EU4 but the LITTLE GUYS strike BACK!

In today's Europa Universalis IV (EU4) video we will be checking out the Revenge of the Bullied mod what changes the 1444 borders in Europe to give land to the historically smaller and weaker nations like Byzantium, Granada, Novgorod, the Teutonic Knights, and many more!
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[@YoungClarke]

Having byzantium in the thumbnail or title is basically a youtuber cheat code for successful videos.

[@Chewbert]

😎

[@Idoexist._.]

Having Byzantium suceed in thumbnail is a call for orthodox bros: russians, Serbs etc. India on thbnail but eastern edition. As a russian, i confirm it works

[@gild3dhawk670]

Espionage is still underrated even after being buffed, stacking AE reduction with Saluzzo is just 10/10 with this

[@AbdulAli786o]

I second this

[@DaxRaider]

When everyone says it's underated it's not underrated xD

[@kraken5057]

it removes corruption from the game as well

[@AbdulAli786o]

@@DaxRaider I mean what did you expect us to say? Quantity? lmao

[@gafeleon9032]

@@DaxRaider the thing is that there still are people who treat it as the meme idea group even after the buff

[@ShiningLight]

"Byzantium" ending the game as a massive empire but without owning "Byzantium".

[@shonewarrior2178]

Who owned it though?

[@deadbushinwater7446]

No Constantinople??? 🤨🤨🤨

[@ShiningLight]

@@deadbushinwater7446 do you know what " " means?

[@deadbushinwater7446]

@@ShiningLight what do you mean by " "

[@ShiningLight]

@@deadbushinwater7446 it's a way to shown scepticism or in this case sarcasm about nomenclature. I know that it's the Roman Empire and Constantinople, but I use " " when calling it Byzantium to express irony at EU4 position while also making a point for my statement.

[@PepperoniMilkshake]

Grand Pirate Confederacy of Great Britain (with Cornish as its main culture) wasn't really on my bingo card for this video when it started. It was hilarious tbh

[@Prayingmantis78]

As a Welsh person I give you a pass to make the sheep shagger jokes. It's kinda funny

[@aaroncousins4750]

Apparently stealing sheep was a death sentence, but shagging one was not which i believe is where the rumour started

[@Prayingmantis78]

@@aaroncousins4750 You are correct

[@cp1cupcake]

@@aaroncousins4750 Reminds me a similar thing I have heard with Iran. I heard its the only Muslim country where an animal used for bestiality can be eaten, as long as its someone else eating it.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Just out here, rooting for my boy Byzantium

[@MrCr1spy1]

Aristocratic is underrated. 20% manpower and mil cost reduction which let's you use mana to develop and get even more manpower and leaders (with siege).

[@Chewbert]

Hard agree

[@morgomir7671]

After quantity nerf Aristocratic is idea that i pick if i want manpower and it is the best idea to pick with exploration and expansion(33% manpower and -15% construction cost policies win my early game)

[@utf4n498]

I often pick aristocratic nowadays. They do a bit of everything

[@SereglothIV]

Yes, it's my most picked idea group after the rebalance. I think I pick aristo/pluto/divine in every campaign these days. And I even had both aristo and divine as Persia, which is feudal theocracy.

[@aronaskengren5608]

Divine idea stacked with religious is the ultimate larper move, highly underrated

[@TheRestedOne]

Humanist. Nobody wants to say it, but it saves so much micromanagement from rebels.

[@MrTohawk]

You should do a video where countries with 3 or less provinces get big bonuses. To really have the little guys be strong and see if the majors can overcome this.

[@user-rk5zy4mk2g]

HRE will get even worse.

[@ramp597]

Plutocratic has very nice morale, goods produced and unrest reduction buffs as well as a merchant. Definitely a great one when playing as a republic

[@cp1cupcake]

I just want to put it out there that the only Welsh person I have met married a veterinarian. I can only assume.....

[@goawayrayy]

Yes another mod to add to my collection of things to do when bored, thank you tremendously.

[@thefamousemickey]

I'm not sure if it's possible, but i'd like to see a game where every mission from mission trees is automatically fulfilled. So everybody gets all their temporary and permanent modifiers, claims, or personal union cbs from the start.

[@honeysauce5244]

It would be possible but someone would have to probably give each individual benefit from every mission to every nation. It would definitely take a lot of time.

[@RhombonianKnight]

Aristocratic is an underrated idea group, especially as a better quantity group than Quantity. Between its own ideas and the Aristo-Exploration policy, there is no way to get more manpower with only two idea groups.

