EU4 A to Z - CAN I CROSS THE ALPS With ELEPHANTS As Ayutthaya

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In this video titled EU4 A to Z - CAN I CROSS THE ALPS With ELEPHANTS As Ayutthaya I do a playthrough Ayutthaya in Europa Universalis 4 1.32 Origins. This is the series titled A to Z where I attempt to play every* nation in EU4 in alphabetical order. Of course I had to remove some nations so the challenge doesn't get too boring. In this video I play as the nation of Ayutthaya and I attempt to channel my inner Hannibal and cross The Alps with elephants all they say from South East Asia. So let's see if I managed to do it! I hope you guys enjoy this series. If you enjoyed this video consider leaving a like and subscribing for more content in the future. The save file is available for all Tier 1 and above KZbin members in the save-games Discord channel.
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[@srujanakondeti2596]

I deleted that game cause it was so Pay to win

[@chickenpig1707]

You should try beating every nation in the Holy Roman Empire in a war

[@itryen7632]

This sponsorship is so fucking distasteful

[@miss_baphomet]

getting all the way to the alps only to realize you don't actually have elephants might be the funniest way this challenge could go wrong

[@TheRedHawk]

True lol

[@mackycabangon8945]

@@TheRedHawk guess the one on the flag has to suffice

[@dodderythedromedary6890]

@@TheRedHawk I wonder if you could have taken Indian mercenaries, as the unit models are always based on their origin and elephants tend to appear over infantry.

[@Viet_Nam_Ball]

@@dodderythedromedary6890 and most of Carthage troops should be mercenaries too

[@dodderythedromedary6890]

@@Viet_Nam_Ball yee

[@elitroyer7261]

Red did the math and realized that, at his previous pace, he wouldn't finish the A-Z challenge in >100 years

[@TheRedHawk]

Lmao not wrong but it just happened that there were three A to Z's in a row. We're back to the regular schedule after this video

[@Spoontamer4]

@@TheRedHawk Bruh youre gonna finish this series when you’re 90 yrs old

[@ArakkoaChronicles]

Myself, I can't wait until he gets to playing U.

[@elitroyer7261]

@@ArakkoaChronicles ulm

[@ArakkoaChronicles]

@@elitroyer7261 I meant the nation called just U. In Tibet.

[@azreeFR]

This isn't just crossing the alps. You crossed Asia and Europe!

[@TheRedHawk]

True!

[@Iamwtfboi]

KZbin stupid rn

[@krankarvolund7771]

No, Hannibal did cross the Alps around where you crossed, he was coming from Gaul ^^ In fact he did quite a trip too, from Tunis, to Spain, then southern France, then finally the Alpes and Italy XD

[@TheRedHawk]

Good to know lmao

[@antoniocampen]

he started his campaign in hispanis i think, in fact his father was governor of the province

[@krankarvolund7771]

@@antoniocampen Yeah, but he came from Carthago to Spain ^^

[@klod5268]

"Baden" means swimming/bathing in German. So to maximise the swimming opportunities i suggest getting a province bordering every ocean/sea in the world (so pacific, atlantic, arabian, black, carribean etc.) and ferrying a unit on a cog out there to take a bath in every sea that exists without dying. Of course while going full naval/maritime as a nation that starts landlocked and is a solid 500 km away from the nearest ocean!

[@IronWolf123]

Perhaps become a naval hegemon?

[@lolasdm6959]

Play as Mongolia, become naval hegemon

[@sanyika3641]

the boring version of this would have been hiring a conquistador and marching through the silk road until reaching italy

[@Torero2901]

No-CB'ing Byzantium as Ayutthaya ; the elephant in the Rome you have become my favorite EU4 content creator man, and I play and watch since 2015.

[@TheRedHawk]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@alexanderfrederickson4637]

Haven't seen anyone else talking about it so: 19:55 Lithuania has a province in Hungary, do they also have a Union over Poland. AI is really going for that Uncommmonwealth.

[@clearlypellucid]

>Challenge is to cross the alps with elephants. >Doesn't have elephants. >Still declares challenge a success. Mission failed successfully.

[@TheRedHawk]

Lmaoo

[@heisenstein6392]

One of my favourite A to Z's because you made the ending so different than others! Not only did you walk that horse from your homeland to Italy, that was a great piece story-telling while you did it. Absolutely love your creativity and new take on A to Z's! Edit: I will, however, say this - don't overburden yourself with ridiculous challenges since you'll end up spending way too much time on each, and that means a good chunk of your life gone. Recently, I'm starting to see a pattern where you go for something "fun" instead of "challenging", and I think it's better that way!

