My WORST campaign in 4000 hours

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5 ай бұрын

EU4 Najd can be one of the hardest starts in EU4. We can get the EU4 Jihad achievement and that's what we're trying to do today... but there's a problem. Perhaps I should have consulted an EU4 guide or EU4 tutorial for this one because I almost go bankrupt as well as having the worst RNG possible and I'm pretty sure the AI was cheating. Regardless, if you want to see more of this campaign, make sure to like this video and subscribe for more EU4 Laith!
My WORST campaign in 4000 hours
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@TheSocialStreamers 5 ай бұрын

Like the video if you think I should power through the agony and try to get the achievement. But also I'd be okay with extinguishing this dumpster fire of a concept. Suffering is inevitable with it. EDIT: THIS NIGHTMARE SERIES CONTINUES HERE - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rdaknbOK1p_Mhqc.html

@user-lz2oh9zz4y 5 ай бұрын

Suffering through hours of gameplay only to post in January. Suffering is inevitable

@metaclownfish5921 5 ай бұрын

you gotta continue this one

@Gamereal6286 5 ай бұрын

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering" - Friedrich Nietzsche

@jonathantifone8001 5 ай бұрын

You had me at suffering.❤😂

@willisplaysgames 5 ай бұрын

Why have you set rooting out corruption to the maximum cost? It'd save you 4 ducats a month and having some corruption is better than bankruptcy. Debasing the currency is a good way to get out of a jam without going bankrupt.

@lord_paillasson9205 5 ай бұрын

Laith : "I won't restart" Paradox : "Say no more" (-3 stability and 0 good events 7 years in)

@Pilloot. 5 ай бұрын

POV: My average EU4 experience

@clony3094 5 ай бұрын

Are you okay?

@achourfreepalestine 5 ай бұрын

What rank did he end up in ?

@michaelrussell3812 5 ай бұрын

Fr me too

@taoflo8015 5 ай бұрын

U survived many traumas

@mauricocruz7405 5 ай бұрын

This is why I play with cheats I just can’t deal with the constant rng bs

@thelegendarybreadbuttera.4136 5 ай бұрын

I like how laith dislikes restarted constantly, he really shows adaptability and masochism

@jacklovejoy5290 5 ай бұрын

It's called being British

@snomcultist189 5 ай бұрын

If you restart for an easy game then why are you doing a hard challenge?

@dai-belizariusz3087 5 ай бұрын

@@snomcultist189 there is restarting for an easy game and then there is shitty 10 dev tribe that cant do anything if its gets hammered constantely by bad rng.

@AbstractTraitorHero 5 ай бұрын

You can survive some small hardship even as a darn ten dev tribe, if your only seven years in a 400 year game, dont just give up.@@dai-belizariusz3087

@fighters9881 5 ай бұрын

@@dai-belizariusz3087Its not really RNG, if you have overextention/bad stability/bad corruption or other bad modifiers, you'll get more bad events than you'd normally get

@GhostJohnson 5 ай бұрын

PLEASE CONTINUE THIS SERIES. I’ve been wanting to see it for years!

@recklesspotato8657 5 ай бұрын

At this moment im at 330/363 achievements so far, with more than 5000 hours into the game, and I can wholeheartedly say the "Jihad" achiev had me onto the verge of madness the most out of them all. Watching you get through the same pain is soothing the trauma, the sheer quantity of bad events this country gets is turned to 11 .

@Abba_Fan 5 ай бұрын

I'm surprised Eat your greens wasn't the worst

@omayaki5264 5 ай бұрын

@@Abba_Fan maybe that's one they don't have.

