Playing as an Irish minor wasn't that hard, however it was definitely a lot of fun, which was partly due to the fact that one of the countries is called Tyrone and it is the darkest colored country of the group, which cracked me up more than it should.
@aglassofmilk57796 жыл бұрын
InestriX hahaha
@martinr73865 жыл бұрын
It's also known as "black" amongst the locals because there are lot of Unionists living there.
@the_username_is_taken5 жыл бұрын
I played as Imereti... My ruler was 69 and i didn't have heir...
@aqgpandemic54068 жыл бұрын
"Navarra's culture is just weird" well it's Basque so that's pretty accurate.
@kingoftheshill3476 жыл бұрын
Currently trying to do a CK2 playthrough as the only playable basque character at the 769 start. Had to kill my own grandson in the first year just so I’d have an heir in my dynasty.
@Giganfan2k16 жыл бұрын
KingOfTheShill wait what? O.o
@HVLLOWS19995 жыл бұрын
Indo European and your pregedise, pff.
@abaip94498 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised Granada didn't get an honorable mention
@Vincrand4 жыл бұрын
Or Kara Del for that matter.
@thewinterlord15188 жыл бұрын
Don't underestimate Theodoro.
@nietvoorjoubeschikbaar7148 жыл бұрын
yeah she's a sassy one, that's for sure
@grammarcommunist5887 жыл бұрын
Dont estimate the Sultan.
@mateuszpiekarski6507 жыл бұрын
In my recent game AI Theodoro conquered Hungary... Bohemia conquered half of the HRE. France got destroyed in the first 20 years. Incredible.
@_senshi1_7 жыл бұрын
>whole country dead sue for peace>theodoro>send demand Theodoro has denied our generous peace offer!
@aramissanchez89337 жыл бұрын
TheWinterLord15 theodoro somehow annexes Crimea and the genoese crimean parts in almosy every game
@feckusmaximus32348 жыл бұрын
6:40-7:30 why didn`t he point out that Albania`s leader is almost the best you can get aka the 6-5-6
@nikolaangelov35838 жыл бұрын
yeah
@Roland.Deschain7 жыл бұрын
Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu
@armendiiibrahimii47617 жыл бұрын
Cameron Ricketts well that general was not good enough when you used to start at war with the ottoblob
@ethanwmonster90757 жыл бұрын
the game cannot replicate the fact that he keeps winning extermly outmatch battles Agiasnt the ottomans over and over again until he died.
@malnutritionboy7 жыл бұрын
Donald J Pepe yep they got defeated by the serbs after which i annex serbia so...
@eskon123458 жыл бұрын
You know whats the funniest thing...Start as albania You obviously have the mighty Skanderberg as you're leader + general Got a good start where Ottomans did not attack me and i managed to beat Bosnia + Serbia (all thanks to Skanderberg) Leave serbia with just 1 province Managed to secure alliance with both Poland and Austria so LIFE is good Then at 1454 heir decided to die in a hunting accident o_O and about year later the mighty Skanderberg had enough aswell...No heir so i get event that somebody with weak claim gets the throne and his stats are: 0 1 0 At that point i just gave up :D
@Masterdeath16 Жыл бұрын
100%. Skanderbeg is genuinely so fun as a general
@catwise6827 жыл бұрын
the first campaign I ever played, was with navarra I thought France would help me: allied france allied castille for good measure Aragon claims navarroa -no Biggie, new this would happen England declares war Wait what, did u even have claim Aragon declares war, France crumbles castille does not protect castille finishes reconquista castille declares war on Aragon (stalemate) castille offers vassalisation I accept, try gaining independence thru Aragon (-2000 relation=nope) France helps, castille was allied with brittany Brittany becomes BBB (big Brittany blob) I quit, and start as Novgorod, RQ that after 10min of Muscovites :O
@r.m21926 жыл бұрын
CatWise I tried playing Navarra couple of times today I used brute strength rather than independence strategy I managed to get a max development of 127 from northern Spain labourd and a Irish province I got a couple other successful games but France always ate me so me next strategy is to definitely not go into France until I have at least 300 development and go for Spain and Ireland
@KaitoGillscale8 жыл бұрын
Playing an Irish nation or Scotland is really fun because it's a waiting game. Finding the best time to pick away at England while they're fighting europe is extremely satisfying.
