EU4 Guide: How to Play as the Pirates & New Providence
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video we will be covering how to form the pirate nation of New Providence in EU4. With four unique pirate republics to play as in europa universalis, this video provides a step by step process in how to release and form New Providence, Tortuga and Port Royal. The following guide will ensure success on your pirate endeavours and allow you to obtain the Pirate's Life achievement.
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Yarr! What EU4 guides would you like to see in the future? The next EU4 guide will cover how to form Lan Fang, the rare and obscure Chinese republic on Borneo! Stay tuned in the next few days for another (mystery) video!
That's a pretty FoW right there, and the map graphics too.
What mods are you using?
i would like to see a video on the best/most interesting mission trees, unique missions can make the game so much more fun
@@GugSport I am using ad Lucem, you can check it out here: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1469605293
@@AlzaboHD thanks!
a detailed trade tutorial would be nice
Conquers world as Pirates, Shows up as a Pirate themed Megacorp in Stellaris.
Alzabo: **talks about pirates*
Me: **listens to "1700's sea shanties 10 hours"*
Yarr best be listening to "Drunken Sailor!"
@@AlzaboHD leave her jonny is superior dont even try to argue it
@@AlzaboHD nerd fish in the sea and OH BILLY RILEY are the best
@@AlzaboHD What about Randy Dandy Oh?
the gael...time flies is surely the best me mateys!
There is already a Pirate nation in vanilla game. It's called England.
But the natives couldn't look after there priceless integral artifacts
*English Channel trade node flashbacks*
@@ers4690 I think that’s the first default present avatar I have seen in at least two years
RULE BRITANNIA, BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES
In school they teach us to call them the loyalists
-tried to create New Providence as Naples, accidentally created the Pirate Republic of Naples-
WELP THAT WENT WELL NOW TIME TO BUTTFUCK VENETIAN ECONOMY VIA RAIDS
"Pirating indigenous fisherman..."
Arrrr give me those fish
Yarr tax evasion. My favorite pastime
Even the Joker isn't crazy enough to do that!
Yarr the government took me booty now i am clinically depressed
AlzaboHD with his 5 puns/second as usual haha. Good guide (y)
There are more than 4 pirate nations in eu4
New Providence
Port Royal
Tortuga
Libertatia
Salé (by event)
Tetouan (by event)
Algiers (from Tunisian mission tree)
Palembang (by event)
Pattani (by event)
and Habsan (by event but sadly this one was forgotten so they do have raid mechanic but not pirate government type)
Algiers is probably best one to play with New Providence
Algiers starts with 6 6 6 Barbarossa as ruler
A satan?! Wowza!
Thank you for this info! I just checked out Palembang and am super impresses by them. Appreciate it.
There is Rugen now. The little island on Pomerania. Yes, it is part of the HRE, too.
Also Ternate
Thank you! I've been looking for a good guide to pirate nation's since GC released, and this is the first one that plainly lays out how they work. Also your humor is top notch.
I spent ages waiting for the Golden Age of Piracy event, turns out I don't have the Golden Century dlc 🤦
It has a mean time to happen of 12 months...so... you could probably notice that there is somthing going wrong
@@darian_2247 yeah but you need dlc
guy in the video is in an idiot
If someone makes a mod that adds all of Black Flag’s sea shanties to the game will have my undying love and support.
I just want spotify integration so I can play captain dan and the scurvy crew
omg!!! an actuall pirate takes over the channel at 9:27 !!!!!1 omg!!!1111
AHAHHAHAHAH
Naval Idea: *I MATTER*
It brought me pain to recommend them, particularly so after slamming them in last week's military guide video! But they yarr really useful for pirates !
Naval Idea: *WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
This is awesome. I like that they added this.
I really like these country guides, especially for the more strange countries. So for instance a guide for a native american nation would be great. I've only done one as the incas for that achievement, but would love to see what else is possible for them. Perhaps the Aztec or the iroquois
Oh me, oh my, how my friends in multiplayer are going to enjoy this!
This is video is really well made please keep this up
I've been waiting so long for a decent guide like this. Thanks man!
Nice guide!
I don't have anything clever to say so I'll just say thanks. Keep up the great videos
Did this and started as a custom nation, was new providence in less than 3 years, made sure the starting custom nation was in a very bad way before switching over tho so it was easy to conquer its territories.
