This is the EASIEST "Very Hard" Achievement in EU4

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  • Today we're doing another "very hard" EU4 achievement. Start as France and own 100 cores in Europe before 1500. Technically I picked up another achievement too...
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  • @Osariik
    @Osariik 2 ปีที่แล้ว +217

    I actually don't know much about the non-volcanic geology of France, but I do know a little bit about the volcanic geology! Mainland France has a few volcanic fields (regions of volcanic activity) that are technically considered still active due to having had eruptions more recently than 50,000 years ago, like the Chaîne des Puys volcanic field in central France, which includes the Puy de Dôme volcano. These volcanoes formed in a rift system over a period of about 90,000 years, with the most recent eruption occurring a little over 6000 years ago.
    France was actually the country which experienced the deadliest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, but not in Continental France-it happened on Martinique, a French possession in the Caribbean. The volcano Mont Pelée began erupting unexpectedly on 23 April 1902, mainly just ash and steam, but it scared the populations of many smaller towns nearby into temporarily fleeing to the city of St Pierre, which was the cultural capital of the French Caribbean at the time. The eruptions grew more and more violent, before a brief lull, and then increased in intensity again. And suddenly, on the morning of 8 May 1902, a pyroclastic surge (basically a cloud of superheated gas and ash) emanated down from the volcano and straight into St Pierre. Around 30,000 people died in barely a few minutes, cooked or suffocated to death. There were only two* survivors in the direct path of the flow-a man in a poorly-ventilated prison cell and a man who lived near the edge of the valley. Both of them, and the handful of other survivors that were at the edge of the cloud, suffered severe burns. One of those two survivors in the main path narrowly avoided being killed by a subsequent pyroclastic flow only a few weeks later.
    *Some sources claim three survivors-a little girl named Havivra da Ifrile is said to have escaped by fleeing in a small rowboat to a small sea cave, where she suffered some burns and fell unconscious; she was found hours later drifting in the boat 3-4 km out to sea.

    • @LaneSight
      @LaneSight ปีที่แล้ว +1

      thank you

    • @seanm241
      @seanm241 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Thank you I will forget this information shortly

    • @thomkinrade9314
      @thomkinrade9314 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Based knowledge giver

    • @Osariik
      @Osariik ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@thomkinrade9314 Life's too short to not share cool volcano knowledge

  • @MrCalls1
    @MrCalls1 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    12:10 “we don’t have canons yet, but we do have canons on board, somehow” , canons had been around for a while, but you couldn’t use them in battle back pause they were way to heavy, and got stuck in the roads, let alone muddy battlefields. But hard wood on floaty ships, very manageable.

    • @Podzhagitel
      @Podzhagitel ปีที่แล้ว +14

      a lot of people forget this

    • @brandonlyon730
      @brandonlyon730 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Of course what did people think the Ottomans used to busted down the walls of Constantinople?

    • @Podzhagitel
      @Podzhagitel ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@brandonlyon730 the funny thing is that this is explained in the text for mil tech 7 (The Limber) but no one reads it LOL

    • @johndunne3547
      @johndunne3547 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hate to break it to you dude but that's not quite right. Artillery was incredibly expensive and wasn't prevalent on ships until well into the 17th and 18th centuries. But the main thing is how rare it was, during the eighty and thirty years war even the greatest powers in Europe like France and Spain would only have 50-80 guns for a major siege of a city. Cardinal Richelieu tried to arm the French navy with cannons in the thirty years war, but only managed to acquire enough for some 20 odd ships. Plus galleys as they existed for the games time period essentially never had cannons. EU4 just says that ships have cannons because boardings/troop numbers on ships would add an added level of complexity that was unnecessary.

    • @johndunne3547
      @johndunne3547 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Immortal Science of Hauntology You're absolutely right. I completely forgot about small-calibre guns, they were produced and used in much larger quantities on ships. Thanks for the correction

  • @andrewjack2358
    @andrewjack2358 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Should’ve played with 1% crownland constantly, having 100% autonomy on every single province.

  • @jameslevy9964
    @jameslevy9964 2 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    I have no idea how far you got into this game without that France achievement. If there was a competition between the Mariana Trench and my jaw with my upper lip for the longest distance I would be winning.

    • @Necromediancer
      @Necromediancer ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I've gotten far without France. I don't like starting off powerful, there's no risk of challenge because you can easily eclipse everyone around you

    • @Rullino32
      @Rullino32 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Necromediancer True, I also start as small countries because they have the possibility to retake crownland from giving the +1 monarch points and also religious diplomats if I'm playing as a Catholic/Sunni country and loans to get as little influence as possible to take more crownland, this strategy helped me as Florence and it could also help you, I learned this from Budgetmonk.