@withche078 жыл бұрын
allying france is good way to screw england
@DJSbros5 жыл бұрын
That's why whenever I play as England I deal with Ireland and Scotland first.
@harrisonshone77698 жыл бұрын
I wonder how hard Sealand would be to work with.
@pabloolsiewich11506 жыл бұрын
Jason Jeschonnek Yeah i am tired of their 120k seals with 150% discipline and high morale doomstacks
@chainsaw53026 жыл бұрын
Not hard if you have the precious ~ on your keyboard
@stratum76345 жыл бұрын
27 navies 0infantry😂
@callmate91028 жыл бұрын
Please make top 10 nations that start weak but can easily become a strong power
@gamesfornobs8 жыл бұрын
Teutons are one of them.
@ivanmakrov33238 жыл бұрын
Serbia or Bosnia, both are small but have good armies. Serbia can take Albania and Bosnia and possibly get an Allie with Hungry or Austria.
@CrapeCraft8 жыл бұрын
Holland, Brandenburg and Portugal.
@ryangann6658 жыл бұрын
+CaptainCrape How do you get independence as Holland?
@CrapeCraft8 жыл бұрын
Ryan Gann Easy, you should be able to get support independence from practically all nearby powers. (France, Austria, England and Castile)
@LoydAvenheart7 жыл бұрын
2:55 Also you know like, the golden horde right above you.
@Emir-ou4ws8 жыл бұрын
I waited for Granada. Byzantium could get lot of good allies againts Ottomans but Granada could only take some african countries which not enough againts castile.
@darkfireslide8 жыл бұрын
I mean, the entire Berber region is fairly difficult to thrive in. Still, I've heard of some crazy Granada stuff where somehow the player allied with Aragon against Castile and shenanigans ensued. That's basically the only reason I chose the smaller Mzab and company instead.
@Emir-ou4ws8 жыл бұрын
darkfireslide well I mean when you choose good allies no country will be hard. But I think the video is about their power alone. Both economy and military. Thanks for the video. Good luck on youtube. I hope your channel grow up fast.
@darkfireslide8 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Words of encouragement always help motivate me to make more videos :)
@RealZulutaart8 жыл бұрын
i had this one game were france and castile were fighting a personal union war over navarra but the weird thing was that aragon did a conquest before this all started and they succeded after all this pu nonsense so navarra was gone so france got a pu over castile in 1450 :o
@michaeldog123ful8 жыл бұрын
I think they deserved a honorable mention at most. Cant put them above anyone else in this list though, its liek byzantium where there are so many known ways to do well as them
@PickleOfWonder8 жыл бұрын
I'd play as these countries but since quitting to the main menu restarts the whole game it's not worth it. Literally if you fail you have to load the entire game up again. Not sure why the main menu button exists at this point.
@darkfireslide8 жыл бұрын
The game used to crash due to a memory leak if you played for a few hours and tried to go back to the main menu, so I think a small restart is preferable to crashing altogether lol
@42ouncesofPAIN8 жыл бұрын
Quitting to the Main Menu never restarts the whole game. Just go to "Saved Games" and they should all be there.
@PickleOfWonder8 жыл бұрын
42Ounces No, I mean clicking the main menu button closes the game and reopens it. so you have to go through the loading process EVERY time you fail.
@42ouncesofPAIN8 жыл бұрын
PickleOfWonder I have only actually "failed" a game once before 0_0 and I have 310 hours in EU 4. You should not be getting taken over that much, maybe you should try playing as a bigger country since it is a lot easier, that way you can get used to things and get a better handle on what you are doing. Otherwise whenever I usually go the Menu I usually just save the game and Exit since I am usually done playing.
@PickleOfWonder8 жыл бұрын
I'm talking about when I'm playing countries like the ones in the video. Albania, Byzantium etc. You're trying to tell me you have 310 hours in EU4 and you can play Byzantium or Albania and succeed on your first try? It's highly unlikely that you can succeed on your first try since you often need certain circumstances. (Such as Hungary rivalling the Ottomans in a Byz playthrough.) Also, the AI of your allies is bloody dreadful. You could be in a war with the Ottomans and your alliance would have 3 times the numbers but still lose since they always split their armies up and never help out with battles. (I have 620 Hours, I can play bigger countries no problem. I have formed the Roman Empire as Venice.)
@Mrminibagel8 жыл бұрын
Manipur. Hard to get allies because you're animist surrounded by Buddhists and Hindus. 5 total development.
