Going On The EU4 SUBREDDIT Was A MISTAKE

[@TheRedHawk]

Let me know if you want to see more r/eu4 videos!

[@WillJackson-wi1nw]

What? No Orthodox Timbuktu? Blasphemy!

[@undTirpitz]

Another video idea would be your favourite starts to form diffrent countries. I.e Aragon, Venice, Byz or else for Rome. Who to form Persia with etc

[@connordelaney6254]

I want to see less hair bruv

[@merokrl]

You should do videos reviewing tinto talks and tinto maps, its entertaining

[@lilmurt3843]

more of these would be pretty good ig

[@britlaker]

Are Hawk and Laith having a hair growing competition? No haircuts until EU5 released?

[@subpages]

lets make this the top upvoted comment so they have to do it

[@Xalar]

Haha, I've been wondering the very same thing.

[@ruihund]

His hair is beautiful😮

[@olegrooo713]

Its not even long...

[@kaka09876543210]

The most fabulous hair is winner

[@Tbonedoesfsx]

That Ok Europa Expanded thing is actually a joke event, your ruler thinks that he's just completely roasted the Ottomans with that letter but the event actually only gives the ottomans like -1 prestige or something lol

[@speedyx3493]

And it's a follow up to real life 19th-century Cossack power-fantasy fanfics

[@haarp9069]

​@@speedyx3493 Which most likely never actually happened.

[@Vivi-yw1eu]

​@@speedyx3493It's a known forgery, but nonetheless a fun literary piece

[@MicahKilcoyne]

Bro seeing him with hair is WILD

[@mikkelstergaard6218]

Wild, but I like it, he's got a very magnificent mane

[@gokutricolor1914]

@@mikkelstergaard6218 but now he doesn't have the super villain look though

[@wrjtung3456]

He finally found time to wash his hair

[@LilGamingYes]

Why does he look like Waluigi though...

[@habahaba4945]

It's better for him to be bald... Because I'm balding and wouldn't want to see such a good hair 😂😂 I'm joking, idm it :D

[@davidrozemberg9295]

Laithflation event has added +20% hair growth to all eu4 youtubers

[@dasmodem887]

World's smuggest detective?

[@nildzrecastellanos]

>Says the carpathian group exist to make Hungary powerful. >Hungary dies in every single game.

[@DondarfSnowbonk]

Hungary's like the fifth rank great power in my current Burgundy game. They had a PU over Bohemia for a while.

[@timberthus2562]

I always thought the call for peace symbol was an open treasure chest lmao

[@Katthewm]

I always though it was a ship sailing. I feel dumb now

[@brtuh5865]

i thought it was an open book

[@azpont7275]

I've seen a ship with a white flag until this moment

[@oddiethefox5832]

I legit thought it was a medieval wooden mug spilling over. I can't believe I never looked closer at it in all my 800 hrs...

[@Jacut]

Same, looks like a mimic too.

[@Scheater1337]

Tbh I though the "Call for Peace" icon was just a random mimic. Ngl, "tax chest getting angry at you for wasting money" kinda made sense to me, so I didn't question it.

[@SereglothIV]

Same. Angry chest with lots of bubbles in its mouth xD

[@so9784]

I also thought it was an angry clam like that one guy😂

[@frostyontheradio9326]

Always thought that it is a breaking ship lol

[@imdurrtydann396]

Honestly thought it was something like a chest that was wide open and empty just like they're morale, so I never questioned it. Mimic is a good one too.

[@dexterwilliams2520]

"EU4 Map design is great"? I dunno if you haven’t noticed or you’re being ignorant on purpose, but one of the peninsulas is literally just a boot.

[@TheRedHawk]

Lmao trueee lazy af

[@monaghangm]

"There's no celtic culture group" *Irish and Highlander literally being the celtic culture group 😂

[@maxpont8989]

Breton would be way closer to Cornish and Welsh, which are wrongly considered English anyway...

[@ashtoncarriveau3880]

@@maxpont8989I’ve been thinking there should be a way to swap these three over to Celtic the same way English can be switched to French

[@MyUsersDark]

@@ashtoncarriveau3880 In the Extended Timeline mod, these cultures are Celtic, as they are. This mod also makes Turkish part of the Turkic group, obviously not good for gameplay, but it's at least 'accurate'.

