EU4 - Timelapse - Forming the Roman Empire as France

Timelapse of me forming the Roman Empire as France in Europa Universalis 4.
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[@jacobhirschfeld]

>Starts as Denmark >Kalmar Union succeeds >Aragon militarily forms Spain >Castille survives in Tangiers and Uruguay, along with a colonial subject in Brazil >Spain has holdings in Albania and Greece >Brittany survives and colonizes parts of Cuba >Tunis colonizes Florida reality.exe has crashed

[@benrubin2027]

jacob hirschfeld also papal Mexico happens

[@niclas3672]

lol yeah most of those are pretty nuts. Kalmar union succeeding isn't that far fetched though. It wasn't some patriotic Swedish movement that ended it. It was a massacre of Swedish nobles, and the Swedish elite and nobles that wanted independence because of that, as well as their different interests in the east. The people probably didn't give a shit. At that point they all spoke basically the same language anyways. So if the Danish kings treated the Swedish nobles better, and maybe gave them some concessions, it could totally have worked out and unified the Nordics under one nation. There would probably also be a common Scandinavian language and cultural identity.

[@emefki]

thats what we call to alternative dimension

[@borodinfan]

Roman Louisiana, seems legit.

[@frost9041]

It's EU4, I've seen burgundy take over the entirety of northern France and NOT get a single outraged nation.

[@soapegg]

While playing as a custom nation, I was in a war with Naples until i met a 8.123 million army i quickly unconditionally surrendered

[@frost9041]

EZIC Name ummm, I'm quite sure the game doesn't allow that with all the force limits and attrition and so on. Are there other nations that happened to have sent the ire entire force limit to the same area?

[@soapegg]

Sgt Frost nope, only naples

[@ivanmakrov3323]

I've been in a game were in 1492 Muscovy was in a Three front war by him self, and won, then I saw that the African nation Kongo have a colonial power in Cuba.

[@lamp709]

USA:Hey Look, The Romans are here, Bye. *Runs into Canada*

[@CaptainHeadcrab]

They found oil up that way

[@IceLordCryo]

waitwaitwait.... PAPAL Mexico????

[@lordoftea2753]

Those poor natives probably got slaughtered...

[@sacaperros9940]

As always

[@lordoftea2753]

***** Story of History`s life.

[@lordoftea2753]

***** All sold to the important in theocracy...

[@sacaperros9940]

S-sir the pope send a card about or efforts in the new world it says (BRING ME MORE INDIAN BOYS) And so the papal mexico was conceived

[@Wtf634]

I laughed a little when you showed that you were the HREmperor.

[@felixmustermann790]

its not rly hard as france... jsut get diplo ideas full and boom you have 3-5 electors on your side, without conquer vassalize them

[@UsrnamePending]

Guess it's not holy, but it's Roman.

[@constantinexi6489]

+Username Pending 1/3 is good enough I guess

[@UsrnamePending]

Constantine XI 2/3, it's also an empire.

[@TheGeneralHarith]

its not an empire. its a principality

[@quitmarck]

Baguette strikes again

[@baguette2117]

Shruk Pls that I did

[@endou5308]

Baguette Yes you did

[@Okuni_]

look at that blobhemia and teutonic blobder early on

[@corvuscadaver]

Sweden (I guess) just went crazy and formed Scandinavia, ate Muscovy and expanded east.

[@DaDARKPass]

I hate gay teutons.

[@graveeking]

Pretty sure this is just the average France AI game when I'm playing outside of Europe except with a fancier colour.

[@MasterGhostf]

Yea not even interesting

[@vitorcafe9102]

if i had at least 1/10 of the ability you have....

[@Zacherino1]

Ikr

[@luisangel444]

to be honest, its more fun that way¡¡

[@aladicorvo]

he must have used cheats. In 400 years it's no possible doing what he's done in this video in iron mode.

[@remonmasselink5748]

Watch Shenryyr2's Byzantium playthrough, it's possible

[@chanbla11mit]

do you guys even ryukyu

[@Koellenburg]

... lol, so you are holy, Roman , and an Emperor .. neat :D

[@merygaspar1525]

this is funny because france actually held the rights to the throne and crown of the roman empire, since it was sold to the french king in 1496 if im not mistaken, by Andreas Palaiologos, successor of Konstantinos palaiologos last eastern emperor, he kinda used these titles to claim parts of italy btw

[@Knight37385]

Yey History! :)

[@martinlopezhowe]

Conselheiro But wasn't the Roman Empire demised by 1496?

