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There is a small trick with the reline the bombards mission. In the case of OG Jean Bureau dies before he can win that 4 battles, you can just recruit and rename a new general to the same name.

47:42 if you use the return cores tab in a reconquest war, returning a different country's cores counts as a justified demand and doesn't cost the extra diplo points.

On a side note: If Provence is your vassal/PU and you're allied to the Pope, you can just ask the Pope to give Avignon to it via Return Cores for Favors.

First Ludi, and now RedHawk. I swear, if Laith drops a France video, I'm gonna move to Bordeaux.

You can call Scotland in the first war by promising land then letting England destroy them and separate peacing them out. Hell you can repeat this in your second war with them, they'll be small enough to vassalise and you can reconquer their cores

You didn't use the best feature of the appanages - You can steal their heir! In the diplo menu with them, you can look at their heir and if they are strong, you can ask them to become your heir. This guarantees very strong rulers during the first 50 years of the game

Another tip: dev up Caux to 15 dev to get faceting (if you have embraced renaissance and faceting hasn't spawned already). Also if you wait too long to attack Milan, you often lose the CB when they switch to a military dictatorship. so sometimes it is worth it to fight the emperor

Please do Ardabil->Persia or Karabakh->Armenia please I’m begging

I always thought that Ducal Ring event was just another LOTR easter egg, but apparently Louis XI actually had the ring smashed by a hammer to signify that the dutchy would no longer exist.

47:42 Using the return core option in the peace deal lets you return Wales’ cores back with no diplo cost. Any reconquest war always allows you to return anyone’s cores for 0 diplo Edit: Cinnayan was first

Nice guide Hawk! I should play as France once more for the new stuffs since last time I play as France was years ago

Great guide, it was fun to watch!

Since you struggle with governing capacity in the early game, I wouldn't trade company everything in Safi and Tunis like you said, only trade company provinces with high trade power to save on governing capacity, especially since Safi is hard to transfer into your home trade nodes until you control more of Iberia.

Haven't had the time to spin up a game, thanks for running my preferred start 🇫🇷

Tip: Wait for the Surrender of Maine event to fire before you declare. If England declares thats great, as you are now in a defensive war. If they choose to cede the province, declare on them BEFORE clicking on the decision. You will get Maine for free while still in the war with England.

When you take get the cores on naples, leave one province as a vassal so you reconquest sicily as well

Great guide, thanks

Seems like the UK conquest was a little backwards. Could’ve gotten the London area claim right away with some heavy ships. Then the London Calling mission gives you claims on the rest of England.

Hey man love all your guides. I would love to see a guide for the colonial route for Britain !

AQ/QQ guide would be nice. I don't even play EU4, I just like watching these videos.

At the start I find it is better to take Ceuta, money, and war reps from Portugal in a separate peace deal. This still allows you to take your cores back from England, Pale, and usually war reps and some money as well. In my second war against England I give Calais to Burgundy if the succession has not already fired so they core it up for me.

I did the Crusader path (in 1.35 but it didn't change a lot, for France) and I actually quite like having a big Kingdom of Jerusalem march (owning Egypt and the Levant) as well as a Latin Empire one owing the Balkans and Anatolia. Latin Empire can be formed via mission by Cyprus which is easy enough to diplo-vassalise after the conquest of Jerusalem. Bonus point: Thew are French primary culture already! Also you get Northern Italy at the end when the Pope becomes your march so I was ok with losing the Milan PU. You can get the Savoyard lands by giving the lands to the Pope, seizing one province (like Nizza), then releasing Savoy as vassal and asking the Pope to cede the cores to Savoy this way. Sure it takes more time but you don't pay any agressive expension this way (if you gave the Savoyard lands to the Pope when it wasn't a subject).

Honestly you can also take the Gascony mission before peacing out. I would say it depends on the Call for Peace. Getting like 5 War exhaustion or more while waiting additional years for the peace deal is not worth it. By getting back your cores earlier, you also generate a lot of manpower and money. The earlier you peace out, the earlier your aggressive expansion ticks down and the earlier you can expand even more.

@TheRedHawk in one of your last videos you asked about an idea for claim bordering claim. Thats the combination of Infrastructure and Influence.

Royal Marriage with Orleands direct when game start to remove 5% of their liberty desire. Keeps them in line.

just yesterday i was thinking hm i wonder if he will do an updated france guide… and here we are

I wonder how many restarts you had to not have BUR as a rival :V

What about leaving Naples with one province and vassalizing them in order to use their cores on sicily and malta?

I love just getting a burgundy Ally and just feeding it land in Switzerland Italy lowlands and Germany so that both France and burgundy are great powers and then have the inheritance come to make a giga France

I love your videos n.n

You used my provence strat!

Do you need the new dlc to follow this guide or should I use the previous 1.35 guide ?

Appanage is a fun word to say.

Big Blue Blob HYPE

Idk if u know cos u also mentioned the ccr when u did the muscovy guide but permanent claims give u 25% ccr so u rly should've taken london to get claims on all britain so u could conquer it cheaper

Literraly had Jean Barreau dying on the first battle with the English...

can you do an Aztec Guide, it would be very helpfull

33:07 You dont need to call in Scotland to avoid being blackflagged, simply Mil Access & Alliance is enough to not being blackflagged. You would however get Blackflagged there if you only had Mil Access & No Alliance

Burgundy not your rival . I started over 23 times and not once did that happen.

I'm playing as aragon, its year 1549, but both the option to form spain military and diplomatcally are not showing in the national decisions. I had my capital on the low lands to prevent the dutch revolt, but i've moved it back to barcelona and still its not avaible for me to click. i checked al the requirements and its everything ok

How did you make your map look like that? I love the font.

