EU4 True One Tag World Conquest Speedrun in 1472 (WR) Explained

This is a fairly in-depth explanation video for my 1472 True One Tag World Conquest run that I completed on March 26th, 2022 (almost a year prior to this video's release) on patch 1.31.6.
Some info on strategies/exploits presented in this video that have changed:
1) CTA cancel still works to my knowledge, but AIs now "re-send" call to arms, so in practice, it's not really useful to ignore alliances. It's still however useful for one time call to arms, such as tributary, guarantee, HRE, etc.
2) The TC fast revoke does not work since 1.32. You can still add all of Africa/Asia to HRE afaik, but it's far more complicated now.
3) Solon strategy does work, but keep in mind AI will unconditionally surrender now. So you have to 100% them before 1 year passes.
4) Natives are significantly different on 1.34. And I have some insider info that 1.35 natives will be significantly nicer to conquer.
5) Dynasty spread used to work on all religions in the same way as typical PU without the PU/inheriting bit. I think this was changed after 1.31, since I recall I tested this at some point and couldn't do it. So I think getting Timurids dynasty now requires the Enthrone Timurids decision instead of an early RM with Timurids?
Vods of this run: • Oirat Super Tryhard WC...
My save file (in pdx.tools): pdx.tools/eu4/saves/bXJXVHR2k...
Google drive with intermediate save files: drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fo...
Music:
Brahms First Symphony recording from MusOpen:
-- 1st mov: • Symphony No. 1 in C Mi...
-- 2nd mov: • Symphony No. 1 in C Mi...
-- 3rd mov: • Symphony No. 1 in C Mi...
-- 4th mov: • Symphony No. 1 in C mi...
Brahms Wiegenlied "Lullaby" performed by me
Brahms First Symphony Piano Transcription by Singer performed/slightly arranged by me
Credits:
EU4 Wiki: eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Europa_U...
Pdx Tools: pdx.tools
Bird Facts mod (achievement compatible): steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Jetpack image from openclipart.org/detail/288921...
Tarkus/Shurik/Elia for thumbnail help
Tarkus's channel: / @tarkusarkusar
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00:00 - Introduction
02:35 - Phase One -- Fast HRE Revoke
20:02 - Phase Two -- Old World Conquest
33:53 - Phase Three/Finale -- New World Conquest
40:38 - Parting Words and Timelapse

[@lambdaxx1]

FAQ/addendums: Here are other ways in which you can find me. Twitch: twitch.tv/lambdaxx -- I'm more active here Discord: discord.gg/vNutF5Q 1) Can this record be broken? Definitely. One easy way to break it is to take my save file and savescum some of the final sieges. I think that shaves a few months or so with minimal effort. But other than that, I declared a war on average every ~35 days after my revoke in 1456. Keep in mind EU4 only allows you to declare one war per month. So aside from better alliance RNG, which in this context, means "have AIs ally each other more," I was almost at full theoretical throttle. Sure, I could have declared wars inefficiently; for example, I declared multiple wars on Ming just for money, when perhaps I could have optimized my economy better and declared wars that actually led to province gain. But anyway, I think the biggest improvement can be found in the revoke timing. The nature of the v3 revoke requires me to conquer Christian European provinces 5 years prior to the revoke, so even if I miraculous conquer Poland in 1444, the revoke will still be 1449 at the earliest. At one point I tried rerouting to get a better revoke timing, and I felt I can optimize by 2 more years max, implying that I conquer all the needed Christian provinces in 1449. But I was too late into the run to want to retry, since I was satisfied with just breaking the 1490 barrier. I didn't expect this run to be this fast. 2) Can I do a WC from this point? Yeah, and it's actually not that bad. I'm still a horde, and because I had full cores on most of my old world land at the time of exploding to rebels, I still have my cores, so it's mostly reconquesting the world, and with millions of manpower,100k ducats, and 90%+ siege ability, that's not that hard. If I were playing for a second WC though, I would have played the final years much more differently. In some sense, I played extremely sloppily towards the end because I didn't care at all about the state of my country. 3) Why are you able to diplo annex mongolia at the start? Mongolia, unlike most other vassals at game start, are considered to have been vassalized by Oirat a long time ago in the history files. Honestly, I think it's laziness on Paradox's part to not revisit other starting vassals and adjust the histories appropriately.