[@autobot-jedi-iron-man3166]

I'm a history geek and I didn't know that! XD France is TOTALLY the best successor, totally.

[@autobot-jedi-iron-man3166]

R.I.P. Byzantine empire.

[@DrDoomsd]

Didn't the last emperor's daughter married the moscovite king Ivan and he declared Moscow as the third Rome? Making their kings Tsars? Who sold the crown, it was claimed by Mehmed right after tha fall of Constantinople, but the next sultans didn't bother with this title again.

[@therealUcxb]

Dutch USA and Scottish Canada...that's not going to last too long

[@skuba16]

Yep XD, also love your name and picture

[@Solarian]

SOCIALISM STRONK!!!!!! SCROO YUO

[@U2andColdplayFan]

lol socialism is for spineless schmucks

[@theyeening]

Socialism works only if it's democratic.

[@U2andColdplayFan]

Polandball and mapping Slovenia Ummmm no.

[@armando3699]

The Papal State was colonising...

[@richardkonyves6500]

Just like in reality.

[@Cortizelic]

That moment when the gauls unite Rome... Caesar would be rolling in his grave

[@RingoStarr_]

I formed the Roman Empire as Milan in 1740. Rome once again had a republic.

[@MattJamesHarrell]

this is honestly one of my favorite EU4 videos! playing as France (my favorite country to watch eu4 videos of) and then to play as Rome (also another favorite) was very cool

[@glasrazuma933]

man, that burgundy inheritance fired quick

[@abiturki6988]

6:59 Papal Mexico, OK...

[@danieliglesias7119]

Big Blue Blob intensifies

[@azazeldryland3997]

Now reform the Roman Empire as the pope

[@Okuni_]

you can't the decisioun requires you not to be the poope

[@azazeldryland3997]

aww

[@bowelterNL]

the poope hahaha

[@fasoliromanesti7195]

if you are hre emperor or hre or the papal state u can't form the roman empire

[@Mythicalman45]

Fasoli Romanesti If you play as The papal States, form Arabia, then Form the Roman Empire it's possible to have a Roman Empire with the Papacy government

[@eduardom.moreira775]

Is there an descision to make the Roman Empire?

[@Dovska]

Yup :)

[@WojthaCZ]

All christian or pagan nations, must own Roma to show up

[@andrewcurcillo]

I did it as ottoderp by becoming orthodox

[@andrewcurcillo]

I think you need mare nostrum

[@25yinyang]

Andrew Curcillo nah you dont

[@toriyanspasov]

Good job man,I really enjoy these series!

[@forzaa867]

At least I did better than you at forming Rome, I formed Rome as Italy which was formed by Austria and I got a PU over Hungary and England early on so that helped and late game when I formed Rome, my ally Russia also fell under a PU. This was my luckiest and only lucky EU4 game.

[@forzaa867]

Also took over the New World but everything else you're better at I'm guessing

[@forzaa867]

***** Hey I did my Rome game awhile back when Mare Nostrum just came out but I still remember, first Austria gets a really good chance to get Hungary under a PU (I didn't get Bohemia and no I didn't form HRE) England was probably my luckiest since I allied the, to help take down France but their King died and I got them defending against my ally Castile (we later reallied but I back stabbed them for declaring war on me for England.) Then when I was already close to forming Rome I'm pretty sure I allied Russia since I didn't need or want any of their land and we were allied for a long time and they eventually fell under PU. No stragety really except for Royal marriage.

[@silver12561]

AlteregoFool i did it as naples

[@viech7595]

+Jari first he was austria who gets special events. That combined with influence ideas and the world's yours

[@furioussherman7265]

I love the music for these timelapse videos.

[@kianhowitt1009]

I wish I had as much skill as you, keep up the videos they're brilliant.

[@TheWhiteFaction]

This is a dream that I wish would come true.

[@blanjipan4484]

This is amazing. You deserve a ton more subscribers.

[@autobot-jedi-iron-man3166]

France actually holds the rights to the throne and crown of the Roman/Byzantine empire, since it was sold to the French king in 1496 by Andreas Palaiologos, successor of Konstantinos palaiologos last Byzantine emperor.

[@marcofragali2845]

Well done for your videos man!

