So I Played As Anbennar's Weirdest Race...

[@shadowatch4767]

"To be fair, every time I boot up EU4, I'm basically playing humans." Well, yeah, but those are just crummy old people in a real world history full of war and crimes against humanity. We're talking about humans in a cool, magical fantasy world full of war and crimes against everyone.

[@tristanridley1601]

Also, humans with MAGIC.

[@lettergam6282]

And the French

[@fredricknoe3114]

Xeno scum deserved it!

[@derpyderp6561]

The fact that the game is basically punishing you for killing a pretty decent heir, all things considered, is actually hilarious. Regarding those things, it's not like finding El Dorado because, as I understand it, in EU4 you have a percentage chance to find them and they could just not spawn in a playthrough. On the other hand, the God Fragment and the Pillar of Heaven are just things that are guaranteed to spawn each playthrough.

[@henryglennon3864]

Fun Fact: Gnolls also invented both Photoshop, and Adobe Suite's abusive subscription billing service model. I'll be amazed if anyone gets the pun.

[@cainballer9745]

Can you please explain it?

[@konstantinriumin2657]

That's amogus sussy moment

[@aksmex2576]

@@cainballer9745 I think he is referring to the extortionate subscription vs tributes extracted by gnolls.

[@szwajcer9862]

Photoshop was created by two brothers, Thomas and John Knoll

[@magnum0pus982]

Gnollmaxxing

[@ebin7538]

33:40 I actually did play Jaddari as my first anbennar run. The economic situation at the start is a bit dicey, I found myself repeatedly invading the gnolls to my south for cash for the first century or so. It's really fun, and the harpy-fucker memes are funny, but the mission tree is *so long*, probably best to start with a nation that doesn't feel like a 9 to 5 if you wanna see all the content.

[@crowolf3862]

I like the long mission trees in this game though. Pressing buttons feels good lol. But yeah. Jaddari is one of the top three biggest trees I think.

[@Zivilin]

Darkscale was my first run in Anbennar. Really fun even though their formable only had a rebel flag. 😂

[@darthimperious1594]

Dude, you introduced me to Anbennar, and I haven't stopped playing it since. Would LOVE to see you play Iron Sceptre -> Esthil -> Black Demesne, but that'd be a long game. So anyways, here's to you, Quarbit, for introducing me to this amazing mod!

[@Hadar1991]

1:14 Wait, Quarbit is from America and he uses metric? Even if he is from Canada, they still use imperial for height. WHAT ARE YOU, QUARBIT? :D

[@Quarbit]

canada, I use both depending on who I'm talking to but I champion the complete swap to metric whenever possible

[@Hadar1991]

@@Quarbit I was thinking that maybe Québécois are metric supremacist (it would be on brand for them to try be as different from English speaking Canadians as possible), so I am quite surprised. :p

[@CrazyAbdul1000]

He accepts the Meter-Meta

[@SereglothIV]

​@@Quarbit Based, respect from Europe :P

[@tristanridley1601]

Canadians are kinda stuck with random bits of freedom units because our economy is too integrated with the USA. So, like our raw lumber is in feet, so our construction industry uses feet. Canadians think of height in cm, feet/inches, and stories (depending on the scale). We know it's dumb. Metric better. The stores also sell measuring cups and such with American definitions of units, which makes following any recipe a guessing game. "Do they mean Canadian cups (250ml) or American cups (235ish)"

[@duphasdan]

I once played the previous version of this mod on the older Crusader Kings game. I played a Kobold nation, united all the different Kobolds, and went on a crusade against all humanity and subjugated them while enforcing the religion of thinking dragons are cool.

[@DaserTheGamer]

These events your getting with the god fragment and the gateway to the stars are very much determined (the provinces themselves are semi random but are guaranteed). Fun fact: The god fragment event puts a MTTH event that triggers near the end of the Age of Unraveling (The Ravelians spawn, aka the Cube Worshippers). The gateway to the stars is just one of many precursor elven ruins that are found as Alentir gets reclaimed. Once the Victoria 3 version is fully released, you'll be able to go colonize other planets and possibly find the descendants of the Precursor Empire.

