EU4 but Aggressive Expansion is PERMANENT

In today's Europa Universalis IV (EU4) video we will be removing the timed decay of Agressive Expansion, meaning that unless land is lost in a coalition war, AE will be permanent and coalitions will be abundant, especially for the more aggressive nations
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[@C1rn0n]

i sure wonder who is that at 0:29

[@nanowears7478]

The legend themselves!

[@sprize6279]

bro said no homo

[@EmporerDragon]

Idea: Every ruler has the Bold trait, but it's tweaked so they underestimate enemy strength even more than normal. Everyone getting constantly into fights they were not prepared for.

[@sageof6pandas233]

I want this

[@marcolariviere7]

this sounds fun

[@kalterverwalter4516]

Sounds great but I could also Imagine someone big Just streamroling.

[@rileywilsonepicarcher9995]

I predict Ottomans and France absolutely demolishing the early game

[@goose93]

Every empire collapses once they exist for five minutes

[@unchartedsteppes7138]

france going down the historically accurate path in this one

[@walkseva]

Alternate title: EU4 but everyone has a great book of grudges

[@skyleranderson4613]

MARK THIS DAY IN THE BOOK!

[@EndoClaw]

So real life global politics

[@PA_Sword]

Ah, the classic test of history. How many coalitions can France survive?

[@themostloyalorange5209]

at least 7 and "I didn't hear no bell" - Napoleon probably

[@kevinboros7427]

This is basically "EU4 but if the AI got as much AE as the player".

[@sanguisbumb6138]

They do unless you play on higher difficulties.

[@johngordon2535]

Tall nations: “My time has come…”

[@thepopeofpineapples6275]

Idea: Shattered Universalis, 10x mod, and cursed universalis all active at the same time. That means a million tiny nations, each with different religions and cultures, all with 10x modifiers. Have no idea if it works, but if it does, the chaos that will insure will be EXTREMELY entertaining.

[@Peaceful_Bomb]

Sorry but 10X only works with vanilla map. Your idea requires new one mode made especially for this circumstances

[@Nbvm0]

PC will die

[@Fhornsrule99]

That joke about Asperger absolutely killed me lmao

[@Chewbert]

I don’t get it I have no social awareness

[@Podzhagitel]

“ERAMOS CONQUISTADORES Y MIERDA” - Mexico when they conquered Portugal

[@tessfairfield6435]

I’d love to see a video where each trade node is a nation

[@Leo.V]

There is a video on it already made by RedHawk, just search it up

[@marcopolo___]

maybe add a mod where culture convertions cost nothing and see what the Ai does

[@stellaartemis6354]

Here’s some ideas I’ve had: If you have a national disaster it never goes away, so if you have a civil war it can never be ended. Terrain and trade goods give 10x modifiers, so hills give +10 dice roll to defender, cloth and farmlands give -50% dev cost, glaciar gives +500% dev cost ect. You give some huge bonuses to the weakest national every ten years, sorta like the one you did with making one country on each continent tech 30 except it’s over time.

[@unchartedsteppes7138]

aggressive expansion

[@Nimarioos]

Aggresive expansion

[@arturdearaujolima1917]

Aggressive expasion

[@MrZuhahaha]

Actually having AE go down much slower would make the game quite more realistic, I may play a campaing like that

[@jako3015]

AE going down slower forces you into one of two paths. Either expanding very slowly and constantly improving relations or going on a complete rampage and truce juggle your way until that culture group doesnt exist anymore to form a coalition. The former is just playing tall and the latter can be done by taking 15 provinces in one peace deal (or 2 if you try to conquer northern Italy)

[@MrZuhahaha]

@@jako3015 I think If a nation goes on a rampage and grows huge, A LOT of nations would band together to survive as it happened in history. In game, you wait 10-20 years and they forget what happened lol

[@elojovirolodehbk9402]

@@MrZuhahaha I think that should be a thing with the dawn of the age of absolutism. Late game could be much more interesting and the AI can manage that as proven by the video

[@TheCatVtuber]

@@jako3015or you can focus on diplomatic means much more. Since allying peoples and vassalize / annexing your vassals doesn't give any AE.

