. They got a core on brescia (quite rich province held by venice), and easy expansion through force vassalization on early game to mantua, ferarra and lucca. The easiest nation to form italy, and reform the roman empire
"...Florence is the perfect 'tall' nation if you decide that playing at five speed and remaining geographically limited is somehow fun." THANK YOU. I've never understood this whole "playing tall" meme in EU4. Three fourths of the game's mechanics are based on territorial expansion, and tallness is achieved exclusively through the RNG of the mana system. I think Vicky 2 was the only Paradox game that made NOT constantly invading your neighbours somewhat compelling from a gameplay perspective.
@@AlzaboHD I mean playing wide is as boring in my opinion, after 100 Years playing wide you are too strong and the games evolves into a map painter. Playing Tall is a challenge it doesnt mean you are not allowed to conquer its just means you are giving yourself rules. You need now every feature, every Cb to getting stonger without conquering. The rules are individual are can be adjusted for every Region. Playing tall can be a run where you just build historical borders. I had a tall Germany Run and it was the most fun Run i ever had, it was difficult, but rewarding. You can even do a tall india. Tall in my opinion just mean dont conquer everthing what is possible and concentrate on other aspect of the Game too.
@@petrvilimek6041 Hello from Serbia Czech friend.. i want to ask a question. Are Czechs mostly catholics or protestants, or it's true that you are mostly atheists? Are there Slavic native faith in Češko? Much greetings from your southern brothers.
@@Povest1389 Hi, around 80% is atheist or non religious, but the rest is mostly catholic ( because of the Austrian recatholisation). There might be some Slavic paganist, I just haven't seen any yet.
Correction: Switzerland CANNOT form Germany without culture-shifting. The Swiss primary culture is barred from forming Germany. Edit: PU over Milan is incredibly rare as well, due to the Ambrosian Republic event. If the Milan ruler spawns an heir; even of your dynasty, they will turn into the Republic. Heirless, however, they can be PU'ed since PU fires before the Ambrosian Republic; and Ambrosian cannot fire under a PU.
Interesting info about Switzerland, thanks for the heads up! I remember playing in ancient times when Switzerland was Rheinish culture and it was possible. Had no idea the culture rework prevented that!
I think I tried a million times to PU Milan as Austria and it never worked out, so I'd rather not waste a relationship slot to marry them. Rather marry Tver than Milan at this point.
the only time I got a PU over Milan was an Austria > HRE play through. It's a rare and lucky instance, but a huge "FUCK YES". I have to say that play through was most satisfying because I was able to form HRE, take the Balkans, half of Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, whilst making it all catholic.
@@blafoon93 interesting. I usually like to RM Milan for the chance of PU or possibly inheritance and it happens rather often, like, every 5th game maybe? It's rather reasonable
@@pseudoproak I have tried it again in recent campaigns and it worked quite well. I got a free PU as Castile and I inherited the land outright as Poland in 1448, letting me embrace Renaissance in 1449, also collecting in Venice is a nice boon, plus that land gives +6 or 7 force limit at game start, which is rather ridiculous. I was able to 1vs1 the Ottomans by beating them to tech 6 and having a force limit matching theirs.
My favorite thing about Florence is that they start out with a +2 yearly papal influence tradition. Mostly because the pope usually rivals and/or excommunicates you early on making papal influence impossible to generate.
