Angevin Empire as Castile is INSANE - EU4 1.36

[@BiOhAzZaRDqqggbb]

I like how you literally don't give a fuck successfully without minmaxing and speedfiving like a maniac. I stole your half state tech when blobbing, I am just amazed at how many things I've taken as is in this game due to my early misconceptions and you consistently help me get over them plus open new pathways, e.g. min autonomy builds for gov cap specifically.

[@Tyrathca]

Half state tech? Do you mean tactic? That was new and helpful to me too

[@mikewazowski7024]

Lmfao this run is extremely min-maxed my dude.

[@dreamscape348]

Angevin's NI + spanish mission tree and eventually forcing system of councils looks very strong. Since we have easy access to all provinces required and we do all these tag switching anyway, we could have a short pitstop for Sardinia-Piedmont to grab additional +5% admin efficiency. Together with Alhambra and system of councils that gives a hefty +15% admin efficiency before absolutism. Good for blobbing if anyone wants to continue with WC at that point.

[@celeridad6972]

Jesus christ what a raging maniac way to play eu4 Love it

[@OddlySpecificGaming]

I’ve never seen or heard of that burgundy AE exploit that’s insane

[@aqvamarek5316]

There are other "creative" plays, which are insane. England mission tree can give you access to india in 1470, if you know, how getting "map vision" over annexing vassal works.

[@renatopereira2315]

"I don't want much from them in this war, I just want to go home" 🤣🤣

[@stefanolaino4901]

holy shit that coalition trick with galicia and burgundy was insane

[@gothia1715]

3:43 Here you could ve adbidacted Juan for this great heir to take the throne right away. Instead he got deleated for Isabella.

[@explicitcontent320]

But isabella allows for instant iberian wedding

[@doudline2662]

Thank you sir. Did WC in 1543 using this strategy

[@viceconsulimhotepienenobed1573]

Looks like a new roman empire strategy is out.

[@Valderonce]

I did a similar run a few months ago while searching for a good PU campaign. I did the mistake to go straight into mainland Europe instead of pushing right into England, which means I had to deal with a strong england with strong colonies. But I also got lucky with a Commonwealth and Russia PU that came out of nowhere. Nonetheless it's a very interesting campaign, probably one of my favorite way to play.

[@mimameta]

What a madlad, bro plays eu4 like helldivers 2

[@callum3744]

Genuinely the master of eu4

[@HzWn]

How are you in debug mode in ironman mode at the start of the video?

[@sld1776]

Bro gave away all crown land at the beginning as Castille.

[@Fel-cr6xs]

I don't really get the point of forming england so early. I think a lot of the English mission tree becomes relevant only later in the game, meanwhile the Spanish mission tree has a lot of nice things you could have picked up. Also I think that you should never form England before you have a colony in the Caribbean. When you click the first English mission and not rush with choosing the Angevin missions, you can actually get all British missions you have fulfilled at that point. This way it is relatively easy to get e.g. the ability to choose the trade good of your colonies as the Angevin empire.

[@chrisporter9397]

Do you mean Castilian missions? Because they have different mission tree than Spain, and Spain is an endgame tag so you wouldn’t be able to pop those mission *then* flip to Angevin.

[@ominousdaryo1073]

​@@chrisporter9397pretty sure since domination the Castilian and Spanish mission trees became identical(or close enough)

[@jvant4850]

I think he just wanted to get as many PU's as fast as possible to showcase the general idea of the strategy of Castile -> Angevin. The way he runs it is more early game kinda min maxing, first 100 years or so without thinking too much about later game min maxing. Also if you take too long to get the PU on France they might expand a bit and you'll have trouble with them being small enough to take the Angevin decision, he did it pretty fast in the video and he still had to return provinces in two wars to get them small enough. You're not wrong abt the missions though

[@chrisporter9397]

@@ominousdaryo1073 I just checked the Wiki and they’re separate missions that divert pretty significantly. Castilian missions revolve around conquest in Europe, while Spain’s missions almost solely focus on colonization.

[@Fel-cr6xs]

@@jvant4850 I don't think he wanted to showcase the general idea, since he did that already 3 weeks ago in his Atwix Legacy run.

[@benabaxter]

Byzantium has a mission that gets rid of Byzantine Autocracy and stops rebels upon ruler death. It's locked to the Orthodox path of the missions. No-CB is probably dead apart from quick integration or an excuse to lock the Ottomans out of their entire mission tree. Maybe give the lands to Aragon or Naples?

[@archdavent9548]

Great vid as always man!

[@Alias-et2ll]

is this from that rome speedrun stream? i only looked for a moment, but it makes sense now as to why you annexed england and burgundy so soon in the stream

[@Artosk]

"Conquering England and France as Castile is insane!"

[@kylekelly1167]

In my Venice game byzantine spawned 100k rebels in one month their is literally no cool down on that. Byz is definitely worth forcing to be a vassel but I will no longer keep him as a subject for all his claims on the ottomans.

[@Theplaymaker57]

Hard agree.

[@mistymoonshine897]

my mind was just blown.