[@strawbunnyfps]

I wish re-formables had some slight name variation based on who formed them. It's always so disappointing when a minor does well and beats a major only to end up as that same major >

[@MrDalek2150]

"Nothing changed in south america" Pretty much every HOI4 mod in a nutshell.

[@juanmendez3290]

Video 4 of asking: Can you do a Each dynasty is a Country? so when you they royal marry they get auto-inherited. Including the non-catholic nations and republics?

[@rhysthieme3920]

Being a Welsh person, I can safely say that being referred to as a sheep shagger brings me a sense of national pride. Nothing offensive about it!

[@Chewbert]

Legend!

[@bobsmith7066]

So….. Every trade good is its own country? I want to see the boarder gore!

[@specil-k]

For a similar video you could give every nation under 100 dev a crazy modifier that lasts them up until they exceed 100 dev. That would make for an interesting scenario.

[@insomnium5024]

I'd say that innovative is pretty underrated. Massive advisor cost reduction + extra siege bonuses when paired with already really strong offensive makes games so much more convinient

[@kesorangutan6170]

Andalusians would speak Mozarabic. It was a latin/romance language with arabic influences. Though I'm pretty sure they would also speak their own arabic dialect with latin influences, since the rulers were arabs themselves.

[@Omouja]

Yeah, Spanish didn't even existed when the caliphate invade Iberia. Mozarabic was a dialect of arab with latin influence

[@usernamesample8386]

@@Omouja Mozarabic is a Romace language while Andalusian Arabic is a dialect of Arabic. Both languages were spoken.

[@andrewmorrison7074]

I think innovative is underrated. It's my goto starting idea group if I start admin. Flat 10% tech cost for the rest of the game, increased institution spread, and cheaper institution cost to embrace. I find the long term mana and early game cash saved on institutions is crazy good.

[@tgoas3503]

Plutocratic is crazy underrated. Not only is it really good by itself, with morale of armies, manpower recovery, -2 national unrest which is shockingly handy, and trading buffs, its policy with everyone's favourite espionage gives 33% national manpower, which is more than quantity, as well as giving 10% as part of both its admin and expan policies. It is the go to if manpower is what you're after, but most people don't know about it because republics are rare and it's tucked away in the policies.

[@biharek7595]

Exploration and expansion, many people don't like those but I just really love colonising, it let's you get very powerful.

[@Goldenblitzer]

IMO the most underrated idea is espionage, especially as Poland, getting tanks instead of cavalry, and siege ability through the roof

[@amnistar4957]

Most underrated idea group is probably Espionage honestly. It was terrible originally but the current iteration is actually pretty solid. Pre-video guesses - Byzantium has my bet for doing well simply because it is already pretty powerful with it's mission tree and idea group, so if it is buffed enough to get out from under the Ottos thumb it'll be a breakaway winner.

[@ATemplarIGuess]

I played this mod about a month ago, and somehow, england got the burgundian inherentence and roflstomped scotland. Some things never change

[@jacoblinde7486]

I love Divine ideas. I always take it as a theocracy. It might not make up for the lack of control over your monarchs, but it's so much fun to use inconjunction with Religious and Espionage.

[@biharek7595]

2:43 that's cool, just like in our timeline!

[@Dark-gl3zl]

Spionage ideas are good

[@sovietpotato4540]

12:20 "Grand pirate confederacy of Great Britain" UK, but Based

[@nevets2371]

Aristocratic is pretty underrated imo, it may not have the best combat buffs, but absolutism, dev cost, manpower, army tradition decay, and if you are playing a cav focused nation like Hungary or Poland the cav combat ability isn't almost useless.

[@cousin_chet]

Yay! I love these vids. Thanks Chewy

[@Chewbert]

Glad you like them!

[@tendoo404]

In almost every run I go espionage, it just so helpful and a good all-rounder

[@Chewbert]

I agree, especially since 1.34 changes

[@datopapunashvili6101]

1821 some random tag owns Constantinople next to a massive byz, average ai experience

[@juanbarbosasiguenza5883]

The andalusian language is arabic for religion and state and mozarabic ( similar spanish with arabic words) for common people. You have a great mozarabic language in 'i love languages" KZbin channel.

