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Castile is the first ever nation I played in EU4 years ago, and being relatively stable even for such a complex game I felt like riding a bike that somehow kept going without me falling off for some miraculous reason, I will never forget that feeling, like "I'm not in control of anything, but somehow it's going" 😀
You should consider giving Navarra-as-PU vizcaya and the other province in that state, then basically shoving their claim/core missions. They get a huge chunk of France as claims this way, and as a PU you can feed them all of it with no worries about liberty desire.
It's always a good idea to check your subject's missions (they added the buttons to the bottom of the missions tab for a reason) and see if there are any that are possible to do for them. Some custom mission trees have missions that can get your vassal lots of perma claims or a permanent modifier that might be strong enough to keep them around for a while.
Having a pu over navara can be very useful to expand into France without expending admin points. The Bordeaux trade node doesn't really help Castile / Spain, but having a strong PU subject does. PUs can also become empires, meaning that Navarra would have an easy time making a cultural union over all of the territory of France. IIRC, it also has very strong missions. BudgetMonk has a guide on PUs for those interested in the details
@@Narvaljodchik You know how Burgundy is a more powerful ally because of its subjects than it is a PU? It's also a more powerful PU than it would be integrated into your empire, in terms of conquest allies/manpower pool/total force limit. PUs can be Empire govt. rank, allowing for cultural unions and higher gov. capacity. More states overall between yourself and your subject. Vassals are disloyal based on all vassals and other subjects, while PUs only compare themselves to you. There are also trade shenanigans I don't completely understand.
Is also worth mentioning that if you vassalize granada you can get ceuta for free (by asking to retunr core from portugal via favors) and getting a trade center in it
This is the 7th guide in 1.34 (which is when I came back after not playing for a year) that you've put out right AFTER I finished a run with the country the guide focuses on😭
You dont need to disinherit your heir to get the event, it just replaces your current heir if you choose to make Isabel your new heir. I followed his last guide and forgot to disinheit enrique and still got the event like 3 weeks ago.
Would love a revised Provence guide. It seems like under 1.34 France is always hostile towards you and ends the alliance within a couple of months, this changes the opening by quite a bit.
they start hostile but after 1 or 2 months they dont hate you anymore, and after that instantly attack england for maine, promise land to france and try to siege down everything before france and after the war they'll break up with you eventually. then ally austria, make aix your capital then join hre.
If your going to focus on beginner guides, I'd love to see an updated one for Ming. Great video for content but it does go a bit fast for a beginner (I have 7600+ hours in and I still found it fast). Going to send the video to my brother who keeps saying he should play, I'll just chat with him while he's playing to fill in the details.
I would also suggest taking Labourd or Bordeaux from England to release Gascony. They have plenty of cores you can reconquest from France, permanently crippling them for the rest of the game.
Hawk I think a really fun series would be an achievement hunter series. There are so many achievements for the this game that I think you could get a lot of interesting videos from it.
Brand new player here. I wish you didn't just breeze over the war against granada, since on my end it was not very simple at all. I easily took control of all their territory, but that only got me 21% war score. It looks like I will now either have to march my army into Africa to attack Granada's allies or wait several years until they surrender, the only problem is I am now running low on money and the Castile Civil war event is about to start...
I think that junior partners can actually get exploration ideas now. I remember hearing something about it in the 1.34 patch notes or something and it DID happen in my game as Castile. Can someone confirm this?
This is just a hunch but I think for first colony Cape Verde is technically the better choice since it and Arguin share a sea zone so thus the extra distance to Arguin is just extra distance required to get into the actual sea zone thus slightly reducing your colonial range. Unless it changes any important values like if you can reach some of the trade centers in the Carribean or Ivory coast with the third idea of exploration though it doesnt matter and just comes down to personal preference. I like Cape Verde more since it's an island which Arguin technically shares but I like the clean islandness of Cape Verde more.