[@Infidi]

@@TheCatVtuber reasons to accept vassalage: "[a 9 dev desert nation name] economic base compared to [nr 1 GP and economic hegemon country name] -83"

[@thotslayer8392]

19:06 Bro had to defeat his intrusive thoughts 💀

[@kevinboros7427]

I've seen France dominate in pretty much every game in this patch. The big blue blob returns!

[@andrew80639]

Video Idea: Chewy's nightmare, EVERYONE is a migrating native

[@onix5491]

Eu 4 but everybody forgot how to build ships

[@ilianceroni]

So, you’re telling me that France got multiple coalitions and winning the first ones, than joined an anti-catholic league, despite being catholic and ended up revolutionary superpower? Was the IA seton “Napoleon”?😂

[@geouria]

Day 8 of asking for every tag in 1444 in EU4 to be in the HRE

[@Iterial_Katalina]

if he dosen't reply or anything i don't see the point of forcing

[@Chewbert]

I’ll reply so this wet blanket will mind his business

[@TenzikTens]

New Idea groups are great, Infrastructure ideas are by far the best Idea set now. I haven't tried running court ideas. Merc ideas are only missing one thing, a way to increase militarization passively (prussian mechanic passive revoke estate privileges) Espionage continues to get better every patch. Aristocratic is also crazy strong. Armies seem to be much more equal in fighting ability than ever.

[@diostoleeverything7001]

EU4 but great powers get a random disaster every 10 years

[@MrSaywutnow]

After watching Zlewikk's recent Switzerlake run, I have to admit to being intrigued by merc ideas. I remember the first time I had an Asperger ruler. I'm a little ashamed of how much I laughed.

[@Chewbert]

Yeah dude the merc militarization is a super cool mechanics! And yeah lmao it caught me off guard

[@pyroduck5381]

Oh nice been waiting for this one!

[@bardon1384]

EU4 but seperatism never decays or gets reduced by ideas.

[@alihandroarabulos1130]

EU4 but everyone is max tech in 1444

[@combrade-t]

If you were to attack a tiny coalition you could 100% them and force them to accept taking land only you have cores on, thus giving them a coalition and getting your land back. In most places it's not very easy to pull off, especially early game, But for big singular cultures it's very strong (so it's not very good in Germany/Italy but I imagine Ottomans and England could probably do really well for it) Defo an interesting idea tho could be fun to try it in a campaign I'm fairly certain it's just losing land loses AE, it's just a bigger effect in a coalition war.

[@duskpede5146]

i actually think this would've been a video where keeping the natives might've been interesting, since all that ai colonisers would be racking up would SURELY lead to something in the new world as well?

[@mpmmuirhead]

I remember there was an early version of this game where AE went down super slowly and truces didn't take people out of the coalition. I don't remember which build exactly but it didn't last long. Certainly pre conquest of paradise

[@Lidon249]

Love this one, frankly it seems better than base eu4, looks so much more historically accurate*.

[@duskpede5146]

man i just wish the ai would colonise asia, at all.

[@lest3604]

Idea: everyone has every other country as a rival

[@theomegapyrope9715]

EU4 but austria and ming swap places (or the HRE and china, if you're willing to go that far)

[@Eupator5]

How did this affect development? I would imagine having all these released countries might spread things around a bit.

[@tomasmv1993]

Eu4 but Dogger Bank never disappeared

[@Chewbert]

I really want to mess with map mods

[@fierylightning3422]

Napoleon laughing maniacally

[@RhombonianKnight]

Obi-Wan Kenobi to AE, probably: You were supposed to only be a number! Not actually harm anyone!

[@Luterius]

Eu4 but ae is the Opposit so where you should lose ea you get some and in the other way (Idea)

[@thebutzel9752]

My favorite change to the idea groups is the reduced naval attrition in the exploration ideas in idea 1. Way easier to explore further earlier on without your ships being lost due to attrition.

[@juanmendez3290]

Video 20 (?) of asking: Can you make a video where every dynasty is a country? So a country getting a regency or something like will get auto-inherited even if they are non-christian or republics.

