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if you ever feel unwanted, remember that the hre has a decentralization path

Worth mentioning that as Austria, if you notice Castile/Spain is rivaled with France, you also want to rival France. If both of you are rivaled to France, then there's an event that can put a Habsburg on Castille/Spain's throne, which could help lead to a PU over them.

Do not abdicate when you have 49 Imperial Authority, or nearly that. First get to 50, pass a reform, and then abdicate. Otherwise most of that 10 IA you gain will be wasted when you pass the reform.

All the glorious Austria guides have one thing in common, nobody does the mission which gives free 5% crown lands and 10% estate loyality equilibrium at the very start. Just grab for all 3 estates the priviliges that give decisions increasing their loyality to get 60 to complete the mission, dont forget those priviliges also complete agendas instantly so take advantage of it. After that just seize crownlands and you can instantly revoke those privileges without getting into red loyalty.

Austria feels like a James bond villain of any EU4 campaign, perfect for hawk😊

I love how when describing the HRE lands, you cycled through every map mode BUT the HRE one until the end. Also I'm not sure if that's a meta strat to take Bohemia's gold and then pay off their debt to reduce their liberty desire.

Great video! Im loving these long videos, cant wait for more!

1. Taking ether Prague for IA or the gold mine in the first war vs bohemia is for me a good choice always (but i get that ti can tie you down with ae) 2.Rivaling Bohemia is a must though that PP is gonna basicly carry you for most of the first age >

Thanks for these guides, Red Hawk. Appreciate it.

Every time I'm gonna start a new game, you always drop the video

I’m gonna try this tonight other guides arnt as good as yours was looking for a 1.36 for like 2 weeks

@TheRedHawk you talk about taking the gold mine in the Bohemia war, but there is also the strategy to take Praha to get more IA.

Austria is (in my opinion) the strongest and must fun European Nation.

Best Austria guide ever... Clean 😊

@27:00 I have played Austria countless times, it is one of my favourite to play and I thoroughly enjoy the world conquest with them. Of those countless times I have played them, I have never once - NOT EVER - gotten the horse event.

Well thanks, I was *just* thinking about doing an Austria OFWC.

Thanks for the video

Played my first Austria game a month ago and it was an absolute blast! I managed to get and keep a Habsburg on the thrones of castle and england very early on and used PUs with them to bully the rest of Europe. It ended with me getting the entire mission tree (threaten and charter companies for the asian colonization!) and conquering the entirety of Europe for my first time. What a fun playthrough, I can see why it's a fan favorite!

Very detailed, really well done. As someone who has done a vassal swarm wc, this is a great guide. One thing about those France releaseables... It seems like France gets to them before I can, about 90% of the time. Or they end up guaranteed by france. Haven't figured out how to make those little nations easily forced into the empire.

i may have found a way to get the centre of reformation to force convert. if the target nation is two or three provinces take all the provinces but the centre then force religion in the peace deal.the centre disappeared after that.

Love it!

I wont say no to 74 minutes of austria gameplay

Great guide! I need to try it! But I dont do ALT+F4. Still I can conquer whole world? W8ing for next eposide of this GUIDE !

I would also suggest becoming defender of the faith once you are powerful enough for that extra missionary, if you need it

@TheRedHawk which DLCs and Mods are u running? There are so many different opinions out here, which I kinda can’t sort out quite well Ty in advance :)

Please keep going this campaign and show us world conquest plsssss

Dumb question, RH, did something happen copyright-wise with your videos? I noticed you removed EU's soundtrack from this one and it was somewhat a staple of your videos. Just curious.

Hawk, I'm going to need that Ottawa guide.

Do you still get the Praha monument IA modifier with them as your PU? Or do you have to directly annex Praha as Austria

just a question, are Brandenburg and Denmark coded to automatically become protestant cause my campagin i keep alt f4ing to see if i can get a better COR spawn but they always spawn in the same two provinces, Sjaelland and Brandenburg.