On point with the voice acting
I'm just currently playing a MUCH stronger/easier to form version using a custom nation. As a bonus, using this build is capable of getting the achievements:-
- For Odin
- First Come, First Serve
- Yarr Harr......
- From Humble Origins
It also takes advantage of what I'm guessing is an oversight/bug that makes your navies sickly OP!
Pick Maiami, as your capital (or any other Floridian province that touches the sea zone of the Bahamas), choose the Bahamas, Havana & 2 other caribbean provinces (I chose St Kitts and St Thomas - as these put me at exactly 50 points after the other choices of ideas/rulers).
Choose a 20 year old 0,0,0 ruler with Craven. Pick a 0 year old 0,0,0 heir. And a 0,0,0 spouse with any negative trait. Pick Western tech, feudal monarchy, and any of the British sub-group of cultures ( chose American just for flavour). Pick development cost as an opening tradition, and any other crappy idea groups that come at 0 point cost.
The reason for the British culture group, is because it allows one of your naval doctrines to be "The Wooden Wall", which gives +1 to naval combat adjacent to your owned coastal provinces. This is OP because New Providence gets +1 to naval combat adjacent to owned coastal provinces as their 6th national idea.
If you really want to cheese it further, check your produced goods in the provinces of Bahamas & Havana. If you can get cotton in Havana, it will make developing it for the first two institutions 10% cheaper, meaning much more efficient use of monarch points before the colonisers arrive. If you get cotton in the Bahamas, it can make the first step listed below even more powerful. If you can get it in both, put your hands together and say to mighty prayer to the RNG gods!!!
Once game has started, you will begin with 9 light ships, 5 cogs, and 6 land units. Delete your land units, and your cogs, and send your light ships to privateer in the Caribbean trade node. For the first event "The Golden Age Of Piracy" to fire, the node must have at least 25% of its value being owned by privateers, so do NOT delete the light ships yet. Once the first event has fired, delete half of the ships, and wait. For "The Pirate Republic" event to fire, you still need to have 5% owned by privateers, own the province of Bahamas as a core (see above), and if your nation has its capital in the caribbean, you must have at least 5 war exhaustion (hence why we chose Maiami).
Now, (ab)use all of your estates, by getting 150 Mil points, and 200 of each ADM/DIP. To achieve this, give Havana to the traders, and the other 2 provinces to the clergy, and get them to 100 influence before getting the points. Then develop Bahamas to 10 (make sure you set the area to 10% dev cost reduction) using MIL/ADM, give it to the traders and then get the 100 influence with them as well.
Get level 2 advisors in each skill, and wait. Develop the Bahamas every chance you can, and depending on when "The Pirate Republic" fires, you should have a minimum of 7,7,5 dev city as your new pirate capital, all the way up to a size 30 city, if it takes a while (MTTH is 12 months, so the latest I had it fire was start of 1448 during testing), and it has cotton.
Now, you are a NEW PROVIDENCE with a beefed up Bahamas, and a crippled rival immediately next door that already has the best caribbean province ready for you to take, and 2 other good caribbean provinces ready to eat once your truce drops in 5 years. You will start with 7-8 troops, 7-8 heavies (delete them immediately), 7-8 cogs, & 7-8 light ships.
After the truce is up, declare war on your former nation, and take the 3 caribbean provinces, but not their capital - you want to humiliate rival to get your era score ticking.
Now core the provinces, and as soon as its done, switch your capital to Havana, and get ready to develop for the first institution. Again, for this cotton gives you a 10% dev cost reduction, so does it being your capital. If you also choose the area policy you can get a further 10%, and finally - take enough loans to boost the centre of trade to level 2 (200 gold) for an additional 5%, for a total of 35% reduction. For the second institution, you can get the level 3 center of trade (1000 gold), making it 10% instead of 5%, and you will probably have prosperity for an additional 10%. I was able to get Havana to 52 dev, which was enough to spawn both institutions (and also is a requirement for era score in 4th era).
Idea groups :-
1) Expansion, for the 2 colonists to get as many islands as possible before the first age ends - as they will all get a 1,1,1 dev boost on completion until then. I suggest choosing the centers of trade first, then Cuba (as getting all of the island gets you a mission reward of claims on the whole Caribbean)
2) Maritime, your navy will be key to surviving the colonisers, and trade is your key to money, this helps with both.
