EU4 but only ONE PROVINCE per continent is settled?

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In today's Europa Universalis IV (EU4) video we will be voiding every province in the world except for one capital province per continent. The nations of Brandenburg, Aztec, Kongo, and a couple others will be tasked with colonizing and repopulating the entire world, and then they have to fight it out for dominance!
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[@gugfitufi4862]

I think it's fine to force spawn the reformation. Although you technically interfere with the AI-only experience, I prefer it when the countries keep getting technologies steadily. Also, the unique mechanics in each age of the game is super fun to see! How they start blobbing with absolutism and how the revolution changes the world is just cool to see. So please spawn in the reformation!

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@emperoruniversalis9773]

No!!!

[@BlackLixt]

i do these at home for fun and if ai stops progressing because of some decision i will tag and do it for them

[@Bbl1nk]

In Old Norse they called it "Ísland" which translates literally to "ice-land", it just happens to look like "island" in English lol

[@frederri2968]

Yea Island in norway is øy

[@forkeke]

Ice was written as "is/īs" in English as recently as the Middle English period. This is not down to Norse influence on English however, but rather just to their shared heritage as Germanic languages. "Ice" and "land" are very common highly preserved nouns. In my home dialect of Low Saxon in North West Germany, ice is still written as "is" and spoken with the long i similar to English "ee". So the Low Saxon word for Iceland is the same as the Old Norse and Icelandic words, it is pronounced about the same way and it means the same. Low Saxon also has about the same prononciation for Greenland (Gröönland/Grǿnland) Old Norse had, but the only other language this seems to be somewhat conserved in is Norwegian (in some dialects only, most likely). Swedish looks promising with them writing Grönland, but it's not true. "To grin" has a long i/ee in Low Saxon, so following a similar logic to that from the video, Greenland would mean Grinland.

[@slin2903]

@@forkeke Spricht noch wer Sächsisch in Niedersachsen ich hör nur Hoch- und Platzdeutsch

[@forkeke]

@@slin2903 plattdeutsch ist das moderne Sächsisch aus historisch-linguistischer Sicht. Der Name ist bloß vom Stammesherzogtum Sachsen im Rahmen der Ostsiedlung des Mittelalters in die Gebiete des modernen Freistaats Sachsen gewandert, der nach der Völkerwanderung von Slawen bewohnt wurde. Die wurden verdrängt und germanisiert und der dabei entstandene Kolonialdialekt wird heute landläufig nach dem Landesnamen "sächsisch" benannt. Aber aus der Perspektive der historischen Linguistik hat dieses Sächsisch nichts mit dem Altsächsischen zu tun, die Entwicklung lief so: Altsächsisch -> Mittelniederdeutsch (damals auch eher als Sassisch bekannt) -> Neuniederdeutsch/Plattdeutsch/Niedersächsisch Auch die Sächsischstämmigen Kaiser und Könige des Frühmittelalters sprachen eine Vorstufe des Plattdeutschen Wird auch in den östlichen Niederlanden gesprochen und heißt da aus dem gleichen Grund noch heute nedersaksies. Aber um die Frage zu beantworten: Im Oberharz gibt es eine Erzgebirgische Sprachinsel, weil vor einigen hundert Jahren Bergleute von dort angeheuert wurden. Also ja.

[@slin2903]

@@forkeke Sehr interessant meister.

[@bobsmith7066]

I don’t really care one way or the other whether you help along the AIs. All I ask is that you be consistent. I think that if you’re going to help Mongolia upgrade to Yuan then it only seems fair that you then help Brandenburg upgrade to Prussia.

[@Chewbert]

That’s a fair point, I’ll keep that in mind

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@ottokaare5925]

I mean those two things were completely different

[@sorenyoung5919]

@@ottokaare5925how?

[@pohorex6834]

@@sorenyoung5919one is him forcing through the reformation, the other was him clicking a button that the ai is coded not to click. They did everything they needed to to do it, just couldn’t because of a code that says “is ai = false”

[@OcaenNam]

i personally love tsardom, and especially great veche republic, because spamming streltsy is really fun.

