EU4 - What if Europa Universalis 4 Had MODERN BORDERS?

[@TheRedHawk]

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[@cj_hastings]

what if portugal never lost its empire

[@ZetaArcticana4006]

What if Asia instead of Europe colonized the Americans. Maybe force the East Asians to take exploration and force the Europeans not to, not sure how you do that but it would be cool.

[@CaptainGen]

What if natives were in Europe and Europeans were in the new world. That would be such a mess lol

[@ZetaArcticana4006]

@@CaptainGen that would be funny

[@pcu9284]

What if everyone had the same dynasty

[@yousaywhatnow2195]

“The Belgian world conquest has begun” The DRC: *sweats nervously*

[@jarjab2games]

Wait? Its all Belgium? Always has been...

[@toddhoward1892]

We didn't start the fire...

[@ArakkoaChronicles]

This has got to be one of the funniest videos on this channel yet. I completely lost it in a few spots. "Oman is a square." "Ivory Coast has no coast." "9th American change government form of Brazil"

[@kabobawsome]

It was like clockwork. Must have surely been ceremonial at some point. 50 years have passed? Declare on Brazil.

[@speedy01247]

President: as we all know my predecessor failed their foolish terribly planned war on Brazil, so as for my first act as president, I say WAR, as a veteran from the third Brazilian war I know the land and can effectively lead troops into victory -mr president president, on the eve of the 5th Brazilian war.

[@petemagnuson7357]

When you're trying to figure out if a nation exists, look at a province they have a core on. Their flag will be gray if they're dead, or colored if they're alive (in which case you click on the core and open their diplo screen)

[@vulturearmy3780]

Also if you hover over the nation’s flag (even if it doesn’t exist anymore) the provinces which they have cores on will be highlighted

[@Stevonicus]

17:36 Turkey ruled by Padishah Ieyoshi Yamato. The Japanese stealth conquest of the world in action.

[@TheRedHawk]

Lol truee

[@Stevonicus]

The final ruler of Taiwan/Xia is also a Yamato.

[@mrbisshie]

Japan going for that PU on a country on the other side of Asia. Well, in northern Africa at the end, lol.

[@dangerdean9066]

I think Turkey had a royal marriage with Japan

[@forreality90]

Turkish language is relative with Japan language. On the same language tree (Transeurasian)... We are (I'm Turkish) relative with Japans and all Turkic cultures like Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Turkmen, Azerbaijanian, Tatar, Uzbek, all Altais, even Etruks (Roman Empire's ancestors), Hungarians, Bulgarians, Yakuts, Tuvas etc... But NOT relatives with Mongols and/or Arabs as mentioned in some games. On the other hand, we have the same language tree with Mongols too, but, again, we are not relatives with them. Genghis Khan's mother was Turkish, so people think that we are relatives but not. I don't care about races but just mentioning to make it clear.

[@roedagardet]

It's crazy to think that this game just predicted the next 300 years

[@TheRedHawk]

Lmao

[@ZetaArcticana4006]

Brazil will be a princedom!!!

[@JanHouben]

Warning to the UK: when you leave the EU, you WILL be conquered by Belgium! 😅

[@FionaDanger.]

@@ZetaArcticana4006 You keep saying that, America. It's never going to happen.

[@avr4h]

All of you have got to be kidding! You're all talking about what will happen in 50 years as if! Oh the US will ban handguns by 2035? Buddy, the fog is gonna consume us by 2027. The fog is coming. The fog is coming. The fog is coming.

[@realhawaii5o]

That must suck for Portugal. The borders have changed so much. Look at how much smaller they are now.

[@TheRedHawk]

Yeah true

[@paulom8804]

We are just as small as then, the thing is now we have nowhere to go.

[@TheLibermania]

10:00 Not just Poland and the Commonwealth. Lithuania exists as well.

[@Prany2]

But Red Hawk, did USA finally change Brazilian government? As for next scenario - maybe reduce all countries to their capital. Give everyone a colonist and maybe colony maintenace discount modifier for couple decades. No need to remove vassals - liberty desire is a thing, so let's observe how France and Timmies are doing with their subjects. For science.

[@jeneconepalortografe4984]

What he can do is giving them Siberian frontiers so it’ll be easier and faster for them to expand. Zlewikk made a multiplayer with this and that’s dope. You should check it out

[@Prany2]

@@jeneconepalortografe4984 But what about countries far away from Siberia?/jk

[@notlucas6859]

@@Prany2 duh give them european frontier idea smh

[@geoDB.]

