I really like using this CB when i have to much AE but still wish to do something productive. I also love using it when one of my rivals is getting wrecked and are tiny and weak. Declare this war before they become invalid can sometimes result in ezpz war with big pay off.
Thank you for the suggestions! I'm quite naive in my games, and I find it more historically accurate just to sit there sometimes and wait for a better position, but of course that's not useful if you want to get the best out of your game or get some difficult achievement.
Great guide even for me with my 600 or so hours. Even when considering I'm playing a pre 1.2 patch where this peace option isn't available. On the flip side you get a lot more prestige for removing rivals pre 1.2 IIRC
"Is humiliate rival CB useless? You decide." Depends on the country. With Brandenburg, it is a nice way to get a lot of monarch point early on because Brandenburg is strong. But if you're playing somebody like the Mamulks, you're likely never gonna use, maybe against Ethiopia, but that's it.
as france, i had portugal, aragon and castille as my rivals. i had an army of 100 men with 105% discipline (mid 1500s~~) and they had around 60 men(with all their armies combined) i ended up getting 100% war score against them after a few years of war, and humilliated each one of them. i had a pretty good power projection, which lasted me long enough to get a lot of points, which was very useful ^^ the fun thing was that england didnt give a shit about me as sweden and norway were invading them somehow. so
Very clever good sir. I suppose the key is in having enough small neighbours to make this work, which the HRE has in bucket loads at the start. One might even be able to keep up with the Ottomans with this stratgey lol.
Yeah totally agree. I think HRE throws this up because the A/E is so much higher that the rewards can outweigh early expansion. Italy region could also be a good area to do this, and get an early push to the first idea group. In my humble opinion :)
Only differences I would make to this would I would have bought at least 1 merc at the start, manpower is insanely important at this phase of this sort of early campaign, and 1k mercs can end up saving you double or triple their number in manpower, and even with prices of merc troops being increased, its still worth it. Also, if you aren't taking land from your primary target, and are going to be licking your wounds afterwords, taking some land or a vassal of any of your war target's allies, depending on your long term goals, rather than immediately white peacing them out - might as well let some AE expire while your war exhaustion and manpower recovers. If you take a vassal, this lets you continue the train as well by utilizing their CBs as well.
That is an amazing way to kickstart mil tech4. Also is great for nations who have a weak leader to recover a bit the monarch point gap. I discovered it with Theodoro, took Crimea, Genoa and Georgia two times each and was absolutely bathing in points and power projection, and these change completely the dynamic of an otherwise weak start. For Brandenburg is damn OP :)) Also something to keep in mind is that power projection stacks over 100 so if you hover over it you get to see the actual PP.
One of my most memorable games was a recent one with Killdare. Ireland is the perfect place for playing around with this particular CB, as long as England doesn't start meddling in Irish affairs too much. And with so many Irish OPMs, someone is bound to annex your rivals, making room for more. Bringing Scotland and France into a war with England and Portugal, its traditional ally, enabled me to snatch Portuguese Madeira - my gateway into the new world. In 1466, I sent out my first colonist across the Atlantic. I moved my capital to Delaware (USA), and before Columbus ''discovered'' it in 1492, I had already secured a good chunk of the New world, setting myself up for an epic true-one-tag game of complete Irish domination of the Americas (and more). BudgetMonk 119, if you're by any chance looking for game suggestions these days, please try it :) I'd love to see your insights and how much better you'd handle a similar situation! Cheers from the province of Krain!
Conquering shit while never worrying about the "power projection" thing or anything else, I started worrying about it in my game, and damn the bonuses are great.