[@Chewbert]

Truth! Great Vichy was an awesome addition to the game

[@Grid-the-goofy]

@Chewbert uh sir.. i would like to say the Canadian territory is called nova scota, i think while newfoundland [prob butchered] is more north

[@user-vf1zw3wn3m]

Iceland in norwegian means Island, and yes it is written the same as the word island. Just that the difference is that "ice" in english is "is" in norwegian whilst "land" is the same

[@GodOfGunz]

In swedish iceland is called island with means ice land

[@kahedakylar]

bro wtf this is confusing

[@wiel5908]

funny, in portuguese we call islandia

[@user-vf1zw3wn3m]

@@kahedakylar Iceland translated to norwegian is “Island” but that does not mean we use the word “island” when talking about a rock out in the ocean we use the word “øy” for that. I am not sure how I’ll make it much simpler

[@tadas047]

In czech we call it Island

[@DanjasLP]

Absolutely gotta be Republics. Especially later on when you have the government reforms done, you can essentially choose your leaders first trait and then just bump then up to 6/6/6 within a decade. It's so so powerful when done by a player.

[@kahedakylar]

me: i need to do something productive today also me: *watching AI fighting each other for 94. time*

[@datbo1]

Here's an idea: Simulating ancients- by that I mean, do a custom nation in historical places of ancient civilizations (or use preexisting tags if they exist) and let them colonize the world and see them fight for dominance

[@Otto500206]

An ancient times mod exists for EU4: Imperium Unversalis

[@datbo1]

@@Otto500206 thats not what I meant. I meant one province minors that would colonize the world

[@somestrangerwhoeatsfries2728]

Mediterranean had Rome, central Europe has Germanic tribes, Scandinavia has early vikings, eastern Europe has Slavic tribes northern Asia got mongols etc

[@Bardun_]

There was a mod like this being developed many years ago, but I haven't ever seen it again and I don't remember it's name either (all I know is that it appeared around the time the states mechanic was introduced into the game, as the mod used it to make it so new nations would appear from the old ones).

[@darksuperganon]

I think what happened is that Palawa formed Australia, but when you form a colonial nation you have to give up all the land outside of that CN. Which, in this case, returned it to... Palawa since there were no other cores.

[@williampavlik9734]

I dont have the dlc to remove bad kings or queens. So I always go democracy/republic. Because then I can pick which power to focus on.

[@Konichu35]

Thats a dlc???

[@Konichu35]

Lmaooo

[@vforvictory2953]

crack all the dlcs

[@lorrdy7640]

Dude common sense is like one of the most important dlc

[@kohuded]

It is believed that iceland is called that due to all the drifting ice around it way way back.

[@kirgan1000]

Island is "the land of ice" like Grönland is "The green (pasture) land" Greenlands name is only for marketing to attract settlers. Vinland "Pasture land"

[@SubSpace-bs5fr]

The name of iceland comes from the icelandic "Ísland" which means ice land, NOT "island" which is "eyju" in icelandic.

[@Vincrand]

I see the similarity with Dutch. In Dutch th country is called Ijsland (means ice land). The word for island would be eiland, which seems to be a mixture of mostly English and a bit Icelandic.

[@Infidi]

9:44 you could write your own event which has a 50/50 chance to spawn the reformation and can only fire once

[@specil-k]

Feudal Theocracy is the most powerful government form in the game, in my eyes

[@Maybe_Me_Maybe_Not]

Both Persia’s and Mughal’s governments are good.

[@jakedavidheilemann1208]

Ultra Persia go brrrrrr

[@simmilimmi5383]

Actually Iceland got it’s name from one Viking who visited it and called it Iceland cause there was a lot of ice, Ísland is Iceland in Icelandic cause ís is ice and land is land. Island in Icelandic is “eyja” and in Norwegian “øy”

[@fro123play3]

i think the reason pdx disables some events for ai is that they will set the provinces as provinses of intresst, its like when the mughals wants the world because of its mechanic. And that makes shenanigans as ai italy wants the entire mediterranean sea and will break alliences and stuff like that

[@reentrysfs6317]

I really like hordes. There map positioning is really good and there much more active and fun than all others.