Playing on EU4 ET as Switzerland in the 2018 start. I accidentally started a system of alliances that brought the world to its knees. What had happened was: I allied Belgium, France, UK and US. Invited to the EU, I declined. France did because of me, Italy did because of France. Greece decided to ally me after I allied France. Then the Balkans exploded again because Turkey decided Greece was Turkish and Greece didn't. So we got called to repel a Jihad that Egypt, Tunisia, and Iraq joined in. Recreated Gallipoli because they cut us off at the Bosporus, went like it did the first time losing a 50 stack (my whole standing army, I know, shoot me) so I banked it all on a 30 stack of Mercs and decided to land at Tunis to knock them out and lock down the Mediterranean. Tunisia peaced out, humiliated and giving me half their income for a while. Used those funds to float my economy, cut my stack in half and paid off some of those loans, and decided to play rear guard. Egyptian naval landing in Crete, RIP Minos. Oh well. Egyptian follow-up landing in Epirus, game on. Beat them with a blunt stick down into Achea, stack wiped them on the counterattack in Attica. The devil I am, I went down to Cairo looking for more gold to steal. Landed in Alexandria, walked like an Egyptian up and down the Western border until I hit their stack upriver neat Sudan. Provoked their 50 stack into a river crossing, uphill battle against my 35 stack and won, then chased them into Sinai where I finished them. Peaced out with King Tut in my back pocket and a wad of cash in my hand. Manpower back up, so I paid off my loans and dismissed my Mercs in favor of home grown troops. Pulled my navy out of the Bosporus and invited the Kebab itself. Cut them off once their grand army of 125 walked in. Allies picked them apart, lost a couple sieges in Thessaloniki and Athens but pushed back eventually, only after I succeeded in landing at Antioch and ran straight for Ankara. Sieged down, Turkish panic, divided their forces and lost them both. Iraq knocking on my Anatolian door, siege within a siege, feared for it all until my Allies came walking over the dunes and saved my ass. Removed Kebab from Europe, gave Greece their Thrace back, Europa restored.
I can't tell if you were serious, but you characterize The Prince based on the modern, pejorative adjective "Machiavellian", whereas the book has a very different tone. You should give it a read if you haven't, it really seems like the developers of EU4 incorporated some of its major themes.
Dude everytime you mentioned Game of Thrones my heart stopped working for a second because I was afraid of spoilers And yes I decided to start watching the first season while the last season was airing. It made sense in my mind xD
I really love how you try to pronounce all those german words :D #melodicandeasytospeaklanguage Liked the video, nice nations to go! Tried like half of them already and for me most fun was Brandenburg and Austria :)
"What exactly is the Holy Roman Empire?" Well firstly it's not Holy nor Roman or an Empire. Secondly it's disgusting and nowhere near as awesome as Rome in Constantinople.
had a game as switzerland once, was actually pretty fun! the downside may be that you have no navy, but considering that once austria drops being emperor you can go batshit crazy on 1 province minors in the hre
A parody of FERT was said by Savoy's neighbors to mean Frappez Entrez Rappez Tout ("Strike, Enter, Break Everything"), from their penchant for chevauchée.
Top 10 most difficult achievements could be interesting if you went into some ways to achieve them. Agree with other posters here that top 10 countries per religion/continent would be good as well.
As Austria, I had bohemia, Russia, the Commonwealth, Spain, and Hungary as PUs. Then had the Reforms to have the princes as vassals. All of their subjects too. Had the papacy as well. Burgundian inheritance. It was fun ruling the world.
Neat trick for Switzerlake achievement: Expand towards the sea, conquer land in (preferably) Africa and give away your coastal provinces ... perhaps moving capital to the New World would also work.
My first game in EU4 was with Bohemia at the 1444 start date, and man did I not expect how wild it would go down. By the end of it, I culture switched to Prussian, formed Prussia then Germany, and PUed Sweden, France AND Russia.
@@tobz3229 since I made this comment I began a Bavaria playthrough where I inherited Burgundy at its height by 1500, took Bar and Loraine and Metz from Provance in a excommunication war and then united the burgundy territories. I am allied with a big Trier and a Mainz who give me constant access to the lowlands if I ever need to pass into my western duchy.
It's funny, the Swiss Navy was actually a thing in their wars with Burgundy. They transported a whole bunch of refugees when Charles came a'knocking. Also, cute nod with "Eisenmann."
Yoooooo dude, 01:10 that's a bit harsh on machiaveli there dude, the whole concept of the book is about an hypotical unification of italy and how desperate times called for desperate means, it's very interesting when you really think it through lol, i mean that guy doesn't deserve his name to be a word for evil lol, poor him
Less easy than someone more safe like Tunis but it shouldn't be too hard if you're able to snipe tlemcen when Tunis is at war with them and then ally ottomans to get spain off your throat. If you're lucky you can also ally a Spanish rival. A Franco-Spanish rivalry can go a long way, and so can a Franco-Spanish alliance if it breaks up Portugal with spain in an inevitable French-English war since Portugal likes allying em. Just remember to build a navy and make use of the strait crossing for stackwipes and indefinite delays. I'm not a big fan of doing it but you can easily get tons of development by beating up the tech inferior central africans by land too if you colonize Tuat.