[@SereglothIV]

Red Hawk in this video: yeah, that's totally me, horses the best Red Hawk in every other video: let's disband that horse and recruit infantry instead

[@AbyssalLord]

Real

[@noneofyourbusiness3288]

Honestly I love the "programming language" style for the requirements of missions and decisions. Makes it very clear, especially when every requirement has a small checkmark or cross next to it.

[@MyUsersDark]

Agreed

[@mateusziii2067]

to be honest - I prefer having missions described in programming style than having inaccurate requirements or long descriptions that I would have no motivation to read

[@notme8232]

Yeah, descriptions of code should read like code IMO, just git gud lmao

[@tigrosabertooth4757]

6:32 he CONVERTED EVERY PROVINCE instead of harmonizing, which is the most painful way for confucians, and you lose a lot of bonuses from monuments

[@PiastTorun]

People keep complaining about how you only play eu4 for the first 100 years, and later it becomes stale, starting earlier means that people have to play to reach the colonial, making playing longer more varied and interesting. I don't like it that much but I see why they did it. For me some countries will become very OP.

[@hanneswiggenhorn2023]

I think it probably all depends on the anti blobbing mechanics. If countries could actually break apart like in CK it would probably be much more fun for longer

[@marciedahomie4700]

I think it will be cool to play out the full 100 years war.

[@wachtwoord5796]

You stop after 100 years cause at that point you're so much stronger than everyone else it's not interesting anymore. An earlier start date won't fix that. Hopefully different game mechanics will.

[@exodud5016]

As someone that studied programming years ago, I very much apologize, because the "one of the following must be true>all of the following must be true>etc" is very much how I thought normal people would describe such a task until today.

[@notme8232]

OMG SAME! It's so much easier for me to understand than plain text would be.

[@Vivi-yw1eu]

yeah, my only issue with the text was not enough indentation lmao

[@joew5495]

Half the Reddit thinks the game is boring because they do extreme WC's every time. The other half of the reddit is so bad I can't believe they're so bad.

[@TheQwopChampion]

I've been waiting for Reddit Hawk my entire life

[@wachtwoord5796]

Programming style is great actually. The problem is they dont display scoping properly by delimiting it with indentation or brackets.

[@adisca2k]

Yeah, the requirements are easier to read in the code than in the game thanks to the brackets and consistent indentation. Still better than some abstract block of text describing the requirements, although I am a programmer so ofc I will prefer programming style.

[@wachtwoord5796]

@@adisca2k also a programmer here but it's simply better as natural text will often be ambiguous and always harder to understand without reading all/most of the text.

[@ArianneBlaire777]

On the EU4 forums there is an Odd Screenshots topic which is almost always fascinating. Might be good for a reaction video

[@SereglothIV]

Te Cossack letter is an easter egg to a real historical event. Google 'Letter of Zaporozhian Cossacks to Ottoman sultan', it has its own wikipedia page. Although I must admit, it's the funniest in Polish and most of the English translations don't do it justice 😅 Regarding army compostion, after 1200-1300 hours, I still play with a mix of everything xD It just works most of the time and I can't be bothered with minamxing that aspect of the game. And I always thought the call for peace icon is just some angry chest with bubbles in it xD

[@MrMessiah2013]

23:16 "It didn't happen historically" *Leif Erikson gyrates in his grave*

[@Argacyan]

With bad culture groups I would say I find more joy in having mods which make groups based on linguistics & using the asymmetry to play in different ways. A mod could also introduce spreading new variants of a group (say using Cultural Influence) which makes me feel more like I have a dynamic impact on the world than just going from A to B.

[@balkanmontero]

I COME BACK AFTER MONTHS AND YOU HAVE A FULL HEAD OF HAIR????? bro chose to go bald because it was cheaper huh

[@micahbonewell5994]

Call for peaces always looked like knashing teeth to me, never really looked the closely tbh. Didn't realize it was a bird in a cage till today lol

[@samomighty7893]

I always thought the call for peace icon was a chest foaming at the mouth. never even questioned it

[@samomighty7893]

angry clam is close

[@samomighty7893]

mimic with teeth is pretty accurate

[@MekarWB]

I think the worst thing about the tooltips is not the way EU4 works. The worst thing is that it is so much harder to understand tooltips in Vic3. I legitimately cannot even decipher a lot of journal entries in Victoria 3 and I play it a lot. I have little to no confidence that Paradox is moving in the right direction on this.