@Povest13895 жыл бұрын
@sielana8 жыл бұрын
There is a guy named DDRJake who did Ryukyu world conquest 2 years ago. Now he is working for Paradox (makers of EU4).
@darkfireslide8 жыл бұрын
The youtuber/streamer Florryworry is famous for doing ridiculous runs like this. Both he and DDRJake usually use exploits, though. Which, I can't blame them, considering how hard these achievements are to get.
@bigbenfica9-campeaoeuropeu6738 жыл бұрын
Albania and Byzantium I did it, (Byzantium after tons of restarts, Albania got lucky on Try 1) I recommend those 2, tons of fun tbf
@emirkaya24838 жыл бұрын
I think surviving the ottomans as one the beyliks is a lot harder than half of this list
@darkfireslide8 жыл бұрын
While I don't disagree entirely, those nations do at least have /some/ development to work with, but I could make an entire top ten list devoted to hard starts near the Ottomans alone. I wanted to get the whole world in this list. Haha
@darkfireslide8 жыл бұрын
I actually did a test run as Trebizond and yeah it's pretty rough. However, if you can snipe the war when QQ declares on Georgia, you can get to the capital and begin sieging it (taking out tons of loans because there's a capital fort x.x) and thus stop QQ from taking any land.
@L2Xenta8 жыл бұрын
Im Romanian so I try-harded Wallachia, failed every time in the latest patches, youre just stuck, betwen 1 strong ally and rest very powerfull enemies. Moldova under Polish controll, Tranyslvania under Hungarian , Ottomans .... , no border with Serbia yet. You ally Hungary or Poland and hope you somehow get some piece of land soon, but what you do most of the time is watch the game play itself. :S Im not the best player but...
@TimyRoby1238 жыл бұрын
Stiu prea bine ce zici... am incercat cu toate tarile romane :))) . Inafara de Transilvania...Fara cheat-uri , nu poti :))),cel putin pt. mine ,si eu nu-s cine stie ce expert :))
@withche078 жыл бұрын
you should stop ottomans white peace out try to conquer moldavia serbia fastly. you will definitely need quantity idea
@L2Xenta8 жыл бұрын
withche07 cant attack Moldova because its March/Vasal of Poland. Cant attack Serbia because I have no border with them in these later versions. To attack Serbia I have to take 1 -2 regions of Hungary... Hungary starts way too powerfull, not only that they get expert general early. The only good thing is ottomans usualy dont attack Wallachia before you can get some good ally. (and after you have strong allies Ottomans prefere to attack others not me). Yesterday I tried something new, allied Poland and didnt try to conquer anything just developed my existing 3 regions, I was getting rich, and out of the blue Poland removed alliance without any message from game and in same second Ottomans declared war... I was like :O What ... the ... fukc . (Or maybe Poland simply didnt join the war and was removed from allies, either way sux).
@hujake54067 жыл бұрын
try to keep your independence and convert save game to vic 2 and hoi4 ^^
@tantarudragos7 жыл бұрын
they fucked wallachia when they removed the serbian border, havent tried playing as it since tho.
@Kurtownia8 жыл бұрын
Well I do have a let's play as Albania on my channel, which I finished stretching from the Netherlands into Persia, but it's in Polish. It was fun indeed. I don't know about any exploits, so it was only fair play. Albania was difficult when it was at war with the Ottomans from the start, but now it's rather easy in comparison.
@truecursaderallhailscander79628 жыл бұрын
Hehe, in reality the greatest hero of Albanians, Scanderbeg manage to wipe out an army of 250 000 and 300 000 with his 8500 soliders. Looks impossible but Scanderbeg was smart like a god.
@truecursaderallhailscander79628 жыл бұрын
Ottomans*
@Nick-ld3zq8 жыл бұрын
+TRUE CURSADER, ALL HAIL SCANDERBEG skanderbeg* I'm Albanian lol
@truecursaderallhailscander79628 жыл бұрын
Nick Coku nice
@withche078 жыл бұрын
iskender bey Kappa
@donyonthemic15727 жыл бұрын
albania has the best komander in the game
@joshuafreyman72878 жыл бұрын
Do top 10 national ideas
@aethelberht49388 жыл бұрын
We all know Prussian is going to be number 1 on that list.
@SuperCompany0078 жыл бұрын
French?
