How about the hardest achievements or the easiest, respectively :P It's not much, but I have no clue what could be done with EU4 top 10 vids, since I'm new to the game anyway xD

@@DeutscheLoLGuides how about the most fun achievements to get? even though it is subjective, some achievements are more fun than others

You could do a video on idea groups i.e going through the benefits and downsides of each, what situation to pick them in and subsequently their useful policies. Picking the right idea group is something i always struggle with there's just so many choices!

Top 10 best nations without Feudalism

I would love some "(another) Top 10 interesting or fun nations". Since every now and then i want to play EU4 but have no idea what to play. It doesn't even have to be OPMs who pose a challenge or something, just nations that are interesting due to their, flavour, ideas or position in the world.

dude how do I be as epic and funny as you

This is epic

National ideas: *ban all pointy objects wanka*

It’s called *_multiculturalism_*

Diversity is our strength Diversity is our strength Diversity is our strength

with female advisors and female generals as his consorts.

REY JORGE DE LAS ISLAS MALVINAS ingles culo ruto

@@benja68606 ya entiendo como nos ganaron la guerra estando a 12.000 km

@@kaparg JAJA

I think Yahya is the Arabic equivalent of 'George'

I hope they patch it so you just keep the flavour events of the nation that formed it. Seems like common sense to me

@@roberthouse7903 or even to allow it the flavor events of all three nations. Scandinavia is just so underwhelming, and the flag is one of the ugliest variants of the Nordic cross.

>become blue >get confused with baguette

Also, if you form Scandinavia from Sweden, you lose Sweden's epic unit sprites.

Tripticket One of the ugliest flags in the game imo

It was still probably better than Venice's land army and ideas XDD

name and lore the country is needed for me to make a pun about that

My american-ness manifest destiny is shining through

It is definitely Alaskan, i would know as I know my state's map

@@stevenbrock528 I know right

I’m Tlingit, Haida and Tlingit reside in both Alaska and Canada. However the devs went for a very accurate placement giving prince of Wales island to Haida since it is the home of haidaburg.

True tho

Fuck u

*DRINKS MATE WITH MALICIOUS INTENT*

the "owners" instead

@@introxvideos nice pfp.

what a joke am i right

*_Religion: Muslim_* need I see more 😂

Order of people colonising the Falklands: 1: Spain; on one island; but see #3 for thgem losing any claim 2: England; on the other island. 3: France *because Spain sold their part to them* Argentina really does have absolutely no claim. At absolute best they have a claim to 1 of the islands.

Raikaria you forgot that France just left the islands after a while, so the English swooped in and claimed it.

Raikaria No, France was the first to colonize, then the English, and France surrendered the Falklands to Spain the same year. Both nations subsequently abandoned Falkland, Argentina claimed it through its right to former Spanish colonies in the area and Britain came back to fight them.

Agreed. There are far worst national ideas than Georgia's.

I always used Georgia as march :D

You know whats better? -10 at the start. You know, Brandenburg/Prussia's ideas

@@logoncal3001 Oh yeah lets compare one of or the best ideas in the game with some of the worst. Good idea mate.

@@logoncal3001 You know whats better? Ottomans! You can conquer the world on them, used one leg.

Baden also starts with 2 provinces, unlike Ulm and many other German prince states. This may be a small point, but the 2nd province can give Baden extra manpower and ducats. Edit: Somewhat helpful in the early game?

Baden ist das beste Land :) :D

MVP

Haida is fun to play don't @ me

@@jdurk never played, and i doubt that i will ever do

9- Imereti is harder than Georgia

@@jdurk

Thanks for watching - glad you are enjoying them!

I haven't played Byzantium but if you can manage the 1st hundred years Georgia is pretty cool. I am at the end of an orthodox Persia game starting as them. I can only ever tie the ottomans so I never expand that way until late game

Yeah, don't know why he thought ideas were bad. Improve relations, Infantry combat ability, Legitamacy, dip rep are all useful to have. Maybe not Mughal-tier but not bad either,.

@@aerohydra3849 On a tier list I'd probably put them in the D tier. Heir bonus is super situational, and the only time you're gonna need bonus legitimacy is when you've died without an heir anyway. Construction cost is dogshit, war exhaustion is completely negligible, true faith is sub-par, and infantry cost might as well not even be there.

