EU4 1.34 Riga Guide - THIS Is The NEW RICHEST NATION IN EU4

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In this video titled EU4 1.34 Riga Guide - THIS Is The NEW RICHEST NATION IN EU4 I make an EU4 Guide for Riga for Europa Universalis 4 1.34 Lions of The North. With EU4 1.34 Lions of The North 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 Riga starting moves guide or EU4 Sweden starting moves tutorial will ensure that you get a great start for yourself playing as the nation of Riga. This guide covers the opening moves, diplomacy, estates, alliances, subjects, missions, national ideas, and more! Riga is one of the best nations for playing tall, dominating northern trade, having an overpowered army, trading and more. After watching this EU4 Riga 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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[@napoleonbuonaparte8975]

I hope they make more mission trees like the Lions of the North's ones, they make countries really fun to play.

[@phanto9159]

I think these branching missions would work really well with nations that colonize. Allowing the player to choose whether they want to colonize or engage in continental affairs.

[@lazarmanojlovic845]

fr bro teutons is sooo fun

[@jenshendrickx2230]

@@phanto9159 exactly would be great to choose a branching mission to go full colonial as gb of france

[@trr3920]

I'm doing a Swedish campaign and it's the longest I've been into a game. Im currently in the 1750s

[@Sushi_355]

I feel like it's fairly easy and most likely worth it to get the "City against the state" mission from the get go. You can simply give a single privilege to the Burghers (or make sure they stay under 50% influence), and as soon as you get back to 30% crownland all you need is dev. I've been waiting until the Renaissance spawns to dev my province so I can have the institution get there a little faster, but it could very well be done earlier.

[@michaelrusso9809]

Yeah, handing out the estate mana privileges from the get-go is a huge mistake. That's a simple mission that turbocharges Riga's economy very early on. Sort of stopped paying attention after I saw that. Gives amazing ROI for developing tax early on, which should be easy since you're basically never using admin to core, and then you can just exploit the development for more money again later if you'd prefer to pump the town with trade/production/military development later at a lower cost. Takes a little while to get the ball rolling on trade dominance, and that tax income + sailor boost early on helps a lot.

[@Podzhagitel]

the way you have been putting out guides for all the updated nations seems like it has been really RIGArous

[@DylanSargesson]

13:15 if you temporarily take your merchant out of Lübeck (o'r change them to transfer) you'll not need as many ships. This is because while you're collecting there you're getting a massive "collecting trade not in home node" malus to your trade power there.

[@cobbil]

Played Sweden. Riga became my most profitable province (next to that busted copper mine). Wanted to play Riga next, so this guide is perfect!

[@Luis_Manuel_Suarez]

If you play as Riga... Can you conquer the copper province in Sweeden, make it your capital, and then take the missions that give you the modifiers? Because that would be amazing province xD

[@Luis_Manuel_Suarez]

Ohhh, the mission say that the capital must be Riga... Shame

[@jormun]

@@Luis_Manuel_Suarez Livonian Order has a similar mission improving the capital, you can do that as them. Weaker modifiers than Riga though. (edit: MUCH weaker. I missed that Riga has two separate missions.)

[@carltonleboss]

@@Luis_Manuel_Suarez Lubeck has a mission that makes the capital produces gold. This works very well if you move your capital to Dalaskogen (where the copper mine is)

[@yogurt4life358]

Lions of the North is like one of the best DLCs I swear

[@aqvamarek5316]

Top mission is most easy at gamestart, do not give any estates on burgers, and only non Crownland estates to the rest. Than simply press two times take Crownland, and you get your cathedral in 1450, when renaissance spawn... Simply develop up Riga, and use focus province button (+1 manufacturing, and massive bonus on province, cheaper development).. Other Tipp, leave Lubeck trade league the moment you have them ally, for Sweden mission in the first year.

