EU4 A to Z - Can I RULE THE WORLD With ONLY ONE CITY

[@TheRedHawk]

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[@CeasarDom]

I still tell you Can you play as Lebanon

[@beat-it-toots]

get tha bag of ducats 🤑🤑

[@crocworks]

East Frisia needs a counterpart. Create a colonial nation and call it West Frisia. Colonizing can get expensive, so perhaps a bankruptcy is in the future.

[@Sulidaire]

East Frisia should be in Japan while West Frisia should be in North America. They went so far West, it's closer for them to go east.

[@sybrandwoudstra9236]

Frysia (or Friesland or Fryslân) is actually west Frysia. They are seperated by the Lauwers river. The seperation came from a clan dispute between the "schieringers" and the "vetkopers". They were united until 1413. Source: I live in Fryslân

[@cuidadocomomatheus]

​@@sybrandwoudstra9236 dude, i didnt want to say anything, but... you guys have one of the best looking flags in my opinion

[@tolia5587]

@@sybrandwoudstra9236 You are from Friesland? Does anyone speak Frisian here? Or all people are speaking Dutch?

[@sybrandwoudstra9236]

@@tolia5587 About 60% to 40% Dutch - Frysian I think. It depends on the area in Fryslân. Leeuwarden has mostly Dutch and also "stedsfrysk" (city Frysian) which is Frysian with a lot of Dutch grammar.

[@Stevonicus]

The Frisian languages are related to the Anglic languages, with Old Frisian and Old English being very similar. Get a Frisian monarch on the English throne.

[@forzalazio7184]

Or form England as Frisia

[@columodonnell9202]

My Dutch friend told me the Fries have a saying about how similar English and Fries are, which goes something like "English and Fries go together like chips and cheese"

[@oneksdnerha7435]

Magna Frisia

[@nikitasvorin9504]

i saw a video, where a guy was trying to buy a cow from a frisian farmer speaking in old english

[@hoi-polloi1863]

Frisian is the pure English, uncontaminated by French loanwords... ;D

[@BrkCntkn]

Starts as Dortmund, controls half of the Germany, Doesn't annex them and stays with one province, Refuses to elaborate, Leaves

[@ididntaskforthat8208]

Chad moment🗿

[@EmporerDragon]

As East Frisia, become Eastest Frisia, by only expanding eastwards, taking just provinces east of your current borders.

[@Andrewdyne]

Even Eastier Frisia is too dang east

[@h3069]

About what point is far enough east that it becomes western Eastern Frisia

[@landonkirk5444]

Should be a migration challenge. Get as far east as possible as an OPM at all times

[@NiceBoaT_98]

After taking Oldenburg: fxxk Brunswick is allied with Denmark

[@cykaburger5759]

Can't wait for season U

[@DaGaJbmKojJe]

Ulm

[@SilverxSky]

@@FollaPelirrojas69 Uesugi

[@haxolotl7]

@@FollaPelirrojas69 u doesnt have unique ideas, neither does uzbek

[@grubygrzib6308]

I like how he's literally gonna play "U" in season U

[@tolia5587]

@@DaGaJbmKojJe Србиjа?

[@Rachel-dx5yn]

I hope you do Jewish Ethiopia when you get to Season E.

[@anon2427]

Cursed

[@DawnTyrantEo]

Quick tip- if you're playing tall, make sure to Expand Infrastructure! Each level is a small amount of admin points in return for a ~5% boost to basically everything in a province (including dev cost and building cost), and you can do it once every 15 development, which is a big help if you're an OPM. It also lets you build extra manufactories. The button is a bit hard to find, it's the little green plus button underneath the buildings in a province (the other bar is the downgrade bar for infrastructure).

[@Infidi]

for dev cost it gives -25% per click

[@Notmyname1593]

Btw, espionage ideas would be pretty good as a third idea set for playing like this as it gives you +33% manpower and the ability to forge claims for your subjects.

[@WlatPziupp]

Espionage, or how I learned to stop worrying and love annexing free cities

[@TheLibermania]

For your subjects or for yourself you can use?

[@Notmyname1593]

@@TheLibermania For your subjects directly. Unless they changed it.

[@josephcola9662]

Set up a random New World with high Fantasy Nations and set up a colony called West Frisia, while getting the Merchant From a trade company in China, so you can have an EAST East Frisia Company.