[@derekofoma5120]

This inspired me so much! I tried becoming the HRE as France and after a long struggle and kissing up to the Emperors i finally did it in the 1520's. I joined the HRE but have no idea where to go from here. I think i'm gonna conquer the Western Roman Empires former holdings.

[@ajpearl2075]

In the last patch I Had the pragmatic sanction happen immediately then I win the election in 1450 and then I got the Uber Burgundian inheritance inheriting both French and HRE lands

[@zomzcheezy8958]

This series is AMAZING

[@Crazyderp]

Wow, your videos are really cool! Please, make more! I especially like the Dutch Colonial Empire.

[@baussier134]

Man, I nedd to say, you really know how to make a EU4 gameplay. Not only showed all the provinces, but also the tags in the admin table, and North America... Very nice gameplay, I want to do this on day, with the old and good Byzantines!

[@karenarmstrong8141]

great timelapse good job

[@gabrielmunoz4055]

This is the biggest and blobiest blue blob that I've seen blob. That's honestly amazing. You're amazing. im jelly

[@ChristianSannino1904]

Great video!

[@ShahjahanMasood]

This is an ambitious little KZbin channel I am going to give you that

[@morgenmuffel1359]

congratulations bro, you did it very well. semper victoria!

[@coolL9457]

This was beautiful.

[@TheUncunningFox]

Mighty fine job there mate

[@robofish8729]

Thank you so much dude ill be making maps all the time now :D

[@killme2675]

Persia and Rome are like eternal rivals, they always end up bordering each other with large territories

[@shronkler1994]

like the sassanids and byzantines

[@mr.erenbabus3927]

Perfect This is Epic!

[@TheSpecialJ11]

Looks like you took Big Blue Blob to heart.

[@domslater2646]

Hey dude, just want say I'm a big fan of EU 4 and I'm a fan of Arumba and Shenryyr and I have to say I really love your videos! I've never seen this type of footage before and I really enjoyed it! :) I would love to see a let's play too but nevertheless great work man and keep up the hard work! can't wait to see the next vid you bring out :)

[@Dovska]

Making gameplay videos honestly sounds like a lot of fun! I'm actually planning to buy myself a decent microphone once I get my paycheck this month so it may just happen. But thank you so much for the kind words man! You have no idea how happy I am seeing that there are people out there actually enjoying my videos :)

[@domslater2646]

I'm glad to hear that dude :) honestly just keep up the hard work you're doing great! Also have you thought about possibly doing a mulitplayer lets play in the future?

[@Dovska]

Once I finally get my fiber connection installed absolutely! My current internet can barely handle a skype conversation :P

[@domslater2646]

+Dovska ah awesome dude well if you ever need a player to have a game with I could give it a shot :)

[@tiberiuswolf8259]

never doubt the colonialism of the pope.

[@StephanusTavilrond]

The Big Blue Blob Strikes Back

[@dominykassimonis2180]

the roman empire is a principality xD

[@lapisleafuli1817]

I just noticed that. what the hell. did they not change government at all

[@konplayz]

+Wyatt Farmer Theres an achievement to get 1000 dev. while being a duchy

[@scatta6543]

Well I think at the end of the game you have a lot more than 1000 dev so he couldve upgraded his goverment rank after he got the achievement

[@Zeolot22]

He was emperor of the HRE which auto-downgraded him into a duchy

[@pabi852]

emperror can be a kingdom if he's an elector and becoming emperror doesn't auto downgrade you to duchy. Tbh I have no idea how he managed to downgrade to duchy as a france who starts as kingdom.

[@jackmichael2839]

Wow epic!! I cannot deal with mass rebels under such insane expansion...

[@Zacherino1]

damn, good job man! At 2:35 you made a little mistake though, you've already written that text that comes up but hell, who doesn't make mistakes? :P

[@Dovska]

Ha yeah, my editing software crashed a couple of times while editing video so It must have slipped through when I reloaded the files. I put up a annotion to sort of "fix" it but I'm going to have to be a bit more careful in the future. But anyways thanks so much for the kind words dude! :)

[@Zacherino1]

Aha, I see :P Well, keep up the good work, I think this series is amazing :D

[@willzwiadowca7316]

nice job man

[@keidan_ailan]

"Le Sénat et le peuple de Rome " can't believe romans will sound that sexy in their new French Roman Empire

[@carltonleboss]

Je suis le Sénat

[@someguy9293]

You are to good at this game bro.

