HALF OF AFRICA by 1470s As Songhai is Totally 'Balanced'

[@LudietHistoria]

Watch my very first time playing brandenburg ever i pwomise next - kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZmvkGClp56Ygqs

[@danielbauchman5715]

You are a big fan of the cynical historian

[@Haradin32]

the Genii are a race of people in the Pegasus Galaxy in the Stargate franchise.

[@frostyguy1989]

Having Jenne as a vassal also means the Great Project they have doesn't get downgraded if you straight conquer it. Diplo-annexing them preserves the Project and saves admin points.

[@mikado6407]

As someone from this region, I love the representation! Don't see a lot of youtubers making videos here, except to do the ellusive dahomey achievement. Please continue making videos here. I suggest trying out some fetishist nations, the religion is pretty decent. I'd also like to tell you that "Aïr" is pronounced "Ah-yeer", not like the air you breathe. The points on the I denote this.

[@robertalaverdov8147]

My life for Aiur!

[@lucasthibault4364]

I love the History lessons, keep going Master Ludi !

[@LudietHistoria]

Thanks, will do!

[@slen9658]

That's what she said.

[@aryanparekh8119]

Yess

[@bobjohniwanttodie5804]

When I get up for the day I shall conquer using this guide

[@LudietHistoria]

I encourage it

[@danielbruceagra9022]

Play as ireland by forming it from the UK mission tree ludi, plz

[@TheRasheghra]

Great content yet again, thanks Ludi!

[@LudietHistoria]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@CatladyAyaki]

Great video!!

[@LudietHistoria]

Thanks!

[@peachprincess758]

Great video as always!

[@Ledwow]

Early morning, Coffee and ludi. Life is good.

[@furkandilaver3902]

Funny thing is, when you annexing Jenne, you said something like "Jinad". In Turkish "Cinayet" means murder so what you just said is actually makes sense :D

[@the_niss]

For the mali run, try out the raid neighbors privilege. Helps a bit with the manpower cuz you have to conquer a lot anyway.

[@cuniving7831]

"Fall of Civilisations" youtube channel/podcast has an excellent episode on Songhai and Mali

[@EmanCipated919]

I remember watching one of your videos like 3 years ago and tbh I wasn't really feeling it, idk if your on-camera skills have improved or if I was being unfair for wtvr reason but this video is totally awesome and I've just subbed

[@LudietHistoria]

I appreciate that and wish you a great day ^^

[@OddlySpecificGaming]

Ludi’s webcam: Mr Ludi, I don’t feel so good

[@BSideWasTaken]

With the Jenne thing, you get that just by being at war with them and both having male rulers; so it's best used if they are the ally of the primary war target, just so you folx know ^^

[@Justin-oy6es]

Your videos and tutorials have helped my EU4 gameplay immensely. Thank you for making these videos Ludi! Yo can your try a Papal State game and make the Kingdom of God?? Be Badass

[@romanmyth4991]

I am giving my like and comment to continue this campaign. Not because I learned a really interesting fact about amazonians (and I've learned a surprising amount from your videos), Not because I have an interest in seeing this region particularly, But for 22:55 IT IS A SIGN, RNGEESUS BLESSED THIS RUN! IT MUST GO ON!

[@grubygrzib6308]

I love watching videos of nations in Africa, but actually playing them is real pain. Having no manpower, insane amount of rebels and non-stop wars to avoid coalitions is just so much pain for me

[@lordzentor6891]

First Europeans to contact subsaharan Africa be like: 23:47

[@arcamean785]

The movie talked about is sadly the "new" hollywood trend of rewriting history then calling those who say "Uh actually" as bad guys. IMO history needs to be told honestly regardless if it's good or bad else the lessons of the past are forgotten and repeat themselves.

[@chrismdb5686]

They don't know they're rewriting anything because they've never touched a book.

[@musikkritik6316]

​@@chrismdb5686They know exactly what they're doing..

[@chrismdb5686]

@@musikkritik6316 Absolutely, their agenda is quite obvious. That being said they're absolutely ignorant of the actual history, because that would require them to have actually studied something of value.

[@ShantanuShinde1]

The movie doesn't rewrite history in any way. It is about a fictional character. I didn't see people crying about 300, which is lot more historically inaccurate. Also, even the movie addresses that Dahomeys and other African countries doing slavery. The movie literally starts with Oyo, another African empire capturing slaves. Also, the main villains in the movie are Portuguese not British. But how dare they do any movie with black people as main character. Only white people get to rewrite history

[@sethwright2096]

Based Ludi, thanks for the vid

[@LudietHistoria]

My pleasure!