    • @steadyzz2371
      @steadyzz2371 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have over a thousand hours and I probably played France once or twice. I just don’t like nations like France. If I wanna play a colonization game I will play GB or Portugal, if I wanna play both colonial and military I will play Spain, for a Mediterranean conquest Aragon, for HRE I can play Austria, Brandenburg and Bohemia, Eastern Europe is fun all around and I mostly play outside Europe. I just don’t see a reason to play France.

    • @rsabinioan
      @rsabinioan ปีที่แล้ว

      I don’t think I played any “lucky” nation since I was beginner, I’m just in love with pain and I play obscure nations so that may be a reason why he doesn’t have that achievement

    • @lessthanonegaming
      @lessthanonegaming ปีที่แล้ว

      Over 1k hours and I've only played France 1 time, and the Ottomans 1 time. Like everyone else commenting here I get a lot of satisfaction from starting small

  • @johnbradley5222
    @johnbradley5222 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I didn't freak out, but it sure caught me off guard!

  • @rapidtorvosour2004
    @rapidtorvosour2004 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I somehow managed this first try in August 1499. I was desperately making sure separatists didnt siege down the provinces i was coring and i think I cut it as close as I could

    • @rapidtorvosour2004
      @rapidtorvosour2004 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@wunderpuma4453 all I'm saying is i wasn't trying to cut it that close, I'm just fucking bad

    • @krankarvolund7771
      @krankarvolund7771 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      When I tried it, I think I got the 100 provinces around 1502, I was pissed XD

    • @4ester709
      @4ester709 ปีที่แล้ว

      i made it easy in 1461 i just gor burgnundy and inhereted her lol

    • @TheNinjaDwarfBiker
      @TheNinjaDwarfBiker ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was way harder in 2013-2015 before paradox just added a ton of new provinces

  • @omacmill5189
    @omacmill5189 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    One of my first ever games I was playing France and inherited Scotland a couple years in. Didn’t know about BBB at the time and I had no idea how lucky I got, thought that was just a thing that happened

  • @thenotoriousnephi4308
    @thenotoriousnephi4308 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    In one of my games France inherited all of savoy once and it was a big beefy one with half Milan, of course i was playing in italy...

    • @Rullino32
      @Rullino32 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Don't forget that they can also get personal union over the Kingdom of Naples due to their historical claims.

  • @alcazar9266
    @alcazar9266 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    ngl when i first found out you could cobeligerate to fight and annex 20 countries at the same time and annex them all at once i thought it was so good (for some reason i didnt like fabricating claims), then i found out about overextension and dealing with 500k rebels. maybe its not so strong after all.

  • @gabrielzak.7942
    @gabrielzak.7942 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I got this achievement pretty easly by conquering random land around europe. I had Granada , slices of Hungary and greece and half of russia and scandinavia

  • @joaoluciocamilo1503
    @joaoluciocamilo1503 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My name, the english version of it, is John, and the big name means I'm winning because I play the game right and I'm only that big in mid game, and most stuff is stated

  • @Oxtrooo
    @Oxtrooo ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the achivement became much easier as patches came out. more provinces got added to most of europe, especially ireland making the achivment pretty calm to achive.

  • @CharlieKellyEsq
    @CharlieKellyEsq ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I got that core achievement by revoking all of my cores on 11 November 1444

    • @croma2068
      @croma2068 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is also how to get the USA achievement

  • @RhombonianKnight
    @RhombonianKnight ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Might as well make a sequel of this for Better Than Napoleon and Napoleon's Ambition.

  • @Exarz
    @Exarz ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Started sweating when i heard John-

  • @user-ub6oo5hy1m
    @user-ub6oo5hy1m ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have a quarter of Quarbit's hours and a twentieth of the skill

  • @UnnamedEmperor
    @UnnamedEmperor ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Liked to continue this very cursed France run

  • @MagicXRoads534
    @MagicXRoads534 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I know this is probably too old at this point, but I really hope we can get a part 2 one day

  • @jpanda79
    @jpanda79 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dude I had this video on in the background and damn near shit myself when you said John

  • @weswhite6058
    @weswhite6058 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a John I was a little taken aback at first

  • @tino85011
    @tino85011 ปีที่แล้ว

    Omg I was laughing when you said "some people actually play like this" because I'm useless at the game and play like that..... And then you said my name!

  • @johnmackenzie4703
    @johnmackenzie4703 ปีที่แล้ว

    The John comment really dug deep

  • @nobody_expects_me
    @nobody_expects_me ปีที่แล้ว

    18:57 I guess Big Brother is watching, since my name is John.