Just finished my "golden" achievement run, lot of fun, got lucky with a pu overa very chunky commonwealth, but it was strange seeing all of the GP list being non european (i basically had all of europe) if i was more aggressive mid game couldve probably finally got wc, but ah well
Also if England holds Labourd and Navarra is your subject and they have a core there, make England return Labourd to Navarra since it's just a free province that othevise goes to France
Right of the start (I am commenting this is the few first minutes), I never married with Portugal as castile, as my logic was that I will PU them in the war after I conquer Granada and PU aragon (Having a royal marriage and declaring takes your stability and cancelling a royal marriage hurts your overall prestige and stuff)
Had Portugal immediately guarantee the independence of Grenada in 2 back to back games. I restarted both times. But hey, I got Navarra both times....woo..
It is far better being ally with Aragón that doing It with Portugal. If Aragón rival you then then PU It is harder to hold because they were former rival Also if you wait after getting Granada an event will pop up with a desicion to hire Torquemada and convert all to for free, after you can activate the mision and get a free stab
Actually even better is to ally France what with good rivals roll is possible. Especially when Ottos lock granada/coast of africa. And for bullying Portugal+England ofc.
Some tips for anyone following this guide: don’t take the advisor cost reduction estates privilege until after the civil war and cobeligerate Morocco in war against Granada for some easy North African land.
21:43 I wish I knew it before yesterday. Of the slmost 1000 hours i have in the game (I spent over a 100 hours in restarts for various campaigns just to PU burgundy). I was always wondering why burgundy chooses some hre minor (that they have royal marriage with) or the emperor/France (both of which they're rivaled to) ove ne, even though I have 100 trust and 200 relations.
I am very new at this game and I just need some clarification about the trade advisor and how it works. When the cursor is on the trade advisor it says: "...allocating the right number of merchants to where the most suitable trade routes exists." I had been watching youtube videos about trade. So, am I to understand with this trade advisor that I do not need to do any work myself in sorting out the trade? That I do not need to figure out what to do with the merchants whether to collect trade or where to send them becasue the trade advisor is handling all apsects?
they show up once you have enough money to take a doctrine. you get a popup message warning like for everything else they were introduced with rule Britannia dlc not sure if doctrines are available without it.
Hello, i do not have the option to remove my Heirs and i dont start with the same heirs as you i only have Juan II and Enrique. I do not have the queen
well don't know how you doing it, but im not able to get warscore for granada, im always getting morocco and tunis as granada allies, and army of 26k is not enough even with 17k army of portugal
You don't need all, there are some very universal dlcs that I recommend you to get and there are dlcs that are focused very much on a specific part of the world. If you know where you would like to play for the most part, I recommend you to get these too. Otherwise it is possible to play without dlcs but most of the guides don't apply then and it gets quite hard. Another option is the abo where you play 10€ a month I think and can use all dlcs for the time the abo is activ. As a help to decide, you first need to know if you would like to play a somewhat very complex game that has alot of focus on history and if you are able to spend alot of time, cause if you do, at some point you stop the 100s hours counting and start with the 1000s. For me personally, I played the game about 1400 hours, layed it back two times and came back, had alot of fun and tried every play though something different. There are so many things to do, styles to play and historical Eastereggs like founding the female only holy orden of orlenes, or playing purely diplofocus with not a single unit, or having every province better developed then the rest of the world and stacked with buildings. Hack, even role-playing is sometimes more fun then trying a worldconquest for the 3rd time. Not to mention that if single player starts to get boring, multiplayer is basicly a whole different game. Talking about different games, eu4 has also alot of very cool mods that allows you to play in alot of different fantasy worlds too. My favorite is to try playing a small nation that has alot of impact. Also important to say is that this game covers a great span of time that I never learnt about in school and playing it got me interested so I looked up alot of events and learned that way so much about a previously black box in history time-line.
My firtst full Iron Mode campaign was with Castile. I formed Spain, colonized south and Middle America, West Africa, annexed Naples and Sicily, making the Number One Great Power all around the world - only to be beaten by France just before 2 years of the end of game, and loose everything.
