The stability drop in the middle of it is pretty bad and Austria or France (or both) could try to enforce a PU over you, but if you ally them first they get a truce when breaking that alliance and the CB goes away once the government stabilizes.
@@Hardlett i think theyre all Adm, but theres options you can pick, and da vinci will decrease opinion with the pope from his events but give alot of stuff
I find it's generally doable to beat Genoa and lucca in the first war, they often are allied at the start my ideal Milan start is getting a claim on lucca from the estates and deccing em on 11-12
if you the restart until things are nice kind of player... on day one when you summon the diet there is about a 30% chance you get a casus belli on genoa right at the start... that speeds thigns up significantly before genoa fills up with tradeleague minors or big allies, and genoa isnt only a great money maker and defensive position for you it unlocks most of the juicy mission tree early
A day one war against Genoa is typically easy - they have no allies, you can often stackwipe their army (rng with a good merc stack tbf) and you can often get lucca or Savoy in on it. All you need is the estate mission, and Genoa is yours and the perm claims to help you along - And if you fail, just restart. Also, taking Istria from Venice lets you release Dalmatia which is a useful vassal and you need Istria for missions!
I did 2 runs as military dictatorship Milan and Monarchy with House Sforza. I think if you want a more historically accurate run, definitely have a monarchy under Sforza. Although their dynasty was very short lived.
It doesn't reduce the amount of crownland you get in total, so it doesn't actually do much. By the time you revoke (if you revoke it at all), you'll easily be at over 50 crownland just from seizing every once in a while.
@@lys_marathe problem with seizing is that is making weaker clergy and merchants. And increases the influence of nobility and in the long run it is very difficult to revoke that. For the first 50-70 years it works. But when you grow no. Even when you have extra land and you want to sell it to get money instead of getting loans, you make nobility even stronger as you cant seize the land back.
@@james01gr I agree with that, but it's very easy to revoke unless you're playing a nation with crazy nobles influence modifiers. It falls off in usefullness later on in the game anyway, so by about mid-game, you'd probably want to revoke it regardless.
between the siege and the AE it's very much a worthy idea group now, especially in dense places like the HRE. I wouldn't say it's as great as diplo, admin, and offensive but it's definitely not a meme anymore.
@@Ceramicbullespionage has been solid for the last year or so since LOTN but it really got disgusting with Domination. Claiming states is absolutely insane
The extra corruption reduction from vetting in espionage always seems to make my games significantly smoother. Also the vassalization acceptance can come in clutch even though it’s niche. I think it suits my gameplay style more, juggling truces gets exhausting for me real quick
dude. your strat involves Austria as an ally. Milian and Austria can curb stomp Venice basically no matter what allies it gets. you should open with reconquest litterally as soon as you get the allience. or after one month if you get it right away. that gives you tons of claims and actually uses your allice. just feed Austria literally any 1 province you need to.
The strategy is quite everywhere, but basically it will boils down to: - merc spam (and loan), I find hiring 5-10 over force limit is okay since you'll get PU with france anyway. Careful tho not to get more than 5 loan, or your PU france will get debuff like "onion only on name (-100 relation) - fight on good terrain, gascony with highland is good, try it. Rely on alliance is not always good, from my experience, portugal is a dead weight, but maybe your run say different things.
IMO the best way to deal with France is to cheese the event(guides are everywhere, Arumba was one of the first) and call an offensive war with either Burgundy, Aragon, Castile later on your own terms. You can still get the PU mission, or go for the chunking up France strategy which manages AE better
It kind of sucks for Milan because on one hand cool government type(s), and the other you can easily get BI, Emperorship, Naples PU, and being monarchy for SP formation. It's the biggest struggle for me but I think being the boring monarchy just gets you so much more, but probably taking the Sforza version for a way better ruler
So guys I have a quick question I once played as Milan and for some reason I decided to improve relations with the ottomans and they started their war with Venice as usual, to my surprise they returned my cores, now my question is what is the minimum positive relations you’d need for that to happen in every game also do you get any AE for it I take it my question will be beneficial to those who didn’t know this was possible
i united all of italy but the papel state kinda killed my save. i cant declare war on them since they are allied with big nations and they would destroy me
I was always wondering: is there a reason there is no camera/redhawk in the guides, but in a-z + releasables there is? Just curious - great video as always.
