The 10 Most Interesting Minor Nations in EU4

[@AlzaboHD]

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[@Speedster___]

How much time is spent of research vs making puns?

[@Jayako12]

In which server are you?

[@francisco.repetto5701]

Hello @AlzaboHD i m playing a game like prusia with historical borders and i got the emperor the problem is that i want to add new countrys to the empire for example hungary or milan or the papal state and i have 200 relation with them but nothing how i do it?(sorry for my english im spanish)

[@0rangevlad]

Call of War P2W

[@ccios2368]

Alzabo's time making videos: 5% recording 5% getting information 90% thinking of puns

[@szlonkobusjbusj3819]

First I was shocked that he didn't mention Ulm. But then I realized the video is about minor nations.

[@svijj_]

The Imperium Of Ulm

[@twoscarabsintheswarm9055]

Ulm is the final boss of eu4 after all

[@captinobvious4705]

These puns...they're so horrible...I love them!

[@acegamergoldie1008]

Same

[@Speedster___]

They are so punny. I’ll stop now

[@pawnyi7742]

that's the gist of the channel

[@jordividal9365]

Those puns were sikh

[@Fluffybunz779]

alliterations*

[@Narvaljodchik]

Disappointed that Provence isn’t on this list Also “lend a hand” lmfao (2:34)

[@PalePinkThink]

Underrated pun

[@mackycabangon8945]

yea provence can be really good if rng is with you. pu on naples, aragon, hungary, and france (because of the valois dynasty) :)

[@Narvaljodchik]

Macky Cabangon If you’re quick enough to dev or conquer, you can actually gain cores on all Neapolitan land, skipping the union completely.

[@yavantii3615]

Yeah, Provence is kind of cheesy. Your first war against anyone you want is basically an insta win due to French favours that you obtained during the surrender of maine.

[@Narvaljodchik]

@@yavantii3615 Alternatively, you can declare your own reconquest war for Maine and call France in, then taking all of English Normandy as well. This will anger the French but should keep you small enough to ally a friendly Austria and join the HRE.

[@MrRareshG]

The Morocco puns were so on point

[@beanburrito4405]

I appreciate the astounding amount of alliterations acutely attained; they’re all also amazingly articulate

[@frostyspikes7589]

Title: 10 interesting nations Me: alright Video: Morocco... Ayutthaya... Sirhind Me: checks title again Title: *MINOR* nations Me: wait WHAT

[@hubert_likes_beds861]

Great video I really like making small nations large so this list is perfect for me

[@AlzaboHD]

There's something really special about OPMs and minor nations that you can't find anywhere else. I feel exactly the same - thanks for watching!

[@Pokekart47]

You also like beds?

[@hubert_likes_beds861]

@@Pokekart47 yes

[@justahelpfulcommenter2670]

Some other good minors I would recommend are Songhai,landshut, and Georgia

[@alansalas1880]

Im disappoint that you mentioned the Purple Phoenix, but not the White Phoenix, stay strong Granada.

[@alterix5711]

Maybe he isn’t using countries he’s covered in tutorials

[@smorcrux426]

the cheesy puns are so good, I love them

[@Estaloy]

small mistake, Sirhind cannot get the "Emperor of Hindustan" achievement (as you need to start as Delhi), you might have confused it with the "The sun never set on the Indian Empire" achievement(which you can get). anyway, good video as always!

[@JamesThomas-nm2uv]

That Tupac joke. I’m dying!

[@AlzaboHD]

Turns out he was named after the Incan emperor, found out on wikipedia. Crazy!

[@AlzaboHD]

New EU4 content coming soon! What type of videos would you like to see in November?

[@xeanderman6688]

I'd like to see something with Hussite religion, how to easily spread it and so on

[@napalmblaziken]

How about a challenge? Form Byzantium as Montferrat. Once they unlock all their ideas, they can form Byzantium as a Catholic nation.

[@plamen2530]

Could you do a top ten strongest government types?

[@betelgezaa]

How to release as many nations as possible. It is my main point of playing / releasing all possible countries and maintaining all religions.

[@livingthemcdream]

How bout a semien campain?

