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You know how Croatia has denied Bosnia access to the sea? Why not do it to the entire Balkan peninsula? Maybe even Italy? Maybe the entire Mediterranean? (Mediterranean only if you want to suffer lol)

"im in a siege race against the ottomans" a truly terrifying sentence to say

Player: picks an eccentric nation for fun AI: goes batshit insane

If you ever read this thank you very much! I know there are a lot of nation in season 3 but as I am Croatian I would really like that you play well Croatia, so here some advices: -You can fight the independence after the first month, you just need to ask Poland to support independence (it is not very difficult you take the +25 relation because of religion and if they are rival with hungary they will support you, if they are not rival take a diplomatic reputation guy). Very important that you do all this in first day befor Poland gets other allies. -You can ask also Lithuania but first wait for the Poland-Lithuania event and ask afterwards -During war: prepare spy network with serbia, search for allies -Peace out Austria as fast as possible -Peace deal: Take the gold mine in Nitra-region and a border with Serbia -Have a claim on Serbia go to war and take Kosovo if you manage to get two gold mines you are unstopable -Next war: Byzanthium if still exist or Venice (take city of Venice and Istria and make Venice you mane trade Node)

This one was one of the wildest, but also enjoyable, A to Z episodes.

"Forts in the area" means you have to occupy at least one fort that's connected by land. (Idk if straights count) It's basically to prove that you can reach the area and there's not naval/military access blocking you.

The Ottomans and Russia in Crimea? Sounds familiar

I have to say, this has probably been the best a-z yet

Fun fact: Crimean Khanate was seen as a sucessor to the Golden Horde. Moscow even sort of payed tribute to them.

This must be my favorite A to Z episode thus far, but, for the sake of your own sanity, please press buttons with your mouse.

If they don't put this achievement into the game called like "Redhawk's Revanchist Revenge" it'll be a damn shame.

Croatia has an achievement called Krabater where you form Croatia and place a cav unit in Stockholm... makes me wonder if as Croatia, you can form another nation, then reform Croatia, then place the cav unit to get the achievement. If you're just forming and reforming the same country, that's gotta be a waste of resources. Sounds like a bankruptcy incoming.

Good forts could have helped immensely here. Flatland forts makes such a difference for hordes, no more bad fights, no more enemies sieging down the homeland in no time, just good times all around. Oh, and I don't think the AI understands the horde flatland bonus so they take stupid fights all the time. Eastward expansion also gives trade companies which gives tons of merchants. I know you don't like minmaxing, at least not in this series, but man forts are just so damned fantastic

Probably some of the best EU4 content you've ever come out with. What a rollercoaster!

Great job. This is some of the most cursed border gore in a while. French Ruthenia and Balkans are a sight to behold.

Croatia has "Krabater" achievement, you can do it the hard way by conquering Stockholm as Croatia

As Croatia, try colonizing Argentina and, more importantly, Chile. A large part of their populations have Croatian ancestry (especially Chile which currently even has a Croatian president). Also because Chile is just one big coastline which denies BOlivia sea access... just like Croatia denies BOsnia sea access.

you have the same exact upload schedule as drew drunil which i find hilarious

These videos are what motivates me to keep going in a run where Ming with their 70k troops declare on my Ayutthaya with 30k. Because bankruptcy is no reason to quit.

I think the most interesting part of this entire campaign was that Scotland beat England

Because of the Krabater achievement, instead of just having a horse in Stockholm, you should own all of Scandinavia as Croatia

Ideas for your Croatia run: 1. A croatian man became president of Chile recently, so maybe you could form Croatian Chile 2. Croatia is know for it's coast, so maybe you should go and grab all the coastline of the mediterranean, including all the islans (keep only the inland provinces you get at the start. 3. If the first and second one seem to hard, long or boring, try simply reforming Austria-Hungary WW1 borders (bonus points if you are the emperor at the time)

Red's tendency for accidental war: Crippling Handicap or 5D Chess Strat?

As croatians are known for their war crimes conquer Geneva and rename it to genevan’t so they can legally commit them. Also as a secondary goal culture convert all Serbian provinces so the war crime is completed

This run? Bordergore and unicorns! How in the hell in a game AI just pops up Morea, Corfu, Padua, Eretna, Zaphorote, Montenegro and Syria at the same sime!

Nice one RH, always thought you could do it, loved the old style bankruptcy, internal conflicts and accidental wars. Maybe you should do it every campaign

"i'm already suffering over here" oh crimea river

Incredible game. The french poland, the genoa league with a random anatolian nation, everything was wild. I was on my toes until the end, well done !

This is so cursed, I love it. I suppose at the end, it didn't matter how much land you lost as long as you were still able to defeat and vassalize the Ottomans.

You know what Timuridas was doing? Preventing Russia from atacking you xD

What a wild ride this game was... you really oughta work on that "Hold C to your death" thing you have going on. XD

That was really cool. I love the chaotic end map. Beautiful.

Use enter button to clear pop ups it won't declare or anything on the side tab screen. Seen you and others do this I figured that out a month or two ago 👍

TBH, one reason I love these A-Z challenges is because they come closest to reproducing how history actually works. Some crazy dictator decides to bite off more than they can chew. From great success they suddenly come crashing down in failure. Player games don't normally see these extremes because AIs and players are both too logical. But you Red Hawk don't fucking care and I love it.