[@Draugtaur]

imagine living in this timeline and witnessing some steppe people come to your home, proclaim to be a dozen different random nations, conquering the world and then falling apart like they were never there all in 28 years

[@Amldihir]

Basically mongolian empire, or alexander the great empire. First though lived longer, but second has similar shattering to pieces period

[@foooooof]

bronze age collapse kinda vibe

[@lebosshog]

@@Amldihir Remnants of alexander's empire and greek influence lived quite long even in some of the farthest reaches. Certainly those on and around the Mediterranean knew who the greeks were and didn't suddenly forget about them lol.

[@Amldihir]

@@lebosshog i know, in terms of cultural and scienctific legacy you are correct. My point mostly about political situation - once there big empire, and shortly after lot of different realms. We are comparing map game to reality, of course many things doesn't represented as they were

[@younglord7805]

@@lebosshog Remnants of Mongols are clearly defined in Conservative states in EuroAsia and Middle East. It 100% coincides

[@storm3311]

So I went to the grocery store the other day, and honestly the weirdest shit happened. This guy came in dressed in some kinda chinese looking outfit (although when someone asked him about it, he angrily corrected them to "traditional garb of the oirats", whatever that means) and started moving really slowly around the store. Like, he would stand there meticulously calculating his next movement while muttering to himself, then take 1 step forward, then repeat. I think a few times he started writing equations on the floor between steps, but I couldn't see very well. At one point someone got kinda in his way and he got really pissed and said something that sounded like "1444", then left the store and came back to start from the beginning again. Anyway, I didn't think too much of it at first (assumed he was just some nutter) and carried on with my shopping. But then I saw him again later and he was wearing a turban and had somehow managed to get into a fight with this asian guy. He kept shouting "I need to capture the ming emperor" and trying to grab the guy, but the guy was a lot stronger than him and ended up just walking away. I guess he's done this kind of shit before because one of the store employees seemed to know his name and was like "Mr Lambda X, I have to ask you to leave," but the guy kept shouting how his name was actually supposed to be with two Xs, and something about calculus?? Idk, but it got kinda heated and he ran into the bathroom. Next he comes out dressed in one of those fucking Bavarian Oktoberfest costumes and runs up to this girl telling her he's going to "revoke her privilegia". She was obviously really uncomfortable but I guess she didn't want to make a scene cos she just kinda nodded along and left as soon as she could. I was pretty weirded out by this point so I just went to pay for my shopping, but he followed me to the tills and for literally no fucking reason he just punches this Romanian guy in the face, citing something about Uzbekistan?? Honestly I have no idea what he was talking about, this Romanian guy was just minding his own business stackenwipening people on his phone while waiting in the queue and this Lambda guy just attacked him. So obviously people are like “wtf”, and this one guy started calling the police, so the Lambda guy grabs me by the arm and tells me to “improve relations” with the guy calling the police?? I was really confused but he was obviously unstable, so I just went and stood awkwardly next to the guy calling the police and hoped it would all work out. Thankfully Lambda got distracted pretty quickly shouting at random shoppers about something called a “meta”. Finally I could hear police sirens on their way, but I guess Lambda heard them too, because I shit you not this guy pulls a fucking molotov cocktail out of his robe (he was dressed a tibetan monk at this point) and starts legit firebombing the place, shouting maniacally about how the store was “twotwotwo” (???) and something about razing efficiency. Honestly, I wasn’t paying much attention anymore, I was just trying to get out ASAP along with everyone else. Once everyone was out and the police were there, we’re obviously telling them all the shit this lunatic did, all the while he just stands there with the smuggest shit eating grin on his face I’ve ever seen. When we finish explaining the situation to the police, they just fucking shrug and say there’s nothing they can do because they “can’t see his capital”. I’m not even kidding, like wtf??? What does that even mean?? The guy was literally right there, just arrest him ffs. I swear to god I’m never going to that store again. Weirdest shit I ever saw.