@behien9292 20 күн бұрын

I didn’t think it was that bad, I still don’t have WC because I get bored after I get hegemony

@trr3920 5 ай бұрын

"EU4 players aren't masochistic" Also EU4 players:

@phonzell4755 5 ай бұрын

reminds me of a hoi4 game I played 2 years ago. My friends played Germany and Hungary. I played Ethiopia (UMC Submod, back when it was several mods). It was absolutely agonising. When I could finally invade the British, they fucking reinforce meme'd me on almost every fucking tile, I was drunk and ended up crying. My friends have screenshots of my mental breakdown as we all had webcams on. Honestly, still the best night of my life.

@_oceanstar 5 ай бұрын

yooo same picrew!!

@phonzell4755 5 ай бұрын

@@_oceanstar holy shit

@phonzell4755 5 ай бұрын

@@_oceanstar its a sign from god that we must play hoi4 together

@_oceanstar 5 ай бұрын

@@phonzell4755 unfortunately I have no clue how to play hoi4

@phonzell4755 5 ай бұрын

@@_oceanstar its ok it comes naturally to you by having the same picrew pfp as me

@oneofmanyjames-es1643 5 ай бұрын

Tiwi has been real quiet since this dropped

@asdfasdf-dd9lk 5 ай бұрын

This is truly, utterly horrendous. More please c:

@YoYoYoYoYoYo-fr8hz 5 ай бұрын

YES!

@yoshman6696 5 ай бұрын

Please continue this campaign. It'll be all the more satisfying when you get the achievement.

@Ushmadand 5 ай бұрын

POV: Establishment of the first two Saudi States

@sir_kyber 5 ай бұрын

I empathise with you. Najd is a miserable experience.

@Shaman42069 5 ай бұрын

It's unironically pleasing and comforting to see that my favorite EU4 streamer/player does save scumming as much as I do

@IamCogs 5 ай бұрын

Haasa is an absolute nightmare to fight early, I usually put them off a little just because of the level 3 coastal fort.

@andreastom1755 5 ай бұрын

I don't think you can afford to in the najd start. They're the only country in the region you can reliably declare on without allies, and the trade centre helps you a lot in maintaining your economy. Should nearly always be first war.

@IamCogs 5 ай бұрын

Considering I've done the Najd start more than a few times without declaring Haasa first, I can confirm you afford it without taking them on first.

@andreastom1755 5 ай бұрын

@@IamCogs I believe I misspoke slightly - you can do whatever sequence of wars and it will work fine for najd, but all I'm saying is that the ideal start really should involve haasa first, imo.

@BasileosHerodou 5 ай бұрын

@@IamCogswhat posseses you to do Najd multiple times

@IamCogs 5 ай бұрын

@@BasileosHerodou I actually enjoy Najd as a nation, and most recently for the new achievement and mission tree! Before it was mostly for the other achievements they were capable of doing.

@herolles7552 5 ай бұрын

The sunk-cost fallacy explained in eu4

@richardbraakman7469 5 ай бұрын

It's weird how the game keeps crashing so much

@jaydenscholte4824 5 ай бұрын

Worst?, I remember the Montferrat one

@TwoGendersInATrenchcoat 5 ай бұрын

Would love to see this continue as a series, both the pain of Najd and other achievement runs.

@Notmyname1593 5 ай бұрын

A game where Laith doesn`t just blob out like nothing else? More of that please.

@fatihmehmedfirat6346 5 ай бұрын

12:44 Yallah come on! Just rise up! said Lawrance

@anora8973 2 ай бұрын

Laith: “With one rule: no restarting.” Laith 0.001 seconds later: “I never said I wasn’t going to restart.”

@robinbohler7225 5 ай бұрын

Honestly my favorite eu4 Vid across Creators I love ist when a challenge really goes sideways

@Zelein 5 ай бұрын

You know, I thoroughly enjoyed the Tiwi Campain, but this? This truly is something special. I look forward to part 2 with much delight!

@xLeyzou 5 ай бұрын

Used to try it a lot on each patch until i finally got it ! Really looking forward to the next episode, i hope we get it !

