Kosovo is Laith Nation

It’s a duchy. But a rich one.

i love lathe too

@@ohNojames it will be an empire soon

Nations didn't really exist in 1444, so it would be more historically accurate to say "Laith Kingdom/Empire"

Now try Mossi (you're in for a treat!)

Songhai is really fun war mongering nation, I defeated 3 nations at once, stack wiping them out of existence

most badass background in any civ game

Same with Korea and Sejong, who rules the country in 1444.

​@@zoeygeorge2403hence the easy tech

I picked Mali ... :(

I went with Ethiopia into Axum, what a lovely campaign

Quick laith before Red Hawk gets to K in his A to Z, excellent idea

Every Brazilian I know is super upset haha

wouldn't espionage be better for the vassilization acceptance? if you want it for rep and relations influence would be better for annexation cost

force vassalising is indeed the worst way to get a vassal as they will have a negative opinion of you, even doing a full annex of a tag to then release it as a vassal is better because it saves coring costs atleast and it resets the opinion

@@goranpersson7726 i prefer to take one province with their tag, and if im already nearly 100% oe, i take a bunch of extra non their core provinces that puts me over 100% and then i release the opm and feed them those uncored provinces (after forcing religion) cos liberty desire doesnt go up much if they are small and giving provinces makes them happier.. then i do a reconquest on the next war to take their other provinces back.. and they spend time converting provinces to my religion and coring so i dont have to

Manpower recovery is proportional to max manpower. If you have two nations with different manpower limit but the same recovery modifiers, they will get full at the same time, but the one with the bigger pool will gain more soldiers per month in sheer numbers. It's just that it also has a bigger pool to fill.

@@overconfidentpineapple8783 oh, i played byzantium and it just felt weird to me that i received like 200 manpower a month with an 80k pool for whatever reason was really making me feel weird about that and that number only changed when i put in the recovery, either i bugged the game or the increase was so miniscule it wasnt really remembered. But it makes sense as to what you said so noice

"A bit over" "198%" almost double lol

Man I don't get it when I was playing papal state I had consistently over 150% for over a hundred years. It was fine, the micro was tedious but after a certain point you just have enough soldiers to deal with it

@@Salvara i dont think ur expanding enough mate.. or everyone else has some easier version of the game than me.. my recent playthru i had 58 rebel factions in like 1520

@@tigrecito48 I had them too, this would've been from 1650s to 1750s. I was economic hegemon and had more than half a million troops over force limit. After a certain point its just God mode lol

@@Salvara i find that my rebels just never seem to go away.. i get bored with playing the game... i spend like 9/10 of the game trying to find where rebels will spawn and sending my troops to them.. its tedious.. i do a war.. tons of rebels are near spawning.. i spend like 2 years pissing about trying to kill rebels, i do another war... the same amount of rebels are back again.. and the numbers just keep increasing.. the only time i dont get rebels much is if u go humanitarian (a waste of an idea) or religious (not much better) & get 100% unity.. or expand really slowly.. maybe i should be culture converting more? or not converting religions so much and having tolerance or heretics & heathens? maybe there is a strategy i dont know about.. or maybe youtubers have some mod to reduce rebels? cos to be honest most youtubers seem to always have plenty of manpower & almost no rebels.. unless they just cut those bits out of the video? seems to me, either they are doing tricks /exploits or cheats cos in my playthrus i always have non stop rebel problems that just get worse & worse.. i almost never get beyond 1650 because its just boring to deal with them

They used to be recruited as individual 1k stacks just like regular armies, and they were able to merge with your regular armies. I'm not sure why they changed it, although I do like the fact you have a variety of different mercs to choose from now, cheaper and more expensive.

@@InfernoGuy94 yeah i remember the change i do prefer the new mercs they feel more like actual armies you're hiring and not just an endless horde of free troops late game when money is irrelevant but them not travelling with your stacks and awful unite composition makes them impossible to use and nations that focus around mercs pretty weak

He burnt out of YT and started working somewhere