I MADE A SECOND PART! - EU4 but you can only wait. kzfaq.info/sun/PLV7G8Z_7sjSaixx_MUgShMhSc-kg1BgRY The fact that no one pointed out I did the intro in PJs and also a semi-squat so I could fit into frame is overshadowed by the comments about my hair. I'M GROWING IT LONG, IT'S GOING TO LOOK TERRIBLE FOR A WHILE. WE'LL GET THROUGH THIS TOGETHER.

being bored at work and watching you be bored playing eu4 provides some kind of ironic entertainment value, which is odd, but I’m not going to question it.

A non-returning boomerang is still a boomerang because it spins with its curvature, so that it can stay stable and going in a straight line for a few hundred meters despite being heavy enough to kill a kangaroo in one hit. It’s like an arrow in that it uses the spin to keep itself stable

laith walked in to the barber and said "I'll take a 1/2 on the sides and a doppler radar on the top" and boy did the barber deliver

Call me a liar, but I played this. I think it was Kaurna, some natives here have some crazy national ideas and wanted to play with Alcharinga. Once you get past the early game (settle down, get Australia basically) and move into SEA, it gets a lot of fun actually

I wouldn’t say no-one goes there, in every Eu4 Timelapse I’ve seen, the Mamluks always find a way to conquer Australia.

Hey Laith, to answer your questions on the wars with the aboriginals, one of the main reasons the British won most engagements is because the aboriginals saw war as more of a sport than a fight to the death, and so the idea of completely killing the opposing side was really foreign to them. We also have very little Aboriginal history prior to colonisation apart from “Dream Time” stories because the Aboriginal culture maintained an oral tradition and history, not a written one, so when most of the elders got wiped out by disease and war, so did most of the knowledge of aboriginal history. On top of that , what remains of the aboriginal oral tradition is so precious to them after all that has happened, that most outsiders aren’t allowed to learn the few stories they have left, which means that Even if some history survives, the aboriginals don’t want to tell the Europeans about it. I hope this explained a few things, this was a fun video as always!

You can see Red Hawks soul leave his body when he has to do an australian nation. It's for a reason. Also aboriginal history is very murky because the population was tiny, many were migratory and writing was non-existent. The only sources are oral traditions and cave art, which are very hit and miss in accuracy.

I've played here to get Australia-Hungary achievement

This is your best video so far, you should combine it with your 1 province only no expansion no vassals for the best experience ^-^

Laith finally fixed his Hairline

4:51 I love how the "canoe on canoe" action still plays the same sound effect of cannons firing at each other...

Anyone remember when Mamluks ai colonised Australia basically every game?

Theres a nation in south eastern australia that has pretty good national ideas. I tried to play them, and made it about 50 years in... I've played more than 6000 hours... But I couldn't stick out that game...

I fought a war with the Mamelukes as Japan for hegemony over Australia. That was A while ago though, back when the ai mams meta was to colonize Australia for some reason

my only interaction with Australia was allying Tiwi once, playing as Malacca. Not because it was useful in any way, just to see if I could help them expand. Didn't work.

I only just started playing EU4 and watching these videos a couple months ago. My very first round I played as Kaurna in south Australia. I'm not going to lie, I have no clue how I stayed with this game because that first round was extremely boring and painful. The amount of humiliation wars I declared while trying to conquer land was embarrassing. I kept with it until Spain arrived and conquered everything quickly (and made me salty). Call me a liar. Remembering the experience makes me wish I was lying.

Laith may not know how to play tall... but his hair does.

It's even more annoying when you consider this region got more development and time invested into it than the Northern crusades and the Baltics...

I did play in this region once, although I didn't actually start here. I started as Ternate and colonized Australia, and then became the colony so I could break free and defeat Ternate for the "Turn the Table" achievement. The wiki actually suggests this. Thank you friend.

with britain's new feature to set the trade good of any province they colonise australia is actually extremely overpowered for them to settle, with all the gold, gems, wine, and whatnot

The battle of One Tree Hill is really cool, the local groups united under Multuggerah after a mass poisoning to try and cut off supplies to the settlers on the Darling Downs. The first confrontation was a success, but the coalition eventually collapsed. Helidon was actually the only stockade established to defend against Indigenous groups

I genuinely enjoy the Alcheringa missions. It’s a fun religion that sort of indirectly creates massive goals for you. The start can be slow, but… I don’t know. I think it’s neat working my way up Indonesia, into Japan, and taking provinces from China.