  • @grubygrzib6308
    @grubygrzib6308 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Honestly this achievement is very easy, you can do it with pretty much any strategy

  • @nituldeshptha99
    @nituldeshptha99 ปีที่แล้ว

    quarbit: big blue blob is easy
    me *took me four thousand hours to get BBB : ok

  • @jdsupertest
    @jdsupertest ปีที่แล้ว

    Austria was the biggest European rival of France for like 3/4 of the time EU4 takes place in, so it would be natural for them to have a historical rival modifier

  • @carter.5814
    @carter.5814 ปีที่แล้ว

    can confirm title, got it on accident playing france normally

  • @Mr_Ro6ot
    @Mr_Ro6ot ปีที่แล้ว

    Your effort to ally Austria as France was very funny :)

  • @IquonYT
    @IquonYT ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Chewyshoot is looking at you 👀😂

  • @kylekelly1167
    @kylekelly1167 ปีที่แล้ว

    Inheriting others nations I think high opinions are a factor I inherited a nation once.

  • @johndunne3547
    @johndunne3547 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Harsh dude

  • @159Revan
    @159Revan ปีที่แล้ว

    Ah, BBB. Inspiration from chewy shoot? Lol. Awesome vid!

    • @Quarbit
      @Quarbit  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      nah, I recorded this 2 weeks ago
      it was funny when he mentioned how many times he restarted in discord tho :P
      edit: 3 weeks ago

  • @h0pl1t
    @h0pl1t ปีที่แล้ว

    Never stop using Yoink!

  • @KitiHey
    @KitiHey 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    69% warscore

  • @Scitch87
    @Scitch87 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just realized i don't have Big Blue Blob either.....but i'm only 2.5k hours into the game so i'm good for another 2k hours i guess.

  • @jonwildcat3449
    @jonwildcat3449 ปีที่แล้ว

    damn can't believe i have been called out like that

  • @m.a.t.a.s
    @m.a.t.a.s 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:27 LOTR reference xdd

  • @triersero2763
    @triersero2763 ปีที่แล้ว

    And I haven't played France game ever and I started playing back in 2017.

  • @jonathanlangdon9140
    @jonathanlangdon9140 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yep did freak me out!

  • @TheMisterDarknight
    @TheMisterDarknight ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd bet on basilious or if the bug isn't fixed forming Mongol empire before 1610

  • @С.Н₀
    @С.Н₀ ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This game should be continued as a disaster save.

    • @Cat-up6hb
      @Cat-up6hb ปีที่แล้ว

      why disaster?
      i mean the state of the game is not perfect but he has everything he needs
      he could conquer all of europe by 1550, solving the ae problem xD

  • @Jefrings
    @Jefrings ปีที่แล้ว

    Note : this achivement becomes really easy if you annex wasteland provinces (land below 5 development) in Northern Europe or if you diverse your conquest by invading the orthodox or sunni countries of Europe.
    Snaking your way through Russia to the various European suni hordes can become really helpful!

    • @pedronabais1456
      @pedronabais1456 ปีที่แล้ว

      from what i remember the "meta" is to invade north africa bc it has alot of those wasteland provinces and you have rangefor everything and the war is super easy

  • @trr3920
    @trr3920 ปีที่แล้ว

    I still cant believe quarbit only played France 5 years ago

  • @kingjoshuaii
    @kingjoshuaii ปีที่แล้ว

    Am just gonna use the estate modifies and try to do this my way

  • @peterzeger7263
    @peterzeger7263 ปีที่แล้ว

    this achievement got way easier over time.

  • @steadyzz2371
    @steadyzz2371 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bro tried to ally Austria as France

  • @KofteG61
    @KofteG61 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I got Big Blue Blob on my first try (technically second because I restarted immediately once), and I'm definitely not that good at EU4. So It's not that hard of an achievement.

  • @Mmm230496
    @Mmm230496 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think I never plated as France because I always thought they are to strong to begin with. I started to play eu4 this year

  • @joaovitorambrosiomilani3553
    @joaovitorambrosiomilani3553 ปีที่แล้ว

    I did freak out when you said John hahahaha

  • @chucknorrismlg425
    @chucknorrismlg425 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    im John and i freaked out lol

  • @Cat-up6hb
    @Cat-up6hb ปีที่แล้ว

    they should increase the amount needed for this achievement by 50% or so
    but at this point they would have to rework a lot of other achievements too so it probably wont happen x)

  • @sceligator
    @sceligator ปีที่แล้ว

    Challenge idea: You can only take land via getting PUs. And you can't play as Austria.

    • @Quarbit
      @Quarbit  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      you're going to love next week's video

    • @Quarbit
      @Quarbit  ปีที่แล้ว

      @Immortal Science of Hauntology not necessarily, overloading on royal marriages gives you a decent chance of either spreading or gaining a shared dynasty

  • @paarthurnax2967
    @paarthurnax2967 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hello

  • @DankusMemicus
    @DankusMemicus ปีที่แล้ว

    As someone who played EU3 a lot, I often played in Europe because much of the rest of the world was neglected in features, unique events, etc. With EU4, I mostly play outside of Europe. I don't have the achievements for Castile, France, or Portugal and I have over 600 hours. But I do have achievements for nations like Kilwa, Madyas, and the Madagascar nations.

