thanks for the congrats! i'm ready to see how good you'll get after training eu4.. like goku in the gravity chamber 👀👀

I'm glad to see how your attitude has shifted from the previous video. Losing is never fun but it seems like you have some very positive takeaways now.

Para bellum s2 is not ready for *Punished Playmaker*

I'm so ready for this The Playmaker training arc

I really like this video compared to the prior one. I love your take here, the fact you congratulated your opponent, the fact you recognized your weaknesses. I’m really glad you made this new video. You make great content, I’m excited to keep watching you!

Hey playmaker, I saw your previous video and i understood ur frustrations but was also hoping you would make a video kinda like this one. Glad to see this man, you are one of my favourite youtubers and I look forward to continuing to watch you improve!

Good on you for taking this as an opportunity to grow! Good things will come from this!

was on the live and saw your frustration and completely agreed with you. I’m very glad to see how this video turned out, its very self reflecting, understanding and more than anything im glad to see you try to take on parabellum next time

Thank you, I figured as much, and I'm happy to see this perfect response! Competition can be tough, and even top athletes frequently have such... responses, shall we say :). That's a whole skill in and of its own, and clearly, you've grown already. Excited to see you play along in the challenges, and with your mindset I expect you'll learn a lot from reflecting on it. And let's also point this out: your approach may have been suboptimal but you pulled out a crazy strat, got close and that made the match exciting! Two players starting as Ming doing the same thing would've been a lot less interesting. I expect next season you'll have a broader base to work with, but will still have plenty of crazy strats to employ, and it's always going to be a spectacle whether you get it done! Shoutout to Cara for being a champ in more than one way!

You could try the no BALLs challenge. No Birds Allies Loans or Losing

I don’t know if you’ve watched the speed5 tournaments but you can try the challenges in there since it will probably be similar to Para Bellum, have someone tell you the challenge or blind watch the video and immediately try the challenge. Also maybe it’s time to give Ming a try in limit testing or just casually play them so you know what you can do

Hey, I like your new approach here! Now I'm getting Rocky IV vibes, and hearing a voice wailing in the background "I'm not asking for another chance, I just wanna know why..." You put on a good show, sir, keep up the good work! As to how to prep for S2, I'd say go check out some of the challenges from Speed 5, they're pretty representative of the kind of things we'll see in the future.

EU4 has so much have to do tons of play-testing and I feel like these challenges are often a unique game in their own way compared to single player

I think this is a challenge they could come up with: own or have subjects own as many mountain provinces as possible, within 1 hour of course.

I can really recommend about playing in the India and China region, speed5 had a goal of conquering as many provinces in China region and the winner had a really good strat that redhawk now uses in his releasable challenge. And india is just really fun to expand quickly and after you have played a hindu nation and a mulim sultanate once you get the idea on how to play there and can expand from there. Same with east, west and north Africa just play 2 nations with 2 different goals or starting situations and you get the idea on how to maximize in the region. For west africa I can really recommend a Mali campaign, very fun mission tree with rough disasters. and if you want a hard goal with great title: "me and the Dahomey's" get as many subjects as Dahomey within 1 hour.

If I wasn't busy working on SuperStates mod, I would have been keeping up with your videos. this one caught my attention as I was curious to know if you were going to be competing and I'd really enjoy rooting for you.

Completely natural to feel salty in a defeat, everyone does it. You'll come back in force in future seasons for sure. Practicing the challenges alongside the tournament is really interesting idea though - would be quite cool to see if maybe other PDX KZfaqrs want to get involved too. I suppose you could go through the challenges from the previous tournaments too.

it's gonna be so over when playmaker comes back. the return of the king 👑

You should try to do an achievements series : not complex or long run but medium size goal to learn a region and eu4 . My strong advice is to start with something not too alien . Do the songhai achievements it is easy and close enough to europe and your confort zone

You can get a ton of challenge ideas by going back to old speed5 videos and watching the first few minutes just to get the challenge. Added benefit of being able to compare how you did to the actual players, just like you're doing with Para Bellum. A few challenges I remember off the top of my head: -Maximize the sum of trade value in the Venice and Genoa trade nodes. You don't have enough time to blob out and just conquer the entirety of every trade node, so you have to really understand how to maximize trade using fewer provinces. -Dismantle the HRE, starting as a country with as little dev as possible. There *is* a 3-dev country in Europe. Can you dismantle quickly as an Irish minor?

I’ve heard a good test of skill is as Kazan December 11th 1444 declare on Muscovy and win the war. I wasn’t able to do it that early but it’s regarded as a good way to test how good you are with battle mechanics. It’s very winnable if you play it right but it is also very difficult

Well said. Credit given. Get them next time.

Hey, glad to hear you’re looking forward to things! A couple country recommendations to play in different areas: India has a lot of really cool tags, and because of the Muslim/Hindu split you can expand very quickly. Bahmanis is a great tag to expand in all directions as Shia, while something like Mewar might lend to a Prussian skillset with its military focus. Trying to form Andalusia as someone like Tunis could be a fun challenge for you; not explicitly difficult for long term EU4 players but would give experience in the region. They just updated hordes in the latest patch, and the Great Horde mission tree is fantastic for scaling; your playstyle of going debt heavy will likely lean well into the horde “always war” style. Just a couple recs, love the videos and keep up man!

Die you delete the other video?

2nd video, keep milking, disstrack coming?

Don’t stop, believing

Definitely learn to play a horde. It's sickening. And good on you for taking some of the critical comments from the previous Parabellum video to heart.

Try to form the great horde ASAP or get as close as you can

Para bellim challenge: See how many colonial modifiers you can stack as hamburg while taking over as much of north america as possible

Try speedrun achievements so you can try different areas, it doesn't address the 1 hour part of the video but it covers a lot and is good content

The best way to learn some of the diversity and secondary mechanics is just to casual dabble. Play a couple of chill games in major non-Euro regions - form Persia, form Zimbabwe, form Arabia, form Japan, form Qing, form Punjab, and form the Mughals. Do a few of the dumb achievements like Prince of Egypt or Cotton Kandy. Play out the mission trees of these nations. Play oddball gov types like pirate republics.

Is this L version 2 ? What about the first video lol

Number one lesson: don’t play Theodoro.

Day 14/15 of asking for a true one tag, one faith, one culture Theodoro campaign. Does yesterdays video still count?

dota 2 > league