Bruh in my campaign england started expanding in ireland even though i took pale, castile declared on naples for unification so i had to declare was to try to take as much as i can. But they reached the capital first . Then burgundy chose to stay independent. AAAAAAAAAAH

how would you deal with the religious reformation as france tho when everything starts to flip protestant

Please an Ardabil into Persia guide I’m begging you

Do you plan on making a Danish guide for 1.36?

what graphics mod do you use

How do you get to Ceuta? Portuguese ships get there faster every single time.

My economy sucks early as France. I was just in a spiral of losing money, taking more loans, and then having to renew my loans and get a higher inflation rate.

Where do i find the save games? I joined but i cant find them in the discord.

What mods are you using love the map!

Also, I do not understand why people use "Increased Levies". This will add some grunts, yes, but this will keep the influence of the nobility high forever.

This guide has more girth than France in EU4

Burgundy is the chad sister of France, Lotharingia rules!!

I was never able to follow this guide, the first war with England is incredibly tough. I know you wanna try to cut off the Portugese stacks before they make it up to the English, but often the English will just transport their men down to Iberia and then fight me at full strength, can't stack wipe them there. They then go up and consolidate in Normandy, taking everything possible and moving down while you're sieging down Portugal's 3 forts. By the time you make it back up North to their armies, they will have taken your Paris fort and maybe the one in Haut-Poitu. My point is that it may be easier to start the war with the English with the Surrender of Maine event, this makes England the aggressor and gives them no time to prepare. Their allies will not be called in, and yours will such as Castile. This easily allows you to roll over the English mainland, as you already control the mainland and allows you to get up to 80% warscore easily. This is after running at least 4-5 times with trying to take everything in a war vs England with you as the aggressor. If they choose to surrender Maine, can't you just alt-F4? They didn't seem to care when I had the Papal State and Castille as allies, they tried to fight me anyway and I easily took the advantage.

“Minor allies” and they allied with Austria in my game

Dutch Revolt is an inconsequential event you just need to use one stack of 20k ish troops to contain the revolts

I always struggle in the start because provence always gets into like 20 wars and calls me in. if i accept i get destroyed while england and portugal recover and destroy me too. if i reject, provence gets eaten by pope and burgundy. also, how is your war enthusiasm always high? mine becomes low in the first 3 months of the war...

when i start with France and try this starting strategy always get beat up by england and portugal, or I lose ceuta, theres something that gets bad everytime.

France is the best Vive la france❤

i've been savescumming for inharitance for like couple hours by now xd how the hell do I get it? it always goes to emperor xd

Why not a seperate peace with Portugal. More Money and prestige for you

For me, this strategy doesn't work on normal difficulty. The first war is always a total disaster. Either I lose the war outright or I have to take out dozens of loans. I hate it to take loans. ll try again on "very easy" and I'll skip the expansion in Ireland and North Africa completely.

Great Britain and Ireland should have more provinces to accurately represent the regions, and more puppets. It's always so lame seeing what you can release from England.

England never calls portugal into the war D:

Always remember Guys we are currying favors with Provence to increase their trust :D

Red you should just pre-record a "don't accept a RM from Burgundy" bit and insert it in every relevant video instead of having to say it in every guide lol.

Tried doing this, England allied Austria and castile+portugal. Lol

The best France starts as Provence…

just for RP purposes i'd rather eat the rebels than move capital.

I actually hate the French mission tree. Most early ones involve a) like literal hours of waiting on your diplomats, b) spending mana you don't have to develop early, before you have stability and dev discounts c) blobbing and that's boring

2024 doesant seem to work in 2024 re 1.37

Last thing i was expecting was another France guide. What about all the nations you didn't cover in Domination? Why France even after doing a guide for 1.35?

hey man, i don’t understand why you should expand in maghreb, so early, as france

your accent has always baffled me - where are you from originally? Or how did you learn english?

Unfortunately this strategy clearly doesn't work if England allies Burgundy, I got full-sieged before i could full-siege Portugal.

I don't understand why you and ludi always open with estates. i don't think you should ever do estates until after your first war. Influence dictates how much crownland you get back. if you have a novermerb 1444 war you should just hand out the monarch points and maybe if you can do it for cheep get enough to make all estates trend toward 50 loyalty (but never exceed 50 percent influence as that way they can gain land rather than loose it when you take land) then get back up to nearly full in the first war. I also generally hold off on hitting that give me a mission button until the first war is done for the same reason (it give all of the estates influence. Especially big deal as France. at 86 influence you need one or two bad events to have a disaster. way way too risky.

You just wanted to play a nice nation for a change didn’t you

Tbh i dislike how you treat the dutch revolt going for the easy but wasteful option... The adm points to move capital arent worth it... Just deal with the rebels, its not like you dont have the armies or manpower to do it...

england just walked down to ceuta and stack wiped me castille offered out like 20k condottieri france is so weak its insane

Another france? C'mon you havent even made a 1.36 forming iran guide yet

Burgundy/Castile keep rivaling England every single game on top of Portugal... France is just unplayable for me this patch

if you think you'll post a france guide every update and i'll watch, it's %100 right.

Didn't work, stackwiped by a 30k army in portugal.

You have 15% devastation in Caen and you delete fort lmao😂😂😂

yo england allied venice for me wtf

France has an extremely boring start. You spend a bunch of time reigning in vassals that shouldn't even be vassals. You don't have a lot of good missions and don't have enough governing capacity to expand early. It's a LOT of waiting around

1h??? big guide

I cannot comprehend how KZfaqrs like him just simple siege down and win war super fast, I did exactly what he asked and it took me way more time just to siege down portugal. then i turn to france and my whole country is occupied and I have 0 manpower. how the hell am i supposed to take back my whole country when i have no manpower and the whole of portugal and england armies.

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