[@Bleilock1]

Wait there will be vic3 anbenar?

[@itzgladgatorgonegladitzmad9701]

@@Bleilock1yeah the map is mostly finished. There is also a lot of lore added on such as the Star Elves being super racist and being banished to the middle of nowhere in a floating city and a huge war called the blackpowder revolution just happened which was artificers vs mages that shook up Cannor.

[@Bleilock1]

@@itzgladgatorgonegladitzmad9701 honestly this is migjt be the only reason for me to download vic3 ever again In vanilla terms im waiting for eu5 I hope this mod makes it feel less like a bad investment

[@DonPedroman]

Wait, colonize other planets ?

[@TheOrzoSavo]

@@Bleilock1 sounds like they're also working on CK3 Anbennar as well

[@oomsou5018]

Calling Lawgiver neutral feels off considering having any integrated races gives more autonomy to a province. At least for this country it’s probably not too needed but it’s pretty useful for this mod in particular overall

[@Quarbit]

definitely useful as a modifier (especially when it's permanent), but less so as a leader trait when there are more impactful things to get in this moment imo

[@oomsou5018]

@@Quarbit fair enough

[@peanutgorilla]

Fun Fact: you don't have to play as humans in EU4! using console commands you can play as either bears or robots!

[@XSpamDragonX]

neither the bears or the bots have any flavour or real mechanics, they are just 3d models.

[@Jonsoner]

Gnolls riding hyenas is amazing, but it's not Jaddari infinite cavalry amazing.

[@xzardas541]

And jaddari cav has nothing on centaur absolute memery.

[@ottovonbismarck5426]

Company of the Thorn into Luciande is a unique and very interesting campain I absolutely recommend. I won't spoil much but it might involve some bloodthirsty creatures that hide among humans.

[@The_Philosophoenix]

He already did a corvuria stream a while back, if you check his life games

[@SereglothIV]

Always great to see more Anbennar! As for humans, the only nation I've played was Wineport. They have a somewhat tricky start dwarfed by Lorent, but the mission tree is pretty chill and funny, being all about producing and trading in wine. I also found that missions are sometimes whacky in this kind of mods. I remember one time when I played as Asturias in Ante Bellum and was doing a reconquista against Andalusia. But I didn't follow the conquest order from the mission tree, instead I focussed on the best provinces first (trade centers, gold mine, forts) and cleared the rest later. So at one point I took Cordoba (Andalusian capital) and still needed 2-3 wars to fully control Iberia. Then, when I finally did it, I could complete the mission that triggered the fall of Cordoba event. It reduced its development by half or so, gave it a bunch of devastation and moved my capital there. It had been under my control for at least 30 years at that point, yet apparently the joy of destroying Andalusia caused my people to sack their own city -.-

[@DognutJoe]

32:21 You can click the top of the right column to sort by "can decrease autonomy", instead of scrolling through the whole list.

[@Quarbit]

I used to do that, but I found that I prefer sorting by autonomy because sometimes you end up reducing autonomy from like 15 -> 0 when it isn't necessary, if you spam click through it the other way (it doesn't sort all actionable provinces by autonomy, which is annoying)

[@Akira34567]

if you're going to play as humans please play as esthil, they are starting in Castanor as adventurers called ''iron spectre'(i probably wrote their name wrong) you get a woman called Varina as your heir after forming esthil, she can become a lich(basically immortal) and leads an undead army. After forming esthil you can form a 3rd country called black demense, it has a lot of lore and a lot of missions/things to do

[@johnnyboy3410]

ignore the necrophilic propaganda and play Count’s League and restore the Human Empire of Castanor, the Roman Empire of Anbennar

[@HeroNotFound05]

WE DEMAND DWARVES!!!!!

[@hinkelstein1494]

Planettouched is like an Aasimar. They get elemental powers, like they become a fire person that just burns or whatever.