[@electricVGC]

As East Frisia explore a Random New World for the memes

[@Karsuuue]

Knowledge drop: Patriziat means a council of rich burgers, most of the time salesmen, which lead a city like Dortmund or the best of them all... Nürnberg. One Patrizier = wealthy burgher (in ancient times, they were nobles)

[@alfredorotondo]

The patrizi were also nobles in ancient Rome (the word patrimony comes from them)

[@Scitch87]

If you plan to play Hesse how about doing a "Hussite Hesse" as a secondary goal type of thing?

[@firmanimad]

Hussy Hesse

[@mm-ez6xn]

@@firmanimad Hussy baka 😾

[@dieidiotten]

@@firmanimad Hesussy

[@mahatmaniggandhi2898]

Hesse? Yesser

[@alexanderfrederickson4637]

20:09 That huge Ryazan is quite possibly the greatest thing that am will see today.

[@_ette_]

Many greetings from Dortmund! :) I like your videos a lot, keep it up! :)

[@nEiKKah]

Back to the roots, doing what you intended as Aachen when this series started, it's amazing.

[@mahatmaniggandhi2898]

it's the ciiiircle of liiiife

[@TheSaoMagnifico]

As East Frisia, migrate as far east as you can before the Age of Absolutism without ever owning more than ten provinces at a time. Perfect marks if you've reached the Pacific Ocean, great try if you're fewer than five provinces away, pretty good if you're fewer than ten.

[@madhavsharma4896]

Funny how you created a tiny holy roman empire within the holy roman empire

[@m3vlad147]

Is East Frisia next? How about a reverse Gothic Invasion? (as in, control the entirety of the Crimea region)

[@CookingEmi]

Why not do Dai Viet? I understand it’s not on the wiki list, but it has an interesting position with many goalss

[@TheRedHawk]

I’lm do it in another series

[@mahatmaniggandhi2898]

@@TheRedHawk i hope we are alive by then ;-; xD

[@DmitriKaramazov1880]

As frisia you should attempt to recreate the borders of magna frisia by conquering the northern european coastline from zeeland (netherlands) to the top of jutland in (denmark) and re-create the rage of the frisii tribes by conquering rome and converting it to frisian culture. As a final show of strength and true show of friese frijheit you can dismantle the HRE. Should be a fun game and not too difficult for someone at your skill level! Just imagine the buckets of ducats you will be earning through trade

[@stabyguy5897]

I really think Dai Viet deserves a video 😢 Like maybe have a challenge that 100k ming soldiers have to die of attrition when in a war with you. Defendive ideas and stuff like that 💕

[@jacklovejoy5290]

In 1514 24 Imperial Counts and Dukes tried to invade Ostfriesland to claim the county for themselves and were repelled by the local Count Edzard of Ostfriesland, thus the challenge should be to defeat a coalition that contains at least 24 nations

[@EincoolerName1312]

Exploiting developement from subjects is very op. Getting up to 500 dev in a single province is pretty easy to do

[@costamcostam8961]

Isn't it fixed now, so you get only equivalent in mana turned into dev?

[@yaldabraxas]

"Short season D" :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[@shinomourikenji]

I did a hamburger run going for bunte kuh and played as a free city until around 1575 when I finally annexed my subjects and formed Hanover and it was one of the most fun runs I had. Not sure if you were doing it but expand infrastructure is huge when you are playing tall. Edit: also you can fill annex countries and releases them before you unpause and you don’t lose your free city status. So you get the subjects with less malus.

[@PepperoniMilkshake]

"The short season of D" You didn't have to go there, Mr Hawk :(

[@marcgdr7038]

This is like one of the most successful campaigns. Insane.

[@zachfakename6675]

Dear Hawk, I had an idea for an A-Z Challenge that you could use for any nation. I call it 'No better Friend, no worse Enemy'. To complete the challenge, fully annex 7 rivals and never break an alliance or refuse a call to arms. It would probably work well when you start as a small nation. Edit: wording, added last sentence

[@jasonweible2834]

I love the mini-games you do in your A to Z series.

[@VitorsDen]

congrats on the sponsorship!

[@TheRedHawk]

Thanks!

[@Haeralin_]

Frisia kinda sounds like "freeze, ya?", so you should own all glacier provinces in the world.

[@INSANESUICIDE]

And culture convert to carribean or jamaican culture if that is possible

[@apw9929]

Takes the state maintenance gov reform when he only has his capital state -- take institution embracement cost when he only has one province. gotta love hawk

[@heroic5612]

Reaching great powers as an opm with just vassals and no annexing very based

[@adrianjsf]

I love to see the free city vasal swarm. Now i want to play a vasall focus game. Really good finish to the season D ^^

[@robertalaverdov8147]

Quarbit did a similar run a while back but he concentrated development in all his HRE vassals. All you have to do is dev a little after to kind of balance things out for opinion. He ended up with over 1k development in his one province.

