How about the hardest achievements or the easiest, respectively :P It's not much, but I have no clue what could be done with EU4 top 10 vids, since I'm new to the game anyway xD
You could do a video on idea groups i.e going through the benefits and downsides of each, what situation to pick them in and subsequently their useful policies. Picking the right idea group is something i always struggle with there's just so many choices!
I would love some "(another) Top 10 interesting or fun nations". Since every now and then i want to play EU4 but have no idea what to play. It doesn't even have to be OPMs who pose a challenge or something, just nations that are interesting due to their, flavour, ideas or position in the world.
What about a list of least rewarding formable nations? Something like Scandinavia, where you loose all the historical flavour events of Denmark, Norway or Sweden in return for becoming blue.
@@roberthouse7903 or even to allow it the flavor events of all three nations. Scandinavia is just so underwhelming, and the flag is one of the ugliest variants of the Nordic cross.
I’m Tlingit, Haida and Tlingit reside in both Alaska and Canada. However the devs went for a very accurate placement giving prince of Wales island to Haida since it is the home of haidaburg.
I would disagree with your no. 1 pick. 1. It’s possible to start off with a great leader rather than a hard coded terrible one 2. You don’t have any real threats in the early-mid game 3. You can migrate south to Mexico, convert to Nuahatl and reform the religion quickly since by then you’d have both a tech advantage against the mesoamericans and have access to all those OPMs in Nth America. 4. You have arguably the best ideas in the Americas with buffs to discipline, morale, goods produced etc. 5. You are a glorious shade of lime green. 6. You can migrate to a gold producing province to get cashed up in the early game. Haida can be one of the most fun campaigns...I’ve actually seen a few people do a World Conquest with it,
I guess one benefit of starting far from Europe is you have more time to colonize all of California before someone reaches you. Plus since you're a native and you'll get a free tech and institution boost you can develop all your land to crazy amounts without having to worry about falling behind. Also rarely I've seen mamluks and ottomans if they do well they'll colonize moving east and eventually reach California
Yui Funami Carib ARE pretty great. Slightly better militarily AND have an extra colonist. They are a less vibrant shade of green. Their best ideas come later in the game and Haida are better economically (+10% goods produced + gold mines = profit) Splitting hairs though, both are awesome.
Georgia makes for an amazing march, with +25% fort defense and they have mountainous terrain. +10% inf combat ability as well. You can completely wall off the caucus region with them.
Georgia is actually really easy and fun to play. If you directly attack Imereti and after that samtskhe before they get any allies you can take bake your cores. Those lands will start of with 0 autonomy and no unrest because they are your cores which will give you a great power base to attack circassia which almost never gets any good allies so thats another easy win. At this point you could start improving relations with muscovy and because you are orthodox and not that small anymore getting an alliance shouldn't be that hard. From there on out you can easily use Muscovy to destroy the nomads, while at the same time eating some more minors that are bound to be left near you. In this way I got Georgia to become a great power before 1520.
I haven't played Byzantium but if you can manage the 1st hundred years Georgia is pretty cool. I am at the end of an orthodox Persia game starting as them. I can only ever tie the ottomans so I never expand that way until late game
Yeah, don't know why he thought ideas were bad. Improve relations, Infantry combat ability, Legitamacy, dip rep are all useful to have. Maybe not Mughal-tier but not bad either,.
@@aerohydra3849 On a tier list I'd probably put them in the D tier. Heir bonus is super situational, and the only time you're gonna need bonus legitimacy is when you've died without an heir anyway. Construction cost is dogshit, war exhaustion is completely negligible, true faith is sub-par, and infantry cost might as well not even be there.
@@robinbanks3186 Nah i argue its C tier or just average in terms of ideas. Infantry combat ability is nice and fort defense is actually good because you have bunch of mountain provninces and you can siege race easily and combined with defensive its good. Yearly legitimacy while bad i'd argue that chance of new heir is good because in early game you want to expand fast and that means bunch of prestige which means disinherits so it reduces time to get new heir. Tolerance of true faith is good actually especially combined with orthodox religion and picking religious ideas means your orthodox provininces are pretty stable. Improve relations,manpower recovery speed,diplos rep are good. Monthly war exhaustion is the worst one with -0.02 value which pretty but still good in age of absolutism. Construction cost may be subpar but in georgia's poor land it helps with economy. Infantry cost in general is not good but its -20% value actually makes difference. Georgia's start can be rough but if you can take back your cores you can expand pretty easily and ally muscuvy(after they annex their vassals) and its smooth sailing from there.
Georgian ideas bad? Infantry combat ability is great, manpower recovery speed is great (orthodox already gives more manpower), improve relations with 30% is great, construction cost is good. Monthly war exhaustion is decent. Infantry cost will save quite a lot of ducats, which can be used for advisors.
I'm Georgian myself and ideas are surely trash and they don't really suit Georgia, maybe some do, but generally speaking they're trash, especially considering the geographic position and obstacles towards every direction. I hope Paradox will at least give Georgia some missions, but I really doubt they'll ever do so.
ajieajah91 he also referred to Salish and Chinook as Alaskan OPM’s when they both start out in the California colonial region. I was also just pointing out a fact since it’s not common knowledge that Haida Gwaii is Canadian
Except Haida aren’t Haida gwaii, Haida is a larger culture that spans a region in Alaska and Canada. I’m speaking as a Tlingit who’s people are in the same situation, I’m Alaskan, with my family coming from Hoonah, however, there are thousands of Tlingit who live near Teslin.
@@rofl0rblades I haven't seen it but the usual strategy when you want to eat as much land as possible in the last 200 years is to culture shift. You can core all land in the culture group in ~12 months (faster if you have CCR in your idea set, or a bonus like Mayan). So basically you are constantly in multiple wars, culture shifting to core, and declaring with nationalism cb (-50% cost) NOT imperialism (-75% cost). You can take like 250% overextension in a single war if you declare with a -50% cost CB. Long story short, a lot of micro. bly08 did a Mongol WC by 1580 in the Dharma patch, and Marco has the current record, 1538 WC with the 1.24 Japan patch. They did it by culture shifting to core 800% overextension in under 12 months (no rebels).
Why are Baden's ideas so bad? +1 Diplomat is useful, -15% agressive expansion isn't bad either and +2 Tolerance does help during the Age of Reformation. The rest is mediocre or bad, i agree
Order of people colonising the Falklands: 1: Spain; on one island; but see #3 for thgem losing any claim 2: England; on the other island. 3: France *because Spain sold their part to them* Argentina really does have absolutely no claim. At absolute best they have a claim to 1 of the islands.
Raikaria No, France was the first to colonize, then the English, and France surrendered the Falklands to Spain the same year. Both nations subsequently abandoned Falkland, Argentina claimed it through its right to former Spanish colonies in the area and Britain came back to fight them.