Bro, i just revoked privilegia first time by austria) Thought of other interesting countries in HRE. Question is: why no bavaria on your list? Or they became strong in 1.30? They get PUs to 2 electors and austria from missions. It might include bohemia if they fall under austrian PU. PS: thanks for your job, your videos helped me A LOT when i started playing eu4.
When you unite Germany, east frankia and northern Italy into a massive nation for more than 1000 years yet people wont call you holy, roman or even an empire.
That achievement for having your dynasty on a ton of thrones is easy...i usually place relative on vassals i intend to let get a bit bigger for the future liberty desire decrease, and I must have gotten the achievement somewhere along the way doing that XD
6:40 I'm gonna stop you right there, you can't effectively vassal feed in the HRE unless you are Emperor, because you have to core the territory yourself and then give it to your vassal otherwise the Emperor will demand it back and the vassal will pretty much always capitulate to that demand.
I just played a game as Florence and formed italy pretty easily. The only thing to worry about is aggressive expansion as the italian provinces are extremely developed.
Try it again. You got lucky. As someone who played Florence over and over, for some reason GODDAMN FRANCE ALLIES WITH SIENNA. WHAT THE HELL FRANCE?!? So yeah everyone around you gets really strong allies
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Sire, we have built a magnificent city near the Rhine river. As you are the lord of the city, we give you the honor of naming it. What will our quaint little city be called? "Ah * sneeze * *ACHUHN!* " Excellent name sire! Achen! Or aken in our local rhenish.
Hem, the Prince is not how to be the most douchebag ruler, it is how to be the most efficient ruler. It was very revolutionnary at the time, as most of the books for princes and kings were fond of moral and do what is the most fair. Machiavel said that to unite Italy (his ultimate goal), and rule without too much problems, you can't be a moral ruler, you have to do some immoral things ^^
One thing missing about the Palatinate: Your ruling dynasty is the "von Wittelsbach". Same as Bavaria, Denmark, Sweden and Norway in 1444. There are some fat scandinavian PUs for you to get.
Brandenburg is way too high. Not only are you vastly overestimating the strength of Prussia's idea set, BB isn't even the best nation to "naturally" (meaning no culture shift) form Prussia - the TO is.
It's easier to form as the Teutons, however they obviously aren't in the HRE. Additionally, you have to constantly keep the burgher estate happy or else the Prussian Confederation event will pop and ruin your campaign. Brandenburg also starts out with Prussia's mission tree while the Teutons don't (they don't have their own mission tree).
Have two wars. One for land, one for humiliating your rival. End the land-grab war first and give your vassal time to core the land. Then, and only then, end the war against your rival. The emperor is kind enough not to demand unlawful territory while you're at war
aachen wasn´t the capitol of the empire, it was "just" the place of birth and death and hometown of KARL the great son of pippin the short, because he was a traveling king/emperor so he and his "house" from his family over his men down to his maids would come and stay a while at your place^^
The holy Roman empire is holy, Roman, and an empire. Its founder Charlemagne founded the papal states making it holy. The Pope declared charlemagne as Roman emperor making it roman. The hre was almost the size of the Carolingian empire
New video is finally here! Another
mystery video is also dropping this weekend - what videos would you like to see in the future? PS: ironside sponsorship is in the works!
Well, you always make nations look interesting. Like seriously. You are narrating so well, I can enjoy almost ANY nation. I do not know how you do that, but I for one am pretty sure, I'm not the only one. Anyway, personally I'd like to see some CK2 guides for beginers - I merely got 40 hours into the game, still got no clue how to play it. Well, good luck with your future projects, I for one, am surely thrilled for upcoming content!
Oh, and if you need any ideas for EU4 content - cover Denmark. It is quite an interesting nation, for there are a lot of strategies open. For instance, you can keep your current dynasty, and try to PU Bavaria and the Palatinate - or, change history by letting the pretender Eric Gryf win, and therefore trying to get a PU on Pomerania(which is what I prefer)
Top 10 strongest Asian nations at 1444?
