As Naples, form the Two-Sicilies, then since the Sicilian mafia is the best known in the world, create the mafia by taxing other countries (declare war on them to get money). You win when you get 20k ducats in your treasury with no loans (it's pretty doable actually)
Hawk, that 1001 dev as Arabia was kinda the perfect EU4 reference to the collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age called "One Thousand and One Nights", in English often known as "Arabian Nights". Great fun to watch as usual!
@youshouldntknowmyname706 wrong, the collection was originally written in Arabic from a variety of sources, including Persian, Sanskrit and Babylonian, although mostly sourced from Arabic language texts. Being a collection, the core of the stories (from 1000 Nights, itself a Persian collection, circa late 700s) were originally Persian, translated into Arabic and then Arabic stories were added on over the course of the next thousand years swelling the story count to match the new title, One Thousand and One Nights. It was this text, referenced by OP, that was translated into English in the late 1700s as Arabian Nights. Thus, you can see, One Thousand and One Nights was written in Arabic, as mentioned.
I believe there is a chart showing which provinces and at what dev they should be at for the most efficient deving for institutions, and IIRC the 9 dev province would have been better to dev the Renaissance. The thing I remember from that chart is 16 dev farmlands with a center of trade are the absolute best for institution deving in regards to cost efficiency.
Since Naples is one of the poorest regions in Italy, I think you should give them the right to have revenge: you have to rule as Naples all the North Italian provinces and have in them high devastation while having prosperity in all the Southern provinces
@@minecraftherobrine1234till the fall of western roman empire the center-south was always richer. Then roman gothic wars and eastern roman administration was not bussin. But Naples remained the biggest italian city till 1900
you aren't forced to use dip point into deving before institution/tech spawn. You can store it in cultural conversion of a province, and cancel it later. it doesn't produce unrest, and you retake every point you put in it. For an high dev province, it takes decades to convert them, so it's not really bothersome.
Speaking about achievements, have you thought about doing a series on all EU4 achievements after you complete the AtoZ and Releasables? There are some really intresting ones (excluding the extremly basic ones, like Royal marriage or win a battle), and if you add in the Wheel of pain we will all be able to cheer for the inevitable Three Mountains drop. Some achievements are obviously not suited for one video, but a small series could be fun
@17:30 your allies won't break an alliance (despite threatening to do so) while at war. So long as the Ottomans are at war with Venice, you can consider the alliance intact. But usually the month the war finishes, they break it.
@20:15 Could be that the Mamluks sold the province to the Ottomans, that would explain how there was no core by Mamluks (revoke after selling) and the lack of claim or core by Ottomans (wanted territory is easier to sell).
Here's a bit of an odd challenge for you, as a [JoJo's Reference], conquer Cairo while having Transylvania as a subject, in order to pre-seed the area with vampires for DIO's arrival. Bonus points if you go colonial to get involved in the conquest of the Aztec lands to find one of the stone masks.
Naples (or, atleast parts of it) was the last regions in Italy that Byzantine reconquered from the Goths under Justinian before losing them to the Lombards. So maybe conquer Lombary province and the Greek Peninsula as Naples?
Hawk, ironically, is the one of the most dovish EU4 streamers… basically never declares war unless his alliance outnumbers enemy 2:1, and every other video he loses an opportunity because he waits too long and his ally declares the war and calls him in before he’s ready to declare himself… sometimes ya just gotta roll the iron dice, man!
I think they changed something with the logic for when an ally is allowed to call you into a war because I've also been getting constant calls to arms for offensive wars by allies while I'm already at war. As the player it's almost impossible to ever call in an ally if they're already at war, but it seems to be happening all the time in the opposite direction now. Kinda frustrating.
I'd love to see a series where you go for the achievement to own the 500 provinces. 2 or 3 vids going over it would be fun. Could always continue this run to do that
Great video as always hawk! Here's an idea for what to do as Naples. Fulfill Robert The Fox's ambitions. Unite the two Sicilies, conquer Antioch, Jerusalem and all of the Balkans. Historically Robert's descendants would be crowned kings of Sicily. His son Bohemond was SUPPOSED TO be the count of Antioch after the first crusade (If I'm not mistaken he died during the crusade though). Robert frequently raided the Byzantines in the Balkans and straight up invaded them a couple times.
