EU4 1.32 Brandenburg Guide - THIS IS HOW To Form An OP PRUSSIA!

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In this video titled EU4 1.32 Brandenburg Guide - THIS IS HOW To Form An OP PRUSSIA! I make an EU4 Guide for Brandenburg for Europa Universalis 4 1.32 Origins. With EU4 1.32 Origins releasing the meta and the starting moves for many nations on the map has changed, so of course new and up to date guides are needed. This EU4 Brandenburg starting moves guide or EU4 Brandenburg starting moves tutorial will ensure that you get a great start for yourself playing as the nation of Brandenburg. This guide covers the opening moves, diplomacy, estates, alliances, subjects, missions, national ideas, the HRE, forming Prussia and more! Brandenburg is one of the best nations to form Prussia with, have an overpowered army with extremely high combat ability, discipline and morale, having a powerful economy focused on production, forming Germany, dominating Europe and more! After watching this EU4 Austria guide you will ensure a great start for yourself, and you will have an easy and fun campaign. The save file is available for all Tier 1 and above KZbin members in the save-games Discord channel.
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[@TheRedHawk]

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[@Luis_Manuel_Suarez]

Korea

[@person1796]

Poland

[@colejones822]

You should do cologne

[@zhengmengao7002]

Really want to see a guide of Ming

[@muratonuryilmaz5385]

Why are you not leave one calavry for shock and flanking?

[@TheSketchyJ]

Man I was literally about to watch your 1.31 Brandenburg guide to start my Prussia campaign off and now you release this... amazing luck 😂

[@TheRedHawk]

Good luck!

[@TheSketchyJ]

@@TheRedHawk thanks! Love your guides man, they really got me stuck into eu4 😊

[@tranium67]

Happens to me too💀

[@blogovitchxyz]

Well nothing ever seems to go exactly to plan unless you want to keep restarting until it is perfect. I accept some deviations and use the “guides” as “guidelines”.

[@starganstar2016]

@@blogovitchxyz that’s for sure the way to follow these guides, the rng can seriously fuck you over

[@ZetaArcticana4006]

When you do a-z Brandenburg you should pull a 180 and just form Poland instead.

[@lessthanonegaming]

Yoo it was you

[@ZetaArcticana4006]

@@lessthanonegaming indeed

[@copiusgrimus6671]

The expansion of x3-y3 is (X-y)(x2+xy+y2)

[@ashypixels8709]

difference of perfect squares n’ shit

[@wh1pper457]

I hate cube expansion

[@chudstation6913]

Wrong.

[@pileofcheese5017]

@@chudstation6913no, he's quite correct

[@achdiescheie3314]

@@chudstation6913 stop trolling

[@AyatollahofRockNRolla]

Been playing for years but I still find myself looking these up for good "how to guides" on where to begin my campagins. I really liked this one and seeing as I've only played Brandenburg twice, I'll be starting a run tonight. Great content as always

[@aidanlatham8935]

Worked on a Brandenburg->Prussia game last week!! Couldn't resist expansion once I became Emperor and allied the Ottomans, currently have all but Munchen to form Germany and completely annexed Poland/Lithuania, the Baltics, and Bohemia/Slovakia. Very fun, glad to see an updated guide!

[@nicolass.5275]

Another interesting thing to do instead of restarting if Poland can declare on the Teutons, it is to vassalize them and get their cores back in exchange of favors. It spares some AE and weakens Poland

[@person1796]

Thank you for making these guides,as a new player it really helps a lot

[@TheRedHawk]

Enjoy!

[@lemonylemon2289]

Hey redhawk, just wanted to say thanks for making awesome videos and guides. Your A to Z series taught me how to play, and now I’m playing a Jianzhou campaign and just formed Qing china, and became the emperor :D

[@lokikai2047]

I appreciate this as someone who just picked up the game

[@TheRedHawk]

Enjoy!

[@taknaoko9888]

Haha I literally started a Brandenburg to Prussia using your 1.31 guide and apart from the Bohemian PU i got such good rng that it was almost 1 to 1 with your guide. Will take all the new stuff to my campaign. Really enjoy your hard work, keep it up!

[@masterelitant6065]

dang man i can already notice the increase in the quality of these vids, and your talking is way more formal and smooth too, keep it up😃😃😃

[@shxggy.7872]

I always struggled with Brandenburg, really hyped to see the video.

[@TheRedHawk]

Enjoy!