I don't think it's bad but being fair it is very situational. If you don't have vulnerable rivals wars can get very costly and the trade of ducats/manpower > monarch points may no longer be efficient - especially if you're wanting to grow your borders in other directions. Although the ducats can pay themselves back as you showed if they've got allies to pick on. With that said I do think this was an impressive show of its use I may have to try this when I next go for a 'tall' playthrough and my rival-wars aren't large for a while. Great video! Would love to see more demonstrations like this! I wouldn't have considered it personally.
this cb can easily be used to evade coalitions as coalitions won't form when you are at war... 1 day before ending a war with insane AE you can humiliate some rival and white peace after some time or beat him up depending on what you want. meanwhile the coalition can be ez dealt with
I think this is a great if not the greatest strategy for playing tall. This might be a way to get permanently the best military in the world since you might be able to build a very small prussia with one of the highest dev in the world. It also is a great way to start games in Japan, since its quite similar to the hre(although old nations wont be released by the Shogun). But you can spawn the Renaissance without any problem and more important without falling behind in tech. Personally for me its nice to see those kind of videos from you since your opening move videos take the difficulty away that some achievments have where as this video simply gives you new ways of playing the game (after 1500 hours i have all achievments, except for ryuku and i HATE blobbing:D) so keep it up, well done!
I honestly thought that CB was so useless and would never have used that to declare war. I have around 200 hours into the game and am still a noob by this games standards so I struggle a lot with Brandenburg when I try to play them and you make it look so effortless using a CB I thought was useless I subscribed after seeing this video it was well worth the watch, informative and explained the mechanic well. 10/10 would recommend.
I have actually done this before, but not as smoothly as you pulled it off here (had some crap sieges which ate just enough manpower to force me to merc) and oh boy does it allow you to turbocharge basically any HRE start.
I haven't watched the video yet, but the humiliate rival CB is super useful to me! I use it multiple times in quick succession once I've increased the quality of my troops and my stability to quickly get back loads of monarch points.
why develop the provinces before renaissance spawns? Edit: just saw on week that European provinces with at least 10 dev get +0.05 yearly spread. Still wonder to wait as long as possible.
Development isn't only for institutions. You can spam a few hundred points in your provinces and it will have an effect of conquering a few provinces, and makes it much mor costly for your enemies to take
Badass! I'd say the utility of this CB is somewhat restricted if you are playing as a smaller nation in the HRE, but this is really eye opening! I'd like your recommendations on how to manage the mid 1500s as a OPM in the HRE after having expanded to 6-10 times the original size if you could manage to wrap that into a video. Usually my neighbors hate me at that point and AE slows down my progress so that I get dragged into defensive wars which make me vulnerable against my own rivals in turn.
The one cb I never used is trade conflict. I used humiliate rival a couple of times by accident! Also another great way to boost power projection (if you aren't the top great power) is with privateers and embargoes , permanent 50 PP with no decay!
Xanous it depends on the amount of ships you send, in my case when i send about 50 lights to privateer Seville node for 10PP, you then do it for the other 2 rivals to get more. Also send your rivals insults once in a while for a free 5 PP that one decays tho an it only works with one rival.
Some useful things in there, and an interesting video for sure, but it still feels like Humiliate rival is hugely situational. Pro-HRE Brandenburg's opening might be one of the few, but even then I'm not sure you wouldn't have gained more from conquest. As it is, you have the power to tech up ahead of time, have next to no manpower, and your immediate enemies are no weaker for it. If you were going for Prussia, I'm not sure this is a great start, and if you were going for Emperor then your priorities (Bohemia!) would clearly be elsewhere. I don't know the overall efficiency of it, but generally I prefer to take provinces from my rivals and eclipse them to generate MP. Obviously that means a hit to MP over the course of the game, but as someone who chases achievements (the harder ones of which are invariably map painting exercises), strategies to build tall feel counter-productive.
Tried it just now with Brandenburg, doesn't work anymore, all the rivals are either joining a trade league or allies to powerful allies. e.g. Poland, Bohemia
Umm i don't see when i used only 90, yes you need 1k at least to flip a province into your own control. Often i use less then 1k to simply prevent the enemy from recruiting from the province. This way i still have men available to fight. I then return and finish sieging the land once the enemy have no forces remaining.
