What religions do enjoy playing? Do you agree with my list? As always thank you for watching and I will see you on the next video. If you have any suggestions for future videos feel free to let me know in the comments!

Me in the new world: I wonder what's going on in Europe... Europe: *_Byzantium is Emperor of the HRE_* *_Portugal has formed Spain_* *_England won the 100 years war_* Me: I think I'll stay in the new world...

Bharti India is like saying German Deutschland

Obviously the best religion is animism it lets you switch to actual religions though event

No Tengri ?Sky god is angry now

I honestly think that all Christian religions should be at the first 6 spots because of the PU/inheritance mechanic. Okay, it is a double-edged sword, because you can fall under a PU as well, but it is the most op mechanic in the game, theoretically allowing you to blob everywhere in Europe without moving a finger

Orthodox because it allows you to go over 200% OE

Considering the unrest modifier, Orthodox is the best when you have full Patriarch authority

number 0 *T E N G R I*

I think Inti is my favrotie: 1. Easy to reform 2. Powerful bonuses

A couple of things worth mentioning for confucianism: -save for the easterns, they harmonize by religious group, not individual religions, this means you can take 3 or 4 coptic provinces in the horn of africa and, regardless of how the reformation went, you've essentially converted ALL of europe (and likely siberia too) -because they become considered true faith, any bonus to the usually ignored tolerance of the true faith practically becomes a national unrest modifier (however the heretic/heathen tolerance bonuses from humanist are essentially rendered useless)

Confucian Mughals is the way to go!

"If you want to conquer the world militaristiclly as the religion of peace, Islam is the natural choice." LMFAO xD The only problem with Islam is the difficulty to convert provinces. Christianity has a lot easier time converting muslim provinces on the other hand. Christian religions also have the PU mechanic which I think dwarves all other religions.

I would say reformed is a very powerful religion as well The 10% army morale really comes in handy during wars And with the tolerance of heretics, you can forget about what type of Christianity Europe is

I've always hated the luck element involved in becoming Papal Controller. I seem to remember earlier versions of the game may have chosen the controller based upon who actually had the most influence points spent; not just a "chance".

Awesome list, great video man.

Finally :) I always wanted a list like this

Orthodox because I am orthodox and this religion is good like in the game . Many say that Orthodoxy was the first christine religion . And the Chatolic separated from Orthodoxy .

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Confucionism is to confucing for me...

Great vid.. I am due for another Eu4 game! In fact I should check if my DLCs are current.

While it's only accessable through RNW fantasy nations and custom nations, Norse is pretty strong with a similar god mechanic to Hinduism and increases to naval and land force limit

I don't really agree with the list, but you did a great job explaining the religions.

2:54 *flashback to Groogy in the Cradle of Civilization Dev Clash*

I’m glad you put Catholicism as high as you did. I was surprised just how strong it was in late game. Once you grow and have 10+ cardinals, you often can have all 7 buffs active and still get a free stab or two. It’s crazy. And it’ll only be stronger after Emperor releases!

I'm enjoying to play as reformed. Cause I had 200 money and if you become reformed you get 300 money and so I immediately became defender of Faith. And that's pretty cool (I played as France)

Nice video.

*Muslims are good for peacefull conquest* Me: wat.

It’s a good thing I’m Orthodox then

7:50 A perfect world doesn't ex.....

Is that a mod you use to have more distinct country colors and borders? If it is, which one and can i still get achievments in ironman with that mod? Thanks in advance :)

Excuse me First Rome is best Rome. Sorry, doing a Byzantine World Conquest, had to say that.

For me ortodox is the best

Imho Mayan is the best religion because the benefits are just so strong and reformation isn't as bad as it seems on first glance. When it comes to reforms, go with CCR first, then Infantry CA, then Colonist, then Army Maintainance, then Unrest. Trust me, it's very strong.

The Anglican Chruch is probably the most fun religion I've dealt with. 400+ gold for the monastery ability plus England/GB control of the trade modes and if you play well colonial nodes, making you a power house for the ages.

