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Yes I did scream Scotland from my work cubicle. Luckily most people are Scottish here so it worked out, naturally sparking rebellion we overthrew our English boss. Victory at last.
I enjoy playing as scotland but I believe the mission tree is lacking and it kinda forces you to form uk. I would like to rp a bit and have a bit more flavour with my scottish bois.
I'm not sure how possible it still is cause I've personally never tried it but you could form Ireland first to get a couple more mission modifiers and stuff and then form the UK, or maybe even switch to Norwegian or a French culture instead and form those nations. It just takes a bit of work to do
@@ChrisVillagomez yeah but the irish mission tree is not that good either both are mostly focused around claim on england and a couple of colonial. Once you have conquered the british island you pretty much done.
I always like the idea of the recreation of Gallia Celtica with the idea of creating a PU over France as Scotland and Brittany but I can see that getting a bit... well, steep. lol
If you’re going to form England/UK, you can save massively on points by not coring English provinces except the few needed to form England, feeding the rest of England to your vassals, then forming England and annexing your vassals for free because as England, you already have cores on them.
nice clear guide, one kind of unnecessary trick not mentioned (unless i missed it) is that in that first war you can transfer occupation of english fort territories to your subject to save a few extra ducats 👍👍
I just tried recreating this six times. First two times Spain & England did not rival each other. Third and fourth time they did, but then England gave up Maine without a fight. Fifth time England & Spain did nor rival each other again and sixth time (one again) the English gave up Maine without a fight. I am not sure if I am being tortured by the RNG gods, but do prefer Guides where we do not have to rely on these kind of chances too much!
Alternate strat: take Ceuta in the early English war, open with Exploration/Expansion and dominate the colonial game by subjugating England, Norway then eventually France and the Iberians by getting them as vassals/PU over time.
I don't know if this is different in 1.36 but in my game I have tried over and over again, but I never manage to get a royal marriage (or alliance) with Castile dus to them having a -50 modifier for having too many diplomatic relations. That in turn makes it easy for Portugal to help out Engalnd and that will wreck my forces even if England has no manpower left after fighting France for a few years.
I don't recommend lowering autonomy in Ireland, since each Irish minor tag has its own rebels, and the provinces are low development anyway, so the additional money/manpower isn't really worth what you lose by fighting the rebels.
Hawk, it was quite a while since this guide. Can you do a different one with a different approach. England regularly changes dynasties early in the game, so a peaceful, diplomatic approach could get a Stuart on their throne, and ending up having England under a PU.
i remember a few years back i once tried to play scotland. i had france and even denmark agree to "help" me in my independence against england...... i ended up losing that war because neither france nor denmark and it´s subjects decided to try and land in england and england easily steamrolled my army on their own. i never touched scotland since. that was back when there were only like 5 dlc´s
In the first war vs England its also a good move to quickly white peace one of their irish minor allies. This way ou can attack them soon so they will call in England which allows you to reset the long truce you ll have with England.
Red Hawk - huge fan but the likelihood that Castile and England are rivaled to each other and then ALSO when the Surrender of Maine fires that England and France go to war is extremely unlikely... lot's of fun though but it takes a LONG time to get this to all align.
Dude the war with France is easy peasy as long as you get 2 of the following possible allies: Castile, Burgundy, Aragon, Austria (requires some sucking up diplomatically for those favors). Bonus for Savoy for just a little more juice, doesn't count towards your required 2, but certainly helps (as long as they desire land from France that is).
Always remember to check in your diplomacy tab under desired provinces. You can click on other countries in that view to see what provinces they desire (right click, or youll set one of their provinces as your desired province). So long as any of the countries you ally have at least one province of France marked yellow or red, you can call them into your war when the event "surrender of maine" triggers by calling them in by promising land. You don't actually have to give them any land when you win and peace out. In fact strongly suggest only giving any land to any allies that you want to keep long term. Burgundy might be a good candidate because of Burgundian inheritance event. Any other allies that you don't need for anything but he war with France: just don't give them anything. Their trust in you will go way down and they'll break the alliance, but what do you care? Especially if you were eying up their land for yourself anyway.
had perfect set-up events in my run, then got to the first war with England and Castile was in debt and wouldn't help so I had to restart. Feels bad man
Why would you get the loans early if you‘re not fighting England till years later? And shouldn‘t you take the Irish minors while England is stuck in their war?