[@nillinx1234]

As france its almost impossible feat! Gratz

[@corneliusmcmuffin3256]

Watching this instead of paying attention in history. Teacher talks about 6 coalitions against France as coalitions are formed in game. 030

[@gronak1550]

Nice vid!! What UI mod do you use? It looks so much nicer! :)

[@konplayz]

+Dovska Vienna was part of the Roman Empire along with Sopron Buda and Pest.

[@gordonfreeman8109]

Considering that the would-be heir to the Eastern Roman throne sold his rights to France, this isn't too far off.

[@gordonfreeman8109]

4:50 Welcome back old friend, welcome back...

[@TheSmashir]

My early rapid expansion made me a target of a coalition that forced me to release Champagne and Burgandy

[@DanielTreewood]

hi! which software did you use to make the video? ^-^ (great job!)

[@NJSM1995]

I love it to conquer all and than form as many states as possible

[@jandenuijl4287]

I have played 3 games of EU4 so far, none of wich with a European nation, how do you force someone into a personal union?

[@Dovska]

This guide is pretty long and indepth, but it does cover pretty much everything that has to do with PUs forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/guide-to-royal-marriages-personal-unions-and-claim-throne.788829/

[@hamiamsandwitch6571]

U have 2 be Christian

[@AurOn-lz8uv]

Not necessarily, just the same religion.

[@hamiamsandwitch6571]

+AurOn2401 no sunni's nations are not allowed same with eastern

[@maneatingcheeze]

It used to be that way, then paradox nerfed the pu and made it christians only.

[@CubeManIta]

How do you make the map at the video's start?

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Now holy, now Roman, now an Empire...

[@zacharymatheny6985]

What map/mods do you use? I like the bright glossy look you got in these videos

[@kingdom99hearts]

That culture map mode hurts my soul.

[@riktorGaming]

I am at a point where I think I will restart, it's 1685 I got a PU over Castille and fully integrated them, and since I started trying to go for the big blue blob I took over Ireland, Scotland, and half of England as well as Norway, and Russia, I took over a small portion of the Mahgreb region and I'm starting to crawl up from south Italy, however at this point the Ottomans are not contested in the west since Persia didn't form, and Austria hates my gusts, so I have no Allies to fight them, I see that in your video the Ottos where of similar size to what they are in my current game, how can I deal with them?

[@ianclark293]

I am still bewildered as to how the hell you're duchy level

[@NoahWeaverRacing]

Question.. I'm new and so if I declare war on someone and and my ally joins it, in the peace deal can I take the land that my ally conquered from the enemy

[@jim-bob87]

How did you force the union with England? Nice video.

[@natekirk18]

This was released on my birthday

[@kamranabbas3414]

And I thought that our Napoleon was strong

[@MilanPavlovic540]

The rise of The Big Red Bob.

[@No-0ne-is-Alone]

How do you handle aggresive expension? That is the only thing that prevents me of forming rome in time. I am at 1629 as france now and i got 80 percent of iberia, 100% ireland and 60% of england, also savoy. But the commonwealth blob became the emperor so it prevents me of dismantling other big nations in hre such as austria. Should I restart?

[@haha-lj5sq]

*KILLER QUEEN BITES THE DUST*

[@33Arahis]

I'd think that you need administrative ideas for reduced coring cost, how did you manage to core all of those provinces and did not go behind in admin tech?

[@therealUcxb]

>Papal Mexico >wellthatsnew.jpg

[@Maka6143]

Great video! Did you use any cheats or mods for this campaign?

[@Dovska]

Thanks :) Nope it was Ironman with some small graphic mods on

[@TheGeneralHarith]

you need the historical timeline by buying mare nostrum

[@BSBoertje]

No, the timelines shows the outline of the countries in yhe present while replaying the past. So that border through Hungary to Utrecht was the Roman border of 1820.

[@justinsmith4116]

Wait, then how did the HRE have over 90 Imperial authority?

[@averageromanian3940]

What do you have to culture switch to to be able to form the roman empire??

[@antoniotorres3538]

I am playing as France right now, and I managed to vassalize byzantium before they were conquered, and return their cores. Genoa had expanded into Crimea, and lost land so I vassalize them and returned their cores. I also got a pu over Hungary very early on, but didn't get the Burgundian succession crisis event

[@antoniotorres3538]

I allied Poland, Austria, a super powerful Castille, and now a strong North African tlemcen, and I've taken much of the new world

[@KY-dg8gp]

@Dovska Can you form the roman empire even when you have a pu with a country like france?

