EU4 A to Z - THIS Is WHAT HAPPENS When YOU PLAY OPTIMALLY

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In this video titled EU4 A to Z - THIS Is WHAT HAPPENS When YOU PLAY OPTIMALLY I do a playthrough as Florence Europa Universalis 4 1.33 France. 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 Florence , and I attempt to play tall and play optimally in order to form Tuscany and then Italy. 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.
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[@TheRedHawk]

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[@Giga-su9gr]

Conquer all of India

[@Rand0mGypsy]

As the name garhwal means owner of forts, conquer all the forts of north India (or perhaps the entire region!), you could disable them, only if they don't border another country!

[@Cosmic_Fury]

Since narwhals live in the Arctic, why not take your Garwhals and take over Iceland and Greenland?

[@MrTohawk]

Do you have the achievement yet?

[@hs5312]

since you are garhwal take every province that would have a part of the great wall

[@petrouvelteau7564]

Red Hawk: Today we're gonna be playing optimally Also Red Hawk: _doesn't restart after getting an awful start_

[@TheRedHawk]

Some things never change

[@baztok]

Also Also Red Hawk: forgets to do the first two missions right at the start to get claims in Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna regions

[@LarsOrly]

Let's be real, playing optimally would not make for a very interesting series, would just be dip > relig/adm every game depending on if mission tree gves permaclaims, nocbing byz every game in Europe, forming Tibet every game outside of Europe etc. Game is kind of solved as of right now.

[@TocsTheWanderer]

Also Red Hawk: has 800 splendor but finishes war with Lucca first before taking the ae reduction splendor ability. Also also Red Hawk: is already making more money than he needs from trade but takes trade ideas instead of Diplo or Espionage when ae is his main bottleneck in expansion

[@Shayrin2]

I believe that playing optimally has nothing to do with starting optimally. Do you best with what you’re given.

[@josephcola9662]

Red Hawk: I'm gonna play optimally. Also Red Hawk: Doesn't restart when rivaled by the pope. Red Hawk again: Beats the Pope up in a war MULTIPLE TIMES, and then doesn’t cancel the Pope's rivalry with him on ANY of those occasions, so he'd stop getting excommunicated, which forces him to keep taking loans to get indulgences. But in all seriousness, this was great!

[@mackycabangon8945]

Garhwal has an achievement about owning 52 forts, and Garhwal sounds like "Garh" (meaning fort) + Wall. So as Garhwal, have every province you own have a fort, fight all your neighbors at once, and win. Similar vein to the Afghanistan video except a bit easier.

[@TheRedHawk]

Pain

[@prestonjones1653]

Having high levels forts in half his provinces and not going bankrupt sounds more like an achievement.

[@ysff0710]

@@prestonjones1653 to be fair if he has exactly 52 provinces and has good dev in all of them, and minimizes costs it could work

[@mackycabangon8945]

@@ysff0710 I mean Garhwal has -dev cost in traditions and Indian provs are great trade goods so it MIGHT work

[@crocworks]

Garhwal has an achievement for owning 52 forts. So let's go for something simple and chase that one. But the achievement says to not go into debt... that's no fun. Go bankrupt first, then get the achievement.

[@TheDartFrog]

instructions unclear, first built a fort then went bunkrupt 52 times

[@17Domy97]

Why Florence has so many Adm Advisors at the start of the game? They were real people at the Medici's Court: Donatello (yeah, the man from whom the ninja turtle got its name) was a famous sculptor and architech who made the David(s) Lorenzo Ghiberti was also a sculptor who made 2 of the bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery Fra' Angelico (or Guido di Pietro) was a priest who also became famous for his paintings like the "Annunciation" Luca Pitti was a banker and head of an influential family who helped Cosimo and also plot against the Medici's. He commissioned the construction of "Palazzo Pitti" in Florence Paolo Uccello (literally "Paul Bird" ah ah funny name) was a influencial Renaissance painter who studied and tried to develop an early perspective in his works. His most famous work is "The Battle of San Romano"

[@TheRedHawk]

Amazing insight! Thanks!

[@nwahnerevar9398]

where's Ezio?

[@17Domy97]

@@nwahnerevar9398 not an Adm Advisor

[@nwahnerevar9398]

@@17Domy97 should be spy network

[@AlexFireflyer]

Did a "peak" Italy run recently where I started as Florence, then formed Two Sicilies, then Sardinia Piedmont and finally Italy, with all the permanent modifiers from those 3 nations! Tons of fun!

[@gyarurespecter3386]

Holy crap I thought I was the only one who did that! Though in my opinion Two Sicilies really doesn't matter, their permanent modifiers are super weak.

