FINLAND can ATTRITION EVERYONE to DEATH in EU4 1.34

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EU4 1.34 brings many new features... one of which is the ability to STACK ATTRITION as Finland. I'm talking an INSANE amount of attrition. Armies will literally melt at your doorstep with this unique game feature. I take on EU4 Muscovy (read: EU4 Russia) as EU4 Finland and it was INSANE! You need to try playing as this overpowered nation.. it's basically an EU4 1.34 exploit.
Here's how FINLAND can ATTRITION EVERYONE to DEATH in EU4 1.34
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[@TheSocialStreamers]

What do you think of Finland?? Thanks to Established Titles for sponsoring this video! Get 10% off on any purchase with code TSS10 . Go to establishedtitles.com/TSS10 and help support the channel!

[@aidenperry7512]

Personally I love Finland is eu4, decent ideas, and with the new dlc i think Finland has a lot of flavor and potential

[@stellarisplayer7798]

I love suomi

[@Sebastiantynkky]

Finland is the best

[@MrPozaidon]

Can you start as Denmark, seize a finish province and release Finland as an OPM :p?

[@kallekulmala1876]

Best country in the world (I swear I'm not biased)

[@mdc3924]

Fact that eu4 finland which doesn't even exist in 1444 has a mission tree and hoi4 finland who fought in both winter war and ww2 has a generic focus tree is such a bummer

[@raulisrael7342]

it's single player balance rn the Soviet ai doesn't survive Germany without help due to doing historical but useless focus like annexing tannu tuva the navy focuses. and even then can collapse with help of ai, now bringing the Finnish ai to kill the soviets would make single player vanilla allied games impossible without exploits

[@hishamx9180]

@@raulisrael7342 "impossible" my man you can single handedly defeat germany as france without exploits

[@raulisrael7342]

@@hishamx9180 Ik but Soviet ai

[@rileygraney9568]

Most likely Finland will be getting a focus tree next DLC as many players predict that the next DLC will be in Scandinavia most likely giving Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland a focus tree.

[@kallekulmala1876]

And we have been one for years. I really hoped by blood alone would have been a northern dlc but ig we have to wait another year again.

[@VenisDamalo]

I wish they had more dynamic province names in Finnish and related languages. Karelia and Estonia should have been teeming with Finnic speakers.

[@muovi2463]

Karjala ja Viro PERKELE

[@VenisDamalo]

@@muovi2463 I'm gonna have to take your word on that lol

[@compatriot852]

That would require some effort actually being put into this dlc. They didn't even bother with Romuva and Prussian Lithuanians, so there was zero hope for Finno Ugric accuracy

[@Donderu]

@@compatriot852 this has been one of the best dlcs recently, tf are you on about

[@hellodolly7989]

@@Donderu They have just been mission trees. As low effort as possible for easy money.

[@birb4121]

Day 42 of asking Laith to play as Krakow

[@Maybe_Me_Maybe_Not]

Legend

[@danielhollick1708]

So true!

[@dr.ayoweda1571]

Spent 10 minutes searching this comment, worth it

[@fuadlabib703]

There he is

[@reh3719]

More comments more relevants

[@Olipakerranoiva]

I still can't understand how Finland got mission tree in eu4 before focus tree in hoi4!

[@sizanogreen9900]

Nice that you finished the finnish baltic empire. Either way, a *Krakow* run *DOES* sound interesting...

[@Mr.0s]

As a Finnish myself, l am glad they finally made the nation playable, the old Finnish nation was so weak and did not have any special missions and so on, which kinda sucks honestly :/ But now after the new DLC and update? l love playing as Finland now, it's honestly so much better now to play as Finland than before. It was literally torture and if you wanted to succeed with Finland you needed to hope Novgorod started to support your independence or that most cases it's all based on RNG. But now? l could see easily beat Swedish now when it's so much different now. Though l would wish they could add like great projects at last one into Finland, to make it more interesting to play as. But otherwise? l have no complains

[@sj2290]

Any suggestions as to what would make a cool great project?

[@nicksingh8061]

@@sj2290 sauna

[@yungclimba]

@@sj2290 saimaan kanava

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

The old Finnish nation had some of the strongest military ideas in the game. They were anything but "weak".