>well thougt He regards caddo as top4 (iirc) opm, but names haida (which has better ideas and can also migrate to mexico and convert to nahuatl (i managed to get all 5 reformes by~1500 by chaintrucebreaking NA natives (they cant coalition you if they have a truca or don't see your capital, so AE is actually not a problem))) the worst nation in the game. This videos are either poorly thougth through, or he is just incompitent.
I remember I watched this when I first started and when I heard “play ulm instead” I thought Ulm was this god tier nation and Immediatelywent to play ulm. I actually had a decent campaign somehow.
Georgia, Baden, Haida, and any Madagascaran nation have no business being on this list. Like, all of them at least have some things going for them even if they're some of the worst nations to play in their regions.
John Smith I actually created a custom nation on South Georgia. I don't remember what all of my national ideas were, but I know that some were completely useless. These include increased blockade efficiency, yearly republican tradition (I was a monarchy), increased chance of female advisors, and the ability to hire female generals.
Disagree about Baden. The rare 20% caravan power is amazing when you're surrounded by rich inland trade nodes. This was even better pre-dharma when you could easily switch to a merchant republic and be swimming in ducats. Later on the prestige ideas keep your army morale and global trade power high while the -15% AE reduction makes conquest easy breezy
Baden is actually fun, i've done a passthrough for the challenge and it's enjoyable, I would honestly put more grindy starts like Navarre where you do nothing but sit and wait for your one expansion opportunity to open up as worse.
I am from Baden and did the same and liked that its far harder than with mainstream Brandenburg. But Badenese ideas are certainly not the worst. Sure, their traditions are crap but the rest is alright
When I first got Eu4, my friend was trying to explain it to me while I was choosing which country to be. I got fed up and said "I'll just go random" and before he could stop me I random picked Salish, and began an ironman very hard (because how hard could a game about MAPS be) play through. To make things worse, I had no DLC. It definitely deserves to be tied for worst spot.
When you have to work to pay for the internet bill that AlzaboHD is taking up, it can be hard. Until I see this new vid and think, "10/10 mate, 10/10".
I had fun playing with Betsimisirarka or whatever they're called. I wanted to start a Madagascar campaign and chose them because of their weird name and cool flag.. I ended up having lots of fun. Unifying Madagascar is super easy, then you just need to be fast enough to conquer Mutapa and their gold mines before Kilwa does the same, if you succeed, you basically have the path for the horn of Africa and Ethiopia clear in front of you.. Just go north following the coast and keep eating everything in front of you until you stumble on the ottomans in Egypt.. no problem since you're insanely rich thanks to all those gold mines, just be careful with plucky rebels and inflation. I must admit that if you fail to conquer Mutapa quickly, then things are much more hard. . In a second game I started with Betsimisirarka, I was too slow in unifying the island, so Kilwa expanded a lot in the meantime. So when I was ready to get the hell out of Madagascar, what I had in front of me was thousands of miles of Kilwan coast, defended by a navy much more strong by mine.
I did a challenge run as Antemoro (the only muslim nation on Madagascar) where I was only allowed to own coastal provinces, I had fun conquering and colonizing, forming client states with perfect borders who stretched all the way to the Kongo basin. I even conquered Sri Lanka and used it as a base to invade the rest of India. One of the most fun runs I ever did.
If you create a nation in the Malvinas Islands and give it English culture, these are their default national ideas: · -10% manpower due to drunk lads jumping into the swimming pool from the seventh floor in Mallorca · +20% national tax modifier due to your dentists · You can cancel alliances with Europeans receiving huge penalties, regret it and be fucking ridiculous. · Due to putting carpet in the bathrooms, as a hygiene penalty you have an stability debuff. · All your territory will be of Sunni or Hindu religion even though your official religion is Protestant · Your initial 1/1/1 queen is immortal
@@AlzaboHD sometimes, I want to play a strong nation and own everything. Sometimes I want to play a weak nation and overcome the difficult start of the game and sometimes I want to do a rare achievement (I recently did the Sunset Invasion blind). My next run will be probably be for the Mayan achievement, I am ready for another 200h of learning "how to play this kind of nation in this part of the World to get a difficult achievement" XD
Carib Pros: >decent national ideas Cons: >starts at 1/1/1 technology >landlocked province >only has access to one trade node until you expand, unlike neighboring Arawak that has access to 2 trade nodes >only neighboring country is Arawak, a rival In one of my playthroughs the AI fucked up or something bc Spain went for conquest war and captured all my provinces but I kept declining the peace offers until eventually Spain gave up and gave me it's territories?? I ended up owning territory stretching from Guyana to Panama
@@jesucristobostero3287 Te caiste cuando eras un feto del útero de tu mamá o que? Te vas parado en el avión? Te tocaba tu tío que no sabes que es una broma?
Sad excuse and absolute trash is apparently the funniest things he’s said so far EDIT do you enjoy staring at a wall and watching paint dry Is now apart of the funniest things he says lol 1:55 Absolute trash 3:40 sad excuse 11:21 Do you enjoy staring at a wall and watching paint dry
Georgia is fun to play actually! It's possible to reliably conquer the other Georgian minors, Trebizond, Circassia and Theodoro without any extraordinary luck (you just only hope that Circassia and Theodoro aren't annexed/vassalized before you do) within 15-20 years for a moderately skilled player like me. All orthodox land so unrest will be easily manageable. You can also ally Muscovy within few years and that will often be enough to deter any aggressors. At this point you will be bordering so many nations that some routes of expansions should always be open. Culture switch to Pontic early in the game and wait for a moment of weakness for Ottomans to happen and you can even restore the Byzantine Empire. I did in my last game. And I don't consider myself a very skilled player.
I'm playing Haida right now. I'm at 1700 and like 20 techs behind. I focused on colonizing, and now own Alaska, the entire west coast up to Mexico, and defeated Brittany (which somehow is a major colonial power). This is actually my first native campaign, so I didn't know how to reform so converted to protestantism which put me in a civil war from the -4 stability. So far ive embraced Feudalism, Global Trade, and am about to get the Renaissance. This may sound odd, but I'm actually really enjoying the campaign! After you get through the 'paint drying' phase, and start colonizing, it actually starts picking up in entertainment value.
Ok. My advice to you is: 1) If you're struggling with any nation just develop your provinces. It doesn't matter if you fall behind few techs, few years later you will get -20% tech cost for being late and you will get massive income boost. Like really massive. Also manpower/force limit is nice. 2) DON'T UNDERESTIMATE +1 prestige idea! Prestige is very powerful. 3) + with developing your provinces you get institutions! so you can embrace Renaissance even in China fairly quickly!