[@wentlyu6707]

Excellent turtorial, thx

[@cannedjd3289]

Red Hawk really had an EuIV glow up. Watching you get better video by video is really cool! Next time you start, you could exploit the tax dev in the province you develope twice, to go from -0% --> 0 and 4.9%--> 5, to get an early game eco boost and make deving cheaper, same goes for institution devving

[@mrstopanimationguy]

Definitely had to restart a few times for this guide but it really works! I wonder if a Hungary guide would be cool or not, I think their mission tree is pretty cool.

[@Neoplasie1900]

I personally prefer to go for Innovative into Offensive ideas first. Me being the pleb that I am having all those tech cost buffs from Inno early on just feels great. I also love the siege ability you get from the Inno/Offensive combo. But this is a really nice guide. Enjoy your content a lot. Thanks for covering the variety of content you put out for EU4.

[@Fraaank89]

Great strategy, but for it to work there are way too many planets that have to align. On an average game, all this does not happen easily, making this a restart nightmare in my opinion! Nevertheless, if all these things go right, it just rocks!

[@Leivve]

Something you forgot to mention about the PU, is that it happens when your heir comes to power, since your Heir is the ruler of those nations. So if you get rid of your Heir, or they die, you lose out on the PU on them.

[@maj.kingkong3004]

I finally formed Prussia! Thanks! Excellent guide.

[@yehorus]

We need EU4 1.32 Muscovy to OP Russia with big innovativeness guide

[@ser6Ijvolk]

Opening with Quality and Economic is really only for the event that you wan to roleplay tall historic borders Prussia with space marines or go for the discipline stacking achievement. Diplomatic would usually be your first idea set in the HRE, because expanding there is a nightmare without it.

[@misticue3403]

I would love to see an Naples guide or Mewar!

[@samuel.8250]

I don't know why but EU4 content quite literally makes me sleep... not an insult or anything, I really get sleepy from this... thank you for making my nap possible

[@electricVGC]

For a second I thought this was A to Z and I was like wow I didn't think we were this far into B yet

[@Tobito131]

Nice series. Sub.

[@VadanManadis]

You sort of sound like you are in a hurry in this guide, loved it anyway, keep up the awesome work!

[@behradmontazer758]

Great nice nice great vid!

[@dango6266]

I had an epic time by my self as Prussia. With some intense luck I was able to vassalize Danzig before they were vassalized by Poland. They had all of East Prussia. Silesia was easy to get too.

[@user-up4zp6qb3g]

Yes Germanic lore. Love this nation, amazing video.

[@TheLazyman555]

The only other thing is I would recommend moving the capital to Lubeck to get a better trade income

[@TheRedHawk]

Yeah this is true I forgot to mention it

[@TheLibermania]

Isn't the Trade Capital it's own thing? Lübeck as capital of Prussia sounds cursed to me.

[@ZetaArcticana4006]

@@TheLibermania why play eu4 if you don’t make something cursed every campaign?

[@Konleb]

Do not move the capital, only move your trade hotspot to Lübeck.

[@lorrdy7640]

Why conquer Lubeck?! Vasall it and take their trade power

[@MagicalGadget]

Could you do a guide on how to dismantle the HRE? I know it'll be different with different nations but maybe you could demonstrate it with one nation and talk about some more general principles too

[@CobytheBald187]

Good tutorial, I had to restart like 10 times because Wolgast would end up allying Lithuania

[@_delastern3163]

could you PLEASE do a Teutonic Order guide? I'm doing a campaing with them rn

[@rowanmales3430]

On my own run, I had some crappy luck. Wolgast was allied to Burgandy AND the neumark event didn't fire. I had to declare through a claim on Neumark to occupy the Tutons where I managed to get almost everything occupied before Poland attacked and occupied 2-3. Except poland was at war, and as I didn't have any access to the baltic sea I couldn't get any of their provinces in the peacedeal. But I couldn't peace out or Poland would take it all. So I declared war on Stettin which had grown into Wolgast by taking... the province of Wolgast. Spent time coring it, then could finally get the Tuton provinces except that Poland had peaced out the year before taking the province of... Dramsburg. RIP the mission claims for getting Dramsburg and Neumark together, something normally so easy (Poland was going to be a long-term ally). To add a little salt in the wound more than the massive amount of war exhaustion, manpower depletion, and gold loss I'd taken from like 5-6 years of permanent war and conflict? Well, how better than to give me the option to buy just neumark (and only neumark) a year after our war, and the extra debt I needed to take on to pay for it was caused by the Tutons in the first place... Still, as my first time seriously playing in the HRE (which I'd always avoided except for Austria due to the AE) it could have been worse. I could have done it before I had the experience to survive all that bad RNG.

[@tinyveil]

Red Hawk summoning the diet heals my soul.