I see people saying PU is very op mechanic, but how the hell can you consistently use it? The conditions seem too random to rely on PUs for expansion.

A bit late but regarding the protestants, you get money for becoming protestant and you get improved relations, the money is a nice help for getting your economy started as a smaller nation and the improved relations is similar to the reduced AE as your AE will tick down way faster, an additional 0.4 per year if i remember correctly.

My favorite eu4 themed ASMR

Catholic: Is not number one Me: Triggered in crusader.

My right ear enjoyed this video slightly more than my left ear

Now that you've thought about it, it's about time the Shinto faith gets some love...

This video. It's why I never have third rome enabled anymore

did you say one way truce for Nahuatl? I seem to get a 2 way truce that forces me to break truce to attack every time.

All that speech about Christianity and HRE, and you totally forgot to mention, that Confucianism is required to claim the Mandate of Heaven (that brings its own set of bonuses, no RNG dependency and above all - meritocracy mechanics).

Are you using a mod to make the map look like that in number 1 if so what’s the name

I'd argue that Mayan is harder to reform than Nahuatl. Doom is definitely a ticking clock and sometimes a rather harsh and dangerous pain in the rear, but Nahuatl nations do at least have the option to take land and keep it while they're cycling through reforms, making the next few cycles a bit easier if you plan ahead well enough. If you keep one or two AI un-truced at the end of the first or second cycle, you can farm some Doom from their soldiers while you wait for the other truces to tick down, and once you've passed two or three reforms you can more or less take it easy and do the rest at your leisure since every reform you pass decreases your Doom gain by 20%. Maya nations, on the other hand, must A) spend thousands of admin points on re-coring and stabbing up, B) Can't keep vassals or otherwise effectively strengthen themselves and weaken most of their opposition beyond acquiring a pair of extra semi-randomized provinces per cycle, and C) Must expand in basically the same direction and through the same messy webs of alliances every time (fragging Zapotec allying half of Mexico *every darn cycle*...), while taking no more and no less than twenty provinces with each cycle. And unlike the Nahuatl their clock never really stops ticking until they're all the way through their reforms. Granted, they don't have a literal doomsday incoming, but they do have a European apocalypse inbound, and the time it takes for truces to tick and cores to complete is quite rigid compared to the more flexible Nahuatl, who can snake out into the Yucatan and Garland War anybody they want in a nice long line every time a truce expires.

I would agree that nahuatl is difficult to reform, but considering you lose cores as a Mayan when you add another reform I would argue they are the most difficult. Not to mention how ridiculously strong the Aztecs are compared to the Maya.

I think Confucianism only deserves the #10 spot if you start as them or convert to them before 1500. Otherwise, I think it's pretty meh with its only saving grace being the admin tech cost reduction. Since if you use its mechanic the tolerance will become worthless and at that point - why even have it? I've found whenever I convert to it later such as when I take the Emperorship it's more trouble than it's worth. It's list of many issues: If you ignore harmonizing it's an awful religion. It's effectively +2 Tolerance of Heathens +1 Tolerance of true faith and -10% admin tech cost with a PENALTY for converting provinces to your religion, if you want a 'tolerant' religion you're better off with Fetishist who gets a few nice decisions and bonuses. Increase development cost early on is a massive pain if you're intending to dev up an institution. Reduced legitimacy is a minor pain - but if you're Emperor it really hurt, meritocracy effects advisor costs and some juicy bonuses - and you tend to want those. From what I gather it doesn't effect republics or hordes so maybe that could be useful? But you'd need to reform into that most likely, which has issues of its own. The biggie though is -3 tolerance of the true faith - this is as good as -3 unrest and it is awful, you would literally be better off not harmonizing at all and picking up humanist - but harmonizing is the main thing that makes this religion redeemable! The true killer is how long it takes to harmonize - simply put, too long. Even with lucky events. By the time all the bonuses kick in, they stop being worth it and for the huge cost you pay up front by having to manage a lot of extra rebels... it's painful. It comes down to what any eu4 world conquer will tell you - the benefits later matter a lot less than the ones you get now. You're better off getting a powerful start right away than punishing yourself early when you need the boosts most then get an only slightly better bonus later. Even Coptic don't ramp up so slowly - since they at least start with **some** of their bonuses. It's not flexible. It's slow. The benefits are minor. If you want to do what Confucianism does - pick up Humanist ideas alongside a decent religion and don't suffer through its years of pain. Great religion to role-play as. Terrible religion to play in most scenarios.