[@eragonshurtugal4239]

Not possible anymore as they have changed the calculation for concentrating development

[@terredomini7703]

If anyone else wants to ever do that, don't forget to also expand the infrastructure of your province (small button with a plus on it in the buildings section). It provides a lot of really nice benefits, and basically no downsides, since you don't care about your governing capacity (As long as you don't expand)

[@kaspernielsen9149]

"An extra diplo is something I REALLY need" Meanwhile having 3 idle diplomats :P

[@Andrewdyne]

WHAT DO WE DO AS DORTMUND? This channel makes the game experience so much better! Thank you!

[@formicasana0]

The "but what do we do as" is my favourite part of the entire series

[@michaelheintzelman2670]

Starts as Dortmund, Dismatles HRE, Creates a mini HRE, Refuses to elaborate. Leaves.

[@soumajitsen1395]

As "East" "Frisia", conquer all the "frigid" provinces towards your "East"

[@bigworm3886]

When was the last time Red Hawk lost? He's unstoppable now

[@benjaminsoos2067]

I think continuing this run would be interesting like, for example you could vassalize all the german nations and be the ruler of Germany as an opm. You would basically become a coalition yourself no cb-ing the ottomans and winnig by sheer numbers(if you call in your allies it wouldn't even be challenging to beat them if you have all the germanic cultured territories as vassals). Just an idea, great video tho really enjoyed it.

[@christophershell7564]

Do you become Emperor if every HRE nation is your vassel? It would be funny if your president became Emperor.

[@mr.cleanarchonoflight8120]

I saw other channels do this and was wondering when you'd try this challenge playstyle. Doing it on A to Z let's you have the fun of having it on your channel, while preventing it looking like you're copying video ideas. Very cool

[@-toxix6352]

didnt even watch it and i can already tell its gonna be a banger because of the title

[@fibonaccino69]

I was gonna post the same comment

[@chrisgiggleman1651]

enjoyed your channel for a while now. thought i would go ahead and log in to subscribe and like. Keep up the good work.

[@alpkaankara5637]

East Frisia is noted for its consumption of tea and its tea culture. You may try to become the leader in tea production.

[@WmJared]

East Frisia either go further east to Crimea and pirate the trade going into Constantinople or make Pirate New West Frisia in a Random New World (for the privateering bonus in the ideas). I also like the idea of spreading your dynasty to as many countries as possible

[@martinkunz7155]

You could have set all of you vassals to marches since you never planned to integrate them. Anyway - great campaign. I might actually try something like that some time.

[@TheAxeaman]

This was a lot more fun than I thought it would. Great video!

[@talhazubayurulislam9599]

Let's go squarespace!!!! So proud of you Red

[@TheRedHawk]

Thanks!

[@noneofyourbusiness3288]

12:44 "Humiliate Rival" ... Burgundy ... as Dortmund ... I think the fact that Dortmund can rival them is humiliating enough xD

[@gorthind]

Great to see you do so well in one of these. Very entertaining video keep it up.

[@knonk232]

I was just thinking about this as a challenge! My mind has been read . . .

[@sprites75]

impressive to have them still loyal... good job!

[@Breadinators]

Hey I'm loving the videos, quick question tho, after doing the A-Z (or alongside idk), are you thinking of doing an A-Z in a mod like Anbennar?

[@GyaruRespecter]

The only way this run could have been more satisfying would have been if you showed Dortmund integrating all the vassals at the end.

[@LaithClips]

My day be bad then boom Redhawk video

[@TheRedHawk]

My day be bad Then boom Laith Clips comment

[@LaithClips]

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[@nouri388]

As Friesian unite the old Friesian lands(from the south of Denmark to Zeeland in the Netherlands) and to finish it of take "revenge on" the Frank's so take or make all the Frankish lands your vassal

[@raffaelenazzaro8798]

hi, which mod do you use for graphics? where I can download it? tx raffaele

[@RevanLegend]

Ahhh... The classic -25% state maint when you have only one province with 0 maint 🤣

[@GothBoiCliiqz]

The centers of reformation is Rng not guaranteed, it says COULD Spawn, I was first in a Naples game one time and lost my mind when I didn’t get it then I read the box lol

[@KarolOfGutovo]

Comment 17 of asking Hawk to play as a random nation of each generic idea group under every A-Z video.

