EU4 but ISLANDS are OVERPOWERED

In today's Europa Universalis IV (EU4) video we will be buffing random island nations from around the world with massive boosts to economy, military, and diplomacy, and seeing what happens in the long game. Interesting nation formations, conquests, and alliances to come!
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[@Susie_Legion_DBD]

Day 34 of asking for EU4 but every Subcontinent is a Shogunate

[@maddogbasil]

Bruh I'm on 40 days The grind is real 💯 💪

[@Susie_Legion_DBD]

@@maddogbasil Sigma grindset

[@dominiqwhiterose6170]

Ew wait no.

[@anbersker3356]

Ew no

[@maddogbasil]

@@Susie_Legion_DBD bruh looks like we got some weebs in the comment section They don't know the grind set

[@Sawwhet]

Video Idea: Aggressive Expansion gain is 10x normal to create lots of coalition wars.

[@Chewbert]

Lmao could be interesting!!

[@walkseva]

"The sea's not here for /our/ protection." -Island nations, probably

[@gugfitufi4862]

If you ever remake this video, which I'd really like, please add more tags! The idea is great, but I would've liked more island boi conflicts like Kotte vs Ternate. Maybe a Rügen to rival the pirates of Gotland. Speaking of pirates, buffed Knights would be super cool to see too. Maybe even Malta and Mallorca to annoy Sardinia. And what about The Isles and the Maldives? Maybe even a buffed Philippine nation? I think the idea is cool and I'd love to see a second part with even more buffed, obscure island tags.

[@gugfitufi4862]

more cool tags: Taiwan, New Providence, So, a New Zealand dude, Crete, Naxos, Korsika

[@FarCycle]

I bet you could set it up with code so like if(capital is on an island), then (you get the buff). That way we’d get some Caribbean and Newfoundland stuff too

[@Chewbert]

Noted for sure! Thanks :)

[@letsgoshuckles266]

Man, these buffs might actually make playing in Polynesia fun.

[@Acciyn]

Did you see Cyprus lose a war to the Mamelukes? I ask because I know there's an event that makes Cyprus a PU of the Mams, so I suspect that's what happened to them.

[@RhombonianKnight]

Looks like Gotland got land 🤣 Also, sad about the Roman Empire thing though it tracks with Paradox's anti-fun crusade they were on at the time it came out.

[@Caterev0038cool]

Ok...

[@whyops]

2 Weeks old comment on 1 hour old video?

[@RhombonianKnight]

@@whyops the magic of Patreon early access.

[@joewalker4710]

What's the roman empire situation?

[@burtreynolds8030]

@@joewalker4710 AI doesn’t form it anymore

[@GustavSvard]

Those rebels at 2:50 gave me a horrid thought: buff rebels. Would that be possible?

[@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595]

increase national unrest in all nations and give rebels crazy buffs

[@Brainee1]

I would have kept Haida, but made it unable to migrate. A big Haida would have been something to see. c:

[@boio_]

Haida gang

[@trivane626]

Bruh why would paradox not let the AI form the Roman Empire

[@lordr1c325]

Can we get another "buffed nations" but with Chewbert channel favorites like Kazembe, Muisca, and Bengal. I know there's a few more but those three are a classic

[@kingjamestres]

Chewbert: not regurgitating the same California joke for the 1069th time also Chewbert: muh politics

[@Chewbert]

Lol

[@sharplydressedrabbit3604]

I think a video where only the New World exists would be interesting. Maybe give the natives some buffs as well.

[@Barista.Nathan]

At least like keep the natives with Unique Ideas like the Chickasaw Cherokee, and maybe the Iroquois Federation.

[@SupahTrunks7]

Thank you for buffing Ainu I’m always rooting for them so seeing them hit number three great power and beat up most of Asia was truly blessed timeline

[@cheeseofglass]

This one is too sad, I cry every time one of the Island Bois RIP ;_;

Ah, I think you did a lil' mistake with the force limit bonuses. You gave them a tiny flat increase instead of a percentage increase.

[@Chewbert]

Oopsies!

[@marcustulliuscicero5443]

11:46 That Ainu is actually Confucian with Shinto harmonized.

[@maddogbasil]

3:48 Chewy u shoulda said *"It's GAOTTING time"* Another great gotland reference lost

[@Skartak]

Crimea as an elector in the HRE is very blessed.

[@theexplodingspider4352]

So you did reversed trade rotues, but what if everything but the spices flowed and all trade ended in Malaya? It might make the indonesian/malaysian nations a lot stronger and more prominent

[@jeroennienhuis3711]

He did, turned out quite funny

[@biggie_boss]

EU4 but less provinces = more buffs and more provinces = more nerfs. Basically, make it so OPMs are OP and you get more debuffs the more provinces you own beyond 1.

[@svenarnestad6561]

Eu4 but you get all positive modifiers of those you defeat for the rest of the game

[@TheBoyer19]

In southern Manitoba there was a colony called new Iceland, so it's cool to see them do that in the game :)

[@yourdad2917]

7:15 a god has truly fallen 😢

[@wiwersewindemer4437]

Add this buff to **all** OPMs in one video

[@deerintheheadlights96]

6:45: Gotland got land

[@pctheonly]

The Isles not part of the Island Bois?