I played as kongo in a muliplayer game. It didnt had feudalism. I spent many monarch points on capital to get feudalism. It had like 32 development. But then my neigbours leveled up their military to 3, while i was 2. And kilwa had already feudalism, he had army tech 4 or 5 idont remember. yeah eventually they beat me up then portugeuse came and raped me as well. But it was fun tho
The only game I've ever completed from 1444 to 1821 was me playing as Salish and was one of my favorite games. This was like 2 years ago, where I was learning how to play the game, and named my capital DIDNEY WORL. I ended up making the ultimate Salish Empire that looked suspiciously like the ultimate Chilean empire, owning every province on the West Coast and having an annoyingly stubborn Breton Louisana and Georgia that just didn't want to convert. It was fun forcing other cultures into the Salish culture as well, because I had no idea how to spend my diplo points I was getting.
5:00 . . . its not hakarth its HAU KALL (very strong Ls) meaning high/tall man. It means shark of course. I don't really get why people think Icelandic is a dark and harsh sounding language, it is one of the most poetic languages out there while i do admit old Icelandic was harder it was still no where close to HAKARRTH, they just sort of did not like the sound of U as much as today.
@@AlzaboHD Ye the TTS voices for Icelandic are very bad simpy because of our very low population meaning there is a small amount of demand for something like that. :)
you know for georgia infantry combat, cost, and manpower recovery speed, alone are good enough to build a strat around. also, dat war exuastion decay while at war.
@@WimFlo manipur ... yup! 5 dev OPM with no at start alliance options and no feudalism. Manipur's national ideas are pretty good, though! Get ready for annexation by Kale or Kachar.
Man that pronunciation of Haida got me all riled up(It's pronounced like eye not ay). Especially calling it Alaskan when it's in British Columbia, although that's understandable looking at a map since it's probably closer to Alaska land than Canadian land. Still love your stuff though, I wanted to sleep 15 minutes ago, but then I saw this video.
I wouldn't say Baden's +Caravan Power a bad idea seeing their inland position. -AE isn't *bad* in the HRE either. Also they're European and not an OPM Gerogia's NI's are not awful. There's certainly worse. +Improve Relations for example isn't bad, and cheap infantry with +10% CA isn't awful. Or you can be me and form Coptic Mughals as Georgia [pre-Mughal patch so there's no Islam requirement.] I'd assume those 2 are there just so someone in Europe is there. Even then I'd put someone like Granada there. And Betsi isn't awful; especially in next patch where they can go pirate.
Betsimisaraka was the first nation I ever played as in EU4. I had just bought the game and I thought it would be great to form Madagascar. I obviously picked the nation with the neatest flag on Madagascar and proceeded to spend 100 years or so conquering Madagascar and was not happy when I found out that it was not in fact a formable nation. I then played a separate run as France, which was unsurprisingly fun.
I love this :D I just switched to EU IV (again) from wows, this time for good. "You cant build boats to get off the island, and you cant reform since no nation will ever border you." I cracked:D
Would like to note. Played a Chinook game, surprisingly strong once you get over to mexico, or the east coast. Reducing your stability to -3 will speed up the migration process a TON.
I love how France has such bonkers silly ideas that lack focus and synergy, including -20% fort maintenance, but each one is so potent that it all works out
First time I played EU4 was with a nation of Salishi. Indian tribe, right next to Haida. They are generally the same, with the same idea group. And you know what? THAT WAS ENTERTAINING AS FUCK, I COULDN'T EVEN SLEEP, AND SPEND IN GAME 30 HOURS IN ROW. Well, probably not because that nation is so interesting, but because eu4 is amazing game.
As a icelandic person iceland is quite shit considering iceland has allot of ways to have unique national ideas to colonozation related to Leif Erikson, and well iceland has the oldest Parliment in the world "The Althing" which was founded in 930, but atleast iceland has 4 provinces now in Crusader kings 2 lul now i hope they will change it one day in eu4
Agreed. It seems weird that they added it to formable nations without giving it any flavor at all. Seriously. There are only 9 nations in the game that have "generic ideas", apparently. Most are in East Africa. Iceland needs better ideas! Þingvellir / althing could give republican tradition or something.
@@AlzaboHD They made iceland into 4 shitty provinces in ck2 insteed of 2 so here's hoping that they will do something with iceland in EU4 soon but yeah something with repuplican tradition and something with colonizing
@@AlzaboHD It's there to force Norway to stop being Norway in the decent chance someone conquers them leaving them with just Iceland and maybe an island or 2.
i actually did play a game as hilda, and i managed to colonize and expand, only through sinking a good tech's worth of points into my development so i could afford the colonists in the first place. after doing so i managed to expand outwards and have colonies on the hudson bay and in the old world. however getting war declared on me by both spain and england really killed me. having lost all of my northern territories and losing all my coastal tiles until nook, i was pretty much dead from there.
Someone has said this most like, but HAIDA is not in Alaska, it's hundreds of miles from Alaska, it's centred arund Vancouver Island in Canada's British Columbia.
Corfu can actually be amazing... the massive buffs to galley efficiency can then be buffed even more with naval doctrine for combat ability, for over 30% galley combat efficiency, which puts you on odds with the Venetian fleet. Your galleys are also much cheaper, which makes it even easier to horde them. The starting strat with them is incredibly easy. Independence from Venice, then do a no CB war on Byzantium (you don’t want a ticking CB against you) and then you just blockade them until they get enough war exhaustion to peace out for the ottoman cores. It’s actually fairly easy to beat the shit out of both of those enemies as long as Austria rivals Venice.
In one of my recent games, AI Haida managed to migrate down to California, ally Ming, and take out enough native tribes to expand to 5 provinces. In 1789 they got taken out by Portugal though.
Haida nation was some sort Vikings in pre-columbian America. They uses boats to travel, explore and plunder west coast of modern Canada and Northern US.
I played a game as Haida with the thought that since I'm far away from Europe, I can colonize everything before they get here and make it easy to stop them from coming. I ended up colonizing everything from Alaska to Baja and then Portugal came and destroyed me, French Mexico in Texas took my southern provinces and I was dead within 15 years.
Can you imagine if someone made the worst custom nation, with the worst possible ideas, culture, government, religion, tech group, and starting position, and somehow did a world conquest with it?
I just did a Trebizond game, which is even harder than Georgia. Went bankrupt three or four times and only survived due to Muscovy/Russia. Funnily rebels converted me to coptic faith so I got a coptic achievement as well.