I'm trying to follow the guide but a) either they have changed some stuff in 1.37 or i don't have access to some dlc (the parliament thing is not there for instance), b) England starts with a general with a +4 in shock which makes battles incredibly difficult since the AI seems to be rolling 9s a lot (like almost 50% of the time, and when it's not it rarely rolls below a 4). I've managed to conquer a lot of territory by save scumming but now I'm broke (still have a ton of loans and high inflation). Granted I'm very new to the game so for the time being I might go back to my Castile save, which seemed to go a lot more smoothly...
first of all, either buy the subscription for all dlc or get it via the seven seas 2nd of all, if your new, do not play nations like scotland, play in india as a nation like vijayanagar or jaunpur, those are not complex or brainless countries like ottomans, they will teach you mechanics like expansion, allies, devving for institution, etc
Did Mann flip through rebels in the middle of the war? I saw it came up as a claim/reconquest before the war, but then during the peace deal it was already yours. Regardless great video, very informative
Seems like a waste not to pick infrastructure as a colonial nation rather than economic for the eventual +1 colony dev policy. Further more you had plenty of opportunity to colonize much earlier since you planned to take provinces from Norway and could have taken some from Portugal as well to give you the necessary range.
In my most recent run I formed the Empire of Greater Scotland by PU'ing Burgundy and then whittling down France. Scottish ideas may not be super busted, but that +20% manpower and +25% force limit let you do some pretty nutty things very early on, like maintaining a 100k force in the 1500s.
I managed to get England to that little thin strip like near the end of the video but then France (my ally) invaded and annexed all of the rest. I definitely won't be strong enough to fight France. My other allies are Castile (who owns Aragon, Naples and a shittonne in North Africa) and Sweden and France basically has everything in the France region. Any tips?
Pirate Scotland can easily be made if you feed The Isles 3 provinces, including Perth, and then release them and privateer the North Sea a bunch. Be a pirate with the guarantee under France. :) Ever wanted to control Great Britain, but as a Pirate Republic?
its easy but its not easier than England come on. Like the fact alone that you have to keep restarting until you get favorable circrumstances means that england is easier becaus they dont have to do that.
Nah the England start is not harder. If you are COMPLETE noob it is, but as you of course know you can very easily just give away maine and avoid the war entirely. Rebels are not hard to deal with and I believe they even made the mission that gives claims on Ireland easier to complete either by reducing the amount of required force-limit percentage or increasing England's starting manpower. You used to have to exploit dev to get enough manpower for it and that no longer is the case as of Domination I believe.
😭😭bruv just finished this weekend a scotland run, and only now i have a guide to make it good ?🤣🤣 damn now that i finished the video, noticed i should've payd more attention to england ideas, since later i only stole colonies from denmark, france and spain, and could had england kick start that :(
@@GlizzyGoblin757 If you're going GB, then that very first war with France over Maine isn't worth it. If you go through with that, you get an angsty subject that you can't tame for the next couple decades and a ton of AE (and you have to wait 50 years before you can START to integrate). Instead, you can release Gascony and sell Maine to either Brittany or Provence (the latter is better because it causes France to turn on them and declare on them, which you can maybe subjugate them after you fight France and feed back the cores. Curry favors with Castille and/or Aragon, as well as Austria, then declare on France with those and you WILL mop the floor with France. This is something you can do in the first decade or so. In the few runs I've done this, I typically have pretty much every province (minus the champagne area because of AE hit) by admin tech 10.