3) Plutocratic, this has some useful but not great ideas, but has the amazing policy (for this game, not for many other) with Maritime of 15% light ship cost reduction/15% light ship combat ability. Remember, your national ideas give you a 33% chance to steal ships, so after the first war, you will never need to build a ship yourself. You will have a flat +1 combat bonus around the Caribbean up until around 1550 ish when you get your national idea, when you then have a flat +2. Your national ideas give you +20% naval engagement, Maritime allows them to heal in coastal provinces, and if you do something that would previously seem ridiculous - build your flagship as a light ship - with 5% fleet morale, +3 engagement width, +1 fleet movement - you can catch and kill all enemy navies with ease, using just a light-ship fleet, that will just grow and grow and grow. Your rulers will always be admirals, and your naval tradition will easily stay above 85 for the entire game meaning they will always be at least a 2,2,2,2 ish, and almost always (much) better.
4) Trade, by this time you fill probably find your economy to be the bottleneck to expansion, as you will probably have captured 10-15 heavies off of the colonisers by this point, which you can deploy as an awesome follow-up fleet any time your super-fast light-ship fleet has caught the enemy, as well as wanting to maintain a few important forts to help capture their units any time they choose to come in from the Pacific, if you have been taking Mexican/S.American land.
5,6,7,8) Your choice - I personally wanted to pick Naval for the theme, but as your navy is already OP it seemed unnecessary (I still might though). Admin is obviously good, for the coring cost reduction, and cheaper mercs. Economic will be useful as you will be swimming in gold provinces by now, and the inflation reduction is handy. Innovative is good, and gives you a +10% Heavy ship combat policy if that sounds even more fun, as well as good reductions to advisor costs, which will also help with point generation. And obviously Offensive/Quality/Quantity depending on how you see your fights going on land. And depending on how well the colonisers have been doing, dropping into exploration for the extra colonist, settlers might be a consideration, but realistically, not necessary.
Now, go nuts as an OP pirate republic!!!
Additional tips:-
Captain Benjamin, your initial ruler can start at any age between 30-50, as a 3,3,5, and doesn't cost any republican tradition to re-elect, so pray for him to start young and die old, for massive boost to early point production.
You will have 2 provinces in Mexico that border Havana by sea. Get claims and fight the Mayans. Do NOT take land in first 50 or so years. You do not want them to able to reform off of your bordering provinces. Also, running to colonies will put you in a permanent state of financial loss, so just taking all their cash/war reps on a short truce will severely help your economy, but give you massive inflation, so balance this out accordingly.
Remember to raid coasts as often as possible. This is also good money, and in the very first few years will help you keep your sailors topped up, although this is not an issue later.
Other than the Caribbean, which you want to complete ASAP, leave the colonies of the Europeans big enough to do their own colonising, as you will want to have filled in N/S America by end game if you want to complete "First Come, First Serve" as you may not have the time/money to get every province colonised if you have to do it yourself otherwise. When you decide to land-grab, get Mexico for yourself (maybe take 1 vassal to help with the coring cost - and a useful March to help defend the land in the mid-game), and I chose to go for S.America first as this tends to fill up quicker (thanks Portugal) meaning you can get it over with earlier.
The AI fleet settings are pretty good. Set your light-ship fast fleet to "intercept enemy fleets", meaning they will prioritise chasing down fleets with troops trying to land. Have your second fleet with all your captured heavies/galleys on "hunt enemy fleets", so that they don't merge with the light fleets, and will still kill stuff for you when you are looking elsewhere. But remember, to check up on them often, as they are not infallible AIs any you do NOT want enemies landing troops on your islands at all. This way you can force them to land on you in Mexico, where you and your March can defend with some great fort locations.
Have fun!!!
An other advice: because you will switch side soon, i recommend to take lots of money by increasing corruption, send a big money gift to an american minor and after that switch side: in you declare enough fast you can steal all the money from that country, providing a really rich start!
Now this is a very useful video. Thank you!
No jokes
Im glad it's useful - thank you for watching!
Nice video! Do you have the "Eat your Greens" achievement? A video for a good starting strategy would be nice. It seems to be the common strategy to prevent the Age of Absolutism completely but I didn't find any good guide on how to achieve that yet.
