[EU4] One CITY Controls the ENTIRE HRE Challenge

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Today we'll be controlling the ENTIRE Holy Roman Empire as the single city state of Ulm! Was this fun? No. But 1000 dev Ulm makes it worth it
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[@Quarbit]

If you're curious, the lowest dev cost I got in a single province was 4 per click towards the end. Leave a like for 1000 dev Ulm! Check out the One State Challenge video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2inYYucfK2afbc

[@alexanderthegreat11]

Albert Einstein!

[@Walesball1214]

sad that you cant get that much dev anymore.

[@ehk5948]

How much war score would be needed to take Ulm alone?

[@sadettinarslan5324]

Ulm: I am a city. Austria: Yes. You are a city state. Ulm. No. I am a city empire.

[@mironfurman7900]

For the empire!

[@therearenoshortcuts9868]

"Shining City on a Hill" Hill: ... my poor back...

[@TeyuYagua]

Basically all mesoamerican empires:

[@planteruines5619]

Can you be empreror of hre and free city at the same time?

[@Draktand01]

Rome will salute you, Ulm!

[@sonwig5186]

Imagine a decentralised Germany controlled by the Ulm metropolitan area. The powerless vassals have a certain amount of their population culled every year to be brought to the capital or work in the massive slave army. The countryside is desolate, with no towns or cities as they have already been dismantled and sent to feed Ulm, instead only population growth villages (the non citizen population in Ulm is unsustainable as the rate of death is so high), and large, highly steam automated, farms remain to feed the city. Ulm itself stretches far larger than you traverse in a single day, even with the steam trains built by the best engineers in the world. It is a oligarchic republic, with only citizens of Ulm, living in pristine streets, being able to vote. Those from the countryside, who outweigh the citizens by more than 10 to 1, live underneath them in practical slavery, toiling away in massive steam factories and living short and unhappy lives. The other great countries of the world look at this with distaste, but are powerless to stop it lest the Ulmer public welfare council decides they are a threat to the free city.

[@jadenlilly6113]

Reminds me of hunger games lol

[@MrHodoAstartes]

The Ulm-Danube Megaplex, a Moloch of a city, so vast and overcrowded, the pristine waters of the Danube turn to a brown sludge as they pass. The pollution of this City to dwarf all others is so monumental, even with the greatest feats of waste water management and engineering it poisons the river to the point that no fish live in it past Ulm. Vast parts of the Bavarian, Austrian, Hungarian and Romanian countryside have been devastated by it as fishing industries died with the wildlife, clean water became scarce, fields turned fallow and communities died to thirst, sickness and poison. And only one place would call for the refugees from Vienna, Budapest and so on. The ever-hungering madness of Ulm. The Bonfire of Humanity.

[@bencristofani3116]

This story was sponsored by the Hunger games

[@Jesse_Dawg]

Beautiful lool

[@edim108]

Sounds like something out of 40k. I'm almost positive that a planet with a setup like that exists somewhere in the Imperium of Man...

[@mustardjar3216]

"Using debt to control your subjects is completely viable" My man just explained the US banking system

[@leongashwig]

debt slavery that even children can understand!

[@jakevalinho9911]

Chinese Belt and Road initiative moment?

[@Spectrum16]

Where'd you think China got the idea from?

[@brendanzhang7488]

every bank and loan

[@DrClock-il8ij]

IMF moment

[@PiastTorun]

1000 dev is empire dev, a single city can become an empire lol.

[@plebisMaximus]

1.31 in a nutshell.

[@benjaminty47]

rome moment

[@fahrenheit9646]

Sounds like Tokyo now but in the 1600s lmao

[@hubert3704]

Byzantium post 1400 in a nutshell

[@PiastTorun]

@@hubert3704 yeah, ottomans have a real problem with probably concentrating Dev, they don't develop shit except the capital its stupid.

[@robinruppert1554]

I would say ulm is the political heart of Europe and the world

[@Quarbit]

as it should be

[@iberia169]

Always has been

[@_Yume_mp]

As someone from Ulm this makes me proud of my city

[@jacklovejoy5290]

We're all from Ulm now

[@Adusakful]

"One city controls the entire HRE challenge" Me: Oh boy, it's gonna be awesome *Picks Ulm* Me: It supposed to be a challenge... picking godspawn itself for free win smh

[@specil-k]

the reformation begun in Dresden, which is surprisingly accurate especially considering that EU4 often pops up Protestant Ireland

[@plebisMaximus]

You can do a lot of nasty in EU4, Protestant Ireland is very, very close to the top of that list.

