The nations that NO ONE plays...

[@cheboinky1436]

I introduced my friend to eu4 because I thought he would enjoy it. He told me he was a long way in on his first run and confused on what to do next. He was playing as kamchadals and once he conquered the other minors he had sat for 100 years assuming other nations would spawn around him.

[@dylancomic9088]

Did they survive?

[@Bevalderon]

It's always a good sign when new players ignore the recommended starter nations

[@Ghost923]

@@Bevalderon fr my first playtrought was Xiu n the next 15 times until i formed The mayans conquer all america

[@amogususus12]

I will take "things that didn't happen for 500"

[@cheboinky1436]

@@amogususus12 Ooo how tough. I’ll take “Pretentious git” for 1000

[@whiteink225]

Laith please don't play with minors

[@zelia_gamer666]

😱

[@razier5299]

The youtuber's weakness

[@groundersteel3318]

uh oh

[@miguelpadeiro762]

He hasn't released a minecraft video yet, he's safe for now

[@SilverxSky]

@@miguelpadeiro762 he's streamed it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKC1f4iPmKxmgsU

[@miguelpadeiro762]

Laith going wild with the script in this one

[@miguelpadeiro762]

I love it

[@Benwut]

@@miguelpadeiro762 Aint no way bro commented on his own comment 💀

[@miguelpadeiro762]

@Benwut Erm actually it's called a reply, a comment is when you leave a message under the video. In this case I left a message under my comment, a reply☝️🤓📋

[@drained_yayo]

@@miguelpadeiro762 cook

[@12354rony]

@@Benwut Let bro cook

[@haydenmcwhorter6363]

The Chukchi are an interesting people. They were probably the most aggressive of their region. Fearless, too, described so at least, in face of Russian firearms. It’s said they were never ‘officially’ conquered, but signed treaties with the Russian state. They also had an interesting fella named Tenevil that invented them a script, though it never saw much use. The language is gorgeous and you should check out the folk song Nunligran.

[@randomweebdoinggames3072]

Laith you've got to stop playing with minors

[@Elfmaks]

minors are fun

[@JoeZombie-nq7qj]

I don't think Siberians are even close to the least played nations, their position is fairly unique (times 4) and super interesting. The small states around Ethiopia are probably way less played. I do wonder if PDX will ever release a coloured map of playing numbers for each nation, but I don't think these freezers would even be in the lower half of starting tags. (maybe Khodynt since they're inland)

[@Idoexist._.]

Small Ethiopian States, Madagascar minors. Maybe some of Arabians like yas, and definitely there's gonna be Indians. Maybe also South East Asians, native oceananians and migratory muricans

[@JoeZombie-nq7qj]

@@Idoexist._. West African minors other than Mali, Songhai, Air, Dagomey and KB probably too.

[@danshakuimo]

Janjiro world conquest time

[@MountainsAreCool]

what do you mean I play small Ethiopian States every single day

[@JoeZombie-nq7qj]

@MountainsAreCool Siberia-only players need to work harder now!

[@EmporerDragon]

Chukchi's most notable contribution to strategy gaming is the time they actually won one of the Civilization Battle Royales (CBRX2 specifically).

[@AlgernonCSwinburne]

based CBR enjoyer

[@LacsiraxAriscal]

(Leonardo DiCaprio pointing meme)

[@SquirrelMaestro]

I want to see the adventures of chavcheveny as they seek to dominate the steppes and maybe return home. Thanks

[@Bevalderon]

I absolutely want to see this too

[@mackycabangon8945]

Fun Facts about the eastern siberians (in game and irl): Chukchi and Chavchuveny are in the wrong provinces they should have been swapped Chavchuveny is only a subdivision of the Koryaks meaning something like 'rich with reindeer'. Reindeer were pretty important throughout Siberia These tribes were famous raiders and renowned warriors despite the inferior technology, the Chukchi lasted into the late 1700s and even beat the Russians once, as well as being feared by their neighbors. The Koryaks being related to the Chukchi also fought all their neighbors. In the 1700s there was a forge in Paren' used by the Koryaks (of which again Chavchuveny was a part of)