I mean using humiliate rival in early game like that is good to put yourself ahead but later on it's just a waste cause you won't have problems with bad rulers just uninherit a bad heir and wait for a good one, while humiliate is just better because it costs 60 less and you can take provinces if it's just a normal declaration if the AE is dangerous still
I've noticed you and some other players have quite a few in-game options that I don't have, for instance "Nation focus" (not sure if the name is right) which allows getting more Administrative points for the cost of Diplomatic and Military. I do have all DLCs installed, do I need to install anything? Maybe feature is nation specific (now I play for Austria). Please advise how to get access to this feature. Thanks!
You mean focusing 1 of your monarch points? like gaining 2 more admin at the cost of 1 diplo and mil? this is infact a DLC i think wealth of nations if i am not mistaken. If this does not help you i don't think i can sorry. As i am not sure i understand the question.
Yes, exactly that feature. I did assume that is DLC, but I thought I do have all DLCs possible. ATM I have 2 installed "Star and Crescent" and "Women in History", as well as "Conquest of Constantinople Music Pack" and "Harsemen of the Crescent Unit Pack". Is that all? Ups, It looks like there is 30 more available, each costs from $6 to $22... And among them 9 expansions... Did you install all of them? Which one would you recommend to buy? I hope not all.. :) ?
The biggest flaw the the game is the constant dlc and the fact that it ends up costing more and more money. I personally would buy all the 9 expansions and not really bother with other content. Maybe 'third rome' dlc. Wait for the xmas sale on steam dude. or search for good bundles on line do not pay full price. Many are old and are much cheaper. GL
This CB fucks me up as Brandenburg Sometimes I accidentaly declare instead of Conquest on Pom and then after the truce ended they always bloody ally Denmark and when I DO declare Conquest CB I get focked
This is insane. I've played EU4 for over 800 hours and I've never come to realise this. The only feedback I have besides the fact that your amazing intuition and knowledge of the game, could you please edit these to become more focused and shorter? While I did watch the entire video I feel that the near 20 minute video is too long. This video could've been max 7 minutes, and if you wanted that ad revenue you could've stretched it to 10, but 20 minutes is too long...
Man I try this exact same strat but somehow all the opms have allied Bohemia, Denmark, Poland, and 5 of their neighbors by the time I can declare war with the cb feels bad man
You have to get a very lucky start for it to work. edit: Actually it almost never works. Madgeburg and Luneburg start the game off in the trade league. Mecklenburg and Pomerania ally each other very often. Anhalt is too small to rival.
BudgetMonk 119 Yeah, i realised the same thing when i tried Manchu runs. The hordes allied each other everytime and the early Ming defeat strategy was very luck reliant compared to my 1.20-1.21 runs. I like it this way though, way more challenging also i appreciate your reply.
So you now have a 15 year truce with all your potential enemies around you for expansion, except anhalt who happens to get released but this will only happen once
Press shift and then to it. It will consolidate the best it can and then leave left overs including stacks of 0 but this helps keep formation going into the future.
I really like the idea of this opener but it seems like with the new expansion they made the AI much more effective at the diplomatic game and this strat is largely not possible anymore :(
It is a good option when you have high AE as austria for example. France gets attacked by his enemy's. maybe at war with England and burgundy attacks province. At this stage you attack France for Show strength and the Iberian's join in the fun. France never recovers and you gain ez PP and 100/100/100
Very easy war if their capital is an easy capture. Trade dispute very easy if you have ships. You can win these wars using little to no manpower or aggressive expansion. You can try to waste their manpower and gold too if their big enough to bother with. I left Spain two provinces open to spam Merc, they go miles into debt lol
Can someone justify spending points on the provinces instead of technology, is it really that needed for the institution and does the production do so much?
The short answer is yes. The production does not to much on its own. however once you get workshops you are going to find that instead of boosting your income by 0.2-0.8 they are going to be 0.8-1.2 this is nothing compared to putting manufactures in the same provinces. which are going to gives 0.3-0.6 per month and of course spawn manufactures institution in your country. by using this method you can make your production BY FAR your highest source of income.