[@reeseman1932]

I actually just started my first brandenburg campaign earlier this morning, before seeing this video. Everything went well until Poland took half of the Teutons

[@feeldog1019]

If you allied Austria or someone else powerful in Europe it won’t be that hard to beat Poland

[@fem530]

Next nation? Ez Prussia part 2, I wanna see you continue this :P

[@NeoMicy]

Lübeck. I dont really need Guides but I enjoy to watch them anyway.

[@IAmSwatchingYou]

Is anyone else struggling to play as brandenburg in 1.33? I've been looking for some good guides to follow but after several restarts it's really hard to meet all the conditions redhawk mentioned in the video. Usually poland won't ally me (even after royal marrying them, and then they go and ally someone that rivaled me) and the first war against one of my rivals is really difficult as they tend to ally two other nations, not just one. Is there a more beginner friendly way to play brandenburg that doesn't require cheesing and near perfect starts?

[@TheMJfromTN]

First attempt: Wolgast allies Bohemia. Second attempt: Wolgast allies Poland. Third attempt: Wolgast allies Lithuania. This is probably why I don't play Brandenburg often...

[@Obloms]

Early on Cavalry is excellent for its shock. Also, you had Influence advisor available :).

[@HenriqueRJchiki]

Not really because you'll fight enemies roughly the same size as you, cavalry is only decent if you plan on stackwiping smaller enemies a lot, otherwise it's not worth the money unless you have cavalry boosting ideas.

[@huginnmuninn2155]

You can often get an agenda to take a port in Wolgast, so you can attack them before the neumark event fires - If not, fabricate and declare. As soon as Neumark fires, you can trigger the mission and get the other claims - If Neumark doesn't fire, either annex as normal and pay the dip, or restart. And if you couldn't humiliate any rival for the age objective, leaving Wolgast with one province and Humiliating them is the better option - You don't need all five provinces to trigger the next mission.

[@blogovitchxyz]

I found your 1.31 guide better than this one in one way - it actually demonstrated (not just talked about) how to turn Protestant and form Prussia. IDK why, but the first time I did Brandenburg>Prussia a couple of years ago it seemed easy. This time I when I converted to Protestantism, I ended up with 3 Disasters building simultaneously!! Religious Conflict, Peasant's Revolt, and a third one I can't remember but it gave me a -3 Stab hit - OUCH. Thank God you can only have one active disaster at a time, but helping the player navigate the transition from Catholic Brandenburg to Protestant Prussia is definitely helpful, imo.

[@Thelieutenet85]

I was wandering if you ever thought of doing a wallachia or moldavia guide? I am trying to achieve the draculas revenge achievement but are having a hard time with it.

[@shep2168]

Cool guide, how did you manage to have no demand unlawful territories? Is it your alliance with Austria?

[@karlwittenburg5868]

Yes, the emperor shouldn’t demand unlawful territory if you two are allies, however sometimes they still do

[@juandeag2306]

I used to shun other EU4 content creators because I thought Radio Res, Reman, Alzabo, and Quarbit are the only interesting channels out there. Glad I took the time to view some of your videos. Great job dude. Please continue.

[@felixippach1931]

hey, just a short question. What kind of Add ons do you use in eu4 ? Cause if i play it, i dont have lots of the options you coose like the option you choose in Sternberg

[@b88mtorba]

Literally started a Brangenburg campaign 10 minutes ago

[@johnnyzhu9867]

Although I have played brandenburg more than hundred times, I still enjoy this guide

[@karrr--]

I literally started a brandenburg campaign just now and forgot what to do so I searched for a guide and boom

[@riokisna]

Quality - Economics - Trade is my favorite 3 idea to maximize economics with policy while i have a good quality of army..

[@gunarliepins]

Great guide as always! But for the record of course I will continue to bug you under every video for the TO Baltic Crusader guide until you do it :P Come on they're right next door! ;)

[@Muck006]

19:40 You forgot one reason to keep Poland around: fighting Bohemia! Delaying that one carries the risk of letting Austria PU them and you REALLY REALLY REALLY want Silesia, which is an economic giant and their province with Rudohori, Plzen and Cheb is very valuable too. The nations in the northwest are small ... but Bohemia MIGHT be expanding into Hungary and get that second gold mine, which would make them really powerful ... so "beating up Bohemia" is important!

[@johnnyzhu9867]

You dont need to restart if poland took teuton lands without you. You can simply vassalize teuton and exploiting return core province mechanic from 1.31.

[@evanroper6099]

Legit thought this was the A to Z campaign before I realized there weren't enough disasters.

