EU4 1.36 Dominate Europe by the Early 1500's as France

[@Gigantotherium]

Seeing the Ottomans slowly creeping West through the Balkans and into Germany and Italy without any comment from you is like a horror movie.

[@Theplaymaker57]

I had to edit out my comments about it haha. vid was getting to long

[@albionjogos]

​@@Theplaymaker57You can make longer videos to be honest, I think a large part of the EU4 audience watches videos longer than 40 minutes anyway

[@achilleasyfantis6870]

Are the ottomans creeping to the balkans or france to a world conquest? I think ottomans are afraid.

[@migamaos3953]

@@albionjogosnah, bad advise. Keeping it under 30 is best for the algo and any viewers that aren’t hardcore

[@noahpafford4938]

Really it’s smart to let his war score cost reduction help there against another religion rather than fighting fellow Catholics after the age of discovery. Totally planned…

[@noxfelis5333]

Fyi, the mission with Jean Bureau can be done by any general named Jean Bureau, so make shure to name any general Jean Bureau until you have that mission done.

[@Speedster___]

I love just randomly naming a general Groogy as he’s definitely the jokester of the team imo but he’s 15 pip in one of my early campugns

[@Lady_Rhea]

Jesus Christ that was beautiful… It’s always really nice to see the HRE dissolving quickly

[@johssjrvad4730]

Pro gamer move: When burgundian inheritence will fire, ally as many electors so whe austria declares war you can dismantle hre after siegeing vienna

[@aguy3664]

the way you expand so quick is wild to me

[@abdellatifmegharbel9595]

For anyone wondering about his loan situation leaving him in a bad place of debt spiral you have to consider 1. 10 loans is really not a big deal and 2. Once he finishes up with hre he has almost complete control of saxony, rhineland, lubeck, wien, bordeaux, north sea, and champagne all feeding into the English channel which he has majority of. He will be rolling in money really soon

[@Speedster___]

Also refinancing. So many campaigns have been saved by fighting a decently big country taking all money paying off all burgher loans getting new loans and paying off all bank loans

[@Maceman1990]

Not moving the trade Centre till very late made things unnecessary complicated 😂.

[@Roblovjc]

I’ve had situations with over 150 loans and I was fine

[@punishedwhirligig3353]

people thinking 10 loans is alot should play Najd or some other nation with trash land surrounded by more trashland

[@aeryka]

Great guide! Also thank you for all your guides, I did my first WC this week as Aragon->Sardinia-Piedmont->Spain->Rome and I used several things I learned from your videos! Keep up the awesome work.

[@MilkIsTheDrink]

@@ismetsemihuzuner9471 bruh

[@DylanSargesson]

2:10 I'm pretty sure that mission is each appqnage having either +125 relations OR less than 10 LD. It's just formatted weirdly.

[@fawkewe]

2:01 yo lets go, someone else who thought of this lol. Although its worth mentioning you can actually do this in the second war after taking Ireland (Assuming you don’t betray Scotland yet), which allows you to also take Ceuta, if you don’t wait for Surrender of Maine.

[@enumi-rp2dc]

Beautiful Big Blue Blob

[@kapitanbumm344]

voltaires nightmare is the real eu4

[@luckymikemadziar]

Thank you for this. Got BBB in 1486 with no coalition

[@duartegon]

Wow! Just wow! At the beginning I was confused as to why not get provence the friendly way by PU'ing and let it absorb Lorraine, then the -15% ae impact showed; and its way bigger deal in an aggressive strat like this.