Brand new to your channel and great video but some corrections are needed. 3:46 It's actually 1480 and beyond. 4:27 They also have to convert the province to Coptic. 7:02 Bit of a grammar Nazi correction but reform, not reformation. 13:20 Those are 2 abilities you can activate when you get 75% mysticism and 75% legalism respectively which costs 50% legalism or mysticism depending which side you one. You don't gain yearly manpower you gain 2 years worth of manpower. The 3 (Actually 4) decisions I think you meant were Enforce Religious Unity +2% missionary strength to heretics, requires ruler admin 3+, Adopt the Title of Khalifa, requires ruler military 3+, +0.5 yearly prestige and instant bonus of 10 legalism, (Sidenote, must be SUNNI, NOT SHIA OR IBADI, republic, or The Mamluks) Denouncement of Sect Practices requires ruler of diplo 3, gives -1 global unrest and instant bonus of 10 legalism, and the last one is Islamic center of Scholarly Learning which requires a ruler of diplo 5 instead of 3, -5% tech cost, +1% missionary strength and a instant bonus of 25 legalism. Additional requirement is an admin tech of 8 which the previous ones do not require anything of the sort. 13:37 It's 50% or more, not 33% And you already stated this but it can only be used in trade companiy regions basically rendering it useless. The whole point of these corrections is just to say make sure to watch your video once before you post it for any corrections, as videos on youtube are forever cannot be changed (Unless you put in annotations) so make sure they're perfect before you post them. Anyways good video and I hope to see more from you.

You also forgot to mention that protestant nations before the printing press are able to instantly get it to spread to them without having to spend mana to get one provence to embrace it and spread it or waiting...

Just played new world and was surprised at how easy it can be if you get a nice snowball (did it as north american.) I don't believe it is as hard as you say it is, even though it was totemist.

Before the reforms were made that made Protestantism any good and Tordesillas for Catholicism, I usually went Reformed when in Europe. If you max out your stability and have a large trade income, you can rake in even more gold with it basically non-stop. I love it. Now if only I had something to spend my money on since I prefer to play tall instead of wide... Also I don't have much experience with catholicism because I often play countries that don't get many Papal seats due to relatively low number of provinces with eh development.

Gonna play orthodox Mongol Empire now :D

Anglicanism is pretty good too. -At 100% religious unity you get an insane ammount of church power, which you can use to stay at max stability for the entire game, you can also use it to get some extra ducats. -England is the only anglican nation in the game, if you go for religious ideas you can get a free CB against every nation in the game -The extra innovativeness gain goes great with innovative ideas, making it pretty easy to get to 100 innovativeness in a short amount of time.

I believe that the most powerful religion is HRE Emperor Italy that has Catholic Curia. Catholic allows you to have all bonuses at the same time, and it is quite easy to get more mana than you need to spend, thus getting free stability! What other religion gives the possibility for all bonuses to be active at the same time? Curia gives tech cost reduction, improve relations increase, diplomats increase, stab cost reduction and the ability to excommunicate and break royal marriages without a stab hit. The papal mana can also be used to get at the very least inflation reduction cost and diplomatic reputation. It also starts as the most developed faith. But then it also has the shitshow called the reformation.

Which DLC is required to enable you to upgrade religions?