[@DognutJoe]

No, planetouched are genasi. Aasimar are angelic, not elemental

[@thesunwillneverset]

@@DognutJoe generally, in D&D and related games, 'planetouched' refers to all races with a connection to one of the outer planes. Aasimar, Genasi, and Tieflings would all fall under this banner. (to be fair, I don't know if Planetouched is *specifically* elemental connection rather than planar connection in Anbennar or not, but Aasimar & Tieflings are also usually vaguely associated with an element via resistances & magic)

[@hinkelstein1494]

@@thesunwillneverset They are specifically bound to a certain elemnt that determins what kind of boni you get when they are your ruler

[@thefiremaster112]

@@thesunwillneverset you're right about the dnd definition, and Anbennar is basically 99% the same lore as forgotten realms/eberron, but one of the differences is that tieflings and aasimar don't exist in the same way they do in forgotten realms, tieflings are 100% fiends but who can manifest in the material plane and not just fiend descendants, while aasimar don't exist - the elves are actually aasimar, because they're descended from avariels, who in anbennar were directly spawned by the gods to act as angels. The only planetouched then are the djinn descendants, and there's a lot of them because djinns used to rule bulwar

[@fazdfazfazef]

Thanks for recommending a starting nation, in a mod such as this I always find it hard to choose where to start on my own.

[@alecshockowitz8385]

Other Tags I'd suggest: Conquest Heavy: Venail The Command Lake Federation is quite unique too, depending which culture you are you have 3 total splinter tags for options, or keeping the federation together starts a WC through diplomacy and for democracy. You even start the Revolution very early. Any Dwarf with a MT (Arg Ordstun is newest) Northern Goblin into All Clan (All are interesting, but Spiderwretch is weird and doesn't quite mesh)

[@jonaskiermeier6525]

Spiderwretch is nice they just don´t fokus on the mountains they become the spider horde the mission tree is also quite interesting and very different from the other goblins

[@Devlerbat]

"We could tolerate gnomes. Why not." Yea, gnolls love gnomes. Especially with bbq sauce.

[@xzardas541]

One race I would absolutely recommend are centaurs, they got updated recently and become God of all hordes (despite not being horde technicaly). Centaurs respect your time as there are no wait untill 1600y missons and only time gate is 1500 to form mongol emprie on crack, I mean literaly, those guys are hun atilla from roman nightmares. Pure cav carnage as centaurs do not have infantry at all and gameplay style that demands war above all, starting missions are all about uniting forbiden plains giving you manpower for sieging centaur forts, uniting centaurkind, becoming scourge of iradeos (make sure to pick trampling option in gozlamoir system). And then you hit year 1500 become the great storm and things become juicy as mission tree gives huge rewards for murdering people, by the end of mission tree stacking all the battle scars those guys can take on rest of the world at once and win, good thing considering size of coalitions that are after your ass.

[@whoisjoe5610]

@@xzardas541 Quick question: Is murdering people even good or viable in this game or should you just play wholesome Chungus 100 reddit multiracial playthrough? It seems like you get a lot of bad events and dev loss for purging races and integrating races is way easier and more worthwhile. Kind of wanted to do a human purge campaign as Khozrugan (Orc), but just ended up accepting everyone because the purge was taking too long. Humans are now like 80% of my realm lmao

[@xzardas541]

@@whoisjoe5610 Not worth it, not worth it at all, event tick for majority purged is 5475 days 50% with focus and reduced up to 90% with amount of provinces with purged culture 90% at 100 provinces. And minority takes 3650 days to purge. Note that those numbers are mean time to happen so it can hapen after one day or after 5475 days and having cruel ruler purges both majority and minority at one. This is total BS in my opinion so I cut purge timers by to 1/4th and go on my merry way to settle some grudges in serpentspine. I mean seriously you can go full nazi as veniail and you can't even purge few pops in respectable time, austrian painter would be disapointed.

[@tristanridley1601]

Purge works well for Dwarves. Never had a problem removing all the orcs from my holds.

[@suspicious241]

Yo I love Anbennar! Thank you Quarbit for making more good Anbennar content :)

[@That_Aussie_Bloke]

if you ever decide to, I do Recommend a Castanor Run, Starting as the Counts League, forming Castellyr then unifying Escann to form Castanor

[@arathian4872]

Can’t get me enough of Quarbit Anbennar! (Also get well soon!)

