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Since historically a Dutch explorer discovered Australia, as Holland form the Netherlands and own all of Australia. And as a sidegoal conquer the Lowlands region.

I've been told that there's no real reason not to just call this nation "The Ayyubids" since that's what they would call themselves and probably what other people called them too. Byzantium was still Byzantium even when THEY were reduced to only one city.

this is probably the most "normal" achievement you have set in the course of this series until now

When the Middle East expansion pack drops there should be a formable unique to Hysn Kayfa that's called "the Ayyubid Empire" and they should get a mission tree too.

When Ajam offered him vassalization... hardest I've laughed in weeks.

hisn kayfa has such a nice map color thank you for making it more visible mr hawk. im too shitty to do it on my own

As holland, realize your true ambition to leave the lowlands and fully core and have your capital in Tibet. A true “started from the bottom now we’re here” moment

As Holland you should try to become Chinese Emperor, because idk.

by the end of this video I was literally dying. Love the monotone attitude as the entire game completely shits on you. Funniest thing ever. Love the content, keep it up :D

Make a tier list of best unique national ideas at the end of the series.

Holy goddamn, I had no idea Hysn Kayfa's idea were so CRACKED. I might need to try them out lol

I'm impressed. I have over 2k hours in single player EU4... and I had no idea it was possible for the ai to offer you vassalisation.

Hisn Kayfa is really hard considering you’re smashed in between pretty strong opponents but once you actually get it going it starts to snowball

When I did this achievement I got a lucky early alliance with the Ottos and steamrolled through the Mamluks. Then I formed Persia and went for "This is Persia." Probably my favorite EU4 campaign ever.

I'd love to see you give some of your more ruined saves (like this one) to Zlewwik to save. Maybe then you can do a "suceeding part 2" or something.

Timurids: "Did you just break your alliance with us?" TheRedHawk: "Well yes, but actually no."

Props for posting such a brutal experience. You have my respect.

Hawk think of the sick colab you can do with Zlewikk can even he save the campaign. Sad you didn't get the achievement and fighting to the bitter end but its good to see failures and not constant wins.

This is a classic A2Z episode right here. So much *P A I N* I wanna see a redo of the achievement, maybe do it in a few parts

I didn't know saladdins legacy was that easy to get... A to Z truly is a great series to learn.

15:50 The suicide of Ming. Stretching out like that is the death for the Mandate.

I mean its impressive how you can type and play with talons.

I've had luck by attacking Aq-Qoyunlu, getting lucky by them not allying the ottos, and basically replacing them. From then on, like you did, it's basically a race to destroy Qara-Qoyunlu and the Mamluks before the Ottos get any ideas. I guess I got lucky because I only had to fight the Ottos once. Was able to ally Hungary and Naples though, maybe thats a route to explore, as having a shared rival should be enough to get you over the tipping point for the alliance.

this is the first time I've seen Hisn Kayfa's national ideas and they really put the OP in OPM

Great job bro😄

Maybe as Holland, try to do another achievement run? Have you already got the Sinaasappel achievement? I'm from Holland, by the way. Always enjoying your work!

Got it on my first run, hahaha, you need a fast early war to expand, a potential alliance with the Ottomans and then just go Meta ideas and eat thw Mamluks. The achievement that really tortured me personally was Timur's legacy.

this is like watching a yugi-oh episode but he never wins any duel , at this point LMAO

Pain I already lunched again. Btw thx for bringing more eu4 pain videos hawk

When i played my Saladin legacy campaign i got lucky with an ottoman alliance early on and they pretty much carried me all the way to victory. Only had to backstab them eventually since i needed one ottoman province for the achievement. an epic boss battle to end an otherwise unexpectedly easy run.

As Holland I think you should get revenge on the Spanish for the 80 years war by owning all of Spain

this is quite a bit stronger than the ardabil into persia one just because you have to beat up QQ and Mameluks and do it fast enough before Ottomans starts showing up. if i recall, the way I got it was by staying allied with the mameluks until Ottomans are fully crippled and expanding into Persian node instead and then coming back on the Mameluks once I was rich enough to outspend them

16:09 “I want you to let them know… that we back up.”

For Trebizond, restore the Byzantine Empire Yes, its still a lot of letters to T, but I wont let my boy down

Harsh the mellow, dude. Harsh. Doing this run again would be solid... if you can handle it! ;-)

Its the ottoman war that was the turning point, they still got the siege age bonus so its all about winning battles and trying to rush forts afterwards. Even good players cant ironman that fully, at best with reloading saves they get that war into a white peace/stalemate. If you or someone else tries this archievement the cheese I like doing is giving lands in war to useful allies like the otto's for favors and then push trust above 80 with those favors. Once you get your ally in that position they likely never wont turn on you. In this game you couldve snaked slightly more northeast and start wars agianst georgia, crimean, circassia etc and feed ottomans some those lands for favors to keep on your side. the claim bordering claims age ability helps a lot with pulling this strat off btw.