+50% Chance of new heir is bad ? I dont think so. It makes your dynasty way more stable and helps alot when you got to disinehrit donkey heirs. Lets say your king and queen are both over 40 already, then you got reasons to be hesitant to disinherit. With the +50% ? No big deal. Anyways, nice vid. Love your content :)
Betsemisaraka is fun as hell, though. Yes, you have to force institutions, but the AI never does that; You can smash into Kilwa and mutapa pretty fast with that advantage, take their gols, and snowball into becoming the major indian Ocean power. Could you do it better with anyone else? Yeah, but that's the case for anything, eventually leading to "Just play the ottomans"
@@deepspacewanderer9897 Nope; Sunni vs. Fetishist makes it pretty difficult. You can possibly ally Antemoro (since you share a primary culture), who sometimes ally Kilwa, and hope to chain institutions that way. It's also possible to ally an East African fetishist nation if they conquer some of Kilwa, since they can gain institutions through that conquest. but generally it's probably best to just hammer those development buttons; you're going to want the dev anyway (even though being in a tropical region makes it such a massive pain).
You are absolutely correct. I still rate it rather low, though, since your economy mid game should be able to support at least your force limit and consequently other national ideas (like morale, discipline, shock damage etc) are more useful imo. Thanks for watching.
With Baden: You can often marry Austria, then you can make an Alliance. One Problem less. Alo you can easily expand into Switzerland, maybe Würrtenberg. Also, you get often a good chance to conquer the Alcase. In the Ideas ist the AE very youthful. I didn't think Baden is so wors how you say.
The +20 global settler increase and easy access to Alaska make the Siberian minors a little better. And once you get that first bit of early expansion in things get a lot better financially.
OOOh man ! I LOVE your voice ! US guys often got very annoying voices but YOU bro got a gorgeous one :D ! On a scale from 0 to Morgan freeman, i'd give you a Hugo Weaving :D :D !
Morocco is actually horrible to play in 1.29, it was fine in 1.26 but now the Iberian nations are much more aggressive and you start off split into 4 nations, you will fight all Portugal, Castile, Aragon and you disloyal vassals, your expansion options are: destroy Iberian nations before Iberian wedding or fight Ottomans invading Tunisia. You have zero alliance capability as your only non-hostile neighbor, Tlemcen dies in the first 20 years. In 1.26 you started with a gold mine, no vassals - all core territory, you had slight chance for Aragon/Castile alliance and Iberians were not automatically expanding south - it was fun as you had a good shot at colonization and expansion along the African coast with potential Spanish alliance.
Iceland has to be one of the worst: 1 has generic idea set 2 releasable from Norway who will annex you 3 whopping starting development of 6 and nowhere to expand
What future top 10 videos would you like to see in EU4? Stay tuned for more videos later this week!
How about the hardest achievements or the easiest, respectively :P It's not much, but I have no clue what could be done with EU4 top 10 vids, since I'm new to the game anyway xD
@@DeutscheLoLGuides how about the most fun achievements to get? even though it is subjective, some achievements are more fun than others
You could do a video on idea groups i.e going through the benefits and downsides of each, what situation to pick them in and subsequently their useful policies.
Picking the right idea group is something i always struggle with there's just so many choices!
Top 10 best nations without Feudalism
I would love some "(another) Top 10 interesting or fun nations". Since every now and then i want to play EU4 but have no idea what to play. It doesn't even have to be OPMs who pose a challenge or something, just nations that are interesting due to their, flavour, ideas or position in the world.
What about a list of least rewarding formable nations?
Something like Scandinavia, where you loose all the historical flavour events of Denmark, Norway or Sweden in return for becoming blue.
I hope they patch it so you just keep the flavour events of the nation that formed it. Seems like common sense to me
@@roberthouse7903 or even to allow it the flavor events of all three nations. Scandinavia is just so underwhelming, and the flag is one of the ugliest variants of the Nordic cross.
>become blue
>get confused with baguette
Also, if you form Scandinavia from Sweden, you lose Sweden's epic unit sprites.
Tripticket One of the ugliest flags in the game imo
"Great Sultan KING GEORGE OF THE FALKLANDS"
with female advisors and female generals as his consorts.
REY JORGE DE LAS ISLAS MALVINAS ingles culo ruto
@@benja68606 ya entiendo como nos ganaron la guerra estando a 12.000 km
@@kaparg JAJA
I think Yahya is the Arabic equivalent of 'George'
The worst is probably the customized one I made with an army that could barely defeat natives that appear in your colonies.
It was still probably better than Venice's land army and ideas XDD
name and lore the country is needed for me to make a pun about that
lol "make it english for accuracy"
*proceeds to choose muslim as religion*
dude how do I be as epic and funny as you
This is epic
National ideas: *ban all pointy objects wanka*
It’s called *_multiculturalism_*
Diversity is our strength
Diversity is our strength
Diversity is our strength
Haida
"Alaskan"
*cries in British Columbian*
My american-ness manifest destiny is shining through
It is definitely Alaskan, i would know as I know my state's map
@@stevenbrock528 I know right
I’m Tlingit, Haida and Tlingit reside in both Alaska and Canada. However the devs went for a very accurate placement giving prince of Wales island to Haida since it is the home of haidaburg.
True tho
I would disagree with your no. 1 pick.
1. It’s possible to start off with a great leader rather than a hard coded terrible one
2. You don’t have any real threats in the early-mid game
3. You can migrate south to Mexico, convert to Nuahatl and reform the religion quickly since by then you’d have both a tech advantage against the mesoamericans and have access to all those OPMs in Nth America.
4. You have arguably the best ideas in the Americas with buffs to discipline, morale, goods produced etc.
5. You are a glorious shade of lime green.
6. You can migrate to a gold producing province to get cashed up in the early game.
Haida can be one of the most fun campaigns...I’ve actually seen a few people do a World Conquest with it,
I guess one benefit of starting far from Europe is you have more time to colonize all of California before someone reaches you. Plus since you're a native and you'll get a free tech and institution boost you can develop all your land to crazy amounts without having to worry about falling behind.
Also rarely I've seen mamluks and ottomans if they do well they'll colonize moving east and eventually reach California
Though Carib is imo the strongest OPM in the new world
And a pretty snazzy flag!
@@YuiFunami Carib is the real deal. Currently working on converting to Inti in my carib game.
Yui Funami Carib ARE pretty great. Slightly better militarily AND have an extra colonist.
They are a less vibrant shade of green. Their best ideas come later in the game and Haida are better economically (+10% goods produced + gold mines = profit)
Splitting hairs though, both are awesome.
10. Baden
9. Georgia
8. Corfu
7. Iceland
6. Janjiro
5. Busoga
4. East Siberian Tribes
3. Tyo
2. Betsimisakara
1. Haida
MVP
Haida is fun to play don't @ me
@@jdurk never played, and i doubt that i will ever do
9- Imereti is harder than Georgia
@@jdurk
Georgia makes for an amazing march, with +25% fort defense and they have mountainous terrain. +10% inf combat ability as well. You can completely wall off the caucus region with them.
Agreed. There are far worst national ideas than Georgia's.