A top 10 for Muslim nations
Top 10 Christian nations
Top 10 hindu nations
Etc
Top 10 strongest Daimyos
Top 10 strongest sub Saharan african nations
I will never forget the game where I finally got the Switzerlake achievement. I got an unexpected PU over Muscovy which allowed me to take provinces in Lithuania which made the achievement disappointingly easy.
Sounds nice. I'll try that next time I try the achievement xD
My luck: spends a year siegeing with a 4 siege general
This guys luck: literally just gets a PU on a great power for free
Colton Brown totally unexpectedly too!
That's nice! On my Switzerlake run, I refused to switch away from a republic. Made for some very fun roleplaying in-game.
Always ally and RM Muscovy/Russia. They fall under pu/have low legitimacy in half of games.
Oh no, the ironside plague is here.
I knew it ISP is controling everything
Top 10 African nations in EU4, I wanna see that
This is definitely in the works! Im thinking of doing a video for each region and continent. Thanks for watching.
@@AlzaboHD that would be great
@@AlzaboHD Even the Americas? xD
I think i know two of them. Morroco. Egypt
Portugal
I think Milan deserves a spot on this list. They have good national ideas and get the ambrosian republic government type. I achieved my first world conquest with them.
Edit: spelling
der_ast I agree, Milan is a very good nation and has a lot of options for expansion, along with the ambrosian republic being one of the best governments for monarch point generation
Yeah and it lies between Venice and Genua, so you can conquer 2 very powerful ports early
Milan is a stronger nation than Florence
@@НилИванов-ж1ц true lol. They got a core on brescia (quite rich province held by venice), and easy expansion through force vassalization on early game to mantua, ferarra and lucca. The easiest nation to form italy, and reform the roman empire
For real, simply having the Side with the Guilephe (or however its spelled event) allows you to infinitely re-elect while maintaining Rep Trad.
"...Florence is the perfect 'tall' nation if you decide that playing at five speed and remaining geographically limited is somehow fun."
THANK YOU. I've never understood this whole "playing tall" meme in EU4. Three fourths of the game's mechanics are based on territorial expansion, and tallness is achieved exclusively through the RNG of the mana system. I think Vicky 2 was the only Paradox game that made NOT constantly invading your neighbours somewhat compelling from a gameplay perspective.
I tried playing tall but its so boring. Maybe its appealing for a colonial game? Or for relaxing? I agree with you 100%!
@@AlzaboHD Tall games are best as colonial games where you're trying to dominate trade. A Netherlands, Portugal or England game are what come to mind
@@AlzaboHD I mean playing wide is as boring in my opinion, after 100 Years playing wide you are too strong and the games evolves into a map painter. Playing Tall is a challenge it doesnt mean you are not allowed to conquer its just means you are giving yourself rules. You need now every feature, every Cb to getting stonger without conquering. The rules are individual are can be adjusted for every Region. Playing tall can be a run where you just build historical borders. I had a tall Germany Run and it was the most fun Run i ever had, it was difficult, but rewarding. You can even do a tall india. Tall in my opinion just mean dont conquer everthing what is possible and concentrate on other aspect of the Game too.
The most fun you can have with playing tall is multiplayer games. Well not everyone likes the horrible eu4 mp community tho.
Tall is pretty viable in multiplayer.
Austria is a good contender to the “One family to rule them all” achievement? *Laughs in Timurid*
I did it as Hormuz actually. ^^
Laughs in ming
I was so happy to discover a new video about EU4 from you today :D
Keep going your amazing work!
Thank you for your support! It really means a lot to me that people enjoy the content
You hurt my ears trying to say Hohenzollern
Very weird timing after the whole new map for the European Expansion has been revealed.
Wlasnie kurwa
@@Pablo-ft3be you raise an interesting point there, friend. A great contribution to the conversation. Well done.
I though it wassa long time away still
@@ShaunhanM 2020. I fail to see how that affects the point I made.
Where can I see it?
*14:00 Z Poděbrad, not a Piast
Oops
As a person living 5 kilometres from the city of Poděbrady, I am a bit disappointed
@@petrvilimek6041 Hello from Serbia Czech friend.. i want to ask a question. Are Czechs mostly catholics or protestants, or it's true that you are mostly atheists? Are there Slavic native faith in Češko? Much greetings from your southern brothers.
