EU4 - Timelapse - Rise and FALL of the Silk Road Empire

Quite different from our normal videos, this Europa Universalis IV timelapse will see our empire first RISE into dominance, only to later FALL into obscurity.
Patreon: / dovska
Game © Paradox Interactive AB www.paradoxplaza.com
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Mods Used:
Graphical Map Improvements
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Songs Used:
EU4: At the Gates of Constantinople - Andreas Waldetoft
EU4 - The Caravan - Andreas Waldetoft
EU4 - Commerce in the Peninsula - Andreas Waldetoft
EU4 - Night Time - Andreas Waldetoft
EU4 - The End of an Era - Andreas Waldetoft

[@gavinwilliamson7481]

**Reads Title** *Me:* What? Dovska lost a game!? That's impossible! **Watches Video** *Dovska:* "... Thus I left my empire at the hands of the A.I. ..." *Me:* Ohhh, that explains it!

[@aleksipulkka]

well... he did it because of an war he was not able to win. Most likely he would have survived longer than the ai but eventually russia would have beaten him in several wars and annexed him

[@bornesone]

aleksi pulkka ..."an war"

[@divine2962]

^

[@steampnk9896]

Love this video, the decision to let the empire fall really added to the realism/immersion

[@Fun001]

I hope if he fails like that in the future, that he does the same.

[@trippfields279]

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair.

[@somerandompersonidk2272]

Nothing besides remains: round the decay.

[@echoambiance4470]

And nothing besides remains.

[@dagds4216]

Ozy what?

[@KingOfSciliy]

Ozymandias aka Ramesses II of Ancient Egypt

[@alexanderthegreat445]

Tripp Fields I’m gonna have to learn that stuff for GCSE English.

[@americancanadian6539]

I love this kind of stuff keep it up!

[@dontworryhouston]

The idea of an empire falling makes these videos way more interesting.

[@tvrtkoi996]

In my opinion the game could be more interesting if even our empires could fall, not just the same bobbing thing that become quite boring

[@wilhelmrk]

You could do a game where you switch your nation at random every 20 years or 100 years.

[@tvrtkoi996]

That's a good idea, will try soon...

[@Smithington_]

There is a mod for that, switching countries I mean. (Not sure if it is up to date though).

[@tvrtkoi996]

Yes there is one called "Random Tag Switch" you choose the years when you want to switch and you got multiple decisions

[@cosmobilling9699]

That Andalusia

[@Paguo]

Disgusting, I know

[@horrorkingkiller]

This is honestly one of my favorite videos to date. As much as uncontested blobs are fun to watch, seeing a great power rise and fall feels so much more realistic and makes the stories you build have such a more interestung arc. Never stop blobbing, but seeing the tides of history change every so often would not be opposed.

[@heronb.4965]

Top 10 Saddest Anime Deaths

[@yumarivik46]

Top ten saddest anime deaths Great video! I do like the change of pace, showing the Empire's eventual collapse and downfall.

[@g00g00jnr]

Holy Shit. That was powerful. I legit got emotional at the end there. Keep up the good work, this is AWESOME!

[@twowatt]

Here’s an idea I have for you as a custom nation play through. Pruthenia is the last stronghold of the pruthenian culture and animism in Europe and it is threatened by the many Christian military orders surrounding it who sole purpose is to eliminate them. This outside hostility has shaped pruthenian society into one of constant military preparedness. Kind of like North Korea but being based in the Baltic’s with the pruthenian culture and being animist.

[@vickitori_7143]

you can set it to being norse as well imho and still work.

[@vd9866]

russia-prussia, ruthenia-pruthenia I see what you are doing here...

[@KoniginMina]

I honestly cannot believe you only have 25K subs, a channel such as this - where high quality is always present in your videos - I should think that you would have perhaps 100K, or more.

[@neine999]

Please do more future videos with an eventual fall of the empire, it just makes it much more fun to watch

[@hyper_ninja3339]

This one was really good. You should definitely do more like it.

[@wires-sl7gs]

This sure was a nice twist, you should do more like this with a mod that allows empires to collapse more easily and realistically, and maybe play it to the end of the game too please?

[@adrianatgaming8640]

thanks for motivating me back to eu4.

[@geomenda7159]

I like this rise and fall thing, you should do more

[@arroraseliant8482]

I think it might have been more interesting to see you attempt salvaging an impossible situation but I understand that might not be fun to play, and I suppose it could have been interesting to see how history continued on after the end of the Silk road empire, like how that Afghan revolt would eventually fare. Still, good video.

[@yourboi7205]

The rise of the new empire of Greece please.

[@luzianleser]

Cool Idea

[@potatogamer1431]

Potato Lord gasp

[@Skellington77]

I love the idea that the empire has a downfall,I never liked games where the guy starts as a one province and proceeds to take over everything easily with all victories. Please do more like these!

[@vult217]

i like theese "rise and fall" videos, they just feel more story based and "real".