[@thetruecyrusplayz1256]

Wdym a "horse"? its clearly an elephant!

[@govindraman3189]

Bro Hawk speedrunning A to Z do he doesn't have to face the reality that he's still in A.

[@TheRedHawk]

Lmao, next video is Baden!

[@govindraman3189]

@@TheRedHawk finally, after 5 months! 5 x 26 is like 130, so like almost 11 years(assuming all letters have the same amount of unique nations which most likely they don't)

[@ashtonjohnston7314]

I'm going to keep suggesting it during A->Z, but maybe Baden will be the best opportunity for it. Gotta do one with no DLC. Goal will be just to do whatever you would normally do in EU4, but it's just the base game.

[@pieeater957]

the single most cursed thing anyone could suggest

[@2Links]

@@pieeater957 true

[@BSideWasTaken]

I spent 20 minutes waiting for you to realise Ayuthayya are the wrong tech group It was very satisfying, I must say.

[@JohnDoe-xu6ls]

Hannibal: Whoever would have thought that I would return to the site of my greatest military defeat...as a tourist!

[@alexmuller6752]

to be a bit nitpicky: hannibal wasn't defeated in italy but at the gates of carthage. their senate refused to send supplies and called him back so he could face one scipio who would gain the name africanus by beating hannibal with his own best troops: numidian cavalrymen. dude got real unlucky at the end

[@tinnakornwantae6763]

As a Thai, this video brings nothing but joy, thanks a lot and thank god Ayutthaya start with a "A" Kosovo je Tajland

[@TheRedHawk]

Hello hello!

[@sanyika3641]

NO!!!!!!! KOSOVO IS PROUD MALDIVES LAND TAKE BACK !!!! >:(((

[@dodderythedromedary6890]

@@sanyika3641 What do you mean it is rightful Ugandese clay, get your own, malshitives!

[@sanyika3641]

@@dodderythedromedary6890 Uganda more like get some food-nda

[@dodderythedromedary6890]

@@sanyika3641 that's mean ;_;

[@Oliver-vx7ls]

i somehow expected the sole horse-elephant to run into a random rebel stack in europe

[@LilGamingYes]

I can now definitely picture an Asian calling himself Hannibal on a horse, which he paint grey and glued two branches to mimic an elephant's tusks, walking into Rome... Thanks for this cursed image! Can't wait for a Tunisian Attila!

[@abu_bakrII]

this is honestly the most fun challenge i think ive seen

[@MickeyOSK139]

Ah yes, Ayutthaya, The true successor of the Roman empire.

[@prestonjones1653]

Carthaginian*

[@fem530]

I love how the world is falling apart as he travels

[@MegaMinetroller]

Poor elephants had to ride almost 3 years to get to the Alps...

[@josephcola9662]

Might wanna write this down because it's going to be months from now, but when you get to Mulhouse, you could try for the achievement to fully decentralized the HRE.

[@kazogai]

Once, I tried to play as Ayutthaya. I had the feeling of making cursed stuff so I converted to Animism then No-CB'd a small Manchu nation, vassalized it switched to Tengrism. I didn't continue the game.

[@TheRedHawk]

That definitely sounds very cursed!

[@14thbattlegroupcommander]

>recruits samurai cavalry >says name out loud >"why is it a horse?!"

[@soumajitsen1395]

I am literally laughing out loud right now. Is it just me, or are your A-Z videos getting better every video? Idk about the horse thingy, maybe you would have to culture shift or form a different nation or something in India to get elephants. But, anyway, loved it! :p

[@silvestrucoxache]

this was so much fun i found your chanel like two weeks ago and i think i watched at least half of those videos already, i never thought watching someone else play can actually be cool

[@YataTheFifteenth]

"That's it, I'm dead" is my new favourite option after "The economy, fools!" Paradox knows their priorities.

[@Trollami]

Could you imagine reading about this campaign in history?

[@getimpaled3460]

Once I was playing England, focused a lot on colonazing after I defeated france and I when I looked back at Europe (1600s or so) it was in chaos, Byzantium still had its original borders, Ottomans were an Asian superpower, they had Mamluks and Arabia, bit in Europe they lost some provinces in Greece to Spain, expanded a bit in Moldova and had a Crimean vassal. Bohemia held most of Austria, parts of Brandenburg and Poland and Nassau was the emperor, Novgorod held most of Russia and I think the only reason they didn't form Russia is because Commonwealth held some neccessary provinces. In Italy, Naples formed Two Sicillies, while Venice comtrolled most of northern Italy. Also somebody(probably Wolgast or Stetin) formed Pomerani and Lübeck had taken most of Denmark.