Some of the Arabia minors are really hard to play though they are sometimes really interesting, Oman is one of the best outside europe nation for trading, though you just can't play it decently without many dlc. Since in Vanilla 8/10times Hormuz will ally Mamelucks, while rivaling you and without special options to improve relations your best ally will be something like belutschistan, since your isolated religion just doesn't help. Playing tall for the first years is with ~80dev cost not an option either. So you need to wait 50ish year to get mamelucks beaten by ottomans or your extremly lucky and hormuz allys someone which you can for what reason attack, though thats not really a decent playstyle when you want to to roleplay a bit. And the other 1/10 time timurids will be extremly strong and try to expand into hormuz basically making your campaign a lot harder. If your trying to optimize a playthrough on those minors youre just going to have dozens of trys before everyrhing falls in place, sincw you need to be fast before Swahili/Kongo/Ethiopia gets to strong to decently defeat. Since as Oman ypu eant the east coast of africa basically cutting asia/india trade from europe and hoarding it yourself.
Kanuni Sultan Suleiman is Suleiman the Magnificent. Kanuni means "The Lawgiver" in Turkish. Like Fatih Sultan Mehmet, which Fatih means "The Conqueror", he got his nickname as his Name. Western nations called him the Magnificent, but normally he called as that.
The Jihad-achievement for Najd is totally doable, but DON'T take Mecca or Medina until you're ready to take on the Ottomans. You want to ally them early on and taking any of these two will make them instantly hostile.
Ah yes. The green nation from Arabia forming the green nation of Arabia with the help of the green nation of Persia against the green nation of Anatolia!
He is actually suleiman the magnificent, in turkish he is called ‘kanuni’ which means ‘lawmaker’. We call him suleiman the lawmaker. (He died as an heir in the game, i didnt know is that a thing)
You probably couldn't take everything in the first ottoman war because you declared conquest rather than reconquest, so the war score for Syria's provinces was higher than it should have been.
Generally speaking, if youre playing in Arabia, forget about allying Ottomans. I frequently play Oman, and my strategy is to rush to annex Dawasir and Mikhlaf, so to cut off Mamluks from the south of the peninsula. Then, annex the minors in the south-eastern part of the peninsula and jump over to the Horn. From there, keep pushing south and destroy Kilwa (you need to do it quick, before they ally either Ottos or Mammies). This should give you enough breathing room to expand into the primitives around Zanzibar, while also taking chunks out of Ethiopia and the rest of the Horn. Breathing room... not so much power, though. It should be enough to turn around and hit the Mamluks now, but Ottos are a whole different animal. Ottos will always want Mecca, and they will want it so badly, that they will break any treaty to get it. If you get it first, or have it tagged as vital interest, youre instantly on Ottos "to kill" list, and they tend to expand in your direction to stomp you flat. It is honestly RNG whether they expand this far south or not, but if its past 1600, theres a chance they will start racking up decadence. If you dont match them quality-wise or numbers-wise - you are fucked. Im usually finished with my quality based ideas by 1600, so Ottos are more like a paper tiger than anything else, and their decadence helps swing things around, in case they declare, but you never know. They might not be dying yet, due to having high absolutism, preventing decadence from killing them, at which point you will kinda have to fight. So, avoid taking Mecca. At least until you feel like you can take on the Ottos. PS: allying Ottos is like allying France. If youre doing either, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Syria doesn't start with a core on Jerusalem, but the province has Syrian culture. There's a decent chance Syrian separatists occupied the province at some point, giving Syria a core there.
in one of my hre games i allied poland, declared on hungary and just gave a lot of stuff to poland. that gave me a bunch of favours and i was able to boost trust, ensuring they never break alliance with me maybe something like this could be the meta with the ottomans?