[@siontix8795]

I play Paradox games exclusively for immersive RP with my friend, and one of my all-time favorite experiences with this region was a Scotland-England co-op save we did where we created a 'United Kingdom' alliance consisting of me (England), him (Scotland), and then an Ireland we helped forge and ally with. I sought an English Empire that effectively consisted of all of Central and Southern Africa. English Africa was my biggest concern of that save, BUT, along the way I got a casus belli against Kamchadals and just decided to pursue it because, why not, adventure and profit! Annexed Kahmchadals, developed great cities in its land, converted it to Anglican, converted culture to English, and eventually created an English Anglican Kamchadals vassal. Little did I know, I had just created a monster, because this English Kamchadals went on to absorb its neighbors, colonized like half of Siberia on its own, and ended up somehow even stronger than Korea. The late game saw its navy becoming obnoxiously powerful, and they became very toxic towards me. Got away from that save with them as a subject still, but they were a real pain in the ass right to the end. Then we converted to Victoria 2, and VERY early on rebellion broke their connection to me, making them independent. English Kamchadals went on to conquer Finland and pretty much everything down towards Persia, and by the end of that save, in fact, started to chip away at the Russian Empire, coming I think two or three states away from Moscow. By the end of that save they became Fascist. One more convert to Hearts if Iron IV, me, my friend, and Japan had to finally put Kamchadals down, and it was absurdly difficult as they converted into HoI IV with an unexpected level of manpower and divisions. We wanted to just utilize our alliance with Japan to just take down Kamchadals right at their capital, but what actually ended up happening is they plowed over Russia and engaged us right in Poland. We ended up pretty much having to march from Poland all the way east to their original EUIV territory. Long story short: I will never forget how my little EUIV experiment with Kamchadals made for one of the most engaging string of saves I've ever played.

[@degurkin]

MORE CHAVCHUVENY I DEMAND IT

[@cypressidy]

Early in my EU4 career (probably 8 or 9 years ago at this point) I followed a Chavchuveny playthrough that was recounted as an AAR on the subreddit. I don't think it was a particularly well-known player or anything, but it stuck in my brain, and I've had a soft spot for them ever since. I'm happy to see someone else take a stab at them a decade later. Would love to see a part 2! Hopefully the next session will be a little less monotonous for you.

[@AbstractTraitorHero]

Share? I actually do enjoy reading AARS

[@magicaIpineapple]

probably DDRJake

[@94sjolander]

Lol, I just finished a Chukchi game. I went exploration/expansion and built a colonial empire. Even managed to spawn colonialism and keep up in tech by farming mana points from showing strenght to the other tribes.

[@MarzaButTube]

show strength seems really strong, idk why i dont use it more. im too much of a land and money goblin ig

[@skudrinskis]

The student has a video on how to abuse the shit out of "show strength"

[@jacobfernandes7213]

I actually love Chukchi, it's my go to minor -> colonial nation run

[@AbstractTraitorHero]

Honestly, Laithe if I can give you any advice. I recommend talking about some of the history of the nations you play, maybe show some pictures, actually showcase what the flavor text says on their national ideas and the like? I will also admit leaving siberia immediatly to go over to europe felt really counter intuitive & going south to interact with stuff like mongolia, korea & japan makes more sense to me.

[@dawidwojacki5049]

Starting army of 4 thousand is basically all the people I would expect to live there.

[@Zoeyyyala]

i didnt expect to get violated in the first 20 seconds god damn

[@LobsterandFrogMinecraft]

Finally someone plays the Chotkoka nations

[@muradhab]

Chukotka

[@LobsterandFrogMinecraft]

@@muradhab thanks man

[@Chris-je9fe]

I live in Chukotka

[@SmeliqtPi4]

The EU IV AI is funny, one time as an all-cav Oirat I declared war on the Ottomans in late game and the mad-lads stacked 750k in a single mountain province and because I was sitting in a mountain province we just sat looking at each other as tick after tick the entire Ottoman manpower pool died of attrition within 6 months, 6 months for over 500k reserve manpower to dry out because three quarters of a million AI troops sat on a mountain eating rocks. The war wasn't difficult afterwards.