So instead of -33% merc cost and 5% merc dicipline, we could also go 25% merc cost... this has to be the worst deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever.
Its really better to stay as the Golden Republic and get the military rulership as the 11th gov reform. Overall since military dictatorship doesn't offer a pip or army tradition to help with leader like it's military rulership counterpart, it's just worst
Not first, but it's definitely a good option for second. Admin and diplo points have more uses early game whereas with military points you can just set them aside entirely for tech and ideas.
With espionage and with the age ability in one war i annexed lucca, vassalized ferrara and vassalized florence (that declared on ferrara after i did) without forming any coalition. All of them were out of the hre. It is very strong early game, in the long run isnt.
This guide doesn't work unless you have all the DLC's, so please be sure to add that, and no, not everyone can afford buying the game repeatedly for every damn DLC... Each time I do a Milan campaign, Austria has hated me, and my rivals will all beat me to allying the pope, locking me out. Hell, I've even had Venice and Austria ally in the first months, then dec me...
Hawk, I don't understand why you always delete the horse at the beginning of the game. Even if you don't want it, AT LEAST keep it until after your first war, or consolidate during the war. You start with 10,000 manpower and 10 units, you delete 1 unit, you are deleting 5% of your manpower right there. And its worse with smaller nations. Late in the game, 1 unit doesn't matter, but at the very start manpower is the most important thing. More important than money in this game.
When you disband a unit, the manpower being used by it returns to your manpower pool, unless they've taken a hit and haven't been reinforced. On a side note, expansion early game is super slow, so I'm not sure why manpower would be better than money. Money funds wars - it funds reinforcements, active units and mercs, forts - while running out of manpower just puts a higher strain on your economy and doesn't affect your war all that much unless it drags on, in which case 1k manpower won't last you that long.
@@michaellacroix6095 mb, you're right on that, I was misremembering. The rest of my point still stands though; it's really not worth keeping the cav considering how low impact it is, especially for early game.
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Thanks for the video Red Hawk! Would love to see Great Horde
milan really is a "fuck it we ball" type of nation
This has to be the first time I see Trent expand and it had to be in the middle of a guide. Quite the luck !
Admiring the game calls it a "disaster"
It's a typical PDX European disaster. Oh no! Oh WOW! Now if the disaster was outside of Europe, it'd be like +20 unrest for sixty years. /joke
It is actually a disaster for me. My heir was a 6/5/5
The stability drop in the middle of it is pretty bad and Austria or France (or both) could try to enforce a PU over you, but if you ally them first they get a truce when breaking that alliance and the CB goes away once the government stabilizes.
I’m the most op disaster actually
No, this is Patrick.
Also good video
Are you the boot of Italy?
No, Dirty Dan is
+ - 5 stability
Plus if you hire da Vinci, Michaelangelo or Machiavelli they have events that fire based around them
are they the same type of advisor? and what kind of events are those?
@@Hardlett l think natural scientist, artist and statesman
@@Hardlett i think theyre all Adm, but theres options you can pick, and da vinci will decrease opinion with the pope from his events but give alot of stuff
@@GothBoiCliiqz are these people appears in Milan or can also pop up to other countries in italy region?
@@HardlettI’ve seen it fire for Switzerland who expanded into Italy before
One thing that will speed up conquest without upping AE is diplomatically vassalizing Italian OPMs. Great guide
Red hawk when the new expansion drops "let's make another Milan video". I guess it's tradition now
I find it's generally doable to beat Genoa and lucca in the first war, they often are allied at the start my ideal Milan start is getting a claim on lucca from the estates and deccing em on 11-12
if you the restart until things are nice kind of player... on day one when you summon the diet there is about a 30% chance you get a casus belli on genoa right at the start... that speeds thigns up significantly before genoa fills up with tradeleague minors or big allies, and genoa isnt only a great money maker and defensive position for you it unlocks most of the juicy mission tree early
A day one war against Genoa is typically easy - they have no allies, you can often stackwipe their army (rng with a good merc stack tbf) and you can often get lucca or Savoy in on it.