Alright, thanks a lot for the answare. I played as Castile since it is a noob friendly nation and I couldnt really bring myself doing so, because I owned so much land and expended so quickly it felt like a waste to spend points on every province. I tried the Humiliate tactic as brandenburg which you present here, which probably isn't really worth doing for a newbie, but only in that case I felt I could kind of justify using points to get level 10s, since it is more difficult to expend, and you have like 6 provinces to work with, and you kinda just swim in points. But I will try to follow yours advice and try to do it on each country. Esp when having Iron nodes.
So you found a limited situation where you can trade money and manpower to get monarch points. A niche role for that CB. Call me crazy, but I much prefer to spend my money and manpower to take land. After you weakened all your neighbors, everyone else pounces on them and gobbles them up leaving you to face bigger, stronger neighbors. You want to expand through them but remember you spent all your manpower and money. So nah, not terribly useful CB. That said, I did like that you explored it.
These wars let him get to tech4 faster than his rivals, therefore allowing him to likely win a war against a stronger enemy due to the advantage in morale
That's true, It's still worse than expanding and gaining development. I for one did throw away Humiliate CB as a useless CB due to the lack of gains I can get from it as a nation, but this proves it can be at least useful, maybe not optimal though.
Its good for mixing in some very valuable non-AE inducing rewards, its useful for breaking alliances (its a CB, you don't HAVE to take humiliate or show strength, as your rewards for it, you just can't take lands or vassals), its good for breaking coalitions, its useful for starting wars with targets you don't have borders with, its useful for grabbing enough cash to go over your force limit or buy mercs to fight a followup war against somebody else. Its not the best CB in the game, but its got uses, especially at the start of a campaign, which is arguably one of the most important phases.
Finally some sense out of humiliate rival!
I really like using this CB when i have to much AE but still wish to do something productive. I also love using it when one of my rivals is getting wrecked and are tiny and weak. Declare this war before they become invalid can sometimes result in ezpz war with big pay off.
Thank you for the suggestions! I'm quite naive in my games, and I find it more historically accurate just to sit there sometimes and wait for a better position, but of course that's not useful if you want to get the best out of your game or get some difficult achievement.
Guys please give Feedback on this content. Do you mind more diverse things including more lower and mid range skilled subjects?
As a far less experienced player, I find content like this extremely useful, especially when so well explained. I look forward to more in the future.
I never even knew you could do stuff like that, great video! Thank you.
Keep up the good work also after you finish the hungary lets play can you do byzantium/rome.
Nearing 400 hours played, still alot to learn. Keep up these type of videos!
Great guide even for me with my 600 or so hours. Even when considering I'm playing a pre 1.2 patch where this peace option isn't available. On the flip side you get a lot more prestige for removing rivals pre 1.2 IIRC
"Is humiliate rival CB useless? You decide."
Depends on the country. With Brandenburg, it is a nice way to get a lot of monarch point early on because Brandenburg is strong. But if you're playing somebody like the Mamulks, you're likely never gonna use, maybe against Ethiopia, but that's it.
as france, i had portugal, aragon and castille as my rivals. i had an army of 100 men with 105% discipline (mid 1500s~~) and they had around 60 men(with all their armies combined)
i ended up getting 100% war score against them after a few years of war, and humilliated each one of them. i had a pretty good power projection, which lasted me long enough to get a lot of points, which was very useful ^^
the fun thing was that england didnt give a shit about me as sweden and norway were invading them somehow. so
You can use it vs Qara early as you wont have a chance to take land from them in the beginning anyway.
Its amazing in the empire cos you cant expand
In my experience I feel like it's been the most useful as african nations trying to catch up on tech
i really dislike that the show strenght doesnt work for the rennesaince "humiliate rival" thingy.. just doesnt make sense to me
Really enjoyed this mate, lots of things i never considered and learned in this video.
Very clever good sir. I suppose the key is in having enough small neighbours to make this work, which the HRE has in bucket loads at the start. One might even be able to keep up with the Ottomans with this stratgey lol.
