Whenever this returns, i'd love to see a challenge for "conquer the most provinces while retaining ZERO land and naval casualties". I just saw a video of someone forming the roman empire as byzantium with this challenge and it was so cool!

The correct term for EU4 competitive players is “Mapletes”

NGL, it's pretty disappointing when in most of the challenges players either just fail completely or don't understand the challenge. Not the very entertaining.

Two very good players, good challenge, they were awesome. Both Lemon and Student are very good players, hope to see more of them in parabellum

personally i would have gone with colonial so pirate republic into pirate republic japan for the final game. its extremely easy to raid all the way from korea down to china, and all the way into india. also giving you easy access to global conquests

3:35:06 "and 405 from Portugal" yeah, but most of it goes to Burgundy, Scotland only gets 93 as you can see. Student obviously didn't know taking money shows up in spoils, otherwise he would go different strat. But even peacing out all his last wars at once could maybe beat 329 ? So yeah, one aimed for wrong goal, another didn't read the rules. But i'm sure Student would get more than 329, i he knew what really shows up in spoils, so it is fine in the end.

For the first gauntlets first question: other than GH, Kazan, Crimea, Avaria, Gazikumukh, The ottomans, Karaman, Ramazan, Dulkadir and Granada, but Anatolia is also considered to be in europe and Candars capital province is in Sinop and is also in europe making the answer 11

@Para Bellum There are some many good contenders so I would propose a format change for next edition (if there will be). Instead of 6 contenders have 12 of them and still have only 3 games per stream. This would make the competition much longer (66 instead 15 games) but you can manage it by doing two streams per one round.

Subjugation CB can be more useful if you can give away many provinces to war allies and then get them back as reconquests or for favors. Though due to mechanics you'd usually just take one cheap province and then release the vassal (also not requiring you to take the capital - but without a connection, direct vassalization works). It's pretty sweet, with a little luck you can take all of e.g Brandenburg in one war, at fairly trivial AE (of course you do later get the diplo-annex malus in the HRE). Not sure on Milan, I think pretty quickly his dev is too high to fully eat him. Also it's rather tricky because your allies will only take so many provinces each, so without birding it's hard to know what they'll accept. But yeah, that's a pretty solid way of eating those high AE countries, especially in the HRE.

The Student going out to fight Muscovey meanwhile I am like 'damn these Styrians rebels are costing me too much manpower'

Ludi?😂

Lemon Cake made misplay of the season already

Got to play that Anuajit nation that Hawk wears the hat of sometime.

Min 1:19:12 Answer is wrong. Its 11 Nations. Candar my lil friend got left out!

"stolen, robbed, mugged"

For the first challenge, am I right to understand that Lemon Cake didn't upgrade his troops to the next available technological level? Because the notification was up there until the end of his game. Edit: THE DRAMA IN THAT LAST GAME IS UNREAL.

Damn, I only got 7 PUs. Remembered Thuringia, Burgundy's bitches, Kalmar union and, uh, one more because that's 6 and I had 7. Or maybe I just had 6 and miscounted. Forgot about Naples, Croatia (since when is that even in the game as a starting country???) and Lorraine apparently.

Red Hawk says Subjugation CB is so not worth it? Honestly he should uninstall EU4. I got a subjugation CB in Ayu that had 2,5k development. Obviously they were disloyal but who cares when no one in the world can contest you? Also as Ayu you can stack AE impact a little and get all of the subjects from your mission tree without so much AE.

You two have pretty good chemistry, great voices, and encyclopedic knowledge. Good times :)

I can't look at Red Hawk without hearing James Earl Jones in The Big Bang Theory singing Tijuana.

first?

marco antonio should be against florry

I didn't know Chairman before this challenge, now I know Chairman and I'm really glad I do.. Amazing and clever plays and I really wish him to win this season 👍

very impressive game from the chairman

Idgi. The challenge says *all* wars not *active* wars

Very nice showing from the Chairman.

challenge idea. "Ring of Fire" start as an american migrant tribe, conquer as much of the pacific as possible (if it touches the pacific ocean it counts)

Yes hawk, those boat thingies called Khachapuri is fire, try them if you havent before

Is a shortened episode not being released?

Bro the hair style gating 🫥

Guys, first off.. love this series. But you've got to get the audio under control. I couldn't even hear midge at the beginning and I had to turn up my TV to almost max volume.

chairman you're the man bro, absolute dominance, been watching your channel for a while now and i gotta say this performance i never expected. i knew you were good but this was another level. stay dominant man. (gg to lucas as well great player with great content on his channel)

The Chairman looked very solid. Gonna have to check out his channel now. Do think you should send his Venice save (the point where he quit) to Zlewick to try and save! Glad to see Parabellum back. Looking forward to some great battles ahead! ❤

Laith and Hawk just joined a Miami mafia

Vice City Red Hawk

Please send the Corfu save to Zlewikk TRH

27:34 #BlameLaith

The audio is atrocious

lol who broke the audio

Florry, you better start practicing again! *insert Frieza training montage*

Red Hawk looks like Harry Du Bois before his wife left him.

Amazing covarage of some fun matches. I'm glad Para Bellum team is covering this tournament, and even if EU4 stays the focus I'm all for more HoI4 competetive content on the channel. Tho it's a bit of a shame Laith's in-game footage seems a lot lower quality when his screen is in focus.

Laith is an excellent commentator, but needs work as a co-commentator. Man, give eachother some space to talk and stop interrupting.

Florius sounds like Florry from AliExpress (sorry Florius)