I always used Georgia as march :D
13:18 argentinians triggered
Fuck u
*DRINKS MATE WITH MALICIOUS INTENT*
the "owners" instead
@@introxvideos nice pfp.
Loving the balance between the seriousness of the top tens and the down-to-earth comedy. Can't wait until the next upload!
Thanks for watching - glad you are enjoying them!
Georgia is actually really easy and fun to play. If you directly attack Imereti and after that samtskhe before they get any allies you can take bake your cores. Those lands will start of with 0 autonomy and no unrest because they are your cores which will give you a great power base to attack circassia which almost never gets any good allies so thats another easy win. At this point you could start improving relations with muscovy and because you are orthodox and not that small anymore getting an alliance shouldn't be that hard. From there on out you can easily use Muscovy to destroy the nomads, while at the same time eating some more minors that are bound to be left near you. In this way I got Georgia to become a great power before 1520.
Georgia's actually pretty easy tbh. Just Byzantium but on easy mode. Their ideas also aren't that awful.
I haven't played Byzantium but if you can manage the 1st hundred years Georgia is pretty cool. I am at the end of an orthodox Persia game starting as them. I can only ever tie the ottomans so I never expand that way until late game
Yeah, don't know why he thought ideas were bad. Improve relations, Infantry combat ability, Legitamacy, dip rep are all useful to have. Maybe not Mughal-tier but not bad either,.
@@aerohydra3849 On a tier list I'd probably put them in the D tier. Heir bonus is super situational, and the only time you're gonna need bonus legitimacy is when you've died without an heir anyway. Construction cost is dogshit, war exhaustion is completely negligible, true faith is sub-par, and infantry cost might as well not even be there.
@@robinbanks3186 Nah i argue its C tier or just average in terms of ideas.
Infantry combat ability is nice and fort defense is actually good because you have bunch of mountain provninces and you can siege race easily and combined with defensive its good.
Yearly legitimacy while bad i'd argue that chance of new heir is good because in early game you want to expand fast and that means bunch of prestige which means disinherits so it reduces time to get new heir.
Tolerance of true faith is good actually especially combined with orthodox religion and picking religious ideas means your orthodox provininces are pretty stable.
Improve relations,manpower recovery speed,diplos rep are good.
Monthly war exhaustion is the worst one with -0.02 value which pretty but still good in age of absolutism.
Construction cost may be subpar but in georgia's poor land it helps with economy.
Infantry cost in general is not good but its -20% value actually makes difference.
Georgia's start can be rough but if you can take back your cores you can expand pretty easily and ally muscuvy(after they annex their vassals) and its smooth sailing from there.
Georgian ideas bad? Infantry combat ability is great, manpower recovery speed is great (orthodox already gives more manpower), improve relations with 30% is great, construction cost is good. Monthly war exhaustion is decent. Infantry cost will save quite a lot of ducats, which can be used for advisors.
I'm Georgian myself and ideas are surely trash and they don't really suit Georgia, maybe some do, but generally speaking they're trash, especially considering the geographic position and obstacles towards every direction. I hope Paradox will at least give Georgia some missions, but I really doubt they'll ever do so.
+10% inf combat and +25 fort defense is actually pretty effective in their mountainous terrain
@@doesnotreallymatterr С опозданием, но поздравляю с появлением грузинских миссий :)
Haida Gwaii isn’t an Alaskan Island, it’s a Canadian Island owned by the province of British Columbia. It’s also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands
but in EU4 mechanics haida gwaii is part of alaskan colonial region
CMIIW
ajieajah91 he also referred to Salish and Chinook as Alaskan OPM’s when they both start out in the California colonial region. I was also just pointing out a fact since it’s not common knowledge that Haida Gwaii is Canadian
Except Haida aren’t Haida gwaii, Haida is a larger culture that spans a region in Alaska and Canada. I’m speaking as a Tlingit who’s people are in the same situation, I’m Alaskan, with my family coming from Hoonah, however, there are thousands of Tlingit who live near Teslin.
I remember that someone completed a Haida World Conquest. Who was that?
atwix did it on very hard
Thanks, I thought it was Atwix but couldn’t find a link on his TH-cam channel. I guess he only has the replays on his twitch.
how is that even possible. i need to see that.
He did it like two years ago too. so before absolutism and stuff. You can check out his AAR on the EU4 forums
@@rofl0rblades I haven't seen it but the usual strategy when you want to eat as much land as possible in the last 200 years is to culture shift. You can core all land in the culture group in ~12 months (faster if you have CCR in your idea set, or a bonus like Mayan). So basically you are constantly in multiple wars, culture shifting to core, and declaring with nationalism cb (-50% cost) NOT imperialism (-75% cost). You can take like 250% overextension in a single war if you declare with a -50% cost CB. Long story short, a lot of micro.
bly08 did a Mongol WC by 1580 in the Dharma patch, and Marco has the current record, 1538 WC with the 1.24 Japan patch. They did it by culture shifting to core 800% overextension in under 12 months (no rebels).
Why are Baden's ideas so bad? +1 Diplomat is useful, -15% agressive expansion isn't bad either and +2 Tolerance does help during the Age of Reformation. The rest is mediocre or bad, i agree
@Varg the Jew Slayer Still better than complete trash ideas like Württemberg
In fact: -15% agressive expantion is very useful in the HRE
"Falklands are ENGLISH"
I am dying laughing here
what a joke am i right
*_Religion: Muslim_*
need I see more 😂
Order of people colonising the Falklands:
1: Spain; on one island; but see #3 for thgem losing any claim
2: England; on the other island.
3: France *because Spain sold their part to them*
Argentina really does have absolutely no claim. At absolute best they have a claim to 1 of the islands.
Raikaria you forgot that France just left the islands after a while, so the English swooped in and claimed it.
Raikaria No, France was the first to colonize, then the English, and France surrendered the Falklands to Spain the same year. Both nations subsequently abandoned Falkland, Argentina claimed it through its right to former Spanish colonies in the area and Britain came back to fight them.
I am amazed how fast you can produce such amazing and well though videos. I really, really, really do love them
>well thougt
He regards caddo as top4 (iirc) opm, but names haida (which has better ideas and can also migrate to mexico and convert to nahuatl (i managed to get all 5 reformes by~1500 by chaintrucebreaking NA natives (they cant coalition you if they have a truca or don't see your capital, so AE is actually not a problem))) the worst nation in the game. This videos are either poorly thougth through, or he is just incompitent.
I remember I watched this when I first started and when I heard “play ulm instead” I thought Ulm was this god tier nation and Immediatelywent to play ulm. I actually had a decent campaign somehow.
Georgia, Baden, Haida, and any Madagascaran nation have no business being on this list. Like, all of them at least have some things going for them even if they're some of the worst nations to play in their regions.