I think this can make some Nations like maybe Bavaria quite appealing where as Brandenburg may just want to expand eastward regardless.
Yeah totally agree. I think HRE throws this up because the A/E is so much higher that the rewards can outweigh early expansion. Italy region could also be a good area to do this, and get an early push to the first idea group. In my humble opinion :)
Only differences I would make to this would I would have bought at least 1 merc at the start, manpower is insanely important at this phase of this sort of early campaign, and 1k mercs can end up saving you double or triple their number in manpower, and even with prices of merc troops being increased, its still worth it. Also, if you aren't taking land from your primary target, and are going to be licking your wounds afterwords, taking some land or a vassal of any of your war target's allies, depending on your long term goals, rather than immediately white peacing them out - might as well let some AE expire while your war exhaustion and manpower recovers. If you take a vassal, this lets you continue the train as well by utilizing their CBs as well.
That is an amazing way to kickstart mil tech4. Also is great for nations who have a weak leader to recover a bit the monarch point gap. I discovered it with Theodoro, took Crimea, Genoa and Georgia two times each and was absolutely bathing in points and power projection, and these change completely the dynamic of an otherwise weak start. For Brandenburg is damn OP :)) Also something to keep in mind is that power projection stacks over 100 so if you hover over it you get to see the actual PP.
Only time it was useful was when i was playing the mighty empire of caddo to steal money from my neighbours.
lol
really love your way of showing tweaks and the little details - i am not really a new player but i find your advice very helpful!
Humiliate rival is really nice when u have a rival that doesn't border with you(Can't take land from them) and when u are waiting on truces personally
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And Verden is pronounced FAIRdin.
One of my most memorable games was a recent one with Killdare. Ireland is the perfect place for playing around with this particular CB, as long as England doesn't start meddling in Irish affairs too much. And with so many Irish OPMs, someone is bound to annex your rivals, making room for more.
Bringing Scotland and France into a war with England and Portugal, its traditional ally, enabled me to snatch Portuguese Madeira - my gateway into the new world. In 1466, I sent out my first colonist across the Atlantic. I moved my capital to Delaware (USA), and before Columbus ''discovered'' it in 1492, I had already secured a good chunk of the New world, setting myself up for an epic true-one-tag game of complete Irish domination of the Americas (and more).
BudgetMonk 119, if you're by any chance looking for game suggestions these days, please try it :) I'd love to see your insights and how much better you'd handle a similar situation! Cheers from the province of Krain!
Once annexed they don't come back via Demand HRE Territory however...
Holy shit, after 380 hours in EU4, I finally know what "humiliate rival" does.
wtf
what have you been doing whole 380 hours xD
Conquering shit while never worrying about the "power projection" thing or anything else, I started worrying about it in my game, and damn the bonuses are great.
well you never wondered what was that misterious CB on every rival? that is weird :)
Well a CB that doesnt allow you to conquer anything kinda suck! So I just ignored it!
I don't think it's bad but being fair it is very situational. If you don't have vulnerable rivals wars can get very costly and the trade of ducats/manpower > monarch points may no longer be efficient - especially if you're wanting to grow your borders in other directions. Although the ducats can pay themselves back as you showed if they've got allies to pick on.
With that said I do think this was an impressive show of its use I may have to try this when I next go for a 'tall' playthrough and my rival-wars aren't large for a while.
Great video! Would love to see more demonstrations like this! I wouldn't have considered it personally.
That is a hell of an opening for Brandenburg. WIll be trying that one out for myself.
this cb can easily be used to evade coalitions as coalitions won't form when you are at war... 1 day before ending a war with insane AE you can humiliate some rival and white peace after some time or beat him up depending on what you want. meanwhile the coalition can be ez dealt with
coalitions can very well form during war, i've experienced it many times when right after ive gone to war they suddenly decide to form
Well that's convinient. Thanks, good sir!
they might form, but not trigger
The AI knows how strong you are at all times and will attack when they get a chance.