[@thesunwillneverset]

@@plebisMaximus Protestant Ireland, Catholic England and Anglican (though I guess more like Deutsch?) North Germany

[@johnnykotletti4614]

@@thesunwillneverset the angles were a german tribe ... just saying

[@thesunwillneverset]

@@johnnykotletti4614 You're correct, though I don't think the Protestant Reformation happened c. 451 CE. They were barely Catholic at the time.

[@thallan]

@@johnnykotletti4614 more like danish since they come from Jylland, but the difference probably didn't matter then at all

[@notgoddhoward5972]

The funny part is that you would have ended up with more development in your capital if you were blobbing like in a normal game.

[@Quarbit]

"tall" mechanics go brr

[@hrsmp]

1019 dev by 1660s is considered "blobbing" now?

[@CantusTropus]

@@hrsmp In your capital alone? I'd say so.

[@peterh3943]

"10/10 would suffer agian" -Quarbit

[@athanaricwilhelmsson]

"I've put this vassal under scutage, where they have to pay me a lot of money. This will make them take some loans, which I will pay off and this will hopefully reduce liberty desire over time." Hmm, where have I seen this before!

[@freddim.3167]

"Using debts to control your subjects is absolutely viable" Banks, Western countries and the IMF 😇

[@TheoHiggins]

As of the current IRL patch this strategy is especially viable for China

[@wp12mv]

don't forget China

[@ennui9745]

China's strategy actually.

[@andrewfranciscohughes2481]

@@ennui9745 beat me to it

[@ennui9745]

@@andrewfranciscohughes2481 OP is delusional.

[@Paguo]

Google says it was Einstein, very cool. I didn't know that Your trivia questions are a pretty cool touch to your videos. Adds interaction and makes the audience seek the answer, learning something in the process

[@ImmaOnDaInternetz]

Bruh he said not to Google it! (That was my guess though and I'm glad I'm right)

[@Bigzthegreat]

no wonder einstein is so smart

[@retrofrog127]

I was weirdly reading about Einstein lately, so I have a feeling he was the one from Ulm

[@josereposo7043]

You could annex almost unloyal vassals, then release a nation whitin is borders before a tick, and feed it all the lands of your old vassal for a 0% liberty desire new subject nation

[@kevinmerlos409]

23:52 “tales of your misdeeds are told from Ireland to Cathay”

[@peterpan23]

lmao

[@shashwatsinha2704]

Damn your seventh grandfather

[@vicenteabalosdominguez5257]

A few people guessed Einstein, but CLEARLY you were thinking of the famous chemist, inventor and entrepeneur Wilhelm Schuler.

[@siradmiral734]

300% Vassal force limit “What’s yours is mine, and what’s mine, is also mine.”

[@migueldossantosgalvao9250]

It's beautiful, i have look for this for almost 5 hour now

[@bromanned7069]

He’s looked at it for almost 17 hours now lol

[@talibaninternetexplorer]

Ayy parks and rec reference?

[@Kaiserboo1871]

If you ever do this again play as Aachen. It would make more sense as Aachen was the capital of the HRE under Charlemagne.

[@dasdingo.o418]

Little tip for the next run. Diplo annex your vassals, steal the dev from provinces, release them again and steal dev again

[@mackycabangon8945]

Yes but he wont be a free city anymore

[@zayan6284]

@@mackycabangon8945 not if he doesn't wait a day in between annexation and release

[@Ballin4Vengeance]

I know I’m 8 months late, but Ulm actually had quite a few interresting people born there… appart from Einstein. Max Bentele, an aero engineer who amongst other things co-developed the wankel engine A guy called Nikolaus Federman. A german conquistador in 1500’s Colombia and Venezuela and co-founded of Bogotá And quite a lot of people who either grew up or were born in villages around Ulm Robert Bosch. The dishwasher guy Sophie and Hans Scholl. Students who got executed by the nazis for leading an anti-nazi protest group Erwin Rommel(lived there)… you know this guy.

[@me67galaxylife]

Also an important battle was fought there during the napoleonic wars

[@skycaptain95]

Ulm is truly the center of Europe.