About Islam, I believe that it's one of the strongest religions as well. This is especially true if you are Shia or Ibadi, since you are often if not always the only one with that branch of Islam and can enjoy the benefits of being Defender of the Faith uncontestedly. The only problem I have with it is how hard it is to get to -100 piety (mysticism) in the game, since you get closer to legalism by attacking heathens and only lose it by attacking fellow muslims, meaning that you will float at 100 piety for most of the game, willingly or not. These bonuses connected to legalism are not bad, but it would be fun to see how Mysticism plays out with extra morale and missionary strength, but it's hard to get there. As it stands, I would agree for sure that either Coptic or Orthodox are the best religions, especially considering how easily you can be Defender of the Faith on top of the ridiculous bonuses. I mean, I don't even have the DLC that gives icons to Orthodox players, but staying at 100 authority is still incredibly strong.

And how can I get the Boat Mormons?

I really liked coptic. You don't have to switch between several blessings. If all holy sites are owned by coptic nations you can use all at once.

Hussites are awesome to play.

Nahualt isn't that hard to pass reforms tbh. Just don't let anybody be annexed and don't take too much land (but enough so you can reach everybody). You just need to win the first 2 wars, take the 2 fort provinces, and make a landbridge to the mayans, reform, and after that it gets easier and easier. Remember that if you attack somebody and they call their allies, those allies break any truces they have with you. (So you can vassalize them for diplo points).

Until now I never knew there are 10 religions

One of my friends went mamluks, got to Ethiopia, and let his country be conqured by Coptic rebels. Best part was that another player declared war on him while 100k coptic rebels were around and destroyed the invading force.

I dunno if im playing this game differently from all of you but i feel like confucianism and protestant are the most powerful. Prots have three really flexible and really strong bonuses w church power and use church power in advancing parliamentary bills when its stuck on 100 because the bonuses you have work for you. Being able to largely ignore religion because of confucianism rocks too, the meritocracy mechanic is great in late game, and its events are strong.

lol interesting to listen to but also kinda making me twitch at a few moments, "Piety" is pronounced, "Pie-eh-Tea" btw not meant to be rude just trying to be helpful.

my fav is confucionism because i just don't have to care about coverting provinces

Reformed used to be trash in my opinion but then I got wealth of nations and was enlightened to the Fervor mechanic and have seen the light.

As of 1.27, I'd say Sunni is better than Orthodox for One Faith, as you can convert trade company land easily, and can make buckets of ducats with the corruption reducing button (debase, then click the button to get free money equal to your loan size), or just use it to get rid of late game corruption if you don't have Espionage ideas. Orthodox is pretty great too though, that unrest reduction is so nice to have, only downer is that you have more of the world to convert than you do with Sunni

Orthodoxy, Shiite, and Protestantism are tied at #1 spot: 1. Orthodox is very good in lategame with it's +5% discipline and manpower bonuses, however completely lacks in any naval or colonial aspects. 2. Shiite is the most powerful religion at start, combining 15% land morale (usually ~10%), while those shock damage and defense bonuses are roughly equal +10% discipline up until infantry starts getting some fire pips. 3. Protestantism is the best all-rounder: it's like an ultimate solution for those who want to do everything (colonizing, warmongering, developing lands, and so on).

I had a Mayan run a while back on early dharma release (1.26.0 or sth) and for some reason I lost all 5 reform bonuses upon reformation, the Religious reforms tab disappeared. And I received no event to convert to Christianity either (does this has anything to do with the resistance to reformation thing). Have anyone had the same problem or I just messed up something? Oh and Sotuta has a temple now, I'm pretty sure that Mayan doesn't have temple before.

Enjoyed the list but anglican could have been given an honourable mention ha 😃

How about Anglican? Its mechanics is quite strong, as you can get tonnes of money with church power and stability upgrade. It can make you an economic power house, as you will almost never run out of money.

Ahem “Please” the clergy estate

Looks like im playing as the aztecs next

Coptic #7 OMEGALUL 1 or 2, nothing else is even close to Copt and Orthodox. #7 is totally insane

Come on man! You can do pronunciations in like 10 languages, but you pronounce "reform" not as "rehform," but as "reeform." You were the chosen one!

Is Caddo Nahuatl fixed yet?

What would be the best religion in the game if you don’t have Third Rome?