[@artabalt4288]

if you would release leon and asturias before doing all of this, you would have 3 perma colonists with portugal

[@CooltasticOG]

Games section in description brings up the first Europa Universalis game lmao

[@filipp0tonelli]

The thing I hate about angevin kingdom is the result of the debate that gives you a PU on spain, italy and ireland conquered territories. You just annex them, core them and then lose them again for a measly 5% province warscore cost. Do you think it's worth it? Maybe for Atwix legacy...I don't know

[@sasizm5322]

you will have all of england france burgundy already and it will hurt your govcap i think pu thing is quite useful for having all of europe with not having massive govcap problems

[@explicitcontent320]

Well, Ireland you don't have to core, just own, so it is in effect a free PU

[@drbased2097]

Would this theoretically still give the achievement for finishing the Spanish mission tree, since you have the mission tree but not the tag?

[@patsy02]

The one thing I wish you'd micro is armies on transports, you lose thousands of guys every round trip to ireland

[@Theplaymaker57]

what do you mean?

[@patsy02]

@@Theplaymaker57 regular units take attrition every time they enter a non-coastal ocean tile. They added this "feature" in the marine dlc so people would buy it.

[@Theplaymaker57]

@@patsy02 Am i entering a non-coastal sea tile?

[@AmaDominiCanes]

Burgundy keeps starting as my rival no matter how much I restart. It's annoying

[@pileofcheese5017]

9:45 Again, drilling doesn't increase the chance of your leader dying. Being in a battle, being made a general does, and being assigned to an army does, but drilling doesn't.

[@pileofcheese5017]

Also, just a tip,when you declare any war that you know is going to incur a lot of AE, send your diplomats to improve from the start of the war with the nation that would coalition you (you can of course draft up the peace deal first to see who). If you really want to minmax this, you can do a little calculation and ignore the ones that'd leave after X year ticks. For example, in the France war you have basically all your diplomats idling. You never have an excuse to have idle diplomats, when you're being coalitioned.

[@muscle2714]

That was great 10/10

[@AmaDominiCanes]

Can you get Castille achievements in this run?

[@LigadOss]

Any starts for Trebizond? Really hard especially now, would love to see you explain a good start for them

[@nrbmemes2414]

No cb ottos l, get aieged and quit game

[@Speedster___]

Watch BudgetMonk Georgia guide and essentially try that

[@toddhoward1892]

No cb Irish minor and escape to the new world.

[@David-bh7hs]

Get a bunch of allies, dec on byz, vassalize into defensive war with ottos

[@etyiyensebze1466]

Your playing style reminds me of Florryworry

[@emperorjhonny6357]

My guy your game is running so fast! If it I sent too much of a problem can you tell me the specs of your pc? I’m trying to build a pc specifically for this game type so that it doesn’t get bogged down late game.

[@ninjakebab8443]

Eu4 is a very CPU heavy game as far as i know, so get a good CPU and it should fly like his.

[@themannamedjames8766]

If you can get a 7800x3d, you'll be set. You don't need an amazing graphics card for this game.

[@MompfStar]

Can you do a tutorial on how to make economy big?

[@subboid]

I thought you were going to culture shift to Austria to get the PU on Commonwealth

[@exor2494]

if you immiedietaly improve relations with Navarra and wait for them to send an alliance + RM request, you can consistenly ask for vassalage before Aragon gets them under a PU. This way you can integrate them much faster and with scutage you get close to a ducat on income. its not much but a 50 years OPM PU feels annoying :) i like your strats, pretty chill yet effective.

[@IsmailCan-ft7js]

Nasuhdede sen misin?

[@CDProjekt7]

Cool

[@yanick0207]

Disband the empire?

[@AlbiDota]

❤

[@frontosacool]

😅 wow

[@nfinitecontradiction6758]

A little too much cheese for me but interesting nonetheless.

[@Theplaymaker57]

Thanks for the feedback. I want to make sure I am providing a good variety of gameplay. Some with minimal cheese and others with much cheese.

[@djaninevo8250]

shame to call it angevin and not plantagenet

[@AkTheQ]

i've been "playing" this game for about +20h and i still dont understand anything. I dont get it. Any guide i try to look for is just either of explaining different menus as if the viewer has never even seen a computer before, OR they're like this video, which i watch for 10 seconds and i'm 100% lost at what's going on and how the Fuck did this guy do anything that he did, in less 70 years. In that time, this guy just casually painted half of Europe. In same time, i can barely keep Castile existing, due to disasters, revolts, insanely slow development and dumb wars. Not to mention, losing great power -status early on. I fucking hate this game. Or rather, i hate it that i dont know how to play.

[@Theplaymaker57]

If you join discord, I would be happy to coach you a bit. Could be a good video for others. My content often times is targeted at the mid level player so it can be difficult I know...

[@TheStasznik]

It would be amazing if you would start speaking just to be understandable and not mumbling under your nose for half od the video.

[@x_Arone_x]

Sounds like a you problem, i can hear him perfectly

[@Kagekaott]

It wiild bi imizing if yii wiild stirt spiiking jist ti bi indirstindibli ind nit mimbling indir yiir nisi fir hilf id thi vidii

[@jric6283]

Out of all the content creators for this game, this guy is like one of 2 people without an accent that makes English difficult to understand

[@iandinwiddie3978]

maybe you need to check your hearing because I understood him fine

[@renatopereira2315]

tbf I like how casual he is but I do understand how that might make it harder for people who aren't as comfortable with english (most of the world for you anglos who might not know 🤣)