Eu4: The Tier 1 Playground!

[@edim108]

I feel some major shenanigans are gonna come out of this mechanic. Domination is so much fun and not just with the major nations that got the most focus!

[@SuperJJAlexander]

The problem with the Serbian Despotate reform is that it can only be used by tags that have had that reform. So it's only a bug if they forget it there unintentionally. (found in the game's reform files) P.S. After some testing in-game, you can only access it if you start with Serbia, even after any tag switches.

[@Skrymaster]

was just about to say this after having taken a look at it myself. The "potential" requirements (the conditions that need to be fulfilled to be able to even see it) require you to either have had it or to currently have it... Looks to me like loose ends they forgot to modify back when they started adding all these new government reforms and weren't sure if they should make them country specific or not. I'm curious if you were to tamper with the start date a bunch if it would be possible to start with Serbia not having had that reform before thus not being able to see it at the start...

[@enKageKagen]

Mazovia is Polish. Morava is Czech. Great tips as usual, I am really happy you are back with regular content

[@qiblik]

The Serbian reform is most likely intentional. Its not locked behind DLC, its free content. And coded in way that only Serbia can have it as it requires itself. Edit: Most if not all Gov Ref that are part of free update are Tag specific and can only be recreated with custom nation.

[@seeeee]

So, according to the code, you can only qualify to have the Serbian Despotate reform if you a) have the Serbian Despotate Reform selected or b) have had it in the past but switched out of it, meaning that if you want to play as a Serbian Despotate, you have to start as Serbia (or a custom nation of Serbian culture with Serbian Despotate selected as your government type ig). To actually select the Reform, you need to be Serbian Primary Culture like the tooltip says. So if you start as Serbia, become a Republic, culture switch to Venetian, and then become a Monarchy again, it will be visible as a Tier 1 Reform but greyed out because you're not of Serbian Primary Culture anymore. If you switch back to Serbian you will be able to select it again. I don't know for sure what happens if you change cultures while you still have it selected (and am too lazy to test it), but it probably stays. Other Government Reforms available in 1444 that have the same hidden requirements of a) have * Government Reform * or b) have had * Government Reform * in the past, meaning you _have_ to start as a tag that has them are: - Serbian Despotate (you have to be Serbian Primary Culture) - English Monarchy (although I believe they will be changing this in the next patch (1.35.2 or later): forming England via decision will also give you the English Monarchy _if your Tier 1 Government Reform is not a locked one_ ) - Byzantine Autocracy (forming Byzantium will NOT give you this Reform, but it will give you Byzantine Missions, which you can use to get the other Byzantine Government Reform) - Margraviate (you also have to be part of the HRE) so, luckily, not many

[@caferustwat]

Montenegro also has Serbian culture, do they get it?

[@seeeee]

No, since they don't start with it.

[@peterj-s6421]

your videos are the absolute best! Clear, concise, and to the point. Great content for people who really wish to learn all the game's intricacies.

[@stefanbatory6752]

Good to know, I tend to culture shift for mission trees and pernament modifiers though :D For example, I did start as Wolgast, got all the lands from permanent claims and 10% cav combat DIDN'T form Pomerania, culture shifted to Lower Saxon, formed Hannover, PUd England, the plan was to then switch to Saxon to form Prussia but stopped playing :'D

[@trivane626]

Does the Bohemian government election always give a von Hapsburg even if they somehow don't rule Austria anymore or does it just give whatever dynasty is currently ruling Austria?

[@aids4895]

I think it’s the biggest country you border, so not always Habsburg

[@guappodiablo1]

@@aids4895 even better if thats the case!

[@bronzedisease]

You get 3 or 4 choices I remember. It's ridiculously easy to pu majors with bohemia.