Eh, Scotland is only easier and more fun than England if you have no clue how to deal with the nasty events for England for the first 70 years of the game (the starting ruler being 0/0/0 with villains law, the surrender of mane event, the war of the roses and finally the reformation event chain 40 years later). But you also miss out on 5/5/5 Henry the 8th, the random events which give massive amounts of mana, the free positive stability, having a parliament which gives massive bonuses for every debate for only a minor negative cost. Overall I find Scotland to be a rather safe vanilla avoidance tactic. England is simply stronger and overall a better choice in the longrun if you plan to form Great Britain anyway. Easiest way to deal with surrender of Mane if you don't plan on retaking France is to simply give it to them and move on, take the stability hit (you'll get back to 0 once the war of the roses concludes), but before that out the gate make sure you have the debate to give 5 crownland, then take land to immediately start with 40% crownland to remove the villain law. Then to deal with 0/0/0 ruler give out privileges to get +1 in every category. Then hire the good cheap advisers, give wine and wool to clergy then use the money to upgrade your diplo and admin advisers to +2 then focus military and boon you've overcome your bad 0/0/0 rulers mana ratio. Hire Free Company and max out your military and how you have enough troops to hand the war of the roses. Simple.
Considering how much Hawk likes to make fun of people for misusing merchants in late game in his “rate your campaign” series, his handling of his merchants in this early game vid is… not great! No excuse not to still be in Sevilla and Champagne as soon as you’ve locked down those alliances!
How did the Isle of Mann come under your ownership during the war before the peace deal? Rebels or an event? Edit. I guess France returned it on the peace deal
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Aragon and england
Ming now that you have played it once?
Scotland isn't easier, as england just give up maine, and later attack france with all your allies.
I would like a Livonian Order into Livonia guide.
Yes so so so good! Could we get one for Great Horde?
Yes I did scream Scotland from my work cubicle. Luckily most people are Scottish here so it worked out, naturally sparking rebellion we overthrew our English boss. Victory at last.
cringe larp
why didn't you guys vote to secede from great britain then?
@@andrewstachowski3375 It's crazy that you guys deemed the referendum illegal when it did pan out
i'm not a brit i just think its funny how cucked the scots are now
Cringe
I enjoy playing as scotland but I believe the mission tree is lacking and it kinda forces you to form uk. I would like to rp a bit and have a bit more flavour with my scottish bois.
Agree that the missions are lacking
I'm not sure how possible it still is cause I've personally never tried it but you could form Ireland first to get a couple more mission modifiers and stuff and then form the UK, or maybe even switch to Norwegian or a French culture instead and form those nations. It just takes a bit of work to do
@@ChrisVillagomez yeah but the irish mission tree is not that good either both are mostly focused around claim on england and a couple of colonial. Once you have conquered the british island you pretty much done.
Form England but culture convert all English provinces to Scottish for best results.
I always like the idea of the recreation of Gallia Celtica with the idea of creating a PU over France as Scotland and Brittany but I can see that getting a bit... well, steep. lol
If you’re going to form England/UK, you can save massively on points by not coring English provinces except the few needed to form England, feeding the rest of England to your vassals, then forming England and annexing your vassals for free because as England, you already have cores on them.
I love seeing guides for lesser-known and mid-low-powered nations
SCOTLAND FOREVEEEEER!!!!!
nice clear guide, one kind of unnecessary trick not mentioned (unless i missed it) is that in that first war you can transfer occupation of english fort territories to your subject to save a few extra ducats 👍👍
I got the Burgundian Inheritance on my play through and subdued France by 1500, super fun campaign so far.
I love Scotland I just wish they got some unique mechanics or flavor when you formed Great Britain as them 😕
I just tried recreating this six times. First two times Spain & England did not rival each other. Third and fourth time they did, but then England gave up Maine without a fight. Fifth time England & Spain did nor rival each other again and sixth time (one again) the English gave up Maine without a fight. I am not sure if I am being tortured by the RNG gods, but do prefer Guides where we do not have to rely on these kind of chances too much!
You can easily beat england’s armies by yourself even if they’re not at war with castille
You can easily beat england’s armies by yourself even if they’re not at war with castille
Just alt f4 if England surrenders Maine rather than start over.
