Top 10 Hardest Achievements in EU4 & How To Get Them!

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EU4 has hundreds of challenging achievements to unlock. In this video we will cover the 10 most difficult, impossible and hard to get achievements in Europa Universalis IV. Get EU4 and all DLCs on sale and support the channel here: paradoxinteractive.i38e.net/G...
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@AlzaboHD 4 жыл бұрын

Pandemic Sound copyright claimed the last song of this video (which I thought was creative commons attributable, this is my fault) so there is now 2 minutes of silence near the end. Sorry for the inconvenience but luckily this only affects the last two minutes. Thank you to everyone for letting me know!

@KarasuInaiga 4 жыл бұрын

Can we get a transcript of what you said during that portion of the video, please?

@dilloncihak5338 4 жыл бұрын

KZfaq handing out strikes like Oprah

@ArabicNameGuy 4 жыл бұрын

Thank God! My ears popped right then and I thought I went deaf

@beihnkwilitybaese 4 жыл бұрын

What was the song?

@mvmitemwall948 4 жыл бұрын

@@beihnkwilitybaese ram ranch 16

@h9772 4 жыл бұрын

Funny that one of the rarest achievements in the game is playing it to the end

@derAlphabet 4 жыл бұрын

Since it's a strategy game, where the player is most of the time far better at snowballing than the AI (even at a mediocre lvl of skill - like myself), late game gets often tedious and boring with the lack of challenge. See also the ttm guide of reman, where he selects your own mind/fatigue as one of the biggest challenges for a wc.

@maxf8805 4 жыл бұрын

tinytaur 2 that was the first achievement i got

@ArchieT7 4 жыл бұрын

@@maxf8805 I know that Until Death Do Us Apart, Victorious and That's Mine! are pretty hard achievements, but surely someone good enough to get THAT achievement must have gotten them before?

@TheGnom1 4 жыл бұрын

WC and just AFK :D

@Domhnall_A_Ghalltachd 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's funny on the EU4 subreddit the amount of people that have played something like 1500 hours but have never played till the end.

@omnisel 4 жыл бұрын

"anyone opting to start a campaign as the ottoma---" I was about to fall asleep when that happened and it kinda freaked me out

@darturo454 4 жыл бұрын

Jeesaf Oceanleft it’s weirder when you turn on automated subtitles. In the silence, it will just randomly say “you”

@probablyyourgreatestally8992 4 жыл бұрын

@@darturo454 That's spooky.

@user-df7zn6el4l 4 жыл бұрын

@@probablyyourgreatestally8992 _you_

@bartsfartandshart 4 жыл бұрын

I thought I was watching ISP for a second because of the intro

@iustinprisacaru225 4 жыл бұрын

Me too !

@AlzaboHD 4 жыл бұрын

I thought I would get a comment like this for a second because of the intro

@gatortran7617 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@Azelicee 4 жыл бұрын

Same here

@monx94 4 жыл бұрын

I will never get used to alzabo’s new intro

@zacharymohammadi 4 жыл бұрын

#1: until death do us part

@AlzaboHD 4 жыл бұрын

Royal Marriage in 2019 is practically impossible!

@marcino457 4 жыл бұрын

“Where the Heart Is” should’ve been called “Big Ballin With Dahomey”

@AlzaboHD 4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the homies!

@marcnassif2822 4 жыл бұрын

Randomly realised you and I have very similar subscriptions

@thedeepseaking3659 4 жыл бұрын

All of these achievements: "We're hard as fuck." Me, still trying to form the Roman Empire from Byzantium before the end date but keeps failing: "Fuck"

@So-ny9hf 5 ай бұрын

I still don’t even know how to survive as Byzantium I’ve only actually taken over th he ottomans as Byz like twice. Just seems super RNG dependent to me and not very fun.

@GugSport 4 жыл бұрын

Every time I see that intro, I immediately think of ISP. Hard to tell at this point if Ironside is sponsoring him or if it's the other way around.

@TetraDax 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah man, I clicked on this video, saw the intro, and even though I knew I just clicked on this video my monkey brain went "wait no I didn't want to watch ISP"

@Zurrapa47 3 жыл бұрын

"The homies in Dahomey" Perfect.