Why dont you dev la mancha for renaissance to 30 İt would make more sense in every way Giving you early gold income and sparing monarch points because you dont need to dev la mancha and your capital
Actually at this point this game can go f*ck itself i have tried following guides and buying some DLCs but its never enough. I can never follow the guides because there is always 100 things missing. Im done and i wouldnt recommend the game unless u got plenty of money and time to spend before being able to MAYBE enjoy the game...
never ever give france a reason to attack you. its impossible to beat them. the best start is to ally with austria and do not try to get burgundian succession. have retried this about 15 times on ironman.
Sadly this guide doesn't work if you dont have some dlcs which looking at the prices of the respective dlcs makes this not really suitable for beginners
Anyone an Idea if you play Aragon and PU castille how you can get Granada for the Alhambra monument? i am now already Sardinia piedmont going towards italy but still want that province :/
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A Bengal guide. I’ve looked everywhere for one and can’t find it.
An austria guide would be cool
Bengal
Austria
Would love to see an ethiopia guide or one for the smaller nations like Scotland or Provence
23:04 omg hawk, the confidence when you said exploration got me
He meant "Expansion" when he said "Exploration", right? And then the other way around when he said "Expansion", he meant "Exploration"?
@@zrize101 I am still confused
@@zrize101 Exploration first, then Expansion second. That's what he meant.
@@dragonrykr Exploration first, then Expansion second. That's what he meant.
Castile is the first ever nation I played in EU4 years ago, and being relatively stable even for such a complex game I felt like riding a bike that somehow kept going without me falling off for some miraculous reason, I will never forget that feeling, like "I'm not in control of anything, but somehow it's going" 😀
Accurate spanish history. "I'm not in control of anything, but somehow it's going"
brandenburg was my first nation ☠️
You should consider giving Navarra-as-PU vizcaya and the other province in that state, then basically shoving their claim/core missions. They get a huge chunk of France as claims this way, and as a PU you can feed them all of it with no worries about liberty desire.
Also buold tgem market and give 5 transports and you have claims in ireland
@@elraito i had no idea about this, interesting
@@elraito most definitely
It's always a good idea to check your subject's missions (they added the buttons to the bottom of the missions tab for a reason) and see if there are any that are possible to do for them. Some custom mission trees have missions that can get your vassal lots of perma claims or a permanent modifier that might be strong enough to keep them around for a while.
I am convinced that Red Hawk just simply likes playing Castille and portrays it as a guide
Having a pu over navara can be very useful to expand into France without expending admin points. The Bordeaux trade node doesn't really help Castile / Spain, but having a strong PU subject does. PUs can also become empires, meaning that Navarra would have an easy time making a cultural union over all of the territory of France. IIRC, it also has very strong missions.
BudgetMonk has a guide on PUs for those interested in the details
Love doing this
Why would you do this unless it's for RP reasons? Releasing tags like Gascony for quick reconquest wars is so much more convenient.
@@Narvaljodchik You know how Burgundy is a more powerful ally because of its subjects than it is a PU? It's also a more powerful PU than it would be integrated into your empire, in terms of conquest allies/manpower pool/total force limit.
PUs can be Empire govt. rank, allowing for cultural unions and higher gov. capacity. More states overall between yourself and your subject.
Vassals are disloyal based on all vassals and other subjects, while PUs only compare themselves to you.
There are also trade shenanigans I don't completely understand.
Budget monk moment (I saw that video)
Though I agree with that strat
Is also worth mentioning that if you vassalize granada you can get ceuta for free (by asking to retunr core from portugal via favors) and getting a trade center in it
"So, Exploration Ideas is your first idea."
Simply takes Expansion Ideas
This is the 7th guide in 1.34 (which is when I came back after not playing for a year) that you've put out right AFTER I finished a run with the country the guide focuses on😭
TheRedHawk please make a guide for Austria in the new 1.34 update
Continue with the good work :D
Didn't you say in your last Castile guide to wait till 1450 to disinherit Enrique so you can get the Isabel event?