[@OddlySpecificGaming]

“We’re gonna be a little bit over-extended” counter: broken due to over use

[@velteau]

Dismantling the HRE without dismantling the HRE 👌

[@Speedster___]

Facts

[@derdude6214]

This gave me so much anxiety man, great video 👍

[@reissumanlet2085]

Should play a drinking game where you take a shot everytime this man says "i'm a bit overextended"

[@kryloth3628]

I don't even know how you could manage to run a country in a -50 gold deficit with more than 10 loans Even i'm already scared if i got more than five loans or having only -1 gold deficit

[@oilydoubloonz6001]

At some point, you end up taking so many loans you dont even look at your balance. When you go deep, you keep going deeper

[@grabbers6520]

I would recommend trying a loan heavy game with constant expansion, they're loads of fun in their own way and make you feel less scared of loans. Loans are often very useful and should be used from time to time

[@rajew5356]

Taking loan is addiction . If u play enough eu4 you will use to it . Sooner better i think

[@Mornomgir]

This was great. Tried and failed something similar several times. Gonna nick some of yer ideas here. Did however do something very similar with Bohemia the other day. Managed to get voted away as emperor so i figued. Well i guess ill just burn it all then. Managed to botch that later in the game even so. I always run into this weird 50 year lull usually later 1600´s or early 1700s when im just locked, stuck or have missed something minor like building a proper economy along the way.

[@aldmeripatriot7703]

How many restarts did it take for you before neither Burgundy nor Castile were rivaled to you?

[@yexin4093]

One Edit would be to feed Burgundy a lot of land before you get a union with them

[@deleeson]

Such a gluttonous campaign, I love it.

[@subboid]

Couldn’t see if you did it but you can get some extra improve relations with the merchant in each node

[@cola2293]

FYI you can carpet siege by using "v" once you split your troops no need to use esc and control group

[@egontiedeman761]

you can give alencon to orleans and click the event so you dont lose a stab and there is no more alencon vassal

[@carltonleboss]

Nevers automatically becomes your subject when you get the Burgundian Inheritance.

[@bernardoesteves2374]

I normaly get the pu with Provence because of their mission King of rene that gives them.cores on naples and vasal feed them naples for almost no ae, i dont know if you find this a viable option as france

[@Theplaymaker57]

Certainly Viable, France is one of those nations that has several viable routes, which I like

[@aguy3664]

he wanted to stack ae reduction so this wouldnt be that good

[@TheFameMonster7XD]

can you pls slowly explain carpet siege tip at 20:40

[@ReggieWurz]

I'm gonna take a shot every time he says overextended/overextension

[@ReggieWurz]

shabsbfhd bsbsbduwo18 +#72 jsion snan7avn SB what she amakabd h

[@h.michael304]

I love this channel, so good eu4 content not like other only one video, then never play the nation again

[@lookasetbella]

I have to use your way to reduce AE with my strategy at Client State from Mercenary Ideas: P

[@Theplaymaker57]

That sounds interesting. I've actually thought of a few HRE Client state ideas. Something along the lines of HRE as Byzantium(They get client states early) conquer a bunch of land, such as ottos and make every province a HRE minor via clients

[@HyperScorpio8688]

Not getting the PU over Provence makes me angy

[@Infidi]

waiting for 50 years to annex a subject you need annexed for a mission makes me angrier

[@dinkle3206]

This actually makes big blue blob look possible, i feel like im gonna try for bbb with that, i just might not release provence to get avignon so im able to keep those core provinces without integrating which would take forever. im not sure if itll work, but i pray it does

[@luckymikemadziar]

You and I are on the exact same page!

[@koolkrafter5]

BBB was really easy, even without the new missions. Just eat Ireland, Scotland, and England's land, and then get into Scandinavia by claiming Orkney.

[@dinkle3206]

@@koolkrafter5 yeah, i actually ended up doing it accidentally

[@adamberrada5017]

The problems i would restart from this guy just doesnt care

[@fernandolugo3338]

I fail to get the mission port of calai, especially the part of having more than 20% off my ships being heavy ships i can't calculate it correctly, my limit of ships is 44 but i have 55 what do i do? Edit: i fix the problem

[@Speedster___]

Why give Levies when nobles influence is such a problem? In first English war what did you do with Portugal? Also 6:12 shift click!!!

[@unluckos]

7:26 why you shouldnt core that? doesnt it gives u bonuses if u state that?