[@Lux__Veritatis]

You kept saying through the vid "own 6 provinces" but as you noted a couple times, you need FEWER than 6, not 6. I learned that the hard way in my own playthrough. Edit: Yeah you noticed at 31:30. It's a huge facepalm when I noticed xD

[@nukalegend]

It such a common mistake I see every big eu4 player doing lol, you need less then 6 provinces. So 6 and higher gets rid of the modifier

[@TheLibermania]

You can find the "Selling Indulgence" thing also in the diplomatic building menu (where you can see every country that allies you or vassalizes you, that one).

[@iquabakaner]

It seems to me it's not worth it to take land from the Teutons and Livonians since you can just divert trade to get those trade power. You can get trade power from provinces in e.g. Lubeck trade node for even more trade income. In my game I got Riga, Gotland, Lubeck, Neva and the trade center in Pomerania (forgot the name), from there I got the majority of trade power in both the Lubeck and the Baltic nodes.

[@lainling]

Yeah, and the orders are probably what you want to feed most of the land you conquer since they're ridiculously loyal with the historical friends modifier.

[@theguyyouhate]

right gotta say Neva is a much better province to take simply because of the monument. hoinestly if you ask em the optimal 5 provinces to take would be Riga, Neva, Gotland, Sjæland and Krakow simply for those pretty decent/great monuments all on centers of trade setting you up to have your trade capital in the Lubeck node. but you shouldn't take anything from the orders. anotother huge mistake if you ask me that isn't nearly as obvious as this or giving crownland away early is going against the livonian order so quickly. you actually need to ally them early. not because you need them but because you need them to complete the "protect riga" mission which requires them to ally riga and have riga like them by 190(so you anoyingly also have to wait for them to improve relations with you). however if they don't do this mission then they can not open their mission tree and can't get rid of the last negative privilege, which just gimps you lifelong vassal.

[@overconfidentpineapple8783]

You can use the diplomacy tab in the quickbuilder to sell indulgences

[@regnum779]

Hi there Hawk!!! Nice tutorial. I liked that you went a little farther on the game this time. You should make a Genoa guide, now that you can have estates as well. It should be pretty fun! Cheers

[@kabobawsome]

Instead of doing the Estates stuff you did, I would probably rush the City Against the State mission. It's very powerful and lets you declare much earlier.

[@nenadsarac2887]

I went the colonial route, the economy is crazy, lots of trading companies make u unstoppable, the limit is 5 provinces in europe btw

[@caesarplaysgames]

How do you go colonial as Riga? Like how do you possibly get the colonial range in time to not have everything in the New World and African coast taken already? I really want to play as Riga but I want to dabble in colonization so I have something to do aside from make a ton of money lol.

[@coumarin]

​@@caesarplaysgames😮

[@reverendteej]

Red Hawk! You absolute legend! Thanks for this! Would love to see Teutonic Order guide next! While I work on Riga haha

[@Ian-iy7sl]

You make the best guides frfr. Waiting on your Poland one (hopefully you do it)

[@oscarbliek3384]

you can actually fully vassalize the teutons, but you have to declare on the teutons and co-beligerent the livonians as the cb can be used at any dev to subjugate a nation

[@makepinski]

Playing Riga is so fun. I did make 100 ducats with just 2 provinces and recommend to do the mission city against the state first because you can get there a free cathedrale before you can even build churches.

[@marcomelli3957]

hi hawk, nice guise and video as always! continue to do awesome guide please, they are most useful. i've done the teuton and they are really fun (although much blobbing in the crusade path) but i'm struggling with the livonian to get the achievement, the start it's really rough

[@ihatebalrog]

Hi from Riga! Love that my city is good now.

[@carltonleboss]

Riga is insanely good at making money. I think that taking Influence ideas would be helpful if you're planning to get a load of subjects.

[@twofacecomix]

I love playing as Riga in the new patch.

[@highadmiralbittenfield9689]

You can just leave the trade centers in your vassals hands though, right? They automatically transfer trade power to Riga regardless. Frees up provinces for monuments in Europe that you may want.