[@zygimantassilobritas6034]

>The nations NO ONE plays... >Comments are flooded by Kamchatka tag players Laith has not accounted for the fact that there are DOZENS OF US. DOZENS!

[@georgegr.7970]

Europa Expanded implements a mission tree for the siberians and even a formable. It makes them more interesting!

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

That mod gives them the siberian frontier thing which makes playing Russia really annoying

[@mcalkis5771]

You gotta make a three part series to this now and we won't take no for an answer

[@lukeagar1626]

I swear whenever you go out to do something crazy in eu4, paradox programs the game to one up you at every turn

[@de_anubis]

These were the first nations I ever played. I wanted to learn some basic mechanics and thought this will be good. It was terrible, but I learned a lot

[@rewriting-history]

Yoo that was very entertaining. I really like your style of storytelling!

[@LegallyMason]

I always play as the Siberian Minors before becoming a Tengri Theocracy. It’s how I got the Tengri-Nahuatl achievement. I rushed explo. It worked weirdly well.

[@MagnificientLlama]

Fun fact, not sure if it is still in but at one point negative stability lowered migration timer

[@shyrd]

Лейт, тебе уж точно не пересилить Воеводу, не пытайся

[@Сидорович-р2з]

Этот коммент я и искал

[@EvilmindStudios]

1:41 I legit heard "Chuck E. Cheese"

[@NoobeyMapper]

funnier that i read this comment exactly when he sayed it

[@Elfangor567]

I recently completed a Chavchuveney game myself, which I then converted to VIC3. I took a different approach though; you see, that "force migration" CB? It allows for "Show Strength", the peace that gives you 100 of each monarch point. The other nations outside of your neighbors? They can't see you. I declared war after war, breaking truce after truce, racking up enough PowerPoint to dev myself institution's and be ahead on tech. Then I used expansion ideas to make my way west... and encountered the strongest Russia I have ever seen in the 1500's. I spent the rest of the game desperately trying to curb their influence. Fun game, very satisfying to fully dismantle them in VIC3, even if it took awhile due to population differences.

[@laracroft8140]

ahahhaha basically you were bullying a nation in a spot where no one could see it and that was your main source of richness

[@Yes-qj4bi]

An Mp game where 4 people work as all 4 of them and work together or migrate together would be funny please consider it Laith. It's up there with colonizing America across the bering straits to be historically accurate.

[@smalltime0]

Only issue is that you're migrating into each others devastation

[@hellbringersbrother]

@@smalltime0 The Siberian Minors don't have the devastation mechanic unlike the native americans. You can also develop with mana points instead of getting it passively.

[@smalltime0]

@ I didn't know that, lol. Shows how popular the Siberian Minors are.

[@AlteryxGaming]

Bruh, one of the neighboring tags is literally called KamCHADals, missed opportunity to be a chad horde

[@ВасилийСеверянин]

Это не сибирские, а дальневосточные.

[@nesarkwastaken]

Great new editing style! Good job :D

[@gabriel00nix84]

The funny thing is back in the day my very first campaign finished was with chuckchi because I was so bad at the game and after a few tries in europe and japan I just wanted a remote place to learn the game. And I didnt have any DLCs, i still had fun by colonising Alaska for myself

[@Som-mo8yb]

Все мы знаем Великую Чукотскую Пиратскую Империю с мандатом Китая во главе с Воеводой... Пройденая история 😏

[@dorktriogamer2865]

I have a friend that plays hoi4 and i was trying to get into eu4, they said they enjoyed it and i was like oh what did you play, he kamchadal. He hasnt touched it since

[@ZarosTemplar]

7:04 certified durham girl moment

[@PairFreebird]

I like how westeners incapable to understand that far east Russia is not Siberia. It like to say that England is Scotland, because they part of same country and bordering each other.