@plebisMaximus 4 жыл бұрын

I strongly appreciate all the shots at the current conversion mechanics. They're so bad.

@RaidsEpicly 4 жыл бұрын

So many of the recent changes are questionable. Too Many Territories, stupid conversion mechanics, Colonial Nations being complete clusterfucks, I just don't understand why paradox does it

@plebisMaximus 4 жыл бұрын

@@RaidsEpicly There's been a lot of great changes too, overall I think the game's better now than it's ever been, but then there's those strange decisions they make that actively makes it worse. I really don't get it.

@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes 4 жыл бұрын

I wish the One Faith achievement was never in the game in the first place. It's totally incoherent with the way religion has ever worked in real life. Conversion should not take 6 months for you to do on a province that you just annexed.

@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes 4 жыл бұрын

@@hirocheeto7795 What's the point of actually opening the game and clicking play in the first place then? Just do whatever you want in the custom nation designer if you don't want any limitations. Always love argumentum ad there-are-silly-things-so-nothing-matters-eum

@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes 4 жыл бұрын

@@hirocheeto7795 Look. I don't fucking care about historical accuracy. That's not the point. I don't want the game to be a documentary you sit down and watch. What I do want is for things to feel more authentic and plausible. converting shit you just conquered in 6 months without even trying to be a religiously focused nation is absolutely absurd.

@tacobowler 4 жыл бұрын

Budgetmonk has done multiple one cultures for Roman. He’s doing one right now on his channel.

@eragonshurtugal4239 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah but i think he meant wich an rare culture not wich austrian culture(more or less the same as roman)

@flimpeenflarmpoon1353 4 жыл бұрын

@@eragonshurtugal4239 yeah I don't know why he emphasised the Roman part so much. The roman culture is the easiest cause it converts all of you primary culture for free. The difficult ones are the obscure ones like gothic and the even harder ones are those like American, Mexican or the ones in unclonised provinces.

@eragonshurtugal4239 4 жыл бұрын

@@flimpeenflarmpoon1353 i meam roman it not the easiet but only as difficult as your original culture

@lps2013 4 жыл бұрын

@@eragonshurtugal4239 Its difficult because off the new world provinces that don't turn roman.

@eragonshurtugal4239 4 жыл бұрын

@@lps2013 Thats true, but as most people who are trying this are doing a true wc anyway it doent get anyharder (and it doesnt need to be almost impossiple )

@andredie45 4 жыл бұрын

For Basque in Glory, you need to convert 30 of the 59 provinces, the other two requiremets for the achievement is that you’re Navarra and that you’re Basque

@martinnolhaf3151 4 жыл бұрын

Slow down there Arumba xD Lost it...

@abruemmer77 4 жыл бұрын

"that even the aztecs would find it distasteful" Huitzilopochtli is amused.

@Joseph_417 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the quietness at the end that made me restart my wireless headphones multiple times and make me think they were broken

@kylord20001 4 жыл бұрын

@AlzaboHD 21:14 budgetmonk has done 1 culture roman culture twice now and is doing it a third time even now with no diplo banking,preaty amazing stuff imo

@wutangos3089 4 жыл бұрын

i was there for that... history in the making

@bluemountain4181 4 жыл бұрын

I was expecting "The Victorian Three" to be up there. Not because it's hard to do but because who has the patience to keep playing until 1800?

@Ballin4Vengeance 3 жыл бұрын

There should be a “Close Call” achievement for preventing Mughal Empire from shattering after the achievement.

@Mario7p 4 жыл бұрын

"Rockstar games achievements are hard and take a long time to 100%" Paradox: hold my beer

@walterbell7193 4 жыл бұрын

“Grab your popcorn and lather it in Tabasco sauce” AlzaboHD MMIXX~

@295Phoenix 4 жыл бұрын

LOL, the advice you gave for the Eat Your Greens achievement was hilarious!