[@jakedavidheilemann1208]

Well done with speed5 btw Nice vid too

[@Chewbert]

Thanks I did my best! Cheers :)

[@gripu]

Finally, a mod I actually played before watching your video

[@giovannigamberoni1542]

"In the end it doesn't even matter" linkin park are happy ahahah

[@Noddiz]

EU4 but every trade region is a particular good production (or EU4 but trade is op)

[@authenticbitterleben7434]

Just from the title I expected a triggered modifier severely buffing nations indirectly proportional to their number of provinces. That would actually be quite cool. Let's say there's broken bonuses to tech cost reduction, army, colonialism and various blobbing capabilities for opms, and these get -25% for each additional province. So a 4 province nation might get still a quarter of it, but a 5er nothing. Could combine it with technology cost, unrest and negative diplo rep for larger nations with development. >250 development minor malusses, 500, 750 and then >1000 significant malusses. Something like that.

[@nildzrecastellanos]

Well that settles it, AI Hungary can never do well until the end of a game, they will inevitably die somehow.

[@opossumqueen4524]

What about this idea? Any nation with a coastline is deleted leaving nations on the interior to expand outward thanks to colonize please. Either way this was a fun video and far more chaotic than expected.

[@thehybrid26]

Influence ideas are somehow the most underrated

[@trivane626]

i wonder if Portugal immediately pressed their button to escape to Brazil the second they colonized it since they started with so little provinces

[@selcukavc9813]

for that they need have an established colony there, the brazil in the game was a colony of andalusia you can see it in religious and cultural map

[@Omouja]

Portugal in 1807:

[@user-zg4bk6rv1q]

8:37 Timurids looking like they are about to eat ming

[@Nerazmus]

Underrated? Espionage and Aristocratic are definitely up there. They are really good and become completely OP when you are playing Poland or the Holy Horde. Naval also. Of course it's not good if you aren't waterbased nation, but I rarely see people pick it even when they are playing in heavily coastal areas. And well, I guess Native ideas since nobody plays natives :D

[@jackoakes1328]

Espionage underrated af

[@mariasolpersico7115]

Qotd: probably innovation

[@majesticed9329]

I barfed a bit on the revolutionary bizantium

[@dragongock]

lets goooo new chewy vid!!!!

[@yeetman4953]

6:51 you finally mentioned it

[@quartztemplar3676]

Can imagine the only Welshmen who are fine with the "sheep shagger" joke is probably the south cause it takes the piss out of goggs

[@ptasznik5973]

In my opinion Marintime ideas are underrated that force limit is nice especially when you want to have alot ships combined with big amount of light ships that increase you trade and naval tradidtion and Quantity is clealry superior than Quality in naval battles also cheaper ships are great but the best thing is that sweet regeneration outiside of ports i much more prefer to take marintime than naval ideas especially that naval are militaristic ideas group that locks spot for other militaristic idea groups that are superior to naval

[@TKaarel]

Editor where was the "Fine, I'll do it myself" clip when Burgundy fromed France??!

[@Terrados1337]

How cursed is constantinople in 1821? Yes.

[@zaidatimash713]

So we aren’t going to mention Bengali Korea and Byzantium without Byzantium

[@cana_leta]

5:18 ARA-𝗚𝗢𝗡𝗘

[@bakubread9308]

there's something very funny about Romania (Modern) bordering Romania (Eastern Rome) in this timeline

[@AlsoSunsteel]

Definitely Espionage, ae, corruption. Though rebel support is definitely a dead slot. Also, you forgot to link the mod.

[@joegillett2845]

What if the war score become flipped from what it is as default? For example, if a OPM is seiged by another country, it will have 100% warscore rather than -100%

[@ThighErda]

Quality. People screech about Quantity so much...

[@skipperxiv9401]

Honestly, with these kinds of mods I wish reforming base game tags like England or France was disabled so we don't just end up seeing them every time.

[@TKaarel]

The MOST underrated? Definitely Naval or Humanist!

[@polishrepublic5055]

Eu4 but Charlemagne/Frankish empire is back and holds Byzantine as personal union

[@batlover64]

My brain fried looking at the map 12:40

[@arturturkevych3816]

Welsh joke is relevant considering there are more than 9 million sheep there and only 3 million people. They do love their sheep

[@strategogod]

Espionage is underrated and with Economic, Innovative or Offensive can give you the same amount of Diplomats as Diplomacy itself. Unless I'm going colonial it's pretty much my first choice every game

[@vc6094]

Make all the Horde leaders immortal and put them on aggresive to see if the horde CAN roleplay worldconquest

[@basil4860]

Byz at the end has Rome ironically they don't have Constantinople

[@sahilhossain8204]

Lore of EU4 but the LITTLE GUYS strike BACK momentum 100

[@DonPedroman]

Andalusia in this timeline would speak some evolved form of mozarabic, mozarabic being a romance language spoken in muslim Spain with heavy arabic influence (even heavier than regular spanish that has a shit ton of arabic loanwords)

[@Omouja]

It was the opposite, no? Arabic with heavy latin Influence?