[@jiimbv]

Havent watched one of ur vids in a while, but god damn this one was entertaining as fuck. Laith levelled up???

[@The_Great_Goose]

There's nothing I would love to see more than the Bizarre adventure's of Chavchuveny

[@givemeawand]

Laith, you need to continue this cursed campaign

[@JosuaHots]

„you should immediatly vassalize it and build it back up for all the benefit and no cost. A form acquaintance of mine said that about the man she dated“ Man that is based

[@edvineriksson8182]

Laith woke up and chose violence

[@DylanSargesson]

2:10 if your subject is ever in a war that you weren't called into for some reason, you can do Enforce Peace to take over leadership of the war.

[@Barndo13]

Kinemod did himself dirty with the editing

[@kinemod1252]

The truth can't be hidden

[@ListersHatsune]

Scottish Britain is actually canonical, just it happend through us getting a personal union over England rather than through military conquest. It's also really satisfying to win what is basically a guerilla war against a much stronger power.

[@onsholo]

It is ok Laith, you can make jokes about us, our dads taught us to get used to abuse.

[@MarzaButTube]

i've long dreamed of making one of these guys work, unfortunately i have a working brain and a sense of self respect so its never come to fruition

[@goestah]

good video but my conspiracy theory is that laith recorded this whole thing with his mic on mute and most of the footage became useless but he didn't want to waste it so he did a well edited good voice over instead for a shorter video

[@EbonySaints]

I would be tempted to say that thanks to an "exploit" by TheStudent that has you effectively trucebreak one of them nonstop for almost infinite monarch points, that these nations are actually surprisingly broken. However, the New Zealand tribes can do the exact same thing, aren't saddled with a huge institution debuff, have a nice naval policy that allows for conquistadors and explorers without taking Exploration, and don't start out right next to decently powerful tags and the strongest tag in 1444 either. They also have a better mission tree, estates, and slightly better ideas. If you're really good at snowballing and doing max cheese, than the Siberian Clan Council countries are not a bad pick. Otherwise, play one of the NZ tribes and make modern New Zealand by beating up your neighbors and making them feel bad.

[@charlesdean2781]

Chukchi was the First Nation I played. I played it over and over until I could beat Ming in a single war

[@fawkewe]

Sometimes when im playing In Asia, i dont even annex these guys because i just feel that bad for them.

[@risotto6386]

As a Siberian native enthusiast it really sucks that these guys have no content, not even a mod.

[@HoboBrute]

Chavchuveny was the Star of one of the all time great AAR series in EU4 history and needs more recognition as a peak meme nation at the ass end of the world

[@Aja-e5j]

To quote Scooter: "Siberia - the place to be!"

[@connorevans9655]

Laith please do a Great Moravia playthrough, no one ever does that besides Chairman's video. You gotta do it man

[@lolpuuroa]

this kind of editing style could be fun but maybe you could intertwine it with the old one a bit? i like long form videos a lot and having your live reactions in there is hilarious

[@sultangeno9555]

When I first started playing eu4 I played one of these nations lol, forgot which one it was though

[@yuuta6563]

Nic e idea. Did you end the run there or did you finish the goal?

[@requiem6465]

Wish Europa Expanded would do something with them alongside Alaska

[@sentientwaffle535]

I don't comment terribly often, but this one will need a part 2

[@youtuberobbedmeofmyname]

There was previously a patch after Leviathan where you couldnt migrate with these nations. Basically they went from F tier to F- tier in a single patch since there was no longer a way for them to leave siberia.

[@HammerspaceCreature]

Imagine you are a bank employee and a Siberian tribesman in stinking animal furs walks in and asks for 40 loans.