@AlzaboHD 4 жыл бұрын

EU4 is on sale! Support the channel and get EU4 + DLC up to 75% off here: paradoxinteractive.i38e.net/G375V. PS: Stay tuned for Crusader Kings II content dropping next TUESDAY!

@felixmortem1177 4 жыл бұрын

My favorite non achievement achievement was to start as the Sultanate of Sulu and reverse colonize and culturally and religiously purify the entirety of Iberia

@lps2013 4 жыл бұрын

BudgetMonk has also done a 1 faith 1 culture world conquest with the roman empire so with the emerging culture of roman on hard difficulty and on very hard difficulty

@gleet2677 4 жыл бұрын

Missed your eu4 content, glad to see something new again

@AlzaboHD 4 жыл бұрын

Regular content is coming now, thanks for sticking by!

@wesleyg2403 4 жыл бұрын

The commentary is golden. Laughed so hard at it.

@letabot5736 4 жыл бұрын

You can get the Kale achievement before 1610 by going for a shogunate vassal swarm (kinda like the Ryukyu strategy, but you have to culture switch first)

@arnaldosantoro6812 4 жыл бұрын

0:38 Gothic Invasion 2:13 The Third Way 4:32 Basque in Glory 6:49 The Three Islands 8:39 The Big Blue Blob 10:46 Where the Heart is 12:30 The Pheasant Strut 14:29 One Faith! 16:31 True Heir of Timur 18:11 Eat your Greens

@usulordo 4 жыл бұрын

Almost all of the harcore achievements you mentioned are simply not fun. I mostly go for hard ones, it's a perfect balance of challenge and fun, like Dracula's Revenge, Re-Re-Conquista or From Rags to Riches.

@brianvieane3907 4 жыл бұрын

The time based ones are mind numbing but help you explore ae management and truce breaking. I specifically like the nation specific achievements. Once you get top 3 on world powers the game becomes very much like a chore at times due to rebels and pausing constantly.

@francogiobbimontesanti3826 4 жыл бұрын

Brian Vieane My favorite is one is white sheep and big blue blob, they hurt your mind.

@brianvieane3907 4 жыл бұрын

@@francogiobbimontesanti3826 I didn't think white sheep was that bad but I had a couple retrys. I think second time I got RNGD out of the achievement.

@francogiobbimontesanti3826 4 жыл бұрын

Brian Vieane I don’t think BBB is that hard either but you have to pay attention to a lot of things. You are always low on adm, always with a coalition, always with low stability.

@GAndreC 4 жыл бұрын

At every continent the Georgia one and form the Mongol Empire true way of learning to play horde

@cynical_boy 4 жыл бұрын

10k hours played here. Rn attempting per second time 1 Faith achievement as Austria. Not gonna lie, its not difficult but still pretty hard since I have to fight against boredom after I get Revoke Privilegia Reform in 15XX. Most fun achievements to do were those like mzab into andalusia one or Navarra Basque culture thing, so there is no late game mechanics involved.

@Yell0wCheese 4 жыл бұрын

yeah the game always turns to a slog late game, barely got Empire of mann because of how slow it was to play the game in 1700

@GAndreC 4 жыл бұрын

Forming minghals was pretty fun

@GarfieldRex 4 жыл бұрын

14:10 😂😂 I was already forgetting how much I love these comments and videos. Blessings!

@Cheesy_Toes 4 жыл бұрын

Actually, Global Trade only spawns if you're COLLECTING in the highest value trade node and is collecting there. So Eat your Greens isn't too too bad since you're really close to the malacca node.

@abhishekab1 Жыл бұрын

Nice tip.

@RainCloud123 4 жыл бұрын

End of the video music: *plays* Me: EVERY MAN A KING!

@coulierscouliers1913 4 жыл бұрын

1 culture done also by Budget Monk on vh. Now the guy is doing this without dip banking also

@vivienm7682 4 жыл бұрын

a one culture with roman culture!

@jordanhicken7812 4 жыл бұрын

surprisingly hilarious video!

@Times_Ticking 4 жыл бұрын

Another outstanding guide!

@AlzaboHD 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Patrick!

@usulordo 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, great choice, please more achievement-related content. I have none of the ones you mentioned, lol. No Norwegian Wood though?