[@aliquis4460]

I think it's the tech group that you have horse-cavalries. Elephant-cavalries are only an Indian-tech thing, and AYU is Chinese-tech. Vassalize an Indian-tech nation and recruit from its land would probably give elephant-cavalries? not sure tho... (this makes no sense Paradox, a Chinese-tech Thai nation recruiting Samurai cavalries?)

[@electricVGC]

This is probably the best Ayuthhaya campaign in the history of the game

[@DimesSeason]

by far most cursed A-Z. still loved it XD

[@TheRedHawk]

Lmao thanks

[@andreeaionita9769]

That moment when you are still at A after almost half a year or so

[@xzardas541]

Byz: Yay its 1530 and Im still independent great succes! 3 seconds later: my emperor Autthaya deblared war on us! Auwho? They are from china my emperor. Oh for f**k sake not again.

[@dott0_]

These challenges keep getting weirder and weirder, I love it

[@manelgrinder3027]

Love how the a in a-z went with a bang

[@gunarliepins]

Just imagine some 16th century peasant in the swiss alps looking out of his window one morning watching a trail of Ayutthayan elephants walk by. "What on earth are you doing here?" "Well we heard some dude did this some two thousand or so years ago and you Europeans still talking about him so we came to see what all the fuzz is about!"

[@Koor22]

Nice,more A-Z

[@TheRedHawk]

Season A finale!

[@benhironimus8686]

As Baden conquer all European coast provinces, because then Baden Baden(Baden is a German Word for swimming)

[@thearea51raidwasboring]

4:59 "Strengthen Noble Privileges" is always a yes!

[@Podzhagitel]

that no-CB Byzantium made me laugh out loud

[@kumakohai7499]

17:47 RedHawk: ok, one step closer My mind: oK, oNe StePpe CloSeR

[@crocworks]

It seems Elephants must be really cheap to maintain if you couldn't get a bankruptcy in this challenge run...

[@TheDartFrog]

I love how there is always 32874285 pop ups during the summary speech at the end lmao

[@korapatsrisuebsai4432]

Worthy to wait, good job bro 🔥🔥🔥👍👍

[@saltminer4429]

What! You didn't go bankrupt! How is this a success! Lol

[@hohenstaufen2345]

Since Badens Dynasty once ruled southern Austria you could attemt to reconquer their Lands and take the place of Austria

[@forTodaysAdventure]

maybe not the EU4 god, but definitely an EU4 god

[@purin6792]

This is probably the most cursed one yet. It's also somewhat historical. Only somewhat.

[@imperialisticvonhabsburg3149]

AI for whatever reason loves to pillage capitals of OPM instead of annexing them. In my Zoro Persia game, I allied with Austria and they kept calling me into their conquest of OPM Bosnia, just to pillage their capital.

[@geodim3904]

You know I be waiting for Byzantium Hawk 🇬🇷🇬🇷

[@TheRedHawk]

Soon!

[@TimRosenburg]

Took almost 3 years for that unit to travel to the Alps

[@mikkelstergaard6218]

Must have been a snake elephant considering your borders, quite a unique challenge I must say, loved it

[@tyranis123]

Baden to the Bone: As Baden Conquer your way to Bone and vassalize them.

[@TheLibermania]

I hate that you can't see the area of the subjects. I once played Naples, released Asturia for colonizing and never saw the new world. But after i went in the diplomatic menu i saw that they had three colonial nations.

[@kylebricky6419]

“when have you gotten to no-cb byz as autthaya?” *visiblily retches*

[@SuksuNa]

As a Thai, I would say the way he pronounce Ayuthaya is almost as good as the local.

[@grSuchtie19]

Baden is also the german word for taking a bath so of course you have to conquer everything that used to be bathantium ( as in the basileus achievmet)

[@xozneenzox8485]

Hannibal is at the gates!

[@mateuszwesoowski9583]

Not elephant - don't count. Good video though;) Love the fact it focused around a theme. Find more of those - and you have my vote.

[@matthewvincent9533]

When you get to Bali or Brunei you should try forming Malaya, then culture swapping to English for double wooden wall

[@formula.clips.]

Thai Hannibal. I want him now Btw three videos in three days, nice!

[@Madterchiseflover]

Chile: Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!

[@ScrapperTBP]

Baden means bathing so you should conquer Bath. Well it would be Bristol I guess but the city of Bath is nearby.

[@philbertshmilbert1551]

As Baden, Conquer all of south germany and have forts in every province.

[@zacharysebastian9181]

I think you should in a future A to Z, make your mission to control as much coastline as possible!