[@lambdaxx1]

Alternative video title: This massive copy pasta explained.

[@rachityczny6364]

to be honest, i haven't watched the video yet, but this is pure gold!

[@batuhanozay1262]

The most perverted comment on the most perverted player's video I've ever seen in my life

[@APKAK-1465]

bro this video hasnt even been out for an hour yet

[@VasiliyOgniov]

OH MY GOD THATS AMAZING AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@Jacob-mq3mh]

You know you are playing EU4 at peak level when envoy travel time is a consistent bottleneck.

[@coffeee1111]

The KZbinr is a cyber stalker kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ_Me5yFmplloq8

[@larstruelsen2483]

The rebel bombing and return to an almost pristine 1444 map at the end was a thing of beauty. Equaled by the attention to detail and endurance, staying focused on one campaign for so long.

[@bishopbrennan3558]

The return to almost-1444 is a thing of beauty indeed. The Oirats came, they saw, they conquered, they hung around for 20-something years, and then they left and everyone went back to normal. Time to do it all over again afterwards?

[@christophershell7564]

@@bishopbrennan3558 I wonder if Afro-Eurasia is still in the HRE. I am not sure if the HRE still exists after it has been united.

[@bishopbrennan3558]

@@christophershell7564 Ooh, good point, I'm pretty sure that it ceases to exist when it's united, and you can't bring it back. So I guess that'd be the main difference

[@coffeee1111]

The KZbinr is a cyber stalker kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ_Me5yFmplloq8

[@Hellohihello22]

Not only was it a great achievement, it was a fantastically edited and narrated video

[@desputnikcommander]

Both is true, but the video also made me realize again, how much I love casual playing. This guy is miles ahead, and I have no intention to try to fail in closing the gap. Still nice to see the record

[@efficiencytipsandtricks9354]

This is good, but if exploits are on the table I bet I could get it faster than 28 years lol. I'm going to try to do it by November 12, 1444 lol

[@coffeee1111]

The KZbinr is a cyber stalker kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ_Me5yFmplloq8

[@B2Roland]

Yeah for real. WCs in general seems wholey unfun​, let alone whatever this shit is. @@desputnikcommander

[@terryyuan4381]

Congrats! When I hear you started to challenge my 1495 WC, I thought you might end up pre 1490, maybe 1485. It's really amazing to see you made 1472 WC finally. You clearly demonstrated the spirit of Speedrun!! This video is as great as your game. It's really a joy to watch it. The overview strategy, the detail break down, those tips and even the bgm rhythm are perfect. Great work and Congrats again. - Terry Yuan, former WR keeper😋

[@pseudoproak]

You will always be remembered King

[@beaub152]

One king to another

[@mailipd]

Beautiful…

[@erebino]

the king is death - long live the king!

[@JohnnyBravo-tn6kc]

Two gods among men

[@TheSocialStreamers]

Holy shit! You've been talking about this video for AGES! Glad to see it lived up to the hype! Huge props!

[@dreadpirateroberts4747]

When are you doing a tunis wc

[@jwhcuen958]

This I'd probably the least commented on comment you have ever wrote

[@RexGaming2345]

nice seeing you here. :)

[@Rodzyniastyyyy]

Assam WC by 1450 to impress that Assamese chick of yours.

[@nrbmemes2414]

​@@Rodzyniastyyyyannex all

[@joshuasims5421]

Fascinating run! I like to think that the lore for this WC is that some Oirats rode around the world, dressing up as different cultures and telling everyone they were in charge, and everyone was so bewildered that they just sort of went with it.