You are right, I have never played in Australia, but I have played a lot of North American Natives, and they have identical gameplay save for the religion so I think we're one for one. I always strikes me how Laith can be simultaneously incredibly smart, yet fail at very simple tasks, like expanding as a native tribe.

It's hilarious that when you load into Australia, the paradox pop-up apologizes in advance

I've managed to roll all the way through to reforming into a monarchy as an indigenous tribe, but by the time I was finished and ready to move into SEA I was just like "I could have been Malacca this entire time and be in a much better place."

Laith: inflicts suferring onto himself also Laith: thinks the video could flop And i would think he knows his audience by now.

11:55 and the segment about 3k army retreat was just GOLD. Cheers for the laughs Laith 😂

I've literally never seen any other of your videos before but I can now confidently say that this is my favorite of any europa universalis videos.

I've played australia once. I liked the look of Palawa's ideas and decided to give it a go. I deeply regret everything.

You can't point me as liar. Because i play once on Australia on a multiplayer session with friends. I was playing Palawa and die because i left to cook, because nothing happen here

Because I live in Australia (specifically Brisbane/Meanjin), I have done a Turrbal run before. Discovering Indonesia or PNG before Europe colonises them is hard. I ended up uniting the tribes, but with no expansion options within coring range, I was forced to wait for Great Britain to show up. From then on, it was all downhill!

Also the returning boomerang was never the main type of boomerang, it was a tool for scaring birds into flying into your arrow fire. Most boomerangs were massive clubs with blade-like edges for breaking bone.

Ooh, I love this! I hope for part 2

Whilst I haven't played in Australia, I have conquered it as Hawaii as my first expansion outside Polynesia. That was fun

If you became a horde I think it automatically settles all your owned tribal land

As a proud Australian, I have indeed played here many times... Mostly because I searching for the right combination of mods and custom nation setup that would make it fun, but that's a minor detail. Also, they made a 25 straight-day journey in 3 months, which is surprisingly reasonable. Somewhat impressed by the game.

The optimal way to play Tiwi: - Build up to 4 war canoes, delete army - Ignore other tribes, ignore migration, ignore devastation, ignore federations mechanic - Build the 2 buildings for government reform growth and chill - Do NOT settle down (this reform does not allow becoming a horde) - Get to military tech 6 - Become a horde - You are now an advanced nation and can do everything: get institutions, colonize, develop, etc. Very soon you can reform into a republic or a kingdom if you want The best way to play Tiwi: - Start as Ternate/Tidore - Get the first 3 exploration ideas (for range) - Conquer Tiwi, develop it, then release and play as vassal - Get independence (it's okay to truce break) - You are now an advanced nation much sooner and will be in a great shape and own the entire continent by the time Europeans arrive

Imagine having your tribe teleported outside of Australia

It sometimes amazes me how many bugs remain from Leviathon. Last I checked, the Lakota in NA are still completely locked out of their mission tree. These things have been reported, but I guess PDX doesn't think it's worthwhile to change the like 2 lines of script required to fix them.

This here is riveting gameplay, we need a part 2, 3 and 4!

This reminds me of the first and only time I played Palau before I knew about the whole "become horde and get Chinese tech" thing. There's a reason I never went back.

I dont play any paradox games, but I love how everyone that I watch who does consistantly says playing is pain lol PS: Please release part2

we must make laith do australia-hungary

In age of history 2 this area is pretty good to play as this isolationist tribal nation at the start of the game. I have played a couple of games as New Zealand in EU 4 because I loved the flag the formable has. Veritas et Fortitudo mod had some interesting takes on polynesians, Yap was so fun to just take over Oceania.

Watching Laith stare at the government reforms and pick staying a migratory tribe instead of switching to a feudal nation just really hurt my soul.