[@samuelschultz4135]

Great video! Fun campaign and absolutely hilarious

[@jesuscastillo7318]

I played it as the Kamchadals I think years ago with that popular mission expanded mod

[@Alex.af.Nordheim]

I wish there's a mechanic that lets you migrant to alaska as these nations

[@mpspenguin2]

We demand the adventures of the little kamchatkan state that could

[@sanniks]

This is Chukotka, not Siberia

[@phileon2323]

You obviously need to annex your starting province and make into your capital again

[@RocketHarry865]

I once played as one the Siberian tribes so I could get the Blood for the Sky God Achievement where you must be Tengrist and have Nahuatl as your syncretic faith

[@cosmicball1670]

These tribes are far eastern not siberian...

[@g.ricepad9470]

You could have gone into -stability for extra migration speed. (Or has that been changed?, it has been some time since I played as someone who can migrate)

[@sirjanska9575]

I've actually played at least three separate games as Chuckhi lol

[@jonathanvidalbrea]

Please. PLEASE. Do a world conquest

[@conifercatgirl]

Damn you love absolutism so much your haircut is from the Age of Absolutism.

[@SereglothIV]

I must admit, I vastly prefer videos with live narration, rather than this recorded post-game.

[@Killerwale-hk4wy]

We need a 2nd Tiwi playthrough

[@laayiv9449]

I would love more of this, you know we all love a good cursed campaign. I do think you should at least mix some more live commentary in among the scripted stuff; the edited commentary is good but so are your usual live reactions.

[@inkhwon]

ok but we need a second video fr

[@CelticMutt]

If Burgundy forms the Netherlands while France still exists, all of their French region cores are automatically given to France. Judging by the size of that Netherlands, I'd assume Burgundy was pretty successful, and only lost territory because of that mechanic in the decision.

[@taikutsunaneko9125]

it is the nation I choosed for one of the achivements that I missed. I thought it could be a good colonial nation but I just deleted the save after getting achivement.

[@jamesnieder4566]

Bearded laith is a sight to behold

[@PuzzlingGoal]

23 seconds ago is Siberian suffering

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

I've played as Khodyant before when i first started playing. It's boring but its beginner friendly. I took over the other 3 and then went colonial. This was so long ago that I don't remember what happened next other than colonizing Alaska

[@losisansgaming2628]

Laith... you should play as muisca and try to survive, im pretty sure muisca isnt migratory, and doesn't have any neighbors

[@AHappyCub]

LAITH NOOOO, DONT STRIKE THAT CHORD, PLEASEEEEEE

[@montiwajan]

I really wanna see a continuation not just because of the siberian minor but also because the "interesting Europe" lol

[@sakuuuto]

I'd love to see a continuation of this!

[@vladislavshevchenko634]

Actually the Chukchi had their own empire in the far East almost touching the current Chinese border, so the contents creator didn't choose the historically accurate superpower in the region among these far east minors.

[@luzikii823]

That was actually the First Nation I ever played lol

[@DylanSargesson]

Seems like it would've been stronger/quicker to migrate towards the Jurchen Tribes, reform, and then just conquer everything towards Russia.

[@paulopn4427]

Play as Capua in Ante Bellum A de Hauteville and unique events, which if IIRC, you can be immortal?

[@zacharybyford8200]

I love this new video style

[@FoggyMcFogFace]

You should've made sure Russia would keep a connection to the east so they would keep using Siberian frontier so you can take those provinces after

[@AlS_YouTube]

Did laith forget to record his Mic audio?

[@Слышьты-ф4ю]

Why "no one"? Voevoda did play for Chukchi and make a pirate empire

[@davidawakim5473]

As the beard grows, so too must chavcheveny

[@player276]

I want to see a world conquest

[@3komma141592653]

Wow this video is a true master piece!

[@elzamba7127]

Oh I've actually played some of these guys, tried colonizing and stuff

[@immaterialthey]

Laith, my therapist is going to hear about this :/ (But also I'm actually super excited for the reformation into a horde)