[@DonPedroman]

@@Omouja No, mozarabic was a romance language

[@The0Stroy]

I have another idea: Mod that gives you HUGE boosts if you are OPM.

[@HypercopeEmia]

I think Indigenous ideas are underrated, not because people think it's weak but because people don't think it's the strongest idea group, witch it is

[@ilyastepanov404]

Plutocracy for sure

[@jansatamme6521]

idk, not many idea groups are now underrated, i'd say innovative, but its literally a meta pick soo idek, the new aristo and espionage are good but they are also pretty well known at this point soo imma say Divine, had a lot of fun with Divine-Quality-Offenisve-Aristo mil picks as Teotons into Prussia (if i decide to play a campaign for longer I usually switch on a mod which grants 2 more idea groups soo I played with all of the mil groups much earlier than normal) and naval is very underrated... because navies unlike real life are pretty useless and its also removed in many competetive mods because its just that good that all naval powers are forced to pick it or get destroyed since navy is purely quality based, which is sad because every1 has the same naval units where irl this was where europe was head and shoulders above every1 else

[@AbdulAli786o]

Aristocratic and Espionage are probably the two most slept on

[@arno_groenewald]

I am very curious what would happen to this timeline in Victoria 2 and 3.

[@koesgerinho]

how can he change all the nonchangable things in the game ? i want to try it on my own game but i have no idea what to do ? i mean changing all goods to gold etc.

[@lordavy7469]

Dutch speaking America isn’t as far fetched as you might think, the only president to speak English as a second language was Martin van Buren, whose first language was Dutch

[@bartoszmarcinik494]

Andalusian is a mixed breed of morrocan and spanish... just like todays english is a mixed breed of saxon, dane and norman... some countries didnt bother converting cultures so they intermingled with each other... hence why for another example lithuanians are a mixed breed of livonian and polish and thats why polish is still an official language in lithuania to this day...

[@davidakias]

When you will make campaigns?

[@isaacdierckx2056]

Aristocratic is great

[@istan21]

HAPPY VALENTINES

[@michealglcoyle9772]

*Theodoro has left the chat* *HRE opms have left the chat* *Ireland has left the chat* *Bohemia and Lithuania (which always die) have left the chat*

[@kamildowejko2254]

Espionage is most underrated

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

Poor navarra did not got given all the basque culture provinces

[@Justplaying478]

he doesn't see that constantinopel is not controled by byzantium

[@qirmizi6085]

Ayubids (Hisn Kayfa) Should be also included in mod

[@Chewbert]

I’m fairly certain I mentioned it was just Europe atm, but I didn’t make the mod

[@brandoncampanaro7571]

When you looked at the nations near the end, Byzantium lost Constantinople but owned most of Italy 😂😂😂

[@Chewbert]

xd

[@alessandrobicocchi9186]

Can I ask which graphics mods are you using?

[@Chewbert]

Chewys graphics on the workshop :)

[@evanworthington82]

Espionage is underrated for an expansionist country in the HRE especially if your going to flip Protestant

[@Chewbert]

The buffs in 1.34 make it a must pick for some of my runs!

[@JG4Roblox]

How do you check top 8 powers

[@LDaz]

Andalusian is actually a dialect of Arabic, extinct now, but Andalusian writings are still completely legible to any literate Arab today!

[@Chewbert]

That’s dope!

[@Spartan113100]

Can you link all the map and flag mods you are using? Great video! Thank you!🥳

[@Chewbert]

Chewys graphics and the flags are from Tin on the workshop

[@Spartan113100]

@@Chewbert Thanks! :)

[@dbd978]

the mod is not in the description though? I don't see it

[@Chewbert]

Revenge of the bullied

[@Urlik7]

Underrated? Espionage! 🕵️

[@pohlsbsb9754]

What map mod are you using

[@Chewbert]

Chewys graphics

[@bartoszmarcinik494]

Gotland is actually pronounced Gutland which is german and scandinavian languages means good land