@@Povest1389 Hi, around 80% is atheist or non religious, but the rest is mostly catholic ( because of the Austrian recatholisation). There might be some Slavic paganist, I just haven't seen any yet.
It is holy, roman and a empire
I mean it WAS at the very start. Not so much afterwards.
Sorry Charles.
Hurr durr Voltairetard
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Fuck Voltaire
Oh I don't think so
Brilliant video time after time! Thank you
The Crimson Chin is Austria's national superhero.
Correction: Switzerland CANNOT form Germany without culture-shifting. The Swiss primary culture is barred from forming Germany.
Edit: PU over Milan is incredibly rare as well, due to the Ambrosian Republic event. If the Milan ruler spawns an heir; even of your dynasty, they will turn into the Republic. Heirless, however, they can be PU'ed since PU fires before the Ambrosian Republic; and Ambrosian cannot fire under a PU.
Interesting info about Switzerland, thanks for the heads up! I remember playing in ancient times when Switzerland was Rheinish culture and it was possible. Had no idea the culture rework prevented that!
I think I tried a million times to PU Milan as Austria and it never worked out, so I'd rather not waste a relationship slot to marry them. Rather marry Tver than Milan at this point.
the only time I got a PU over Milan was an Austria > HRE play through. It's a rare and lucky instance, but a huge "FUCK YES". I have to say that play through was most satisfying because I was able to form HRE, take the Balkans, half of Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, whilst making it all catholic.
@@blafoon93 interesting. I usually like to RM Milan for the chance of PU or possibly inheritance and it happens rather often, like, every 5th game maybe? It's rather reasonable
@@pseudoproak I have tried it again in recent campaigns and it worked quite well. I got a free PU as Castile and I inherited the land outright as Poland in 1448, letting me embrace Renaissance in 1449, also collecting in Venice is a nice boon, plus that land gives +6 or 7 force limit at game start, which is rather ridiculous. I was able to 1vs1 the Ottomans by beating them to tech 6 and having a force limit matching theirs.
My favorite thing about Florence is that they start out with a +2 yearly papal influence tradition. Mostly because the pope usually rivals and/or excommunicates you early on making papal influence impossible to generate.
It is very weird considering the dynasty of medici popes
New amazing video (as always). Nice!
“Not even a commissioned painting can flatter their fugly mug” honestly Alzabo is a wordsmith we take for granted
Playing on EU4 ET as Switzerland in the 2018 start. I accidentally started a system of alliances that brought the world to its knees.
What had happened was: I allied Belgium, France, UK and US. Invited to the EU, I declined. France did because of me, Italy did because of France. Greece decided to ally me after I allied France. Then the Balkans exploded again because Turkey decided Greece was Turkish and Greece didn't. So we got called to repel a Jihad that Egypt, Tunisia, and Iraq joined in.
Recreated Gallipoli because they cut us off at the Bosporus, went like it did the first time losing a 50 stack (my whole standing army, I know, shoot me) so I banked it all on a 30 stack of Mercs and decided to land at Tunis to knock them out and lock down the Mediterranean. Tunisia peaced out, humiliated and giving me half their income for a while.
Used those funds to float my economy, cut my stack in half and paid off some of those loans, and decided to play rear guard. Egyptian naval landing in Crete, RIP Minos. Oh well. Egyptian follow-up landing in Epirus, game on. Beat them with a blunt stick down into Achea, stack wiped them on the counterattack in Attica.
The devil I am, I went down to Cairo looking for more gold to steal. Landed in Alexandria, walked like an Egyptian up and down the Western border until I hit their stack upriver neat Sudan. Provoked their 50 stack into a river crossing, uphill battle against my 35 stack and won, then chased them into Sinai where I finished them. Peaced out with King Tut in my back pocket and a wad of cash in my hand. Manpower back up, so I paid off my loans and dismissed my Mercs in favor of home grown troops.
Pulled my navy out of the Bosporus and invited the Kebab itself. Cut them off once their grand army of 125 walked in. Allies picked them apart, lost a couple sieges in Thessaloniki and Athens but pushed back eventually, only after I succeeded in landing at Antioch and ran straight for Ankara. Sieged down, Turkish panic, divided their forces and lost them both. Iraq knocking on my Anatolian door, siege within a siege, feared for it all until my Allies came walking over the dunes and saved my ass. Removed Kebab from Europe, gave Greece their Thrace back, Europa restored.
