My WORST campaign in 4000 hours
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ม.ค. 2024
- EU4 Najd can be one of the hardest starts in EU4. We can get the EU4 Jihad achievement and that's what we're trying to do today... but there's a problem. Perhaps I should have consulted an EU4 guide or EU4 tutorial for this one because I almost go bankrupt as well as having the worst RNG possible and I'm pretty sure the AI was cheating. Regardless, if you want to see more of this campaign, make sure to like this video and subscribe for more EU4 Laith!
My WORST campaign in 4000 hours
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Like the video if you think I should power through the agony and try to get the achievement. But also I'd be okay with extinguishing this dumpster fire of a concept. Suffering is inevitable with it.
EDIT: THIS NIGHTMARE SERIES CONTINUES HERE - th-cam.com/video/wptjPYq9hVs/w-d-xo.html
Suffering through hours of gameplay only to post in January. Suffering is inevitable
you gotta continue this one
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering"
- Friedrich Nietzsche
You had me at suffering.❤😂
Why have you set rooting out corruption to the maximum cost? It'd save you 4 ducats a month and having some corruption is better than bankruptcy. Debasing the currency is a good way to get out of a jam without going bankrupt.
Laith : "I won't restart"
Paradox : "Say no more" (-3 stability and 0 good events 7 years in)
POV: My average EU4 experience
Are you okay?
What rank did he end up in ?
Fr me too
U survived many traumas
This is why I play with cheats I just can’t deal with the constant rng bs
I like how laith dislikes restarted constantly, he really shows adaptability and masochism
It's called being British
If you restart for an easy game then why are you doing a hard challenge?
@@snomcultist189 there is restarting for an easy game and then there is shitty 10 dev tribe that cant do anything if its gets hammered constantely by bad rng.
You can survive some small hardship even as a darn ten dev tribe, if your only seven years in a 400 year game, dont just give up.@@dai-belizariusz3087
@@dai-belizariusz3087Its not really RNG, if you have overextention/bad stability/bad corruption or other bad modifiers, you'll get more bad events than you'd normally get
PLEASE CONTINUE THIS SERIES. I’ve been wanting to see it for years!
reminds me of a hoi4 game I played 2 years ago. My friends played Germany and Hungary. I played Ethiopia (UMC Submod, back when it was several mods). It was absolutely agonising. When I could finally invade the British, they fucking reinforce meme'd me on almost every fucking tile, I was drunk and ended up crying. My friends have screenshots of my mental breakdown as we all had webcams on. Honestly, still the best night of my life.
yooo same picrew!!
@@_oceanstar holy shit
@@_oceanstar its a sign from god that we must play hoi4 together
@@phonzell4755 unfortunately I have no clue how to play hoi4
@@_oceanstar its ok it comes naturally to you by having the same picrew pfp as me
Tiwi has been real quiet since this dropped
At this moment im at 330/363 achievements so far, with more than 5000 hours into the game, and I can wholeheartedly say the "Jihad" achiev had me onto the verge of madness the most out of them all. Watching you get through the same pain is soothing the trauma, the sheer quantity of bad events this country gets is turned to 11 .
I'm surprised Eat your greens wasn't the worst
@@Abba_Fan maybe that's one they don't have.
I didn’t think it was that bad, I still don’t have WC because I get bored after I get hegemony
"EU4 players aren't masochistic"
Also EU4 players:
This is truly, utterly horrendous. More please c:
YES!
Please continue this campaign. It'll be all the more satisfying when you get the achievement.
I empathise with you. Najd is a miserable experience.
POV: Establishment of the first two Saudi States
It's unironically pleasing and comforting to see that my favorite EU4 streamer/player does save scumming as much as I do
Haasa is an absolute nightmare to fight early, I usually put them off a little just because of the level 3 coastal fort.
I don't think you can afford to in the najd start. They're the only country in the region you can reliably declare on without allies, and the trade centre helps you a lot in maintaining your economy. Should nearly always be first war.
Considering I've done the Najd start more than a few times without declaring Haasa first, I can confirm you afford it without taking them on first.
@@IamCogs I believe I misspoke slightly - you can do whatever sequence of wars and it will work fine for najd, but all I'm saying is that the ideal start really should involve haasa first, imo.
@@IamCogswhat posseses you to do Najd multiple times
@@BasileosHerodou I actually enjoy Najd as a nation, and most recently for the new achievement and mission tree! Before it was mostly for the other achievements they were capable of doing.
The sunk-cost fallacy explained in eu4
It's weird how the game keeps crashing so much
Laith: “With one rule: no restarting.”
