Castile's Ultimate Secret Strategy in EU4 1.36

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[@schlerty]

burgundy is almost always a rival to player castille, although its relatively easy to get them friendly after a couple years and then unrival you

[@Theplaymaker57]

I feel like you usually will get it within a few restarts. Maybe 25% odds

[@yanick0207]

Nah burgundy quite often in my experience

[@TheLoneWanderererr]

It's like 1/2 chance of friendly in my experience

[@lovis1188]

@@Theplaymaker57 ive been restarting like 20 times and they are rival every single one of them

[@RomanTheNotARoman]

They're almost always guaranteed to rival England and France too so if you have mutual rivals they'll switch out fairly easily

[@bluecircle1272]

I've learned so much by watching your videos. Thank you for the great content and it's great that your channel has grown as much as it has.

[@Fel-cr6xs]

I really do not agree with your decision to go protestant. Catholic nations eventually get warscore vs. other religions from the Council of Trent and while you can't use it in Europe that much, I think it is not worth missing out on the last 5% diplo annex cost from the pope. The whole point of stacking diplo annex cost is to get to -100% imo. I think the -95% you showed in the end really did not sell the point of diplo annex stacking very well. You could have at least picked up the temporary diplo annex mod in the Austrian mission tree from spreading your dynasty (you can do it by putting relatives on thones of subjects).

[@gustavog8683]

Going protestant is heresy... :p

[@Theplaymaker57]

I thought diplo cost capped at 90%?

[@Fel-cr6xs]

Diplo annex cost is capped at 98.75%. This is 0.1 diplo per development.

[@Theplaymaker57]

@@Fel-cr6xs You make a solid point either way, I forgot about the council of Trent effects. I certainly think there is much room for improvement upon this idea.

[@Fel-cr6xs]

Besides unique world conquests, -100% diplo annex cost in combination with personal unions can be used to tag switch without unstating or to switch religion. Even as a relatively large nation, you can give all your land to a pu and still annex them within a few months. You can stack -100% temporary pretty easily as Austria and then go sunni or mayan.

[@pileofcheese5017]

I do recommend going for that Kongo mission for the extra missionary. Itll throw in a free one faith with your world conquest, and extra missionaries are always welcome.

[@Amumussus]

Every video this man creates, either yt short or normal video he milks every little trick and meta to abuse the rules of the game and it is awesome to watch

[@jric6283]

Why are you so entertaining? I’ve watched all your videos multiple times. You should put out some more general or advanced guide videos. You are one of the only ones who regularly tag switches and would love an in depth video on planning those out, which modifies you plan to stack, which countries are good for which tag switches. That type of thing. I’m never gonna attempt a WC cause I get bored after absolutism but it would be very cool to see wild tag switch games

[@Theplaymaker57]

That sounds like a great video idea. I'll plan on something like that for the future.

[@DAS63]

Would be interesting to see part 2. Having done Castile One Faith before, I give you absolutely zero chance at world conquest by 1650 let alone 1620. Would be fun to see you prove me wrong though!

[@acadiano10]

Wow, I am learning a lot from your videos. For me, the Aragon > Spain run is more fun having tried Castile, more focused on the Mediterranean (and the Atlantic) and not having to worry about Britain and the HRE. I vassalized the Knights and gave them a lot of the eastern Mediterranean as a march. Nothing like 12k Knights Hospitaller showing up in Mexico all of a sudden!

[@dmitriysmirnoff8636]

Totally agree with you: its so much easier to complete "Fecho del Imperio" and "Universal monarchy" missions by dissolution of the HRE rather then pushing the reforms.

[@heathmckenzie6875]

Have you considered Hussite Bohemia for this? They get perms 15% diplo annex reduction and Hussite has perma -10 warscore cost

[@Theplaymaker57]

I had not, I'll have to give that a look

[@DaniTheMonster]

Do even more of this! Really like your content. Try make more thumbnails for your videos, it will help you grow.

[@yoshi9019]

Never realized you could abuse the revoke regardless of loyalty with the burghurs mercantilism, and especially for puppeteering the nobility, this is absolutely broken. Quite the play :3

[@DylanSargesson]

As Castile I'd always like to focus on Diplo Vassaling Navarra right from the beginning (you have to get it before Aragon's ruler dies). Better to integrate them in 10 years than to stuck with an OPM PU for 50 years after you get them through Aragon. Added EDIT; also Venice would have remained a Great Power for a year after falling off the bottom of the list, so you probably could've got to the 50% with them.

[@boulderfrogboulderfrog6512]

Is there any reason to do that instead of just getting a claim and annexing them?

[@DylanSargesson]

​@@boulderfrogboulderfrog6512 it's all about how fast Aragon's ruler dies I suppose - you wouldn't want to be midway through the seige and the they become junior under Aragon anyway.

[@FateMasterBGB]

Awww yuss another short 50min video from the GOAT. Thanks bro but also make sure to enjoy the Holidays haha.