There was a civ mod but it doesn't work anymore

[@jeneconepalortografe4984]

@@geoDB. it still works but in 1.27

[@alexanderfrederickson4637]

The USA interfering in Latin American Politics? I guess some things never change.

[@CaptainGen]

Every time I play modern time in eu4 it’s always sooo laggy since everyone has crazy amounts of troops, plus the AE is crazy

[@mcr-1266]

Computer thing? I play MT a lot and rarely get lag. Not until like the year 2700 or so.

[@jeneconepalortografe4984]

@@mcr-1266 even with a good pc, if you are blobbing too much or if there is too much change (big war and 10millions deaths in one battle) the game will crash. I learned it the hard way while I was doing a challenge of conquering China with Taiwan. At the end of a war with China, in the 22th century, I took half of their country and the game crashed.

[@leonardocontin937]

@@jeneconepalortografe4984 I agree, I have a decent pc and I lag in 2100 when there are too many troops moving on the map (ex Many Nations in Wars)

[@gimmethegepgun]

Crazy AE? Meanwhile, in real life: Iraq enters the tiny nation of Kuwait. Half the world joins coalition and destroys them.

[@65tallmax]

For me i can run modern time but on extended timeline i crash often.

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

"You're going to Brazil." *"No, Brazil is going to YOU!"*

[@the_yobo]

But then, suddenly, a mysterious figure appears, is... PERU EATING BRAZIL

[@gutowsky]

I mean fight the US while fighting SA, and see how it goes for you buddy

[@nguyenhan2145]

Brazil in 2021: we discover a large reserve of oil hidden in Amazon forest US: it's democracy time

[@pasatorman8294]

And then thry fight and lose 9 consecutive wars in the span of 400 years

[@WhittyWhitts]

Quebec when it forms Canada after breaking away from them: “We’ve become the very thing we swore to destroy”

[@TheLibermania]

The European Union has it's parliament in Bruxelles. Could it be that's why Belgium is the "Overlord" of the EU? That would be pretty OP and a mistake.

[@ligmabouls]

charles michel is also from belgium and was the eu president but france and germany deff have more say than belgium

[@Juanthar]

Not a mistake just superior B)

[@HubrisInc]

Quebec popping out is both the most cursed and also realistic thing I've ever seen

[@myrddinemrys1332]

The EU uses the HRE mechanics so you could have seen if Belgium had passed reforms in the HRE screen.

[@kabobawsome]

Based on the fact that they were getting the dev added, they must have somehow passed a bunch of reforms super fast and got to the vassal swarm point, but never got further.

[@mrbisshie]

@@kabobawsome Ai being smart and purposely not passing all the reforms, so they can continue to vassal swarm!

[@kabobawsome]

@@mrbisshie More likely, whatever crazy method they were using to pass reforms super fast got prevented BY the vassal swarm.

[@julius879]

6:41 "Pretty quiet in Europe" while Poland is screaming in agony due to a Libyan invasion

[@str4mb3tt02]

"We are all map staring nerds'' the One sentence that can describe all paradox games' players Ps great video i really enjoyed it

[@JohnSmith-kb4re]

Literally 4 seconds in and it's already unimaginably based.

[@TheRedHawk]

And cursed

[@greenacadian4197]

“US was at war with Brazil. US had always been at war with Brazil.”

[@matheusGMN]

USA was typical in this game: always in conflict with someone in south america, never succeeds x) But poor poor brazil, my home country, at least 9 times bullied by the US :(

[@razier5299]

To be fair it would of made more sense saying Middle East or Asia since US actually took out a lot of South American governments.

[@wersab5960]

Well Brazil was invading like all of South America

[@speedy01247]

@@wersab5960 who says an abuser can't also be a victim. (Doesn't make either side right, but still)

[@xsardes336]

Iove how Poland was at war with...itself...for abaut 100 years. Thats very realistic

[@lol_histicall4289]

Europe would’ve looked interesting if Belgium didn’t have them all as a subject

[@Grothgerek]

It doesn't even make sense, because Belgium is only the "capital" and compared to France or Germany doesn't have that much influence in the EU. The EU definitely wasn't reworked very well.