[@lambdaxx1]

"Eh, we'll probably gain independence in a decade or so" - every country before getting annexed, probably.

[@leflyxdvd]

@@lambdaxx1 hoe gaat het nu met je?

[@coffeee1111]

The KZbinr is a cyber stalker kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ_Me5yFmplloq8

[@joelandreasson8445]

Great video! On a side note, "massive nine development province" might be my new favourite eu4-term

[@domesticcat1725]

A metropolis of 500 people

[@auline8531]

@@domesticcat1725 What metropolis are you from? My megalopolis has 328 people.

[@coffeee1111]

The KZbinr is a cyber stalker kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ_Me5yFmplloq8

[@Sleelan]

This is the closest to a TAS you can probably get in an EU4 speedrun

[@lambdaxx1]

Agreed! I think TAS is the best analogy one can give.

[@akainudicksuckingassociati5188]

@ProstyProtos71 Tool assisted speedrun. Basically every input to the game is given before it starts using emulator tools.

[@wytseboonstra]

@@prostyprotos7159tool assisted speedrun is for optimising inputs etc by reloading even as small as a singular frame to use perfect inputs

[@GAarcher]

​@ProstyProtos71 a speedrun cheat kinda

[@Ormil]

@ProstyProtos71 Tool Assisted Speedruns. it means using some kind of cheats, or third party software to make precise movement sets and get a faster speedrun time

[@VasiliyOgniov]

Holy shit, that is so freaking impressive. It's just insane. You have accomplished probably *the* most impressive thing I had ever seen somebody doing in any of the PDX games. I can't wrap my head around the amount of knowledge of the game, strategy and sheer patience required for pulling off something like that. I hope you are doing ok, pal. Like, legit, I hope it didn't affect your mental and physical state as much as it could

[@coffeee1111]

The KZbinr is a cyber stalker kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ_Me5yFmplloq8

[@bordoklavyeli3131]

I just watched all of this without moving a muscle and the time i looked how much left i saw it passed 30 freaking minutes and i couldnt even realize. Amazing work!

[@coffeee1111]

The KZbinr is a cyber stalker kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ_Me5yFmplloq8

[@wishonpleiades6288]

Jesus Christ, the amount of effort you put into this is unbelievable. Thank Paradox for Leviathan patch and its many exploits. And Thank you for all your hard work!

[@coffeee1111]

The KZbinr is a cyber stalker kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ_Me5yFmplloq8

[@skipperxiv9401]

By the nine divines, this run is a *masterclass* in taking the tools a game gives you and using them to break the game in half and do things that should be impossible. I remember all the way back when Hordes were reworked, and someone conquered the world (I think even as Oirat? Been a while) in like the 1500s and I thought that was insanely impressive and a testament to both how powerful hordes had become and how good EU4 players were at bending the game to their whims. Now, that run seems like mere childs play compared to this; this is on the scale of those CivFanatics players who accumulated 1000000+ score in Civilization 4 by playing for hundreds of hours and thousands of turns. Watching and reading all these crazy world conquest runs kind of makes me want to try a "normal" WC run, where I just have to get the achievement before the game ends. However I'm missing half the DLC and haven't played seriously in a while (I kinda dropped off around when the new mission mechanics were introduced).

[@guyincognito3199]

It was before my time with EU4 but I think it was Marco Antonio or maybe Siu-King; they were both amazing back in the day according to my boy Atwix

[@coffeee1111]

The KZbinr is a cyber stalker kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ_Me5yFmplloq8

[@chattw6885]

One of the gaming achievements of all time. You can be proud of yourself!

[@coffeee1111]

The KZbinr is a cyber stalker kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ_Me5yFmplloq8

[@antonlavrentiev5249]

German princes: "There are some horsemen who came from East, conquered half of Poland and just turned Catholic. Let's elect them our Emperor!"

[@philip8498]

they also did some funny trade company shenanigans in russia. lets surrender all of our sovereign rights and become their vassals.