1. To release a vassal you just need a province belonging in the culture GROUP of the vassal's primary culture, so Syria can be released from Mashriqi and bedowin provinces. 2. As Naples, either 1. Form the Roman empire, or 2. Conquer Italy, France, Iberia, and Maghreb (~western rome). Just wanna see you blob in a way simmilar to your guide: Everywhere.
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This is the sketch of All Time
Suffering through Twitch's incessant ad breaks..no thank you.
i actually went to google "Why was Florry banned from Sweden?" 🤣
As Naples, form the Two-Sicilies, then since the Sicilian mafia is the best known in the world, create the mafia by taxing other countries (declare war on them to get money). You win when you get 20k ducats in your treasury with no loans (it's pretty doable actually)
And the Oscar for best opener ever created on an EU4 video that shows funny bird man and L-aith goes tooooo
love them calling each other on the phone while still wearing their headsets
Yeah, most realistic phone call ever 😅
Hawk, that 1001 dev as Arabia was kinda the perfect EU4 reference to the collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age called "One Thousand and One Nights", in English often known as "Arabian Nights".
Great fun to watch as usual!
Bruh I've actually read some tales I can't believe I didn't think of this smh
@@TheRedHawkaccidentally on purpose
its persian not arabic
@youshouldntknowmyname706 wrong, the collection was originally written in Arabic from a variety of sources, including Persian, Sanskrit and Babylonian, although mostly sourced from Arabic language texts.
Being a collection, the core of the stories (from 1000 Nights, itself a Persian collection, circa late 700s) were originally Persian, translated into Arabic and then Arabic stories were added on over the course of the next thousand years swelling the story count to match the new title, One Thousand and One Nights. It was this text, referenced by OP, that was translated into English in the late 1700s as Arabian Nights.
Thus, you can see, One Thousand and One Nights was written in Arabic, as mentioned.
@@MrBattlecharge I'm a nationalist. I don't like logic and facts
It could be fun with Naples to do a "nordic reverse", Form the Two Sicilies, conquer Normandy and Scandinavia
You'd have to start with best cbing an Irish minor right?
@@viniciusyugulis7278 Best CB Gotland, since they're independent nowadays.
I did that once, but I was extremely lucky, since I managed to snatch the emperorship, inherit Burgundy and from there onward it was super easy.
21:36 Suleiman the Magnificent is known in Turkish as Suleiman "Kanuni" which means "Law-Giver"). As always, a really fun video, Hawk!
He also died before ever getting to rule RIP
Huh, I assume it comes from Greek since Kanonas (Κανόνας) means law/rule in Greek
@@achaeanmapping4408 I checked wiktionary, and it says that the Turkish word comes from Arabic which came from Ancient Greek, so yeah.
@@achaeanmapping4408 yea kanun means law
1,001 dev was perfect - 1,001 Arabian Nights!
Mishearing “Cavalry Planking Ability” did lead to a mental image that will have me laughing randomly all day.
I believe there is a chart showing which provinces and at what dev they should be at for the most efficient deving for institutions, and IIRC the 9 dev province would have been better to dev the Renaissance. The thing I remember from that chart is 16 dev farmlands with a center of trade are the absolute best for institution deving in regards to cost efficiency.
There is a chart somewhere, I think it might event be on eu4 wiki
Since Naples is one of the poorest regions in Italy, I think you should give them the right to have revenge: you have to rule as Naples all the North Italian provinces and have in them high devastation while having prosperity in all the Southern provinces
It is poor in real life. But what about in eu4 ?
@@minecraftherobrine1234till the fall of western roman empire the center-south was always richer. Then roman gothic wars and eastern roman administration was not bussin. But Naples remained the biggest italian city till 1900
Called it
you aren't forced to use dip point into deving before institution/tech spawn. You can store it in cultural conversion of a province, and cancel it later. it doesn't produce unrest, and you retake every point you put in it. For an high dev province, it takes decades to convert them, so it's not really bothersome.
Yeah, I don't know why some EU4 purists call it an exploit.
@@Alorand exploit, is short for 'bug exploit', there isn't any bug in it.