@@StackerBA The rest of the players will be so happy that you demand restarts every 5 minutes...
@olanordmann2743 this is a single player play through
Alternate strat: take Ceuta in the early English war, open with Exploration/Expansion and dominate the colonial game by subjugating England, Norway then eventually France and the Iberians by getting them as vassals/PU over time.
"and only rival England" As a Scottish Nationalist this gets the based seal of approval from me
I mean, almost every body in north western Europe can agree
I can't believe the thumbnail actually has your in-game borders
Love how the campaign ends with a 62 year old trastamara as the heir 😂
Wait it’s all Spanish? Always has been.
Scotland to Roman Empire would be a hilarious outcome, seeing as Scotland was one of the few places Rome just said 'nope, not bothering.'
Red Hawk can we get an updated Denmark guide? I feel like my first war against Livonians and Teutons I get my butt kicked and rack up a lot of debt :(
Yeah I'll do Denmark soon actually
Scotland and mewar have been my favorite campaigns ever in eu4
I don't know if this is different in 1.36 but in my game I have tried over and over again, but I never manage to get a royal marriage (or alliance) with Castile dus to them having a -50 modifier for having too many diplomatic relations. That in turn makes it easy for Portugal to help out Engalnd and that will wreck my forces even if England has no manpower left after fighting France for a few years.
i was able to do it in 1.37, the only difference with mine is England surrendered Maine but i still went ahead and won easy
Excellent! I’ve always wanted to try Scotland but never got around to it and could never find a good guide
Funny. Today me & my fience started our Scotland trip. 😅
Why no one is waiting a month to reroll Parlament issues. It's so useful
I have waited a long time for this video lmao.
speaking of gb, i'd love to see an angevin guide
I don't recommend lowering autonomy in Ireland, since each Irish minor tag has its own rebels, and the provinces are low development anyway, so the additional money/manpower isn't really worth what you lose by fighting the rebels.
Hawk, it was quite a while since this guide. Can you do a different one with a different approach. England regularly changes dynasties early in the game, so a peaceful, diplomatic approach could get a Stuart on their throne, and ending up having England under a PU.
MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED
Спасибо за видео, обожаю играть за Шотландию
I did the beginning right just got occupied up north and went bankrupt so I’m gonna run it back for the one time
i remember a few years back i once tried to play scotland. i had france and even denmark agree to "help" me in my independence against england...... i ended up losing that war because neither france nor denmark and it´s subjects decided to try and land in england and england easily steamrolled my army on their own.
i never touched scotland since.
that was back when there were only like 5 dlc´s
Red Hawk, can we get an updated guide for Ottawa? I feel like we haven't had one in a while, and I always get my butt kicked!
no
In the first war vs England its also a good move to quickly white peace one of their irish minor allies. This way ou can attack them soon so they will call in England which allows you to reset the long truce you ll have with England.
Got Auld alliance reversed back in 1.30 days and have not touched them since,intersted to see how you do and if anything has changed
Can youget auld reverse if you pu france or doea it have to be vassalisTion?
Great video! I would like to see a guide on underrated nations like The Isles or like Kandy and Kotte
Austria, very scary with their 5 boats
Red Hawk - huge fan but the likelihood that Castile and England are rivaled to each other and then ALSO when the Surrender of Maine fires that England and France go to war is extremely unlikely... lot's of fun though but it takes a LONG time to get this to all align.
You have not considered that Castile will not join when in debt :(
Playing scotland atm. But I don't seem to have the Edinburgh Castle.
it requires the recent dlc
yeeees I have been waiting for this
I would really like a Genoa guide, that sounds neat
Dude the war with France is easy peasy as long as you get 2 of the following possible allies: Castile, Burgundy, Aragon, Austria (requires some sucking up diplomatically for those favors). Bonus for Savoy for just a little more juice, doesn't count towards your required 2, but certainly helps (as long as they desire land from France that is).