@darkfireslide8 жыл бұрын
+Company007 Well, in a military contest Prussia would be uncontested. There are some pretty wild idea groups out there you wouldn't expect, though.
@mkd28398 жыл бұрын
+darkfireslide Poland and Nepal ideas are much better than Prussia
@darkfireslide8 жыл бұрын
Yeah Polish ideas are brutal.
@SebHaarfagre7 жыл бұрын
I see a lot of suggestions in the comments, but I think this list is good. Circassia? Try just playing as Georgia, that's hard enough. I reckon you have all DLC enabled and aren't cheesing. Ryuku? Easy? Give me a break. Tidore/Ternate is hard enough. The moment you hit "colonization" button, you know you're doomed 1600 onwards. Unless you have extreme luck. So what about doing conquest then? Sure. But it should preferably be mainland Asia, to avoid roadblocks mid game. Which again leaves you reliant on opportunism and luck. Indian minor? Yup.. etc etc And yes Byzantium actually have a fair amount of options. It can get several huge allies that can actually beat the strongest nation in the game, or ally someone with a good fleet and you can outsmart the Ottomans. Also you have the opportunity to restart from day 1 to decide your future if you so desire. Albania is harder. That starting leader is only good if you can get enough manpower behind him. And forget strait blocking. Though I think either of Kongo's vassals should be on the list. Ceylon I haven't tried yet but should be hard. Oh and final note, when he says "hardest starts" I'm pretty sure he means in regards to have a fun game or a game where you can do something of value and feel accomplished. He elaborated in the start of the video that "some is an achievement just to survive"; it's not a criteria for this list to be on the verge of oblivion, I think.. just starts where its hard to become great/do your achievements where relevant.
@nikolaangelov35838 жыл бұрын
The knights is pretty hard too
@infinitospecia64287 жыл бұрын
Nikola Angelov no because no une want your province the Only problem are the rebel
@infinitospecia64287 жыл бұрын
one *
@nikolaangelov35837 жыл бұрын
yeah but you have to wait a lot and that's hard to bear
@kampferparasyte42048 жыл бұрын
Good video mate ! You deserve more subs
@darkfireslide8 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@Darkdramon557 жыл бұрын
I just started a circassia campain not knowing i would be hard. I have no large allies, and i'm pretty sure a golden horde, crimea, uzbek aliance is about to come down on me like old testiment gods.
@Alexus666PL7 жыл бұрын
idk but playing as riga was super fun after you defeated livonian order, because you can often swallow muscovy and horde nations :)
@МартинГеоргиев-н4к8 жыл бұрын
Circassia is easy. The hordes end up in a war with one another and by the time someone looks your way you have about 80 dev and a huge cav given by the estates.
@TerrorBlades7 жыл бұрын
Irland one of the best nations to pick for new players of ck2. A nation with nothing to develop on as a new player in EUIV. i remember conquering the whole of ireland other then dublin and then looking att england. i started a war with brittany instead.
@skrutu777 жыл бұрын
Navarra is super simple though, just wait untill either france/castille/aragon/england offer you to become a vassal, then get their enemies to help you in an independence war where you're free to grab as much land from your overlord as you can manage
@darkr.o.b.21797 жыл бұрын
Where's East Frisia? It's almost completely surrounded by the HRE, which it isn't a part of, and its neighbor to the sea is Denmark.
@andrewmiller4074 жыл бұрын
Getting the "The Three Mountains" achievement as Ryukyu is near impossible. "Doing well" as Ryukyu is actually very easy, since they're near some very juicy colonization targets with the same religion.
@fotakatos8 жыл бұрын
I came here from the Simpsons' Number 8 burp song. I had no idea why, I just clicked at a random point in the clip and it was incidentally 1:50 where you say "number 8". I lost my fucking shit.
@MrMarinus187 жыл бұрын
It's somewhat difficult to follow. When calling nations you should put in arrows to make it more clear.
@LoftySkinner7 жыл бұрын
Bought this game because you can play as Norway. Found out it was basically just watching the game play itself and lose. Can't imagine there's supposed to be antything harder.
@yurigagarin97657 жыл бұрын
As Norway you have to find a strong ally that helps you get freed from Denmark, then conquer Scandinavia. A hard scenario, though there are much worse ones.
@LoftySkinner7 жыл бұрын
Yuri Gagarin Just saying, with Norway as my first experience in EU4 I guess I didn't "get" EU4. Because so many options are locked away and all the other ones are buried in the impenetrable UI.