All you need is the estate mission, and Genoa is yours and the perm claims to help you along - And if you fail, just restart.
Also, taking Istria from Venice lets you release Dalmatia which is a useful vassal and you need Istria for missions!
I did 2 runs as military dictatorship Milan and Monarchy with House Sforza. I think if you want a more historically accurate run, definitely have a monarchy under Sforza. Although their dynasty was very short lived.
I'm not a fan of Increased Levies, since it's excluded from seize lands. Nice guide!
ill never use it
It doesn't reduce the amount of crownland you get in total, so it doesn't actually do much. By the time you revoke (if you revoke it at all), you'll easily be at over 50 crownland just from seizing every once in a while.
@@lys_marathe problem with seizing is that is making weaker clergy and merchants. And increases the influence of nobility and in the long run it is very difficult to revoke that. For the first 50-70 years it works. But when you grow no. Even when you have extra land and you want to sell it to get money instead of getting loans, you make nobility even stronger as you cant seize the land back.
@@james01gr I agree with that, but it's very easy to revoke unless you're playing a nation with crazy nobles influence modifiers. It falls off in usefullness later on in the game anyway, so by about mid-game, you'd probably want to revoke it regardless.
Opening Espionage even for a Beginner is way better especially in areas with high-dev provinces like italy or the HRE
Really vindicating to see all these people come around to Esp.
@@malchelo-7627all these new players you mean. Diplo is still way better for ae in the end if you can juggle truces
between the siege and the AE it's very much a worthy idea group now, especially in dense places like the HRE. I wouldn't say it's as great as diplo, admin, and offensive but it's definitely not a meme anymore.
@@Ceramicbullespionage has been solid for the last year or so since LOTN but it really got disgusting with Domination. Claiming states is absolutely insane
The extra corruption reduction from vetting in espionage always seems to make my games significantly smoother. Also the vassalization acceptance can come in clutch even though it’s niche. I think it suits my gameplay style more, juggling truces gets exhausting for me real quick
It would be nice to see the playthrough to unite Italy. Fighting Austria, Aragon and Ottomans to unite Italy sounds epic.
dude. your strat involves Austria as an ally. Milian and Austria can curb stomp Venice basically no matter what allies it gets. you should open with reconquest litterally as soon as you get the allience. or after one month if you get it right away. that gives you tons of claims and actually uses your allice. just feed Austria literally any 1 province you need to.
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I'd love a Grenada guide. I know new patch is close and that means Byz time but this one would be interesting as well
video starts 4:08 (skips ad, skips setting up estates privileges, etc)
34:00 OMG, a ninja turtles Easter egg in EU4.
Can you please do an England guide soon? I’m sure I’m not the only person who could really use some pointers on the 100 years war.
The strategy is quite everywhere, but basically it will boils down to:
- merc spam (and loan), I find hiring 5-10 over force limit is okay since you'll get PU with france anyway. Careful tho not to get more than 5 loan, or your PU france will get debuff like "onion only on name (-100 relation)
- fight on good terrain, gascony with highland is good, try it.
Rely on alliance is not always good, from my experience, portugal is a dead weight, but maybe your run say different things.
The way to play as England is to go Angevin, then form the Roman Empire of Tea Lovers.
IMO the best way to deal with France is to cheese the event(guides are everywhere, Arumba was one of the first) and call an offensive war with either Burgundy, Aragon, Castile later on your own terms. You can still get the PU mission, or go for the chunking up France strategy which manages AE better
Going back to Monarchy might not be too bad, if you could get Naples and maybe Burgundy.
Also, this is a good country for using mercenary ideas imo.
It kind of sucks for Milan because on one hand cool government type(s), and the other you can easily get BI, Emperorship, Naples PU, and being monarchy for SP formation. It's the biggest struggle for me but I think being the boring monarchy just gets you so much more, but probably taking the Sforza version for a way better ruler
So guys I have a quick question I once played as Milan and for some reason I decided to improve relations with the ottomans and they started their war with Venice as usual, to my surprise they returned my cores, now my question is what is the minimum positive relations you’d need for that to happen in every game also do you get any AE for it I take it my question will be beneficial to those who didn’t know this was possible
i united all of italy but the papel state kinda killed my save. i cant declare war on them since they are allied with big nations and they would destroy me
I was always wondering: is there a reason there is no camera/redhawk in the guides, but in a-z + releasables there is? Just curious - great video as always.