[@hanneswiggenhorn2023]

I'm not entirely sure, but can't Finland relatively easily access the Russian Region and it's monuments, because the commonwealth is the only potential rival there?

[@compatriot852]

That moment when eu4 Finland has more content than hoi4... The same can be said for Lithuania, but with hoi4 having more content than eu4

[@combrade-t]

21:46 Extends Golden era by 20 years?? that's a pretty damn strong modifier like thats ~40% extra golden age value. Finland seems like a surprisingly good country considering that you know, the country itself didn't do a huge amount historically in the period.

[@DNVIC]

It's better to wait until your golden age runs out. If it does, you'll get an extra golden age, which is 100% more golden age value, instead of 40%.

[@combrade-t]

@@DNVIC Oh that's kind of insane, that's incredibly strong to have 100 years golden age, that's Probably over half the average campaign.

[@eafesaf6934]

@@DNVIC explain in more detail, how you can get the best moment before your golden age runs out..

[@Ellial]

20:48 You can see how long a siege has been going on for by hovering over the part where it says "siege of x province" at the very top in the siege window.

[@e_reaperx9965]

I can confirm after watching all 12 seconds of this video that it is amazing. -trust.

[@krasnallom]

I played a chill campaign as the ottomas and to stop commonwealth from forming I released Kraków. Later I diplo vassalized them and they became like my pet project. By the end of the game they were sunni (although they converted only one province) and had borders of modern day Poland. Kraków actually seems to have somewhat decent ideas so I'm gonna back up that guy who asks you to play as them.

[@DavidLodgeclassof]

I know this was months ago, but watching this as I chose Finland to play with Domination, using Infrastructure and Defensive ideas to get +10 attrition in Viborg (as well as new privileges for more defensiveness). I already fought the Poles outnumbered 2 to 1, using a mere 5 attrition and kicking them off the fort with Finland's special cavalry mercs. Just putting it out there that Finland got even better.

[@TocsTheWanderer]

I like how both you and Red Hawk get a 6 fire and 5 shock general from the "Champion of the Joust" event in your Finland videos...

[@Donderu]

Great video Laith! Just a few things about Åland: - it’s pronounced ”Ualand”, the Å makes a sound like ”ua” or ”uo” - Åland is culturally Swedish, but is an autonomous zone of Finland. This is because the Russians captured it during the Northern War, and gave the role of administrating it to the Grand Duchy of Finland. After Finland became independent, they kept it because it had just been that way for centuries already

[@AGrumpyPanda]

There was actually a subsequent issue of who should have control of it, the people of Aland wanted to return to Sweden but Finland said no, the international community then basically enforced their status as an autonomous zone (an idea proposed by the Fins and rejected by the people of Aland). It took quite a while (and opinions changing during WWII) for the people of Aland to come around to the idea of being part of Finland, but they still maintain their autonomy.

[@christophhanke6627]

Let's all buy a Shit ton of scottish lands and create our own theocracy of Paradox

[@mikearndt8210]

fun fact, if you buy land in scotland specifically to become a lord, you don’t become a lord

[@foggy9900]

some games i never pay to increase stab and get endless free stab events,other games i feel im stabbing up constantly

[@tigrecito48]

talking of needing an ally, im playing great horde and the trouble ive had getting good allies has been horrendous... i tried with poland hoping for help against muscovy, they didnt want to ally me and then rivalled me... the only people who wanted to ally me were hordes next to me that i wanted to invade soon... or tiny nations.. i tried improving with otto.. he rivalled me... even when i got huge and had like +150 with mamluks and rivalled otto & & insulted him etc etc mamluks didnt want to ally.. i had to give gifts and everything to finally get it.. ive never had this much trouble getting alliances...

[@xsithspawnx]

19:06 I legitimately had to slow down the video to 50% speed to understand what was being said right here. 😂

[@mrszmatan2727]

More advanced mission tree for a nation that does not exist in 1444 and appears on map once in 100 games than for second most developed nation in 1444

[@thatponybro6940]

you should play as Sámi for the memes lol, even if they don't have a vanilla mission tree

[@Hs-wl3mn]

I like that background music in not loud.