[@spontaneouscombustionman3012]

I'd always want to be outnumbered in tainted numbers vs pure numbers. *Shudders*

[@KoniginMina]

Perhaps you should make more videos where you let fallen/falling empires slip into the pages of history. I found this quite entertaining.

[@cameronsmith1339]

If memory serves, the Qajar dynasty was the 2nd last royal house to rule over persia.

[@darth1nsidious726]

I would like to see another of one of these. With a might Empire that later fell into obscurity

[@Gatinjin]

This new concept of these types of videos is great, make an empire and let it crumble, quite realistic and not so boring as you usually become undefeated 'till the end

[@kstar234yt]

The rising and falling really makes the world feel more natural as empires do come and go

[@theswedishdude1]

you should try the Tag Switching mod. play one nation for like 50 years and then jump to the next and we can see how they manage and how the world changes.

[@sarcasmal5744]

Afghanistan got their own back eventually I guess.

[@digitaldasher522]

Sarcasmal they always do somehow

[@killme2675]

Graveyard of Empires indeed

[@stojankovacic1524]

HOLY S**T ANDALUSIA

[@SnorlaxFriend]

You should do Meiou and Taxes trying to create Großdeutschland as Brandenburg, meaning you'll have to conquer Austria, Danzig, Poznan, parts of modern day Switzerland, and France

[@omacmill5189]

I really hate how India late game always just becomes 3 massive powers allied together who don’t desire any of each other’s lands. Hope it stops happening after Dharma

[@gypsysprite4824]

they also need to make it so Vijayanagar isn't actually the weaker of the 2 south Indian blobs and Vijay vs Bahmanis is more equal, rather than Bahmanis always winning since Vijayanagar, due to starting autonomy and a certain event, ends up with it's actually good land in the south not giving Vijayanagar shit

[@thepurplepanda4]

In all of my games vijayanagar always wins, then due to rebels loses and bahmanis is annexed by mewar... bloody ai, JUST ALLY SOMEONE! ANYONE!!

[@theArab__]

Love how it’s just “the land of Silk”

[@thesaltypretzel7525]

This is a opportunity for you to not only make brand new eu4 timelapses with “rise and fall” titles, but also allows you to relax and make the video easier to make.

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

I would highly suggest using a different font, the long lowercase t's are distracting. Other than that excellent video as always.

[@titanschannel585]

It was interesting, it's like an real empire, it rose to it's greatest but like many, it could not hold together for long and would soon fall, from dust we come, to dust we go. Edit: It would be cool to see if you could make an Protestant Europe by vassals or anexing and then releasing or something like that but entering the Religious League War

[@uruguaylusitano5797]

*Top 10 saddest anime deaths* no seriously ;_;

[@thomasderp8434]

You should also do how your successors rose and fell

[@RickyETPlays]

Great video! Though the borders look eerily similar to pre-Mongol Khwarezmia.

[@MeWatchVideos]

A rise and fall FINALLY!!!!!!

[@thisrandomdude2880]

For anyone wondering, "ard al harir" can be translated to "land of silk" in arabic.

[@flyingdutchdude5490]

Brandenburg close to forming Germany and Andalusia formed what kind of crazy eu4 game is this?

[@MrChubbysuperhero]

You should do this more often, letting the ai rule or even purposefully mismanaging it yourself, its cool to watch empires collapse imo

[@stojankovacic1524]

Maybe play tall HRE?

[@daniilivanov7052]

really cool, i think you should always let your empires fall! video seems much more fun. And i think its funnier to watch late absolurism/revolution ages rather then playing anyway...

[@alexdenny1556]

Do a scenario where an empire is slowly collapsing

[@romano-britishmedli7407]

Assam also was interesting: Fighting the whole game over control in Tibet, achieving it, losing it, coming back, and finally losing it forever. But still alive, though. And my money's on Russia for the rest of the game.

[@astralp4292]

Greetings from France !

[@brunonkopyto7235]

How about recreating Spanish empire with netherlands and southern italy in meiou&taxes

[@inestrix7377]

8:58 *insert sad violin music*

[@heto_7111]

awww you could've easily defended if you had forts in Kalat and Roh or whatever are those border mountain provinces

[@CEGsViewingChannel]

Nice.

[@jamesgeorge7579]

I was hoping to see the game go up to 1810 and see who truly ruled the region in the end.

[@salmansingh66]

Yay return of a new kushan Khwarizmid empire just make sure to keep your holdings save against barbarians… *Cries in bactrian kushan and Khwarizmid*

[@JP-ib7tb]

Do an Ancient Egypt empire

[@ShahjahanMasood]

Could you tell us how long it takes to gather all the data and arrange it in parallel with the timelapse in this beautiful format? Because its amazing

[@porter5224]

My body is ready

[@valasarius]

Interesting that the Nation of Ajam is written with J in English, in German, its written ,,Adscham"

[@LennyLenward]

Big bois Andalusia and Brandenburg

[@seanm241]

I was so confused at the beginning of the video I thought the water was the land and the land was the water.

[@NolanSchuster4]

Ever seen a map?

[@roytzhao]

Wait, why is the silk road empire located in the timurid's homeland?