[@romegypt5675]

I don't know how I didn't get reccommended this, this is such a cool concept

[@cal30no1iscool9]

Ok new idea, EU4 but peace gains you aggressive expansion instead of war (like maybe every year at peace you gain 1 AE)

[@woeuntous695]

Infra is by far the best of the new three, you can even put it on the top 4 admin ideas (Inno, Religious, Administrative, and now Infra). You should try using Infra ideas to stack expand administration cost (there is one gov reform that also gives -100% Expand administration cost

[@scorpionkiller19]

It could actually be cool if you could get up to like 20 permanent AE not enough for coalitions but enough for countries to remember

[@pluto_31]

19:04 some angry turkish noises

[@aleasha4255]

The one I’ve been waiting for

[@toonotsleep8]

I'm quite fond of court ideas (when AE isn't a major problem), it's the humanist of the diplo tree. I want to like infra however it suffers in the same way Inno does; picking admin first is suboptimal but that's when it has the biggest impact

[@Jojogrec]

Video Suggestion: EU4 but each culture group start as a PU For the start of the game: • All provinces of each culture is given to a separate nation. (Priority is given to the nation that best represents that culture.) • Each nation is given cores to all their provinces. (Not required, but encouraged) • Each nation in each culture group is put into a personal union under the nation/culture in the group with the most development. There might of course be other variations of this idea, perhaps with some mechanics tweeked and/or added, but this what I could think of right now.

[@x0lopossum]

13:12 JESUS LOOK AT THAT FRENCH COMEBACK!?! 16:30 Ajuranaustralia. 19:15 Ottomans explode. 20:20 Eastern Europe is a mess in this game.

[@specz1]

EU4 but AE doesn't tick down it ticks up

[@tetpez5851]

I just want to see a commentary over an ai only mega campaign or a normal mega campaign

[@Chewbert]

I will 100% do that eventually. Just need to set a sub goal :D

[@paulochon7692]

Based video. Strong France, Armenians, Albanians and Byzantines taking back their lands...

[@wiel5908]

ottoman became turkey, albania being the chad, based somalia, 24:33 sigma chewy controversial moment, cursed spanish brazil, based french canada, based mexico, portugal became alberto barbosa, cursed portuguese america and based caribbean

[@roberobe7788]

Idea:every country is a revolutionary republic then what AI does with borders is crazy

[@priest1091]

Have you seen the "The Odd Empires" mod? it changes the tectonics of the earth and some althistory. it might be an interesting video.

[@Chewbert]

Definitely, but it's not going to be updated to 1.35 for a while and I have no interest in rolling back for any specific mods

[@crazygamingbros8945]

Eu4 everyone who fights becomes historical Rival

[@AlphaSections]

Spanish left coast San Franciscan: "Did YoU JuSt AsSuME My GeNdEr?!?!?!!!!"

[@jackoakes1328]

Hey chewie would you consider doing hoi4 Timelapse’s too or Vic 3?

[@ChWuDai]

23:46 - Shu does a Northern Han

[@magicyber909]

My favorite change would be the rework of plutocratic ideas. My least favorite is splitting economic into infrastructure. Now you have to spend 2 idea groups if you want the dev cost bonus and the inflation bonus with the old policies. Also they didn’t add any flavor text for any of the new policies.

[@ArticMonkeMan]

eu4 but every trade good Is its own nation

[@theomegapyrope9715]

EU4 but all nations start picking the same national idea (you could make a lot of videos with this. maybe start with innovative?)

[@Domina1190]

3:30 as an Albanian from Kosovo, I declare this.. Blessed.

[@declan6447]

Napoleon came a little early lol

[@queen_nat4586]

You should do an EU4 game but taking provinces isn't possible. You can only get more territory from vassalizing or PUing nations and annexing them. You can make countries release nations and then attack and vassalize them, but no nation can conquer new provinces.

[@EaSkateVideo]

I laughed at your Asperger-joke. However I must say that your Discord now doesn't sound like a fun place at all anymore 😅

[@Chewbert]

come and find out

[@lolmaster438]

Idea: EU4 but national ideas are shuffled in between all nations (like Austrian IA growth being in national idea of Ming)

[@mylesthayer2843]

Eu4 but aggressive expansion is flipped (now you need ae to not get coalitioned)

[@gravelord1014]

I really want to see a video of you using an updated OP OPMs mod, give the OPMs the chance to rise.

[@Chewbert]

It’s something I toyed with before, I’ll have to look back into it!

[@gravelord1014]

@@Chewbert sadly the OP OPMs mod hasn’t updated in a while, but considering it just gives a modifier to OPMs, it shouldn’t be hard to update.