[@bengreenhagen8287]

This is probably my favorite so far. Fun stuff!

[@jaysvideos9107]

Imagine if that 1 cav ran into rebels and died 3 provinces before the alps

[@JesperAndersen]

Hillarious! :-D Well done!

[@madhavsharma4896]

Wait... Y comes before z Which means you had this pre recorded before Aztec?

[@TheRedHawk]

Y does come before Z, I just had to swap them around, no big deal

[@anonymous-rb2sr]

Hannibal came from Spain (there were large colonies of carthage in southern spain), he crossed from the west not the east though what would be the province of "torino" in the game funnily enough, most of his army died on the trip, both from the cold in the Alps as well as all the celtic tribes along the way he had to cross the territories off not appreciating a massive invasion army of carthage moving through their lands (there were a few battles, none too serious) Most of his elephants died in the alps, and the rest shortly after, he spent over a decade in the italian countryside doing basically nothing except raids after the battle of carrae because the walls of Rome were too tall to take without siege equipement, and he had none, AND the senate of Carthage was basically completely betraying him and refusing to send him any reinforcement, in the end he had to abandon italy and Rome ended up winning the war, then burning carthage to the ground a few wars later, all because the senators of carthage refused to help their own generals in the middle of wars with their main rival By opposition, when Carthage sunk the fleet of rome, all the patrician roman landlords spent their entire wealth in the equivalent of warbonds to build a new fleet, they built an extra 300 ships in 6 months

[@d4n4nable]

He could have also just called it quits after securing Provonce and saved Carthage its demise.

[@senatorarmstrong4168]

20:27 no hannibal went from carthage, through iberia and crossed through france

[@redfoxgamer4040]

I think EU4 A-Z is getting to Red because he went AZ to AY and even earlier he went from AV to AU

[@ykoyko655]

Dude was watching the video and the sponsor part ended and 4 seconds later a add started of that game like what

[@thefruitstand9648]

That was awesome. Would have been great if you walked the cav into a rebel stack on accident lol

[@havucluportakal8587]

I enjoyed this video a lot

[@ousamadearudesuwa]

for the Elephants, you need them to be deployed from the provinces in ayutthayya

[@PavelQuiteGood]

This is a success! The elephant went to Rome!

[@Ceramicbull]

Baden is landlocked, so a fun challenge could be to take "Joe Baden" to the White House, and colonize/conquer the Washington DC area.

[@josephcola9662]

16:30 My bet is that the Ottomans just keep pillaging Constantinople instead of annexing it, because sometimes they just do that for some reason.

[@TheRusty]

Austria does the same to Wallachia

[@BarryAllen__1A23]

@@TheRusty Yeah I had to decline the call to arms by austria cause they keep pillaging wallachia for 6th time lmao. I thought I was the only one

[@hasodium]

just felt like crossing the himalayas while you were at it

[@qeviefun463]

you should make a guide about hormuz as they have an interesting starting situation (Idk if you already did)

[@j1r2000]

RED you cant ask for maps from your subjects but you can steal them

[@genstian]

1.6k likes and 0 dislikes, man you are doing well this time.

[@antoineboucher5391]

Once i did a game and the ottamans didnt even had constantinople after the 1600

[@Ogsanch7]

Great video bro

[@TheRedHawk]

Thanks!

[@TheJonnyjoh]

The problem with your unit was your tech-group, my dude! Since there is no distinct South East Asian Tech-Group, Ayuthaya was put into the Chinese Tech Group. And since the India Tech-Group is the only one with elephants as Cav-Skin, you would've had to Tag-switch to an Indian TAG I think. ^^

[@randyyy2609]

As Bad-en, you should play very bad-ly.

[@LilGamingYes]

So... is this what they call playing wide?

[@tfljmartis]

Losing 6 Diplo a month because of the military access

[@ousamadearudesuwa]

I got a cursed challenge for you; The Manchurian Ottoman Sultanate

[@Jackbanne]

one of these playthroughs has to be "makes it to 1821/or whatever finish is

[@bluepotato8187]

The bordergore is strong in this one

[@Stevonicus]

This was wild. Much better snaking than the Assam game.

[@ZOMBIEX05]

Should’ve no CB’d Papal

[@Nervx1]

You could try to recruit cav directly from one of provinces in india.

[@thetheorex1036]

we are blessed

[@TheRedHawk]

Indeed

[@Fuzuki785]

Isn't it rather Laos / Lang Xang that is the land of many many many elephants? x) I'm also pretty sure that Lang Xang does get elephant cav, from a Đại Việt run I did a while ago.

[@nablamakabama488]

Now that’s a snaky boi!