[@AlexFireflyer]

@@gyarurespecter3386 Yeah, and it's a hassle destating things twice and all, but I wanted to try it. :)

[@johndoe6011]

The trick is to conquer the neccessary stuff for the modifiers in advance, so you can switch tag twice in a day without having to core things up in between. Also sicily is great because of the claims it gives, yes?

[@jainabraina]

@@johndoe6011 Don't even need to do that. Just unstate, form Sardinia-Piedmont, state Naples, culture shift to Neapolitan, and only then restate. That way you can finish the S-P nation tree at your leisure (since it's the longer + more powerful one) and form Two Sicilies when you're ready. In general, the second culture-shift tag swap is "free" because of this. Having fun doing this in my Provence -> Sardinia-Piedmont -> Jerusalem -> Tuscany -> Two Sicilies -> Austria game, though between Tuscany and Austria I decided to grab the Swiss and Dutch missions + events + decisions because why not - and stacking Dutch, Tuscan, Austrian, and Catholic interest reduction has been nuts. (The main reason for this route, of course, is capping the diplomatic annexation cost reduction, letting me integrate huge parts of the world really cheaply). Once the revolution hits I'm planning to form France, Morocco, and Prussia too, because I'm already forming a silly number of nations so I may as well.

[@giosgaming7638]

Hey hawk when you get to Georgia don't skip it even though it shares it ideas with imereti, but they're the same country game vise and history vise only difference is one has a coastline and the other doesn't. Plus no one plays in that region

[@TheRedHawk]

I will be playing Georgia

[@martinus_mars]

Unless they want the David the Builder achievement. But you just do 2wars then spam loans for that one

[@darkkot6862]

"It's criminal to not pick inovative as florence" - *Angry Ludi et Historia noises*

[@JustanotherGuy-xx4gy]

Ludi is a fraud

[@MarioMillestrade]

@@JustanotherGuy-xx4gyI’ve noticed a lot of hate for this guy, why?

[@JustanotherGuy-xx4gy]

@@MarioMillestrade He's not a nice guy for one. His videos are ass and he tries too hard to be funny. That, and he's a proven cheater.

[@marclefleur6158]

It's been a while since I also "created" Italy, as Florence. I love it when you accomplish something historically before your ancestors. Unlike you, I had a bunch of coalitions against me, and it was fun. In the end, the Italian wars boiled down to one question: go bankrupt or get chopped up like sushi. The answer is: Slice the others like sushi so you can go bankrupt in peace and not have to deal with them. That was my Risorgimento. 😁

[@CortoMalteaser]

“Riso Regimento” lol. It’s pronounced “Risor-gimento” like “resurgence”. Great video though!!!

[@ewhat2498]

Prince of Egypt achievement was one of my best and funniest runs ever. The moment Italy turns into a yellow, catholic Egypt is just great xD

[@user-yl3sf9pk9s]

3:04 You could hire Donatello as an advisor? Interesting.

[@TheRedHawk]

Yeah I just noticed that now lol

[@irmaosmatos4026]

He is a very smart turtle, I'd hire him

[@CharlieKellyEsq]

I love playing florence. Like florryworry, it's my very first campaign on every dlc so I can personally get accustomed to the changes in the new patch. I know that country so well. My 100% optimal start is always a show strength on bologna and not setting rivals until I see his ally so I can also get a humiliate rival with them. That's an automatic 80 PP which never really drops below 50 PP until I get to big to rival neighbors. Day 1 rm Austria and ally the Pope so I can steal the papacy. After the initial show strength war, I always conquer sienna so I can get the faceting event. Everything is pretty fluid past that, but I usually like to nab some milanese land as well as try to take out some naples provinces so I have access to north Africa/Balkans regions. Around 1490-1500 I betray the pope, and take everything he has except for roma (that comes later when I'm ready to form italy.) After Italy is formed, I have a nice easy peasy wc if I wanted to ay it out, which I usually don't, I usually stop at forming spqr

[@MaskofPoesy]

Damn, I didn't know Hawk was such a staunch supporter of South Tyrolian separatism.

[@TheRedHawk]

Listen it’s not in the region of Italy lmao, if I got that I’d have to go for Dalmatia too

[@MaskofPoesy]

@@TheRedHawk So you're saying Trent is as much a part of Italy as Croatia is??? Woow.

[@user_id_X]

Trent is not south Tyrol is north Italy

[@Old_Harry7]

It's funny cause Tyrol starts with Italian culture but is not considered in the Italian region.

