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As Rügen, plz dont pull a cornwall and miss out on the ability to pirate. Raid the Baltic shores and go pirate!

For Mori, you could start out as Ashikaga, console command annex Hosokawa, then release Mori, then release Hosokawa, and tag into Mori.

To get around Dali being impossible, you should do a multiplayer game where you and the boys are all Ming releasables!

For Mori you could annex the province with ashikaga(using the console) and then release them, i think that should solve the issue

19:31 that was the Great Powers mapmode, you were shown in stripes because you were close to being one

Just formed the Roman Empire for the first time and I did it as Hungary because of your A to Z video!

If Dali is the new Germiyan, then you should run a special multiplayer episode with everyone playing as Chinese subjects vying for the mandate.

Horde Ideas imo are A or B tier. Though they are getting worse as Paradox buffs other nations idea sets.

Can we talk about how beautiful Astrakhan's color is? That, Naples and Luca's color are probably my favourite colors in the game!

Idk if you were able to do it here but another condition you can add is if your nation has cores from multiple countries at release date, you should reconquer all of them too.

Successful Dali Strat I left this comment on the last video with the strategy I used to beat Ming as Dali, guessing you didn't see it, (or maybe it just didn't work lol), but just in case it helps I'll drop it again here. Yo I just did a successful Dali run, it took one restart and one or two alt F4s when I messed something up but honestly wasn't too bad. I got lucky on my second run with a 356 ruler, but I think it could work with a 4 or 5 in mil if you got a level 2 or 3 mil advisor instead of 1 like I did. Dali has a pretty decent economy to start so that's not a huge issue, and Ming makes a good piggy bank anyways. I just waited until Ming attacked Oirat (which they seemingly always do like 3 years in), then truce broke for the independence war. The main thing you want is a mil tech advantage, with the 6 mil ruler and focusing mil I got tech 4 by the time I declared. Ming was pretty scatterbrained the whole time, and as long as I overstacked the sieges (I started out with 8k+free company, then also hired Shanxi company for a 6 shock general later on) they rarely attacked my army. One big obstacle is that Dai Viet always enforces peace, and since they aren't at war with Oirat will focus exclusively on you. I immediately focused on sieging their capital once they intervened. This might take a bit of luck since there could be some siege racing. Also note that since their capital is a jungle you take crazy attrition and might need to recruit a couple more regiments or something to maintain the siege. After getting Dai Viet out for war reps I went back to sieging Ming forts, lost a battle, then just waited until I got mil tech 5 and then with the 6 shock general from the merc company and a 10% discipline advantage (5 from advisor 5 from neutral karma) it was pretty easy to melt Ming's armies. I peaced out once they would give me the gold mine and both centers of trade in Chengdu. Make sure to build a spy network on Ming day one for the siege ability, and to start one on Dai Viet right when you declare. Also I would advise not recruiting a general since mil tech is so important, instead rely on ruler generals and/or merc companies. Playing the long game until their mandate drops would probably be a more consistent strat, as with the Chinese kingdom government reform it's easy to keep liberty desire high. But I'm not that patient. Oh another helpful thing was getting the clergy privilege for morale of armies vs heretics and heathens, since you start as Buddhist.

Absolutely loving this series I’m happy I’m not the only one who enjoys playing releasable nations or obscure nations there’s just something to them.I personally converted to orthodox in my astrakhan run just felt like it was a better fit.

Why does this man always say “pain” but ends up having the best of campaigns

I know I am way late to the party on this one but with the way you expanded it would have been awesome to see how much further you would have gone. Great vid!

Heyo from Belgium ! thanks for all of the content ^^ I'm watching every video x)

14:30 got me thinking about Scott Steiner

With Dali I imagine a half decent strategy would be to try and get a tonne of ming devastation and apart from that fight on your mountain forts, maybe eeking out a white peace to delay annexation? It does seem like a very hard start, probably depends a lot on RNG on whether or not it's possible there. Alternatively you could change the rules for nations like the Ming where you can't really get any decently strong people to support your independence such that you could release one nation before the one you flip to? not sure how much more useful it would be, but it's something.

Easiest way to check government type is to look at the hat in the top bar. Monarchies get the crown, hordes get the gugu cap, theocracies get the Mitre, republics get the bicorne, and tribal non-horde get the headdress.

I think I know Red Hawk's favorite song. It's Goodbye horses by Q Lazarus 😂

Coring without razing just caused an actual physical reaction. Didn't even mean to do it but I just winced

Red Hawk: "I don't know if you can release a horde" *angry Zaphrozie Christian Horde noises*

10:04 - the saga of making good rulers into generals then being sad when they die continues....

Good video keep op the good work❤😂

every time ur face shows up out of nowhere i get jumpscared

It would be a cool chalange to try to kill some huge enemy in the end. Like Muscovy. Or loose snd explode. Love your vids. Maybe other games in future?

14:11 - I would put my money on Breton Burgundian inheritance lmao

>gets a god ruler >makes him a general >complains he dies young Bruh

Damn how did you not notice how amazing your random ruler were right away, 5/5/6 boiii!

You should bend the rules with the console to spawn Mori; as Ashikaga just annex the Mori province and then release it.

Watching you play this game makes me realize how much of a noob I actually am

For the japanese Releasesbkes, you can try to seize the wanted provinces as Ashikaga via the console and then release them.