[@mdjd.8893]

The Knights should’ve gotten it too like Cyprus to really give the ottomans a headache

[@maklethm4913]

Bring back the Cali jokes, lol!

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Sad times when no island boys cameo

[@nyrrv]

you sir, are criminally underrated

[@Chewbert]

You're too kind

[@zekram5969]

EU4 but every nation swaps places with a random neighbor

[@namenotneeded5128]

Rome winning with high casualties is historically accurate.

[@theskycavedin]

As a born-and-raised Californian, I say you can dump on California all you want

[@Chewbert]

Can do! 😂

[@user-pp9yk3tu4z]

try all countries have claims on every single province in the world

[@robson1566]

It would be nice to see a video where you give all the monuments to Skenderbro to make Albania great again, the way Allah intended

[@NON155]

WHAT IF GET THE WHEEL MODE SPIN ALL NATIVE IN NEW WORLD LIKE ONLY THAT MOVE AROUND. BUT ONLY THE OTHER WORLD ANNEX THEM??

[@nightguardian2436]

I think the Ainu was Confucian not Shinto :O

[@burkcristacchio]

Wait how is Italy all Roman? Do Italian cultures all turn into Roman when you form the Roman empire?

[@Chewbert]

It’s now the entire culture group rather than just primary now!

[@burkcristacchio]

@@Chewbert I don't get ittt

[@atorCibbon]

@@burkcristacchio So basically if you form Rome with Tuscany, then instead of turning just the tuscan provinces into Roman culture - all of the italian cultures (for example lombard, naepolitian) get turned into Roman now.

[@atorCibbon]

Or if you form it with spain then all iberian cultures get converted instead of just Castilian/Aragonese

[@Mattstravaganza]

Before you hit form Rome, it looks like Italy personal unioned Portugal

[@electricVGC]

EU4 but Ming is the emperor of the HRE and Japan too

[@poopsmcgee4693]

I liked the run through of what happened

[@cousin_chet]

Chewy!!! I love this idea! And the island boys 😂😂😂 meme

[@erei5659]

7:30 Floridian Maine

[@JustSomeGuyWlthoutAMustache]

„Im an Island Boy“ 🎶

[@Cami-wd4rw]

Ahh yes Vinland Saga.

[@dragongock]

HI CHEWBERT this is so great

[@TheRivado]

Video Idea: EU4 but every Nation has -100% dev cost (or maybe even -200%) - wonder how that would change things considering that even things like building slots are affected ... maybe Nation with a lot of less developed land like hordes would thrive ?

[@brudergustavo7845]

I rjink it would have been mor einteresting if you made Island provinces High Dev and high attrition not to OP or unrealistic buffs like with siege ability which also works when you expand out of the island.

[@gabri-immortale]

Why you don't release sicily the most famous and strongest island civ?

[@Alexander_the_Greatest]

What about the knights?

[@warlord4964]

No Ryukyu? Okayy! Wish more regions had a small power :)

[@holey5065]

Ainu was confucian (i saw the small "harmonized religion")

[@Yomesto]

do a 10x run, however it's only for a singular religion or culture/cultural group (it can be any religion or culture)

[@gumtch]

Liked just because of the thumbnail

[@LordStrogan]

Another try for a Holy "Roman" Empire, an HRE with Roman borders! (Try 2)

[@nildzrecastellanos]

Not even a mention for Rigan Prussia?

[@nicholasking2804]

I would love to see a video that is as many of the mods as you can put into one game, maybe as a year round up.

[@ianspurrell4436]

Why would that rule for the AI be there? Madness.

[@Chewbert]

Tbf without massive buffs the AI is not capable but yeah, seems like an oversight

[@DarkWallay]

The Haida Gwaii are technically island goers! WHYYY!!!!

[@mikab631]

You buffed islands but didn't buff The Isles! They're the most island of the islands!

[@Knightly_Mapping]

You forgot the natives in Polynesia

[@LarsSteenbreker]

Day 6 of asking for Everyone is Dutch because Chewbert said G E K O L O N I S E E R D

[@asore23]

As an italian, sardinian colombia is the most blursed thing ever. P.s. Ainu was Confucian, not Shinto. Shinto was harmonized 😉

[@countrygeneral]

It seems that the new Roman Empire formed *by blood alone*

[@ckong6384]

"I got rid off the natives, because they are annoying" Funny European noises

[@NotAHamster]

What if there was no ocean? What if Europe was attached to America instead of Asia?

[@Caterev0038cool]

2:37 YES

[@dylanthomas7918]

Every province is a centre of trade

[@k_aesar]

You should do an Anbennar AI only

[@PAINNN666]

So because Cyprus loose even with buffs I ask you give Cyprus all monuments.

[@lorekeeper8117]

So instead of all roads lead to Rome is it All Seas lead to Rome this time?