South Georgian custom nation would be even worse, that province is a glacier like Kamchatka
not much worse though
You're also even more isolated than the Falklands are.
John Smith I actually created a custom nation on South Georgia. I don't remember what all of my national ideas were, but I know that some were completely useless. These include increased blockade efficiency, yearly republican tradition (I was a monarchy), increased chance of female advisors, and the ability to hire female generals.
Georgia is a fun roleplaying Religious + Defensive run, stacking fort defense and killing the Ottomans via attrition. Imereti is a nice colour, too.
>Killing the Ottomans via attrition
Well, Ottoman +33% siege ability thingie and luck will crush your dreams
@@TheGlenofKrokot oh did i say stack? i meant s t a c k
Oh now i get it you said *S L A C K* ?
@@TheGlenofKrokot well without any defence ideas forts have 75%plus defence
I can make it worse
Opm muslim tribe in the middle of ming with ming
@@kingmieszko3793 One Province Minor, a nation with only one province
Youre on my recommended my guy and I dunno who you are but this vid is good
I dunno who you are but this comment is good, you're now on my recommended my guy
Disagree about Baden.
The rare 20% caravan power is amazing when you're surrounded by rich inland trade nodes. This was even better pre-dharma when you could easily switch to a merchant republic and be swimming in ducats.
Later on the prestige ideas keep your army morale and global trade power high while the -15% AE reduction makes conquest easy breezy
They should give a unique "Icelandic Commonwealth" government to Iceland.
Baden is actually fun, i've done a passthrough for the challenge and it's enjoyable, I would honestly put more grindy starts like Navarre where you do nothing but sit and wait for your one expansion opportunity to open up as worse.
I actually formed a pretty big Germany with Baden, I do agree it was a bigger struggle than normal to get there though.
I am from Baden and did the same and liked that its far harder than with mainstream Brandenburg. But Badenese ideas are certainly not the worst. Sure, their traditions are crap but the rest is alright
When I first got Eu4, my friend was trying to explain it to me while I was choosing which country to be. I got fed up and said "I'll just go random" and before he could stop me I random picked Salish, and began an ironman very hard (because how hard could a game about MAPS be) play through. To make things worse, I had no DLC.
It definitely deserves to be tied for worst spot.
When you have to work to pay for the internet bill that AlzaboHD is taking up, it can be hard. Until I see this new vid and think, "10/10 mate, 10/10".
I had fun playing with Betsimisirarka or whatever they're called. I wanted to start a Madagascar campaign and chose them because of their weird name and cool flag.. I ended up having lots of fun. Unifying Madagascar is super easy, then you just need to be fast enough to conquer Mutapa and their gold mines before Kilwa does the same, if you succeed, you basically have the path for the horn of Africa and Ethiopia clear in front of you.. Just go north following the coast and keep eating everything in front of you until you stumble on the ottomans in Egypt.. no problem since you're insanely rich thanks to all those gold mines, just be careful with plucky rebels and inflation. I must admit that if you fail to conquer Mutapa quickly, then things are much more hard. . In a second game I started with Betsimisirarka, I was too slow in unifying the island, so Kilwa expanded a lot in the meantime. So when I was ready to get the hell out of Madagascar, what I had in front of me was thousands of miles of Kilwan coast, defended by a navy much more strong by mine.
I did a challenge run as Antemoro (the only muslim nation on Madagascar) where I was only allowed to own coastal provinces, I had fun conquering and colonizing, forming client states with perfect borders who stretched all the way to the Kongo basin. I even conquered Sri Lanka and used it as a base to invade the rest of India. One of the most fun runs I ever did.
If you create a nation in the Malvinas Islands and give it English culture, these are their default national ideas:
· -10% manpower due to drunk lads jumping into the swimming pool from the seventh floor in Mallorca
· +20% national tax modifier due to your dentists
· You can cancel alliances with Europeans receiving huge penalties, regret it and be fucking ridiculous.
· Due to putting carpet in the bathrooms, as a hygiene penalty you have an stability debuff.
· All your territory will be of Sunni or Hindu religion even though your official religion is Protestant
· Your initial 1/1/1 queen is immortal
I think is a personal achievement to win with a petty nation.
Right? It makes the game much more rewarding. Starting off powerful becomes boring quite quickly in my opinion
@@AlzaboHD sometimes, I want to play a strong nation and own everything. Sometimes I want to play a weak nation and overcome the difficult start of the game and sometimes I want to do a rare achievement (I recently did the Sunset Invasion blind). My next run will be probably be for the Mayan achievement, I am ready for another 200h of learning "how to play this kind of nation in this part of the World to get a difficult achievement" XD
Carib
Pros:
>decent national ideas
Cons:
>starts at 1/1/1 technology
>landlocked province
>only has access to one trade node until you expand, unlike neighboring Arawak that has access to 2 trade nodes
>only neighboring country is Arawak, a rival
In one of my playthroughs the AI fucked up or something bc Spain went for conquest war and captured all my provinces but I kept declining the peace offers until eventually Spain gave up and gave me it's territories?? I ended up owning territory stretching from Guyana to Panama
Appreciate the Pillars of Eternity soundtrack. It fits unexpectedly well
12:51 FALKLANDS ARE ENGLISH.
181 argentinos no les gusto este video
Me gusto your commento
@@AlzaboHD Parece que lo haces por gusto?? que mierda te pasa cual es tu problema??uno viene por un juego y te pones a tirar mierda de politica
@@jesucristobostero3287 Te caiste cuando eras un feto del útero de tu mamá o que? Te vas parado en el avión? Te tocaba tu tío que no sabes que es una broma?
@@xaolin8546 If you truly backed them you would write the islands as Malvinas.
@@xaolin8546 Also the people decided to stay with UK. Cisplatina is Brazilian however!
"Cultural Gen... Conversion" Lol
You got a great voice for informative background noise :D
Sad excuse and absolute trash is apparently the funniest things he’s said so far
EDIT do you enjoy staring at a wall and watching paint dry
Is now apart of the funniest things he says lol
1:55 Absolute trash
3:40 sad excuse
11:21 Do you enjoy staring at a wall and watching paint dry
Space Cat Nuggets
Dude I swear bad excuse and absolute trash is to me the funniest things he’s said
In my game as Holland , Baden got Austria under a PU . And Ulm helped Austria get independent
Georgia is fun to play actually!
It's possible to reliably conquer the other Georgian minors, Trebizond, Circassia and Theodoro without any extraordinary luck (you just only hope that Circassia and Theodoro aren't annexed/vassalized before you do) within 15-20 years for a moderately skilled player like me. All orthodox land so unrest will be easily manageable. You can also ally Muscovy within few years and that will often be enough to deter any aggressors. At this point you will be bordering so many nations that some routes of expansions should always be open.