Always remember to check in your diplomacy tab under desired provinces. You can click on other countries in that view to see what provinces they desire (right click, or youll set one of their provinces as your desired province). So long as any of the countries you ally have at least one province of France marked yellow or red, you can call them into your war when the event "surrender of maine" triggers by calling them in by promising land. You don't actually have to give them any land when you win and peace out. In fact strongly suggest only giving any land to any allies that you want to keep long term. Burgundy might be a good candidate because of Burgundian inheritance event.
Any other allies that you don't need for anything but he war with France: just don't give them anything. Their trust in you will go way down and they'll break the alliance, but what do you care? Especially if you were eying up their land for yourself anyway.
had perfect set-up events in my run, then got to the first war with England and Castile was in debt and wouldn't help so I had to restart. Feels bad man
Why would you get the loans early if you‘re not fighting England till years later?
And shouldn‘t you take the Irish minors while England is stuck in their war?
I'm trying to follow the guide but a) either they have changed some stuff in 1.37 or i don't have access to some dlc (the parliament thing is not there for instance), b) England starts with a general with a +4 in shock which makes battles incredibly difficult since the AI seems to be rolling 9s a lot (like almost 50% of the time, and when it's not it rarely rolls below a 4). I've managed to conquer a lot of territory by save scumming but now I'm broke (still have a ton of loans and high inflation). Granted I'm very new to the game so for the time being I might go back to my Castile save, which seemed to go a lot more smoothly...
first of all, either buy the subscription for all dlc or get it via the seven seas
2nd of all, if your new, do not play nations like scotland, play in india as a nation like vijayanagar or jaunpur, those are not complex or brainless countries like ottomans, they will teach you mechanics like expansion, allies, devving for institution, etc
For Scotland!
I wish you’d say strengthen noble privileges like the old way :(
Did Mann flip through rebels in the middle of the war? I saw it came up as a claim/reconquest before the war, but then during the peace deal it was already yours. Regardless great video, very informative
quite often France force England to give it to Scotland as part of the peace deal after the Maine event
@@barrycowe5878 ooooh that makes sense, thank you
Seems like a waste not to pick infrastructure as a colonial nation rather than economic for the eventual +1 colony dev policy. Further more you had plenty of opportunity to colonize much earlier since you planned to take provinces from Norway and could have taken some from Portugal as well to give you the necessary range.
Well , playing Scotland and not going pirate is alien to me.
With British ideas and pirate republic , you can rule the seas like never before
In my most recent run I formed the Empire of Greater Scotland by PU'ing Burgundy and then whittling down France. Scottish ideas may not be super busted, but that +20% manpower and +25% force limit let you do some pretty nutty things very early on, like maintaining a 100k force in the 1500s.
I managed to get England to that little thin strip like near the end of the video but then France (my ally) invaded and annexed all of the rest. I definitely won't be strong enough to fight France. My other allies are Castile (who owns Aragon, Naples and a shittonne in North Africa) and Sweden and France basically has everything in the France region. Any tips?
Could have been making a lot more ducats if you didn't still collect in Sevilla/Champagne untill like 1495 :
Pirate Scotland can easily be made if you feed The Isles 3 provinces, including Perth, and then release them and privateer the North Sea a bunch. Be a pirate with the guarantee under France. :)
Ever wanted to control Great Britain, but as a Pirate Republic?
Spain keeps falling into civil war and refusing my call lol
Also England occasionally allies Austria which is a huge pain
Did you annex Wales after making them a vassal?
is it an expansion? cause I can't see some of these commands. I think I have just the basic eu4
its easy but its not easier than England come on. Like the fact alone that you have to keep restarting until you get favorable circrumstances means that england is easier becaus they dont have to do that.
WOuld it work for someone who doesn't own Domination?
I would like to go Reformed as Scotland because of the unique events and history
Catholic Stuart UK though….