You dont need to disinherit your heir to get the event, it just replaces your current heir if you choose to make Isabel your new heir. I followed his last guide and forgot to disinheit enrique and still got the event like 3 weeks ago.
@@AfterJojox I see
@@truegamer_007 the wvent is just possible after 1450 so its good to but it is not so important
Would love a revised Provence guide. It seems like under 1.34 France is always hostile towards you and ends the alliance within a couple of months, this changes the opening by quite a bit.
they start hostile but after 1 or 2 months they dont hate you anymore, and after that instantly attack england for maine, promise land to france and try to siege down everything before france and after the war they'll break up with you eventually. then ally austria, make aix your capital then join hre.
Great to see an update for Castile, Iberian games are so much fun to play. Thanks for the video.
For a beginner guide it isn't very friendly. Everything moves too quickly and the reason for doing things is never explained.
Ty for this guide, I did ask for a lovely little beginner guide!
Time for your yearly Castile guide
Yes dear
If your going to focus on beginner guides, I'd love to see an updated one for Ming. Great video for content but it does go a bit fast for a beginner (I have 7600+ hours in and I still found it fast). Going to send the video to my brother who keeps saying he should play, I'll just chat with him while he's playing to fill in the details.
Finally glad to see a new guide on this nation
I've put a Habsburg on Castille as Austria without giving up low countries with other requirements the same.
There are two events. One just puts a habsburg on the castille throne and the other additionally transfers the lowlands
I would also suggest taking Labourd or Bordeaux from England to release Gascony. They have plenty of cores you can reconquest from France, permanently crippling them for the rest of the game.
I'd love to see a Granada guide
Disown Enrique before granting Patronage of the Arts; you'll get an extra 10 prestige by doing it in that order. Otherwise, a great guide!
Good video keep op the good work😂❤
Hawk I think a really fun series would be an achievement hunter series. There are so many achievements for the this game that I think you could get a lot of interesting videos from it.
Brand new player here. I wish you didn't just breeze over the war against granada, since on my end it was not very simple at all. I easily took control of all their territory, but that only got me 21% war score. It looks like I will now either have to march my army into Africa to attack Granada's allies or wait several years until they surrender, the only problem is I am now running low on money and the Castile Civil war event is about to start...
What DLCs are you using? You have some options that i dont have (i have no dlcs)
My first playthrough ever was Castile back in 2015, managed to PU Bohemia and Russiaa. Ah, good times man, good times indeed..
If you disinherit the heir then take patronage of the arts you get more prestige
I think that junior partners can actually get exploration ideas now. I remember hearing something about it in the 1.34 patch notes or something and it DID happen in my game as Castile. Can someone confirm this?
I PU'd France, and they ended up being the second biggest colonizer behind myself.
Castile was the First Nation I played. Good old memories
This is just a hunch but I think for first colony Cape Verde is technically the better choice since it and Arguin share a sea zone so thus the extra distance to Arguin is just extra distance required to get into the actual sea zone thus slightly reducing your colonial range. Unless it changes any important values like if you can reach some of the trade centers in the Carribean or Ivory coast with the third idea of exploration though it doesnt matter and just comes down to personal preference. I like Cape Verde more since it's an island which Arguin technically shares but I like the clean islandness of Cape Verde more.
Just finished my "golden" achievement run, lot of fun, got lucky with a pu overa very chunky commonwealth, but it was strange seeing all of the GP list being non european (i basically had all of europe) if i was more aggressive mid game couldve probably finally got wc, but ah well
Although I can't keep up with this new damn AI that is far better of a player than I am.
Great video!
I allied with the Pope before following the Portugal guide. Then I got dragged into his completely hopeless war with France.
Also if England holds Labourd and Navarra is your subject and they have a core there, make England return Labourd to Navarra since it's just a free province that othevise goes to France
You should pick patronize of the arts AFTER you deshinirited Enrique, so your hit on prestige is less strong
This game is nuts...