[@poitre_]

@@Old_Harry7 that's trent, tyrol starts as austrian

[@PrincessEowynn]

Very nice to see a vid in this series that’s very reclined and where you actually seem to be enjoying yourself

[@Oman11112]

I love the more serious gameplay! As always great video hawk!

[@gyarurespecter3386]

You've played Florence more optimally than I ever did considering I almost never manage to take Naples + Sardinia before the 1500s roll around, but one thing you could have done better was to vassalize Milan. Once you take 1 or 2 provinces from them, they end up so weak that Venice or Switzerland immediately declare war on them. If you vassalize them (or release if they were completely annexed) afterwards, you can declare Reconquest on Venice/Switzerland and win all of Milan's cores without having to worry about the massive AE that comes from taking high dev provinces in north Italy. EDIT: Also if you don't mind using points to develop your own provinces, staying in the HRE + going Economic allows you to become the #1 power easily as long as you do it before the Ottomans start blobbing out. You can also stop the Pope from excommunicating you a lot by attacking him or one of his allies, then forcing him to release some cities while taking one or two for yourself. If the Pope is too weak, he won't be able to rival you, which means he won't be interested in excommunicating you constantly.

[@Jamie-st6of]

you can also force break rivalries in a peace deal

[@gyarurespecter3386]

@@Jamie-st6of Yes but he'll be able to rival you again after the truce times out. Removing Papal States as a rival by weakening them gives you the chance to annex more land for yourself.

[@jackconrad4814]

Love how Hungary’s just sitting there being eaten alive by Ottos while you’re lording over all the dev lol

[@TocsTheWanderer]

Fun fact, Lucca is the second best province for stacking dev discounts, second only to Hanseong, the capital province of Korea. Hanseong has a monument that reduces local dev cost by 25% at max, on top of being farmlands (5%) and having a center of trade giving up to 10%, adding up to a potential 40% dev cost reduction. Lucca is farmlands, produces cloth(10%), has a center of trade as well as there being 2 other CoTin the area. If you have Lucca as a lvl 2 CoT and either Pisa or Florence at lvl 3, that gives another 15% reduction in Lucca, adding up to 30%. I'm not taking into account other discounts that come from ideas or religion, except to say that you do need to be Confucian or have it as your syncretic religion to use the monument in Hanseong.

[@tylerott3697]

Loved this style of video, fastish past and action packed

[@Yuoaman]

I've been marathoning these videos for the past week and now I don't know what to do with myself while waiting for the next episode.

[@x0lopossum]

30:03 DAMN that was harsh 🤣😭

[@jabloko992]

The +2 papal influence in Florence's traditions is useless, in my experience the pope always rivals you and even if that changed and he doesn't anymore, you will still hit your relations with him super hard with AE.

[@purin6792]

The Red Hawk deserves a break from cursed EU4 games so I’m all for this. Though cursed EU4 is always funny

[@baldimorgornest8872]

12:38 One cannot simply pick the Pazzis. Everyone knows, they're working together with the Templars.

[@jadonclow1864]

Sounds like both are good at Fall Guys

[@Queen_Serafina]

Strengthen Noble Privileges

[@veryblocky]

I still think you should go back and do Dai Viet, given they have unique ideas and all

[@DD-nb9rn]

Since the name of Garhwal likely comes from the title of "Garh-wala" which means Owner of Forts, build a fort in every province as Garhwal

[@yagzakarca6445]

napels already has cores in sicily why did you release sicily as a nation as well ?

[@solenya9401]

You did not force the Papal States to end rivalry with you so they stop excommunicating you? Pain.

[@TyrannicBaka]

Red hawk: have 5 available adm advisor EU4: two, take it or leave it

[@Iwmar]

This run was anything but perfect 😂 Still, good job showing power of Florence which is giga strong despite the fact that you bricked your mission tree from day 1 by taking loans, not allying 2 Italian nations or getting diplo to 12.

[@muratkanattli]

You could actually ask pope to end their rivarly with you, that's what I do mostly.

[@MrEpicookie]

Just finished my first Italian playthrough a few weeks ago, started as Florence. Easily was the strongest nation in the world militarily, only 3rd great power behind absolutely BLOBBED Otto and Spain, but was allied with France, Spain, Commonwealth and Russia and was able to call all of them in to finally take the heel of Italy because Otto took it in like 1460, waited until like 1785 and sent like 3 million allied forces into Anatolia to absolutely mollywhomp Otto. Probably tied with my "Sweden is Not Overpowered" run as my favorite ever.

[@matthewjohnson6280]

Although it costs 50 admin to do it every time, you can "expand infrastructure" in a province when they reach certain levels of development. Expanded infrastructure gives dev discounts as well as goods produced and trade power, so I think it's worth it when playing tall.