@SoapCanFan 4 ай бұрын

Laith: "I won't restart" Also Laith: "To be fair I never said I wasn't going to restart"

@WhiteLama 5 ай бұрын

This has inspired me to give Najd a go. Clearly if Laith sucked up all bad events and all of that, it’ll be easier for me.

@dango6266 5 ай бұрын

How was/is it?

@WhiteLama 5 ай бұрын

@@dango6266 I posted a follow up on Laiths follow up video. It’s going great, allied Ottomans and Timurids within two months of the start and it’s only been like 15 years in game and I own most of the Arabian peninsula. Highly recommend it!

@krakenlakkin 5 ай бұрын

Would love to see this series continued

@SereglothIV 5 ай бұрын

This video kinda reminds me of my last Anbennar campaign. I was playing as one of the Sun Elves and there's a scripted religious incident where other Sun Elf countries can send investigators to you. During the investigation, there's an event that makes you go to 1v1 war against the country that sent them or lose 10 legitimacy. The whole thing is pretty early in the campaign, so you're not able to fight everyone left and right yet. Losing 10 legitimacy doesn't sound that bad, but the thing is, this event can happen as many times as it wants. One year into the incident, I went from 100 to 30 legitimacy and was so angry that it just doesn't stop. But in the end it was the most fun campaign I had in Anbennar so far.

@Brakiros 5 ай бұрын

I'd just be consoling that shit I let a few bad events happen but if they spam themselves I just override the bullshit rng

@hirocheeto7795 5 ай бұрын

@@Brakiros Part of the gimmick of the Sun Elves (and a lot of nations in Anbennar) is that things are *supposed* to be bad for a bit. That's the flavor, is taking an awful position and a degraded empire and putting it back together. Many of the missions focus around that. If you just use the console to alleviate the flavor of the nation, then there's no real point in playing that nation. Might as well just play Wex or Lorent instead.

@Brakiros 5 ай бұрын

@@hirocheeto7795 oh so the events are intentionally weighted to throw themselves at you, that makes more sense.

@hirocheeto7795 5 ай бұрын

@@Brakiros Yeah, pretty much. It doesn't feel fun in the moment, but then you'll probably get a bunch of positive events afterwards if you do well.

@PA_Sword 5 ай бұрын

Laith, A Brit: I have three degrees and I don't even use em. Me, an American: How much does a pack of ramen cost?

@b.ug.p.7681 5 ай бұрын

Please continue the series! As an average Arabia enjoyer I am very interested Also my campaign as Najd was maybe the hardest in the latest update except for Aq Qoyunlu. I swear I hate the Ottomans so much in this game

@Faoriter 5 ай бұрын

Had a game recently as byzantium where i just tried to fight it through despite having a horrible war against the ottomans. And then hungry and venice declared war. But fought those off. Poland declared fought them off. Near bankruptcy then mameluks attack just barley comes out on top with my country basically in ruin bankruptcy just around the corner ottoman peace is over and they declare with the help of france and bohemia. Did not survive that war at all sadly. But hope your game goes better as you after all have slightly more hours and alot more skill than me. Can't wait to see the next episode

@CandleLover69 5 ай бұрын

No achievement in eu4 has vexed me more than jihad. I have done a wc run as Orissa, hisn kayfa, and even ghazimukh (didn’t finish). There is something unbelievably cursed about Najd and I don’t know what it is. On my best attempt, I conquered most of the mountains in the Middle East, but the old ottoman siege ability blew my threw eight mountain forts. I couldn’t even win attritional battles on rampart mountain forts. One of the only games I have ever rage quit tbh.

@addmolitionexe9573 5 ай бұрын

Im happy that my Jihad achievement run was nothing close to this. I actually found it kinda chill with all the new flavor they added in King of kings.

@Primitive73 5 ай бұрын

35:43 what little sanity Laith had left disappeared in this moment

@MeME-ki4td 5 ай бұрын

Nice one

@hoyinching9313 5 ай бұрын

0:27 No restart! Understandable.