[@Ballin4Vengeance]

@@me67galaxylife And the church is pretty sick too

[@AzureDragon158]

As much as I may love playing tall, letting an OPM get this strong is ridiculous. Unless it's Ulm.

[@alatamore]

This is awesome…I was thinking of doing this but never could pick the best starting…I guess Ulm was an obvious choice. Thank you for doing this one!

[@Melychath]

What's the ccr on a 1k dev province? And, if rebels were to spawn, how large would the stack be?

[@matthewgladback8905]

5000 admin points. *Just for a territorial core.* It's all but impossible to core, outside of a rare confluence of coring cost reductions (up to 90% theoretically possible) and administrative efficiency (I'm pretty sure this also has a cap, though I'm not sure it's possible to hit it anymore.) You'd have to get to at least an 80% total reduction to core it, even with a full mana pool. (I'm just going to ignore the possibility of having a bigger bank by being behind in institutions.) Until you find the points, enjoy the 800% overextension! That's 40 national unrest I don't even. Even if you find the points, enjoy being absurdly over your governing capacity! This is at least fixable merely by building a courthouse, if you don't mind leaving it a territory until the end of the game. If you can build a town hall, it might be really worthwhile to state it despite the costs (including a full 7 ducats state maintenance.) I don't know all the factors for rebel stack size, but it will be at least 105 regiments. eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Rebellion#Rebel_spawn_strength Oh, yeah! You'll also get a base value of 600 AE for taking it in a peace deal. (It's in the HRE, so expect extra multipliers!) I don't want to think about the diplo point cost; taking provinces is free in many common CBs anyway.

[@Bigzthegreat]

so if you want to become god just dev all your provinces so they can't core them

[@evanbecraft8201]

@@Bigzthegreatwell, the method here would be pillaging the enemy capital,

[@Bigzthegreat]

@@evanbecraft8201 Click this button to turn the garrison into an army to defend the province.

[@dragroch5536]

That city with so much development forests no longer exist.

[@BoBrEiGs]

I'm crying! It's beautiful. It's perfection. Better even than the Mona Lisa!

[@yusufserhaneryigit9711]

Such a great video! We wait for another challenges!

[@SuperJogul]

It was the good ol' Einstien and he's fantastic hair

[@AtlasNL]

Einstein*, his*

[@zaneskowronski5448]

Nobody*, cares*

[@A101stEagle]

This was absolutely delicious to watch :P

[@Leithener]

One city to rule them all.

[@theautomaticfiend]

I'm actually trying to form germany with ulm right now lol. Need to get that early reich achievement, though that wasnt my intention at the start.

[@smorcrux426]

I'm kinda proud that I know that Einstein was born in ulm, it's a great trivia question

[@Sn0wjunk1e]

23:50 I guess you could say that the tales of your misdeeds are told from Ireland to Cathay

[@mainmarco]

Albert Einstein is who I assume was born there. The most famous scientist from Germany at least.

[@aeplayed2037]

"Now this does put a smile on my face" Sounds like Ron Swanson

[@user-vs8kj7pl8p]

"Using debt to control your subjects is completely viable" ~Quarbit Goldstein

[@GAIUSIULIUSCAESARAV1]

A have a challenge: play as any european country but without declaring any wars (you can defend against rebellions and wars against you)

[@Phillip_of_Burns]

Listen, I know I'm a couple years late, but I fricken nailed that Einstein question.

[@Ind3xPlus]

Sometimes I go back,and play this patch. The most hilarious thing they ever released.

[@TheSarias]

Nice one

[@Chewyshoot]

Einstein, ofc

[@aneggselentfellow5607]

In this universe, the emperor is subject to Ulm.

[@fouwiimedia5347]

Good ol alberto single-stein

[@TheWebsOfCorruptionNeverFail]

Holyshit, Einstein is from Ulm, now it makes sense why they are the Uber Chads of the HRE.

[@Sayuameangkis]

The answer is the same man who invented the Chronosphere.

[@quagman98]

That (very famous) child's name? Albert Einstein

[@studiosnch]

Basically this campaign was based on the song "In Ulm, um Ulm, und Ulm herum".

[@MichaelBruunLarsen]

Nice condensed content

[@TheMelbournelad]

Albert Einstein would be proud of your big brain moves

[@ultrabruce]

Why did the vassals not give into the emperors demands and return the province?