@SepulchureValen 4 жыл бұрын

Norwegian Wood is not that hard if you are willing to restart enough times, Get Sweden as ally, England and Lithuania supporting independence. Have Lithuania not get PU'ed by Poland. Have Bohemia Rivaling Denmark (to become HRE Emperor later). And preferable a good ruler once you declared independence.

@TheRealOnlineAcc 4 жыл бұрын

@@SepulchureValen these are a lot of requirements 🤣

@KKComedu 3 жыл бұрын

The prequel memes immediately gave you a subscribe and like in my book

@pacman1682 3 жыл бұрын

For theodoro its much easier to just declare war on east frisia, who's not yet in the empire and walk your way over there. If I recall you vassalize them and take a province next to them. The aggressive expansion is high and you have to wait until there is no coalition. This is really the only difficult part of the campaign as you just have to prevent the game from auto peacing you out due to war exhaustion. But from that point on you are just another member of the hre.

@Thesupermrluc 4 жыл бұрын

Great video :)

@JBOczkus 4 жыл бұрын

That elephant does look really bad. What happened, Paradox?

@chriswilliamson9993 4 жыл бұрын

The historical one isn't much better: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_sovereign_states#/media/File:Dahomey_kingdom_flag.png

@DrIzixs 4 жыл бұрын

At this point I've gotten 7, 6, 5, 3, and 2. The Mughals there as perhaps the most intense and fun campaign I've done in recent memory. Though my one faith as the pope was kind of amusing.

@TheGnom1 4 жыл бұрын

With the rather simple "This Revolution Was Crushed" as the last success I have managed to get all

@videowatcher486 4 жыл бұрын

I will never get used to alzabo having the iron side intro

@tromedlovdrolmai 3 жыл бұрын

Restarting a campaign 20 times. I know the feeling. when I was first learning the game, I tried for the Sunset Invasion achievement, reset that probably at least 300 times

@BewegteBilderrahmen 4 жыл бұрын

Hardest achievement: Learning how to play the game.

@gamedominatorxennongdm7956 4 жыл бұрын

I'll do you one better: Playing the actual game

@GAndreC 4 жыл бұрын

Horde wc without knowing how economy works

@ceiling_cat 4 жыл бұрын

Try Victoria 2

@GAndreC 4 жыл бұрын

Viky has no achievements

@ceiling_cat 4 жыл бұрын

@@GAndreC why are you need to be set goals from another people?

@zetner1234 4 жыл бұрын

Any chance you would want to make a guide for naval combat anytime soon? Most of the videos I've been able to find are hugely outdate. Especially interesting would be when to build and how to design a flagship, galleys vs. heavies etc.?

@newromanianmappernrm4420 4 жыл бұрын

For the one Faith achievement, I believe reforming the Roman empire converts all provinces to orthodoxy or something similar and makes all culture roman, so starting as say France (From what I remember France IS capable of reforming Rome) you could very well conquer the whole world and then just reform rome to instantly convert all the provinces

@dsago7725 4 жыл бұрын

Does this really work?!?!

@newromanianmappernrm4420 4 жыл бұрын

@@dsago7725 fairly sure it does, though I have 0 hours and this is from watching others play, so Take my words with a few tons worth of grains of salt

@giovdb 4 жыл бұрын

If I'm not mistaken, only your primary culture provinces get converted to Roman.

@newromanianmappernrm4420 4 жыл бұрын

@@giovdb weird, I remember it was every province, I'll have ți check

@etheareal15 4 жыл бұрын

I just checked, it does indeed only convert your primary culture provinces.

@trygveplaustrum4634 4 жыл бұрын

Every map you show us as to getting the achievements, I say, "What is this? This is not real. It can't be real, right? This looks so wrong..."

@AlzaboHD 4 жыл бұрын

Everything except the first two (theodoro and mzab) were console commanded to save recording time - you are correct!

@trygveplaustrum4634 4 жыл бұрын

@@AlzaboHD No, I meant historically. One random nation now controls all of France. French Scotland and French Scandinavia. Thank you, regardless, for the transparency!