[@Sworddeath727]

Lol I remember playing through a congo mission after their tree dropped I hadn't thought to culture swap to them to milk their rather strong permanent mission rewards, how long till they make the kongo an end game tag so people don't hot swap

[@antonioazevedo9166]

I do like the vassal swarm of castille, so i preffer to PU england later, and works on the PUs of naples/portugal/aragon/burgundy/austria meanwhile. Vassalize Navarra on the first year for a shorter annexation time is good too. And I minmax austria, so i can have hungary/bohemia as PUs For france/ottomans is the usual take and release subjects for the reconquest cbs

[@pileofcheese5017]

This is an entirely different strategy though. He wants to form England, so waiting 100 years to get them to swap religions, then another 50 to integrate them, isn't viable.

[@fabibi_ha]

5:55 (Iberian Wedding) Getting the different sex rulers of Aragon and Castille at 17. June 1449 is exceptional! The mean time to happen is 120 months, but i can't be bothered analysing your rng having it fire at 1. April 1450 and 26. May 1451 respectively. Seems moderately lucky to me :)

[@KKsKrissvs121]

Its 12 months for different sex and 120 months when the other nation has a regency.

[@viniciusmartucci7599]

If this guy is the regular player in the multiplayer, i just thank god that i'm a campaign player. HOLY SHIT this video was insane

[@shiro292]

I did count total 11 games in 1.35 and 1.36 where i got burgundy, i had a lot of peace time to trigger the horse event, yet in those game never inherited the lands. So 11 games straight without horse event... yup.

[@szaromordziec2508]

Thanks for the video, all of them are really entertaining =)

[@RayTX1337]

You missed a step. After forming Kongo you can become Fetishist and claim the Mandate.

[@septianhari582]

What is the pros of getting claim instead of PU england?

[@Fel-cr6xs]

If go for tag switching, you almost always want to include forming England. You only get the PU when england and you are of different religions, which can be quite late in to the game, i.e. in the age of Reformation. Since it is quite easy to fight England early in the game, there is no point in waiting for the pu and then another 40-50 years to annex them.

[@sorsocksfake]

It's rather a hassle. Bear in mind, PUs can't give you trade power, and he has to change religion, so you'd be in the late 1500's before you can integrate him for full benefits. England has some distance from Germany and different culture, so the AE should be manageable unless you're trying to directly conquer France (and for that, you can get Gascony and Toulouse, possibly Provence, at low AE too). Just improve relations with the Dutch and west germans and it should not present problems, I think.

[@rasplay5761]

also, you can pass all theocracy gov reforms in a first 50 years of the game

[@abdellatifmegharbel9595]

revoking factionalist nobility in 1515 classic playmaker

[@goopsta9375]

let bro cook 🗣🔥

[@dakkonthegithzerai3867]

Infants of Aragon 💀

[@Askar1995]

Can I fabricate on either porto or lisboa and get them along with English land? What do you think about this move?

[@spatrk6634]

with castille you can form spain. and spain has ideas that gives you restoration of union cb on portugal. so you will get them in personal union after an easy war. there is no point in taking anything from them unless you just want some extra money earlier.

[@uespsy]

@@spatrk6634 the idea of getting lisboa and oporto is bc you want 85% + trade power on sevilla

[@MegaMash77]

Can you explain your reasoning that your typical stack is a 12/4/4?

[@spatrk6634]

starting combat width is like 15 or something like that. meaning that only 15 units are able to fill front row during the battle. you want those units to be infantry and cavalry (a little bit more of your combat width because you want infantry reinforcements) artillery goes automatically into back row if front row is filled because they get hit with more damage if they are in front row. if you dont have infantry to reinforce front row in the battle, artillery will switch to front row when infantry starts to break without reinforcements and cannons will die sooner in front row

[@spatrk6634]

army composition switches drastically depending on your mil technology and nation you are playing. it starts with just couple of cannons. but mid and late game you want to have shit ton of cannons

[@OddlySpecificGaming]

I might have missed it in the video but why spend diplo on integration ? Don’t you get Spain at admin 10?

[@Theplaymaker57]

I dont want to be an End game tag.

[@vladandreias4859]

Do I have any idea why I don't get the Kongo missions when I switch to them? I don't seem to find how that works. Thanks!

[@Theplaymaker57]

Missing dlc?

[@vladandreias4859]

yea...might be :)) I will get it now @@Theplaymaker57

[@jeao7115]

Love your videos mate - by the way I think you PU’ed Portugal too early before he could choose exploration ideas as subjects can’t choose colonial ideas. Not sure tho was hard to tell

[@timtrio9862]

I think portugal is an exception and always gets exploration ideas

[@victorbonnet5056]

nice !

[@goksir5845]

curtail noble privileges... ew...

[@EgonCholakian69]

Make the video.

[@archimedes6154]

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