[@YalinHoca]

It's such a beautiful poetic ending. All the planning, hardwork and patience only to achieve the greatest goal for a few days. Its almost like a messiah fullfilling his prophecy and leaving the world, one last war, one last conquest to go. And it all vanishes.

[@coffeee1111]

The KZbinr is a cyber stalker kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ_Me5yFmplloq8

[@theshotapple1331]

My man played EU4 like a Civ game. Incredibly interesting and very well thought out and executed

[@timk8869]

a 45 min video that didnt feel like 45 min, coupled with the madness that is going on mixed with calming music, truly a impeccable video

[@coffeee1111]

The KZbinr is a cyber stalker kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ_Me5yFmplloq8

[@plebisMaximus]

That was absolutely insane, man. Well done, dude. It's almost hard to believe something like this can ever be improved on.

[@KodiakGG]

That was so impressive to watch! You can be proud of yourself!

[@OrbitalPanda]

Watching you complete this run was a joy. I couldn't make the streams, but seeing that finished ss drop felt really good, even though I had nothing to do with it haha. Thank you Lambda. I'll always be a fan.

[@aventurileluipetre]

this video is so well made, greatly explained, no bullshit, straight to the point, you have presented a cool story about how you've done the world conquest speed run! there has been an extraordinary amount of effort to make this video and you really know how to use the game mechanics and events to your advantage

[@TheM3nt0ss]

This was an amazing watch and congratulation! Cannot wait for more runs at somepoint

[@thijsvandenberg2377]

Insane, but that does not look fun 🤣🤣

[@StrategySphere]

This is science :)

[@lambdaxx1]

What's important is that I had fun. Hopefully people less interested in excessive micromanagement and overdosing on EU4 also had fun seeing the summarized results.

[@thijsvandenberg2377]

@@lambdaxx1 I definitely did!

[@viorp5267]

​@@lambdaxx1 yeah that was amazing

[@enesozgun7519]

​@@lambdaxx1 yea everyone have their own enjoyment. I am piss of even when im trying invasion every planet with my armies in stellaris LOL its actually can be good if they add auto invade planets button to armies

[@lordshorthorn8340]

I haven't played EU 4 in a long time, but this showed up in my recommended and I decided to check it out. This is absolutely insane! The level of detail and careful execution needed to pull this off is crazy. This video does a perfect job of explaining the process you went through and was super fun to listen to. I felt like I understood everything you did even though I know damn well I couldn't even come close to attempting it. Insane.

[@coffeee1111]

The KZbinr is a cyber stalker kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ_Me5yFmplloq8

[@mickjaggard2610]

Amazing. Very impressed by the amount of knowledge you have of the game and your ability to squeeze every advantage out of the system.

[@awldune]

This is a wonderful video, you did a great job of explaining everything and yet keeping the editing (and narration script) tight enough that it doesn't get boring.

[@nwnecrowl]

Congratulations sir! I remember stumbling upon the original playlist like 8 months ago, and realizing that I most certainly wanted to know how you did it but did not have near enough patience to watch the entire run haha. What an achievement! Thank you for creating this video, this is exactly what I was waiting for.

[@lambdaxx1]

Thank you. Kind comments like this really help me validate the time I spent working on this video.

[@Fufflunsify]

The effort that went into this is insane. It's an actual work of art

[@rayazsgaming1025]

Amazing! Thanks for this detailed explaination, cleared up a lot of questions I had

[@henkpietjaaphein1122]

Awesome run, and a lot of thanks for taking the effort of explaining it all so clearly! Learned so much, I'm definately going to try out ming banking soon:)

[@erebus3386]

The most difficult run in arguably one of the most difficult games ever created. I only play EU4 "for fun", so seeing someone going so over the top to optimize the game past what no one could've thought possible is fantastic. Amazing work! :)

[@GBHighlands]

Playing a chill game/RP-ing and... whatever this is is basically a completely different game. This level of optimization is more like playing a spreadsheet than a videogame.