I can’t explain how important it is that we bully laith into several parts of this campaign

Love the content, played once in the region....had some bug in regread of native mechanism. Never touched the region again

I have played in Australia. As colonizers, but I still have played there!

I did a run once as Tidore (OPM just north of Australia) and turned it into a pirate kingdom and also colonized Australia. It was a bit boring after a while because all I really had to do was wait for my cycle of pirate raids to come around and because I had a few colonies in other regions i was raiding chinese/indian/japanese/other asain regions for quite a bit of money regularly so it was interesting to see the affect on the region.

So to offer some guidance on this, as best as I understand. For the play style it plays similarly to American Natives. The best way I’ve found to play migratory tribes is to accumulate as much tribal land as possible. Settling down is ok if you have a very federation focused gameplay. Which it doesn’t appear to be that way for you. The best candidate for a settle down campaign is the Iroquois in the Americas. Try to build buildings that give monthly reform progress along with Gov reforms. Only migrate when your devastation gets high. Accumulate tribal land through wars. The cults play a big role in the religious game play. With the best cult being the Rainbow Serpent Cult imo (+1 mana of every kind per month). Once you hit reform tier 5, if you have 2 or less provinces and Mil tech 6, you can become a horde. Settling every province in your tribal lands in one click. Very soon after you can reform into a monarchy. Honestly it’s a speed 5 run until you reform. Colonies really aren’t feasible mostly because you can’t afford it early game. Once you reform into a horde, monarchy, or tribal federation exploration is a great idea set. But I wouldn’t recommend colonizing until you reform. Tribal development is weird one. It slowly builds up over time. Allowing you to settle your tribal land, if you have the settle down government reform. The more members of the federation you have the faster your tribal development grows. If you are migratory, the tribal development applies to whatever province you migrate your capital too. I have played as tribes all over the map. They tend to have a very American feel because the American tribes are the most fleshed out in game. Hope this helps some aspiring players to try out tribes. Colonizers are going to be your worst nightmare (similar to irl). Devving institutions can be tricky if you’re new to it. Best of luck.

I played down their however i did the dlc thing where you can create your own nation, so really i was just playing a European nation that happened to be in Australia

Oh we totally need a sequel video for this torture.

YOO THE INTRO FIT IS FIRE

Fellow pain connoisseur here, release part 2

Yooo. I’m from Darwin Australia which is the capital city of the Northern Territory just below the Tiwi islands (the nation you picked). So cool to see some action, well, at least some coverage Lol.

I live in Darwin so seeing Tiwi and Larrakia on a video game is wild to me

I'd really love for Laith to try this again after studying up on the mechanics.

@TheSocialStreamers You don't actually need to wait for the Europeans to reform. Once you have transport ships, you can disembark onto unexplored islands, walk over to other explored islands, then use auto-embark to explore sea zones until you encounter Bone or Tidore. From there, you can no-cb war them to take their land for the feudalism institution.

I did play here actually when leviathan was new and INSANELY buggy! It was even worse then because the devastation was insane. I guess mad max happened a bit early idk. Anyway I formed a federation and then pretty much quit because as Laith said, NOTHING HAPPENS

"The video might flop" my brother in christ I don't even play EU4 yet I am here glued to the screen

The closest I've ever come to playing in Australia is when I colonised it as Kilwa

When you really think about it, the player is bored because the people in his country are very much not. They have to fight drop bears and tasmanian tigers and gigantic spiders and snakes to survive every day - so they have little time to do the interesting country things the player can see.

This was the most interesting video I've seen laith post ever, it was ABSOLUTELY something.