Russia declaring on Crimea. Where have I seen this before?

the way the return core or give a province control to a vassal works is cool, you get to chose between lower war cost but higher AE impact per province or low AE but higher war score

So anyway. There's this thing called pixelplace, which is basically a painting and anybody can place pixels on it. There are multiple paintings, but everybody just plays on the modern borders one. There's also this grey color that is very similar to the border division color. So a person consistently comes multiple times a day, makes a light blue independent Crimea with some additional Russian territory in it, then leaves. Everyday. They have been doing it for God knows how long.

Love the series as always

Do a Coptic, Crimean Culture Croatia, and conquer Canada

The under the hood buffs for the ottomans are just insane. No other nation in the game could lose half its territory and still field 80 thousand men

Okay SO Croatia has a dumb achievement where you have to station a cavalry unit in Stockholm. This is because when Sweden had their military reforms they adopted the use of Croat Cavalry to fight the Commonwealth and the HRE. In game it was harder when Croatia didn't exist in 1444 but it's super easy because you just ask everyone for mil access SOOOOO how about you do a fun version of that achievement and actually *conquer* Stockholm? It's quite far from you at the start, you're going to have to get independent from Hungary, etc... could lead to some silly shenanigans.

These wars with Ottomans were insane. Hats off to you, sir! And you did not surrender, when Russia declared. Just wow!

When you go back to your A-Z roots but succeed in accomplishing your goal despite it all, now that is real ability

This was an insane game.

For Croatia there are three things: 1. Conquer Sweden 2. Convert every Balkan province to Croatian 3. Own every sea province in the Mediterranean

My Favorite Activity in EU4 chipping Ottoblob away. 😂

I'm super happy you found the "return core" button. Now you just need to find that debase currency button and stop taking loans only ;)

Hi , I'm sure you already show this, but what is the shortcut to fast siege like you did at 19:40 . I did know how to fast split for siege but I don't know how you can spawn click without selecting a new stack manually. Great video as always :D

Of course, Russia doing shenanigans with Crimea, as they do

This is one of the best A-Z episodes

My current game has AI mamluks in control of Constantinople and an almost dead Russia. Very happy to see that the changes they made actually effected major tag survivability.

As Croatia, you should make modern borders, than colonize Chile and form it to create two long nations in one episode

I know we're far away from S but when we get there my one and only suggestion is a Reverse Switzerlake. Instead of only land provinces you may only take provinces that border a sea tile.

As Croatia own directly all of Italy and Balkans, set up trade company in Egypt and build Suez canal

Best A-Z episode to date!

Crimea seems like one of those nations where no CBing byz would be pretty critical.

This mans commitment is inhuman. Respect

Good way to avoid accidental wars: don’t use keyboard shortcuts.

damn every time i log into youtube i see a Red Hawk video right when its uploaded

As Croatia follow in the footsteps of Mirko Cro Cop and find success in Japan.

Hawk, next time you leave a siege, leave at least 1k troops in the province to maintain progress. You lost it when you went to attack the Ottomans in Constantinople.

Great run!

this is some really epic episode

I know I’m late but I just wanted to point out there was a fort on Corfu lol, hence the “forts in the area” thing.

LOL, fun times - great video :-D

This has to be one of the most crazy A to Z

very solid video, love crimea/hordes generally

What an emotional rollercoaster

I love this series man, watched every one of them! Love that there’s no silliness bring on series D! Currently on holiday in Croatia looking forward to that one too!

As Croatia made the Krabater Achivment. And conquer Stockholm.

One of the wildest I’ve seen

17:24 thats a new saying to remember :P

Great success !

Insane EP

Medieval Croatia was the dominant power in the Adriatic Sea for a while. So why not conquer every coastal province in the area?

Not sure if you changed the binding to 'c', but I haven't changed my default bindings and 'Enter' works for me, and I don't think it would cause you to declare war. But you probably know this already.

Russia declaring war on Crimea? What is this a reference to?

Sounds like you should send this save to Zlewikk for his ruined campaigns series XD

I wonder if byz would have been a horde when you released them?

I have played Crimea more than any other nation, I love their start position- so many options! Playing Byzantium at the time of this comment... I have Spain and Austria (which annexed Hungary) in a PU in 1560 and it's way too easy- one of the craziest games I've played!

Hindu Khmer run, get all the monument bonuses possible. Very hard start, but super fun later

As Croatia you should close the triangle, form a circle with other nations inside your embrace

Well, i was shocked when seen a french rutenia and zaporozhie. Uncommon ai move😂😂

4:52 "I never knew Crimea was so easy" Putin, 2012

this a wild one for sure

A Georgia march would have help protect your homeland.

As a Ukrainian i find it funny to see how Crimea fights with Russia. It's just nice...

this was a really fun watch, but damn that's some alt history ish in this episode lol, feels like a bunch of oligarchs in your game heard about what happened here and took eternal vengeance upon their historical overlords

Given how you play, as in taking one loan to pay off another, do you, in your entire game (however long that may be) ever stay in the black? Or is it a constant war until either the game ends, or bankruptcy catches up with you?

As croatia, Conquer somalia to unite the "C" shaped countries

This is my absolute favorite in season C, insane game :D

RED HAWK A-Z LESS GOOOOO

I have been so busy with work and just realized I missed the humble bundle. Forever stuck with the base game :(

As Croatia make Austria and Hungary your vassals and become the emperor of the HRE ... the ultimate and one and only Austrian Hungarian empire

Why do you unconditional surrender when the warscore is just slightly negative? Why not check what they want in a suggested peace deal? Besides that, very fun video!

Why is the declare war button pressed with c? I can only click mine with the mouse. Could be an option in settings

not punching the piety button for free money when you're declaring on so many heathens feels like a mistake.

How did u do that carpet Siege command at 19:40?

French Balkans, French Ruthenia omg, absolutely cursed borders.