[@erichvonmanstein3012]

No paradox games are difficult

[@monkeydetonation]

@@erichvonmanstein3012 hardest paradox game is trying to reduce traffic jams in city skylines

[@BlooFinguhz]

OMG, I've been playing EU4 since it release, and have never seen anything like this. Sir, you are a special kind of freak in the best possible way. Congrats!

[@clara.silly-giggle]

beautiful editing! i have listened to this symphony countless times and the way u paced the narration and gameplay with the music is so good u got me watching a 45 minute video on challenges i'm indifferent to

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

The amount of planning and dedication needed for this is off the charts! Hope this video blows up just like the world did at the end :D

[@jacobhatton9725]

The tenacity to do this run is frankly outstanding. You are an absolute pillar for EU4. Killer video as well, was well worth my time to watch it.

[@coffeee1111]

The KZbinr is a cyber stalker kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ_Me5yFmplloq8

[@giuseppegiuliopellegrino3318]

Top notch video, I love that you took the time to properly explain the strategies

[@Joseph_Zimmerman]

Well done lambda. By far my favorite EU4 world conquest, and an equally great video.

[@yetikings]

I had goosebumps on my arms when it all ended. Such an epic run Lambda!

[@ydp868]

An absolutely monumental achievement in the history of EU4. Magnificent! I hope you bring us lots of interesting content in the next expansion as well, especially since we are getting lots of new shiny toys to play with 😊

[@TheSuperPoulet]

Congrats ! And thanks for taking the time to break down this massive achievement, this was fascinating to watch.

[@powerbalala5044]

Thanks for such a well produced video and great taste of music!

[@AgtcGaming]

I remember it takes months of work since 2022, however, great work! Very impressive run which involves most of the "state of the art" techniques.

[@joaquimnorberg3580]

Watched the entire video, stayed because your quality in this video is insane! Amazing work and well done!

[@coffeee1111]

The KZbinr is a cyber stalker kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ_Me5yFmplloq8

[@lightworker2956]

Masterfully done. This is pretty mindblowing.

[@SithLurker]

This is an awesome achievement capped by this perfect summary video. Respect!

[@villus9384]

Incredibly impressive! The skill, intelligence, and dedication you exhibit to complete this run is just absolutely astounding. Congratulations!

[@Lord_Lambert]

So, I might have taken inspiration from you to do an Imperator WC... but there aint no way I am emulating this. GG Lambdaxx, this was incredible.

[@lambdaxx1]

Thank you. We can compromise with a pre 1600 WC instead :)

[@TheEvenBiggerPicture]

Great effort and a great video. Totally splendid.

[@BeastMaster0316]

Your video and achievement is truly a work of art. Thank you.

[@Titantr0n]

The playthroughs are honestly too long for me but I love these explanations. You're insane as usual good job bro 😀

[@Maydupnem777]

Holy shit, well done. By 1472 ive usually only done 2, maybe 3 wars, this is an awhole different level. Hats off to you man 😲👍

[@SixJayy]

Wow man, this is legitimately crazy. I never thought something like this was possible. Congrats, great run and great vid. Thanks for doing this

[@smol_gnome3343]

This is so impressive, congratulations!

[@Elessar00]

Man, i hate the late game micromanagement because it is too much work for my casual fun, while this guy is playing on speed 1 in 1444 lol. I admire the patience and willpower to commit so much time and effort into this, and 28 years is unbelieveable. Great work dude.

[@dualrotorhelicopter]

It’d probably be so fun to play in this post WC world!

[@lambdaxx1]

save file is all yours :)

[@uuquuuquu5235]

The last EU WC video I watched was a 1560's run on the Manchu's years ago. To be able to witness an old favourite game of mine be broken to such an absurd degree was quite honestly the most entertainment I've got from any KZbin video in ages. Kudos to you and your magnum opus. Absolutely 10/10 video.