[@TheRedHawk]

Lmao

[@notyouraveragelink5391]

Y'know... I honestly wonder if you're going to follow your own Brandenburg guide when you eventually get to it on your AtoZ series.

[@KKsKrissvs121]

It's usually better to expand into germany when starting as BB. This is bc you can usually vassalize TO after their war with plc. Bc of this you can focus on allying Austria + 2 electors to become emperor. After becomming emperor you dow Poland and call Austria in to take the provinces. In my last BB game i had 150+ AE with most of HRE before taking back Teutonic lands. 5 years later or so (1549 ) i changed to protestant for printing press. Its crucial to stay Catholic as long as you can so you get less AE with allies / GP's like France, Aus, Eng, Den, Swe, Pol etc.

[@MrDannytrand]

Can you please do a guide starting with Grenada? :D thaaaaaanks!

[@spencerssstuff]

What should you do if none of the wars at the beginning are easy to Humiliate?

[@setaripantheon8801]

*PLEASE DO A Georgia GUIDE!!!* 🙏🙏🙏

[@nemo10110]

Wolfgast is always allied to Austria, so i don't know if this strat can work now...

[@bobtucker1616]

What I like to do as brandenburg is to neutralize Bohemia early on with Austria and go Hussite. It has some great military aspects, including allowing a resting army tradition of 100(or at least close. Cant recall off the top of my head) 20% national manpower modifier, and a 10% war score cost reduction against other religions. Once you unlock the holy war cb with religious ideas that is very OP as it basically gives you claims on the entire planet.

[@zafarahmed3468]

I just started a Prussia campaign with the extended family mods

[@TheRedHawk]

Have fun!

[@Tirvalo]

The Red Hawk: "And this is the event" at 1447 Me still waiting it at 1455 when Teutonic has lost against Poland for the 99th time: I want your luck.

[@achdiescheie3314]

Same for me. Trying to save scum at the moment. I personally think he did the same thing. And this guide ONLY works if you get neumark aroun 1447...

[@wowgabber123]

took me 6 restarts but was the 6th one was super quick neumark fired feb 1446 I attacked wolfgast however they where allied to Teutons. poland helped out with them. war was done before 1449 ..

[@glassface9953]

Well, in my BB run I ended up as the emperor by accident and then I inherited burgundy and the lowlands. Because of the governing capacity limits on forming prussia, I ended up with 700/250 gov cap when I switched. Not worth it at all lmao

[@casualfolk7066]

I have tried this play through as Brandenburg over five times, and I’m unable to replicate it. My loans put me in enormous deficit, which means that if I don’t want to go bankrupt I have to delete my armies, which will get me invaded. I’ve had Bohemia declare war on me twice, because of which I went so far into debt that I was forced into bankruptcy. Both Austria and Poland suddenly became domineering and unallied me, leaving me even more vulnerable to invasion. I don’t know any solutions to any of these problems, if anyone knows something on how to get rid of debt/pay off loans please let me know.

[@Mars_junior]

in 1.33 when working with estates you need to be careful with crownland. With all these choices you end up giving up too much crownland. Not sure what was changed.

[@user-ii8od4wu5p]

Already restarted like 12 times because everyone gets nice allies and the first war of humiliation drags on, and Denmark is always declaring on the Teutonic :/

[@TheDallaslp]

I just can't seem to get this to work. Wolgart is allied to Austria and Poland all the time... I think I spend more then 2 hours already

[@amir_nazemi]

Definitely take admin idea so you don't struggle with admin Cap when you form Prussia

[@attilabalazs5087]

Can you please explain what this 'dev 1 diplo in a province' at the beginning is.

[@aronsnr7714]

QQ, can you see what DLC the Red Hawk has for this? i only have vanilla game and i was wondering what DLC i need to get and witch one is not necessery

[@onlyliesandabottleofshit2009]

its not that bad if poland declares on the teutons before you are able to, from my experience they never full annex them and you can get them with minimal AE as a vassal. Then just get their cores back in exchange for favors or break alliance and take cores back by force. resulting in less admin cost, AE and a vassal with stronger troops than the HRE minors

[@giannislainas5187]

Hey,im traditionaly a very hard player,but i still watch guides online!

[@kaiserinvictoria8085]

How did you lend lands even though you haven't got atleast 10% of land?

[@user-jf8id7kw5k]

The most important thing for Prussia to build is actually court house and to save goverment capacity and open the administrative ideas... Otherwise, you will see -100-% relationships improvements, will be pretty fun to see the coalition explodes and the militarization stays at 0 lol.