[@Meguminimal]

Yeah, shouldn't be a problem at all, but were it me I'd take those provinces and then give them back when I was ready to trade up, having multiple provinces to work with is just really handy and you have very few.

[@Luis_Manuel_Suarez]

Imagine this Riga with the Leviathan time concentrate development xD

[@ethanbrown7198]

For the algorithm! Great content.

[@mozdzierz95]

I have no words, how juicy the new DLC ist :) Good job paradox

[@mrbisshie]

I'm unsure if you can still do this, but you can spam forts in your vassals lands, since you're not paying for it. It'll make your vassal broke, so you can pay off their debt to make them like you. It'll also make it annoying as hell for enemies to have to go through all their forts. Remember, a bankrupt fort still works as well as a non-bankrupt fort!

[@xxHazzardousxx]

Vassals now destroy forts

[@aluminiumknight4038]

No, just make them a march and pay for the forts, Riga is rich enough

[@lorrdy7640]

@@aluminiumknight4038 And you never want to annex them anyway

[@kundrad8398]

I've been absent from your channel for some time due to lack of time, so I'm not sure how long are you using that method of making videos, but I really like what you did with Poland and forcing PU over Lithuania. I hope you'll stick with the idea of "likely scenarios", since it's very helpful and easier for less advanced players to follow your guide, if they prepare for what might realistically happen to them in their gameplay.

[@rothern3761]

This nation is one i most look foward towards

[@giosgaming7638]

hey hawk can you make a guide for teutonic order ever since the new dlc it got really op and you can make a guide on all the various paths you can take

[@Frozen0wl]

do you get more aggressive expansion towards countries that have a negative opinion of you?

[@IronWolf123]

Another strategy is only taking Danzig, stealing Norway and getting the Copper mine in Dalaskogen

[@fidoruh]

I'd love to see a continuation of this game

[@MickieBull]

35 restarts and counting... 34 times the Teutons allied Denmark, the one time they didn't, they allied Muscovy. Is this even doable?!

[@TheMrDisastrous]

You can ally Poland, don't cobelligerate the teutons in your war against the livonians, break the teutons' alliances in the separate peace and then attack the teutons again as soon as the truce expires.

[@lainling]

Poland is extremely likely to want to attack TO, which allows you to subjugate LO in a 1 on 1 fight once they're occupied enough to refuse the call to arms. You might be able to then take on weakened TO and their allies with LO and whatever allies you have available.

[@patrikfotboll90]

Same...10 starts today. 9 times Teutons allied Denmark. The one time they didn't I couldn't even get Lübeck as an ally in five years. And not even close to ally someone else...

[@Ih8myM8s]

I just finished a Riga campaign aswell, however the 5 cities i took where riga, danzig, lübeck, hamburg and bremen. and just divert trade from your vassals

[@ckelvin2079]

I think you don’t need to restart even if Teutonic Order or Livonia Order allied to some strong power. Develop our city mission can help you to build a sizeable army to handle Poland or Lithuania on your own. You can also ally to Moscow if you want a strong ally (i dont prefer Denmark because the new mission tree and events of Sweden has caused their fast downfall.) Ottoman tends to attack their neighbours aggressively, so even Poland took most of Teutonic Order’s land, you can take them back after Ottoman weakened them.

[@grumpydinosaur2347]

this is not how it always works.. like i had 5 games alrdy and seems always something goes extremely badly. Some weird alliances or moscovy declares war on livionian order... =/

[@aetu35]

paradox teaming up with MI was such a good choice, the new mission trees are the best

[@ihatebalrog]

I kinda disagree about Bishopric and the City option tho, why pay for the church if You can get the cathedral by then pretty easily.

[@TheTimster02]

It makes more sense to me, to fight the first war with subjugation cb against the teutons and cobeligerating the livonians. Since subjugation warscore will be maxed at 90, you can always vassalize the teutons in that war, the livonians should have a cost less than 100 by default so they can also be vassalized immediately.