Right of the start (I am commenting this is the few first minutes), I never married with Portugal as castile, as my logic was that I will PU them in the war after I conquer Granada and PU aragon (Having a royal marriage and declaring takes your stability and cancelling a royal marriage hurts your overall prestige and stuff)
This is so fast! I'm watching at .75 speed and still constantly pausing or dragging back
A nice long guide :)
Had Portugal immediately guarantee the independence of Grenada in 2 back to back games. I restarted both times. But hey, I got Navarra both times....woo..
Seeing the provinces of Granada become part of a trade company instead of cores is so cursed
I get stuck in a loop because if I build my army up my economy gets screwed and if I don’t my partners will break away
a provence guide focused on how to get the king renee achievement would be really nice
Do I need a DLC to slacken recruitment standards?? I cant find it anywhere
Wait until Aragon Infant happens 😂
Oh yea, I love when Morocco occupies Ceuta, makes it real easy.
It is far better being ally with Aragón that doing It with Portugal. If Aragón rival you then then PU It is harder to hold because they were former rival
Also if you wait after getting Granada an event will pop up with a desicion to hire Torquemada and convert all to for free, after you can activate the mision and get a free stab
Actually even better is to ally France what with good rivals roll is possible. Especially when Ottos lock granada/coast of africa.
And for bullying Portugal+England ofc.
Some tips for anyone following this guide: don’t take the advisor cost reduction estates privilege until after the civil war and cobeligerate Morocco in war against Granada for some easy North African land.
i’m so lucky i didn’t even have to fight the civil war
I followed the guide from start and now i am in debt for 12 loans of 141 each... granada was not giving up so had to conquer tunez to get all granada
how do you make the map look like that / what mod do you use for the visuals
Please make a no dlc guide for Castile.
Either buy dlc or pirate game man life is hard
@@JimGr2029 lol
I don't have the same quest as he does, what DLC do they come from?
Now??? Now that I'm mid campaing?
I was able vassalize Navarra most of time on my restarts before Aragon does. "I was trying to RM Burgundy" Just a fyi.
21:43 I wish I knew it before yesterday. Of the slmost 1000 hours i have in the game (I spent over a 100 hours in restarts for various campaigns just to PU burgundy). I was always wondering why burgundy chooses some hre minor (that they have royal marriage with) or the emperor/France (both of which they're rivaled to) ove ne, even though I have 100 trust and 200 relations.
What’s a decent priced labtop that can handle this game? My current labtop can only play EU3
Will you do new guides in 1.35 for France, Moscovy and Castille? Seems they are going to be rebuild
So no more waiting after 1450 for Isabel event?
Did you confirm this?
What mods are you using? good video btw
Which mods are your using for you graphics?
I wish there was a part two to this one
I dont have naval traditions or an option to slacken in my military menu. Which dlc is required for those options
Did anyone else notice that he didn't state the Granada provinces?
I would like to see a guide for the best beginner nation in India.
Bengal probably
I think Vijayanagar is one of the easiest nations in the game and nice for beginners as well (in terms of mechanics which is pretty simple)
I am very new at this game and I just need some clarification about the trade advisor and how it works. When the cursor is on the trade advisor it says: "...allocating the right number of merchants to where the most suitable trade routes exists." I had been watching youtube videos about trade. So, am I to understand with this trade advisor that I do not need to do any work myself in sorting out the trade? That I do not need to figure out what to do with the merchants whether to collect trade or where to send them becasue the trade advisor is handling all apsects?
wrong.
trade advisor only gives you flat boost to your trade power.
you still need to micro manage your merchants in trade nodes.
You skipped a step. How do I select the naval doctrine? I can’t find it in the military tab.
they show up once you have enough money to take a doctrine. you get a popup message warning like for everything else
they were introduced with rule Britannia dlc
not sure if doctrines are available without it.