[@lucase.5038]

Love your vids

[@Havingfun0]

I actually like your vods I thought I was subbed but KZbin rarely recommends them to me.

[@OddlySpecificGaming]

OPTIMITALY

[@bootmii98]

Thanks!

[@joshtaylor9626]

Love to see it hawk

[@xxtarlancxx8422]

now that's a really good Landshut pronounciation :D

[@efulmer8675]

EU4: Exists Red Hawk: I'mma 'boutta show y'all why every campaign starts and ends with pain.

[@charliemoe7935]

can you do more videos, A-Z or otherwise, where you play in the Age of Absolutism and/or Age of Revolutions? Probably not practical for all videos but I feel like its rare to see past 1550 in an EU4 video

[@neonmoose315]

Yo new red hawk video, 6 seconds ago! Amazing.

[@TheRedHawk]

Enjoy!

[@schwoondoggle]

Italy is such a good region to play in. I literally have 70 hours on the game and even I can play as Venice, improve relations with Austria, join the HRE, and form Italy relatively quickly. I'm doing a Venice campaign rn btw and it's definitely my favourite nation. If you really abuse your alliances, trade, and navy, you can do really fricking well. This game is the first time a superpower would attack me (although generally they wouldn't because my improve relations and diplo rep was so high I could send like 1k ducats and a improve relations to them and they'd love me again) and I'd actually be able to hold my own. Definitely the most fun I've had in the game.

[@achaeanmapping4408]

This video: A2Z viewers🤝Guide viewers

[@TheRedHawk]

Facts lol

[@Rullino32]

Nice video, after realising that the event where you punish the perpetrators of the Pazzi conspiracy remove loss of Republican tradition when re-electing or electing a relative, I will try it. In the last run I went Protestant but i will do like I did as Milan, stay Catholic to get easier diplomacy and the benefits of going the harsh stance of the council of Trent, you can get -15% war-score cost vs other religions, manpower and institution spread in catholic which is very strong compared to the conciliarism, the improve relations is only good before there will be a definitive decision on which stance they'll pick.

[@jonathanlangdon9140]

Did my first ever roman empire with Florence, so good!

[@user-kx3uh2fp6q]

You need to try this challenge: start war after every insult you get

[@zachmoore6084]

I’m wrapping up my own Italy campaign after forming Sardinia-Piedmont. You’re right, Italy is great

[@Vanalovan]

Just a tip for AE I like: diplo-vassalizing! Italy is full of OPM’s. The pope is sitting on 2, Milan is sitting on one, Venice is sitting on a couple, Genoa has Corsica etc. If you force countries to release these instead of conquering them, then they’ll already have a high opinion of you and no AE, they’ll usually diplo-vassal (Pope is a good place to start, they’re low dev OPMs). It might be cumbersome and feel like it slows you down, but seeing as by the end its AE that’s you’re problem, I’ve found that it help speeds up uniting Italy.

[@Brakiros]

That's how I did it when I did my Florence run, conquered the Pope forced him to explode then vassalized all the OPMs

[@punishedwhirligig3353]

4:13 Now with KoK, you can form Egypt easily as Florence by swapping your culture to Tunisian or some other Berber culture so you can become a Barbary Iqta, which allows you to form Mamluks without even swapping to Islam. Then you can fkrm Egypt via Mamluk mission tree

[@derAlphabet]

Not playing optimally as oirat, no wc before 1500, pain!

[@TheRedHawk]

Pain!

[@frostyguy1989]

No matter what I try, whenever I play Florence the Pope rivals me from the start, and I can never attack Naples in the brief window where they're independent. Pain indeed.

[@Hazel_Velociraptor]

As Garhwal conquer your way to Norway/Iceland to make a Garhwal Narwhal.

[@drchaos2000]

what do people think about divine florence ? where you switch to a monastic order via event. you keep the juicy ideas but get all the great monastic order goverment reforms

[@matthewmcneany]

I'm currently playing Milan-> Italy-> Roman Republic.

[@wazoo41]

you messed up when reconquering the provinces in Sicily, there is a separate tab for "reconquering" provinces that will show you blue lines on the peace deal map, but when you click the provinces like that it just conquers them albeit cheaper because the person taking them has cores on them there is a difference tho

[@TheLibermania]

22:13 So you made the classic Burgundian Liege war blunder.

[@cynfaelalek-walker7003]

It's-a-beautiful!