[@divingdown6173]

Whenever I see red hawk upload, I click, he got me into eu4 best decision ever

[@sigma_fil1529]

Strengthen noble privileges

[@TheRedHawk]

Thanks for the kind words, welcome to the best EU4 community

[@Stormtrooper_LP]

Same here. Was playing eu2 for over 10 years and skipped eu3 entireley. And then I started watching Hawk and bought eu4 and by now i already put a few hundred hours into the game. Already got so many achievements and so much fun times. Thanks to the Hawk. Big love Mate. Thx for all the entertainment.

[@diobrando5340]

Hmm

[@rommelcandiani6358]

Stolkhome syndrome

[@krankarvolund7771]

I guess we french did too much jokes on belges, they wanted revenge :p

[@coconutcore]

Yes!!! We avons das finallement gedaan! Vive la Belgique! Lang leve België! At last our plans have reached fruition! We have become THE GREATEST NATION IN THE WORLD! …in a video game. I mean…look guys. I don’t know how many of you live in the US, but this is an achievement to us. …also it’s nice to see “Belgium” stamped onto those neighbours who’ve kept invading us throughout history. I’m looking at you, France, Germany and even our Dutch Benelux brothers. *does the double fingery “watching you” sign* This map is a statement. Remember it. Concordia res parvae crescunt!

[@jenn_augenstern]

Oof watching now how Russia suddenly has a big coalition against them just hits different

[@Endiepup]

It Was Hilarious Every Time He Said China Expanded Into Manchuria And It Looked The Exact Same

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

*LOL Alaska is "American Canada."* I love it!

[@santiagob.1071]

Very good scenario! I really wanted Belgium to centralize the EU but they never did well I guess it would actually make them weaker since they lose the vassal swarm.

[@wilma_wessels]

"The netherlands they're gone, it's all belgium now" truly the darkest timeline

[@jordinagel1184]

No more stroopwaffels, only pommes frites

[@aapjeopeenwieler3808]

@@jordinagel1184 nahh belgium will continue making stroopwafels but no more Heineken.

[@samvanderstaak7296]

@@aapjeopeenwieler3808 And nothing of value was lost lmao

[@WhiteLama]

As a Swede I’m okay with Norway taking us over. At least they aren’t Denmark. EDIT: Never mind, we’re Estonian now and also we now own more of Norway than Norway. EDIT 2: Oh, RIP Norway. EDIT 3: DENMARK IS GONE 🦀🦀🦀

[@Skull.man00]

Actually, denmark government exiled to Greenland 😅

[@SordMasta]

"Australia just chillin, except they're a military dictatorship... Seems about right now in the 2020's." - US: So what resources do you have over there ...mate? - Australia: Pretty much coal. - US: OK you're safe, chill. - China: Did someone say coal? I better wrap up this India war. Get the shovels comrades.

[@2020Twenty]

20:55 Greece: "We're taking the Byzantine Empire back!"

[@d0nutwaffle]

Mod has a pretty realistic depiction of Monroe doctrine it seems, lol.

[@radioactiveriver6718]

25:34 What did it cost? Argentina: Everything

[@arnemichiels8611]

"yemen is big, oman is a square" made me chuckle

[@jeffthedeaf9159]

I love how Greenland is called Danish Canada 😂

[@SnapplyPie]

Been waiting for this one! Good job keeping up quality content 👍

[@TheRedHawk]

Thanks!

[@carl6909]

hey arent you that rathnir guy?

[@SnapplyPie]

@@carl6909 Indeed I am, I also enjoy Grand Strategy Paradox games :)

[@alexandrosmath7457]

Constantinople in Greek hands! Beautiful lol. I didn't expect it lol.

[@ser6Ijvolk]

Belgium: Mad With Power 2: Electric Boogaloo. USA: a beacon of monarchy in the world.

[@purpledevilr7463]

I don’t know why but this whole thing just feels surprising realistic, accurate and plausible.

[@akkiaddizone6889]

Ah yes, Belgian world conquest

[@aluminiumknight4038]

yeah youre insane

[@blessingdulani9908]

Canada:exists Brazil:exists USA: and I took that personally...................murica!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Sacredearthproject]

21:14 I cant explain it but those are the most satisfying Greek borders maybe country borders I've ever seen. Just a perfect sphere of influence.

[@Pascal_Mueller]

yes

[@just_radical]

Brazilian Government: Exists The CIA: I took that personally.