I can't tell if you were serious, but you characterize The Prince based on the modern, pejorative adjective "Machiavellian", whereas the book has a very different tone. You should give it a read if you haven't, it really seems like the developers of EU4 incorporated some of its major themes.
Dude everytime you mentioned Game of Thrones my heart stopped working for a second because I was afraid of spoilers
And yes I decided to start watching the first season while the last season was airing. It made sense in my mind xD
Have already seen an awesome burgundian inheritance for ai savoy, making their borders stretch from North sea to Mediterranean in the end
Hesse or Milan would have made my list, but pretty respectable list. nice job
What kind of graphic mod you use?
I am using Ad Lucem, available on the steam workshop. Also TBARW thicker borders and recolored water. Hope that helps!
@@AlzaboHD that selection sprite alone makes ad lucem worth it, I'd say. So much better than the yellowish base selection sprite!
The dutch personal union is hell, as your subject (united kingdom in my case) always rebels after 4 years
What graphical mod are you using? Your map looks amazing in this video!
I am using Ad Lucem and TBARW from the steam workshop. I agree, they are amazing! Hope this helps you
That's what people who have never read Machiavelli say about Machiavelli
ikr, prince is more about being a smart ruler than a ruthless one
'Ey man, don't dis Machiavelli. He was the one who taught me how to win at Europa.
I really love how you try to pronounce all those german words :D #melodicandeasytospeaklanguage
Liked the video, nice nations to go! Tried like half of them already and for me most fun was Brandenburg and Austria :)
I like it how he pronounces the "Bunte Kuh" achievement.😂 🇩🇪
Hohenzollern😂
"What exactly is the Holy Roman Empire?"
Well firstly it's not Holy nor Roman or an Empire.
Secondly it's disgusting and nowhere near as awesome as Rome in Constantinople.
Hmmm that profile maybe has something to do with what u said
BUT I 1169% AGREE NONETHLESS
@@14thbattlegroupcommander roma eterna!
Renovatio imperii brother!
had a game as switzerland once, was actually pretty fun! the downside may be that you have no navy, but considering that once austria drops being emperor you can go batshit crazy on 1 province minors in the hre
A parody of FERT was said by Savoy's neighbors to mean Frappez Entrez Rappez Tout ("Strike, Enter, Break Everything"), from their penchant for chevauchée.
Top 10 most difficult achievements could be interesting if you went into some ways to achieve them.
Agree with other posters here that top 10 countries per religion/continent would be good as well.
As Austria, I had bohemia, Russia, the Commonwealth, Spain, and Hungary as PUs.
Then had the Reforms to have the princes as vassals.
All of their subjects too.
Had the papacy as well.
Burgundian inheritance.
It was fun ruling the world.
8:43 As a french, I didn't understood a word of what you said 😅 But it's cool that you tried
"Frappez, entrez, rompez tout"
I'm surprised Milan wasn't included considering their ideas, development and access to the Ambrosian Republic.
18:01 There was literally a game of thrones ad at the bottom of the screen. DaMN.
Before watching this. I swear if Hamburg and Lubeck isn't on this list. 2 incredibly strong one province minors and 2 of the most fun nations to play.
Never tried hamburg but lubeck is really fun
@@SimplifiedFinanceSiFi I personally find Hamburg better. Walls of Hamburg National Idea
@@VenomousSpyro I'll try bunte kuh if i play hamburg^^
oh you're ironside sponsored as well nice
Neat trick for Switzerlake achievement: Expand towards the sea, conquer land in (preferably) Africa and give away your coastal provinces ... perhaps moving capital to the New World would also work.
My first game in EU4 was with Bohemia at the 1444 start date, and man did I not expect how wild it would go down. By the end of it, I culture switched to Prussian, formed Prussia then Germany, and PUed Sweden, France AND Russia.
Bavaria is also a nice nation to play tall with :)
I like to take Bohemians gold mine when I play these tall Bavaria games. Gotta fund the mercenaries when the Interlopers interlope.
@@EndsleyIV I wish i could do that too but unfortunately i rlly want to keep my borders clean :(
@@tobz3229 since I made this comment I began a Bavaria playthrough where I inherited Burgundy at its height by 1500, took Bar and Loraine and Metz from Provance in a excommunication war and then united the burgundy territories. I am allied with a big Trier and a Mainz who give me constant access to the lowlands if I ever need to pass into my western duchy.