@backstein972 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for this suggestion. After 5 restarts I got an fulfilling try and now 20 years in I almost got the entite arabian penincula

@theshotapple1331 5 ай бұрын

I LOVE THIS VIDEO PLEASE CONTINUE!!

@penkere5716 5 ай бұрын

continue the run, it is fun seing Laith in agony

@smeagol125 5 ай бұрын

Can't wait for the next part

@harku123 5 ай бұрын

This is the best campaign he's ever done, more please :)

@Giganfan2k1 5 ай бұрын

This might be the best playthrough for us to learn.

@alexanderabramov2719 5 ай бұрын

Commenting for the algo so the video brings in more doe and Laith has to keep suffering

@torkanlehunt 5 ай бұрын

Great video ! and hair buddy xD

@lexionz4910 5 ай бұрын

laith with curls making me act up

@MrMurminator 5 ай бұрын

Don't ask how I know this but, if you just refuse to stab up for long enough on -3 stab, you'll get an event where one of your *allies* just gives you some stability for free, I think its like 2 maybe?

@WinnaTheKing 5 ай бұрын

Beautiful! I love this

@AverageJohanson 5 ай бұрын

Finally a playthrough I can actually relate to!

@vetlemagnarravnvedal2409 5 ай бұрын

Great stuff

@RagnellAvalon 5 ай бұрын

"This is depressing, so I need to fight another war"

@ourcade8265 5 ай бұрын

Guys, like and subscribe because Laith needs to be able to afford a therapist

@andeeznuts420 5 ай бұрын

I had around 30 failed attempts of jihad. Most of them ended because Mamluks declared on me in 1446

@yeen4204 5 ай бұрын

my current najd run i definitely restarted quite a few times where mamluks declared on me faster than i could ally anyone useful 😭and then even if you ally the ottomans they start to want your land pretty fast. it's an awkward diplomatic juggling act for sure

@user-un5qv3dc9n 5 ай бұрын

I always end up getting stackwiped by the Arabian minors😂

@konstantinmilyutin1190 5 ай бұрын

You mean in game right?

@arduousbow2152 5 ай бұрын

It's funny because Laith really thinks that, we're just gonna let him free of pure suffering? HA, laughable man, if not laudable.. but you will continue. The Najd name placements calls for it.

@EditFc 5 ай бұрын

hair is looking clean fr

@Alex557500 5 ай бұрын

You can do it Laith. Pain is temporary, achievements are forever 😂

@jarjab2games 5 ай бұрын

50% of this play through is laith looking at the steam library.

@Phillip_of_Burns 5 ай бұрын

I had a mamluks run like this. Think I was up around 30 corruption because my techs were so unbalanced.

@Porthosthe14th 5 ай бұрын

Laith's hair is playing tall

@piggy3759 5 ай бұрын

what degrees do you have laith kinda curious guessing history but not sure what else?

@meatmeatmeatmeatmeatmeat 5 ай бұрын

every time i come back to your videos you have a different hairstyle

@therockontheshelf 5 ай бұрын

Jeez we need a health warning on this video for folk to check their blood pressure! All this second hand salt is dangerous but man was it good haha

@edwardjones1098 5 ай бұрын

It would be nice to see you do a less cursed najd run too

@Endlave 4 ай бұрын

my problem with this achievement is that it gets incredibly boring and tedious the longer it goes on. The sheer amount of provinces you need to conquer is maddening.

@z0rO999 5 ай бұрын

Bro has the "i havent been out in months cut"

@prestonjones1653 5 ай бұрын

This gives me hope that my Frisian runs are actually possible.

@kyleholmgren5939 5 ай бұрын

Literally my Granada campaign yesterday... Finally got that Re-reconquista achievement tho 😊 just took till 1600 hahaha

@kingepostle 3 ай бұрын

Your pain satisfies us all!