Shall listen to Drunken Sailor, William Taylor, and Randy Dandy Oh.
what mods do you use for the map?
Thinking about combining Naval Ideas with Maritime ideas and ultimately becoming the Naval Hegemon.
Yargh yargh yargh,
Sponge Me Boi Bob,
I have committed various war crimes and cannot enter Heaven as a result,
Yargh yargh yargh
(I thought it would be appropriate)
Nice one that. Arrr me maties! Shiver me timbers!
Hey there, me and my friends play with minimal DLC in multiplayer. We have Art of War, Common Sense, and Wealth of Nations. I can’t seem to find a Navigator advisor, do they require additional DLC?
I was playing as Denmark and competing with the Spanish AI to colonize the Caribbean when I found the naturally formed pirate republic. I wasn’t even mad, New Providence felt threatened by me yet had a positive opinion. I ended up allying the republic, the second nation to do so (the first were the Spaniards).
Now I wanna rewatch pirates of the Caribbean
Any dlcs that I would need?
Kinda want to do this as Brittany
I can totally sea a pirate version of Brittanys flag
@@ArkhBaegor i sea wut u did thar
What mod is that for the vibrant map colors?
Great Guide! What map mod are you using ? I really like the bright, flat colours, with the grainy texture, and the black/white "marching" rings around selected provinces
Looks like Ad Lucem.
Well shiver me timbers...that video cured me scurvy!
I gotta try this out
As Grande Castile, I allowed then vassalized Nuevo Providencia, then built them a massive armada and used them as my 'auto-navy' against the Dutch and English to 'purge' the Americas of their presence. It works wonders if you don't mind paying the pirate price, which, at this point in the game, $ should mean little compared to obtaining your objectives.
I spent DAYS trying to get a good initial start and survive long enough to colonize the Caribbean as England. After Finally doing it, I got the pop up for Port Royale instead of New Providence. If I decline the port royale one will the new providence event still fire or am I screwed?
What is the mod you use for det map graphics??
Do i need to own it directly or can my colony have the bahamas
Please help. When I send light ships to Caribbean node, there is no option to privateer. The only available option is to protect trade node. I have opened privateering in idea group. But have no idea why I do not have any other oprions, except protecting. Do I need to install mode or something?
You don’t have the dlc required for u to do it
I tried to form these with Portugal and I played up to 1816 and steel couldn't
tried to form one of them with England still failure
even picked morocco and failed
sooooo…… I noticed that I don't have the DLC :/
You need all the DLC. The game is just horrible without them.
A real pirate docks his ship at the pirate bay and pillage the dlc
@@robertharris6092 :(
which dlc is needed
In 1.30, I think starting pirates in 1500s, right after the embrace of colonialism institution is the better start. As the pirate don't have to pay the cost of institution.
Portugal naval doctrine is very strong, as the marine units are great as pirates and blockades are even stronger. And Portuguese Pirates are pretty easy to form and dev Bahamas.
What visual mod do you use in this video
I'm not sure if you mentioned this. If any, which DLC is needed to form these nations?
I think Golden Century is required to play pirate republics normally. But you might be able to play as them anyways since they are released as event nations. Do you have the GC dlc?
what texture pack is this
Can I go back to my previous nation? I'm in iron mode and I had the entire europe
Hello, what graphic mod are you using?
Is it possible to have multiple pirate republics?
whats the map mod in this video?
which map mods do you use?
Which version at least ı can? 1.25?
what dlc do i need?
Which moda you use?So beatifull map!
1:08 coredova?
Cool video, may I ask which mods you use to enchant your visual and map look in your eu4 game?
Thank you! I am using Ad Lucem UI - you can get it here: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1469605293
@@AlzaboHD thank you very much sir
What happens if I convert it into Victoria 2 and become comunnist?
What year should you form new providence?
Does pirating nodes actually give you any immediate Ducat benefit? I'm new to the game and I'm wondering if Pirate Nations profit greatly from the privateer naval mission.
Yeah it's like war reps as long as you are privateering you get ductes like any other income. It's how I funded my run.
Privateering essentially works in the same way as protecting trade, but without your trade modifiers. Instead your privateer efficiency decides how much money you earn. It is easier to pirate nodes that are dominated by one nation, and harder to pirate nodes with ships hunting pirates. Watch out though, as you privateering in a node will cause nations that collect trade from it to gain up to 100 negative relations against you.