[@michaelwhite7531]

Coming from Quebec, can confirm that this, in fact, would/could still happen. Sovereign quebec is a very popular subject (Thanks Rene Lesvesque)

[@Hhammurabi]

yeah but I think it's too late now unfortunately

[@Wiqser]

Sir, you are brilliant, you have surely put a lot of effort in this video, especially preperation. Thank you :)

[@TheSwedishHistorian]

This video makes me hopeful for the next 300 years

[@splatooey9015]

Not the British not invading Ireland while Belgium in conquering Moscow

[@kabobawsome]

That last recap was like watching a doctor describe a bunch of minor cuts (everywhere but Europe) on a body with a bloody stump where the head was supposed to be (B E L G I U M)

[@jkg8108]

I recommend using the Xorme AI mod if observing. You'll love it, can't play singleplayer without it.

[@Solitude2500]

The Philippines really became a Chinese province except by a different China.

[@SomeBadStuff999]

Poland, Lithuania and Commonwealth at the same time? Damn that curse. Nice video as always.

[@seanm241]

you should start making the gp's go to war with each other at the end if they never come into conflict. would make these a bit more interesting.

[@AgileFridge]

Kinda cringe that Great Britain isn't allied with Portugal at the start ngl

[@TheRedHawk]

Lmao

[@KitTheAnkafolk]

Or that Canada wasn’t allied to the US

[@Bruceboot]

Nice to see the UK did literally nothing other than taking one Spanish province for 400 years.

[@palty8126]

Another amazing video from my favorite eu4 channel

[@TheRedHawk]

Glad to hear it!

[@tiger2498]

Ireland and Great Britain chilling on their islands the entire game

[@alfiand9269]

12:45 ofc belgium angry at french, best fries made in belgium yet people called it french fries. They malding

[@FaF-posting]

I think Belgium expanded so much becuse it was the leader of the EU (the HRE in this mod)

[@FaF-posting]

Oh, he already said it

[@TheDion56]

I love that Greenland is called "Danish Canada".

[@LlamasAtMidnight]

I mean, is it wrong?

[@TheDion56]

@@LlamasAtMidnight no, it just amuses me.

[@micahbell8533]

This was a very interesting video to see how the stats of today's world would play out, but I've gotta say that your commentary took it to the next level. Great video!

[@Pigraider268]

Have you noticed that Turkey is monarchy ruled by Yamato dynasty i.e. the imperial dynasty of Japan? :P

[@gimmethegepgun]

I was sad there was no "Greece went back to Constantinople" after they did. Also, Spain and Turkey migrated into North Africa lol. Spain was just an OPM and Turkey became Egypt.

[@FoundationAfro]

As a Canadian, who knew Canada would probably die, I laughed pretty hard at Quebec separating.

[@antebellumstage]

Do "What if every continent was a nation?" Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Oceania battle it out

[@Sulidaire]

I feel like Europe or Asia will be dominate while the Americas just eat each other

[@antebellumstage]

@@Sulidaire North and South America should be one in that scenario. In order to balance it out with Europe and Asia

[@oskari-kettunen]

@@antebellumstage by that logic the entire eurasia should be one aswell

[@markpiper6382]

1:57 I thought Red Hawk was going to say “The time it takes to pass a law in the U.S Congress,” not going to lie.

[@Smurez]

Greece borders looking pretty sexy at the end

[@Smainchoker]

9:36 ah yes. German france. Obviously the best france :P

[@butterterter]

"Oman is a square" -Red Hawk 8:22

[@soumajitsen1395]

This was a really good one! Loved it! :p

[@TheRedHawk]

Thanks!

[@GrandGigaChad]

Now we need red hawk to do a a to z challenge in this scenario

[@paulinchannel3104]

7:13 well... prediction!

[@ravivik3378]

Loved the reverse flash refrences :)

[@benjaminhinz2552]

Egypt takes out Israel Literally any history nerd: impossible

[@richardrichardson5667]

Except they owned Palestine for more time than any other nation in history

[@AntonSlavik]

"Poland and the Common Wealth exist at the same time? Listen, this is even getting too cursed for me" lol can relate

[@grSuchtie19]

*insert Joker Picture* When Belgium conquers big parts of europe, nobody bats an eye. But when Germany does, everybody loses their mind

[@adolphusputin-5605]

Belgium is exporting waffles and fries while Germany was exporting weird haircuts with even worse moustaches. I get it

[@DekuTheDestroyer]

17:35 The Ivory coast doesnt have a coast ironic.