You can't let tick past 1/3 progress or you won't get it all back. For those who have never used this tactic to bank diplo
@@Nois-ufnoc ho, thank you for the info, i didn't know that
Speaking about achievements, have you thought about doing a series on all EU4 achievements after you complete the AtoZ and Releasables? There are some really intresting ones (excluding the extremly basic ones, like Royal marriage or win a battle), and if you add in the Wheel of pain we will all be able to cheer for the inevitable Three Mountains drop.
Some achievements are obviously not suited for one video, but a small series could be fun
As Naples, vassalize a pink nation, vassalize a white/cream nation, and vassalize a brown nation, to form the Neapolitan Icecream Empire
@17:30 your allies won't break an alliance (despite threatening to do so) while at war. So long as the Ottomans are at war with Venice, you can consider the alliance intact. But usually the month the war finishes, they break it.
What's next? Laith as Hawk, and Hawk as Laith doing exactly the same as they did in the opening?
Please let it happen
@20:15 Could be that the Mamluks sold the province to the Ottomans, that would explain how there was no core by Mamluks (revoke after selling) and the lack of claim or core by Ottomans (wanted territory is easier to sell).
20:27 I think the Mamluks sold the Ottomans Al-karak
Naples always ends up in a PU with Spain. Conquer all of Iberia and paint that region with nations that has neapolitan ice cream colors
Galicia/Leon, Valencia and Granada
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Turkish ice cream
Is better than italian one
Leon for strawberry, Andalusia for cream and idk one for a brown one... maybe aragon? They're brownish right?
Here's a bit of an odd challenge for you, as a [JoJo's Reference], conquer Cairo while having Transylvania as a subject, in order to pre-seed the area with vampires for DIO's arrival. Bonus points if you go colonial to get involved in the conquest of the Aztec lands to find one of the stone masks.
NICE STREAM YOU WERE WATCHING BRO :D
I learn from the best
21:50 Yep, that was Suleiman the Magnificient. "Kanuni" is one of his titles, meaning "Lawgiver." He's more known with that name in Turkey.
Red Hawk out there playing grand strategy games with Rami Malek like it's no big deal.
Seeing the Ottoman opinion go from +132 to -77 after that 2nd peace with the Mamluks was hilarious
Naples (or, atleast parts of it) was the last regions in Italy that Byzantine reconquered from the Goths under Justinian before losing them to the Lombards. So maybe conquer Lombary province and the Greek Peninsula as Naples?
Hawk, ironically, is the one of the most dovish EU4 streamers… basically never declares war unless his alliance outnumbers enemy 2:1, and every other video he loses an opportunity because he waits too long and his ally declares the war and calls him in before he’s ready to declare himself… sometimes ya just gotta roll the iron dice, man!
Hawk, you absolute dum dum you should have waited for King of Kings, Najd is going to get a massive amount of flavor
I wait for no one
@TheRedHawk i wisv u play it again palese
Man thinks a lvl100 Mafia Boss will wait for Swedish Björkabørks like a lvl1 crook 😂😂😂
@miguelpadeiro762 didn't get your رياكشنك
i forget the word in english
@@TheRedHawkTrue Chad
I think they changed something with the logic for when an ally is allowed to call you into a war because I've also been getting constant calls to arms for offensive wars by allies while I'm already at war. As the player it's almost impossible to ever call in an ally if they're already at war, but it seems to be happening all the time in the opposite direction now. Kinda frustrating.
16:05 Ottomans are not transferring because they also have claims there
I'd love to see a series where you go for the achievement to own the 500 provinces. 2 or 3 vids going over it would be fun. Could always continue this run to do that
>1001 dev
>as arabia
>perfect reference
>NO THATS ANNOYING LET ME EXPLOIT
I love how both Laith and Hawk talk on their phones with headsets on, true gamer move
Great video as always hawk!
Here's an idea for what to do as Naples. Fulfill Robert The Fox's ambitions. Unite the two Sicilies, conquer Antioch, Jerusalem and all of the Balkans.