[@Facker3D]

It is pronounced seegnoreea, signora as you say it means lady in italian, while signoria I think it means "land of a signore" ( signore translates to mister/sir but in this case it refers to the guy who rules over the land)

[@dave87974]

congrats for finally pronouncing Landshut correctly.

[@TheRedHawk]

I have finally done it

[@jessicalindo7977]

I absolutely adore playing as Florence, however I always get stuck not being able to form Italy until 1600 due to awful enemy alliances and waiting for them to break them

[@Madeguydo]

You could force alliances to break through peace deals and the trust/favour mechanic. Also you could declare war an ally of them who the nation you’re targeting is willing to fight to break that alliance. There are workarounds, I suggest picking diplo ideas for an easier diplomatic game in Italy.

[@electricVGC]

Easily your best content

[@beecesnt2539]

Quantity Ottomans, "It's an optimal opponent!"

[@jacklovejoy5290]

Garhwal has an achievement for forts, but it also has wal in its name, so why not own the entire length of the Great Wall of China?

[@tsarXadam]

You should have made the pope end his rivalry with you when you were at war with him.

[@pierremaggi8661]

Malta forts don't suck ! War score cost -15% vs other religion is good in Europe once reformation/protestant appears, or if you want to expand into North Africa (which Malta give you access too).

[@grubygrzib6308]

I played florence just a few times, but I also really like them

[@ohNojames]

I really love role playing and becoming a monarchy with the Medici family still in power. Do allies get mad if you decline their request to put an hier on your throne?

[@dreadvoice7285]

the pain sound is very funny

[@thecringekid5744]

Haven't watched this yet, but if he reqlly is going to play optimally he has to nocb byzantium day 1, full annex them, convert to orthodox, release them again, take the dev cost reduction icon, go for innovative, quantity, eco and trade

[@mr.smiley1652]

you really are the cringe kid

[@ysff0710]

🤓

[@Giga-su9gr]

I love playing as Florence as well

[@samwill7259]

I've NEVER seen a great power intervention that early. That's...pretty impressive in all honesty.

[@dogfish6739]

France intervened to help ottomans in my no cb byz war as Aragon once

[@hellodolly7989]

Florence is one of the most carefree and beginner friendly nations in the game. You can not lose. Money falls into your lap, institutions spawn on you or two feet next door, you get an event chain for a 6/6/6, and youre spack dab in the middle of the mediterranean. I can see why most think its so fun.

[@wargamesmaster]

Did you know that with Florence you can re-form Rome as a Republic?

[@TheLibermania]

29:50 Spain-France if i remind you.

[@TheDartFrog]

the "if they have 50+ opinion of you they have to leave the coalition" thing, anyone got any idea why occasionally it doesn't work? I think it's especially if it's like the 2nd coalition in a short time that they joined against you or smthn?

[@FalkyRocket2222]

i just opened eu4 to continue my florence game lmeo

[@maikoen4557]

Malta forts give war score cost vs other religions tho, super strong :(

[@ryanbradley3293]

I’ve literally never taken plutocratic ideas but they sound ok

[@Terrados1337]

Playing in Italy is always so satisfying

[@benjaminkuhn2878]

You are the only KZbinr that says Landshut correctly.

[@manolvitanov2571]

The Malta monument is one of the best because of reduced war score cost

[@marcustulliuscicero5443]

> claims Florence is his favourite country > doesn't know that it starts with historical painters as its starting admin advisors ;P

[@JustanotherGuy-xx4gy]

it would be nice if there was a cb to force the pope to lift your excommunication.

[@Zendria]

Since it's your favorite and it's on twice then play it twice 👍

[@anonymanonym9335]

In my opinion Venice is better nation to form Italy, because you can also stop expansion of the Ottomans and become ultimate trading power and economic hegemon with army of 400k troops in 1650s.

[@KrillixKai]

Best Florance game ever.

[@benhur2806]

5:20 - Not optimal play, you were above relations :P

[@tuluppampam]

The amount of time names where mispronounced in this video is astounding (mostly the stress put on the wrong syllables)

[@ColorRed84]

Can't wait for Głogów ☺☺☺

[@LilGamingYes]

OPTIMALLY? Certainly you mean OPTITALY

[@jvvedova]

Did not conquest Trent de greatest nation in the planet

[@Sqancer]

5:34 it should be nerfed that you cant indulge sins for few years once you got excomunciated

[@nameplusnumbers5593]

As Garwhal play as least optimally as possible

[@Jayako12]

Optimal Red Hawk? I don't believe it.

[@Thir]

Your idea cost is actually -25% due to your innovativeness, thats why the -15% probably didnt seem to match.

[@Everest3000]

Can anyone tell me why his mission tree is red?