[@BaileyOB]

you are forever goated to have done a run like this with all that effort, i shall remember this run for the rest of my life

[@paulmeahan3667]

I personally think a wonderful moment in the video is when the bird trivia loading screens appeared. That is truly how I will remember this run.

[@lambdaxx1]

I forgot to mention this in the video. I started using the bird facts mod made by a viewer (achievement compatible): steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2708273365 during the run

[@tritonia_]

That was a bloody amazing video ans even after watching it I can't fully comprehend how you managed to do it

[@notlucas6859]

this is insane. you people are a pure different breed of human, and have my full respect. well done sir, definitely deserved the like, subscribe + comment for the algorithm.

[@truepeaker150]

Thanks for the commentary, GOAT 🐐

[@lambdaxx1]

Thank you, but I identify as a lamb kappa

[@Critguards]

It's beautiful and honestly who knew one could make a grand strategy game into a work of 🎨🎭 art. It's a brilliant demonstration knowledge, reasoning, logic, creativity, and in some ways poetic. The rise of a nomadic horde to take on the sedentary world, in a generation, to see the world rise against the horde, only to remind the horde that these conquerors are just that only in one place for a short time. Thus, like a classical play, the world returns to the dialectic and status-quo. The run is a slog in our real world, but like the rising and setting of the sun in game. For all the grand strategies played, this play through is inspiring and an impressive use of talent and skill, not just from you, but from a troop of talented enthusiasts and experts. Sublime in so many ways.

[@bas5681]

Not only an absolutely insane achievement but also an incedibly interesting video! I tip my hat off to you sir!

[@adienelmdor6966]

That was f****** beautiful, I literally have tears. Just wow. Thank you for sharing.

[@theredsoldier26]

My gods. This isn't just breaking the game, this is bending it over backwards, dribbling it down and slam dunking it into the hoop only to kick it against a wall. I've honestly never seen someone use the mechanics of the game is such a beautiful, and yet horrific manner as this. Well done man

[@mohamedsaeedzarzour8259]

Wow, just wow. this is as amazing as it always will be. Definitely keep the good work coming. One question, why is Oirat able to annex Mongolia at 1444, I didn't notice that before?

[@belisarius3175]

Truly incredible achievement! As a longtime EUIV player, this blows me away in its intricacy and its scope. Well done, and congrats.

[@Luca-sz5uy]

Thank you so much for giving us an insight into this run without the excruaciating pain of half a year of gameplay in it

[@markdisalvi1487]

I bought EU4 and then regretted it immediately after realizing how much the DLC would cost me. Ever since then I just stopped caring about it, and I didn't think anything could ever change that. But now here this is, showing me that every awful, stupid, poorly-conceived mechanic that doesn't remotely match how a geopolitical sim should work was actually a work of genius that allows you to pull off the stupidest, most awesome stuff ever in times that the developers themselves would say are impossible without console commands. You should do another video like this for your Flanders one culture run-even after everything I saw you do for this run, I have no idea how you could manage to culture-convert the entire world.

[@maxsilva11]

At first I was like, "uh Brahms 1 was an unfortunate choice for me, I'm way too big of a fan of it to be about to concentrate on what you're saying" Then I was like "ok you definitely edited this carefully so that the most epic moments in the game and the music would line up perfectly, well done" And then you make the personal connection with enduring a long struggle to achieve something, and on top of that I saw that you played the piano transcription at the end yourself, and I just 😭☺️

[@youtuberobbedmeofmyname]

It took me several days but I finally finished this video. I'm going to have to watch it again to note all the details though. Insanely good job with the run but also the video.

[@TheKazzerscout]

Incredible, just the research and knowledge needed to perform this run is outstanding.

[@HurricaneNova]

Im imaging the lore of this world: genghis khan version 2 rises and declared war again and again then reached the holy roman empire, becomes emperor, constantly switches between Muslim and Catholic, changes country name every three seconds, annexes basically everyone in Eurasia over a span of 1 day through something about the hre, takes over the new world, completely fucking collapses and leaves the world in basically the same state as it was a few decades ago in exactly 1st of January 1473

[@anthroposium]

An insane run by an allegedly not insane person! Kudos for making this video so good :) How many savefiles did you create throughout the whole run? A couple hundred?