[@fedorustimenko3057]

Imo, republic is very powerful with its ability to produce god-like rulers at reliable rate

[@Chainmonkey77]

Military dictatorship I find to be a way to remain permanently dominate, army tradition-> general-> strong leaders-> more war-> army tradition... I may be biased though as I just love Milan🤣

[@mastrorick]

Iceland recived its name because when the norses arrived, it had a lot of ice. Greenland had even more ice and was discovered later. The "green" part comes from norse mythology, under the belief calling it that way will make the land fertile and lush

[@Benwut]

I think that the reason australia split off is cos (idk why) but the australian natives can sometimes lose land due to zealot rebels, which I guess made them lose australia, and iff the rebels that split off decided to become a horde, then they can form australia.

[@sterd1149]

Honestly, to the question of what the best government type is, it would be Christian monarchies specifically due to PUs and inheriting thrones. I always snag England and Muscovy, netting me a ton of land regardless of which nation I play.

[@Вехумет]

IMO theocracy is the best gov. type just because of +20% siege ability policy with divine+espionage ideas. If you stack it with offensive ideas, army traditions and professionalism plus a couple another bonuses here and there you can get up to 85% and even level 8 forts fall almost *instantly*

[@Brian-uc5vj]

Reminds me of borders from 1984. Aztec = Oceania, Germany = Eurasia, Palawa = Eastasia

[@pandasfressenbambus2940]

Republics are really cool. If you're good at managing republican tradtion, you will just always have god tier rulers

[@maciejjesior7980]

maybe not so powerful but republics are my fauvorite for roleplay purposes, for example switzerland forming free german republic sounds fun to me

[@piyushtiwari5243]

is that a gov type

[@Al_L.]

It has to be Kalmar Union + Austrian Archduchy, it is so easy to make the Vassal Swarm it is insane

[@MinecraftNerdDK]

the reason Palawa lost australia is, if a colony nation forms a nation, (ex. spanish mexico forming mexico) they lose all colonies outside of their colonial territory

[@archieloughlin2670]

as a british man, i would not like the incans to take the falklands

[@AlsoSunsteel]

Horde or Republic, so much mana

[@feetlettuce5628]

"island" , as it is called in scandinavian languages actually means land of ice, the word for island in norwegian is "øy"

[@h4gragger30]

The Idea of this concept is great. Maybe we can get another roubd where u leave 1 province in each region (defined by the game).

[@maddogbasil]

Elective Thallocratic Theocracy Perfectly combines God.....Democracy.....money Prove me wrong

[@hoi-polloi1863]

Nice video! I'm glad to see Palawan and Australia hold their own... if they'd joined forces they would have had ~10k development, and get up into the top 3 or so. Ideas for more vids? How about "they coulda been contenders"... that is, fill as much of the map as possible with countries that flowered briefly and then vanished or languished. Thinking Lotharingia, Knut's empire, Toltecs, Apache, Tibet, the Seleucid Empire, Axum, Sealand, the Portland Autonomous Zone, colonial American states with those ridiculous west-streching borders, Welsh Patagonia, Scottish Darien, imperial Benin, Nestorian Chaldaea, Angkor Wat, Kamehameha's Hawaiian Empire, and poor always dumped-upon Armenia. Oh, you can throw in a Byzantium or two, because Deus lo vult.

[@sawyersprott]

I definitely prefer forcing through some things that are normally essential for game continuation.

[@smallsay9958]

What if you did a video where every government type is its own nation, so all hordes merged, all republics merged etc

[@ertuzun21]

Euro-Asia looks like the 3 countries from the book "1984 "

[@Nanowith1]

Island is Old Norse for Ice Land, so Iceland is actually correct I'm afraid. They named it that because it's bloody cold.

[@Nilsoop1998]

As a norwegian our word for island is øy. It has nothing to do with iceland which in norwegian is island, but that to use means is (ICE) and land (LAND, yeah its the same). So iceland means the same damn thing to use as to you.

[@popeagapitusi8]

republics are super fun and kind of op, you basically just always have 6/6/6 rulers and only have to spend a little bit of mil mana to keep republican tradition above 70.

[@WodkaEclair]

the island is Papua, which is divided into the country Papua New Guinea in the east, and West Papua is occupied/controlled/owned by Indonesia, and has had basically a civil war going on there since forever, so what to call it is ~contentious~

[@lilify814-blodreinasbabie]

I'd like to see one with nations only on tiny islands. Oceania, the Caribbean, even ones that are uninhabited when the game starts like st helena or something.