[@abhishekvchaudhari8181]

good stuff

[@albertheinrich5985]

15:12 had to rewind to make sure I heared that one right xD

[@mollepolle]

Conquer and colonize all of Africa by 1600.

[@Ledwow]

Ludi, never change man, never.

[@micheljeanrie1800]

Thanks for reminding my I have to mow the lawn this weekend (sarcasm), 1/2 acre with a 16" electric mower, total nightmare. :p

[@Shepherd492]

Songhai low-key has a top 10 mission tree in the game. In some ways it is even better than the traditional Euro powers because you can become so much more powerful than all neighbors very quickly, with no real risk of coalition.

[@therealgiant]

New Ludi Video? Count me in.

[@guy7625]

Video 5 of asking ludi for an Eu4 benchmark

[@CatladyAyaki]

I love you!!

[@Lemonheaded]

I was thinking, an african trade empire sounds fun. Not sure how you'd accomplish it, but i guess there's some good trade nodes feeding into the ivory coast...

[@Ravie1]

26:07 You talking about the Genii from Star Gate Atlantis? The guys who pretended to be farmers and had nukes?

[@LudietHistoria]

yup

[@nedimka5510]

Third day of asking about Mzab Campaing

[@TheRusty]

The movie is not, strictly speaking, totally inaccurate; Yeah absolutely Dahomey engaged in slave raids. And as depicted in the film, they were effectively a tributary kingdom to Oyo early in geze's reign. However there was a time where King Geze decided to stop doing that and try to build his own kingdom through agriculture (mostly sugarcane production and rum distillery.) However this made them the target of raids from Oyo and Mossi, which resulted in Dahomey retaliation, resulting in captives, which resulted in more slaves again, and so people were back on the market. And of course the only reason for this trade was because of demand, created by Portugal and England in the New World; the British wouldn't be like "no, slavery bad, stop it!" until the middle of the 1800's (conveniently after who knows how many people dry in the Caribbean plantations, generating all that wealth that funny enough happened to stay in the hands of England. Hmm. Oh well)

[@jhart976]

"until the middle of the 1800's", yeah that sounds better for your story, but; Slave Trade Act 1807.

[@jhart976]

and Spain, GB, France, Spain, Dutch, all at it in west Africa

[@chrismdb5686]

The slave trade engulfed Africa long before any (Western) European influence appeared in the sub-Sahara. Yes, Western European colonialism (specifically Spanish and English) absolutely drove up demand, but it existed before and after those colonial empires rose and fell. People nowadays like to pretend that America and England are these awful oppressive nations that need to repent and pay reparations for the wrongs committed in the trans-atlantic slave trade, all while ignoring the history of both it, and the rest of the world. Facts are the world used to be a lot worse than it currently is, now it's not. Let's work to a better tomorrow together rather than dividing ourselves over history that's now over 200 years old (1807 as mentioned by the above post).

[@TheRusty]

@@jhart976 And I'm looking at the perpetuation of slavery in British colonies until the Manumission Act of 1833. I mean look, you can ban the import of foreign slaves, but if you're still allowing slavery, you're certainly not going "Oh slavery is bad I guess" right?

[@TheRusty]

@@jhart976 And Sweden, funny enough. Swedish Gold Coast and Saint Barthélemy might not have been the first thing anyone thinks of with this period of history, but they were certainly slave-powered colonies.

[@blitzkrieg8776]

I prefer to vassalize nations with monuments already built as it means I essentially get a free level, or even two levels of construction in them.

[@omgwind5217]

10:14 based factual ludi

[@dmtlover3128]

Songhai, Prussia of Africa.

[@Pancake833]

"half of africa" but its okay. i love you, ludi. your videos are enjoyable =')

[@nymasajista9207]

I've played mostly in Africa lately (Songhai/Kongo/Kilwa/Butua/Adal) and it's easy to become suuuuper rich with all the gold and ability to create crazy rich trade end nodes. When you colonize and control the Cape then Zanzibar becomes an end node that can't be pulled out of for all the trade from Aden and India so you choke off the Mamluks while being allied to them and conquering India. The better one is controlling the Ivory Coast so that Cape bcomes an end node to the trade from Zanzibar/Ceylon/Malacca to China/Mexico/etc. You dont need every province there just eat Benin, Jolof and Mali's coast and colonize the centers of trade. Let the europeans pull all the trade they can out of the Ivory Coast and colonize all the low dev american lands for colonies while you control everything to the east so they buy all their spices from you. 😎

[@fredflinstone4769]

I almost only play in Africa. If you havn't already, play Ethiopia and form Aksum. Incredibly strong and fun nation.

