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I just played Naples, and man it was fun, but the start was very frustrating

Red Hawk, as Naples at @12:00 : "In my game, both Austria and the Pope would help me fight Naples" And the civil infighting begins...

5:12 you dont get a random ruler you always get 2 4 4 Ferrando de Trastamara

Marshall Murat honoring the tumbnail with his hair

Le Maréchal Murat in the thumbnail is to bring all our juicy french likes to the video ? well, it works.

I've not played Naples before but this makes it look like an interesting campaign.

I think from now on, it's only EU4 KZfaq videos for me. The game became so SO addictive to me that I can play for HOURS and not realizing it.

30:22 It's not unjustified demands if you make them "return cores" rather than just conquering them for your subject.

It’s funny because I rarely ever play Naples. When in Italy I just end up going with Florence or Milan. I’ve only ever played the Pope once or twice too. I really should branch out more, given I’m over 2500 hours now…😂

İ WAS WAİTİNG FOR THİS

Why is your thumbnail showing a different map, tho?

Shootout to my boy Murrat, the "beau sabreur"

Yay you did a guide for my favorite nation thanks Hawk :)

naples is still looked down upon cause for a very long time naples was so terrible that a lot of players never took a 2nd look again

30:22 If you do return core on the second vassal the AE will still be reduced to 25% multiplicative. The way the CB works is that any province taken in the demand provinces tab have to be taken by the vassal whose CB you used, and any other vassals go through the return score screen to have the 25% difference. Only works on the primary peace deal.

One of my favorite campaigns of in all my hours of EU4 was a Naples campaign. I’ve come back to it at least once a year ever since. :D

Look at the timing, was just watching your earlier guide for Naples and figuring out how to modify it.

W Murat thumbnail - I loved epic history tv’s videos on the Napoleonic wars. (Also love Naples)

for anyone reading, the mod "europa expanded" has an amazing naples mission tree i highly recommend.

Naples is always fun to play, I remember the first time I played as Naples I claimed aragons throne after the started king died and built a med sea empire based around Aragon, Tunis, and Sicily

5:10 I personally think getting independence for free like that is worse than declaring an independence war because when you end the war you'll get 2 allies for free and you get to get all of your cores back during it. Then you have a sea tile connection with Tunis. While the war is going on I was able to get Austria to 150 relations and joined the HRE. So I improved relations with electors and allied for HRE emp. The game can get pretty crazy from there, expanding into North Africa, taking on the Ottomans.

Love U hawk❤❤

not exactly a nation guide but more of an achievement run. would love guides on big blue blob or mehmet's ambitions

Naples is so much fun, plus Two Sicilies have the best ideas of all of Italy

How about SE Asia next - like Majapahit, Brunei, Ternate or Tidore, Palembang pirates? It's one of my favorite regions, and you are my number one fav KZfaqr.

Another great guide! Japan next?

I need to study this because i just got completely decimated. I got the sucession in the first few months but after that it was getting allies and currying favors, couldnt get any of them to join my war against aragon. I decided to try anyway and hoped for the best but aragon took everything but 2 provinces

I take a different starting approach in my naples games since I play them the most. I prefer allying burgundy for a shot at the inheritance and picking either hungary or bohemia as my main eastern ally instead of austria since they almost always come to my aid. I wait on going up through italy until after I take all the mediterranean islands under aragon in a single war, since it pulls off a huge amount of territory gain without triggering AE because my only land border neighbor is the pope who likes me.

I personally like to focus on sniping Byz before the ottomans can get them but besides this great guide

Hey dude ! I wanted to know if it was possible for you to do a brand new Austria guide for 1.35 ?

I‘d recommend releasing Croatia as a subject as you can make them sporn a center of trade in Zagreb.

Only thing I would add for recommendations is to not only stay in the HRE, but to try to become and stay Emperor. Italy’s mission tree requires that the HRE either doesn’t exist or Italy being the Emperor. Not to mention the tax and army benefits of being emperor helps out a lot in the early game. Once that mission is complete you can decide whether or not to stay in the Empire afterwards.

I think my first run as Naples I had to wait until 1457 for the event to fire to get free

Neapol is really fun but personally I prefer to attack Biz before Ottomans (if I can ofc) + stuck max inno and deving if I can't get more

For the first time I played Naples I didn’t know, that they getting released by Aragon almost at the start and I broke free and took Sicily with the help of Castile 😎

Please do a guide of Beloozero

Is this guide preparation for A to Z? If it is, I want to see the Roman Empire.

Been trying to get a new Napoli game off the ground for a while, first game after I try this guide, Austria gets PU'd by Aragon in 1447. Don't know how you got so lucky with Austria, I'd tried 6 starts before this vid and every single time Aragon allied Austria, and half the time they allied Castile.

Another way to gain those cores held by Aragon at the beginning is to instead ally them, curry favors, and ask for core province back, although it is MUCH more time consuming.

Alright, I'm doing Naples after work today, as long as my wife doesn't have any chores for me

the man in your thumbnail looked like micheal jackson

I just got the game i watched the spain guide but stuff was very different so plis new spain guide for example i didn’t even find clerical eduction

your mission tree looks completely different from mine is that with no dlcs or with a certain one?

