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AI Spain: "Well, Mr. Hawk, planning on a Morocco-into-al Andalus guide, are we? How about ... NO"

It's worth thinking about vassalising Granada so that you can then feed them Ceuta, as they have a mission that puts a center of trade there.

Nice guide Red Hawk :) One strategy you could have used to conquer Iberia is to ally Tunis, declare war on Tlemcen and call Tunis (with promise of land), and then declare on Granada. This way you avoid breaking your alliance with Tunis. If you're lucky, Castile will then declare war on Granada, and if you manage to vassalize Granada you can call in Tunis and other allies against Castile alone. Win the war against Castile, break their alliance with Portugal and you now have 5 years to declare on Portugal. Easy Wins Easy Wars against the Iberians :D Here's some other tips: Restart the game until Aragon rivals Castile but not France, you'll have a much easier time this way. Delete the forts in Tangiers and Dahra (from Tlemcen), they're not worth it. Try to cobelligerent and vassalize any of the other Berber minors in the Sahara for easy defensive wars, especially if against Tunis and Tunis is allied to the Ottomans. To avoid paying admin for low dev provinces, I usually give them to the Saharan vassal(s) that I kept, it's better than keeping them at 90% autonomy unstated. And lastly, to save a bit of admin you can give Tafilalt its core from Tlemcen, start integrating it first, and when you see that the percentage will reach 100% next month start annexing Marrakesh and Sus too. Oh, and ally France ASAP, you tried a bit too late. And once you're halfway through Iberia, you might consider an alliance with England/UK and maybe even Austria against now-hostile bordering France. That's about it, cheers! PS: One variation of this strategy is Portugal declaring on Granada instead of Castile. It's basically the same, but the order will of course be different.

That monster Spain happened to me in all 3 of my Byz runs in 1.33! I thought it was normal lol

12:00 when you diplo annex and full state a province you already had a core on, you just have to wait for a month to pass and it'll go to 0 autonomy. Don't manually lower it while at 90, that'll just lock it in at 65.

What if Austria-Hungary was made of chocolate?

Try to add more explanation as to WHY you should select certain choices. Understanding the why is the most important part of teaching

Love when Mr hawk makes guides outside of Europe or major powers

needed this, thank you hawk

And I JUST finished a Morrocco-> Andalusia run. Wish this came out a week sooner 😢😂

I feel like doing a Ming guide would be a good idea

Allying Granada might not be a bad idea to use their navy and mountain forts vs Castile n Portugal.

Interesting nation for a guide.

Compromise with nobility is always better then strengthen. It removes the influence from increase levies, wich gives manpower modifier

one of the strongest Castile's in a morocco guide, sounds like one of my typical games right there

Fort placement is sub-optimal since the forts exert zone of control on neighboring provinces. With that in mind, a fort in Jufra covers for both Sirt and Fezzan. Also, if forming Andalusia, I don't recommend full stating North Africa since your capital will move to Europe, which makes Africa a profitable Trade Company region instead. For ideas, Humanist + Trade + Defensive allows you to create an extremely tolerant and rich country with -50% idea cost when combined with Andalusian ideas, Mysticism and the Andalusian government reform.

One small detail in the first war with Tunis.Taking the fort that close to their capital will mean a shorter war the next time correct?And convenient since sieges are never with the player

In this case while you were still allied to Tunis you should've requested Fezzan's core back using the Favours interaction. Only situationally useful, so maybe not that good to mention in a guide, but it wouldve allowed you to have the contiguous connection to Fezzan.

25:30 the fort in Tafilalt already blocks troops from running in from north africa

One thing I really like about vic3 is that the AI doesn't player hate like this unless you set it to do so

I would love if you did a Kazan guide…i like to eat Muscovy first!

You got really unlucky, I have NEVER seen castille inherit the lowlands, honestly didn't even know that event existed

One thing I really miss in eu4 when playing a nation that can raid is a naval mission to raid automatically. Its just so much clicking around and remembring to do it again in 10 years time.

You could do a Karaman into Rum guide

Rather than having to rely purely on dev'ing for the rennaisance, you can try allying an Italian minor. You're big enough at this point to overcome any negative religious difference maluses. They'll probably just sell it to you then. Definitely doesn't hurt to try.

Honestly if you're at the point that you're so far from the norm that you're saying "Almost none of you are going to be in this situation," scoop and restart. This is a guide video, not a full playthrough, restarting to have a more normal game is perfectly fine.

Nice.

One thing You forgot to mention. After annexing a vassal remember to lowe autonomy, especially on the gold mine. Provinces from annexed vassals get high autonomy.