How did you get the claims on the croatian coasts from venice at the beginning, they aren't there at the start of the game and i don't think you mentioned getting them specifically

I feel like I already know (or can at least guess) the answer, but is it better to have OPMs as the HRE once you revoke the privilegia? Is having 40 OPMs fighting your wars better than having 4 10-province nations? Thoughts? Second question: if you stamp out Protestantism as Austria, can Anglicanism still happen? I don't think Reformed spawns if there's no Protestant CoRs left (at least, that was true when I last played Austria), so maybe the same is true for Anglicanism?

I have a question to ask. Do you also feel agitation when eu4’s provinces don’t allow you to create historical borders?

I recently got done following Red Hawks last guide for Austria WC and something I wish I had noticed earlier is how inconsequential truce breaking can be once you’ve finished religious ideas and are the papal controller. With the 50% papal powers reduction golden bull, and lands for the church reform lowering costs another 10% you can get three stab for 90 papal influence. With the missionaries you get from being religious, you’ll earn that in about two years. Super useful for later game when truce timers are the only thing limiting your expansion.

Could actually make Denmark a part of The Holy Roman Empire? 🤔 Thoroughly enjoyed watching this being down with a cold after a lovely Xmas 🎄 good times! Lots of love from Denmark 🤗 🇩🇰

Get out of my walls. I started an Austria game 10 minutes before this was uploaded. x)

I always wonder if i should integrate PUs manually. I play mostly as Spain, started as Aragon, had four at a time, but three were in my culture group + Naples.

You should do an Australia guide next

Hey @TheRedHawk - why I should not accept offer of royal marriage?

Is it worth to no cb byz as first war? Stops your only real rival from getting strong

Guide are cool but it's always frustratinc to not see the final results xD Anyway ! A guide for Hussite Bohemia please !

This might sound like a noob question, but how do you manage unlocking Diplomatic idea when you're so far over your relationship cap?

The best timeline.

After the Polish war you were at 61 Imperial Authority. Why didn´t you use the excess of IA to improve with electors, allies and outraged nations?

Do be careful, if you Proclaim Erbkaisertum before the League Wars conclude, the pope will get the Unholy Empire event and leave the HRE

This is my first time playing Austria and I am up to 1463. You talk about 100% Catholic. How do you get rid of the Hussites in Bohemia and the Orthodox in Serbia?

Imo you could not seize land right off the bat since you have that mission that you complete upon getting your estates to 60 loyalty. You get 5% free crownlands and the +10% loyalty equilibrium will make it easier seizing land in the future and also going down that tree’s branch.

Any chance for a ZoroAustrian achievement guide?

In the latest patch, Byz is a really annoying vassal to have due to their pretender rebels on monarch change and frequent medium sized religious rebel stacks due to their starting privileges. I like to get the center of trade mission in morea done for them and then annex once they have all their cores

Once you rewoke the privilege your biggest enemy becomes game engine. Game lags like no tomorrow.

For the center of reformation in Holland, you can just make it their only province and then enforce religion. You can avoid getting all the AE from taking their other two provinces by allying someone like Utrecht or Friesland and giving the provinces to them.

so uhh.. I disallowed internal HRE wars (using the reform) just as the reformation spawned.. I didn't realize that I don't need the last 2 from the main line before taking the centralization ones.. now I can't declare wars to force religions.. though it seems I should be able to rush to the reform that makes HRE faith-agnostic before the IA gets destroyed, wish me luck 😅

Did Hawk say, at @2:10, that Austria was his favourite nation in EUIV? Has he forgotten Florence so easily!?

the real question is how many times did you have to alt+f4 to get hungary to choose you...

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@14:00 if you really want to dissuade the Ottomans from expanding in the Balkans, or anywhere really, ally Byzantium. Their starting ruler/heir often die within 10 years leading to a PU, and your alliance will make Ottomans not attack Byzantium until closer to the year 1460

if the revoke privilegia reform is done before the league war happened, won't the pope leave the HRE through the "unholy empire" event?

With Holland, could you have taken every province *except* the Center of Reformation, so that became their capital, and enforce religion? Or is there some reason that doesn't work?