[@daniellejajko6204]

You should post more on the "Reman's Paradox" channel, you're famous over there

[@AlzaboHD]

Reman's my half brother, ill be sure to reach out

[@daniellejajko6204]

@@AlzaboHD really? I remember a comment of yours saying it was actually you. Maybe it was just a troll

[@palamaro1603]

@@AlzaboHD This is some CK shit

[@gaspy6059]

@@palamaro1603 Ah yes

[@enricobenedetto5891]

Dude...your voice is just so chill. I love it😍😍😍

[@Dahiasz]

Really nice! I‘ll get a new gaming pc next week and can‘t wait to dive back into Eu IV. There are a lot more achievements to be harvested ^^

[@niofalpha]

The Siam part got me thinking about how bad the steamrolling problem is. Historically the (Burmese) conquered the Thai people and they rebelled. That's not possible in game unless the AI just massively fucks up. The lack of national revolutions in the late game really takes out of it.

[@beanburrito4405]

If Wallachia isn’t mentioned on Halloween, me and my vampire buddies will not be amused EDIT: Dracula will have his revenge, get ready for a thriller

[@timgrungus2234]

New bladee and new Alzabohd what a day

[@breecegriffith5896]

1:40 if you don’t want to watch the ad

[@palamaro1603]

Have you considered doing a Kenshi video? I think your stile of commentary would be perfect.

[@AlzaboHD]

I absolutely love Kenshi and definitely will release something once Kenshi 2 drops! Thanks for watching

[@marcelllakatos3586]

The puns alone are worth a watch

[@nicison314]

these puns are too smooth tf

[@ANKAMedien]

I came for the content and lost to the puns also:"barring an unfortunate ride-by accident" to soon, died laughing

[@rollinghelicopter9001]

Awsome! Just looking for a new nation to play!

[@AlzaboHD]

I hope that one of these nations looks interesting to you, thanks for watching!

[@sergeydoronin1579]

For some reason I thought that Ethiopia would be on the list. This Empire is stronger than any other neighboring nation and there are two gold mines in the horn of Africa. Plus as a Christian nation Ethiopia can have PU (in one of my campaigns I PUed France, lol).

[@AlzaboHD]

Thing is, atleast for me, Ethiopia is already a major power. They have a ton of development, start off as an empire (?) and are unquestionably the dominant state in their region. Their power level is much higher than the states on this list in my opinion. Thanks for watching!

[@betrayer1350]

Ethiopia is one of those strange cases where they are too powerful to be a minor but too weak to be a major really lol

[@Pseudoplasmagore]

What is PU? I keep seeing that in EU4 videos' comments, but have no idea what it means

[@asgrahim9164]

I'm here for the puns, and am never disappointed.

[@azgan123]

Pls make more strategies for obscure nations, rly fun to watch :-)

[@Ikee85]

Now we just need you to release the next episode of the Ck2 hose eugenics series

[@Quarbit]

Kilwa is underestimated for sure. You can have the highest early-game income just from gold mines

[@AlzaboHD]

Heya Quarbit! Definite agree, though I've yet to really play them. OPMs are my favorite and Im looking for a strong one in the region, might give Pate (the ibadi one if I remember) a try. Keep up the awesome videos dude!

[@Syrup__Maple]

Haha inflation go brrrr

[@martinkovar4323]

My favourite minor country is Korea. You can easily conquer Manchu before 1500 and even get foothold in Japan if there is some independent daimyo. Korea also has one of the best starting rulers in the game (6/5/5, scholar, careful). Also it's sad that Jianzhou didn't make it on the list. You can form Qing. It also has OP mission tree.

[@PavltheRobot]

Great content as always

[@Gleaken]

this video is more likely a strategy guide for sikh pun achievement.

[@SantiFiore]

The amount of puns this video has is Sikhening!

[@Speedster___]

5:30 strongest economy in the area Sad ming noises

[@AftermathRV]

9:30 heres a little minmax for milan. day 1 of the game, introduce an heir to the kingdom. if the heir has good stats and is 7-12 years old (he can be younger) keep cosimo for 3 years till hes 15, if not, just skip that step. then youre negative prestige. royal marry people around you with more prestige then you so you lose legitimacy(the diplomacy screen tells you when youre losing prestige and when you arent.). if you drop below 75 legitimacy(you already tank 20 thanks to introducing an heir) you get your instant ambrosian republic. however, if your starting introduced ruler is 4-6 years away from being 15 yeras old and has a sum of stats of 8 or better, its worth waiting till hes 15, as cosimo has ruled long enough for you to be able to abdicate the throne. Yep hes one of those rulers that arent only old, but also have actually ruled their throne in the context of the game. which means you drop legitimacy and your 15 year old is on the throne, which then gives you a 15 year old republican ruler, which translates to roughly 50 years of 6/6/6 giving you the largest mana advantage in the game ever since florence got nerved. protip nr2. take shorter election circles whenever you can, shorter circles tank you less republican tradition but give oyu more choices of replacing or leveling up your ruler As for mongolia: you can just improve relations with ming , and they tend to help you with your indipendence war that way you dont need to fight . AAAAANd one more minmax for byzantine empire: go to war with epirus and take a province, however, istead of full annexing them, just make em a vassal - you stil lhave cores, you can annex em instantly, however, thanks to the epirus navy, you and athene together can actually *BEAT* the ottoman empire effectively locking them on either of the continents. makes shit easier