[@velicanavc500]

I just bought vic3 and i REALLY don't understand what i am doing. Game is soooo confusing.

[@notme8232]

I don't know what he's talking about, I love how EU4 tooltips are so easy to logically follow, almost like a flowchart. Little to no room for misinterpretation, always clear exactly what is and is not required. Maybe it's because I'm a programmer lol

[@bruhus_momentum]

​@@notme8232 Yeah current ones are so good. My only complain is sometimes its hard to understand which condition roots to which so it would be nice if they were connected by a line

[@notme8232]

@@bruhus_momentum Maybe have each condition "layer" be a different text color? Or just have vertical lines like VSCode

[@bruhus_momentum]

@@notme8232 yeah something like that. They should go full codind IDE lol

[@decrexendo]

Loving this transition from challenge content Red *Hawk to a* channel which experiments with other content.

[@triangulum8869]

Never comment again

[@ThomBara-x3c]

hahah 10:30 caught me off guard! I too thought it was a ship!!

[@cedricl.marquard6273]

Yuuuuuup😂

[@cedricl.marquard6273]

Once I heard the cage and bird i was like: "..... HOL UP???????"

[@FlatDerrick]

Holy Roly Empire will just be a custom nation, the ignore zone of control option is on there and you can edit the traditions history/name

[@niisan762]

When I first started eu4 I keep getting peasant rebel and can't regenerate my manpower only to realize I stand a 30k army on a 10k supply limit province.

[@Thelius42]

I thought the call for peace was a floating mouth trying to eat pizza

[@cedricl.marquard6273]

25:43 Interesting as I haven't thought about the plague, but as a mechanic that could be really interesting in allowing large changes to power dynamic between countries

[@benstuart577]

I have over 4 k hours I thought the call for peace icon was a boat all this time..

[@goofygoober1816]

i always thought the call for peace was a chest with smoke coming out of it, because of no money.

[@ilip5447]

Seeing my post in Hawk's video was def heartwarming

[@bender42069]

Whole world being converted to Confucian (not harmonized). Redhawk: this is normal

[@Nictator42]

Albania really should be red, ngl. It's like their whole thing

[@edwxx20001]

With EU5, if all army's come from provance populations, will rebel stacks also grab from populations? rebels suddenly go from a small annoyance, to devastating.

[@henriquedaumas9934]

Ahh... The true monarch experience

[@enKageKagen]

After 10k hours I just realised the icon for call for peace is a pigeon in a cage. I thought it was just an open chest for some reason.

[@Blutmet]

10:17 Wow I also never thaught that was a pigeon in a cage. I always thought it was a chest with pointy teeth. O.o

[@HumanPerson_final]

Yeah, it was like a "clam/treasure chest" to me, almost like a mimic. I am realizing now that doesn't make any sense.

[@ninetailedfox579121]

It's not a pigeon, it's a dove.

[@taikutsunaneko9125]

I thaught it was a ship in all +2400 hour of game play.

[@mrgopnik5964]

10:02 “this guy” is known as Cyowari on deviant art. He makes incredible maps from Roman times to the modern era. Also, his map of 1337 is boarder-wise more accurate than the Tinto one. He just has a tendency to not depict more minor states

[@lilmurt3843]

10:25 I THOUGHT IT WAS A SHIP TOO AND I'M JUST SHOCKED BY LEARNING THIS AFTER 1700 hours 😭😭

[@wolfgangroddewig]

My German mind thinking it was a beer mug spilling out beer foam like “come on stop that war, have a drink!”

[@shanefitzpatrick8377]

After 2k hours I thought it was a war chest being broken open lmao

[@SymGenie]

I thought it was a dove..

[@turkishteakettle]

red hawk tuah play on that thang(Kill me)

[@g.ricepad9470]

I always thought the fall for piece was a broken denture

[@joseph_soseph9611]

That mustache makes you look like a cartoon villain. I love it

[@martenkahr3365]

10:30 I also thought it looked like a ship with tattered sails up until now. Bottom of the cage is the ship's hull. Top of the cage is the beam holding up the sails, and the white done wass, obviously, the sails. But yeah, duh, obviously looks like a dove in a cage now that it's been pointed out.