I think the new favors mechanics make you gain trust in your allies more, which increases reasons for accepting vassalization, which means long term powerful allies might offer it.

Great run :)

I managed to do this months ago and tried for nearly 2 years, just allied the ottomans and slowly getting powerful but the early game was super hard

Hisn Kayfa (Hasankeyf in modern Turkish) currently sits underwater due to a highly controversial dam project in Turkey (the Ilısu Dam) that has caused the banks of the Tigris to rise and engulf it, leading to a loss of many archaeological sites and the displacement of over 80,000 people. Despite local and international protests that even led foreign investors to pull their funding, the construction of the dam was finished in 2018 and by 2020 Hasankeyf was submerged. While some historical monuments were moved beforehand, there are still many ancient buildings that were unable to be moved. The construction of the dam also led to water shortages and environmental damages in Iraq, which combined with civil unrest and low rainfall led to severely low harvests in 2018 and 2019.

This killed me laughing from frustration.

As far as I know, when you hit 80 trust, your allies won't desire your land. So having one guy curry favours with the Ottomans and constantly improving trust might have prevented the alliance break

If you want to prevent a coalition war from triggering or a powerful nation attacking you, simply take mercenaries or increase your army size. This will drag the war out, even if they start the war they will attack a couple years later which will give you the chance of getting allies

As the Netherlands, successfully hold the peak Dutch Empire: All of- New Netherlands, Benelux, Cape Colony, Suriname, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, St. Maarten, all of Indonesia, Ceylon/Sri Lanka and Perth

I don't know what they did this patch, but allies are being quite useless. In my Riga game, I got Austria in a war against Poland, but they kept running around like chikens with little stacks and I ended up having to white peace =(

Just watched your video, I think standing in the way of Ottomans mission tree is even worst than previous patches. They stick to their plan and at the beginning of the game are nearly impossible to beat if they're not in 2 big wars at the same time, say Mamluks and Hungary -Austria at the same time.

8 years? Hisn Kayfa was added in 2017. 🤣

I've actually played as Hisn Kayfa recently and it's easier than you'd expect. You can RM the Ottomans day one, ally Ajam and Dulkadir and restart until AQ doesn't have any ally. Then you can full annex AQ, rival Dulkadir (very important), ally the Ottomans and release Syria and Iraq. Expand into the Caucasus to cut Northern Ottoman expansion (I recommend releasing Georgia as well). You'll be able to declare on the Mamelukes for the cores of Syria and have the Ottomans give them all to you. You can fight AQ with Ajam. I didn't even struggle with money despite keeping the horse. Ended up converting to Judaism and forming Persia. Fun game.

Hawk Im finishing up this achievement now. The trick is to focus on Arabia and the mamluks and don’t poke the ottoman bear. Let them have what they want and beat them up mid game after you take a couple of mil ideas

ive never done this achivements but my assumiton would be that there are 2 options of beating this either hope the ottoms either collops or jsut never attack you and play like you do or instead of going for the requierd provinces you just try to conquer persia into indea maby arabia and turn around in the endgame and try to beat the ottomas that way.

12:45 My personal gripe with Paradox games in general: you never have options, just different ways to screw yourself.

Holland is some kind of fabric in english according to oxford, so conquer 5 cloth producing provinces in every continent

Hey, on the positive, you didn't accidentally join the HRE this time ;)

I would've saved at the Ottoman War and then kept on reloading till I got a stalemate. It just crippled your country after that.

Pro Tipp: Call Ottomans into your wars repeatedly and never take the provinces so they always have a truce and you can keep expanding into the Mamluks until you are strong enough to beat them.

Zlewikk would probably save your campaign

the trick of hisn kayfa is to basically curry favors with the ottomans and expand east/north and slowly build up your strength so you can backstab the ottomans

For my achievement, I was never able to make the AQ/Syria strategy work. Ottomans turned hostile too quickly. Instead, I allied them and expanded to the east & south while letting them eat the Mamluks. Eventually broke alliance with them, waited until the Ottomans got involved in a war with Austria, declared war bringing in my Polish ally, took a bunch of undefended territory and peaced out. Switched to Austria & Russia allies for my next Ottomans war. After that, chain wars until I got the achievement.

Brutal, I’ve had so many games go this way. It’s not fun, it’s just frustrating

Took more hits to the head in this campaign than Harry Osborn in Spiderman 3 😂😂

EU4: 2016 Red Hawk: 10 or 8 years

In macro, the way I did this achievement was to kill AQ, reconquest Syria, and from there, go east hard and basically become Persia, before pivoting back west once I had an economic base.

Crouching Tiger, Hisn Kayfa

Keep going! Get your independence supported, rip into Ajam, and get your revenge later. Make sure to religiously and culturally convert all Otto and Mam lands as retribution :)

Can you try this campaign again? It is really interesting

I did this achievement in 100 years without even really trying. Does the Otto ally strat not work anymore?

not even Zlewikk can save this I think...