8:14 To be fair, it took them around 4 months to walk there, so approximately 20km per day. I'd say that is a pretty realistic😂

I played a few games in the Australia area, I had fun, but its more like you have to wait for the mid game. I’ve played there. United the island then invaded the pacific and Indonesia. Was fun enough. You gotta rely on no cb and vassal play. Take tribal land and wait to settle down. You’ll get it all in the end

Recently tried to get the Australia Hungary achievement here ….. it was literally hell

I've played there for the achievement. All around a miserable experience. You constantly get attacked by UK and Spain who do the math and see that your country is a fraction of theirs. Of course they can at most drop 20-30 troops at a time and you just stack wipe them over and over until they agree to pay you a massive lump sum of money. Rinse and repeat over and over. It gets a bit dicey if they both are at was with you at the same time because then everyone else piles on. Had France and Portugal (and even the Ottomans once I think) also declare war. Have to really stack wipe fast, which is hard given that it takes like a year to walk your army from one end of Australia to the other,

as an australian, my opinion is the land was terra nulius. indigineous people barely formed groups greater than 25 unlike places like new zealand and north america. idk what the solution is but them being large in eu4 seem a bit odd

Laith when uploading this video: this might bomb Laith 24 hours later: these people are here to watch me suffer

yeah I hate it when enemy AI armies walks across the map :(

I went for the Australia-Hungary achievement so yes I have played as the australian aboriginal nations

I have played here several times. Harder than 3 mountains with the broken mechanics, change my mind. I still feel like theres an exploit here with mana though, im just not smart enough to find it.

I have played here. For the Australia-Hungary achievement, that was a weird run. Had to wait like 150 years for somebody to appear and give me institutions? Managed to achieve some hilarious levels of development because of the tribal mechanics during that wait.

I have played in Australia...I got bored and left after 15 minutes, but I did play in that area.

you think that's bad? you should play lakota, their mission tree locks itself.

Drop part two this was very entertaining

I tried playing on it but died of boredom after 10 years, exactly as the nation you started with

I played there! :D It is actually better to stay as a one-province tribe and go to the end of reforms to get to the steppe nomads which is horde and from now on, you can begin playing as a proper non-native nation. Other option is to start not in australia-australia, but as one of new zealand opm's and then go and conquer the australia by exploiting how those tribes work. By conquering their land, they migrate to the province nearby, which basically means it is instantly colonized and ready to be used. And those new zealand nations are not tribes.

Redhawk has played here as part of his A-Z and he suffers to. I think hes taken the rest of them out as you can only really do the same things more or less.

I spent a few days optimizing australia runs in the past, and the best i have found is to maximize admin income and rushing horde formation because you cant be reforming off colonizers any time soon. I was able to own all of australia as incorporated territory and slowly building a navy and catching up in tech by about 1510, its not as hard as you make it look, but its certainly a very unique playstyle and relatively boring.

I did play there. I tried some very nothing starts especially in old versions but the speed was pushed to the max and none was played for a long time

i played in Australia once...but that was before they added all the nations there and i just made a custom nation and tried to conquer India that went surprisingly bad since it was one of my first times playing eu4

I've always wished strategy games had more australian and polynesian rep, I'd love to see a part 2

An Australia update would just be you fighting the animals

I did play as Palawa to get Australia-Hungary (timelapse video on my channel). It was hell. I had to willingly hand over some of my land so I could reform and move off my island

Talks about Australia: "The bugs never got reported" Me : That must be why they are so weird

Well that's, certainly one way to play the natives... I'd recommend looking up a guide and trying again rather than doing a direct part 2.

It’s amazing how so much of this video matches my only Australian play though exactly in the worst ways.

I love these videos Laith. Thank you.

I wish to see this suffering extended to it's endpoint. Show us more, Laith. Show us more.

The start as the Australians is boring but not not difficult. The main focus is getting government reform progress because once you get to the final tier 5 (and mil tech 6) you can reform into a Steppe Horde - this converts all your tribal land into regular land and lets you develop the institutions.

As an Australian, I have played here just for the fun of it, and yeah nothing happen.

I played in Australia as a Custom Nation.

For sure want a part 2, I adore nations no one plays : )

There is only one way to give a reason to play here. I stupid and mind breaking challenge. I played in aboriginal Australia trying to becoming the emperor of China.

We must have part two!

5:50 hey my island-only campaign from a couple of years back is being planed sweet ^^

Settling down in Australia is perhaps the worst thing you can do. The tier 5 government reforms that let you become a monarchy, republic, or theocracy require feudalism to be present, whereas the reform to become a horde does not. However it does require that you not choose the 'settle down' reform at tier 3.

just what i needed to watch while being bored and looking for something to watch