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"Seriously, the Ottomans are so overpowered. Not even joking." The authentic 16th century eastern Europe experience

damn that thing with making milan an elector before you start the PU war on them is really smart, i wish i did it on my previous austria games

"Grant electorship to Milan before attacking" you sly devil you lol

I love to make basically everyone in Europe von Habsburg.

Rivaling France is always a good idea as Austria because if Castille/Spain also rivals them without rivalling you, they're missing an heir, and Austria + Castille/Spain have a Royal Marriage, then there's an event that can get a Habsburg on the Castillan/Spanish throne which you may eventually get a PU over later on. It's not as guaranteed as the other PUs in this video, but it's definitely worth keeping an eye on their heir and rival situation to be ready to throw a RM at them.

19:37 i mean you get a PU on Lithuania too when you PU Poland, and its maybe even better since you have a higher chance of inheriting them since they are smaller

the fort that's to the right of Praha, can't remember the province, is kept at no maintenance if you keep your troops 1 province away from bohemian border. essentially you can selanik that bitch when you do the declaration.

My Brandenburg-Prussia playthrough is coming to an end. It seems I might have to try Austria again. Great guide as always!

If i remember right you also get a 50% off level 2 improve relations advisor right from the start too

It's very very important that the absolute first thing you do with a diplomat before unpausing is RM Burgundy. One day later and they have no slots left and will refuse.

Honestly so hype for this, I love your videos and Austria is my favourite nation to play. Nice guide!

Another great guide from Ludi

Nice guide once again! I love watching your videos for finding interesting countries to play. Atm doing mughals, previously did England for Anglophile achievement

Thanks to watching you all the time, I've formed a habit of estate management that has truly changed how my games go.

Pumping out great content non stop, I love it!

From my point of view, this is the best video I've seen from you, great work.

Love your guide! thank you!

How does my man only have 113k? literally has the cleanest EU4 content on the platform

Thank you for the videos, they helped me a lot. Even without dlcs i could play it :d

As of 1.32, it seems AE modifiers have been significantly adjusted for the Austrian mission tree. PU'ing Bohemia and Hungary in rapid succession as described here led to a nearly immediate total HRE coalition against me; even with Burgundy, Castile and my client states, I'm severely outmatched. This with all the extra diplo+improve relations% I can muster in 1451. And fighting off an opportunistic Poland that wanted to grab Hungarian lands from under me.

Man, Ludi is so happy making this vid, tis wholesome

we needed this

You DO make quality content brother. Long time Subscriber. 👍

Amazing guide. Just a few more OP PUs to keep in mind. Spain is very OP partner, as you get the colonies. Just make sure both of you rival france. And delay it a bit, to make sure they get colonial ideas and have fired the Iberian wedding. If you are very lucky, you might get Naples, Castille, and Aragon, all with just one marriage. If Naples is independent, thats fine as well because you get a PU cb on them after you take over Milan. Just wait till they form Two Sicilies though, as it has better military ideas. Opening move should always be to ally Burgundy first, as they only have 1 free diplo slot at the start. Followed by an obvious RM. Bavaria also eventually forms and you get a PU cb on them, just make sure to make them an elector before the war. Also keep in mind, for Austria, your biggest threats are the French and Ottomans. Picking fights with the French once you get your main PUs and are waiting for the Ottoman truce, is a good idea. Though it will make the game extremely easy and a bit boring late game. Since frankly Austria is completely broken. Another less annoying but still unignorable threat is Scandanavia. If you can land the Commonwealth as a PU, then you get a very good jump off point to eat them. Other tips (from my own experience), I think the shadow kingdom is just a pain in the ass a waste of resources. It takes too much precious time and AE management to keep them in line, that I just abandon it. Your efforts are better suited to just eat Venice and then leave Italy alone for a while till you have pacified the Ottomans.

That Kalenberg Battle came pretty earlier than expected... And you won without winged hussars arriving That's insane man!!

Ludi continues to blow my mind on this game haha

btw i love the videos keep it up please!

Ave Ludi, after waiting months until fixes for the game (and nothing happens) i'm back in the game again. Your guides have always been good, but you've gotten even better in this time. Thx for your amazing work.

Be aware that you dont need the +3 stab modifier at the start, as you can only inherit PU members after 50 years.

4(6.9)k subs! Almost at 50k! Let's get that PC Ludi!