[@jespergjedsted8196]

Around 18.20 you say something I admire. In a case I would have ignored at best, you chose to widen a perspective. Well said :)

[@anti-spiral159]

So this is why you got bald, you got Aizen's hair holy moly.

[@ddshocktrooper5604]

"EU4 notifications are the best notifications." Also EU4 notifications: "You can create states" "You can construct buildings" "You can create trade company investments" "Your provinces have unrest" = CPU fire.

[@KitTheAnkafolk]

Honestly, I think Austria is the best starting nation for newbies if you got Emperor DLC, its mechanics are relatively easy to grasp & you can quite quickly blob by PUing Bohemia & Hungary, as well as having a good chance of getting Burgundy

[@noneofyourbusiness3288]

The 8-year-old-comment thing is 100% accurate.

[@game37m]

Only playing Portugal now, thanks mate🙏

[@IquonYT]

The byzantium thing is really outshadowed by a Mali vassal, which hasnt completed its Desaster. One time i Fell for it, never again

[@LordpittCZ]

My first run of EU5 is going to be Bohemia, starting with John "the Blind" of Luxemburg, and then Charles of Luxemburg, later known as Emperor Charles IV - one of the best, if not the best monarchs of late-medieval Europe.

[@Jouzou87]

15:48 HOI4 would call that "The Molotov Line" :)

[@darkg8635]

I just learnt that call for peace is a bird... 5000 hours later

[@maestroguru96]

I'm here for the moustache. THE MOUSTACHE.

[@ArianneBlaire777]

Early EU4 me thought call for peace was false teeth

[@TheLibermania]

8:10 The only thing they should change is put a number next to it if you have multiple of one thing. I dislike 4 rows of Royal Marriage requests as Austria.

[@Jasper-Holland]

23:58 agreed, it should be Dutch

[@cedricl.marquard6273]

15:37 I actually find these tooltips super readable. You just go down and create a list of how to complete the mission.

[@TheRockhound119]

call for peace is a dove in a cage, not a pigeon

[@Epic24123]

I always noticed the pigeon-in-a-cage, honestly can't see how it's anything else aside from maybe the boat

[@gokutricolor1914]

And I only discovery with this video that the call for piece icon was a dove in a cage. I don't really know what I thought it was, but from the things they told, both the ship and the teeth ones were things I could see

[@katieheys3007]

The Call For Peace is clearly a dove. You know, the symbol of peace? Haha did nobody else really get that or am I the fool as everyone really knows and just pretends that they don't?

[@KingAriston]

I refuse to do the no forts Russia thing because it feels like exploiting the AI too much lol

[@grandgibbon2071]

It also doesn't make sense that I occupy your entire country, your army cannot actually fight me, and yet I cannot win the war because fort in backwater part of country.

[@yamameeven967]

You are wrong about the "programming style missions" on what to do, this is easy for me to read and follow, if its more like human it will be more confusing

[@agaribs]

The thumbnail reminds me of Vicky 2 rebellions 💀

[@JonStormr]

I wonder if EU5/Project Ceasar will expand into March of the Eagles timeline wise or to put it more plainly, if the late game will be the Napoleonic Wars.

[@kalacaptain4818]

that intro was the best summary of reddit i've ever heard

[@RhysJohnson-t1y]

That thumbnail shows beginner friendly castile aright. They call that Tuesday in Spain.

[@secularpastor]

Byzantium could be a crippled blind man who cannot speak, He is mine, and mine alone.

[@nicholasd5536]

I always thought the call for peace icon was a wave. Like a wave of discontent. I thought it was a weird choice but honestly I didn't really think about it

[@ferryboat7328]

I also think the call for peace icon is an angry clam and you can't chance my mind

[@uriyalissack8299]

why didn't the red hawk logged on to his account...? interesting...