Guides are educational, I’m not the focus in them, learning is
Can u humiliate without co-belligerent for the 1st wars if they are allied to each other?
Yes
Nice guide.
So instead of -33% merc cost and 5% merc dicipline, we could also go 25% merc cost... this has to be the worst deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever.
"Be chill after each war due to AE."
"Play normally until the Ambrosian Republic disaster."
Well which is it, Red Hawk? Play normally or be chill?
I like Infrastructure ideas, but Infrastructure Idea events are the worst. Every 5 years pay 150 admin to upkeep your roads. :(
Lol the title at the start
Its really better to stay as the Golden Republic and get the military rulership as the 11th gov reform.
Overall since military dictatorship doesn't offer a pip or army tradition to help with leader like it's military rulership counterpart, it's just worst
Plz make an england guide
Sometimes the Pope might excommunicate Savoy, allowing you to forcibly vassalize them without getting half of Europe in a coalition.
Both ludi and hawk posts a northern italy play???
which dlc's are you using?
would you recommend taking espionage first instead? for lower ae in italy? or wouldnt you consider it worth it
Not first, but it's definitely a good option for second. Admin and diplo points have more uses early game whereas with military points you can just set them aside entirely for tech and ideas.
no dont take espio. AE ist just a number dude
With espionage and with the age ability in one war i annexed lucca, vassalized ferrara and vassalized florence (that declared on ferrara after i did) without forming any coalition. All of them were out of the hre. It is very strong early game, in the long run isnt.
The disaster claim is gonna grow so old with next dlc oof
This guide doesn't work unless you have all the DLC's, so please be sure to add that, and no, not everyone can afford buying the game repeatedly for every damn DLC...
Each time I do a Milan campaign, Austria has hated me, and my rivals will all beat me to allying the pope, locking me out. Hell, I've even had Venice and Austria ally in the first months, then dec me...
We up
Hawk, I don't understand why you always delete the horse at the beginning of the game. Even if you don't want it, AT LEAST keep it until after your first war, or consolidate during the war.
You start with 10,000 manpower and 10 units, you delete 1 unit, you are deleting 5% of your manpower right there. And its worse with smaller nations.
Late in the game, 1 unit doesn't matter, but at the very start manpower is the most important thing. More important than money in this game.
When you disband a unit, the manpower being used by it returns to your manpower pool, unless they've taken a hit and haven't been reinforced.
On a side note, expansion early game is super slow, so I'm not sure why manpower would be better than money. Money funds wars - it funds reinforcements, active units and mercs, forts - while running out of manpower just puts a higher strain on your economy and doesn't affect your war all that much unless it drags on, in which case 1k manpower won't last you that long.
@ArborInvicta not true unless you have high professionalism
@@michaellacroix6095 mb, you're right on that, I was misremembering. The rest of my point still stands though; it's really not worth keeping the cav considering how low impact it is, especially for early game.
Ngl, after playing Florence Milan just feels like a less fun version. Everything just felt less fulfilling
why should i really a nation that broke the alliance?
Military dictatorship = safe and security, woah idk that Redhawk is based.
Can you unify islam with a nation after forming the sultanate of rum?
Zoroastian Gujarat when ??😢
Is it possible to form zoroastrian India? Muslim nations get hindustan, Hindu gets bharat, what do other religions get?
@@sasi5841 probably bharat
@@sasi5841 never tried i just played Gujarat without trying to
form any nation maybe is because i played them only tall and trade
@@sasi5841I just played Gujarat, formed Hindustan and then converted to zoroastrian via rebels.
@@jbdbibbaerman8071 I am talking about converting to non-muslim/hindu before you form the Indian tags
mzab gudie when
Praise St. Ambrose!
Love me some italian lets plays😊
Just make sure to keep the africans out!!! Keep that culture strong
Racist
sorry charlie but thats white trash
@@viniciusyugulis7278Completely natural
@@Johnny3Batony no it's not only nazis think so