I think this is a great if not the greatest strategy for playing tall. This might be a way to get permanently the best military in the world since you might be able to build a very small prussia with one of the highest dev in the world. It also is a great way to start games in Japan, since its quite similar to the hre(although old nations wont be released by the Shogun). But you can spawn the Renaissance without any problem and more important without falling behind in tech. Personally for me its nice to see those kind of videos from you since your opening move videos take the difficulty away that some achievments have where as this video simply gives you new ways of playing the game (after 1500 hours i have all achievments, except for ryuku and i HATE blobbing:D) so keep it up, well done!
do corfu opening move (dont join tradeleague) dont get rekt by the ottomans after independence
I honestly thought that CB was so useless and would never have used that to declare war. I have around 200 hours into the game and am still a noob by this games standards so I struggle a lot with Brandenburg when I try to play them and you make it look so effortless using a CB I thought was useless I subscribed after seeing this video it was well worth the watch, informative and explained the mechanic well. 10/10 would recommend.
I imagine this allows you to punch above your weight pretty hard- PU Bohemia? That far ahead in MP you could be rolling mil tech 5 while he's at 3...
dude.. get some sleep
Luis Vedovello SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK
uh-oh. please don't hurt me.
actually it was a warhammer 40k reference ,look it up cause it's fun xD.
I have actually done this before, but not as smoothly as you pulled it off here (had some crap sieges which ate just enough manpower to force me to merc) and oh boy does it allow you to turbocharge basically any HRE start.
Watched it the whole way through with my mouth wide open.
I haven't watched the video yet, but the humiliate rival CB is super useful to me! I use it multiple times in quick succession once I've increased the quality of my troops and my stability to quickly get back loads of monarch points.
Awesome vid as always, monk!
why develop the provinces before renaissance spawns?
Edit: just saw on week that European provinces with at least 10 dev get +0.05 yearly spread. Still wonder to wait as long as possible.
Georgios Michalopoulos ikr. Isnt it better to wait till first institution spawn and build up your capital?
Development isn't only for institutions. You can spam a few hundred points in your provinces and it will have an effect of conquering a few provinces, and makes it much mor costly for your enemies to take
I think that in this way you can spawn rinassence in your provinces instead of italy.
@@simonebaruzzi156 Renaissance always spawns in italy.
@@Vigilante-3-1 i have seen it spawning in China.
Badass! I'd say the utility of this CB is somewhat restricted if you are playing as a smaller nation in the HRE, but this is really eye opening!
I'd like your recommendations on how to manage the mid 1500s as a OPM in the HRE after having expanded to 6-10 times the original size if you could manage to wrap that into a video. Usually my neighbors hate me at that point and AE slows down my progress so that I get dragged into defensive wars which make me vulnerable against my own rivals in turn.
The one cb I never used is trade conflict. I used humiliate rival a couple of times by accident! Also another great way to boost power projection (if you aren't the top great power) is with privateers and embargoes , permanent 50 PP with no decay!
Xanous it depends on the amount of ships you send, in my case when i send about 50 lights to privateer Seville node for 10PP, you then do it for the other 2 rivals to get more. Also send your rivals insults once in a while for a free 5 PP that one decays tho an it only works with one rival.
holy hell i never knew that humiliate rival cb could do this
Some useful things in there, and an interesting video for sure, but it still feels like Humiliate rival is hugely situational. Pro-HRE Brandenburg's opening might be one of the few, but even then I'm not sure you wouldn't have gained more from conquest. As it is, you have the power to tech up ahead of time, have next to no manpower, and your immediate enemies are no weaker for it. If you were going for Prussia, I'm not sure this is a great start, and if you were going for Emperor then your priorities (Bohemia!) would clearly be elsewhere.
I don't know the overall efficiency of it, but generally I prefer to take provinces from my rivals and eclipse them to generate MP. Obviously that means a hit to MP over the course of the game, but as someone who chases achievements (the harder ones of which are invariably map painting exercises), strategies to build tall feel counter-productive.