[@huntre111]

well Quarbit, just so you know, the God Fragment thingy is related to the Ravelian Church, a late-game 'reformed' faith which crops up in the 1650's that's basically Catholicism (cardinal and curia included) to match with the first reformation faith of Corinite. The community also calls it THE CUBE and it inspires rabid hatred or worship in a segment of the community.

[@alexmorrison3442]

A good human species to play would be Order of the Iron Scepter in West Canor. They are an adventuring band that do umm.... Necromancy stuff. Definitely unique in terms of humans because there's a heavy amount of magic usage and gameplay.

[@CantusTropus]

Useful Tip: If you go to the Trade mapmode, it will change to display which races live in which provinces.

[@jumpkidman8113]

really excited to see the lizard people game

[@andreasanastasiadis2950]

Would love to see a second part, or a stream that continues them, played the other religious gnolls lately and they are super interesting even though the religion will get reworked, the current is still super cool. Would recommend you try them out, and try to form the greater xahk or so by summening the demon.

[@TheOrzoSavo]

Mykx, Viakkoc's "adventurer" spawnable is a fun playthrough. Become drug-dealing, demon worshipping gnoll pirates in Aelantir.

[@mranything01]

Play in the Ynn region for the next playthrough showcase area; it's very fedual area under Ruinborn management; so showcases off a neat section of the New World as well as showcasing what Adventurers and Colonial Nations interacts looks like within Anbennar

[@Woeno]

Gnomes are my favourite race, by far, and Artificery got a recent ish rework that is awesome

[@ryleyreishus1089]

Haha when I played them I also immediatly got declared on from the north and east I realized I couldn't win so i migrated west. I attacked my neighbors and gave a peace deal to the khet that cut off the east. I focused mil and used my razed mana to get tech 4 and 5 way ahead of time. This allowed me to slowly push back

[@Jenna-hu7mp]

I love this mod, although, I tend to enjoy playing Dwarves more. Also some Halflings.

[@costantinochianale4904]

Maaan when you make the goblins' video you really should play Chaingrasper, it can be a little slow at first like any campaign in the Serpent Spine, but the clan's leader is a powerful mage that is geared towards becoming an immortal lich, who gets to learn every school of magic and become super overpowered.

[@OddlySpecificGaming]

Oh amazing thank you, cool series

[@electricVGC]

Fun fact you actually can force your subject to pop rebels through the province interface

[@IDOLA149]

Loving the idea of a gnoll renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci, but hyena

[@darkmage07070777]

Anbennar vids are always fun.

[@meister9416]

This mod is amazing! If you like eu4 and if you like fantasy games, you should definetly try it out

[@CAIR-Duragon]

I was expecting the gnoll tribes to become a gnoll kingdom, but not for them to become the holy land of gnollislam lol very interesting turn

[@XSpamDragonX]

Hiring Non-Monstrous mercs as a Monstrous nation before they get removed on Dec1 is considered a bug, but is impossible to fix, so I just avoid doing it for flavour and balance reasons.

[@Phoenix0092]

This explains the Desert Stunlock during the Gemradcurt stream

[@jacobemrich1735]

Nimscodd playthrough? Let's see those gnomey boys winnn

[@ognyannedev5979]

you lose access to most mercenaries after day 1, so recruiting adventurers is technically cheesing, despite them having the same stats as the monstrous equivalent you get. You can however recruit some very strong mercs depending on your region that you lose access to if you unpause

[@HumanPerson_final]

As far as human nations, maybe Bjarnrik would be worth trying? They have an interesting early “situation” with their jarls that could lead to different outcomes for both their vassals and integrated vassals (who might split and rebel). Played it last night. Not sure if I was annoyed or enjoying it.

[@jackmchough957]

I love Anbennar, but i cant stop myself from playing nothing but dwarves

[@tristanridley1601]

It's a curse. Thought is cool though. And Jadd allows you to be non-racist for once.

[@jackmchough957]

@@tristanridley1601 why would I want that?