[@Maharaja-pi8hw]

Can you do video on Sikh Pun achievement as Sirhind and then forming Bharat?

[@ItsKrypticYT]

Hey so I need help with something, when I click on a state like Neumark, I don't have any edicts, so what do I do?

[@josephcola9662]

I like the starting strategy, but personally, since I *know* I can't become Prussia until the Reformation fires anyways (barring some shenanigans where I get really lucky with a Hussite Bohemia spawning a center of Reformation), I start by forcing the union on Bohemia. I just promise the Poles land and then don't give it to them. The Ottomans will eventually rip the PLC a new ×××hole anyways, so I can always be a carrion bird and steal Prussia then. The gold province and the sheer amount of land you can get for a relatively low amount of AE is more than worth the opportunity cost.

[@mashroomghost8456]

Yeah that was a good strategy, but in 1.32 you get insane amount of AE with pu's. After taking Bohemia you will be pretty much blocked from any real expansion for almost like 20 years or so

[@josephcola9662]

@@mashroomghost8456 Still worth it for me, especially since it bones Austria.

[@Aethelos]

@@josephcola9662 Please don't, the Habsburgs bone enough.

[@josephcola9662]

@@Aethelos Metaphorically, not literally. I'm not touching *that* particular family tree with a ten-foot pole.

[@TheUnluckyTrio]

I got the fate of neumark in the first month...lol

[@rileywilsonepicarcher9995]

Hey man, could you please update this? New estate mechanics and teuton mission tree definitely change some things up for Brandenburg, plus allying Austria is harder. Thanks man!

[@casualfolk7066]

How do I deal with all the loans? I constantly have loans from my wars that I can’t pay off, and when I sell land I lose tax income. If I attack other countries to seize money, it always costs more to fight them. When I turn off my military maintenance I instantly get rebels, even when my unrest is low.

[@SpicyMapping]

12:17 I can’t believe they put despacito in eu4

[@thecritic860]

Hey, I’m playing a Brandenburg/Prussia campaign because you convinced me to when I saw your last guide about Brandenburg. Edit: Already have Prussia, Pomerania, Brandenburg, Bohemia, northern Poland, and a bunch of vassals that I’m building and annexing.

[@thecritic860]

Strange thing though, I was still able to use the Bohemia PU strategy from this old save and get them without too much AE, really weird.

[@wingsum5351]

Instruction unclear, ended up becoming the emperor of HRE

[@jean-julesbernhard5844]

1'21'' How do you sell titles with 0% of owned land ? Sorry if it's a noob question.

[@edim108]

One thing I do different is that I don't keep Protestant. On the current patch it's considerably weaker than Catholic so I only get Protestant after three centers appeared, form Prussia and switch back to Catholic either manually or through zealots (whichever is the fastest).

[@toreq1127]

Smh you lose half the larp value this way like bro ur prussia, not gonna be more op than that is it really worth to sacrifice your polish/bohemian terroriser rp for some gay morale or papal bonuses?

[@GingerBeard31]

How are you selling titles with no Crown lands at the beginning?

[@leonarduskarolusiuliustant7498]

This was the previous patch, it was still possibile to sell titles with any amount of crown lands. Now you need at least 10%.

[@Cbobley]

I want to become Germany so I guess I gotta dismantle the HRE as early as possible. I'm trying to get the Palatinate elected as the Emperor so I don't have to fight Austria as early, though.

[@Ph03nix01]

I am stuck at minute 1.24 already. cant seize titels when i got no cown land - sounds about right since i gave it all away earlier.

[@SaviOr747]

It is so hard to get Wolgast and Teutons without guarantees or strong allies. Also in 1.33 Selling land doesnt owrk anymore, so better takem burgher loans and pay back 2 of them instant.

[@toreq1127]

How bad is the ae from puing bohemia in 1450s now, I'd probably go for that in my game but then remembered the ae got terrible in 1.32

[@dukeofwelington]

I tried this in 1.33.3 but I couldn't sell titles only seize land. After picking what everyone gets. so, I just seized land and now my burgs and clergy are a minor inconvenience away from "screw you guys I'm going home" then got war decked by bohemia cuz to heck with prussia i guess XD

[@DanielStaniforth]

I've been trying for over an hour and every single time Wolgast allies either Poland, Lithuania or Bohemia. It makes me simply not want to play when the dice aren't in your favour in the first month of the game

[@V2011F]

hey I can't sell titles after the development phase of your plan

[@savber99]

can someone please tell me who is the guy on the thumbnail

[@IronWolf123]

Can you do Brittany or Navarra?

[@swagbelly7740]

u killed me when u took economic ideas instead of diplo XD