Would you be able to somehow continue this game so that we could see you fight that massive alliance? Would be fun to see win or lose

I'd be more interested in a guide for mzab but morroco is good too

the fun thing about Barbary Iqta is it is nt locked religion and nation like other muslim government reforms. I flipped to moroccona culture as Portugal and later in the game raided Ottoman coast.

25:44 why not just put one fort in the province in between fezzan and sirt? blocks both

Iberia became a super-hugbox here, damn...

I think the only thing I never done on EU4 is actually trying to conquer the entire planet. I might do that with my next nation but realistically, I will just try to conquer as much stuff as possible before the "end date" of the game.

I know we aren't doing guides right now, but it has been 2 years since we got a Great Horde guide. Can we get an update? lol

My strategy in the early game is to build as much carracks as possible while conquering tlemcen which makes ottomans wanna ally me. After that declare on portugal when england refuses to join and use my navy to crush theirs then bait them into coming to africa and blockade the strait to stackwipe their armies.

What DLC or add ons do you have ?

Well after about 20-30 restarts i can say the following. Tunis allys grenada every time. Spain will eat grenada while you fight tlemcen. Cant even do a no cb on grenada as tunis and them ally on like december 11 so you cant declare war prior to the alliance firing. Generally castille will ally either france or austria. Austria normally gets hungary. Burgandy remains a wildcard.

Raiding is limited to 3 sea tiles away from your nearest port

Anyone interested in a Novgorod guide?

16:28 You said you didn't fully stated most of the lands you conquered because you couldn't afford the admin point to core it, but even if you cannot afford to core it, by fully stating it you will reduce the minimum autonomy to only 50%, which would probably have allowed you to increase your max troops/ships limit and reduced your penalties. And -40% autonomy from 90% is always good cash

i wish you continued until you allied france and declared on castille

I literally facepalmed at the lose corruption/debase trick (facepalmed that I never do it, not at the trick itself). I can't believe I'll spend six months with a with an event blocking my screen so I can earn enough not to have to take a loan, but have never thought of doing a corruption void.

I would like to fight against this castile alliance

I feel like yoy could branch out to some other games easily. Survival craft would suit your narrative style; step 1, 2, why you decide on 3 or 4.

I wanna see a war against castile especially if they get an Hapsburgs on their throne that's seems like amazing RP for me because Austria had to share the Burgundian inheritance!!

Tuat was that province name?

When RedHawk showed all the PUs of Castille and Austria and the massive cockblock resulting from them, I quite literally turned into El Risitas. How can you be so unlucky with the RNG? Its not even real brah.

How dare you!! I was looking for a guide on Morocco from you yesterday and couldn’t find one except for the 1.31 so I tried it myself and it went horribly!!

as a Moroccan hearing you pronounce the names of cities make me in a great pain 😂😂😂

Ally france, call in ottomans and france, merc up, win Naval War first War focus on getting a small foothold and and break alliance with Austria. Or focus Austria first and break alliance and hope France holds out while your navy holds em

Wait, why does Morocco have vision on China?

Best nation to form Andalusia is Castile tho due to Western Tech

25:55 Wait, built a coastal fort? Why not build it in the province between Sirt and Fezzan so ZoC extends to both directions and not have a coastal fort too which are much easier to siege with blockades. And you can build one on the province more west with that lake (Q something i always forget) to create a second fort layer for if u fight mamluks bc they will be gunning for your ass if the ottos are your allies. Edit; I mean Juffra and Qafsah

I cringed when Red Hawk did not take the hill fort of Tunis in the first war..

Isnt weird that morocco is as big as spain yet they have fewer provinces.

40:03 Lebanon!!!

My strats: never rival iberian european except castile. Ally mamluks and france. Fast annex vassals at one time so it wont lower opinion of ur vassals. Fast conquest other North african. It only takes 20 years to conquer all north africa

You used AI for the face in the thumbnail, didn’t you?

I got a lot luckier than you in terms of enemy alliances and France killing Spain to claim Naples throne. On track for a 1530 al andalus with the peruvian natives conquered and 4 colonial nations after stealing portugals colonies. Love the videos mate.

W Simo land

3:50

Ah yes now conquer Tunis to trigger laith. Jk

No wars with Castile? Its not a guide but a weak playthrough...

Morocco/Andalusia can easily ally France

MIN 9:44 before you send peace your admin points with a 0 1 2 ruler was : 262. In the peace you send the admin cost for cores is 68 , but you still have 243 in the NOV 1452 . So bassically you are using commands to make a good guide 4real?

Don't be a coward, submit to the naval maritime supremacy!

Clickbait Andalusia, Hawk? Really?😄

Click bait title is click bait.