[@Stevonicus]

It would be nice to have some mission to either ally or conquer Hungary, just because of the Finno-Ugric language connection

[@Jan-cz3vx]

@Snowstorm Ofc it is but that wont change the fact that we used to be somewhat related. The orginal nobility have been wiped out by the ottos and mongols, so yea they dont have the same dna anymore but in spirit they are finno-ugric.

[@Aarlaeoss]

He is slowly dyeing his hair green

[@knaffir9962]

if you put your cursor on the portrait in the siege screen you can see, since when did the siege start.

[@ewhat2498]

I once had 3 ticks at 99%... This is just absurd.

[@05AT1]

As of the latest update, war taxes give you an additional 2 mil points (instead of costing mil). It’s a known bug, so exploit it while you can.

[@nathanaelsallhageriksson1719]

Interesting how Laith didn't want the code to be "SS10" I wonder why, I can't see any way taht could be misinterpreted.

[@sld1776]

Innovative + Espionage + Defensive ideas will let you take two policies that give you a total of 20 percent fort defense.

[@code0714]

For an attrition gameplay go and play as a kobbold nation in anbennar with the homebrew mod for anbennar(more ideas)

[@serialgiver6295]

I love how Mecklembourg saw a country that randomly got independant and despite that he said to himself without even knowing what a fin is "ok we'll definitly be friends." And lol imagine buying a little part of Scotland as an american, the new 16 colonies 😂 Also this vid: *Finland going super sayan and deciding to be a super power and finaly move their butt*

[@josephcola9662]

Completely unironically, I've actually used established titles to buy my mom a landed title in Scotland for Mother's Day. So seeing it on the video honestly gave me a laugh.

[@binzychanuwu]

Åland in real life is owned by Finland, though they do speak Swedish

[@goksir5845]

I think the best way to start is probs to get independence as sweden first. In my case i decided to just conquer finland as teutons then release since I wanted to play theocracy finland. Certainly avoided the double subject issue lol.

[@echoambiance4470]

Would love to see more of this campaign. Conquer your way through Siberia and see how many Chinese doomstacks you can attrition away

[@Einulf_]

Yes, the Baltic country of Swindon?!

[@17Domy97]

And here I am, struggling playing finland against a 90k manpower muscovy, Poland and Lithuania divided, weak and both my only valid allies, the most loyal sweden I've ever seen and nowhere to expand to do the newest achievement

[@BaneofBots]

4:25 lmao

[@yungclimba]

holy cow laith playing as finland I must be dreaming

[@antorseax9492]

I think part of me died when I heard "Denegle"

[@f4atal]

Åland is finnish. I am from Åland and I believe it with all my heart, fight me!

[@inferno38]

Are you going to finnish this campaign ?

[@Airay552]

thank you

[@walnzell9328]

Maybe you should've released Sapmi first, then Finland. Not sure if that'd do anything.

[@dankaroor]

7:56 wtf does that mean? Åland is absolutely Finnish. The people do not want to be under Sweden, even if they speak Swedish.

[@asopbob6064]

Yep

[@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595]

this is a landmine you don't want to step into man

[@larochejaquelein3680]

Dude Åland is 86% Swedish and it is time that Finland returns Åland to the rightful owner Sweden.

[@Hadar1991]

19:06 To be honest, not much, because I have that bug, that makes my game crash when random stab hitting event happen :D

[@gmoney5646]

Is attrition still capped at 5% for AI?

[@charliebainbridge5852]

why did you edit out the all the battles would be nice to see the stack wipes actually happening

[@tigrecito48]

hey have you done the 3 mountains achievement yet conquering the world as ryukyu?

[@rovalin6300]

I'm sorry, Laith. But the sponsor is a scam and they don't actually sell parcels in Scotland. They've been doing this for decades. You're not actually a lord. It's a lot like those things that claim they "name a star after you" it's a scam. It's all a scam.

[@rakso3820]

Had to scroll way too far to see this. Thank you for writing this.