Culture switch to Pontic early in the game and wait for a moment of weakness for Ottomans to happen and you can even restore the Byzantine Empire. I did in my last game. And I don't consider myself a very skilled player.
why don't ally mamluks? it good against ottoman aggression
#1 Capital province: probably freezing 😂
Baden has quite decent ideas, making expansion easier by modifiers reducing ae impact.
I'm playing Haida right now. I'm at 1700 and like 20 techs behind. I focused on colonizing, and now own Alaska, the entire west coast up to Mexico, and defeated Brittany (which somehow is a major colonial power). This is actually my first native campaign, so I didn't know how to reform so converted to protestantism which put me in a civil war from the -4 stability. So far ive embraced Feudalism, Global Trade, and am about to get the Renaissance. This may sound odd, but I'm actually really enjoying the campaign! After you get through the 'paint drying' phase, and start colonizing, it actually starts picking up in entertainment value.
Ok. My advice to you is:
1) If you're struggling with any nation just develop your provinces. It doesn't matter if you fall behind few techs, few years later you will get -20% tech cost for being late and you will get massive income boost. Like really massive. Also manpower/force limit is nice.
2) DON'T UNDERESTIMATE +1 prestige idea! Prestige is very powerful.
3) + with developing your provinces you get institutions! so you can embrace Renaissance even in China fairly quickly!
I played as kongo in a muliplayer game. It didnt had feudalism. I spent many monarch points on capital to get feudalism. It had like 32 development. But then my neigbours leveled up their military to 3, while i was 2. And kilwa had already feudalism, he had army tech 4 or 5 idont remember. yeah eventually they beat me up then portugeuse came and raped me as well. But it was fun tho
The only game I've ever completed from 1444 to 1821 was me playing as Salish and was one of my favorite games. This was like 2 years ago, where I was learning how to play the game, and named my capital DIDNEY WORL. I ended up making the ultimate Salish Empire that looked suspiciously like the ultimate Chilean empire, owning every province on the West Coast and having an annoyingly stubborn Breton Louisana and Georgia that just didn't want to convert. It was fun forcing other cultures into the Salish culture as well, because I had no idea how to spend my diplo points I was getting.
I love how he's done a guide for the Siberian tribes since this
5:00 . . . its not hakarth its HAU KALL (very strong Ls) meaning high/tall man. It means shark of course. I don't really get why people think Icelandic is a dark and harsh sounding language, it is one of the most poetic languages out there while i do admit old Icelandic was harder it was still no where close to HAKARRTH, they just sort of did not like the sound of U as much as today.
I actually searched for a pronunciation guide on how to say Hakarl but all of them were TTS voices. Thanks for letting me know!
@@AlzaboHD Ye the TTS voices for Icelandic are very bad simpy because of our very low population meaning there is a small amount of demand for something like that. :)
you know for georgia infantry combat, cost, and manpower recovery speed, alone are good enough to build a strat around. also, dat war exuastion decay while at war.
What about Yas ?
quma 25 or Manipur?
No.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSS
@@WimFlo manipur ... yup! 5 dev OPM with no at start alliance options and no feudalism. Manipur's national ideas are pretty good, though! Get ready for annexation by Kale or Kachar.
Man that pronunciation of Haida got me all riled up(It's pronounced like eye not ay). Especially calling it Alaskan when it's in British Columbia, although that's understandable looking at a map since it's probably closer to Alaska land than Canadian land.
Still love your stuff though, I wanted to sleep 15 minutes ago, but then I saw this video.
I wouldn't say Baden's +Caravan Power a bad idea seeing their inland position. -AE isn't *bad* in the HRE either. Also they're European and not an OPM
Gerogia's NI's are not awful. There's certainly worse. +Improve Relations for example isn't bad, and cheap infantry with +10% CA isn't awful. Or you can be me and form Coptic Mughals as Georgia [pre-Mughal patch so there's no Islam requirement.]
I'd assume those 2 are there just so someone in Europe is there. Even then I'd put someone like Granada there.
And Betsi isn't awful; especially in next patch where they can go pirate.
Betsimisaraka was the first nation I ever played as in EU4. I had just bought the game and I thought it would be great to form Madagascar. I obviously picked the nation with the neatest flag on Madagascar and proceeded to spend 100 years or so conquering Madagascar and was not happy when I found out that it was not in fact a formable nation. I then played a separate run as France, which was unsurprisingly fun.
THE FIRST EU4 ASMR CHANNEL 😤👍
I played a haida game actually, I quite enjoyed it setting up a merchant republic in canada after migrating 100+ years.
I love this :D I just switched to EU IV (again) from wows, this time for good. "You cant build boats to get off the island, and you cant reform since no nation will ever border you." I cracked:D
AlzaboHD: "An Alaskan island" *shows Vancouver Island and British Columbia*
Canadians: "You'll have to pry it from our cold, dead hands."
Would like to note. Played a Chinook game, surprisingly strong once you get over to mexico, or the east coast. Reducing your stability to -3 will speed up the migration process a TON.
I love how France has such bonkers silly ideas that lack focus and synergy, including -20% fort maintenance, but each one is so potent that it all works out
Hmm, they may not have synergy, but they make sense historically at least.
First time I played EU4 was with a nation of Salishi. Indian tribe, right next to Haida. They are generally the same, with the same idea group.
And you know what? THAT WAS ENTERTAINING AS FUCK, I COULDN'T EVEN SLEEP, AND SPEND IN GAME 30 HOURS IN ROW. Well, probably not because that nation is so interesting, but because eu4 is amazing game.
10% infantry cost reduction idea is actually quite good since it also reduces the upkeep.
As a icelandic person iceland is quite shit considering iceland has allot of ways to have unique national ideas to colonozation related to Leif Erikson, and well iceland has the oldest Parliment in the world "The Althing" which was founded in 930, but atleast iceland has 4 provinces now in Crusader kings 2 lul now i hope they will change it one day in eu4
@@Ben01tM The Althing is considerd the oldest parliment in the world if you look it up on the internet and wiki
Oldest Surviving Parliament*
Agreed. It seems weird that they added it to formable nations without giving it any flavor at all. Seriously. There are only 9 nations in the game that have "generic ideas", apparently. Most are in East Africa. Iceland needs better ideas! Þingvellir / althing could give republican tradition or something.
@@AlzaboHD They made iceland into 4 shitty provinces in ck2 insteed of 2 so here's hoping that they will do something with iceland in EU4 soon but yeah something with repuplican tradition and something with colonizing
@@AlzaboHD It's there to force Norway to stop being Norway in the decent chance someone conquers them leaving them with just Iceland and maybe an island or 2.
i actually did play a game as hilda, and i managed to colonize and expand, only through sinking a good tech's worth of points into my development so i could afford the colonists in the first place. after doing so i managed to expand outwards and have colonies on the hudson bay and in the old world. however getting war declared on me by both spain and england really killed me. having lost all of my northern territories and losing all my coastal tiles until nook, i was pretty much dead from there.
my first campaign in Eu4 was with Betsimasaraka
why, just why :)
Someone has said this most like, but HAIDA is not in Alaska, it's hundreds of miles from Alaska, it's centred arund Vancouver Island in Canada's British Columbia.