[@magh1996]

If i remember correctly from school. The people that named it Iceland was fugitives from the Norwegian king. So they named it Iceland to deter visitors and Greenland was named to get people to go there instead.

[@spudeism]

I wonder if it would be possible to have HRE emperor election changed so that, say, every two years they'd elect a new one instead of only after emperors death.

[@thenightqueen0]

Republic. If your leader sucks, no worries, they’ll be gone soon and you won’t have to wait until they die (though you probably want them dead anyways), and you got options to choose from! Plus love having more cultures to accept because I love being the ruler that unites and respects all their subjects. 😊

[@euanstokes2828]

Feudal Theocracy (the unique Persian Government Reform) is unbeatable. Easily accessed early game by Ajam and literally allows you to claim any bordering province.

[@stygn]

When you colonise a province you get a territorial core, so no over extension.

[@WisdomLearner]

If I can, after Monarchy I go Republic, royal marriage is needed early after that I don't really need to be friendly to the AI, and just crush.

[@TheSkyShaft]

My guess is that palwa moved their capital and was forced to form a colonial nation in Australia

[@thatponybro6940]

EU4 but it's a BR of every ingame religion

[@imperatormaximus8952]

Finally, no more big Bengal.

[@dukigaming7286]

Theocracy is the best if you can take brewing empire(or something like that) and the open public elections also the divine ideas are the cherry on top

[@turboxandergaming9233]

Republic because in the early game you can have strong rulers and you don't lose stability on death

[@Salv2137]

Hordes are op. Republic generate most mana via normal means monarchies have pu and theocracies have beer reforms

[@KevekGaming]

I am such a massive fan of Republics! They start off weak yes but after you get all your reforma its such a good rype. Your leaders start as average amd cam become overpowered eaaily.

[@tacomuncher]

"over here in newfoundland" while circling nova scotia

[@luke8205]

My opinion on governments: Monarchy is great and well rounded, theocracies have strong government reforms but you have a harder time controlling your point generation, republics are the best in the game until you unlock absolutism, and hordes are overpowered so long as you can stay at war for the whole game.

[@matthewfarrell317]

I really miss the old fantasia map on EU2. So many fun memories.

[@sahilhossain8204]

Lore of Eu4 but Only one Province per continent is settled momentum 100

[@wordhordonleac9051]

Island in Norwegian means "Ice land"; it looks like the english word but has a different origin. :>

[@Skartak]

Livonian Order gets access to an amazing theocracy goverment through their mission tree: Crusading Empire. You get militarization WITHOUT any malus to gov cap, 33% manpower in true faith provinces, 2% missionary strength, and holy war/purging of heresy cb's.

[@Ouzhou_de]

I think teocracy is the best goverment form unless you are a christian monarchy or have a special gov reform. It just has a great ability to expand and still has a good economy.

[@marcinkusmierzak991]

I think you should push reformation just to change age. It was still age of discovery at the end so no absolutism

[@maxvillaverde6430]

Making Prussia would have been to OP

[@TheLittleBarbernator]

MAMLUK Government, I think it affords good role play depending on what culture you choose.

[@kalterverwalter4516]

I mean you sorta did Interfere with the Yuan Button Click so I think the Reformation would be fine as Well.

[@lukasjaskowiec4442]

Russian Empire or Mughals their unique government gives an interesting and powerful ways to play, while not being as limited like the Prussians

[@vladioanalexandru4222]

Horde life is best life. I've just had my first world conquest with Oirat and it was awesome. Looking back I see a lot of things I could have done to make my time easier but the hardest part was to keep concentrated and to not get complacent.

[@HisCarlnessI]

Not 'best' government type by any means... but playing a custom Jewish pirate republic based out of the Caribbean in the current patch, while my friend plays England, has been the most fun I've had in this game.

[@Chewbert]

In my opinion “best” is what you enjoy playing the most!

[@Draktand01]

Iceland is the correct translation of the Norwegian ”Island” I’m afraid.