[@SamuriLemonX18]

"This is Malta. Hello Malta" Idk why but this nearly made me spit out my drink

[@Pyrozeen26]

Turkey and Azerbaijan must be allies at the start tbh

[@Adusakful]

8:22 Why did that "Oman is a square" sentence make me wheeze so hard? (also 15:01)

[@pluto6383]

Why is it that in every extended timeline video I see Russia fails?

[@kyleschneider6871]

*sees little purple color on the island to the SE of China* -1,000,000,000 social credit score! If the Republic of China doesn't have cores on the People's Republic of China except for the Tibet region, I'll be sad. "I guess Estonia is finally part of Scandinavia." It's all that they ever wanted.

[@JIopemUncym]

Crimea Russian from the start of the game B A S E D

[@Vanryn273]

6:12 Communist Revolutionaries led by a de' Medici, nice

[@haxolotl7]

the coalitions happen from the EU but i dont remember what triggers them exactly but doign some things gives you tons of AE with the entire european union

[@gleet2677]

I always thought the EU mechanic ruins the modern day timestamp of this mod

[@rkh2307]

The moroccan revange against spain was pretty epic

[@richardrichardson5667]

Revenge?

[@HomemdaFaina]

meanwhile Portugal: "So... we lose Ceuta? That's it? Ok then."

[@srujanakondeti2596]

50k!!!!!! Your growth rate is very high compared to other paradox channels

[@afcreative22]

Belgium got tired of being trespassed by Germany and went on the offensive

[@godwasdrunk7804]

Whenever he said “yeah man” I was thinking of starting as Yemen 🥰

[@LiezAllLiez]

I used to play this mod a lot, back in 1.19 or something, but it has issues. The major one, in my opinion, is that you get WAY too much monarch power. This, eventually, leads to the AI culture converting every province, after separatism has died down. If you start from an early date, by year 2k, there will be a few nations left with a few cultures left (at least, on the AIs side of things), due to the problem ive mentioned. Lemme tell ya, not being able to fund separatists to break up a monstrosity of a state spanning across Europe (or a few of them, allied together) is a real problem. This mod doesnt help things. I remember one game, where ive started off as a mesoamerican minor. Colonized what i could, developed some institutions to catch up with the "west", and went to Europe. How (un)surprised i was, when all ive found was France, Saxony, some ancient german tribe that survived since roman times and Denmark sharing the continent between them. All of their provinces were culture converted, so that nothing else could spawn, even if they were brought over the edge in terms of WE and stability. Breaking them up took me hundreds of years... and in all honesty, i didnt enjoy fighting war after war, some declared by me, others declared by them (punitive wars), and all bringing very little in terms of impact. Maybe if i were in Europe at game start, i could alter some things, but again - too much time=too much MP. The AI would have to be altered to make this mod work, and i dont think people actually attempt that.

[@leonardocontin937]

I don't think you are supposed to play 2000 years of game if you chose 4ad as starting date I think every starting date is balanced as a mini scenario

[@element5584]

I would recommend using the Nations Can Collapse Mod which usually results in large, multiethnic empires breaking up into smaller states. Of course, it also affects the player so it also makes the game more challenging.

[@ReddoFreddo]

"The AI culture converting every province" This is actually very realistic in modern times.

[@LiezAllLiez]

@@ReddoFreddo Like the Volhynia massacre...?

[@Camel9991]

I guess Pomerelia is the name for a state made by the nation of Kashubia. Kashubians are west Slavic nation speaking the language similar to Polish. They still live in the northern Poland, but they are descendants of medieval Pomeranians. The flag of Pomerelia you showed has national colours of Kashubians (black and yellow) and the griffin is their national emblem.

[@Camel9991]

And as far as I know there is the Kashubian community in Canada and they still try to nurture their culture and traditions.

[@haripetrov1289]

Either you pc (especially processor) is top-notch, or you have chosen death for your PC.

[@johnmcafee9663]

its funny that ukraine is garunteed by USA from the future

[@Higuys677]

USA :Brazil change your government . Brazil:No for the ninth time

[@zikopro7369]

Ty for including our sahara 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦

[@cal1317]

turkey getting megali'd by greece made me laugh so hard