Fun fact about the Madagascar nation. If it allies mutapa it will take over all of Madagascar and Kilwa taking over Zanzibar.
Corfu can actually be amazing... the massive buffs to galley efficiency can then be buffed even more with naval doctrine for combat ability, for over 30% galley combat efficiency, which puts you on odds with the Venetian fleet. Your galleys are also much cheaper, which makes it even easier to horde them. The starting strat with them is incredibly easy. Independence from Venice, then do a no CB war on Byzantium (you don’t want a ticking CB against you) and then you just blockade them until they get enough war exhaustion to peace out for the ottoman cores. It’s actually fairly easy to beat the shit out of both of those enemies as long as Austria rivals Venice.
In one of my recent games, AI Haida managed to migrate down to California, ally Ming, and take out enough native tribes to expand to 5 provinces. In 1789 they got taken out by Portugal though.
Haida nation was some sort Vikings in pre-columbian America. They uses boats to travel, explore and plunder west coast of modern Canada and Northern US.
Anyone else here seen DDRJake’s TYOtal conquest series?
I recently played Georgia and essentially reformed the Eastern Roman Empire with them lol, they aren't the easiest but that's what makes them fun!
I played a game as Haida with the thought that since I'm far away from Europe, I can colonize everything before they get here and make it easy to stop them from coming. I ended up colonizing everything from Alaska to Baja and then Portugal came and destroyed me, French Mexico in Texas took my southern provinces and I was dead within 15 years.
We're playing the long game bro, just waiting for the Great Emir of UK to return them to us lol
Baden became the Emperor in my Kilwa game in about 1570. They were so bad as an empires, that they started losing reforms!
3:59 what dlc do you need to have that government options
Haida is one of the most fun countries I've ever played. It does not deserve to be in that list, let alone being #1.
I played as Haida once and colonized parts of Siberia before being annexed by Spain and their 60k divisions
As a Malagasy... i laughed when you said betsimisaraka. It’s BEI-TSY-MI-SA-RA-KA
Thanks for the help! You might be my only viewer from the neighborhood, appreciate it and cheers
I guess that makes us at least two. I discovered your channel with the CK3 videos and stumbled here by curiosity.
What expansion changes the map to look more "drawn" like that? Or is it a mod?
baden.
It's in the goddamn name
Argentina with the 20 dislikes.
5:18 Great, now we gotta kinkshame nations as well
Can you imagine if someone made the worst custom nation, with the worst possible ideas, culture, government, religion, tech group, and starting position, and somehow did a world conquest with it?
I just did a Trebizond game, which is even harder than Georgia. Went bankrupt three or four times and only survived due to Muscovy/Russia. Funnily rebels converted me to coptic faith so I got a coptic achievement as well.
Baden is not that... *bad* (pun intended)
Seriously they are not a OPM
And they have good potential to become friends with Austria
+50% Chance of new heir is bad ?
I dont think so. It makes your dynasty way more stable and helps alot when you got to disinehrit donkey heirs. Lets say your king and queen are both over 40 already, then you got reasons to be hesitant to disinherit. With the +50% ? No big deal.
Anyways, nice vid. Love your content :)
Betsemisaraka is fun as hell, though. Yes, you have to force institutions, but the AI never does that; You can smash into Kilwa and mutapa pretty fast with that advantage, take their gols, and snowball into becoming the major indian Ocean power. Could you do it better with anyone else? Yeah, but that's the case for anything, eventually leading to "Just play the ottomans"
Can't you ally kilwa and get feudalism from them?
@@deepspacewanderer9897 Kilwa is hostile to you even sometimes when you're Muslim(although Fetishism is better)
@@deepspacewanderer9897 Nope; Sunni vs. Fetishist makes it pretty difficult. You can possibly ally Antemoro (since you share a primary culture), who sometimes ally Kilwa, and hope to chain institutions that way. It's also possible to ally an East African fetishist nation if they conquer some of Kilwa, since they can gain institutions through that conquest. but generally it's probably best to just hammer those development buttons; you're going to want the dev anyway (even though being in a tropical region makes it such a massive pain).
Infantry cost reduction is quite good as it reduces the maintenance of normal troops and mercs!
You are absolutely correct. I still rate it rather low, though, since your economy mid game should be able to support at least your force limit and consequently other national ideas (like morale, discipline, shock damage etc) are more useful imo. Thanks for watching.
>falklands
>culture English
*British Imperialism Intensifies*
"Be sure to make the Falklands English for historical accuracy."
_Argentinian REEE-ing Intensifies_
Semien best nation. Buff Judaism.
A chance to reform the Kingdom of Osrael, like in CK2, would make it way more interesting.
With Baden:
You can often marry Austria, then you can make an Alliance. One Problem less. Alo you can easily expand into Switzerland, maybe Würrtenberg.
Also, you get often a good chance to conquer the Alcase. In the Ideas ist the AE very youthful.
I didn't think Baden is so wors how you say.
The +20 global settler increase and easy access to Alaska make the Siberian minors a little better. And once you get that first bit of early expansion in things get a lot better financially.
idk if im just dense, but im not picking up on the aspec joke at the end. great video though, pretty funny
What do you think of Manipur and Circassia
OOOh man ! I LOVE your voice ! US guys often got very annoying voices but YOU bro got a gorgeous one :D ! On a scale from 0 to Morgan freeman, i'd give you a Hugo Weaving :D :D !
i dont even play EU4 and this is in my recommendations, dope
The algorithm has selected you, there's no escaping now!
Morocco is actually horrible to play in 1.29, it was fine in 1.26 but now the Iberian nations are much more aggressive and you start off split into 4 nations, you will fight all Portugal, Castile, Aragon and you disloyal vassals, your expansion options are: destroy Iberian nations before Iberian wedding or fight Ottomans invading Tunisia. You have zero alliance capability as your only non-hostile neighbor, Tlemcen dies in the first 20 years.
In 1.26 you started with a gold mine, no vassals - all core territory, you had slight chance for Aragon/Castile alliance and Iberians were not automatically expanding south - it was fun as you had a good shot at colonization and expansion along the African coast with potential Spanish alliance.
Iceland has to be one of the worst:
1 has generic idea set
2 releasable from Norway who will annex you
3 whopping starting development of 6 and nowhere to expand
Posted this before watching so I am happy this ice trash is included