Laith 0.001 seconds later: “I never said I wasn’t going to restart.”
Worst?, I remember the Montferrat one
A game where Laith doesn`t just blob out like nothing else? More of that please.
Laith: "I won't restart"
Also Laith: "To be fair I never said I wasn't going to restart"
Would love to see this continue as a series, both the pain of Najd and other achievement runs.
12:44 Yallah come on! Just rise up! said Lawrance
You know, I thoroughly enjoyed the Tiwi Campain, but this? This truly is something special.
I look forward to part 2 with much delight!
Honestly my favorite eu4 Vid across Creators I love ist when a challenge really goes sideways
Used to try it a lot on each patch until i finally got it !
Really looking forward to the next episode, i hope we get it !
This video kinda reminds me of my last Anbennar campaign. I was playing as one of the Sun Elves and there's a scripted religious incident where other Sun Elf countries can send investigators to you. During the investigation, there's an event that makes you go to 1v1 war against the country that sent them or lose 10 legitimacy. The whole thing is pretty early in the campaign, so you're not able to fight everyone left and right yet. Losing 10 legitimacy doesn't sound that bad, but the thing is, this event can happen as many times as it wants. One year into the incident, I went from 100 to 30 legitimacy and was so angry that it just doesn't stop.
But in the end it was the most fun campaign I had in Anbennar so far.
I'd just be consoling that shit I let a few bad events happen but if they spam themselves I just override the bullshit rng
@@Brakiros Part of the gimmick of the Sun Elves (and a lot of nations in Anbennar) is that things are *supposed* to be bad for a bit. That's the flavor, is taking an awful position and a degraded empire and putting it back together. Many of the missions focus around that. If you just use the console to alleviate the flavor of the nation, then there's no real point in playing that nation. Might as well just play Wex or Lorent instead.
@@hirocheeto7795 oh so the events are intentionally weighted to throw themselves at you, that makes more sense.
@@Brakiros Yeah, pretty much. It doesn't feel fun in the moment, but then you'll probably get a bunch of positive events afterwards if you do well.
This has inspired me to give Najd a go.
Clearly if Laith sucked up all bad events and all of that, it’ll be easier for me.
How was/is it?
@@dango6266 I posted a follow up on Laiths follow up video.
It’s going great, allied Ottomans and Timurids within two months of the start and it’s only been like 15 years in game and I own most of the Arabian peninsula.
Highly recommend it!
Would love to see this series continued
Laith, A Brit: I have three degrees and I don't even use em.
Me, an American: How much does a pack of ramen cost?
No achievement in eu4 has vexed me more than jihad. I have done a wc run as Orissa, hisn kayfa, and even ghazimukh (didn’t finish). There is something unbelievably cursed about Najd and I don’t know what it is.
On my best attempt, I conquered most of the mountains in the Middle East, but the old ottoman siege ability blew my threw eight mountain forts. I couldn’t even win attritional battles on rampart mountain forts. One of the only games I have ever rage quit tbh.
Im happy that my Jihad achievement run was nothing close to this. I actually found it kinda chill with all the new flavor they added in King of kings.
Had a game recently as byzantium where i just tried to fight it through despite having a horrible war against the ottomans. And then hungry and venice declared war. But fought those off. Poland declared fought them off. Near bankruptcy then mameluks attack just barley comes out on top with my country basically in ruin bankruptcy just around the corner ottoman peace is over and they declare with the help of france and bohemia. Did not survive that war at all sadly.
But hope your game goes better as you after all have slightly more hours and alot more skill than me. Can't wait to see the next episode
Please continue the series! As an average Arabia enjoyer I am very interested
Also my campaign as Najd was maybe the hardest in the latest update except for Aq Qoyunlu. I swear I hate the Ottomans so much in this game
35:43 what little sanity Laith had left disappeared in this moment
Nice one
Thank you for this suggestion. After 5 restarts I got an fulfilling try and now 20 years in I almost got the entite arabian penincula
0:27 No restart! Understandable.
Can't wait for the next part
This might be the best playthrough for us to learn.
continue the run, it is fun seing Laith in agony
I LOVE THIS VIDEO PLEASE CONTINUE!!
laith with curls making me act up
Beautiful! I love this
I had a mamluks run like this. Think I was up around 30 corruption because my techs were so unbalanced.
"This is depressing, so I need to fight another war"
This is the best campaign he's ever done, more please :)
Guys, like and subscribe because Laith needs to be able to afford a therapist
Jeez we need a health warning on this video for folk to check their blood pressure! All this second hand salt is dangerous but man was it good haha
Finally a playthrough I can actually relate to!