Historically Robert's descendants would be crowned kings of Sicily. His son Bohemond was SUPPOSED TO be the count of Antioch after the first crusade (If I'm not mistaken he died during the crusade though). Robert frequently raided the Byzantines in the Balkans and straight up invaded them a couple times.
You fool! 1001 nights is an arabian tale collection, the dev was PERFECT!
Some of the Arabia minors are really hard to play though they are sometimes really interesting, Oman is one of the best outside europe nation for trading, though you just can't play it decently without many dlc. Since in Vanilla 8/10times Hormuz will ally Mamelucks, while rivaling you and without special options to improve relations your best ally will be something like belutschistan, since your isolated religion just doesn't help. Playing tall for the first years is with ~80dev cost not an option either.
So you need to wait 50ish year to get mamelucks beaten by ottomans or your extremly lucky and hormuz allys someone which you can for what reason attack, though thats not really a decent playstyle when you want to to roleplay a bit. And the other 1/10 time timurids will be extremly strong and try to expand into hormuz basically making your campaign a lot harder. If your trying to optimize a playthrough on those minors youre just going to have dozens of trys before everyrhing falls in place, sincw you need to be fast before Swahili/Kongo/Ethiopia gets to strong to decently defeat. Since as Oman ypu eant the east coast of africa basically cutting asia/india trade from europe and hoarding it yourself.
35:37 Тысяча и одна Арабская ночь. Как символично.
The sight of Oman, who had a bunch of cores on Hormuz, not getting vassalised was slightly disappointing 🤯
Bravo on the performance! Ready to see y’all kick ass!
Kanuni Sultan Suleiman is Suleiman the Magnificent. Kanuni means "The Lawgiver" in Turkish. Like Fatih Sultan Mehmet, which Fatih means "The Conqueror", he got his nickname as his Name. Western nations called him the Magnificent, but normally he called as that.
Would really like to see more gov types as you play more. Monarchy has been done to death at this point
The Jihad-achievement for Najd is totally doable, but DON'T take Mecca or Medina until you're ready to take on the Ottomans. You want to ally them early on and taking any of these two will make them instantly hostile.
Okay this opening was a banger
Arabia being friends with Persia is a forbidden jutsu
The phones over the headphones killed me
algorythm boosting! also what in the name of is that amazing intro
Ah yes. The green nation from Arabia forming the green nation of Arabia with the help of the green nation of Persia against the green nation of Anatolia!
He is actually suleiman the magnificent, in turkish he is called ‘kanuni’ which means ‘lawmaker’. We call him suleiman the lawmaker. (He died as an heir in the game, i didnt know is that a thing)
As someone from Najd, Thanks for the playthrough.
damn so powerful u can play without even touching the mouse
He plays with his dong
I was watching Florry bruh
It took me until exactly 1:02 for me to realize you guys have your cellphone pressed against your noise canceling headphones 😂
Such a green map. A delight watching it.
You probably couldn't take everything in the first ottoman war because you declared conquest rather than reconquest, so the war score for Syria's provinces was higher than it should have been.
John Paradox and Victoria Clausewitz xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
This is a great vido for the redhawk-laith cannon
Kanuni means lawgiver and that was indeed suleyman the magnificent
I liked the intro. But your white bond villain cat looks suspiciously like a dog.
that opener was so stupid i love it. thanks.
10:58 That´s sus. Got Red Hawk replaced???
Generally speaking, if youre playing in Arabia, forget about allying Ottomans.
I frequently play Oman, and my strategy is to rush to annex Dawasir and Mikhlaf, so to cut off Mamluks from the south of the peninsula. Then, annex the minors in the south-eastern part of the peninsula and jump over to the Horn. From there, keep pushing south and destroy Kilwa (you need to do it quick, before they ally either Ottos or Mammies).
