Mil Hegemon is Stronger then ever!?

[@David-bh7hs]

My favorite thing about Budget Monk videos is when he talks about a topic and he casually shows a super interesting campaign behind him. You want to figure out how he did that.

[@ingvarmork2081]

you can watch the stream on twitch. He is streaming now.

[@ChristopherAndersonDP]

I always like playing colonial runs, but I usually overlook a lot of those mechanics. I'm definitely going to play around with these on my next run.

[@sasi5841]

Me sitting at 1500+ forcelimit as byzantium before the age of absolutism because i took influence and aristocratic as my openers and have the grand palace of Bangkok fully upgraded

[@benabaxter]

Since this is a Gotland campaign, what are your thoughts on the idea that the Hanseatic League route for Gotland is the strongest? TheStudent put out a video claiming this and made a pretty good argument, AFAIK, but I'm no pro EU IV player.

[@Mordacitas7]

Oh it’s by far the best for Gotland, and since it’s not end tag GOT>HNS>??? is now the best way to form almost any nation…

[@sprites75]

how did you get Norse? isn't it something super RNg?

[@DavidLodgeclassof]

I think I'll use this as Andalusia. It gets vassal force limit contribution in its ideas, plus it's well suited to steal Spanish and Portuguese colonies. May even go Aristocratic for a total of 300% vassal force limit contribution, along with the benefits of manpower and siege ability. Is there a limit to vassal force limit modifiers?

[@DavidLodgeclassof]

I also plan to take Merc and Influence for a Three Mountains run, for early client states, so it'll be interesting to see the force limit I get there

[@BudgetMonk]

Not sure about limits. I want to go for my fastest mil hege ever. Going to wait until this run is over though.

[@DavidLodgeclassof]

@@BudgetMonk it's all good. I think going too heavy into it early will only result in my bottleneck being money, which isn't helpful. Obviously it's helpful if you're going for quickest mil heg, though, and aren't concerned with viability after that. Pax, brother.

[@Zeraphimski]

Been asking monk for a Poland campaign for years and now he teases us with this....

[@noreturn2231]

He started as Gotland so is this really a Poland campaign? xD

[@Zeraphimski]

@@noreturn2231 sadge

[@MyUsersDark]

@@noreturn2231 In the thumbnail

[@kylekelly1167]

I annexed the whole world as Portugal with the military hegemony.

[@nate296]

I usually play a colonizer or end up snagging colonies from them and I was noticing even casually that I was able to get to the 1,000 force limit much easier this patch. As Austria HRE I actually got there before my income level hit the econ hegemon level (of course I wasn’t filling up my force limit that game).

[@chalupabatman1803]

How are you Angevin empire without having integrated France

[@chalupabatman1803]

And how are you red like England? Is it from forming England itself?

[@IRONHIDE_Live]

OPM military hegemon riga time only with colonial nation and 6/7(not shure about modifier) ? provinces and vasals

[@szymonkaliszewski5137]

With all respect to you, but your strategy to go eco-mil switch was always inefficient and just waste of time

[@skanderbeg152]

His argument is taking eco heg for 50-60 years is so helpful it is worthwhile to do it even if you have the 20 year setback from getting rid of it for mil heg (mil heg is always #1 for wc). Considering that, i think it may be a reasonably true statement, although i've never done it that way before.

[@BudgetMonk]

It is something that has never caught on. I don't give advise or suggestions seeking approval form others, instead I just try to help other achieve similar things to what I have achieved in the past. Otherwise taking eco first can be the play. If you have a ton of territories, it does not make you a little bit stronger. It can be like 20x

[@LibertyMonk]

In an awkward position, Eco hegemon stacks up to doubling the benefits of your territories, while adding 20% more Governing Capacity and 25% Goods Produced on top of it all. That can be a dramatic boost in power pretty early on, letting you snowball way before unlocking the other hegemons is viable. Yes, if it's possible, it's more efficient to go straight to the best Hegemon, but if you're sitting at 200k army with 1k ducats a month income, not picking up the momentum that picking *any* hegemon up would grant you is a huge waste.