Holy crap! Bite-sized and bad-ass
Never really thought of this! Amazing
Tried it just now with Brandenburg, doesn't work anymore, all the rivals are either joining a trade league or allies to powerful allies. e.g. Poland, Bohemia
Good video, man. Keep it up!
seems you cant rival anhalt anymore
How are you sieging down empty provinces with 90 men? Doesn't the siege autostop if you have any less than 1k?
Umm i don't see when i used only 90, yes you need 1k at least to flip a province into your own control. Often i use less then 1k to simply prevent the enemy from recruiting from the province. This way i still have men available to fight. I then return and finish sieging the land once the enemy have no forces remaining.
I'm glad they changed the humiliate rival to the bottom of the list lmao I accidentally clicked that way too many times
That sign-off tho.....
Is there a reason not to get the admin and diplo tech first while they are cheap and gain innovativeness from it?
I mean using humiliate rival in early game like that is good to put yourself ahead but later on it's just a waste cause you won't have problems with bad rulers just uninherit a bad heir and wait for a good one, while humiliate is just better because it costs 60 less and you can take provinces if it's just a normal declaration if the AE is dangerous still
Impressive! I always learn some cool things from your videos but I'd like to see you try them out in VH mode, OPM alliances are no pushovers anymore
I've noticed you and some other players have quite a few in-game options that I don't have, for instance "Nation focus" (not sure if the name is right) which allows getting more Administrative points for the cost of Diplomatic and Military. I do have all DLCs installed, do I need to install anything? Maybe feature is nation specific (now I play for Austria).
Please advise how to get access to this feature.
Thanks!
You mean focusing 1 of your monarch points? like gaining 2 more admin at the cost of 1 diplo and mil? this is infact a DLC i think wealth of nations if i am not mistaken. If this does not help you i don't think i can sorry. As i am not sure i understand the question.
Yes, exactly that feature. I did assume that is DLC, but I thought I do have all DLCs possible. ATM I have 2 installed "Star and Crescent" and "Women in History", as well as "Conquest of Constantinople Music Pack" and "Harsemen of the Crescent Unit Pack". Is that all?
Ups, It looks like there is 30 more available, each costs from $6 to $22... And among them 9 expansions... Did you install all of them? Which one would you recommend to buy? I hope not all.. :) ?
The biggest flaw the the game is the constant dlc and the fact that it ends up costing more and more money. I personally would buy all the 9 expansions and not really bother with other content. Maybe 'third rome' dlc. Wait for the xmas sale on steam dude. or search for good bundles on line do not pay full price. Many are old and are much cheaper. GL
This CB fucks me up as Brandenburg
Sometimes I accidentaly declare instead of Conquest on Pom and then after the truce ended they always bloody ally Denmark and when I DO declare Conquest CB I get focked
This is insane. I've played EU4 for over 800 hours and I've never come to realise this.
The only feedback I have besides the fact that your amazing intuition and knowledge of the game, could you please edit these to become more focused and shorter?
While I did watch the entire video I feel that the near 20 minute video is too long. This video could've been max 7 minutes, and if you wanted that ad revenue you could've stretched it to 10, but 20 minutes is too long...
I wish this still worked anhalt never rivals you in new patch
This CB is my go to when playing a Daimyo
This would be useful of you want to play as a free city and stay like that for some reason...
Man I try this exact same strat but somehow all the opms have allied Bohemia, Denmark, Poland, and 5 of their neighbors by the time I can declare war with the cb feels bad man
This strat doesn't seem as viable anymore with Brandenburg. They all seem to ally up quick or you can't rival the OPMs
I loved this thank you!
You have to get a very lucky start for it to work.
edit: Actually it almost never works. Madgeburg and Luneburg start the game off in the trade league. Mecklenburg and Pomerania ally each other very often. Anhalt is too small to rival.
Sadly this video is outdated. They ally more often now.
BudgetMonk 119 Yeah, i realised the same thing when i tried Manchu runs. The hordes allied each other everytime and the early Ming defeat strategy was very luck reliant compared to my 1.20-1.21 runs. I like it this way though, way more challenging also i appreciate your reply.