[@ninonysoft6865]

Can you make a Livonian Order walkthrough? Getting a little stuck on my current playthrough.

[@derekverts394]

I think this is your highest quality(the non eu4 stuff) video so far. Keep it up.

[@KylonOrina]

You know for Tier 8 gov reform for theocracies, I can't really pick anything that's not the reform that allows you to see heirs stats in the "Choose an heir" event.

[@enKageKagen]

I would say: fight Muscovy, steal Pskov, which is the ultimate tradepower vassal (veche republic+ ideas). Feed novogrodian and Muscovite cultures, while use 3 province in Lubeck node (Sjealand, Kolding, Shlesvig)

[@andytaylor6267]

Can the Blessed Plutocracy create trade cities the way regular merchant republics can?

[@GaladorLP]

I disagree with setting estate privileges at the beginning. If you wait and seize land 2 times you can get a cathedral plus nice boosts super early which makes getting the livonians and teutons much easier Also why own the centers of trade when your vassals give you 100% of their tradepower once you do the unique government reform?

[@364Leinad]

This was fun but i'm still a new player so everything collapsed completely for me as soon as rebels spawned 😭

[@peem.p_r3037]

Poland in this scenario : Can't stop getting conquered and under carpet siege.

[@makiskanyt9269]

I love Riga, I've played so many times

[@nobulmarteau4516]

As blessed plutocratie you can also create trade city, you can integrate in your trade league.

[@SebHaarfagre]

You should not start inviting to trade league the ones that have the biggest bonus, i.e. 132 positive, you should start with the ones that barely want to, i.e. 2-3 positive... You're literally making it as hard as possible for yourself to get the most members you can as quickly as possible :D Could've had 3 or more but you get 1 and then have to wait...

[@TheLibermania]

In my own game i messed up the "Subjugate Livonian" Order CB. And before i tried a second war, they were allied to Poland, Lithuania (separately) and Denmark/Sweden/Norway (Sweden wasn't free yet). Also Muscovy guaranteed them.... "Game Over".

[@MrHaakon34]

You should probably expand infrastructure in any playtroughs where government capacity is not an issue. More manufactories and cheaper dev cost, plus a lot of other bonuses.

[@CamiloCalderon33]

Waiting for Teutonic Order guide😝😝

[@maelos61]

... it hurt when he sold to Hesse instead of Burgundy since Burgundy has way higher income...

[@PAINNN666]

Without DLC Riga almost same. So it's not because update it's because DLC.

[@derekskelton4187]

I think you missed a great opportunity to release Novgorod as a vassal.

[@kintama661]

What's the visual mod you're using?

[@liammcdermott1175]

You should do a Lithuanian guide.

[@Njorl]

Three starts as Riga, all started well enough. Then it went to hell. No major powers came close to being willing to ally me and all three times Hesse became emperor. The only protection I had was the Lubeck trade league and Hesse with paltry allies. Muscovy and Poland-Lithuania both became hostile and seemed to have no animosity toward each other. It wasn't woth continuing. There was no viable path to existing. I'll try again later.

[@tomaszlewy8827]

Championship od drifting is in Riga.

[@pavloskotridis7449]

So today we are playing..... City!

[@HazmanFTW]

Do a guide on Orleans to form the Joan of Arc nation thingy

[@LcSlXem]

You don'"t need to improve with austria, just scornful insult a rival of them, and boom, mission done before unpausing the game

[@lainling]

Eh it's not like you're looking to declare in December, might as well save the prestige.

[@Charlemagne800]

Bro Kindly Make A Guide On Forming Japan

[@ChrisMcKee087]

I personally like the idea of exploration/expansion as the third and fourth idea group, make your way down to Africa, Asia and Indonesia and basically control all of the trade in the world while only having 5 provinces in Europe.