Great stuff
It would be nice to see you do a less cursed najd run too
50% of this play through is laith looking at the steam library.
Laith's hair is playing tall
Commenting for the algo so the video brings in more doe and Laith has to keep suffering
what degrees do you have laith kinda curious guessing history but not sure what else?
I had around 30 failed attempts of jihad. Most of them ended because Mamluks declared on me in 1446
my current najd run i definitely restarted quite a few times where mamluks declared on me faster than i could ally anyone useful 😭and then even if you ally the ottomans they start to want your land pretty fast. it's an awkward diplomatic juggling act for sure
I always end up getting stackwiped by the Arabian minors😂
You mean in game right?
This gives me hope that my Frisian runs are actually possible.
It's funny because Laith really thinks that, we're just gonna let him free of pure suffering? HA, laughable man, if not laudable.. but you will continue. The Najd name placements calls for it.
My worst EU4 campaign was my very first and last one, where I tried playing Byzantium, lost every war, and quit.
every time i come back to your videos you have a different hairstyle
Bro has the "i havent been out in months cut"
Great video ! and hair buddy xD
Literally my Granada campaign yesterday... Finally got that Re-reconquista achievement tho 😊 just took till 1600 hahaha
Don't ask how I know this but, if you just refuse to stab up for long enough on -3 stab, you'll get an event where one of your *allies* just gives you some stability for free, I think its like 2 maybe?
Corruption and income like this you’d think he was playing Meiou XD
This makes me fully convinced i have the best luck of all time. I usually just chill at 3 stab through events...
oh my god this is the campaign im playing right now 😭the timurids lived as a rival to the ottomans in my run and made a great ally until lategame when i could start taking their land for the mission and to unify islam, but they made my trade so much more awkward without being able to fully control hormuz for a while. my economy was a disaster until the 1600s lmao. my inflation was uh. ugly to say the least
the new mission tree is a fun time though!
Ah yes, this reminds me exactly of my Najd playthough
You can do it Laith. Pain is temporary, achievements are forever 😂
Your pain satisfies us all!
This is literally my average level of pain due to rng
almost make the start sound like you enjoyed Tiwi
The Red hawk experience
my problem with this achievement is that it gets incredibly boring and tedious the longer it goes on. The sheer amount of provinces you need to conquer is maddening.
hair is looking clean fr
You gotta learn to live in the chaos when things go wrong.
I'd like another episode if you're willing to make one.
This is going to feel so good when you get it though.
I did that achievement like 4-5 months ago and i didn't enjoy that campaign as well...
This campaign is the game retaking all the luck it gave you during the Athens run
you should convert everyone (including your head) to Barber 'wink wink'
It seems like you didn't give your daily sacrifice to the RNG Gods 😂😂
ah yes another 40 minutes of laith torturing himself for our amusement
Modern version of torture for entertainment
I would give my third born for a part 2
Fun idea for an achievement:
Form Arabia
Have the Sa'ud dynasty
Own the entirity of Arabia and the Levant
Have Great Britain as a vassal
first restart wasnt necasary as the fort had no garrison so 1 siege tick and it wouldve ended
i saw the title, and smiled
Hope this covers about 0.005% of those student loans
I played my first game on very hard as Rassids, all I can say it is one hell of an experience, the whole area is low dev, so you gain little money with little manpower and on top of that you will have to face of the mamluks and ottomans and getting allies as shia is a pain and if you manage to ally the ottomans, they realy realy want provinces that you need for your missions and will unally you even if they are not even close to getting them just because you hold them.
the more pain you feel the more us the viewers grow in power
2:26 three degrees is impressive. What did you get?
To be fair, at least you can expand *cough cough* Tiwi campaign *cough*
Tiwi campaign has left the chat
Another "Laith loves suffering" series like Tiwi? Sometimes I wonder why you do this to yourself. In fact, the negative events are horrible, I would've restarted when this happens too much.
Also you're going to Hormuz, that's like going to Brazil, but arabian.
You know the drill. I'm having a terrible time physically today. Maybe you could brighten it by playing a Fire Emblem Game?
What day is it though
@@TheSocialStreamers The day I have an ear infection, a cold, a headache, just got back from Christmas break, had to do rehearsal while desperately needing to sit down, and sprained my ankle while rushing off the bus.
Also thank you for responding. I know this can be annoying, but I hope you know it's all in good fun.
Second Last Train Home video when?
Liking and commenting to let you know you're not doing this for free or nobody
That being said, youtube doesn't seem to be pushing your content as it did before
It's a shame you did that first restart because their capital had 0 troops and would have fallen in 1 month tick.