13:10 cant you enforce religion on England instead of alt-f4ing once you get them in a PU? Will the ai not also enforce religion on its colonial subject?

in 4 seperate playthroughs charles has hit the 5% chance of a new heir...

Why take the center of reformation instead of taking it down by force the religion if the center is in the capital?

how can I change the UI to look like this?

32:00 In earlier versions it was a strategy to get Hungary and/or Burgundy into the HRE, destroy some of the smaller electors, give the elector status to Hungary, Burgundy, and Milan, and then PU them. This would give you 4 (counting Bohemia) junior partner electors ensuring you will always become emperor without having to become an elector yourself. Additionally, if you do this strategy even partly, you will become an elector yourself if you inherit one of your junior partners without having to usurp it from them.

Did my One faith as Buddhist Oirats. :)

Taking and converting Prague by declaring with a clame instead of the Pu greatly speeds up the passage of the reforms. You probably don't even need to turn off reformation centers, at that point you will take the religious peace reform soon after. Another note is that the revolt in the Netherlands is no longer as bad as in previous patches, if you don't want to move the capital it can be easily beaten because the rebels don't start by controlling forts.

isn't it a good idea to take Prague instead of Cheb in the Bohemia war? this way you have the monument immediately

Regarding the pragmatic sanction, I would take it whenever you get a really good female heir. If that's in 1460, take it.

I’ve seen the Pope rival me as Austria too many times

Why not let the Dutch Revolt fire and then force convert Amsterdam?

I haven’t finished the video, but how do you get one faith if in the new world colonial nations won’t convert provinces?

I liked this video, unfortunate I couldn't see the whole world run, not just europe

Why not take Praha??? The monument gives Imperial Authority

I never liked to play central europe in EU4 . Is full of boring shenanigans and this toturial confirms it. Is what make this game great, there is allways something to everyone

Forming the Kalmar union as denmark is fun and their tier one government is great at absorbing PUs and getting tons of free manpwoer and if you take over england you can become the north sea empire which is a blast nobody can come close to taking you out navally.

oh yeah.. havent played austria in a while, this looks fun. july 1445,, bohemia has allied mucovy and france.... nope nope nope

Also, dumb question #2, but since you got religious ideas going, can't you simply Deus Vult protestant nations? Why wait for the claims since you get that going?

Day 1 of daily asking for Genua guide

Ah, a nice long guide.

this was a good playthrough so far but im at 1457 and my heir has died SEVENTEEN times is there a reason for this??

what does lower autonomy do?

Not a fan of the taking Praha meta in the bohemia pu war?

Something is strange. Video is missing background music? or is it just me

In your war against bohemia get Prague for yourself

additional points: -Keep improving relations with princes whenever you have free diplomats or you are about to hit 50 imperial authority to make them accept the reform,that way you dont have to waste much imperial authority like 60-70. Just go to the hre screen and check right bottom part where princes are listed there you can see who supports and who does not, supporters are higlighted with a frame on flags, you can also check who is the next median for voting by just moving your cursor on the next reform i guess im not sure it should be somewhere there. -ALWAYS take Prague when you pu bohemia, helps alot with imperial authority. Yes AE is a pain in the ass but nothing that a bit of improving relations just a couple of months before peacing out cant handle, also you wont be expanding much for a while after this war anyways it is perfectly fine. -You dont have to fight heretic prince directly, if you do not border them or they are a free city which means bunch of negative stab hits to declare, just check their allies, you must at least have one that borders you. Instead of no cb declaring on them fabricate claim on their allies and declare indirectly ooooor if theres no one including their allies that border you, you could attack the ally of the ally, just chain wars, you can handle at least 5-7 princes at once anyways whats a couple more amiright bois?:D lets say goslar is heretic and they are only allied to brunswick, you cant fabricate claims on both of them but lucky for you brunswick is allied to munich which is a nation you border, just fabricate claim on munich make brunswick co-belligerent and voila! goslar will join the war. -I like to beat up bigger princes to cut them into pieces by releasing smaller princes like beating up brandenburg to complete the mission and to release rupin. Beating up brunswick to relase another opm prince. The more princes in the empire the more imperial authority you get on top of that you get to have more vassals when you revoke which is better, reasoning behind this is that instead of having a small 3-4 province vassal having 2 or more opm vassals is better because that 4 province guy will have base force limit which is 6 I guess+1 or 2 at most but if you create 2 other vassals from that guy you will have 2 base force limit amount of soldiers. In short instead of having 7-10k army brandenburg just beat them up and release rupin which will have 3 to 6k army and brandenburg wont lose much force limit anyways but you will get the extra 6k. Obviously the imperial authority is not huge because you have to increase the number of princes alot to see a difference it is also not needed because you can always beat your surrounding nations and carve em up for additional vassals.