@@EndsleyIV that sounds sick tbh
It's funny, the Swiss Navy was actually a thing in their wars with Burgundy. They transported a whole bunch of refugees when Charles came a'knocking. Also, cute nod with "Eisenmann."
Thanks for the history info! Im going to look this up, thats hillarious
I love these videos
Ditchmarchen is also prety interesting, if you like to experience working communistic nation
"working"
Is poor as shit
@@johnjaeger2968 At least people are not complaining
I agree. The "lessons of hemmingstedt" achievement is also very fun
Yoooooo dude, 01:10 that's a bit harsh on machiaveli there dude, the whole concept of the book is about an hypotical unification of italy and how desperate times called for desperate means, it's very interesting when you really think it through lol, i mean that guy doesn't deserve his name to be a word for evil lol, poor him
Awesome video :)
hey and what about bavaria? they only need to take two provinces from austria to acess venice and then the balkans...
How are you going the beat Austria with only 4 provinces?
A Classic Guardsman By expanding in another direction first, or calling Bohemia in against Austria
Could you make a Morocco Guide
Less easy than someone more safe like Tunis but it shouldn't be too hard if you're able to snipe tlemcen when Tunis is at war with them and then ally ottomans to get spain off your throat. If you're lucky you can also ally a Spanish rival. A Franco-Spanish rivalry can go a long way, and so can a Franco-Spanish alliance if it breaks up Portugal with spain in an inevitable French-English war since Portugal likes allying em. Just remember to build a navy and make use of the strait crossing for stackwipes and indefinite delays.
I'm not a big fan of doing it but you can easily get tons of development by beating up the tech inferior central africans by land too if you colonize Tuat.
@@Kaozorier thx :)
A bonus to the palatinate is that They share dynasty with bavaria and denmark.
When i looked at first seconds of the video:
*sad start of the plc partitions noices*
Its worth noting that the Palantine is getting an update soon
2:53 Don't you mean Emperor Palatine?
Can this man give isorrow a hand with his intros
You did this video a couple of months early, because at the end of this year there's gonna be this huge update/DLC changing most of HRE
Oops. Good to know, HRE needs an update!
Bro, i just revoked privilegia first time by austria) Thought of other interesting countries in HRE. Question is: why no bavaria on your list? Or they became strong in 1.30?
They get PUs to 2 electors and austria from missions. It might include bohemia if they fall under austrian PU.
PS: thanks for your job, your videos helped me A LOT when i started playing eu4.
When you unite Germany, east frankia and northern Italy into a massive nation for more than 1000 years yet people wont call you holy, roman or even an empire.
I dont know if you can call that mess "united".
@@harveythelarvey3017 somewhat united
What is the name of rhe mod you use for the map?(graphic)
That achievement for having your dynasty on a ton of thrones is easy...i usually place relative on vassals i intend to let get a bit bigger for the future liberty desire decrease, and I must have gotten the achievement somewhere along the way doing that XD
strongest might not be the optimal title of the video if hamburg is on it
I swear it was for the pun potential
alza: says Savoie
me: ITS SAVOIA (sah voy ah) DAMNIT
Huh, looks like you never did that top 10 african nations video discussed in one of the comments. This one is neat though^^
My List
1: Austria
2: Brandenburg
3: Savoy
4: Bohemia
5: Saxony
6: Rhinephaltz (Palatinate)
7: Bavaria
8: Holland
9: Switzerland
10: Ulm
6:40 I'm gonna stop you right there, you can't effectively vassal feed in the HRE unless you are Emperor, because you have to core the territory yourself and then give it to your vassal otherwise the Emperor will demand it back and the vassal will pretty much always capitulate to that demand.
The hamburg puns, oh my god.
I just played a game as Florence and formed italy pretty easily. The only thing to worry about is aggressive expansion as the italian provinces are extremely developed.
Try it again. You got lucky. As someone who played Florence over and over, for some reason GODDAMN FRANCE ALLIES WITH SIENNA. WHAT THE HELL FRANCE?!? So yeah everyone around you gets really strong allies
no Dithmarschen ? love their ideas and position
Which graphic mod for map you use, buddy?