This should give you enough breathing room to expand into the primitives around Zanzibar, while also taking chunks out of Ethiopia and the rest of the Horn. Breathing room... not so much power, though. It should be enough to turn around and hit the Mamluks now, but Ottos are a whole different animal. Ottos will always want Mecca, and they will want it so badly, that they will break any treaty to get it. If you get it first, or have it tagged as vital interest, youre instantly on Ottos "to kill" list, and they tend to expand in your direction to stomp you flat. It is honestly RNG whether they expand this far south or not, but if its past 1600, theres a chance they will start racking up decadence. If you dont match them quality-wise or numbers-wise - you are fucked. Im usually finished with my quality based ideas by 1600, so Ottos are more like a paper tiger than anything else, and their decadence helps swing things around, in case they declare, but you never know. They might not be dying yet, due to having high absolutism, preventing decadence from killing them, at which point you will kinda have to fight. So, avoid taking Mecca. At least until you feel like you can take on the Ottos.
PS: allying Ottos is like allying France. If youre doing either, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Keep the the 1001 Dev. 1 dev for each day in the Arabian nights book.
laith's so cute in the intro 🥺🥺🥹
Hawk with the majestic mustache I see you
Amazing Intro :D
21:06 you actually don't need a Syrian province. Any province in a nation's culture group can be used to release them.
1001 Arabian Dev Points!
Since Florence has an achievement to form Arabia and Egypt, for Naples form Rum
That opener so glorious
That start was perfect 😂
Lady Saffron didn't make it into this EU4 Masters? Sadness :
As naples, do a roman empire restoration, obviously (yeah probably not i know)
Best Intro ever! 😁😆
It's the headphones inbetween phone and ear for me.
You ever think of doing a video on your favorite or most interesting countries you've played through this series?
It's too bad oil isn't a trade good in EU4
united states dlc
Finally, the season dedicated to my favorite letter of the latin alphabet has started! I am so happy guys
Syria doesn't start with a core on Jerusalem, but the province has Syrian culture. There's a decent chance Syrian separatists occupied the province at some point, giving Syria a core there.
As Naples, I don't know what you should do, but you should eat a pizza while doing the run.
Watching iraq and parts of arabia turn sunni was so painful. Karbala became sunni just like in my andalushia run 😢
in one of my hre games i allied poland, declared on hungary and just gave a lot of stuff to poland. that gave me a bunch of favours and i was able to boost trust, ensuring they never break alliance with me
maybe something like this could be the meta with the ottomans?
Bruh you put ABDULAZIZ picture in the thumbnail you get an instant like from me ❤
As Naples you should form Roman Empire... I know, I know, too easy, you can conquer the Holy Roman Empire as well then.
Fun fact, the House of Saud didn't exist until the 18th Century, when the first Saudi State was founded by Saud I
I think that phone call was scripted. I dunno. Like...85% sure.
@TheRedHawk What happened to Montenegro A to Z shouldn't that be after Montferrat or before it ?
As Naples make Norman your primary culture and conquer all of sicily, britain, normandy and scandinavia
Where can I buy the amazing EU IV sweater? :o
As Naples, pu Aragon or Spain and form Two Sicilies of course
Your mustache is majestic
You had One Thousand and One Nights, er, development as Arabia and you RUINED it!?!? :o
Should have waited for 1.36 to come out before doing this...
Najd and Yemen will get new mission trees in king of kings
You should teach Laith how to play natives. xD
The amount of pain you endured to form Saudi Arabia as Najd is similar to the amount of pain inflicted by Saudi Arabia on its dissidents every day.
Suleman the magnificent is qanoni wich mean in arabic the law obideant
1. To release a vassal you just need a province belonging in the culture GROUP of the vassal's primary culture, so Syria can be released from Mashriqi and bedowin provinces.
2. As Naples, either 1. Form the Roman empire, or 2. Conquer Italy, France, Iberia, and Maghreb (~western rome). Just wanna see you blob in a way simmilar to your guide: Everywhere.
Laith said that this was his worst campaign
Epic phone over the headset
Now that's what I call Saudi Arabia
Yooooooo bro got laiths facetime
Idk how he got my number
@@TheRedHawk 😂
For Naples conquer all of Spain.
Well of course you can’t take everything in 1 war you keep declaring wars of conquest (100% cost) instead of reconquest (75%) xD
Shout out to Limburg ❤