@@robinbanks3186 Nah i argue its C tier or just average in terms of ideas. Infantry combat ability is nice and fort defense is actually good because you have bunch of mountain provninces and you can siege race easily and combined with defensive its good. Yearly legitimacy while bad i'd argue that chance of new heir is good because in early game you want to expand fast and that means bunch of prestige which means disinherits so it reduces time to get new heir. Tolerance of true faith is good actually especially combined with orthodox religion and picking religious ideas means your orthodox provininces are pretty stable. Improve relations,manpower recovery speed,diplos rep are good. Monthly war exhaustion is the worst one with -0.02 value which pretty but still good in age of absolutism. Construction cost may be subpar but in georgia's poor land it helps with economy. Infantry cost in general is not good but its -20% value actually makes difference. Georgia's start can be rough but if you can take back your cores you can expand pretty easily and ally muscuvy(after they annex their vassals) and its smooth sailing from there.

I guess one benefit of starting far from Europe is you have more time to colonize all of California before someone reaches you. Plus since you're a native and you'll get a free tech and institution boost you can develop all your land to crazy amounts without having to worry about falling behind. Also rarely I've seen mamluks and ottomans if they do well they'll colonize moving east and eventually reach California

Though Carib is imo the strongest OPM in the new world

And a pretty snazzy flag!

@@YuiFunami Carib is the real deal. Currently working on converting to Inti in my carib game.

Yui Funami Carib ARE pretty great. Slightly better militarily AND have an extra colonist. They are a less vibrant shade of green. Their best ideas come later in the game and Haida are better economically (+10% goods produced + gold mines = profit) Splitting hairs though, both are awesome.

atwix did it on very hard

Thanks, I thought it was Atwix but couldn’t find a link on his KZfaq channel. I guess he only has the replays on his twitch.

how is that even possible. i need to see that.

He did it like two years ago too. so before absolutism and stuff. You can check out his AAR on the EU4 forums

@@rofl0rblades I haven't seen it but the usual strategy when you want to eat as much land as possible in the last 200 years is to culture shift. You can core all land in the culture group in ~12 months (faster if you have CCR in your idea set, or a bonus like Mayan). So basically you are constantly in multiple wars, culture shifting to core, and declaring with nationalism cb (-50% cost) NOT imperialism (-75% cost). You can take like 250% overextension in a single war if you declare with a -50% cost CB. Long story short, a lot of micro. bly08 did a Mongol WC by 1580 in the Dharma patch, and Marco has the current record, 1538 WC with the 1.24 Japan patch. They did it by culture shifting to core 800% overextension in under 12 months (no rebels).

I'm Georgian myself and ideas are surely trash and they don't really suit Georgia, maybe some do, but generally speaking they're trash, especially considering the geographic position and obstacles towards every direction. I hope Paradox will at least give Georgia some missions, but I really doubt they'll ever do so.

+10% inf combat and +25 fort defense is actually pretty effective in their mountainous terrain

but in EU4 mechanics haida gwaii is part of alaskan colonial region CMIIW

ajieajah91 he also referred to Salish and Chinook as Alaskan OPM’s when they both start out in the California colonial region. I was also just pointing out a fact since it’s not common knowledge that Haida Gwaii is Canadian

Except Haida aren’t Haida gwaii, Haida is a larger culture that spans a region in Alaska and Canada. I’m speaking as a Tlingit who’s people are in the same situation, I’m Alaskan, with my family coming from Hoonah, however, there are thousands of Tlingit who live near Teslin.

It's quite warm though. Think Seattle (as opposed to e.g. Boston or Minnesota). It almost never goes below 0 C.

@Varg the Jew Slayer Still better than complete trash ideas like Württemberg

In fact: -15% agressive expantion is very useful in the HRE

>Killing the Ottomans via attrition Well, Ottoman +33% siege ability thingie and luck will crush your dreams

@@TheGlenofKrokot oh did i say stack? i meant s t a c k

Oh now i get it you said *S L A C K* ?

@@TheGlenofKrokot well without any defence ideas forts have 75%plus defence

>well thougt He regards caddo as top4 (iirc) opm, but names haida (which has better ideas and can also migrate to mexico and convert to nahuatl (i managed to get all 5 reformes by~1500 by chaintrucebreaking NA natives (they cant coalition you if they have a truca or don't see your capital, so AE is actually not a problem))) the worst nation in the game. This videos are either poorly thougth through, or he is just incompitent.