[@kek9224]

10/10 working as intended

[@actualiygod6782]

Just saw this video and RIP, I kinda miss the dev stacking Meta

[@VerumPositor]

Are those paintings in the events a thing now with the latest patch/DLC?

[@JozsefPocsi]

I think it's just a mod.

[@aquarius3848]

I'm a bit curious. Why does he not take his missions? For awhile anyway, looks like he does eventually

[@kingbird2565]

Good video

[@Z_F-P_22]

an easy fix would be adjusting the dev gained according to the provinces dev cost since ultimately that’s the reason this is breaking- because it bypasses the bottleneck of increased cost. if they wanted to not have the feature become useless the excess dev that would be lost by scailing could be distributed to surrounding provinces (also scaled by their cost) and that would create a historical-style primitive accumulation around the capital. perhaps even events for other provinces that where either historically relevant or meet conditions similar like first few universities of a country or significant trade good production or a literal trade city- similar to the existing urbanisation events but more advanced to help balance out the growth of a capital to the scale that it could still get with adjustments to the system!

[@LunaCoco]

Ulm the OPM (One Province Major-power)

[@Alex-dp1bk]

the fact that ai formed prussia is honestly crazy; ive never seen them form

[@gungnir3926]

The famous Sir Lukulms was born in Ulm if i am not mistaken.

[@migueldossantosgalvao9250]

Albert Enstein, i suppose.

[@ranindersingh9798]

Correct

[@HairXX]

For the Trivia - 10 % sure that is Albert Einstein!

[@briansedlacek5225]

Erwin Rommel lived there also.. Albert Einstein was born in Ulm

[@ardabaser1349]

over a 1000 development is basically a densely populated city from our modern day... in the 18th century.

[@harleybuffington7493]

You’ve heard of a one province minor. How about one province MAJOR??

[@hmmkin6729]

Giga chad for referring to countries as boys.

[@janosattilanyilas9680]

It was Johannes Kepler and Albert Einstein who were both born in Ulm

[@declanmcnamara2223]

Ulm, the greatest city there ever was or will be

[@powlman6841]

"im not a masochist, i just want to test my limits...my force limit"

[@y33t23]

Einstein was from Ulm in if recall correctly

[@kaiserhhaie841]

Albert Einstein was born in Ulm sometime in the 19th century

[@IronWolf123]

Ulm's great Imperial Scientist Albrecht Einstein, aka Albert Einstein

[@ObviusRetard]

Einstein the OG ulmer

[@johanandhira5429]

So, Ulm becomes literal Wakanda

[@Palladium1010]

That's some thicc ulm right here

[@DavidWillisSLS]

The holy Ulman empire

[@ethanspiegel6977]

my boy albert

[@michaelrussell3812]

I'm assuming it was good ol' Albert Einstein bor ni Ulm?

[@Alexandru1996_]

I will try the one state challange i think. But when i have some free time

[@009Alik]

DIRECT RULE FROM ULM Sir Oswald Mosley approves

[@user-zj8xl9hx4p]

Please explain me someone. Why you are joking about Ulm? I dont get it

[@MoRa6543]

what's your event illustration mod plss :D

[@mrsauceman5721]

Pretty sure you mentioned in another video that Einstein was Ulmer.

[@nofoxgiven6561]

Einstein was born in Ulm what a chad

[@MultiDigre]

I know that you have studies, a life - and I understand the fatigue that comes from being a youtuber. But I really miss your big lets plays. I was looking forward to watching them every night. Hmmm. I just might have to rewatch some of them and dream for the glory days of 1.30.

[@sirdeakia]

Ulm was Einstein.

[@ewoudvanaalst4089]

Ulm Ulmerson, obviously

[@matthias0054]

8:33 « balkanize them » 🤣

[@Rullino32]

The famous charachter born in Ulm is Albert Einstein.

[@samemson5241]

what mods

[@eu4zebo]

Albert Einstein

[@RonaldHapchwarae]

How much of the world's cloth would that produce?

[@p_rat]

A little too late for the trivia question I guess. Albert Einstein was born in Ulm in 1879.

[@matthewhannigan1916]

Ulm can into space

[@benjaminallenbowles]

Albert Einstein was born in Ulm!

[@prestonjones1653]

Albert Einstein was born in Ulm.

[@heronodd4823]

Albert Einstein for the trivia question

[@nyro8645]

albert einstein, final answer

[@hundvd_7]

Einstein, easy peasy