Thanks for another great guide. Hail to the Chin Dynasty!

Top tier thumbnails. Content doesn't harm either. Fun fact I'm in the middle of wc as Austria. Vassal swarm is fun.

Great guide! Having never played Austria or in the HRE before myself, it inspired me to give it a try. Worked fantastically. Except I had no idea about HRE mechanics so I stuffed my IA up a bit. But it doesn't matter because I'm so huge and strong AE just doesn't matter anymore. So far it's 1577 I'm way ahead on all techs and have 2015 dev plus my subjects have 868 dev. Inherited Bohemia and Burgundy. Integrated Hungary. Current subjects are Byzantium(all cores) Bulgaria, Bourbannais, Bavaria, Aubergine, Aquileia, Champagne, Crimea and Milan. 11 diplo relations slots and +9 diplo rep. Made Ottomans and France release several nations. Finished first colony in Columbia and building second one in west Africa which has been left completely uncolonised for me. The AI island hopped to the Cape and then focused on the Americas only. Have 250k manpower and force limit of 248. Subjects have 66k troops. Idea groups I went were Diplomatic > Innovative > Defensive > Expansion. Focussing now on gaining IA by converting the heretics and releasing new tags in the empire my IA has stagnated for decades. Passed only the first four reforms so far. Have my dynasty on Brandenburg and Sweden's thrones.

You first need to wait 50 years... so in the early game +3 staby is not needed

You fucking did it Ludi! You got 100k!

14:51 First april fools in history

I'm not fast enough yet to do insanely fast world conquests but hey, I earned Mare Nostrum today while having almost whole Souh America, Moluccas, Australia and half of North America as my PUs of Casstille, Portugal and Britian colonized a lot. Definitely fun run! :D

Do the world conquest! Please! Hi from Argentina! Love your channel

Now I gotta try this.

I did't remember there being so many gold mines in eastern europe, what an insight!

I knew this was coming since your theme is nations that can do world conquest Ottomans prob next

I never need mercy in these wars due to the manpower buff provided by the HRE. Taking the goldmines while doing the PU is a good idea. I’m an 🦍 and never thought about that. The start seems pretty normal to me.

Never thought about taking the goldmines from your vassals. You are kind of smart

Also good thing to do is to RM Castille. If both of u rivalled France, they don't have heir and u have a RM with them, they might get a Habsurg heir from the event :3

0:23 You said it, you do it ^^

My favorite nation to play in the game. It’s a totally different play style but I love it.

100K subs!!!!! The Haggis is coming for you!!!!

I would love to see an Austria world conquest

Do not take venice in the second war! Its always great to have venice keep their capital province for a little while, while you own the trade node so venice with all their trade modifiers steers its trade into your venice trade node. What often happends to venice trade node if the Austrians take it all is that its a 10 ducats max trade node as austria has les steering potential

Small tip from a guy who's played Austria a thousand times since 1.30: Bohemia mothballs the Olomouc fort if you don't put troops on his border. Instead put your troops so that they walk into a bordering province on the 2nd of the month, then declare on the 1st and rush the fort. You can easily blitz Bohemia in 1 year and peace out for the union and some cash without calling in any ally.

Legendary. I cannot talk anything, it blows my mind

Have you done world conquest livestream?😋 you told about 2k likes, right now is 5 times that

Greetings from Mecklenburg :D

I'm actually thinking if influence wouldn't be better than diplo ideas since you're keeping all your vassals and PU members more loyal and that annexing them is cheaper. You also got the extra relation slot. Which helps with diplo mana gain.

My strategy in early wars with Venice when I don't have a navy big enough to beat theirs is to make a sacrificial fleet, park it somewhere else before the war, and use it to bait the fleet defending Venetia into a battle a sea tile or two away so I have time to sneak an army in.

Man! This is incredible! Thanks for all the advice! I have just one big question: how you managed to have Diplo-point at all? I mean with so many PU and vassals and allies you are probably at 1 or even -1. So how you can have any Diplo technology?

16:23 Vienna relief

More likes plz,want to see a full playthrough

I was just thinking about doing an Austria run

me 6 months later - WAIT YOU CAN SALLY YOUR TROOPS FROM FORTS?!

@Ludi et Historia Is it possible to use the HRE tree to establish the HRE as it's own country after using this guide?

Gotta say this is some 200 hours experience level of guide.