[@napalmblaziken]

Glad to see my favorite nation, Morocco, finally getting some love

[@larrykrappenschitz9926]

How am I supposed to get around the fact that the entirety of the Iberian Peninsula rivaling me? I've tried RNGing but they all rival me everytime.

[@napalmblaziken]

@@larrykrappenschitz9926 Believe it or not, there was a time I managed to get Aragon as an ally once through RNG. Aragon was rivaling Ottomans, Castile, and Austria. But in most cases, your best bet is to just accept that Iberia wants you dead, and seek allies elsewhere. If you can manage it, France and Ottomans make good allies for deterring Iberia, long enough for you to eat Tlemcen and West Africa. If you can manage it, try getting Tunis as a vassal. It may take a few wars, and Naples hurting them, but Tunis makes a strong vassal. With my pirate republics and Tunis backing me up, I actually managed to take on Portugal and Spain myself.

[@larrykrappenschitz9926]

@@napalmblaziken Wow! That sounds fun. Too bad I can only ally with France nowadays after he annexes all his puppets. The ottomans are just too far at the beginning as well to form an alliance. So by the time I can ally with either of them, Portugal takes a quarter of my country and is on a winning streak with Spain or Aragon as an ally. Really annoying.

[@napalmblaziken]

@@larrykrappenschitz9926 It isn't easy, I'll admit. I had to let Castile eat Granada, and hold back on reclaiming Ceuta for decades, while increasing relations with Ottos from start.

[@rachid9924]

You can defeat the Iberians on your own as morocco. Just sell 6 of your transport ship. Build 5 extra carracks. Improve relations with granada to over 100. When castile attack granada (granada is almost always allied with Tunis) enforce peace on castile. Then fight together with granada, tunis and your vassals. And you win. Seperate peace castile for all their money and annul treaties with Portugal. Then take on Portugal 1 on 1 while the Maine event (England won't help them) fires

[@kendetoth2755]

Im now doing my Riga to Kurlander Colonial Empire run and have to tell you...one of my favs so far _D

[@Coid]

Aww, yeah, more of that Alzabo soothing sound.

[@profilepicture828]

3:14 sad perm noises Also, where is Beloozero

[@martinkovar4323]

If you really hate yourself you can disable Mandate of Heaven and form Japan as Ainu. Without the DLC it is much easier to do it because you can get alliance with Ming by alling Korea, being called to war with Jianzhou, Korea will be also allied to Ming and will call them to war, this should boost your relations with Ming if you improved them before to secure the royal marriage and than alliance. Then it should be easy (I did this without any DLC). I am not sure how it works with Mandate of Heaven enabled maybe you could secure the alliance but it might take much more time. Also try to get province of Ise, because it will trigger an event that can remove your tribal government and convert to Shinto.

Jesus Christ it's 2020 and people still confuse "then" with "than"

[@martinkovar4323]

@ I am not a native speaker. So I can sometimes make a mistake.

[@oelmanfaluty]

@ Be alittle more respectful even if bad grammar pisses you off.

[@tajto1864]

Brilliant video 😁

[@1998BAZ]

Thanks for the great video, If the audio is a bit higher it will be better.

[@dansmith5724]

Good shit homie

[@torres3359]

"Belgium might also seek to laid a hand" Bruh.

[@endersdragon34]

Come on, we all know Belgium doesn't really exist

[@PalePinkThink]

The amount of puns in your videos are astounding!!!

[@Thesupermrluc]

Great video albazo! How long did it take to make those puns? Haha

[@zachmorgan486]

Glad to see Morocco on here. One of my top 5 favorite countries to play as.

[@Tremiec]

As usual, your content is amazing, and your voice awwww :>

[@Pseudoplasmagore]

U gurl?

[@zombbie4454]

You should do more imperator tutorials

[@AlzaboHD]

Id really like to but they tank in views, which is really unfortunate

[@captaindanger10]

Thanks for the cusco recommendation - sun god was a fun achievement

[@AlzaboHD]

Inca are my favorite formable nation, glad you enjoyed it!

