Thanks for sharing that. If you've watched any of my other videos, I usually make a disclaimer at the beginning of the series and tend to then let it be. For any person who might say there are too many apologetics, there might also be those who rail against me for doing the opposite. <shrug> I feel like I'm fairly balanced, but I can't please everyone =) I appreciate your courage and candor for sharing though.

I'll go a little further and say this: my latest source material is A Patriot's History of the United States, because one of my previous source textbooks got SO thick with the apologies and guilt-trips that I couldn't read it anymore. I feel like perhaps your shields might have gotten a bit raised by a couple of moments in the video, but if you re-watched the entire thing, I kinda think you'll discover it's not that much. I make other (balanced imo) comments about how settlers vs. indians is not "savages vs. peaceful people OR peaceful people vs. savages but rather two people groups with needs coming into conflict with each other." I think a comment like that would get me a fair amount of hate from the OTHER side, but again, I consider it to be balanced.

@@AdmiralJediPDX I would personally not care what the "other side" has to think. You are already committing cardinal sins by taking over native territory and converting culture, and not immediately abolishing slavery. If someone is deranged enough to not realize that you are performing a historical play through of a historical game, and "bad" things happened in the past, then you should not care about their opinion. I also doubt that anyone outside of the EU4/Paradox community is going to watch these videos, so they're going to know EU4 is game based on colonialism and conquest, so you're not condoning those actions. Otherwise, good video. However, I give it a 0/10 because you didn't know where Tennessee/Minnesota were. Better luck next time, kiddo.

By the time I start filming in the Great War period, Spheres of Influence DLC should be out and I fully intend to try to work the Power Bloc system to try to simulate WW1. I'm not really much of a mod guy, tbh, but I'll give it some thought =)

Thank you for watching and for your comments! They mean a lot. Vic3 has already begun filming and I'm trying my best to do historically accurate parties. Unfortunately the current Party system is a bit of a let down =( Historically speaking, though, America (starting with Thomas Jefferson) was a bit of a one-party system (the other parties were very weak) for a while, until the Republicans rose to power around the Civil War time. So I'll try my best!!

Yeah, when I reviewed it I was like, "Pretty sure you had the wrong Lexington, dufus!" Sorry =(

Sounds interesting! I usually play mod-less, but this is certainly an interesting prospect. I have quite a few more series planned for the future, and my very next series is/will be: Portugal-to-Brazil, perhaps I could use your mod for that series. Thanks!

Nice. That could definitely be interesting. The base game does a very interesting job simulating climates and weather in my opinion, and the mod essentially uses those weather modifiers to make colonization much harder (especially before the 1500-1600s) in certain provinces based on climate/weather, but since global settler increase scales with diplomatic technology, provinces with severe monsoon and ‘tropical’ climate would be the hardest and most expensive for a nation to colonize. I’m about to do a large update in 3 days, that mostly attempts to adjust the AI of European nations with colonial ideas so those nations can have the ability to focus more on establishing trade protectorates, and trade companies corresponding to their mission trees, as well as making the (AI) Ottomans use their non diplo-relation consuming eyalets, to allow for an even more agressive ottomans, but allow for a more interesting late game Ottoman Empire decline/collapse- With a Brazil campaign with the mod-that could be very interesting. The deep Amazon would definitely be tricky to colonize, in my AI-only campaigns where I observer-mode the game running until 1836, that is the main region the AI struggles to colonize, besides the Ivory Coast and near Guinea-(which I would say is historical to not be completely colonized during the time period of EU4.) Although it might also be historically accurate for deep Amazon Brazil to have little actual colonial settlements and is mostly a territory of Brazil defacto, my mod already allows for the Eu4 name on the world map of settled nations to spread to claimed ‘tribal’ or ‘unsettled’ provinces that lack any significant institutions while still being able to be colonized-(similar to how the name of EU4 natives when they have tribal land expands beyond their actual ‘owned’ provinces). Whatever you decide to do-vanilla or not that seems fun, I don’t know much about Brazilian history but I remember in EU4 there is some interesting circumstances that are modeled pretty well in my opinion by events and mission trees (ex: Portuguese monarchy exile to Brazil)

@@hunkulous1462 Loving all these thoughts, thank you! I will definitely give the mod a shot, because not only do I like what you're doing with it, but also the attention you're paying to historical accuracy. Africa (for example) wasn't "heavily" colonized (as I understand it) until like the mid 1800s, during the "scramble for Africa." This is a concept that Victoria 3 even has as decisions/events, and yet in EU4 (set prior to Vic 3 obviously) Africa is VORACIOUSLY colonized. In my Vic3 France run, I ran into the same problems with aggressive colonization outside of time, and by non-historically accurate actors.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

If you don't mind me asking a possibly insensitive question: what is the given reason for celebration? I'm not saying there isn't or shouldn't be one, I'm literally curious as to what it is. Blowing up the King and Parliament was certainly not a kind nor heroic act (imo) but it was arguably attempted (from my limited knowledge) as a protest against Catholic persecution. So the celebration is then.. for what? No judgment at all, it is a true and curious question on my part.