This patch Ming have a tendency to conquer a lot towards russia for some reason and they also tend to explode fairly early

High inflation is good since you can get an estate agenda to lower it and you get stability and -10 inflation as a reward

As Holland, form Malaya (you know, Dutch East Indies etc.)

Least difficult red hawk A to Z run vs most easy red hawk Releasables challenge

Ah my favourite nation finally.

I must’ve been very lucky when I did my run because thanks to Religious Diplomats and Diplo rep I managed to ally Ottomans within the first five years and then I’d already won, since I used favors with them in the first war against Mamluks and just made sure to not give them anything that’d give them claims on my land. Edit: Oh, Red Hawk allied them too! Can’t wait to see what happens! Edit 2: Oh another standard accidental war declaration, shocking!

This was painful to watch, I can only imagine how much of a pain it was- to play.

For Germiyan in releasables you should do nothing and improve realtions with Mamuluks and hope they will support your independence, they didn't want to in my first run, but in second they did, probably because they were bordering the Ottomans. If you royal marry the ottomans go restart. Once you get Mamuluks to support your independence you should either wait for them to fight someone in the balkans or declare immediately because they will placate your rulers to get you under 50 liberty desire. You may want to make a backup save for war just so you don't have to do a full restart if Mamuluk ai trolls you, also if Ottomans ally Tunis you should probably restart or go all in with mercs to try to hold out until Mamuluks deal with Tunis(although you'll probably go bankrupt this way). Once you win the war you should take Gelibolu, Constantinople, whatever you can in north Anatolia and war reparations and stay as far away from Mamuluks as long possible because you are still not strong enough to fight them and you won't need any allies because you'll still be surrounded by the Ottomans. After that you'll probably fight theodoro, crimea, georgia or circassia depending on their allies and then probably even more weakened Ottomans if Austria got Hungary and declared on them, otherwise you wait until Mamuluks declares on the Ottomans and if the Ottomans declare on you then mercs and debt it is, after that second war you should start looking for allies to prevent Mamuluks and Austria from declaring on you and the rest is up to you. Hope this helps and good luck.

Since the tall meta has changed so much in lions of the North, why not do a classic tall Holland into Netherlands campaign?

Since when was high war exhaustion bad? You were always telling me it's good.

Send the ruined campaign to Zlewik!

Hey you still own Al-Raqqa, which is on of the best province shapes in my opinion

I mean I would say same, but I thought that was an easy achieving, the one I have been struggling is Taungu and getting good rolls on most battles.

POV: you are now the eu4 ai Mamluks

As Holland, come as close as you can to game-ruining yourself without actually doing it (Tulip Crash) or fight a war as long as possible (Eighty Years War)

As Holland you own new zealand as you start with old zeeland and new amsterdam (new york)

yeah if AI thinks you're wear it will use those options.. i've seen it threten me with war to get a province

You can get great horde as a allie also.Its too strange u can get 4 nations like great horde ajam ottomans and mamluks with hisn i kayfa.

So cursed to see Ming in The Urals

It's a little strange that you couldn't succeed considering your usual performance... A few tips, if you try to follow the mission tree, it's hard to success due to the Ottoman disaster. Use the Mamluk as a mercenary in the beginning to get the Syrian and Iraqi cores, break the alliance with them, and then form an alliance with the Ottomans to absorb the Mamluks first. If you absorb most of the Mamluk lands before your relationship with the Ottomans is ruined, you can beat the Ottomans in a final showdown.

Why is this video so funny

I think you probably would have had better luck as a Mamluk vassal then getting Otto support

I had to try for myself. Ottomans beat me to conquering egypt but i managed to ally austria mid 1500's and it was easy after that. (no to mention the austrians got a PU on spain, after which it became speed 5 to the finish lolz). Also, having Timurids _> Mughals as an ally for almost all the game did nothing for me. They refused to join against the ottomans the entire game.

I don't know if it's viable, but if you build trust to 80, the AI will permanently (while your trust is 80+) remove all of your provinces as provinces of vital interest. I doubt you could get trust to 80 that fast when you're that close to the Ottomans to begin with, though.

Tell me Red Hawk, what is Jerusalem worth?

Hello from Turkey/Hisn Kayfa (yes I am not joking haha) I was born there but I've never been live in there. Nowadays we call it Hasankeyf btw.

Horrible campaign there. 😭 As for Holland, control New Holland. That is in the povence of Lincolnshire in England.

Holland is almost Holy Land right? Why not trying to form Jerusalem or become a crusader state?

I love your videos but can i ask you a favoure.Can you make video with Bulgaria because im struggling.Thanks alot. ;D

OPMs are soooooo impossible to play since the last update. AI is way too aggressive.

Odds are you should've attacked elsewhere and then come back around to get the harder to conquer provinces when you were a lot stronger. As for holland, why not be Hol-y and conquer the Papal States?

Send this to another EU4 KZfaqr as a disaster save challenge.