Beloozero guide when? :)
"Exploration ideas" 🤫
Roman Empire guide pls
i can't do like 33% of any of this because i don't have dlc :(
Hello, i do not have the option to remove my Heirs and i dont start with the same heirs as you i only have Juan II and Enrique. I do not have the queen
If I haven't had the Iberian Wedding by 1478 and all heirs and rulers are male, should I just invade Aragon?
what mod are you using for the map
How do you do all this stuff without going bankrupt? I have tried this multiple times and I always drown in loans that I can’t get out from.
this is not a beginners tutorial, it's for people who have like 300 hours in the game
well don't know how you doing it, but im not able to get warscore for granada, im always getting morocco and tunis as granada allies, and army of 26k is not enough even with 17k army of portugal
Tried to be sneaky with the part titles huh hawk?
What about a 1.34 guide for Poland? 👀
Do you need all the DLC? Last time I played Castile, my nation collapsed at the beginning and I lost.
It really killed my drive to even learn EU4
You don't need all, there are some very universal dlcs that I recommend you to get and there are dlcs that are focused very much on a specific part of the world. If you know where you would like to play for the most part, I recommend you to get these too. Otherwise it is possible to play without dlcs but most of the guides don't apply then and it gets quite hard. Another option is the abo where you play 10€ a month I think and can use all dlcs for the time the abo is activ.
As a help to decide, you first need to know if you would like to play a somewhat very complex game that has alot of focus on history and if you are able to spend alot of time, cause if you do, at some point you stop the 100s hours counting and start with the 1000s.
For me personally, I played the game about 1400 hours, layed it back two times and came back, had alot of fun and tried every play though something different. There are so many things to do, styles to play and historical Eastereggs like founding the female only holy orden of orlenes, or playing purely diplofocus with not a single unit, or having every province better developed then the rest of the world and stacked with buildings. Hack, even role-playing is sometimes more fun then trying a worldconquest for the 3rd time. Not to mention that if single player starts to get boring, multiplayer is basicly a whole different game. Talking about different games, eu4 has also alot of very cool mods that allows you to play in alot of different fantasy worlds too.
My favorite is to try playing a small nation that has alot of impact.
Also important to say is that this game covers a great span of time that I never learnt about in school and playing it got me interested so I looked up alot of events and learned that way so much about a previously black box in history time-line.
Hawk, you can form USA with 1.34
New players I recommend you guys play the video at 0.75 speed, you are all welcomed.
Guys help, I allied Aragon and they claimed my throne immediately
tfw you make country guides for the same country like three times in two years
tfw game mechanics ostensibly change enough that its totally warranted
excuse me did I just see you use your mouse to drag the map around?? wtf how do u do that? I've been using my arrow keys for 3000 hours
"I don't care if she's a women, she's a 6,6,6!"
-King Juan II
Let's just hope she does not get sick, then its time for ALT+F4
My firtst full Iron Mode campaign was with Castile. I formed Spain, colonized south and Middle America, West Africa, annexed Naples and Sicily, making the Number One Great Power all around the world - only to be beaten by France just before 2 years of the end of game, and loose everything.
what if portugal Gurantee Granada? been my case in 3 try outs
Why dont you dev la mancha for renaissance to 30
İt would make more sense in every way
Giving you early gold income and sparing monarch points because you dont need to dev la mancha and your capital
Can spmeone count how many times he mentioned Granada?
Actually at this point this game can go f*ck itself i have tried following guides and buying some DLCs but its never enough. I can never follow the guides because there is always 100 things missing. Im done and i wouldnt recommend the game unless u got plenty of money and time to spend before being able to MAYBE enjoy the game...
Is it fine that I am losing money after the granda war
never ever give france a reason to attack you. its impossible to beat them. the best start is to ally with austria and do not try to get burgundian succession. have retried this about 15 times on ironman.
complete skill issue. Its nowhere near impossible to beat france especially with burgundian inheritance
Sadly this guide doesn't work if you dont have some dlcs which looking at the prices of the respective dlcs makes this not really suitable for beginners
Anyone an Idea if you play Aragon and PU castille how you can get Granada for the Alhambra monument? i am now already Sardinia piedmont going towards italy but still want that province :/
Why you don't delete forts?
why my advisors are different?
Day 1 of asking for Aztec Guide