Tengri should be squeezed in between protestant and catholic imo. The tolerance is insane, and so is the 20% regiment cost. I struggle to see the train of thought that led you to leaving it out entirely.

playing as orthodox rum (karaman into- rum). with Op rum ideas manpwoer modifier .land morale , core creation cost..-20 dev cost with economic ideas and %-10 eextra with quantity policies. %10 orthodox also you can get another 10 percent with another policy i dont remember which one is now -% 50 dev cost. turn into republic after 1600 you get 1 republican tradition (1 legitimacy of rum ideas). re elect and good leaders..

Shinto is really nice. Not because of it's mechanics or bonuses. But because of it's exclusivity for Japan. 1. Play the military powerhouse that Japan is. 2. Take Religious ideas for the Deus vult CB. 3. Have a CB against literally anybody because nobody else has the Shinto religion. 4. ??? 5. Profit!

For anyone confused why the American religions or Coptic are so low, or why Shinto isn’t on the list, keep in mind that this is not a game where you can consider these things in a vacuum. You have to keep in mind how widespread they are, and what nations start with it or have an easy time converting to it. For example, out of the three Muslim sects, the worst on paper is obviously Sunni, but I consider Sunni to be the strongest simply because of how widespread it is, and the fact that three of the strongest nations at the start are Sunni while the biggest Shia nation is Qara Quyonlu. Even if you aren’t going to play one of them, you’ll generally have an easier time with Sunni than with Shia because of diplomacy and unrest

Really enjoying these lists, however I think Hindu is easily top 3, if not number 1. Especially if you have Dharma

Orthodox is no doubt #1, but Confucian is the #1 worst without a doubt. Harmonizing is slower and less efficient than converting, and the low harmony maluses to meritocracy and tolerance of the true faith are deadly. On that note, where the heck are Shinto and Tengri on this list? Both of those are far better than Confucian or Fetishist (or Coptic and Catholic in my opinion.) Finally, Hindu should outrank Muslim religions because of ruler stat increasing events, and Sikhism should also be a bit higher. My list of top religions would be Orthodox>Hindu>Ibadi>Shia>Sunni>Sikhism>Tengri>Nahuatl>Inti>Mayan>Protestant>Catholic>Shinto, the rest belong in the garbage can.

You do not excomunicate a nation or as i prefer to call them : Tags / factions, you just excomunicate their rulers.

ORTODOX STRONKK :-DDDDDDDDD Fun fact, before the DLCs it was probably one of the most boring religions in the game.

Hinduism + Tier 5 States General allows a new deity every four years without being a Republic. It's impressive in 1.27.2.

I'm surprised Anglican wasn't on the list at all, though I suppose it doesn't give you quite as many modifiers as a lot of those other religions, but I just feel like being able to increase stability without it costing you monarch points seems strong to me, and when you don't need more stability you can just slowly increase mercantilism which is always a welcome thing when playing as England or GB. Though I do agree of the christian religions protestant and orthodox are stronger.

I probably couldn’t list 10 religions in EUIV xD

Uhuuum pleasing the clergy😂😂😂😂

Is there have over 10 religions? Edit)without no religion or ck2 convert religion

“Pai-ee-tee”

I always knew it wasn't weird. I'm part of the 9th best religion.

Borg conquest as Confucian Mughals

Why am I watching this.. I don't even play EU4. It's 4 AM and I have school today..

angelicin is the best gives you shit loads of money, every 50 month gives you the cost of half a loan with out having to pay it back and with out any debuffs (simular to the protasent system, needs to build up the church power, outher options, like stability and mercitlism)

Doomsday maybe punishing but it is far easier to game than Mayan. Mayan's mechanics mean that you will be at your weakest right as the Europeans arrive and you won't even be able to unite your starting area before they get there. With Mayan you will likely end up over the force limit and weak to the regions you recently owned.

15:10 you cheat!! Just kidding !!

1. *JEW-daism*

I'm also a bit late but what about Judaism? I think they should have paid more attention to this religion as they did in CK2 (and add some nice missions f.e).