I use Ad Lucem and TBARW thicker borders and recolored water, all available on steam workshop. Hope that helps, cheers!
Seriously no ulm mention? Once i conquered the entire world excepting ulm and ulm conquered it back
Ulm is too op so it had to be disqualified
Ulm is the strongest nation of the game, not only in the HRE
May I ask which map mod are you using, also video is cool like up
Thanks! Im using Ad Lucem and TBARW, both available on the steam workshop. Hope that helps.
@@AlzaboHD thanks very much 🙂
i remember that in old EU II , Brandenburg started with 1 province .
Please do another ck2 vid please!
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Sire, we have built a magnificent city near the Rhine river. As you are the lord of the city, we give you the honor of naming it. What will our quaint little city be called?
"Ah * sneeze * *ACHUHN!* "
Excellent name sire! Achen! Or aken in our local rhenish.
Before watching: Will include
Milan
Lubeck
Brandenburg
Austria
Bohemia
Logan Baughman Lübeck is definitely better than Hamburg
Where's *Ulm* ?
Too powerful for be in the list , for sure!
8:36 Yay my home is finally relevant!
I have a challenge for you. As Augsburg bully the Hungarians even more by owning all of their starting provinces
Hem, the Prince is not how to be the most douchebag ruler, it is how to be the most efficient ruler. It was very revolutionnary at the time, as most of the books for princes and kings were fond of moral and do what is the most fair.
Machiavel said that to unite Italy (his ultimate goal), and rule without too much problems, you can't be a moral ruler, you have to do some immoral things ^^
One thing missing about the Palatinate: Your ruling dynasty is the "von Wittelsbach". Same as Bavaria, Denmark, Sweden and Norway in 1444. There are some fat scandinavian PUs for you to get.
this will need a remake after the new patch hits us. also, isnt "warning" work about the same as "guarantee"?
Brandenburg is way too high. Not only are you vastly overestimating the strength of Prussia's idea set, BB isn't even the best nation to "naturally" (meaning no culture shift) form Prussia - the TO is.
It's easier to form as the Teutons, however they obviously aren't in the HRE. Additionally, you have to constantly keep the burgher estate happy or else the Prussian Confederation event will pop and ruin your campaign. Brandenburg also starts out with Prussia's mission tree while the Teutons don't (they don't have their own mission tree).
How about a top 10 colonial nations ? Or perhaps a top 5 if there are not enough countries
Hey i see that you allways use the same grahical mod in your videos. Would you mind telling me which one is it?
The Prince is not about being a douchebag. That's why Napoleon kept complaining about how Machiavelli was a moralist.
Really ??? No Milan ? More development , ambrosian republic and in the middle Venice and Genoa
Wait more Ironside meme's.
They are on the way, Im thinking of ideas for the next one!
Pomerania can form Prussia as well and has a decent Trade income early on.
Can anyone tell me the name of the mod used for making provincial borders look the way they do in this video?
Ad Lucem and Tbarw
How you vassal feeding as free city? They will return unlawful territory
If only there was a way to say, hey this is my land do not return it.
Have two wars. One for land, one for humiliating your rival. End the land-grab war first and give your vassal time to core the land. Then, and only then, end the war against your rival. The emperor is kind enough not to demand unlawful territory while you're at war
aachen wasn´t the capitol of the empire, it was "just" the place of birth and death and hometown of KARL the great son of pippin the short, because he was a traveling king/emperor so he and his "house" from his family over his men down to his maids would come and stay a while at your place^^
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
I have a problem. I started playing as Lübek. Whenever I try to expand my vassal, the emperor demands the territory back. Is there any trick I miss?
2:53 emperor palpatine xD
I love Democracy. I love the republic.
whats the graphical mod that you use?
The holy Roman empire is holy, Roman, and an empire. Its founder Charlemagne founded the papal states making it holy. The Pope declared charlemagne as Roman emperor making it roman. The hre was almost the size of the Carolingian empire
True except for the fact that the papal states already existed
For the love of Batman Alzabo it's RNGesus.
What do you think of BT?
Well it sorta is both holy and roman at the beginning of the game as the reformation hasn't begun and the italian states haven't left the empire yet