Good strategy is after you first war with ottomans take all the coast and their land borders to the balkans and 1 Bulgarian province, then spawn in Bulgarian rebels and then release Bulgaria as a vassal and watch the rebels transfer all the cores back to your vassal.

Ludi, is there a special reason why u take land from the states at start instead of staying in 0 so u get the event that gives u a lot of Crown land? Thanks for the videos, really good content!

I don't know if it's the new update or what but winning the restoration of union war against Bohemia gave me 99 AE in the HRE and literally every nation I wasn't allied to joined a coalition in the span of a month

Hey Ludi. How do you make Milan an elector when the HRE already had 7 electors and it’s impossible to remove someone as an elector before the League War?

Hey Ludi, have you done a video on the best ideas for the HRE (post all reforms)?

Remember you can remove electorate from cologne or let him die. So you give electorate to burgundy or Milan, so when you get them as pu they will always vote for you (but you need to do this before they are pu)

47k subs, NOICE!

What did you do with your balkan vassals? Annexed them when possible?

You actually get both Poland and Lithuania if you get the PU on Poland (If Poland has a Jagiellon on the throne, of course)

Yo which dlc has those little pictures next to your allies in the Call Allies section?

Ludi - "sell your fleet you don't need it". Ludi 5 minutes later - "crap I need a fleet".

For the Bohemian War I never use mercenaries. A stack of 2 armies is enough. If you ally Hungary and I always do in case Poland attacks them you can call them in and promise land. The war this way becomes hella easy. Also another point for this war is attacking on the first of any month from vienna as the fort in Olmütz (i dont know the other name) is always mothballed. Are you sure you should take the gold mines? I never tried but a lot of times the Hungarians especially spiral into debt and the gold mine helps them out. Idk... for a vassal I'd probably agree but for a PU I want them as strong as possible... good guide

Go go stream!

Where is the PU Poland reward on the missions tree? I cannot find this. I have done all the way down to Conquer Galicia and never got it.

Hun Gary? Is he related to Young Gary? (Mystery Science Theatre 3000 reference)

"Austria is the best to WC in Europe" *Laughs in first WC as Provence->Jerusalem->HRE*

Can you make a video about how we march into City of Venice without fleet?

I typically try to get the vote without allying electors. I already have too many subjects consuming dip on Austria. lol

I did my first World Conquest with Austria after receiving a surprise PU over France and Portugal.. And revoke soon after, it was just too easy.

Are there plans for an Oda 1.31 guide?

I remember Holy war CB against the Ottomans.i was playing as France allied to to Poland with all the little stuff, Moscowy, Portugal, Burgundy with all it's stuff, our alliance took 600 000 casualties on Tech 8, ottomans toot 240 000 but they ran out of armies and we have won.

how did you gave the electorship ? have you annexed an elector?

"Make love and war" - the Habsburgs

When you grand Milan the elector Did you have 7 electors? I can not grand them the elector.

Is Part 2 for the Oirat world conquest coming?

Will there be a part 2 for this one? pretty please? :D

If you wanted to prevent the Ottokebab from getting strong you could just ally everyone and no-CB Byzantium, Vassalise them, and inherit the defensive war in which you can call anyone.

Would you ever recommend going for "Humanist ideas" instead of "Religious ideas"? And in which situation? Also, have you ever considered making a guide about absolutism (how to "harvest" it, to which point it is needed and so on).

I followed the guide all of europe joined in a coalitiin and declared a show superiority war against me

will you put the videos of Austrian world conquest?

Looks a nice plan! I'll do the saaame Mess up and loose everythiing kkk

so how to get city of venice without ships? :-)

Regretfully, it doesnt work too well with the actual version 1.32, because now you get an overall AE of 106 with taking the Bohemian union peace option, which will get you a massive koalition right at the start with the whole of roman empire. You get the same amount of AE if you force the union with Milan and Hungary. Can't tell if it is a bug or supposed to be that way now.

Hmm, I can't give Milan an electorate. Also, how to deal with shadow kingdom event?

how are you taking venetia in the "Later Wars" portion? do you have to build a huge fleet?

In my game I had to load back cause Milan got an heir that got too old for the Milanese Succession to fire and then once the old ruler actually did die they just changed to an electoral republic after a month of the regency so the event will never fire. Very annoying

I got the pu over bohemia and took the gold mine but that made all the electors give me -1000 score in the election and i lost the emperor title. Why did this happen?