Thank you for the video good sir
i use it to intervene with rivals wars.
Although I thought the information was very useful, I wasn't sure what I thought of the host until the very end. Made me lol
So you now have a 15 year truce with all your potential enemies around you for expansion, except anhalt who happens to get released but this will only happen once
Damn nice tactic never thought about that
That will change my starting ritual
How does he consolidate without losing regiments?
Press shift and then to it. It will consolidate the best it can and then leave left overs including stacks of 0 but this helps keep formation going into the future.
Mecklenburg ALWAYS allies Pommerania in my game, so this strategy doesn't work for me.
I really like the idea of this opener but it seems like with the new expansion they made the AI much more effective at the diplomatic game and this strat is largely not possible anymore :(
Yeah, allying three one province minors when you are a great power != efficiency
Why don't you play on very hard?
only use agiasn't extremely weaker nations that you can easily annex at anytime.
It is a good option when you have high AE as austria for example. France gets attacked by his enemy's. maybe at war with England and burgundy attacks province. At this stage you attack France for Show strength and the Iberian's join in the fun. France never recovers and you gain ez PP and 100/100/100
No it is not garbage. Actually it is broken because it gives 100 monrach point every time.
Cool, did not know this!
Do Smolensk!
Very easy war if their capital is an easy capture. Trade dispute very easy if you have ships. You can win these wars using little to no manpower or aggressive expansion. You can try to waste their manpower and gold too if their big enough to bother with. I left Spain two provinces open to spam Merc, they go miles into debt lol
Love the content but you need to get some sleep ,buddy ...
Can someone justify spending points on the provinces instead of technology, is it really that needed for the institution and does the production do so much?
The short answer is yes. The production does not to much on its own. however once you get workshops you are going to find that instead of boosting your income by 0.2-0.8 they are going to be 0.8-1.2 this is nothing compared to putting manufactures in the same provinces. which are going to gives 0.3-0.6 per month and of course spawn manufactures institution in your country. by using this method you can make your production BY FAR your highest source of income.
Alright, thanks a lot for the answare. I played as Castile since it is a noob friendly nation and I couldnt really bring myself doing so, because I owned so much land and expended so quickly it felt like a waste to spend points on every province. I tried the Humiliate tactic as brandenburg which you present here, which probably isn't really worth doing for a newbie, but only in that case I felt I could kind of justify using points to get level 10s, since it is more difficult to expend, and you have like 6 provinces to work with, and you kinda just swim in points. But I will try to follow yours advice and try to do it on each country. Esp when having Iron nodes.
So you found a limited situation where you can trade money and manpower to get monarch points. A niche role for that CB. Call me crazy, but I much prefer to spend my money and manpower to take land. After you weakened all your neighbors, everyone else pounces on them and gobbles them up leaving you to face bigger, stronger neighbors. You want to expand through them but remember you spent all your manpower and money. So nah, not terribly useful CB.
That said, I did like that you explored it.
These wars let him get to tech4 faster than his rivals, therefore allowing him to likely win a war against a stronger enemy due to the advantage in morale
I see it working in somewhere like Italy or as an opm in the HRE maybe
He'd need a heck of a morale advantage with 143 gold and 467 manpower against the alliance chains he's looking at.
That's true, It's still worse than expanding and gaining development. I for one did throw away Humiliate CB as a useless CB due to the lack of gains I can get from it as a nation, but this proves it can be at least useful, maybe not optimal though.
Its good for mixing in some very valuable non-AE inducing rewards, its useful for breaking alliances (its a CB, you don't HAVE to take humiliate or show strength, as your rewards for it, you just can't take lands or vassals), its good for breaking coalitions, its useful for starting wars with targets you don't have borders with, its useful for grabbing enough cash to go over your force limit or buy mercs to fight a followup war against somebody else. Its not the best CB in the game, but its got uses, especially at the start of a campaign, which is arguably one of the most important phases.
dude u need to sleep
İts only useful with brandenburg i never used it with another country
İts garbarge for nearly any nation