@yeen4204 5 ай бұрын

oh my god this is the campaign im playing right now 😭the timurids lived as a rival to the ottomans in my run and made a great ally until lategame when i could start taking their land for the mission and to unify islam, but they made my trade so much more awkward without being able to fully control hormuz for a while. my economy was a disaster until the 1600s lmao. my inflation was uh. ugly to say the least the new mission tree is a fun time though!

@the26thBaam 5 ай бұрын

ah yes another 40 minutes of laith torturing himself for our amusement

@daniellison9182 5 ай бұрын

The Red hawk experience

@goldsun5196 5 ай бұрын

Ah yes, this reminds me exactly of my Najd playthough

@friarnausk5586 5 ай бұрын

Corruption and income like this you’d think he was playing Meiou XD

@janknoblich4129 5 ай бұрын

2:26 three degrees is impressive. What did you get?

@Gamereal6286 5 ай бұрын

Another "Laith loves suffering" series like Tiwi? Sometimes I wonder why you do this to yourself. In fact, the negative events are horrible, I would've restarted when this happens too much. Also you're going to Hormuz, that's like going to Brazil, but arabian.

@omaraboal-azm8705 5 ай бұрын

It seems like you didn't give your daily sacrifice to the RNG Gods 😂😂

@lukeelavan4048 5 ай бұрын

This makes me fully convinced i have the best luck of all time. I usually just chill at 3 stab through events...

@dillity 5 ай бұрын

My worst EU4 campaign was my very first and last one, where I tried playing Byzantium, lost every war, and quit.

@Greg_Abandoned 5 ай бұрын

you should convert everyone (including your head) to Barber 'wink wink'

@cuniving7831 5 ай бұрын

This is literally my average level of pain due to rng

@madchessLeviathan 5 ай бұрын

almost make the start sound like you enjoyed Tiwi

@mcalkis5771 5 ай бұрын

I'd like another episode if you're willing to make one.

@diseabronx5075 5 ай бұрын

This is going to feel so good when you get it though.

@MyUsersDark 5 ай бұрын

This campaign is the game retaking all the luck it gave you during the Athens run

@sadness3803 5 ай бұрын

i saw the title, and smiled

@sandercohen5543 5 ай бұрын

You gotta learn to live in the chaos when things go wrong.

@jamesmacdonald1116 5 ай бұрын

Fun idea for an achievement: Form Arabia Have the Sa'ud dynasty Own the entirity of Arabia and the Levant Have Great Britain as a vassal

@jackynohomo640 5 ай бұрын

I did that achievement like 4-5 months ago and i didn't enjoy that campaign as well...

@lapisdragon1237 5 ай бұрын

You know the drill. I'm having a terrible time physically today. Maybe you could brighten it by playing a Fire Emblem Game?

@TheSocialStreamers 5 ай бұрын

What day is it though

@lapisdragon1237 5 ай бұрын

@@TheSocialStreamers The day I have an ear infection, a cold, a headache, just got back from Christmas break, had to do rehearsal while desperately needing to sit down, and sprained my ankle while rushing off the bus. Also thank you for responding. I know this can be annoying, but I hope you know it's all in good fun.

@spudzzy0373 5 ай бұрын

I would give my third born for a part 2

@noxfelis5333 5 ай бұрын

I played my first game on very hard as Rassids, all I can say it is one hell of an experience, the whole area is low dev, so you gain little money with little manpower and on top of that you will have to face of the mamluks and ottomans and getting allies as shia is a pain and if you manage to ally the ottomans, they realy realy want provinces that you need for your missions and will unally you even if they are not even close to getting them just because you hold them.

@grigorpeykov2557 5 ай бұрын

Modern version of torture for entertainment

@cmciiproduction 5 ай бұрын

the more pain you feel the more us the viewers grow in power

@LeDawg1337 5 ай бұрын

Liking and commenting to let you know you're not doing this for free or nobody That being said, youtube doesn't seem to be pushing your content as it did before