@@AdmiralJediPDX To be honest, i'm not really sure! It may be a celebration that it wasn't successful and that it was foiled? If it had gone ahead, it would certainly have changed a lot for us, so perhaps by making us remember Guy Fawkes, and that it didn't go well, it was meant to deter people from trying something similar in the future?

Thank you! I had to switch to a biweekly release schedule. With my "real job", weekly was killing me =/

Yes, I had to "land" there (due to colony mechanics) in order to "seed" the Atlantic coast. I hated violating historical accuracy, but without it, I'm sure the entire eastern sea board would have been Danish/Spanish by the time I even could reach it. =(

Hey, it never hurts to ask!! LOL

Didn't even know those existed, thanks!

Thanks! Will be playing all the way through EU4, Vic3, and HOI4 as America!

Thanks! More videos on the way all the time. I'm having a blast, and enjoy the feedback.

LOL, I feel you brother!! I keep it fairly under wraps, but rage IS involved in my playthroughs! ;-)

I'm not 100% sure, but a few things come to mind: 1) I'm fanatical about building (actual structures) in my domains. And also keep in mind that these games are coming fairly late in the timeframe (when a lot of people quit and start over) so I have high levels of innovation which open up more advanced buildings. 2) I personally try to budget no more than 50% of my revenue to be expended on military. Whereas a lot of other people are playing #SteamrollTheWorld, remember I'm not, so I don't have a huge military. Rarely am I trying to take more than one duchy at a time ever, and so I don't need huge armies. My own good army and 1-2 strong alliances do me just fine. 3) I *HATE* not having gold, so any time I can adjust a vassal contract to increase gold (vs increase levies) I do it. Thanks for watching!

@AdmiralJediPDX Thanks for the info, brother. Might just use it for reference. And you're welcome for watching! So far, I'm enjoying your videos quite a bit. I can tell you put a good amount of effort into research & you've got a nice voice, so that helps too. Glad to have found your channel & to be a new subscriber.

Thanks for this correction! I mistakenly assumed based on one of her titles "Maid d'Orleans" that she was FROM Orleans, and I didn't do the research. Thank you!

@@AdmiralJediPDX Your welcome. Another fun fact, if you have played a France campaign on EU 4 you start with two generals. One is Jean Bureau, a knighted burger who was a pioneer in artillery and the other is Jean Dunois, called "le Bâtard d'Orléans" because hé was a bastard child of the Capetian branch of Orléans.

@@Eric-dg2cx I remember them! Nice! Unfortunately it was only at the END of my French EU4 campaign that the idea of historical playthroughs came to me. That's why my very first historical playthrough video is in fact Victoria 3: FRANCE!

@@AdmiralJediPDX I have been watching it. You did a very decent job.

Thanks so much! I continue to make new videos every week. I'm already filming the next series in Europa Universalis IV, moving forward the English and ultimately American timeline!

Duhr, I NEVER even thought of that!! Thanks!

@@AdmiralJediPDXno problem!!! I’m really enjoying your videos

@@borginburkes1819 Thanks!

None. I'm strangely anti-mod (in PDX games. I mod like crazy in Minecraft.)

LOVE IT! Thanks for all the feedback!!

@AdmiralJediPDX happy to share, was nice to hear someone speaking about early history in these videos. I've always wished we could more closely simulate historic events in CK, but I guess that defeats the purpose of the game!

@@toffeecrisp2146 It's a fun (and frustrating!) challenge for sure!

@AdmiralJediPDX right? I felt sympathy for you when it came to the chaos, with Empress Maud and the succession of Stephen etc. CK just isn't setup for it. 😂

Thanks!

Unfortunately, not very much. My first Paradox games (before making the videos) were France actually. And they were what inspired me to start making the historical series. But unfortunately, it was when I completed EU4 as France that I then got the idea to do it. I DO in fact have France as a historical series going forward through Victoria 3 and HOI4, but to go BACK and do France (at this point) would be difficult. Unfortunately, I will probably never do them. Next series after this one is probably going to be Portugal -> Brazil.

I had nearly the same thoughts, thinking I'd read the same thing before. A couple of comments: 1) I obviously wasn't there LOL so I can't say, but 2) it comes right out of Churchill's book Birth of Britain which is my primary source material, and 3) people in those ages (and for hundreds of years after still) IDOLIZED the Greek and Roman heroes of classic times, and were all very educated on those classics. It's very possible (and even likely) that the Conqueror imitated Caesar.