So when I was watching you pick advisors, and saw you get the inflation guy, I was literally yelling at my phone to get the trade guy for Diplo, since there is that sweet event with those two. I was disappointed you went with the relations guy but I get why.

Just had the fastest Iberian wedding I ever witnessed.

While i was playing i declared my first war against aragon cause they were only allied with albania while i was at war with them castile got the PU i still won but it destroyed my economy(yes they got the PU in the 1450's)

Pls do a savoy or timurid guide

I find not waiting for the event and immediately allying Castile (you can restart if they don't rival Aragon) let's you take Sicily and some Mediterrean islands (naval supremacy), which are a pain to get otherwise. Having Sicily at the start of the game really helps you snowball with income and manpower, then you can go ham on the Balkans and wait for the Italian minors to leave the HRE.

How to play Naples. I prefer to play Naples back when the Normans had started as they were in a stronger position. If I was going to play a small country, I prefer Trebizond or Theodoro. Byzantium is an idea location for a capital, but there is more action going on elsewhere. It is basically boring beyond what the Ottomans achieve going into Austria.

Hi. I was wondering what DLC's do you have?

Yes yes yes yes yes

i just played Naples to get the achievement to bring 100 devastation to tunis. it was pain. My allies Castile and Austria were useless against the Ottomans who allied Tunis

you get always the same ruler when the union with Aragon is ended.

Can you play during the French Revolution with Napoleon?

Hi! How is your map so outlined?

I like to play colonial when playing Naples.

9:20 couldn't you first pillage florence's capital to save on a couple of dev clicks?

Is Hawk screwing with us? Royal Paris of Caserta? Mausoleum of Harry Carnassus?

a naples guide every patch?

I like playing as Savoy simply for the dynasty, not because i enjoy it.

in your situation i would no CB byzantium first.

How to play Tunis. I would first got to war against Fezzan to lock out the Mamluks and then go to war against Tlemcen unless Aragon does something stupid. If Aragon or Naples do anything stupid, quickly go to war with them to seize territory. Oncely have conquered the Tlemcen or at least the coastal areas, go to war against Morocco and what you can to box out Spain from taking that area of Africa. Then you go work towards either going to war or diplo-annexing the interior territories while hopefully at this time you can annex all of Southern Italy and the Isles including Corsica and the Balearic Isles. If you have taken Naples, you can proceed to take Venetian territories. I would have the Ottomans as an ally as I am less likely to have issues with them. And I would make Aragon my rival as it is easier to take their lands if they F-up. If conquer across Northern Africa fast enough, I could seize Granada and then push into the Iberian Peninsula which can give opportunity to seize their lands off the Africa Coastline (the Canaries). If I can seize all of Iberia, while progress with colonial adventures into the rest of Africa and the Americas, I can then focus taking territory from the Mamluks if they aren't already seized by someone like the Ottomans, otherwise I would end my alliance with the Ottomans, find someone they don't like (a rival) and ally with them and start seizing their lands, preferably around the Adriatic, Egypt and the Levant. Eventually I can start taking all of Ottoman lands. I may have a coalition against me but I can easily progress in technology and have a large enough garrison in Italy, Spain and the Balkans to make them reconsider anything towards me while I keep getting spoils from my colonies which I prevent any other European power from possessing that way by the time it is the 1700s that I am so far ahead in technology, trade, military and just overall size of my military while doing my best to keep Europe small and decentralized that I can begin to bulldoze over them before the 1800s. I wouldn't be able to conquer the entire world, but I would basically be a World Juggernaut by the time I transition to Victoria 3.

Naples is the best country to form Italy and restore the Roman Empire. You prevent the biggest problem - Castile forming Spain and taking over Naples. In your first couple of wars you get free, take over all Aragon and then temporarily join HRE to expand in the rest of Italy. Once all Italy is yours - leave HRE and start blobbing. Tip: Form Two Sicilies, this removes you from HRE and DOES NOT hinder relations with Austria - a nice ally.

Please redo the hisn kayfa video

Why wouldn't you try an independence war and just take Sicily. Am I missing something?

Hussite Opole lol

I love your guides but I feel like if you arent going to see the game thru the early 1500's you should at least mention some of the challenges you may face as the nation and maybe some ways to deal with it. For example, when playing as Naples there is a good chance that France breaks the alliance when the get the PU CB on you. I feel like some of these guides lead too much up to chance.

Scotland pls

My tree doesn’t look like that

Prefer the Batteru popu myself

Murat?

The strongest? *Laughs in Venice*

Venice is the Strongest Italian nation in 1444

You're too late Hawk. I literally just finished a Naples run

I like naple much but venice is just better, year one you steal constantinaple from ottomans, taje bunch of territories, and just wait for naple to exit gi free and you steal most of naple lands by havinh naple you can wage war in all medhterranean but you start with a trade center and best of all repubblic are way more stable one you go into signoria is done you will float rest of game with 3/1/6 etc as base or have so good ruler such 6/4/4

One idirect reason Naples is good is that you don't need to fight Naples that Spain often gets a PU over. Sure you can fight Spain but it slows you down massively. I think declaring independence is better, you get free strong allies and can take a lot of Aragonese clay.

I disagree with this strategy. As long as Byzantium is alive they should always be the first war. Because you can vassalize them and gang bang Ottomans with your ally or just take Byzantium early game.

Murat 👎