[@jeffsirloin2558]

my thoughts exactly every time i see -5% tech cost ideas, shoulda been 10

[@spacepenguin2570]

You should play latgalia (new releasable in Livonia.

[@chihaya2299]

Laith please do Lubeck next and claim the vacant of the queen of Hansa

[@klaasvaak2575]

no 9 attrition forts sadgies

[@zackhawn5944]

Are there any AI improvements?

[@jamonbread6452]

what map mod do you use? the one in the workshop is outdated and doesnt work with this newest version

[@salmanqafarov9556]

This doesn't come near the riga campaign satisfaction

[@tigrecito48]

i did a custom nation taliban in afghanistan with fort defence & extra attrition to enemies etc.. and took defensive ideas.. i think i made my forts & lands too strong though cos eventually enemies wouldnt even come & sit on my forts anymore... they'd traverse half way around the world to try to get to an ally or a vassal but completely ignored my lands

[@Draugtaur]

shame there's nothing focused on liberating finno-ugric people in Russia, because paradox doesn't even recognise their existence still, pretty based Suur Suomi

[@ethanbrown7198]

ADM is underwhelmin monarch point compared to DIP and MIL

[@antirosov943]

nice color for finish lmao

[@paslaptingasdvejetas606]

Day 43 asking Laith to play as Krakow

[@numberline8063]

Have you disabled the attrition cap in your run or why do you keep talking about 9%+ attrition? Attrition is capped at 5% (for both AI and Players)

[@TheSocialStreamers]

It raises the cap, as far as I’m aware.

[@numberline8063]

Yea that's true, the last mission raises it by 1% so anything above 6% is wasted, but still, sounds pretty fun. We are gonna start a new MP with 1.34 next week, maybe I start as Sweden just for this attrition :p

[@simonhribsk.962]

16:25 i maximized the value of baltic sea and i made 46 DUCKETS thats fuckin insane

[@tigrecito48]

I had a one in a billion chance thing happen the other day, the ai enemy of the player (me) got their siege to 92% which I dont think has ever happened in the history of everyone playing the game, because as we all know the game cheats on sieges. If ours says 49% it means 21% chance if theirs is 49% it means 77% chance etc.. so a 92% means what? 99.9% chance? anyway i was trying to save scum to see if i could get the ai to go to 99% but it just wouldn't do it.. it either always won or went backwards to 85% there were only 2 options... so i dunno if the ai can ever get to 99%

[@burtreynolds8030]

Burgundian succession in 1450?

[@JosTheMan1]

Finnish insta click

[@Ofiotaurus]

But uuuh. Åland is Finnish. In everything except the language and culture.

[@ShoutsWillEcho1]

20:20 how is that even possible? Finland isnt Orthodox so no Royal marriage - how the fuck does Finland have any claim to Muscovy????

[@viktorkardell9366]

Why has Laith still not learned how to pronounce Donegal? Donnegle again. It's not like it's difficult - not asking for Dún na nGall

[@blue291]

Classic.

[@baum2156]

hey laith

[@TheSocialStreamers]

Hello there

[@burtreynolds8030]

@@TheSocialStreamers general kenobi

[@baum2156]

@@TheSocialStreamers Didnt thought you would answer xD

[@Ofiotaurus]

So the most powerful militaries are; 1. Prussia 2. Sweden 3. Poland 4. Nepal 5. Songhai 6. Finland?

[@rovalin6300]

You forgot the REAL #1 power.

[@tigrecito48]

BrandenBurgunDaniShoshoNetherlAndaluSiAmaGotlAndhRagUSA is the best nation in the game

[@tomaszobremski7931]

Thank you Lord Laith for helping me find my true identity as a Scottish noble

[@andrew2715]

Play krakow

[@saurocantho6195]

PLAY TUNNIS

[@gibuswagen7729]

Torille

[@fox77scotland50]

Day 40 of asking who to play Georgia.

[@oldrzym]

do craków

[@echillaoi451]

releasing finland is heresy

[@emperorofwends8875]

Forgive me father for I am a Heretick

[@Acarmine66]

Why didn't you fight the independance war as Sweden then released yourself as Finland, with the focus tree its quite easy to win against the ai?