  • @victorthevictor1976
    @victorthevictor1976 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ah yes, the Genghis Khan strategy

  • @CaliRed1865
    @CaliRed1865 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It kind of would be interesting to see you continue this garbage France. Winning despite themselves. Haha

  • @sorsocksfake
    @sorsocksfake ปีที่แล้ว

    France invades Russia and realizes it's a huge place and most of it is garbage nobody wants? Talk about unrealistic! :P

  • @Podzhagitel
    @Podzhagitel ปีที่แล้ว

    11:54 WHO’S in Paris!??!??!!!??

  • @hertogvandamme
    @hertogvandamme ปีที่แล้ว

    11:55
    Who? Who's in Paris Quarbit?

  • @wyattburke1837
    @wyattburke1837 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Big name does mean your winning

    • @Quarbit
      @Quarbit  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      change your name to john

  • @michaelcurtis96
    @michaelcurtis96 ปีที่แล้ว

    umm monferat is a vassal of savoy and gets annexxed by them all the time..

    • @Quarbit
      @Quarbit  ปีที่แล้ว

      inheritance is different from regular integration

    • @michaelcurtis96
      @michaelcurtis96 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Quarbit yeah I know. You're talking about monferrat being a junior partner or something. It is always a vassal. I think savoy may have an event that instantly annexes it, because I see monferrat disappear frequently when playing in Italy

  • @arekzawistowski2609
    @arekzawistowski2609 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's is "hard" now

    • @Quarbit
      @Quarbit  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      after domination, that was expected lol

    • @arekzawistowski2609
      @arekzawistowski2609 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Quarbit ofcourse. Now the easiest VH achievement is imo this with the highest income without over 10 dev provinces. I did it as Kilva and didn't even have any provinces in the Horn of Africa. You just need to remember to lower development in 10+ dev province 😄

  • @asdassbass8482
    @asdassbass8482 ปีที่แล้ว

    kid named John:

  • @johnnyzielony1437
    @johnnyzielony1437 ปีที่แล้ว

    fr*nce

  • @malgtuzi5020
    @malgtuzi5020 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Never got any France achievement despite having 1000+ hours but that’s cuz I never played as France. It’s just so boring starting as a nation that’s the biggest in its region and is given a ton of buffs for historical accuracy, like France, Ottomans, and PLC. Not my cup of tea. Underdogs ftw!

    • @hoi-polloi1863
      @hoi-polloi1863 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fair, more than fair. All I can say is that sometimes ya just gotta smack somebody upside the head with a baguette. Ya just gotta. And that means playing as France.

  • @RuRu0091
    @RuRu0091 ปีที่แล้ว

    What idea to take?

  • @adamsanchez8627
    @adamsanchez8627 ปีที่แล้ว

    11:52 …who was in Paris?🤨🤔

    • @Quarbit
      @Quarbit  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      fine gentlemen of Danish descent

  • @danielmds565
    @danielmds565 ปีที่แล้ว

    speedrun sokoto? :)

  • @mihailostepanovic3676
    @mihailostepanovic3676 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have 900 hours(893) and i didn't play ironman (zero achiments) i don't even reload games just deal with RNG... Maybe i should start with playing ironman 😂

  • @classicgamer7338
    @classicgamer7338 ปีที่แล้ว

    You think thats bad I have 2000 hours and have never played as Protestant or Reformed

  • @TrueAcmb
    @TrueAcmb ปีที่แล้ว

    Taking Ceuta from Portugal in the first war helps with adding an avenue for expansion with less AE in the Maghreb

    • @Quarbit
      @Quarbit  ปีที่แล้ว

      the Maghreb is not in Europe. it doesn't count towards the achievement

  • @Hiro1oo1
    @Hiro1oo1 ปีที่แล้ว

    11:53 who is in paris?

  • @samwill7259
    @samwill7259 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just play a run as intentionally bad as possible trying to get as many achievements in the most scuffed way you can think of. I'd watch that.

  • @manolisbach2380
    @manolisbach2380 ปีที่แล้ว

    Many VH achievements aren't really hard like basileus, khaaaan etc

  • @maksuryn7346
    @maksuryn7346 ปีที่แล้ว

    whats the name of the mode that make ur events colorful?

    • @DognutJoe
      @DognutJoe ปีที่แล้ว

      The Great Exhibition (you can see all his mods in the description)

  • @Hatemyaniscool2
    @Hatemyaniscool2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow… Quarbit is such a Francophobe..