[@o0xTHEcoPlayerx0o]

iceland used to be called greenland or something. then they found the current "greenland" and were struggling to get people to go there. so they stopped calling iceland, greenland, and started calling the icey place greenland, to trick people into settling there. and thus, iceland which was green, was born. its confusing, because it was supposed to be.

[@orazdhl6542]

island in danish/norwegen means iceland directly translated, its because back in the day people thought iceland was greenland and greenland was iceland or something. here in denmark people say its because people went to iceland and there were a ton of ice on it, so we naturally named it land of the ice aka iceland, and greenland cuz of the same reason but there was a lot of green. but looking back at it, it makes no sense at all

[@gahlster]

afaik some of the first viking explorers called it Greenland when they came back to be able to lure colonists there.

[@jeremy7372]

EU4 but theres only provinces in trade nodes

[@NoGoodHandlesLeft]

*Chewbert force forms Yuan* Palawa: "I thought we were friends?"

[@chriss6840]

I wish parliamentary didn't involve bribing everyone

[@catalyst772]

I once played a florecne Republic game where I constantly had rulers above 4/4/4.

[@morgomir7671]

I like to play as republic, after goverment reforms rework. I pick as many random bonuses for "monarch" as i can. In early game in 3rd tier(i think) there is reform that can make your "monarch" rule for life (+25% avarage lifespan) and after that you can pick 4 guys (one is nephew of last leader) (or lotery). They usualy have rather good stats and my reforms give them +4 aditional mana points in total. I find it more enjoyable becouse it is basicly monarchy with reduced RNG with heirs and with high republic tradition you get reform progress faster. And if you want to get rid of useless ruler you only lose 1 stability when having him clear the rebels.

[@jonasnee]

Iceland litterally comes from Scandinavian "Iceland" its a litteral translation. island in norwegian and denmark is Ø/Øy. Is=ice land=land

[@majdavlk649]

you can have divine ideas as a republic or monarchy...

[@Trever101]

Corruption was brutal

[@opossumqueen4524]

I found this video to be very fun. What do you think of a video where it is five or six nations battling it out to see which form of Christianity is superior? Ethiopia for Coptic, etc...

[@VolkariaVT]

Holy Horde as the teutonic order ehehe

[@leonsaravas3302]

Great Video 👍. I think you should use your judgement and force some Things If yoi know they wont happen otherwise.

[@australiananarchist480]

I like republics so i can always get 6/6/6 chads in charge. Was playing a Switzerland republic game and has a 2 year election cycle and boatloads of RT, so 6/6/6 guys every 10 years after they died

[@DKforever24]

could you do some of these videos again with the Flatten Dev mod/ I feel like it would help balance things out a little bit to prevent things like Brandenburg having thousands of dev more than other countries because Europe has more dev per province than most other areas or Indian nations being economic powerhouses that run away with the game without ever spreading outside India.

[@Fehorder]

I think that if it doesn't spawn by 1520 spawn it in, hurts to see 2000+ years and still age of discovery

[@mrpeter1338]

Feudal theocracy as you are getting acces to goverment mechanics that are giving you clamis at everyone around you + constuction cost and dev cost in capital area and acces to divine ideas also missionary is nice too

[@fischgaming8685]

Why 360 p

[@Chewbert]

refresh

[@fischgaming8685]

Still is 360 p

[@Chewbert]

Sadge

[@trrr938]

The best one is republic because you can get 6/6/6 rulers easily

[@inferno38]

In French to we say "Islande" for Iceland

[@isaachaynes3722]

Would have loved to actually see the downfall of Yuan.

[@keanudupont]

Good thing you didn't make Zulu the one in Africa, That would not have been fair for the rest of the nations.

[@pan_ryba9710]

Hordes are by far the best gov type

[@anthonyhanlon9808]

He called nova Scotia newfoundland near the end

[@limabean06]

As someone from Vancouver Island I can confirm that everyone here smokes weed.

[@Chewbert]

Good development though!

[@SioZhe]

Probably should have gone for flat dev for balance

[@gafeleon9032]

I like republics, but I would like if they were better implemented

[@vemu333]

I prefer you force the reformation for the ages and stuff. While I love prussia, I'm fine with you not manually forming them.

[@brettweier9504]

One province island nations only could be neat!