[@-Teca-]

Wish they would give this much attention to the Incans and Nahuatls, rip

[@Settinor]

:)

[@legitplayin6977]

:3

[@mako8040]

Day 3568969420420 of asking laith to play jan mayen

[@king_n6991]

“Like the cancer you are”. Laith I’m a new subscriber bro but please don’t joke about that.. it’s a trigger for a lot of people

[@Baz_HummingsWorth]

Second

[@chewbaccasolo8576]

Not wrong

[@antorseax9492]

Third, actually

[@antorseax9492]

@@chewbaccasolo8576 Yes wrong

[@xX_MasterFinn_Xx]

i hate when every province exept uusimaa, viipuri and pirkanmaa have their swedish name on the map :(

[@Geo-nw9ug]

cope

[@cassu6]

Yeah why don't they change? Weird

[@Jan-cz3vx]

Why tho? If you own it you can name it and its provincial capital as you please! Conquer mongolia and name its capitol as ancestral home, there is no limit lol

[@hellodolly7989]

There needs to be more dynamic prov names for sure

[@gnoblin7320]

@@Jan-cz3vx 2much work imo

[@Baculitess8008]

im glad finland gets the credit it deserves

[@TheSocialStreamers]

It’s a great play through!

[@praxseb4317]

Tbh it doesn't really deserve that much credit though

[@ywoisug8845]

@@praxseb4317 honestly tho XD

[@larochejaquelein3680]

Wasn‘t Finland a slave of Sweden and then Russia for hundreds of years? Why is a slave country getting so much recognition in EU4?? Finland should receive more attention in HOI4

[@lee-fc5bu]

@@larochejaquelein3680 i dont think slave is the historical term😂

[@thepopeofpineapples6275]

Once again, @TheSocialStreamers there is a way to become Norse. The requirements are: - Danish, Swedish, Norweigan, Icelandic or Norse as primary Culture - in Age of Discovery -Not had the country flag "had_norse_nostalgia" - is excommunicated OR has modifier "the_statue_in_restraint_of_appeals" - ruler has Scholar trait OR Sinner trait OR is at least 5/5/5 - ⁠Owns the province Bergslagen - ⁠Is independent There will be a chain of 4 events, then your nation will slowly become Norse.

[@lorrdy7640]

Wait they really add it?!

[@lorrdy7640]

I thought you were joking but it's true!

[@JohnSmith-pv2qc]

Thats so cool

[@Matthew-hl5eg]

Scholar or sinner and is 5/5/5. If I'm not mistaken. OR = { ruler_has_personality = scholar_personality ruler_has_personality = sinner_personality AND = { adm = 5 dip = 5 mil = 5

[@duckstm]

yeh but also the mean time to happen is 100 years

[@kabobawsome]

Sweden's a *blast* as well. In my game, I got the PU over Poland, which also gave me Lithuania, and one on Moscovy, so I went in about 20 years from being a major player in the East to owning the entirety of Eastern Europe.

[@ontheradar100]

Play as Qasim (releasable from Muscovy 1444 or tag in like 1600 or smth)

[@emperorofwends8875]

So glad they added Simo Häiha as a mision

[@asopbob6064]

Häihä XD

[@emperorofwends8875]

@@asopbob6064 god dam it the fins are after me

[@artemiin]

"So... What should we do for the Finnish missions?" "Summon the spirit of Simo Häyhä from half a millennium into the future to aid them" "I was thinking of adding Nokia and sauna missions, but that sounds better"

[@earnurearendil7324]

"Chief why the snow is talking finnish ?"

[@eoozy2617]

@@artemiin Yeah it's so dumb, they could've literally just done a mission called "SISU" and it would've been way better. What next, lets give German nations missions that reference Hitler?

[@emib6599]

sadly attrition for AI is capped

[@jokerboys7589]

Where did you got that T-shirt from?

[@xvbnihfuilnllpjgxnjitgvbsy]

7:14 Finland in December 1939

[@velocity3114]

Angevin Empire part 2 when?

[@dawsonsnyder2996]

Day one of asking for a SUS world conquest

[@hstgamerr]

torille🇫🇮