[@martinzyka6432]

Great challenge, one of the best A to Z. -1 point for that horsie though.

[@eacey_]

It's really impressive how you manage to complete your goal around 1550 every single time

[@nofoxgiven6561]

There’s a reason why the achievement for reaching the end date is so low on percentage complete

[@eacey_]

@@nofoxgiven6561 it's not that I'm impressed how fast he does his goals, I'm impressed that he consistently thinks up a goal that takes him about to 1550 to complete

[@aneural]

@@eacey_ are you sus? Could it be an illuminati conspiracy and you're dropping the first riddle? Is the illuminati hq Located in building 1550 in Frisia? ANSWER ME

[@AlexFireflyer]

This should have been done before the concentrate dev and pillage capital nerf.

[@fidoruh]

I look forward to France and Hesse. And for Hesse I'd love to see him aim for the Merc achievment. And for France maybe big blue blob or better than napolean.

[@amilavxilmen5632]

For East Frisia, conquer the eastern most region of eu4 aka japan and i mean by conquer i meant just get one province on that region

[@maksimschroeder722]

hmmm yes this seems like a good video mr hawk

[@TheRedHawk]

Hmm yees

[@marcinkusmierzak991]

With such challenge I would consider espionage for AE reduction instead of diplo

[@koolkrafter5]

You didn't get a center of reformation because you were bordering a province that already had one.

[@polandball999]

I would think of annexing land without war, like curring favours.

[@teddys5775]

i like to take diplo, get my big allies to carry me in wars and pillage everyones capitals and take all the ducats from 10+ minors at once

[@simonscholz1026]

My current state was, that the overlord gets asked to return the province

[@purin6792]

The HRE nations might be some of the most cursed parts of A to Z. This isn’t that cursed but still.

[@CasualSnake_D2]

somewhat disappointed you didnt use the "consolidate dev" option to turbo dev your capital

[@IronWolf123]

East Frisia? Since there are comments saying Frisian is a sister language to English, I'll do it better. EF has the Peasants Republic government, so form the Peasants Republic of England/GB

[@mikoajwalak701]

A sponsorship? Go you, man!

[@fartymcdoodoo213]

I woulda thought as a burgermaster you would be playing wide

[@calebsutton6798]

i wish there was a holy roman republic for the decentralize path for reforms

[@jamesnewman5204]

Only thing you forgot was expanding infrastructure

[@Alex-dp1bk]

I played prussia and it didnt spawn a center either. I think it’s bugged but it’s so unused that the devs probably dont realize it.

[@dylancomic9088]

you say "dev" (development) and I hear "debt" (debt)

[@LilGamingYes]

Season D may have been short, but what matters is the quality of the videos and not the size of the season... >.>

[@impo997]

As East Frisia, estabilish the East India Company

[@samuelpaquette4974]

As East Frisia, own the Easternmost province on the map.

[@n0ah711]

11:55 Red hawk turned into a Mexican Jeseeee

[@MrGGiacomo]

I love you Red Hawk!!!

[@bmac5746]

Love your videos

[@mikoajwalak701]

You know how when you want to do a world conquest as a minor nation you conquer east frisia? You should play uno reverse card and migrate as east frisia lol

[@DekuTheDestroyer]

15:00 Denmark just locked sweden in

[@yoanngaben1247]

State maintenance with just a capital state ? The reform with trade would have yielded much more gold I believe, especially if you can steal your subject's trade once the'yre loyal

[@Hiarren]

Manpower, man!

[@mx-ie6yj]

What do you think about this Improve Admin Investment Ability in the Province Building Screen? I dont see real downsides, but dont see people using it aswell?

[@caferustwat]

As East Frisia own all provinces in Europe with east (or a translation of it) in their name.

[@MaxKashirin]

Do you use expand infrastructure feature? In the early game bonuses are great in my opinion

[@AlecSarabia]

Kinda wished you could have formed Germany diplomatically.

[@trotsthorium7898]

East Frisia doesn't start off in the empire which makes it a good nation to exodus to. As east frisia don't join the empire when asked and instead exodus to another nation and colonize.

[@xenox-cq9pb]

I prefer a few bigger vassals because not instead of hundread 2-3k stacks running around you get few 12-24k stacks that are actually helpful to fights and siege i also see that a one province minor would have 1-3k army and a full state of minors would be full of these weak armies but a big vassal instead would have only 12 k that not only would help you but also dont have that much shitty vassals Also if you have disloyal vassals its easier to improve relations with few instead of all of hre

[@amilavxilmen5632]

pretty great