[@psimoestr]

I've been wanting to ask this for a while. What do you use for the introductions? I mean the camera stuff. I find it so cool.

[@AlzaboHD]

Great question! I use an xbox 360 controller with USB dongle but it can work with any controller. You open the console in EU4 by pressing "~" (or the top left button on international keyboards) and typing in enable_game_controller. You can then use the controller to zoom, rotate and pan the map etc. It only works with controllers. Hope that helps!

[@psimoestr]

@@AlzaboHD Thank you so much! Keep it up with the great content!

[@chomes8048]

I cannot view a video containing this many surprise puns without subscribing. Well done!

[@toomuchtroble]

i see kenshi at the end of this video but no kenshi on your channel? was excited. did i just miss it or something

[@AlzaboHD]

Im looking into making Kenshi content! Really enjoy the game. Thanks for watching

[@mojewjewjew4420]

You are probably one of the best eu4 channel i know, the puns themselves are making this video great, i hate how you dont really explore mods and maybe expand into hoi4.

[@palamaro1603]

I'm glad they gave Serbia a mission tree. It finally seems fun to play. Too bad you need the DLC for it.

[@aloys5961]

I NEVER played major nations in EUIV, and as soon as I become a major nation, I start another game. There is no fun in knowing that you will win all the wars and conquer everything easily.

[@Pseudoplasmagore]

Change the difficulty to harder

[@ZaoJin]

I just started a Kongo game too and here comes this video :D Honestly didn't realize how cool some of these could be, especially Morocco or Cusco. Boutta go for a Long Chile run

[@mrw9044]

Alzabo, a pundit packed with potential (and I'm only half a minute into this video!)

[@KKsKrissvs121]

Why isn’t Naples or Genoa on the list? Genoa can expand in 3 continents early on and naples can claim throne on castile or aragon after aragon releases them.

[@IvosevicJ]

For ideas of future videos, I loved your Siberian Tribes and Indonesian guides. If you can pick a less popular (aka non European) region and do a step by step guide like that, it would be much appreciated.

[@m.a.9571]

3:25 why you do tupac like that bruv? 😂😄

[@InvisibleTower]

9:14 The possib-Italy-s are endless

[@treyebillups8602]

Everyone’s talking about the puns but your alliteration game is on point too

[@AftermathRV]

ah tupac and his ride by hunting accidents, biggy-yikes.

[@spencerbuck1074]

It's weird that I'm seeing an ad for call of war on an eu4 video these days because a couple years ago I was in school playing call of war to burn time and I upgraded to eu4 so I could quit that game and play a better one. Now it's "you like eu4, you should try call of war" like seeing an old friend you don't really care about. Between that whole group of games though Call of war is probably the best. I couldn't get into the supremacy 1914 or the modern day one at all.

[@spencerbuck1074]

I ended up getting all those listed achievements for mongolia as Oirat. The start was difficult and had to be restarted a lot but it turned don't to be a really fun run once the ball got rolling

[@younglord7805]

Perfect list

[@jinx9603]

I could listen to your voice for hours it's oddly satisfying

[@ToastyModeste]

Gonna have to pick up EU4 again soon, been taking a break from it. This video goes great with it! I still would like to see the Provence -> Jerusalem video in the coming months

[@peterdagata1610]

Provence to Jerusalem is pretty easy because of the easy access to PUs. I’ve been struggling with Cyprus to Jerusalem as the old strategies don’t work anymore. I’d love to see that video.

[@PewPew1234567]

Regarding Sirhind: You can declare war, but it would be much smarter to wait for the event for independence war, since you get 6 regiments for free then.

[@michaeldoddyrudianto8302]

That was so puntastic

[@TheFyroPyro]

9:50 By what definition is +50 a massive modifier for governing capacity? Lol

[@iustin223]

I love Minors🥰🥰🥰(in eu4)

[@thomaspurstinger9880]

I love to play minor nations. Thank you for this great video.

[@crossetler_2184]

There could be a mention to Trebizond. Always felt that the Komnenos were the ones with most claim over the Roman throne rather than the Paleiologos. Plus, it is one of toughest campaigns in the game so far as I noticed.