You're also even more isolated than the Falklands are.

John Smith I actually created a custom nation on South Georgia. I don't remember what all of my national ideas were, but I know that some were completely useless. These include increased blockade efficiency, yearly republican tradition (I was a monarchy), increased chance of female advisors, and the ability to hire female generals.

@@kingmieszko3793 One Province Minor, a nation with only one province

Right? It makes the game much more rewarding. Starting off powerful becomes boring quite quickly in my opinion

@@AlzaboHD sometimes, I want to play a strong nation and own everything. Sometimes I want to play a weak nation and overcome the difficult start of the game and sometimes I want to do a rare achievement (I recently did the Sunset Invasion blind). My next run will be probably be for the Mayan achievement, I am ready for another 200h of learning "how to play this kind of nation in this part of the World to get a difficult achievement" XD

I dunno who you are but this comment is good, you're now on my recommended my guy

I did a challenge run as Antemoro (the only muslim nation on Madagascar) where I was only allowed to own coastal provinces, I had fun conquering and colonizing, forming client states with perfect borders who stretched all the way to the Kongo basin. I even conquered Sri Lanka and used it as a base to invade the rest of India. One of the most fun runs I ever did.

I am from Baden and did the same and liked that its far harder than with mainstream Brandenburg. But Badenese ideas are certainly not the worst. Sure, their traditions are crap but the rest is alright

Space Cat Nuggets Dude I swear bad excuse and absolute trash is to me the funniest things he’s said

quma 25 or Manipur?

No.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSS

@@WimFlo manipur ... yup! 5 dev OPM with no at start alliance options and no feudalism. Manipur's national ideas are pretty good, though! Get ready for annexation by Kale or Kachar.

why don't ally mamluks? it good against ottoman aggression

Me gusto your commento

@@AlzaboHD Parece que lo haces por gusto?? que mierda te pasa cual es tu problema??uno viene por un juego y te pones a tirar mierda de politica

@@jesucristobostero3287 Te caiste cuando eras un feto del útero de tu mamá o que? Te vas parado en el avión? Te tocaba tu tío que no sabes que es una broma?

@@xaolin8546 If you truly backed them you would write the islands as Malvinas.

@@xaolin8546 Also the people decided to stay with UK. Cisplatina is Brazilian however!

I played as kongo in a muliplayer game. It didnt had feudalism. I spent many monarch points on capital to get feudalism. It had like 32 development. But then my neigbours leveled up their military to 3, while i was 2. And kilwa had already feudalism, he had army tech 4 or 5 idont remember. yeah eventually they beat me up then portugeuse came and raped me as well. But it was fun tho

I actually searched for a pronunciation guide on how to say Hakarl but all of them were TTS voices. Thanks for letting me know!

@@AlzaboHD Ye the TTS voices for Icelandic are very bad simpy because of our very low population meaning there is a small amount of demand for something like that. :)

why, just why :)

Thanks for the help! You might be my only viewer from the neighborhood, appreciate it and cheers

I guess that makes us at least two. I discovered your channel with the CK3 videos and stumbled here by curiosity.

​@@Ben01tM The Althing is considerd the oldest parliment in the world if you look it up on the internet and wiki

Oldest Surviving Parliament*

Agreed. It seems weird that they added it to formable nations without giving it any flavor at all. Seriously. There are only 9 nations in the game that have "generic ideas", apparently. Most are in East Africa. Iceland needs better ideas! Þingvellir / althing could give republican tradition or something.

@@AlzaboHD They made iceland into 4 shitty provinces in ck2 insteed of 2 so here's hoping that they will do something with iceland in EU4 soon but yeah something with repuplican tradition and something with colonizing

​@@AlzaboHD It's there to force Norway to stop being Norway in the decent chance someone conquers them leaving them with just Iceland and maybe an island or 2.

Hmm, they may not have synergy, but they make sense historically at least.

I love Germany! Thanks for watching.

You are absolutely correct. I still rate it rather low, though, since your economy mid game should be able to support at least your force limit and consequently other national ideas (like morale, discipline, shock damage etc) are more useful imo. Thanks for watching.