[@harz632]

2:11 the second one is still wrong though, unless you have like 50%+ inf combat ability and 0% cav combat ability adding in at least 2-6 cav ALWAYS improves a army

[@Drecksdusler]

3.6k hours in EU IV and I also thought the call for peace symbol was a ship with broken sails

[@lardstehbread]

I've been noticing this in multiple videos and I've got to know, are these subtitles made by AI nowadays? at one point I hear him saying "eu4 subreddit" and the subtitles said "...eu4" "for subreddit..." which is exactly the kind of mistake an AI would make and would be left in by accident because there's no editor to properly go over the final product to check if there's no mistakes either that or my amateur editing style is surprisingly unique and in at least one way better than others... somehow

[@vicentun69]

I just learnt that the call for peace was a bird on a cage from this vid, I also saw a ship. 😅

[@decrexendo]

I have almost 4200 hours in EU4 and I always saw the 'Call for Peace' icon as a mimic with teeth.

[@Filauriga]

I always thought the Call for Peace symbol looked like a mouth and teeth shouting... for peace, i guess...

[@sld1776]

Laith has lost weight.

[@shorgoth]

The call for peace symbol is clearly a slobbering mimic

[@СаняХацуне]

I thought the call for peace was something burning lmao

[@bensayre4238]

Everyone saying we are currently on the last EU4 patch. Why? It's an insanely popular paradox game and a cash cow. Even if EU5 is good, it may take a while, and Paradox would be insane to turn their back on such a successful title.

[@grandgibbon2071]

I imagine a lot of people on the eu4 team are now working on the eu5 project, plus the over lap of players is probably a circle, and Im not buying more content for eu4 if I like eu5.

[@bensayre4238]

@@grandgibbon2071 true enough, but "if I like eu5" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. I'm hopeful, but Paradox doesn't have the greatest hitrate with new releases. RIP Imperator ='{

[@grandgibbon2071]

@@bensayre4238 Imperator did poorly on launch, and just didn't have enough players. the Tinto talks are pretty strong, but who knows, and we will see. The core of the issue is just that there comes a point where you just need to start fresh on something.

[@rattyoman]

okay but i also didn't realise the call for peace icon was a dove in a cage and ive been playing eu4 for years ahah, i laughed a lot at my silliness

[@gravepiss6321]

Every week or so I'll watch a video from this channel, and its like his hair has grown 2 inches every time i come back wtf lol

[@Echolaliaxu]

Golden Horde is also a potential candidate as the poster child

[@DarkVeghetta]

3:48 Screw balance with a particularly splintery piece of wood! We want _historically_ accurate culture groups, not the bs ones Paradox wholesale made up. Speaking as a Romanian, the Balkans are _supposed_ to be a den of perpetual war and misery - that's the authentic experience! To make it even more realistic, the culture penalty should be tripled and the bonus for having the same rival/a war against the same enemy should be doubled for every nation that exists in the Balkans. Ideally, the Balkans should erupt into war every other year, given even the slightest pretext. This is why I've manually modded my game to _properly_ consider Transylvanian and Romanian as a part of the Latin culture group (didn't play the other Balkan countries yet, but might mod them as well to really get those negative modifiers going). Only right and proper this way. Irl, it's a damn miracle the Romanian principates survived and united, given how everyone around us (except Serbia, mostly) made it one of their major life goals to annex and convert us (both culturally as well as religiously). Plus, it makes expansion into Italy all the sweeter, once I elbow my way all the way to Sicily, reunite with my Latin brothers, and the eventually resurrect the _glorious_ *SPQR!*

[@Karsuuue]

If you don't look that closely, the call for peace icon looks like a snow globe^^

[@phannysanny2460]

I only now realised that aswell. For me the call for peace icon looked like a broken barrel or something.😅

[@dianaqua]

10:40. About the pigeon I thought it was a white peace flag ripped off and destroyed lol.

[@lanelesic]

Albania didn't exist before 1912.

[@PseudOnym-mc6vg]

For the Celtic culture group; Irish and Gael culture group?

[@cookieshop_4668]

10:15 I thought it was a treasure chest of some sort

[@folxs]

I have +4,3k hours in EU4, never noticed it was a pigeon in a cage too btw...

[@themagnumbuck7222]

25:00 The downfall of Hungary, the Rise of Austria and the Ottomans, the collapse of the Golden Horde, there are a lot of intense moments for key players in history that would be amazing to highlight with this 100 year earlier start date

[@colinlarocque4686]

hawk the hairs looking clean brutha

[@TheCerealkiller148]

bro got the spanish civil war 500 years early