[@creeker2017]

The video was amazing, but I can't get over the fact that the AI formed Andalusia. I have never seen the AI do that in my 2,000 hours of play.

[@lalalele777]

Please do a unified Tibet scenario!

[@royos-yaps]

Nice

[@alidz2588]

if you did make some vassals it would be better

[@peterdarker3863]

When the empire I just started playing Fallen Kingdom bass boosted

[@MixedMediaEnterprise]

Haven't watched these vids in a while... what happened to the population count? And why is the text so hard to read now? :(

[@therealinferno161]

I have a idea: A Turkish steppe horde in Persia. Hear me out. The Ottomans were once a Horde in the Persian region, before being kicked out by the Mongols. But, what if that horde made a resurgence in 1444? Country name: Turkish Horde State Religion: Sunni Islam Government Type: Steppe Horde Ideas: Your choice. First Ruler: Osman II Osmanlogi Culture: Turkish Etc.

[@landstalker7317]

Ottomans were not a steppe horde they were feudal since the begining you are confusing them wiith seljuks.

[@dragoncatsage3049]

Hellenic Republic?

[@th3xer0999]

EU4 - Timelapse - Rise and FALL of the East European Empire

[@GNKPLHM]

Yeren did pretty good, for once. By good, I mean it still got conquered, but it lasted for a while before that happened.

[@birkhoaas2361]

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[@JakoblaGrange]

The Ard Alharir lasted for more then 250 years. So it was in no way a short lived empire. The Greater part of it lased for almost 100 years before the downfall.

[@Lautismo]

try to reform alexanders the greats empire

[@dominykassimonis2180]

what does ard alharir mean?

[@tancreddehauteville9983]

Dominykas Simonis literally Land of Silk or Silkland in this case

[@dominicperez3777]

When empires rise they must also fall.

[@AvePonies]

I thought Yemen being in the northern Arabia for a moment but man, that Andalusia, Ethiopia, Brandenburg.

[@roylandmaines299]

you called it silk land in Arabic lmao

[@servantofallah1698]

BananaCriesSheep in Arabic it’s “Ard Al-Harir” (ارض الحرير) as Shown in the video title. The word Stan came from old Persian meaning Land

[@Urenass]

How can u show the kings in timelapse screen ? Is this mod or something else ?

[@Dovska]

No mods, just a shit ton of video editing :P

[@dougdog1224]

So you managed to become very strong, but you were put into a bad position. So if you kept playing you would've lasted longer than the ai but you still would've fallen after a while... *_Has Dovska finally been nerfed?_*

[@dominickdibart12]

Its interesting to see the AI completely melt in its own But I don't really understand your decision to go Republican Dictatorship then Monarchy... I was under the impression the whole idea was to see a Iranian Merchant Republic form in the region Good job tho anyway. The borders weren't at all far fetched and the region has a long history of powerful nations rising and falling. If anything it added depth to the scenario

[@MeWatchVideos]

R.I.P

[@dannykhoshraftar4644]

What culture do you have in this game

[@killerpro9922]

Ard alharir means the land if silk in arabic

[@Solarian]

depressing

[@everest8542]

Almost as depressing as your lack of actually countineing your projects.

[@kasperbuur5494]

Everest +1

[@Solarian]

Everest okay i'm like 4 slides into the next one it will be continued you cynical piece of shit /s

[@mertyuksel6052]

Nice how you make animated flag :)

[@Dovska]

They were made through an After Effects template that I bought a license for :)

[@comradekoupetorska4253]

The Rise And Fall Are FAR More Interesting!

[@e_puji_r]

do a present day mod and then make a realistic scenario.. XD

[@pyrrhocratic]

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[@daltonmiller5590]

Nah, man. The true silk road empire was the Mongol Empire. It was said that a young girl could walk from Constantinople to Beijing with a sack of gold and not be harmed under the Mongol's watch. The fear of the Mongols decreased crime rates to almost zero.

[@trolladam6599]

Turanic Empire or USA

[@estellebrandt6892]

Wait for it... the mongols!!! Cue the mongoltage

[@steampnk9896]

Lol, love john green (I think that's how it's spelled?)

[@e_puji_r]

Mr. Green.!! Mr. Green.!! XD

[@scr3aming3agle83]

*plays john wayne as genghis*

[@intherift07]

Should have used either Persian or Turkic name, considering that there aren't any Arabs in that region.

[@roylandmaines299]

Abdukahor Muzaffarzoda I am Arab and I agree. Felt kind of strange. Great video however

[@favorius]

even turks do not know difference between arabs and iranians :)

[@theultimateshaz1774]

HOW WAS ANDALUSIA FORMED NATURALLY HUH!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[@alpcankarademir1991]

Looks like Khwarezmian Empire

[@jacoblinde7486]

Where's all the love for the AI Andalusia?

[@wubbzo9640]

slav squatted on

[@recabarrensabarenjoaquin5960]

Waiting for a hungarian empire and a total conquest of the ottoman territory

[@Vorexia]

So you ragequit.