What if with the minor Ming subjects you did a multiplayer game where you all play as opms or two prov minors of Ming and try to partition Ming

For Dali, what if you were to console command them as an independent country? When you first started this series I knew the Ming vassals would be the hardest to do, and I even tried doing some of them myself just to see if there would be anything that you could try without using console commands and I couldn't get the games off the ground with the smaller ones.

you should play bavaria and do the establish oktoberfest mission for halloween

19:45 that mapmod shows when you see the great Powers and with the stripes you're great Power status Is being taken over by Someone else

As Dali, maybe make Ming king a general and attach him to an army and pray for the Oirat war. As Dali find his army, attach to him and go straight to Oirat army to trigger the Nomad Event??

Ooh you should try to get all the provinces in the astrakhan trade node Edit: nvm I’ve just seen how Muscovy is

Bro your pronunciation of aq qoyunlu was so good

3:32 hello bald hawk

For Mori, could you maybe start as Ashikaga, then use the console to annex the provinces you need, and then release Mori and play as them? I'm not sure if you already tried that, but its just a suggestion. Edit: I literally just read some other comments that said the same thing. hopefully it works!!

with the console you can change the shogunate? because if true, you can change it to ashikaga, release mori, and then returns to the other

As Rugen, colonize the Caribbean!

I actually like the borders (with the small exeption of that part towards "north" in commonwealth), just take crimea and it will be perfect.

0:07 Blue Hawk?

Astrakhan are definitely one of the best map colours

I said it before I will again. Rugen sounds like Lupin. Lupin was a famous French thief and gentleman. Pirates are also thieves. As Rugen, you gotta steal the Angevin thrones and own all of England and Frances starting land.

Does having your Ruler as a General double up the checks in game for death? Like does it check every year or whatever for chance to die for Ruler, then check for General?

2:05 kinda looks like Big Bird if he was purple

You could relax the rules for Dali if you want, if it's causing you too much trouble.

For Dali what if you turn on Drew Durnil mode and wait till they pop out of ming then tag switch, it was still released but you would be in a better spot of you might have to nation ruin

To make the Roman Empire, and then with it the Holy Roman Empire

Pirate rugen please good sir❤😂

it might be a bit of a rule break, but you can wait a bit until you release dali. You can then time it with the ming dinasty crisis disaster.

Hawk, to pop out Mori you can just use console commands, I'd vote on using the event to pop them out then tag switch with commands. The event for them to spawn is a daimyo event called "The Mori Clan" and it's ID is flavor_daimyo.3

With the Japanese one, can you play as the overlord, then release the nation if you become Shogun? Or alternatively unify Japan and then release?

As Rügen, migrate down to the maghreb and make djerba the new Rügen.

Astrakhan AND Rugen? lol The first has been my favourite vassal for WC's and the second for memes and flavour through many campaigns. Nice! Oh and when I say "vassals" I exclude Pu's. _Edit:_ Nnnoooo you didn't show their glorious mission tree!!!

Do sicily pirate republic: you can only have island province and venice

Muscovy guaranteeing the fucking GREAT HORDE is the biggest "AI messes with player moment" I think I have seen in a long while. Luckily it didn't hurt you!

There’s only one right thing you should do as Rugen red hawk. You just did a brandenburg into prussia guide. Form prussia as Rugen.

Astrakhunbelievable

The most important thing to do first when you release this nation is to quickly conquer at least one province so that KZfaq doesn't flag your video due to the shape of your nation.

Astrakhan has an unfortunate shape

If the Great Horde releases Astrakhan. Does Muscovy still have to pay tribute to the Great horde, since they don't own Sarai anymore

Did Rugen get unique missions with the new DLC?

Can anyone hear the drill in the background? I can never hear it.

As Rugen, you could go and take the province of Split (Spaleto) as the town of Omiš is there which is known for pirates that originated from there

Join the HRE as astrakhan and become emperor

Are these mods you play with ? I swear my Version is Vanilla lol

>He didn't do the Trade Company Persia strat this video hurts

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As Macky Cabangon said, if you will ever release Rugen please go pirate but maybe try to go to Caraibes and form a pirate nation. This is actually the first time i see someone play Astrakhan. 😇

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"Should be an easy campaign, man" 20 seconds later... what?!? Moscovy is guaranteeing the Great Horde

Hawk I was in dc and ate the best food I’ve ever had. But I have to go back to Ohio today

Why did you never fight Genoa?

Did you just say you don’t like hordes

What happened to nation formation 😭

in 15.37, why did you built some workshop on +0 provinces

Use console to cancel the Japanese subject and then release the nation and then resubjugate both countries maybe?

Doesn't build production building in province that would give +.31 and instead built in a province giving +0. Am I braindead and missing some aspect of eu4 eco or was that like a weird move

that title and the thumbnail really contradict eachother, just saying. Nice video as always tho

See I'm with Red Hawk on this one. I know Laith swears by hordes in EU4 but I've got no love for them at all. I prefer games where I can stop and listen to myself think long enough to make a plan and I'm just not skilled enough to juggle on the edge of the red line the way most hordes require.

Very strange to get generic Horde Ideas and not be a horde...

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man is it cheap to just take so many loans when realistically you wouldn't be fine with paying 12 ducats a month in interest just so you can grab colonialism and be done with the challenge. it's right up there with deleting all troops and going bankrupt as the overlord before releasing and playing as the releasable. it totally takes me out of the challenge personally and i don't like that format, feels like you're just doing it because you have to and not because you want to. don't force yourself, make good content and stick to it because you like it