My man did one episode outside of Europe and just noped out of there.

Guys, can you help me please? We share the same dynasty with Castile but not the same ruler. How can I PU them?

Guaranteeing Byz from the get go is fun : prevents Otto to expand in Europe & become empire

My biggest issue as a new eu4 player is that I have none of the DLCs cause they cost so much, and as a result every guide I watch is totally different from what I'm looking at.

What the hell was going on with Athens taking over most of Byzantium

I love your vids, but I find it extremely coincidential that you weren't rivalled by France/Burgundy and how most RNG situations went in your favour🤔

One important thing, though may not be that common, is to not take "Proclaim Erbkaisertem" reform before the official religion of hre gets set. As that declared Peace of Westphalia

Just about 90% through a Zoroaustrian run and you realise how crazy powerful Austria is... Still never doing a world conquest or one faith though. Too boring after you've snowballed

Actually something you could do if you take Norway, is take Iceland for yourself and start colonizing as well. Or wait a bit and just steal colonies from the others.

Ottomans declare on hungary most games and france decides to intervene. Its like the game wants me to stop playing forever

I tried following the guide but had a lot of bad luck: - Hungary didn't choose my heir. - The Burgundian Succession didn't fire - Venice allied Aragon - Abdicating the throne did cost 50 legitimacy and I didn't notice before clicking - France allied the Ottomans during our war and I had to fight both (could take nothing from the Ottos) - Poland lost Lithuania shortly before I could declare for the PU - One Center of reformation spawned in Sweden - My ally GB is in a war with a weak Burgundy and and I fear GB will take provinces in the HRE. They desire some provinces in the low lands. - I'm on -3 stability and have nearly no Admin points, my tech level is 7/5/10, I can't convert any provinces (neither the orthodox nor the protestant ones) and the disaster Internal Conflicts fired. I don't know, if I should continue the game. It's nearly the age of reformation and I only got as far as "Gemeiner Reichspfennig" with the reforms. At least I have Bohemia, Hungary and Poland as PUs, and Poland is now part of the HRE. Hungary is too big to join, but I hesitate integrating it because of my lack in diplo points

How Byz lost Constantinopole core so fast so you released Byz without it?

My Austria game has gone a bit bonkers. Hungary became a PU *before* my leader died and my heir could be chosen as the next ruler. France and Ottomans have united in an alliance. The Balkans are now split between myself, Hungary, and the Ottomans. Waiting for a good time to somehow break up that alliance...and invade a strong Poland who currently wants to ally me.

Austria is one of my favorite campaigns ever; when I did one, I hade the revoked the privilege (with all the french minors + italy + all of the balkans in the HRE), had PU's over Spain, Muscovy, Poland, Lithuania, and a snake running all the way down from eastern europe to the tip of India by like 1600. Austria is the #1 nation if you just want to just go full megalomaniac on the world while still having a bit of a challenge (I find Spain and France to be way to easy sometimes, but if you duck up with Austria, you can get your cheeks clapped by the likes of the Ottomans, PLC, and the Protestant League). Oh also I had a Habsburg on the throne of Britain, so it was likely they would soon be PU'ed by me

Is this just part 1 or like other hundreds of same videos that shows 80 years and than "just conquer everywhere"