[@CharlieKellyEsq]

that's actually incredible, thanks monk

[@ApolloReloaded]

The Serbian reforms seems to be intended only for starting as Serbia, for you need to have had it before, to acquire it... That's why a released Serbian tag can get it, but u cant by culture shift

[@terratremuit4757]

Now this has me curious. Is the new Persian government type tied to the tag or the culture? Mughals with Persian tier 1 and Diwan tier 2 would be great

[@granockss9548]

Tied to Tag im really Sure, in Wiki it says "is Persia"

[@laurinseidelmann6652]

Sadly tag tied, if you are not a custom nation according to game files

[@Randybobandy12345]

Does the bohemian one give only a Habsburg or can it give other foreign dynasties?

[@apollon5205]

Shame that there's an inconsistency with Serbian gov reform, but I suppose it makes sense historically since it's specifically about being a successor-state, so perhaps it's on purpose and it's the requirements UI that's bugged.

[@BudgetMonk]

It seems as though it is just a Serbian issue, should be fixed at some point.

[@Zamsky39]

Bohemia can also become Osmanoglu if allied to them, at least that's an option I'm presented with instead of Habsburg.

[@wait...5091]

Paradox fixed that in 1.35.1

[@Zamsky39]

@@wait...5091 I started my game on 1.35.0 but it persists on 1.35.1

[@JohnChronakis]

Thanks for the find! This does seem kind of exploity in many cases so it's probable that it'll be toned down later on (perhaps at the sunset of this patch version, as you said)

[@idontknowhowtonamethings.6905]

Bulgaria isn’t a formable nation? I thought it got added as one a couple updates back

[@torgomaghanyan7633]

Coptic albania, with defensive ideas and defensive military gov reforme and edicts on, you could max it up to 170 fort defens

[@piss57]

i shit you not, due to how much this game hates the player, the wall would be breached in the first tick

[@torgomaghanyan7633]

@@piss57 it would not I tried similar tactics with special created nation , killed everyone by attrition )

[@lanelesic]

Playing Serbia on VH and the -10% of province warscore cost adds up nicely with -20% from diplo and -25% from age of reformation bonus and -5% from Malta. Chunking all not orthodox enemies real hard even before absolutism and admin efficiency.

[@BudgetMonk]

Yeah exactly. I played Serbia not to long ago. It was great fun and now they would be much better!

[@isakthornblad9885]

Bulgaria is actually a formable nation 4, they are just under the radar because no nation starts with bulgarian as primary culture, and there is close to no reason to form bulgaria in most cases

[@shubhaamgokko1361]

This was insightful. I feel like Bulgarian Tsardom reform should be disabled for Bulgaria when they are a subject of the Ottomans. Alternatively, I am exploring the possibility of Jaunpur being probably the best nation to form the Mughals with some culture shifting shenanigans

[@Gunner8070]

I already often do this with Italian Signoria when I play as an minor outside power (Provence, German Minors, or latest with Cilli) expanding into Italy for roleplay reason and this seems right up my alley

[@Eluno91]

Isn't Italian Signora worst of all republic types?

[@tt_freddy6299]

interesting vid !

[@biogenezis4]

I was also confused, when I switched to byz from Hungary and didn't get byz 1 tier reform. But greek culture give you unique naval doctrinem but ofcourse I lost my black army reforms

[@bronzedisease]

Albania going all in with defensive, expand fortification (privilege), and other reforms . Before cannon spam it takes forever for anyone to take your forts. There's a hidden African gem called mossi that uses tribal allegiance mechanics. It has some decisions that is very very broken. For example if you start with all.muscovite culture provinces. That one click gives you like 50k manpower.

[@bioemiliano]

They changed Byzantium? I didn't know. Also, did anyone notice that castile doesn't get a restoration cb on portugal? I started a Castile game to check out the new things and didn't get the cb.

[@Wasthere73]

The new gov type is super strong. Early parliament without lising nobility estate

[@eva-xv1bi]

@@Wasthere73 Also, the Byzantine Parliament only requires up to 8 parliament seats max, so if you map paint a super wide empire you don't end up having to deal with a 100 MP seats. That means cheap parliament reforms

[@boulderfrogboulderfrog6512]

I haven't had time to play yet, but I'm curious as to how exactly the unique Irish reform works. If it's a catholic monarchy where you select heir by stats then that seems like it could be quite good.