​@@AdmiralJediPDX Yes my thoughts exactly. Btw great content!

Blame history!!! I'm only re-telling the story! HAHA

I didn't know he was the author of the series until I just looked it up from your comment, thanks! I really enjoyed the Netflix show. Like all TV adaptations, I'm sure the book was better. That must be one helluva series!!

OMG YOU'RE THE MEDIEVAL HERO OF MY LIFE!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Where does that stream at, do you know?

A platform called tabii@@AdmiralJediPDX

@@AdmiralJediPDX a platform called “tabii” and they have a youtube channel too

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Interesting idea. I'll do some research and see what some of my options are. PART of the fun (and sometimes the comedy) is how badly things can go wrong, but I admit that it can also get pretty frustrating.

LOL too late. The Conquest is being recorded this week! #HistoricallyAccurate

@@AdmiralJediPDX traitor! 😔

@@weyjosh5213 I know.. it feels dirty =(

Yeah, he barely ended up doing anything this run. I'm still curious as to why everybody talks about him so much, other than being barely annoying enough to even be an issue.

@@AdmiralJediPDX I think it stems from CK2 and the first few months of CK3 before the character customizer came out. He was a good martial character that could reach pretty much anywhere in feudal land so you could carve out an empire wherever you want to. Now he’s just a bit of a stain on the map that the ai refuses to declare war on despite how much it enjoys holy wars. Oh, and also, Alfred burning bread was in ac valhalla too right at the end.

@@coronin8587thanks for the insight! I've been seriously scratching my head about it.

In my current playthrough I he took over Lancaster, then back to France, only to be rolled over by France, popping up back in Ireland, invading Mercia, being sent back to Ireland, being banished frome Ireland to ending up count of a small county next to Barcelona. He died age 105 and I've married his grand daughter. She was also the grand daughter of Jarl Halfdan, arch-enemy of my grandfather, Alfred the Great. She grew up as a hostage in his court and bullied me as a child, but we were also somehow childhood sweethearts. I had been married off to a "Slow" wife in the name of a strong alliance and ended up with 3 "Slow" children so I remarried her and brought peace and unity between Dane and Saxon. Alfred had formed England in his lifetime and his son, my father, died of cancer at a young age, leaving me as the sole heir to England. Fun game so far and still got 400 years left to play!

@@PrimeNPC LOL love the Haesteinn soap opera!!

Agreed, it's rough, but honestly the challenge of TRYING is becoming pretty rewarding. (It can also be frustrating.) But it also gives some good laughs, and the occasional teachable moment ;-)

Yup! There is a section in the video where I zoom in on what I *THINK* is the area of Germany Saxony. Did I get it right?

​@@AdmiralJediPDXi wanna say yes to not make u feel bad but 😅

Actually he did because he was talking about Old Saxony who was situated under the modern Danemark, however there was also angles who were from modern day holstein if I'm correct but also some frisons of the north of modern day Netherland. So, the saxony he was talking about wasn't the same as yours.​@@supremephantomhive1737

Thanks so much! We're a few episodes away from the Tudors, but they're coming! Need to close out the Saxons and introduce the Normans first. You won't be disappointed. Thanks for watching!

Yessir! I'm super excited about it! I'll be switching to America mid-way through EU4.

Thank you, and welcome! I'll be continuing to post weekly videos for as long as I can. With future series already planned involving both western and eastern countries of origin.

The final video (#4 in Victoria) is in editing right now and it will indeed be the final Turkey series. It's my understanding that Turkey saw no combat in WW2, and so while HOI4 is certainly playable non-militarily, it would make for some seriously boring gameplay. I'm beginning a new mega-series as England-to-America, playing CK3 and EU4 as England up to American Revolution, and then transitioning to USA for remainder of EU4, VIC3 and HOI4. I hope you'll watch!

LOL thanks! Yeah, simulating a dying empire doesn't exactly make for the most rewarding gameplay. But comments like yours make it all worth it! Thank you!

Thanks for watching! New videos every week on Friday. Also don't forget, this is part of a much larger series on the history of Turkey, going all the way back to 867AD in Crusader Kings!

Thanks! It releases in a week.

Blobbing is not fun

@@minecraftherobrine1234 understood but I mean like why wouldn't you play as you wanted, no need to play historical for me I like playing tall and colonizing

It doesn’t really matter, as long as the game ticks off whatever boxes that need ticked off that are inside the player’s head.

@@ahmetkerimkarakas3920this IS how I like to play =) I'm a history enthusiast, and I love that Paradox includes so much historical content. My son asked me a similar question, "So you're gonna play a VIDEO GAME, but you're going to play it EXACTLY as history went?!" Yup =) The beauty of it: we all get to play exactly how we want.