[@lambdaxx1]

I think ~5000 or so savescums. Is that what you meant by savefiles?

[@anthroposium]

@@lambdaxx1 I meant like copies of the savefile. If I'm playing in ironman I make copies at different points in time to revert back to, mostly for savescumming reasons too.

[@lambdaxx1]

@@anthroposium Ah, in that case, check the description for a Google drives link of all the intermediate save files I had backed up.

[@derAlphabet]

Oh my god, that's an incredible feat. Congratulations!🎉

[@lordwhale5392]

It's always fun to see the Magnus Opus of someone, great video!

[@baseupp12]

Is there a category for doing the world conquest and staying stable for 100 years that would be pretty fun to me

[@lambdaxx1]

No, but keep in mind this campaign would have been stable had I cored my provinces and killed all rebels. It's tedious but not at all impossible to kill all rebels with 100k ducats and however million manpower I had. So really, just add 6 months to this run while actually stomping all rebels.

[@tywinlannister9391]

Can someone explain to me how he deals with Terra Incognita ?

[@ZendikarMage42750]

This was utter madness. I love it

[@user-wb1vo3bw7n]

holy shit, this vid is what i was subscribed for on your channel

[@pisasupayani]

Dude, you are insane. Hats off

[@vasilisa740]

With the empire imploding, how long do you think it will take to do another world conquest in the same save?

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

Probably relatively quickly with the colonial nations being a thing already, it being further along in the timeline and there just being fewer enemies to fight.

[@thomasalexandre7056]

Absolutely insane! Congratulations. Did you ever think of giving up?

[@lambdaxx1]

Nope. I don't think I'd have been able to complete it without company from twitch chat though. They truly made the long savescumming/micro sessions less miserable.

[@EMAbreuLucas]

Duuuude you're crazy! Learned a lot watching your explanations. Speedruns like this are amazing. Taking 10 hours per year shows how much thought you put into each action. Always thought that this WQ in 30 years were just about exploit abuse, but it is only a piece in the puzzle. It takes so much more than that. Well done! Hope they change natives, that finale looked too annoying to do.

[@romulusnuma116]

Good video was really interesting seeing seeing how this was done

[@Thedi34]

Insane , my mental could never. I was so proud of my OneFaith but seeing this really makes it pale in comparison. Ive been trying to get a true one tag one faith one culture for a couple of months now sadly without much success. I have one run which could lead to it but im kinda unsure. Is there any way to get in contact with you to ask some questions. Maybe discord or smth?

[@lambdaxx1]

I have a discord link somewhere... Uhh, here it is. discord.gg/vNutF5Q I should make an FAQ

[@jackoofman2560]

This is absolutely insane, congrats!

[@NapoleonTrotski]

Incroyable, bravo pour cette vidéo !

[@deryaucpnar9948]

This felt like a phd thesis, had fun watching. Respect

[@dennisklomp2361]

Absolutely beautifull. Gaming transcending to artistry. This is one for the ages.

[@lilysowden4035]

This is insane, huge congrats!! Also, I would be super interested in a vid on how to fight wars efficiently

[@Schism1861]

Wow. That was incredible. Sub earned my friend. Legit impressive

[@jauneaultnicolas6077]

You are actually crazy lmao. I really enjoyed the video and your explanations were also good. Gg.

[@Splax77]

Incredible run and wonderful explanation! Excited to see more content from you :)

[@seaofscissors]

aside from the run itself being an insane achievement on its own, this is such a good explanation of its insanity and definitely worth the wait

[@philipperivest7806]

I mean this deserves a subscription and like, epic work, editing half a yrs of work, god like gg

[@edwardhock6940]

Incredible incredible accomplishment. Bravo