[@scissors118]

Gnolls are definitely unique in Anbennar. They feel the least human out of all the races. Xhaobkultists take that to the extreme

[@Kasaaz]

Eborthil was my favorite game in Anbennar

[@Schafe44]

I will always ask for more of this mod

[@voiceactorofdovakiin]

Eu4 is such a good game and nbennar is such a good mod

[@cillianbrien1470]

We looooooove a Quarbit Anbennar vid 😤

[@maxbreiling4929]

I love anbennar content

[@davidsperoni3107]

yes! anbennar video! :D

[@diegollorente1137]

YES MORE ANBENNAR!!!

[@afridge8608]

Would have loved you to play tluukt. Honestly one of the best mt in the game with conquering, enslaving, raiding, and even wizard duels

[@Ardell_Drelzexian]

I really want them to do a dedicated Gnollakaz mission tree!

[@TheStormfury]

If you go any human faction, maybe focus on a human faction that has a more magical aspect to them, such as going the Undead route. Should still be interesting and unique enough.

[@onespiker]

There is a great gold mine in Gnolknazad its right on your border..

[@Shinigami00Azael]

So, if it works the same like in DnD, then planetouched means all the half devine races like Aasimars and Thieflings or Genasi, so basically some ancestor of yours was getting dirty with an outsider or something.

[@Batista77387]

yesssss quarbit NEW VIDEO

[@jdlinsday7836]

Please do more, gnoll's are awesome in this game. XD

[@johnnyboy3410]

the Ottomans of Anbennar are the Command in the east

[@archermora2175]

> West african fantasy parallel > inhabited by hyena people > they have a unique slave raiding mechanic What did the mod devs mean by this 💀

[@kjb1231234]

I see Anbennar video I click like and I comment for algorithm. Wow what a great video that i really enjoyed watching, i would recommend my friends to watch this excellent video.

[@heiskanbuscadordelaverdad8709]

In the next update you will able to play as robots

[@goostickygames]

i am excited to watch this video

[@beetee6986]

Give me Kobolds or give me death. Also if you want humans play Castanor :)))))

[@InfernalJalapeno]

I would most definitely like and comment on another gnoll video!

[@Felderk5]

Well, time to play gnolls for the first time

[@ognyannedev5979]

this gov reform gave me 5 bad heirs in a row so i just turned into a monarchy through an event but it gave me a 0/0/0 regency council for 15 yeas until i could play the game..

[@teddys5775]

I played this nation. Religious rebels were so large I ignored them on my continuous war and pillage run. Bricked myself out of my entire mission tree by not being the right religion. Tried to complete the demon event and my leader died mid way canceling all my progress

[@simonking2150]

Yas!!! I love this mod

[@AleranderHarvey-j7j]

Rick Station

[@Michael-xd8bc]

You love playing anbennar? I love watching anbennar

[@benzed4756]

Commenting for more Anbennar

[@bshorrar]

YOU CAN GO VAMPIRES!!!!!!!

[@Gremph]

When dwarf

[@alexgilliam5144]

Every race hrmmmmmm? I cant wait for kobolds hahaha

[@Quarbit]

I did play kobolds for a video a few years back, but they're updating them so I'm gonna wait until that's out

[@jacobemrich1735]

Pls more Anbennar ❤😃

[@Kasaaz]

I know it sounds silly, but whenever I see the Anbennar map at the start it just looks upside down somehow. Is it just me?

[@makiskanyt9269]

too bad we can't unleash the vermintide in this mod

[@Koagulat]

A video per race you say? Shame. Azjakuma ogres have some of the best stuff in the whole mod.

[@Trypragmatic]

Sexy Gnoll's....

[@ratonbox]

Venail? Batteries?

[@thedanishsocialmonarchist7286]

Do harpies!

[@BarrieZacharias-w6j]

Block Lakes

[@jakubreliga2549]

Almdhir when?

[@maximdrager3639]

Why not a full playthrough?

[@Quarbit]

video would be too long and cost too much to have edited also I don't want to spoil all the content for a country, I want to encourage people to download the mod and play the country

[@maximdrager3639]

@Quarbit true. I'm just sad none of my favorite eu4 youtubers don't seem to do full campaigns in as many regions.

[@electricVGC]

Who is Ben

[@darkagerush3098]

Boy the corner face is distracting

[@Quarbit]

my overwhelming charm distracts from the video, I know 😔

[@whoisjoe5610]

Ummmm.... What da sigma