@mitchellbenbrook2041 3 жыл бұрын

Doing Eat Your Greens without gaming the age: "He chose the path of perpetual torment"

@thecucumber5899 4 жыл бұрын

Plz do a till death do us part tutorial

@jzx2584 3 жыл бұрын

One Faith used to be an affiliate of world conquest. I did it with coptic ottomans in the patch that reworked coptics. You can acquire 7 missionaries and 12+ missionary strength rather swiftly. Now with more provinces, tougher openings, reworked estates, missionary costs and territorial debuffs... ffs that's totally different.

@emirhanliman7017 3 жыл бұрын

ve aleykümselam AlzaboHD! Thanks for the tips. :) much love and respect. :)

@lps2013 4 жыл бұрын

BudgetMonk has also done a 1 faith 1 culture world conquest with the roman empire so with the emerging culture of roman on hard difficulty and on very hard difficulty

@sebd9690 2 жыл бұрын

I did BigBlueBlob this week and it was quite easy with a good burgundy inheritance, all Netherlands and Burgandy was cored for free.

@John_1-1_in_Japanese Жыл бұрын

I was just considering going for Unlikely Candidate, Third Way, and Dar al-Islam in one campaign with Mzab and NOW you're telling me it's hard...

@GrieferStudios 4 жыл бұрын

Budgetmonk also did a roman one culture on very hard and is in the process of completing another one on very hard

@lastresort1plays 4 жыл бұрын

Tributaries are subject that could work for the eat your greens achivement

@pmmoj33kristoferromanvilla48 4 жыл бұрын

I feel bad for Radio Res who had to do True Heir of Timur as Afghanistan.

@MenwithHill 3 жыл бұрын

tbf he said he chose it on purpose to be more historically accurate, acknowledged that Transoxiania was the better choice.

@mannypardo1080 4 жыл бұрын

Just in time for my Ladakh world conquest.

@radishlordrak 4 жыл бұрын

"1701: Vassalized Brittany (capital in Papua New Guinea)" That is incredibly cursed

@realhawaii5o 4 жыл бұрын

For the ibadi achievement - vassalizing Syria is a good idea!

@ZoDiAcEnIgMa 4 жыл бұрын

Ayyye i sometimes put Tabasco on my popcorn lmao

@CWig_99 4 жыл бұрын

I really thought i clicked an ISP video from the intro

@AcidMonkie 4 жыл бұрын

Was excited to watch this, but less excited as time went on. Guess what I need is a Top 10 Most Fun Achievements video.

@kakao6125 4 жыл бұрын

Since when u started making content like this daddy ISP

@AlzaboHD 4 жыл бұрын

My voice sounds... different *laughs in new zealandish*

@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 4 жыл бұрын

AlzaboHD your voice is way better and sexier

@michaelsilver253 4 жыл бұрын

Lol'd hard at the Aztec sacrifice crack

@yurimaigur7501 4 жыл бұрын

i think that they should add automated mode for armies and fleets that will start around 1750, because the only thing that stops me from TTM is armies microing in lategame.

@irakmakris 4 жыл бұрын

budgetmonk has done a one culture world conquest with the roman culture. it was one tag too

@aleks4256 4 жыл бұрын

Siu-King hasn't done one culture in a looong time, also. RadioRes took Afghanistan to get THoT

@davidconstantin4012 2 жыл бұрын

This guy: True heir of Timur is the 2nd most impossible achievement. Pravus Gaming who was insane enough to do the achievement: I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you.

@rememberthetulips 4 жыл бұрын

Could you do a mamluk guide, Rome guide, easy wc(like France or Otto or something), or Prussia guide?

@punishedwhirligig3353 4 жыл бұрын

Mewpix 77 Quick tip for Mamluks: No CB Byzantium and vassalize them as soon as possible then enable scutage on them Then go after the Beyliks to try and block eastern Ottoman expansion

@blafoon93 4 жыл бұрын

@@punishedwhirligig3353 exactly, whenever the Ottomans are your biggest problem you should think about No CB on Byzantium asap. I've even done it as Timurids before because Ottos will rival you soon enough. You still have to kill Ajam first and hope you can get access everywhere (or paratroop when you basically won the Ajam war). I would recommend to annex Byzantium as soon as you can and then cheese your capital to be Constantinople. By the time you can do that you will most likely own most of the Caucasus, Arabia and Anatolia so it will also benefit your trade income and it will allow you to make use of the Indian provinces you conquered much more effectively.