[@joshtaylor9626]

Nice

[@user-se9uc8um2g]

can you do Novgorod tutorial please

[@davidwilliams7552]

Its not that unusual now for poland not to PU lithuania.... in my current Norway run, Lithuania has been PUd by Castile.

[@maxnepomuk3137]

Which dlcs do I need to follow the giude?

[@patrikfotboll90]

I don't know man. Been trying this for three days now. 30-40 restarts. Teutons and Denmark ally each other 97% of the time. Sometimes Livonian even ally Lithuania before I can attack. I've tried to do a workaround by not co-belligerent the other nation in the start. But then Poland comes and eat up Teutons. Or Muscovy/Novgorod comes and starts a war with Livonian Order. I feel this is the most unreliable guide made by you yet. I still love your guides of course but this guide in particular is just far too unrealistic when you have to rely on something that happens, at most, 3% of the starts. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do in the start instead? Should I just give up going after Teutons provinces and maybe try Reval+Gotland+Stockholm+?

[@daniilvinogradnik5000]

Same shit :( The first war is nearly impossible, livonians tend to make strong alliances

[@jasonlange9637]

I just did this, the easiest way is to kinda derp until you get that mission in the lower right that gives you like 20 ducats every month and + 30 force limit, then built up to force limit, beat up livonia when they were being attacked by somene else, then allied denmark, curried enough favors with them to break their alliance with teutons, then me and livonia were able to beat the teutons.

[@D4rkTwelve]

i cant even get ally :( no denmark no poland idk what i do wrong i do everything on video tho they do not accept me for -5 or 10 negative reasons lack army power etc

[@djordjejovanovic4540]

came here after two months because i encountered the problem with Teutons having more than 100% warscore on all provinces, to see that i need Poland to take a province or two from them T_T

[@numerpk212]

36 force limit as an opm. Opm that have 5 provinces xD

[@jormun]

I wonder if they changed the willingness of the Polish AI to subjugate countries in this patch. In my Livonian Order run they neither took Lithuania nor Moldavia. Made my job a lot easier lol.

[@greenmushroom4258]

Do a Tibet run and keep the theocracy!

[@SebHaarfagre]

You keep mentioning "not more than 6" and "6 provinces in Europe" but the in game tooltip says you must have LESS THAN 6. Which is correect? 5 or less or 6 or less? The tooltip and you can not be correct at the same time Edit: Never mind, sorry.

[@SeverusFelix]

Hawk, my favorite Hippophobe

[@xozneenzox8485]

thats a big france there

[@giffica]

I really don’t get why you never use estates properly.

[@filip6344]

Does enyone knows how to fix eu4 bug that's makes ernig achievements impossible, when I try playing ironman it says eu4 is running a mod or is altered in other way, somthing like that. Thanks

[@teathesilkwing7616]

Try reinstalling it? Idk

[@luboschymynec4340]

Offering indulgents to Bohemia is very sus

[@andreasanastasiadis2950]