[@Tyrathca]

it is cored, just not full stated, it's to save admin points/stay under gov cap I think

[@unluckos]

@@Tyrathca yeah but doesnt it gives 90% autonomy or smth

[@Tyrathca]

@@unluckos that's for territorial cores, I think here he's paying the initial coring cost, stating, but then not paying the additional adm to bring it to a full core, i.e. half-stating, which has a 50% autonomy floor

[@unluckos]

@@Tyrathca damn few thousand hours in eu4 and I still learn new things

[@DanjasLP]

Since you can easily rival Austria, wouldn't it be better to squeeze in a quick dismantle war? Right after your war with England would be a good spot I'd guess.

[@sirwilliamofyork]

I think the empire has to exist for him to use the “war on the empire” CB but not sure. I had the same thought though

[@DanjasLP]

@@sirwilliamofyork I would instead go for espionage ideas for my first idea. Even less AE impact, fast spy networks and easy claims, making the "War on the Empire" CB irrelevant for the campaign. Sort of like what you do for the 1525 Germany strat.

[@sirwilliamofyork]

@@DanjasLP i’m pretty sure he did both. Like he took espionage and just kept up the cb and stacked ae reduction modifiers like that was the whole point

[@jammeee]

Did you just so happen to build a dragonslayer recently?

[@baileysue87]

Noob here, what does unstating and restating do?

[@benceszke7209]

remove full cores wich halves the governingcost of the state. (you get more autonomy but less govcost

[@cookiemonster895]

Heya, I just saw the video and I was wondering since you decked on the entire HRE. Weren't you at any point allowed to dismantle it ? you would have gotten even less AE, no ?

[@benceszke7209]

as i understood it was better to just keep it together to dismantle the emperror

[@meemstar2333]

is this a good big blue blob strategy?

[@theogov688]

Bro didn't vasselized provence the strongest vassal in the entire game

[@luckymikemadziar]

I tried this. I tried so hard but Burgandy would not play nicely I get coalitions every time. Going to move on. 😊

[@Theplaymaker57]

Feel free to DM me on discord, Happy to help you figure it out

[@RevanLegend]

That's unusual strategy but for sure looks like a lot of fun 🤣

[@emib6599]

Can you still do the 100% AE reduction ?

[@Theplaymaker57]

Sure, I Just made this a no-save scum run.

[@Caesar--]

only took 10 restarts until burgundy didnt rival you 🤣

[@berkaivstheworld]

that is beautiful

[@joe-9718]

'First you make sure that castille is friendly and Burgundy is not rivalled' ... I love your content man, I really really do, but I've just restarted 30 times and haven't had this combination roll up. Frustrating when you open with or revolve around really RNG stuff.

[@Theplaymaker57]

That is fair, It only took me 3 tries, so I was not aware it was insanely rare. I'll try to do an RNG check of sorts in the future.

[@swinginutter99]

i did the same, then after about 5 days burgundy rivaled me anyways :/

[@Amumussus]

How many hours in game?

[@jesusperez-bz6pq]

Me picking two holy roman provinces Even ming join the coalition

[@carltonleboss]

The biggest of blue blobs.

[@YiannissB.]

that was awesome

[@Bryandbutcool]

i feel like instead of giving all of the loyalty privileges just give one privilege to the nobility which does the same thing as all 3 "supremacy over nation"

[@ptkstefano]

None of this makes any sense to me

[@eliczek6142]

PAAPAL PAPAL

[@Theplaymaker57]

Just imagine I said it correctly. 🤣

[@JB-bb1bh]

Haven't seen rebellions like that in eu4 since Obama was president 😅

[@chrisholladay]

Great strategy guide, however this comes with the very grave downside that you have to play as a country of French people 🤮

[@Abestar123]

Boy you pronounce a lot of words really strangely, has anyone ever told you? Papal, arms, Palatinate, just wrong. Honestly got so distracting I stopped watching lol.