[@Chewbert]

@@gravelord1014 oh yeah I can make it myself no problem it’s more just how to handle who has it, who keeps it, how It affects the nation, etc

[@idiotadebilbezmozg]

19:06 it's even worse since the anniversary of Armenian Genocide was not that long ago

[@Petrust1991]

permanent AE? nothing unusual every normal mid-late game when all your neighbours have 300+

[@kenos911]

Idea: EU4 but every nation is shuffled (would be interesting with their national ideas and religions and such, includes releasable and formable nations)

[@MrRoyalOss]

Well I guess a video where there is no AE is also an option now. Massive blobbing posibilities.

[@doppel5627]

Rise like a phoenix / Out of the ashes / Seeking rather than vengeance / Retribution / You were warned / Once I'm transformed / Once I'm reborn

[@burakkose481]

What if you make every state a country and then add all of them to HRE?

[@SandcakePaw]

Every one is an emperor (give every nation HRI emperor bonus) . Live out grate powers.

[@Gamerblam]

16:46 Shun, Xi, and UwU

[@sahilhossain8204]

Lore of EU4 but Aggressive Expansion is PERMANENT momentum 100

[@robertalaverdov8147]

EU4 but each tech behind your neighbors or the most advanced nation gives you bonuses. And this time keep the natives maybe they'll have a chance against the colonizers.

[@phillipratliff8539]

You should do this game mode again but make it to where one actual person is in the game, i.e, like France or a smaller nation is player controlled, expect you don’t tell us what country it is and we have to guess.

[@blackskullknight9062]

13:50 knowing IRL France, this makes sense. 🥐

[@zeshanlb]

Idea: Delete all orignal provinces when all provinces have been colonized. would be even better if cycle could keep repeating a thousand years

[@gamgamesplayer4506]

eu4 but rebels are overpowered (tech 32) eu4 but nobody generates mana eu4 but separatism never goes down eu4 but ships cost 1 million times more eu4 but everyone has dahomey ideas, same possible gov reforms and new institutions are embraced instantly by everyone eu4 but attrition is increased by 10 times eu4 but forts can't be turned on eu4 but everyone gets a core in all provinces (or maybe only their culture group or religion) eu4 but changing religion gives insane buffs eu4 but everyone is forced to be allied to everyone (remove relations limit too) eu4 but stability can't get up eu4 but being a attacker in a battle grants -10 diceroll penalty eu4 but war exhaustion effects are 10x (or goes up 10x faster) eu4 but everyone is catholic and has a PU cb on everyone else eu4 but everyone is a horde eu4 but everyone is a republic eu4 but everyone has siberian frontier eu4 but having a female ruler does something And the one that would be the best one, but will never be done: Eu4 but everyone is a player

[@Chewbert]

I’m saving this comment for later ❤️

[@viking_nephilim8883]

what mod is this @chewbert?

[@GettingMyLifeTogether2024]

What if everyones forcelimit is 1

[@RandomOrthodoxMan]

22:49 Subnautica Below Zero?

[@jerryli3438]

Qotd: Mercenary ideas are awesome. Court ideas are not as bad as it seems and it has some insane policies. Dunno about infrastructure

[@duskpede5146]

sad you missed the opm kiev on the otherside of the Carpathians in Transylvania at 21:30

[@luker.6967]

What about a game with all mission modifiers and rewards made permanent AND all missions marked as completed in 1444?

[@danieldiaz8558]

EU4 but when you conquer a province you acquire it

[@ew-us9ve]

OMG. A mess, but I liked it!

[@erikaostad5035]

didnt even mention france owning denmark and norway

[@pablokullick2138]

21:29 Hoi4 TNO Russia be like

[@squarepufferfish3548]

Eu4 but every X amount of years the weakest nation in the world gets all Monuments in their capital.

[@cyrildeprez7709]

eu4 but everyone have the same dynasty

[@mortimersmithsr2522]

EU4 but Castille, Portugal, France and England can't colonize!

[@kapikkare]

AE IS just a number after ive conquered all of the world

[@ashwood9154]

Idea EU4 but every 20 years PUs get integrated

[@randomperson6988]

Eu4 but every culture is in the same culture group

[@cav1989]

How did you remove AE decay? I'd love to try that.

[@Chewbert]

Common/opinion_modifiers in the EU4 directory