[@alejandronieto4212]

Trebizond is terrible. Your economy is crap, you have no mission tree, or interesting unique events, your ideas are pretty damn meh, and you have both the Ottomans and QQ, or even Ajam, Persia or Timurids, knocking at your doorstep. Not even expanding solves this, since you expand to other terrible areas such as Crimea or 3 dev horde lands. Your only decent ally for most of the game will be Muscovy/Russia, and god help you if Poland happens to get an upper hand on them, something that often happens. This is about interesting nations, not pain.

[@comb-t]

Novgorod is quite a fun campaign, I had one that was going really well for a while until I dropped my Polish-lithuanian allies for the ottomans, then declared on them later on calling in the ottomans and having half my army stackwiped before the ottomans even did anything even though the ottomans weren't in any other wars.

[@anthonyjenkins5308]

Man I love playing as a minor nation and making them the strongest country in the game. One the my favorite countries to play is Kilwa because of that!

[@livingthemcdream]

I resently played a campain as Cusco. I wanted to get achievement that needs 10 gold provinces. I did that pretty easy and became a major power before 1500.

[@firmanimad]

The ppm (Puns per Minute) rate of this video is astounding. Btw, 3:19 the Incans doesn't ride horses. So instead of a ride-by, a run-by?

[@scienceme9794]

I immensely enjoyed by Novgorod game and highly recommend it to anyone seeking a change of pace. Also, I think that Republics are, as a whole, highly underrated.

[@theboss-ke4is]

I can't with these cheeky puns. We need more

[@ohLyln]

Any idea when the 1.31 SEA update will be out? I can’t find anything about it anywhere besides some stuff from 2-3 months back.

[@AlzaboHD]

No idea yet unfortunately but I hope before end of 2020! SEA is going to be awesome!

[@ohLyln]

@@AlzaboHD agreed! I want to do a Brunei play through really bad but I don’t want to start before 1.31

[@Snqwy]

I love his videos they're so underrated

[@Mornomgir]

Doing byzantium is the hardest thing ive done so far in the game. Alongside getting the prussians whilst starting as teutonic order. Never did manage to reform rome though.

[@ЛукаМилин]

Will you do trade guide?

[@davemonkey26]

I am a simple man, I see Alzabo, I watch

[@vladblaga2010]

7:23 that's not true I had a campaign about a month ago, forming Russia forces you into Tsardom I believe you can switch out but being a Veche Republic forces you to be a duchy so you can't expand your govt cap. ALSO the Veche Republic gives you -25% to govt cap (+25% to govt cap for trade company provinces).

[@buubb3178]

Kilwa with many gold mines and an excellent trading node is the best and easiest option to get Rags and Riches achievement.

[@Kizunaut]

Ha, I've just been playing a Sirhind -> Punjab game. It's fun, they really punch above their weight with that starting ruler.

[@oliverdouble-u8107]

I disagree that Cusco has the best ruler and heir, it's clearly Karaman

[@erion9134]

its clearly albania with a 6/5/6

[@betrayer1350]

Ethiopias Negus is really good, esp since hes young and with the religious ideas converting youll be doing as a Coptic you get enough prestige to disinherit bad heirs

[@pakshirajan8585]

My Sirhind game is a roller coaster to say the least.

[@mykhailozadorozhnyi4983]

I love these linguistical puns!

[@nostradamusofgames5508]

i wish he did more vids on other paradox games :( i really need expert vids (like alza) on CK3

[@AlzaboHD]

Thanks for your comment! I do have ck3 videos in fact, and even several top 10s. Feel free to check them on the channel!

[@nostradamusofgames5508]

@@AlzaboHD HAZAAH

[@francisco.repetto5701]

Hello @AlzaboHD i m playing a game like prusia with historical borders and i got the emperor the problem is that i want to add new countrys to the empire for example hungary or milan or the papal state and i have 200 relation with them but nothing how i do it?(sorry for my english im spanish)

[@AlzaboHD]

I believe they have patched out countries joining the HRE (due mainly to the HRE 1480 revoke cheese) except in cases of extreme threat, like when they are threatened attitude towards another nation outside the empire. I dont believe its possible to get them to join through relations anymore - but I could be wrong. Good luck in your campaign!

[@francisco.repetto5701]

@@AlzaboHD ok thanks to answer i very like your top videos

[@kraze1982]

woah are there kenshi videos somewhere i been missing wtf

[@AlzaboHD]

Not yet but gauging off of everyone's interest I'd like to start making them!

[@mustafaozgurokuyucu6576]

This guy is throwing puns at us like he's breathing

[@koolaidman2702]

Your delivery on jokes like you did for Tupac makes it even funnier

[@ChunkyWalnutX]

When does 1.31 come out?