@@norsemodder Not always. At the beginning of the game your trade range is short, and you may not send your privateer ships far enough to upset the whole trade node (ex : Portugal only upsets Aragon by privateering in Genoa).
Can you make 2 pirate Republics in a multiplayer game?
do these nations count as a fromer colonial nation ?
it would be cool if you could become zealandia as them
Which graphic style mod are you using?
Whats the map mod?
Any specific DLC required in order to do this?
I dont know about the others, but you would definitely need the Golden Century dlc for this, or you can live a pirate's life and pirate all the dlcs
what map mod?
Shouldn’t it be six pirate republics, counting the North African republics of sale and tetouan?
It doesn;t give me the option to privateer
is there cheat or event to do it?
Why does the map look so nice? What mods were you using?
But will I be able to download a car?
trebizond exodus irish pirate republic
Can someone send me a link to the formable pirate republics?
What do you mean, link? It's in the game
I’d like a link to the list of them
omfg somehow I missed the "entirely aesthetic" portion of the guide after Alzabo said "can switch to the American culture".
You don't want to know how much time I put into trying to get an England start juuuuuuuust right (I got the pirates super easy in one go, but really wanted some magical perfect start). efjoaisdfjgpa9oidsjfg
Also please note, if you happen to come under a Personal Union while you're attempting this... you can't. Being the Junior Partner apparently makes you ineligible to transfer to the newly created pirate republic. Ask me how I know.
What map-mod are you having?
Aleks Løndal He is using Ad Lucem
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1469605293
Do you need the conquest of paradise dlc to play as the pirates?
Nope! Only dlc you might need for this is golden century, but it might be possible to play as them with no DLC. I have not playtested it yet
Thanks!
Any dlc's for this
Why not doing it whit castille
There is a fourth formable pirate nation, but it's a Madagascar one
So do you need dlc for this?
I think you might need Golden Century to become a pirate republic but that should be it, cheers!
Hornigold in the 15th century, seems legit.
Conquer world, release Tunis, engage in endless cycle of piracy
I came for the puns. I wasn't disappointed.
Oh just a quick question - what graphical mods are you using? It looks really nice
Thank you! I am using Ad Lucem - its available in the steam workshop (sorry im on mobile and dont have the link). Hope that helps!
I don't have any DLC, can I still form a pirate republic?
No you need golden century for that.
Inkaword thank you, I figured I probably would but I guess it's too much to ask to get cool features without paying
You can make a custom nation pirate republic. That's great with 800 points.
cant get the achievement tho
@@heepox Can get some other achievements that way.
@@VelvanTivius ye but have to be under 201 points
@@heepox there'a an achievement for 800 points but whatever fun is most important.
The pirate republic of bacardi XD
You know, you could just sell Maine to Provence and avoid that -1 stability hit
A littlebit mis-leading title. Im trying to figure out what my options are as a pirate republic and how to play. not how to form it
:O What is this Graphic mode??
I am using Ad Lucem UI on steam here: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1469605293. Cheers!
@@AlzaboHD I've been looking for my hero for 12 months... looks like I found him.
hello everyone!! I wonder how I can fix the grafics to seem cool
If you'd like the graphics to look like the one in the video I recommend Ad Lucem and Graphic Map Improvements on the steam workshop. Goodluck!
Was able to form N.P in 1495. Just have to No CB a Mayan nation now and I’m off
Why is Naval ideas bad?
Can you do the best colonial ideas for a colonial game?
Obviously exploration and expansion ideas but I think Portugal can purchase an ability in the age of discovery
does this need dlc?
yes golden century
so wait, you need dlc's to be a pirate?
I think I may have broken it DX. I have the Bahamas colonized and have around 60% pirates in the Caribbean trade node yet I’m just sitting here developing the province and upping tech and nothing is happening. The Bahamas has more development than Constantinople at this point. XD
Bahamas the most developed? Just how much gold are you storing offshore in Nassau, Ninjasheep?
AlzaboHD disabled a mod I had on and it worked. The Bahamas alone was about 20% of my economy by the time I realized it.
By the time I tried seeing if a mod conflicted with it the Bahamas had 52 development and all building slots filled.
Do you need any DLC for this?
Yeah I think you need Golden Century for pirate republics iirc
Thx