[@fadhlanwasim]

How do you deals with core creation, by looking to your expansion you really used vast amount of adm points. Or did I miss something in this game??

[@SJSharks7]

I think he got really lucky with his rulers being like 5/4/4 for admin/diplo/military. Along with hiring all 3 possible advisors with max 3 pts. Imperialist Casius Bell arrives late in the game for the player and if you succeed in taking the enemy capital core creation costs revert to anywhere from 10-32 admin pts instead of 80+ per core. Explains how he expanded east so fast and effectively. Unfortunately when i play I get terrible rulers with like 1/3/2 points bonus or like 2/1/1. And they seem to live forever to. :(

[@aidangrey00]

SJSharks7 when I play my rulers are amazing and then die at age 19 so I'm stuck with a 0 0 1 heir and a regency council for 15 years

[@EE-dj7et]

He probably picked admin ideas which gives you -25 precent core creation cost

[@fadhlanwasim]

@@EE-dj7et hahahahah I stopped playing for 2 years and recently get back to the game (talk about timing). Didn't even remember about this comment.

[@skuddlewinks6954]

Did you have a mod for the flags or is that just how they look when you're the Roman Empire?

[@markhenley3097]

I'm doing this right now. 1490 and just occupied Cairo. Europe is just a massive alliance between the HRE, Austria and Aragon (which has a PU over Castile). I technically do have more numbers than them (75,000 vs 67,000), but I doubt I could win a war. Plus my economy is shit since I have to support all those troops.

[@thruthewormhole]

How far behind in dip and adm techs/ideas were you? All those cores and peace treaties must've cost a ton.

[@TheDropSG]

Hey, judging from your videos you certainly have quite the ability in this game. When your conquering, how are you taking so much land? Do you just ignore overextension and AE? I'm doing a Byzantium game and after watching this, I feel l should be taking more than 2 provinces per wars

[@felixmustermann790]

there a plenty of ideas who reduce Province War Costs, reduce AE, and so on, and in the late game its rly easy due to high admin tech to conquer more and more land, and you must be new to the game... i take mostly 3-6 provinces if i can aslong the coalition against me isnt very big :]

[@TheDropSG]

+Felix Mustermann I'm not really new, I have 250+ hours in the game. I usually just took land up until a coalition did form, as I just assumed coalitions would be difficult to manage. I assume I should take much more land then I do currently?

[@felixmustermann790]

TheDropIG you can hover over your AE in the peace deal to see who could form a coalition ^^

[@taylordick9183]

I usually take a lot more than just two provinces from my enemy.

[@ravensburgerburger3989]

wow very impressive

[@Jduude]

Coolio!

[@nuclearthreat545]

wow congrats

[@batbat5104]

We must feed the blob!

[@DespraJamesFrank]

long time ago when i conquered Rome as Catholic Papal always ask for Rome, is it still the same? i watched you take Rome and still ok.

[@mountainymountain2539]

How do you deal with the rebels is my question and how the fck you can handle multiple ways with large countries

[@skykid]

Papal Mexico lol. Also I noticed you had super Bohemia in a PU, I never seem to get PUs anymore =/

[@MikeGill87]

So proud of Bohemia :-)

[@ihatetobethatguybut7175]

What happened between 1515 and 1550 between aragon and castile

[@Demonian]

can you not form rome in eu4 1.15? I played as byzntium and got all the required land but the option never came up.

[@boofy2592]

Super Saiyan God u prob were looking at the basilieus achievement not restore Roman empire

[@manahanjulsbernardd.6793]

so close to form the roman empire as france ... but the problem is I had a habsburg dynasty and they are not worthy for roman empire, how can i remove the habsburg dynasty?

[@Dovska]

Just go revolutionary man, that way you will both remove the heads of your Habsburgs and get a cool flag, you may even manage to get Napoleon as the Emperor. :)

[@manahanjulsbernardd.6793]

+Dovska lol imagine a revolutionary roman empire

[@MrMoiisme]

Well that's approximatively what Napoleonic France was....

[@gaetanchenu5292]

How do you find the history timeline? How do you get it

[@vague899]

nice