[@Jack-fh1qh]

are these new government types only with the domination dlc or are they part of the free update too>?

[@kl4p3k78]

Mazovia 👍

[@napoleonofdorset]

Bulgarian tier 1 says fixed at Empire rank. What happens if those provinces are made part of the HRE and an HRE member makes them a vassal?

[@danshakuimo]

You should still stay as Empire. I joined the HRE as Byz before and I stayed an Empire despite being a prince of the HRE.

[@MrMrluuc]

would it be possible with zaporozhie rich sada?

[@RmsOceanic]

I had a look at the code for the Serbian Despotate, and found the root cause for its non-availability pretty easily: potential = { OR = { has_reform = serbian_despotate_reform have_had_reform = serbian_despotate_reform } } What this means is the reform is only available to you if you ever had it in the past. In the history files Serbia is programmed to start with this reform, which is why they have access to it, but it's the only tag that ever had the reform, so it's the only tag that will ever have it. The new Byzantine Autocracy has a similar restriction, meaning forming Byzantium doesn't grant you it, and because you don't have it, you can't get the reformed version in the Byzantine mission tree.

[@BudgetMonk]

Yeah you are right. I am sure these things will be tweaked in the future.

[@boyshan27]

2:50 its is a lot of people dont know that Bulgaria is reformable xd

[@imperatorgub6681]

Might be cool to see a Trebizond game gov reform into Albanian government for the Fort Defense and try to defeat the Ottomans without giving up Trebizond.

[@NatoCaloGaming]

is the DLC worth getting now or should I just wait for a sale?

[@4ester709]

pirate

[@larochejaquelein3680]

You can unlock it for free if you have the Steam Base Game. This DLC is not worth the 25 bucks

[@fierylightning3422]

I'm taking notes while forgetting I have no dlc :(

[@mehmetfatihcetin5932]

I cant access english monarchy after forming england

[@Zeraphimski]

Hapsburg on Otto throne when???

[@rosymaple4203]

I think one thing that makes me really upset is that if you don't have the DLCs you can't actually claim states and a number of other changes make the game even LESS playable now.

[@Eluno91]

So for Komnenoi Empire achevement you just basicly need to conquer one 5 dev Bulgarian Tolcu province from Ottomans XD

[@hoyinching9313]

Very hard Ottomans is fun.

[@viorp5267]

> serbia - warscore cost against other religion > hussite > malta HMMMMMM I shoudl try Zulu Again considering militarization changed

[@EaSkateVideo]

You don't need to be orthodox for Serbian government?

[@gamgamesplayer4506]

@@EaSkateVideo No it says your primary culture must be serbian and nothing else

[@EaSkateVideo]

Got it, thnx! 👌

[@Aekries]

I am starting to sweat when you mention Hungary and what can you do with it. No exploit one tag roman culture before 1700 when?? Love your content mate

[@benbildsten6008]

Monk you are the goat please come to Brazil

[@TurkishZombie]

So Bohemian bot elected Turkish Sunni Osmanoglu to the throne and he is the Holy Roman Emperor. Shouldn't it only elect Habsburgs?

[@larochejaquelein3680]

Really sucks that we cannot get Serbian Despotate as another nation…. That 10% war score cost would have been so nice in combination with Malta, diplo and age bonus 💀💀💀💀💀

[@BudgetMonk]

Should be fixed at some point.

[@captainmccuckin2698]

Bulgarian Tsardom being weaker than the Russian one is so historically innacurate considering the Russian one is a straight copy

[@lui6393]

You can actually Take the Austria duchy with Bregenz they Are a Monachy and Austrian culture

[@benismann]

so the albanian government thing says it gives 0.5 republican tradition (or absolutism but whatever), yet it's not available to republics, funny

[@Stephen64138]

Why don't any EU4 influencers talk about the fact that Paradox is making us pay for entirely free Mods that have worked perfectly fine for years? This, all of this, is Governements Expanded. ?!

[@JohnnyBravo-tn6kc]

No one is "making" you pay for anything. If you have a mod that works, don't buy the DLC. Easy.

[@gabri-immortale]

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