[@RKGrizz]

Careful Ludi, the spread of historical facts of the Dahomey is frowned upon in the USA.

[@onthehill6]

Lowering autonomy is a hit or miss at times, but if this was a Inca run you would have been loving it very much

[@hipplatsero4746]

"Let's not forget to adopt the title of Mia Khalifa" Slip of tongue or intentional derp? 😛

[@HarlequinHonor]

It's a running joke he makes when he plays Muslim countries and adopts the Khalifa title decision 😂

[@techitout9685]

I'm dying to see that ottoman decadence guide man😭

[@haraldskoglunddahler5596]

"Mali is unplayeble, unless your playing it."

[@JebusSunrise]

Hey! When NOT outside in nature I just wanna hide in my basement watching your silly schnaps god damn it!

[@slabiimoviemaker]

Well, these 2/0/2 dudes obviously have 6 points in a willing to live

[@DvdAvins]

Is there something about paying off loans I don't know? I don't understand why you take 1% loans just to pay off 4% loans. That would make sense if you saved money on interest, but when you pay off loans early, you have to pay all the interest right away that you'd pay later if you kept the loan. So you're really turning 4% into 5%, not into 1%. In addition to the inflation hit and the mercantilism hit for the burgher loans. It's different if you have to reduce your number of loans to avoid bankruptcy, but the way you play, bankruptcy isn't an issue. So what am I missing?

[@KarmaBandit]

Huh, I think you're right. I didn't realize that you pay back all the future interest. I certainly do it all the time, because it often appears to make my monthly income increase-- but I'm not thinking about my total debt correctly. There might be something to be said about repackaging many loans into fewer ones if you are unlikely to be able to repay them later, since you take a fixed hit to inflation per loan. But, otherwise, I think your math checks out.

[@darkstarwarrior]

Tickets to Mars? If you get your hands to some hit me up Ludi

[@FlxKomp]

did this with riga with only 5 provinces in europe. was super rich

[@theartofcake25]

It's been 2 months since you said about battle of Varna video

[@dominicchambers9652]

I was watching one of your videos on my tv and my wife asked if you’re my long lost brother 😂

[@einschafnamensrobert9237]

Subsaharan africa is really fun to play in. I always try to out colonize the europeans in S.A. just for funf

[@Nobun4g4]

Somehow i heard ayutthaya’d in the intro… need some sleep

[@daithimcnally8212]

Ludi bro what channel member level do I have to be to get the game saves? You deserve some money

[@LudietHistoria]

Tribune i believe. If you really just want the save just dm me on discord i can give ya for free fam

[@briansboucher]

that little history lesson was great. i was aware of it and a bit annoyed when i heard about the woman king celebrating these people. slavery was a normal thing for most of our world history, but the only slavery the U.S. cares about is is what happened here for the short time.

[@Bunny-ks7fi]

juice up the likes guys we need that mali video

[@TheMKBOxide]

Thanks Ludi, now I know how to be a good warlord, time to recruit some children and give them ak.

[@hoyinching9313]

Yes, Songhai is very balanced😂

[@MuppetLord1]

Ah good old stronghai. :D

[@aleksandarpavlicevic3188]

Can you play Serbia with Europa Expanded mod(old Missions Expanded), cause they have some good missions, including the one where you get a restoration of union cb on hungary?

[@jasonwarner9595]

Your tickets to mars are ready

[@dapimp6861]

They were fighting the Oyo

[@Bla_Razor]

In a show of strength war if 2 of your rivals are allied and both are in the war can you use show of strength on both in separate peace deals?

[@KventinDorvard]

Why would i play EU4 myself if i can watch Ludi's videos and thus have time to get out of my basement and touch grass?

[@akihirosaito2304]

I want to see a video with Mali!

[@appep9091]

Wanna see portugal video #3 boyo

[@MayoDealer]

i did a songhai run today, what are the chances lmao. I feel like Mali is more fun because of the hardcore-like situation in early game. Trying to keep the gold mines low autonomy is also fun to try

[@raphaelmagalhaes1187]

Le budou!

[@LudietHistoria]

Sic

[@rollover101]

can you do a video on odins revenge achievement?

[@Vontos]

Songhai players, do you move your trade capital pretty early on?