I really like watching you, but this "guide" is in my opinion not thought through and optimised at all. My Reasoning: The main Mission of Riga is "Develop our City" which needs alot of buildings and dev. a church/cathedral is one of them. The Mission "Papal Embassy" also requires a church/cathedral and unlocks the mechanic to sell indulgences to all katholic nations. Which is needed to do five times for the Mission "Sell Indulgence" for unlocking the rest of the Missiontree of riga and gives a katholic seet. So naturaly you would want to get a church/cathedral as fast es possible to first unlock the rest of the Missiontree and sell es much indulgence to the rich nations as possible. ( having a katholic seet unlocks the estate to get more yearly papal influence meaning more possible sold indulgence.) The Mission "The City against the State" has as a reward an instantly build cathedral in Riga with some more bonuses. This Mission is therefore the most importend at the start of the Game to do! This leads to not summen the diat since it increases the influence over the Threshold for 10 years of the burgers, not giving out the +1 monthy Manapoints and in general no estates to the burgers. Seasing the Krownlands 2 times gives enough krownland for the Mission so its doable in 1449. Not summaning the diat leads to rebels by seasing krownlands leading to not disband the kavalery at the very start. (disbanding them after the rebeling is fine though since it costs alot of money to refill if thay get damaged.) Doing the Mission "Contact the Emperor" is very easily done my insulting a rival of the Austrians. Doing so gives more Time to use the diplomate to get Friends and imprufe Relations for Alliances. Once the Mission "Contact with the Hansa" is done. It is Recommended to Leave the Tradeleague since it gives only protaction but takes alot of tradepower away. But Protaction is now granted by being in the HRE. Leaving the Tradeleague will boost the tradepower in the baltic sea up to about 10% which the Mission "Compete with the Swedes" needs giving you about 100+ ducates. these ducates can be used to build marketplace if the tech is reached or upgrade the tradecenter to 2. These two options will help to get 3% tradepower in Lübeck along with tradeships (5). This way you are on the +2 balance in about 1446 with lowered armee maintainance. And are able to finish the Mission "Develop our City" in about 1460 giving you a balance of 24+ with 30k unites. As the 6 provinces i recomend having and taking Riga, Gotland, Saeland, Neva, London and Lisabon. Since it enables playing colonial because the limitation is only on European Lands. These Provinces all have Great Monuments that boost the Trade. Sorry for the Long Text but thats my Guide to Riga i guess

[@cinnanyan]

Agreed, but it's actually >less than< 6 provinces, so maximum 5 in Europe. Also, Burgher loans reduce mercantilism and trade power, so I recommend to avoid them.

[@DaedricGod]

i just wanted to point out that france was a monster in this game

[@AlberYouTube]

7:07 I don't know what the hell you're talking about here. You literally can't run away from Livonian order because of their forts. I can only walk onto their forts and then wait for the Teutonic Order to walk up to Riga and wipe out my army. Can't mil access Lithuania either because of fort control. Teutons will walk up there every single time

[@markstrategy8156]

My Lubeck with 260+ income in 1530s is crying around...

[@samwill7259]

My brain has been broken by the internet. I sat here for a whole minute trying to think of a "deez nuts" style joke with the word Riga before giving up.

[@SyahmiRosli]

"If the Teutonic Order are allied to any powerful nations as co-belligerents, restart" They have allied Denmark the 5 times I've restarted. Bruh. Do I just keep restarting or do I give up learning Riga?

[@jihadinternetdefenceforce]

This guide is outdated now

[@dankman996]

Day 3 asking for new poland guide

[@wisp6826]

I think it would be better to give Finland Stockholm and take dalaskogen for yourself. You will divert trade from everyone anyway.

[@Njorl]

How are people allying powerful nations as Riga? I can't come anywhere near allying any nation more powerful than Wolgast. I max out relations, take religious diplomats and I'm atill at -30 to form an alliance. By 1446 every one of them has the "too many relations" modifier. There's no chance to rival a rival, no royal marriage to boost the chance. I can support Swedish independence, but they generally wait forever to rebel.

[@lorefox201]

i don't wanna become protestant tho ;-;

[@pepelespy6163]

POV: Going on another save to create thumbnail

[@torgomaghanyan7633]

Year 8 of waiting for EU4 devs to update Middle East countries

[@topproducts9976]

Since when does the monopoly man have no glasses?

[@your-mom-irl]

Hes become rich enough to afford laser surgery

[@yamameeven967]

Um...you ended the video with 51 dev~ where is the rest? the thumbnail said 1000

[@joaquingarcia915]

trolled

[@kryphons9138]

Eh Lübeck is still stronger, simply because the Lübeck node is infinitely better than the baltic one. Baltic misses out on all of western and central europe

[@jinxreaper9158]

Feel like this isn't a great guide, seems rushed and like hawk was making a guide for riga more to just get one out asap. Not going for City against the state is such a terrible idea. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think this was a good guide

[@Prometosermejor]

I don´t know why you were so nagging. Belozero is still there!