[@adhamhthomson1941]

Cant believe you didnt buff the isles

[@lv.1crook]

Gotlad more like GOATland

[@MordorSauronus]

You could have add jamaica At srart but great video

[@basicxax1775]

Maybe we can do colonies are op, and have increased liberty desire

[@Yes-qj4bi]

It's Tonga time

[@radec5437]

Another italian best timeline

[@jesusperez-bz6pq]

And why you dont improve pacific islands?

[@geodim3904]

CHEWY PLS DO WHAT IF MACEDONIAN EMPIRE EXISTED IN 1444! Love from Greece 🇬🇷

[@leonidasrex7823]

I imagine AI doesn't form Rome because of accepted culture headaches that follow... Abandoning an entire accepted culture group after centuries of conversion for a single lost culture... Is equivalent to a swift kick in the nuts.

[@Chewbert]

No, it’s literally just because the devs put a 0 instead of a 1, no real reason sadly

[@socksome]

That might have been an issue on release, but nowadays your entire culture group switches over to Latin when you click the button!

[@leonidasrex7823]

@@socksome that's great news! Maybe the devs never updated their code to account for their new feature? I don't have answers, just speculating as to why the AI chance might be set to zero

[@leonidasrex7823]

@@Chewbert I was thinking the chance was set to zero simply to avoid the culture consequences, but maybe you're right. Having recently watched a video on why the US didn't simply annex Mexico when it had the chance, I'm acutely aware that "because one guy wanted it that way" is often the real explanation.

[@socksome]

@@leonidasrex7823 it's certainly possible that was why. knowing paradox spaghetti code there might even have been a time that an AI forming Rome literally broke the game or smthn. but, yeah, for whatever reason, it is unfortunate.

[@DekuTheDestroyer]

Danish-Icelandic would be impossible to speak

[@maharibuckshot7375]

would venice be a island boy?

[@jaccoloos6612]

Would've been epic to see Socotra dominate

[@sahilhossain8204]

Hmmm yes lore of island wars momentum 100

[@noefringand3328]

Hey ! is it possible for each rebelion to become an independant nation after few month or a year ? Sorry for my english, im frensh.

[@opossumqueen4524]

How about a game but with all rare formables already formed?

[@emilebourget1088]

Cool video

[@andreanecchi5930]

italy yes! , now I would say to empower the peninsulas and see how it goes

[@vukzivkovic1556]

Why you didnt buff Naxos

[@Hadar1991]

I have following video idea: BATTLE OF EMPIRES. Put in game few end game tags as OPM in different areas of world, let them start in the shitiest provinces possible but give them permanent claims on all of lands that ever where part of their empire (or dependent) and some insane buffs (with Siberian Frontier and free explorers and conquistadors). E.g.: - Roman Empire, Tajarhi (3 dev desert), Catholic religion, Roman culture and permanent claims on following regions: Maghreb, Iberia, France, Britain, Low Countries, North Germany, South Germany, Italy, Carpathia, Balkans, Anatolia, Pontic Steppe, Caucasia, Persia, Mashriq, Arabia, Egypt - Mongol Empire, Mukhtuya (3 dev arctic forest), Tengri Religion and Khalka culture and permanent claims on following subcontinents: Tartary, Far East, China, Persia and follwoing regions Ural, Russia, Ruthenia and Pontic Steppe, - Mughal Empire, Jaisalmer (3 dev desert), Muslim religion, Hindavi Culture and pernament claims on India and Persia subcontinents - United States, Tsetsehasahese (3 dev mountains), maybe Protestant religion, American culture and permanent claims on North America, Central America and Oceania subcontinents, - Holy Roman Empire or Germany, Prignitz (5 dev forest), maybe Protestant religion, Saxon Culture and permanent claims on following regions: North Germany, South Germany, Low Countries, France, Italy, Poland and Baltic - and you may sprinkle here end there some different end-game tags for Balance purposes like Brazil, Australia, Aksum, Rozwi Empire with the same idea (worst possible starting province, a lot of permanent claims and extreme buffs)

[@Chewbert]

My goodness! This would be a fun one but would require a bit of modding, I’d have to take a look!

[@Hadar1991]

@@Chewbert I know. But this island video inspired me to see war of buffed empires of which every one started as shitty OPM. 😅

[@miras8596]

now every monuments in riga :D

[@cooltwomeful]

I'm disappointed that you didn't make a joke about gotland "got land" getting land.

[@goawayrayy]

EU4 but every province there is one monument, there is all monuments.

[@muhammadfirdausbinsyahrom]

Day 11 of asking Chewbert to covert the whole TNO:last days of Europe Map to EU4

[@FarCycle]

No Crete, Corsica and Corfu?

[@FarCycle]

And this was MADE for Isle of Mann

[@coryjackson5481]

State edicts give global modifiers

[@jeroennienhuis3711]

Did AI Kotte unlock its achievement? 😅

[@Kennerfull]

How did he buff the nations? Is it a mod, or did he edit some files?

[@Chewbert]

I made a little mod. Might upload it but it needs some tweaks

[@Kennerfull]

@@Chewbert that would be awesome

[@Night_Haunter]

Why was haida removed:(