Yeah no way I can play Scotland as anything other than hardcore Presbyterians
Yes easy i did it too even without any dlcs .... it was lot of fun !!
if castille doesnt rival england, allying aragon to deal with portugal instead
Nah the England start is not harder. If you are COMPLETE noob it is, but as you of course know you can very easily just give away maine and avoid the war entirely. Rebels are not hard to deal with and I believe they even made the mission that gives claims on Ireland easier to complete either by reducing the amount of required force-limit percentage or increasing England's starting manpower. You used to have to exploit dev to get enough manpower for it and that no longer is the case as of Domination I believe.
Actually is hard yes, most of the time the English surrenders Maine and France dont declare war on them to conquer the rest at least with my saves.
SCOTLAND FOREVER!!!!!!
Can you list the mods/dlcs you are playing with so I can maybe try to buy the same
No mods, all DLCs.
Only 2 days ago I started a Scotland run 😂😂
😭😭bruv just finished this weekend a scotland run, and only now i have a guide to make it good ?🤣🤣
damn now that i finished the video, noticed i should've payd more attention to england ideas, since later i only stole colonies from denmark, france and spain, and could had england kick start that :(
Am I the only England player who doesn’t go to war with France? It’s pretty trivial to avoid it
Why would you want to avoid it? Its pretty easy to win and if you do you’ve essentially won the game already.
@@GlizzyGoblin757 I like to colonise asap. France is never really a factor for me. Spain ends up being the biggest problem
@@GlizzyGoblin757 If you're going GB, then that very first war with France over Maine isn't worth it. If you go through with that, you get an angsty subject that you can't tame for the next couple decades and a ton of AE (and you have to wait 50 years before you can START to integrate). Instead, you can release Gascony and sell Maine to either Brittany or Provence (the latter is better because it causes France to turn on them and declare on them, which you can maybe subjugate them after you fight France and feed back the cores. Curry favors with Castille and/or Aragon, as well as Austria, then declare on France with those and you WILL mop the floor with France. This is something you can do in the first decade or so. In the few runs I've done this, I typically have pretty much every province (minus the champagne area because of AE hit) by admin tech 10.
Eh, Scotland is only easier and more fun than England if you have no clue how to deal with the nasty events for England for the first 70 years of the game (the starting ruler being 0/0/0 with villains law, the surrender of mane event, the war of the roses and finally the reformation event chain 40 years later). But you also miss out on 5/5/5 Henry the 8th, the random events which give massive amounts of mana, the free positive stability, having a parliament which gives massive bonuses for every debate for only a minor negative cost. Overall I find Scotland to be a rather safe vanilla avoidance tactic. England is simply stronger and overall a better choice in the longrun if you plan to form Great Britain anyway.
Easiest way to deal with surrender of Mane if you don't plan on retaking France is to simply give it to them and move on, take the stability hit (you'll get back to 0 once the war of the roses concludes), but before that out the gate make sure you have the debate to give 5 crownland, then take land to immediately start with 40% crownland to remove the villain law. Then to deal with 0/0/0 ruler give out privileges to get +1 in every category. Then hire the good cheap advisers, give wine and wool to clergy then use the money to upgrade your diplo and admin advisers to +2 then focus military and boon you've overcome your bad 0/0/0 rulers mana ratio. Hire Free Company and max out your military and how you have enough troops to hand the war of the roses.
Simple.
The Bald Hawk
pls make an england guide
Considering how much Hawk likes to make fun of people for misusing merchants in late game in his “rate your campaign” series, his handling of his merchants in this early game vid is… not great!
No excuse not to still be in Sevilla and Champagne as soon as you’ve locked down those alliances!
FREEEEEDOM
mecklenburgian france??? low countries released?? you had a general for 50 years?? those are some nice memes right there
How did the Isle of Mann come under your ownership during the war before the peace deal? Rebels or an event?
Edit. I guess France returned it on the peace deal
gonna wonna primadonna
mofaka no face cam?
FREEEEEDDOOOOOOOM
苏格兰应该很难吧，我觉得西欧国家都好难玩
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Portugal 💀💀💀💀💀
Wooo first comment!
Congratulations! 🎉
Promote English culture??? As Scotland. Poor choice son.