@SqurrielEMT 4 жыл бұрын

BudgetMonk did a 1 culture run on Very Hard. He has a KZfaq and twitch VOD with proof. Just wish to give him credit.

@Zanator1 4 жыл бұрын

Just did #8

@naruhina1997 4 жыл бұрын

I had a lucky navarra game where I got an alliance with castille and france and used them to PU aragon. Then betrayed castile and used france to increase my territory so that Aragon and Naples wouldn't get any funny ideas about independence. France was my only ally so I never betrayed him before I shelved that game... maybe I should return and finish the game.

@herman1francis 4 жыл бұрын

Damn, rollin' with da homeys

@astolfothecutie5939 4 жыл бұрын

I can't see ironside intro without hearing ISPs voice.

@3ntra 4 жыл бұрын

Nice

@scvboy1 4 жыл бұрын

Budgetmonk has also archived one culture. he also has done it without diplo banking.

@rateeightx 4 жыл бұрын

Can You Get The Third Way By Converting To Ibadi, Or Only Starting As It? I'm Guessing Starting Because If Converting Is Allowed You Could Probably Do It Pretty Easily As Tunis By Triggering Revolts, Since You Already Have An Ibadi Province Or Two, And Can Gain More Easily By Conquering Mzab.

@rollutherhodie3076 4 жыл бұрын

"Only transoxiana" *laughs in afghanistan*

@squeezemelvincapital9035 4 жыл бұрын

more of that pls

@MK-ji9ke 4 жыл бұрын

I completed one faith achievement as Lithuania. Managed to become HRE when Austria's king died without an heir. I had enough Scandinavian and Russian lands to push for revoking the privilages with the league war never firing. Catholic vassal swarms in 1500s makes for an easy WC. Managed to get a couple of catholic turkish and nomadic princes for easy conquest of asia. This was also before missionary costs.

@YuiFunami 4 жыл бұрын

he's alive

@johncao6516 4 жыл бұрын

Wait BBB is harder than Three Mountains/Third Way? Didn't really have too much trouble getting BBB (didn't even have to fight a coalition) but I have big trouble starting those two

@kikker_g2747 4 жыл бұрын

Another that could be on the list/ is on my list is the komnenoi Empire achievement. As Trebizond you have to become an Empire rank (1000+ dev) without tag switching or playing as a released nation. This is more difficult then it sounds because Trebizond is incredibly poor, surrounded by hostile powers like QQ, AQ and worse of all the Ottomans. Since the MUscovy/Russia AI is as broken/ incompetent as can be you will need alot of restarts and save scumming in order to survive let alone thrive.

@clownpiece5992 4 жыл бұрын

20:57 YEEHAW

@oleksandrzaitsev3901 4 жыл бұрын

Doing One Faith with HRE as Austria is arguably easier. You get endless cash from vassals, you feed them provinces and with subsidies and the grace of RNG they start converting for you. Regardless, they do core the prorovinces themselves which makes the convertion 2% easier. Also the Iberians do a great deal to help you with New World provinces embrace the true religion.

@user-Erimej 2 жыл бұрын

Can i ask a question: can this Feudal Theocracy government reform be inherited by reforming Tunis or Morocco and then Andalusia?