[@PierreMarot]

Does anyone know if this video relies on the Origin DLC or not?

[@GrafSchocola]

I think the mission tree is from Origins but even without it Songhai is pretty fun.

[@Olive271]

Pls don't leave the basement and don't touch the grass!!! I need the content lol

[@giannislainas5187]

Its Stronghai man.

[@Owenmilan]

Ludi we need a new Mali video, your previous one is from before Origins! Also, neat history lesson. African history is fascinating and sadly not well known in the West.

[@heckinmemes6430]

Stronghai

[@ferdinandstopp4547]

Mali just surrender because they want to end this suffer

[@Volmest]

Oh no, did I hear👂✋️ jenne? Talk to me jenne, you make me go craze... and all you can say is no no no no 😂

[@coenkuijpers1800]

Why the f do I need 19k man power to fulfill the mission?😢

[@tempestadeiwobi7372]

Dahomey looks a bit like the 300 movie. Not even historically accurate...

[@aryanparekh8119]

Praise RNGesus

[@owolettes]

Justice for Yao

[@alexandrugheorghe7974]

Saying Jenee with no Forest Gump meme? 😢

[@alprosoyaoriginal2247]

based and dahomeypilled

[@SmashingCapital]

Nah the british attacked for money lmao

[@lilkadvi1087]

zajebiste

[@juanmendez3290]

pt.2 pls

[@Donbasos14]

Yeah,

[@WhoKnows2727]

Day 7 of asking Ludi for a Romanian World Conquest

[@Demon88061]

Ludi, the Dahomey kingdom was not the biggest slave kingdom in the 19th century, that would be the Sokoto caliphate, but if it isn't restricted to kingdom, it would be the American South, the American south had 4 million slaves, whereas the Sokoto caliphate had 1.5 million, but, interestingly enough the country that had the most slaves in history, was Nazi Germany, which at one point had about 10 million people enslaved in Europe. Also, the British Empire are never the good guys, they killed 165 million people in India, simply in service of profit, also they were the biggest profiteers from slavery, so when they are painted as the good guys, let's just say, it is an incredibly simple view of history, as without slavery, there would be no industrial revolution, as, while fighting slavery, the British were the biggest importers of cotton from the slave owning American South. Abolishing slavery in this case, is simply the excuse they used to go in, and seize the country and turn it into a colony for the benefit of the British. For example, King Leopold of Belgium used slavery in Africa as an excuse to take over the Congo, and over a 40 year period, Belgium reduced the population of the Congo by half, and killed 10 million people. That's on par with the transatlantic slave trade to put that into perspective, as over a 400 year period, 12 million Africans were taken to North, South and Central America and the Caribbean, it's also on par with the Holocaust as the Nazis killed 12-15 million people in the Holocaust (about 6 million were Jews). I really tried to not write a long paragraph, oh well.

[@samalliston3094]

Who ever said the British were the 'good guys'? You are using a false equivalence, as the horrors of the British Empire does not excuse the the treatment of the slaves by the African kingdoms. Whilst the British Empire morals should be scrutinised, you cannot deny the British Empire went against the societal norms of the time to eradicate slavery, even at tremendous cost and manpower to themselves.

[@mattmattigan5036]

Not to mention that the movie doesn't have the Brits in it....its the Portuguese. But I guess when you read angry internet headlines you know what a movie is about.

[@mrfreeman2911]

please ignore Jack, guys. The guy is spreading half truths and lies.

[@mrfreeman2911]

@@mattmattigan5036 Ludi mixed the two stories up i believe.

[@thomasdomon8932]

this !!

[@chipalinomusic]

Ludi! Try playing as a jewish nation (Ethiopian vassal)

[@MPostma72]

If you're not subscribed, better check your wallet, boys!

[@ИосифСталин-л6з]

Don't touch the grass! This is a trick that ticks write on the Internet!

[@desident]

Gj Ludi, now you will get canceled for saying historical facts.

[@LudietHistoria]

ngl that's likely in today's age

[@RhombonianKnight]

Ludi OP, plz nerf

[@Beshman12]

I hate your RNG xD I had to restart twice for the 1st war, by the time i had the 2nd war i had the peasant war from no manpower etc

[@domcaxt_cz9975]

Dahomeys out of womanpower ?

[@gerryhendrix]

Adopt the title of Mia Khalifa

[@ryanb2607]

Please, please, please don't do a thumbnail like this for the Mali video. Mansa Musa was White.

[@Chipmunkoil23]

:)