@psychic_beth 4 жыл бұрын

Big Blue Blob is piss easy, you can get enough provinces just by conquering Ireland, Scotland, half of England and the Aragonese coast (using Catalonia and Valencia as vassals to limit AE) plus Baleares and Malta. Those areas plus the Burgundian Inheritance are more than enough, and depending on how much you can take from England, you might not even need the BI

@artyomarty391 4 жыл бұрын

i love playing large nations so here are some of my custom achievements I have for those powerful nations. Note that with every nation you have to start on very hard difficulty: France: never have a great power ally, have no allies after 1550. Have the largest fleet/army/income and achieve all historical goals. Average province size in europe of 35. Control all west/north africa Russia: Never have an ally. achieve all historical goals and control Constantinople/berlin/wien/Beijing and vietnam Great Britain: No allies after 1600. Achieve all historical goals. (note that this is actually fairly hard). Any German Nation: no allies after 1700. Be at war with countries of France/Ottos/Russia at same time and win (can be separate wars). Have an average province development in Europe of 40 Poland: No great power allies. No allies at all after 1600. (ive yet to achieve this) I find the above to be much more interesting than playing OPM trying to do something silly like conquer some country across the world. Note that all of the above achievements are pretty hard on very hard difficulty settings. For comparison, its much easier to play some worthless OPM in Germany on normal difficulty, than it is to play Poland on hardest settings.

@herogamer555 4 жыл бұрын

IIRC BudgeMonk did a One Culture with Roman culture.

@Florian.1107 4 жыл бұрын

How do you prevent the age of absolutism/global trade from spawning?

@conradhansen6180 4 жыл бұрын

That intro made me think I was watching iSorrowproductions

@ualaelinlive 4 жыл бұрын

Did the Kale one on VH without the delay age exploit. It sucked. Badly. The worst ones are inside Qara. If you are too late the Ottomans might have it. Might be able to beat Ming easier on the current patch than it was for me. A tip is to stay Buddhist so you can make tributaries.

@karlwittenburg5868 3 жыл бұрын

I feel like one faith is now spectacularly easy as long as you can pull off an ottoman WC since everywhere can be made into trade companies

@yamameeven967 4 жыл бұрын

I did one Faith with Confucianism

@blafoon93 4 жыл бұрын

The Big Blue Blob is considered difficult? I'm relatively new and only recently started achievement runs and BBB was my choice as a quick easy first campaign. I succeeded with nearly 10 years to spare and while I did get a late Burgundian Inheritance I could have easily just annexed my 10 province Catalonian vassal. I often had to wait to peace out due to coalitions but my AE was never so high that I had to send gifts or influence nations to prevent a coalition. If I want I could easily continue the campaign to a world conquest but I decided I would rather start a Castille run to do that, they make it easier to get all the random achievements out of the way. After that it's probably Empire of Mann for me so I don't have to see it in the list every campaign I play.

@lackofplethora7065 4 жыл бұрын

Can you do Top 10 colonial Regions btw? still confused on which is the best, I often go for eastern America, but everyone seems to go for Colombia.

@DesolateFields 4 жыл бұрын

It mostly doesn't matter. The only difference between the colonial regions is that if you colonize the caribbean, your CNs are dumb as fuck and won't colonize any provinces that aren't connected by land to them. Other than that, their tariffs are always garbage and as long as you have a 10 province CN, you got most of the value out of them (merchant, force limit) and you can just ignore them. Your colonists' time is better spent filling in trade company regions, as they make an obscene amount of money and the trade routes you can build with them are insane.

@GAndreC 4 жыл бұрын

The forming colonial nations in the New world is primarily beneficial for the free gold trade good bonuses and denying these things to the other would be colonizers. But the more colonial nations the better so if you can vassalize Spain Portugal England and France they will colonize for you and yo get free colonial nations and more merchants once you eat them

@neutralgoodhuman9255 4 жыл бұрын

I made Third way by Oman (post-Cradle), culture-shifted to Persian and then formed Mughals.

@celtia6610 3 жыл бұрын

me too

@IslandHermit 4 жыл бұрын

It took me about 10 attempts to get Big Blue Blob. So it's not easy, but there are plenty of others that I would rate as more difficult.

@MrBaystu 4 жыл бұрын

For the Gothic invasion you can nocb east frisia on 11.12.1444 if they have only 1 ally. Peace out the ally and wait until a neighbor attacks east frisia too. Then vassalize east frisia and annex the neighbor that attacked your now vassel. Lose Theodoro on purpose and your capital will be moved to the conquered province in the hre