@MrYesman437 жыл бұрын
If you're starting out with EU4, playing as Norway is not a good choice. It is far from impossible, but hard for the beginner who is still learning the game. I would recommend an easier nation, such as the Ottomans to first learn.
@dammitthatguy31077 жыл бұрын
Well yeah.Norway was basically the bitch of Denmark and Sweden.Hell even in real life they were look it up.
@SyamuNekoSan6 жыл бұрын
In South America, besides the nomads, the worst nations are Wanka and Colla, both are the closest Cuzco's neighbors and are surrounded by enemies that, by the way, are Cuzco's allies
@jaskamattila44818 жыл бұрын
Just noticed your profile picture is the desmond flag. Funny, cause i'm just doing a playthrough with it!
@yoloswaggins15797 жыл бұрын
The homie starts with extra manpower... But stays always behind. That's my homie!
@1293ST8 жыл бұрын
Recently played as Assam. Conquered Ming, India, Thailand and colonised Indonesia, Australia and California
@stupidmonkey10158 жыл бұрын
I love playing as Byzantium :D And after 5 restarts successfully got a foothold as Theodoro but I'll probably not get the Gothic Invasion achievement.
@darkfireslide8 жыл бұрын
Last night I started a campaign as Trebizond and it took me a similar number of restarts to get lucky. Haha
@stupidmonkey10158 жыл бұрын
Nice man! Good luck though. Should add me on steam ;)
@Godl1keNL8 жыл бұрын
Because I study Ancient History, and really like the Romans, I wanted to conquer the world as the Byzantine Empire. Had to settle for the Balkans, Italy, Hungary, Ottomans and Mamlukes. I basically managed to full on restore the east, with a bit of Justinian's conquests. Byzantines are really fun to play, but even after a 100 years, and you make one mistake, you can still die... XD
@stupidmonkey10158 жыл бұрын
+Erumelthir I love studying classical history and I am a byzantine fanatic just my account says it all haha
@jaskamakynen77668 жыл бұрын
Navarra is a blast to play (been there done that). I suggest to go to ireland without CB, and allying the biggest neighbor all the time. when someone dissolves alliance, ally immediately the other guys
@Seafarer648 жыл бұрын
Woot! Honorable mention - YES!! Now I don't feel so bad for my repeated restarts.
@SuspiciousEntityYT7 жыл бұрын
That was actually a really good review, you my good sir just got a new sub :)
@undolf40978 жыл бұрын
The honorable mention of the Irish makes me proud to have not only united the island but take over Iceland and Greenland before creating a large colonial empire in the Americas in Approx. Newfoundland, New England, and all of Louisiana. Does this mean I have some mastery of the game?
@josephcanny97338 жыл бұрын
Ryukyu World Conquest? Challenge accepted.
@zachsabel54668 жыл бұрын
its impossible i think now
@josephcanny97338 жыл бұрын
Zach Sabel That wont stop me xD
@zachsabel54668 жыл бұрын
Guess its good to be determined xD
@deletedchannel12648 жыл бұрын
Did it work out?
@josephcanny97338 жыл бұрын
Wills Hacker Corner Not so well. But I have a real cheesy Strategy that might just work.
@fristi617 жыл бұрын
You do not need to own and core every province to get the Three Mountains. You only need to ensure that no other independent nation exists. This means that 1: you do not need to colonize every province in the world, 2: you do not need to core every province and 3: you do not need to annex your vassals. A monumental task still, of course.
@goksir58456 жыл бұрын
Have you tried Takeda? (Little orange dude in Japan) I'm quite new to the game and I love playing as Japan, but every time I try to start as Takeda I get declared war on and get completely decimated by the two major powers around me before I can get any sort of footing. I almost wholeheartedly believe that Takeda is impossible without insane luck.
@RysingShadow7 жыл бұрын
I found Navarra pretty easy.. If you can manage to keep yourself allied to France or Castile and remain independent long enough to get the exploration ideas, you can move your capital to the Americas and become a huge world power. (since there's only one province in Europe). If you somehow find it hard to get started once you move your capital, you can always sell your old capital for a few hundred ducats.
@jelleslagter69247 жыл бұрын
sounds pretty boring tbh.....
@niallowens63127 жыл бұрын
What's so difficult about starting with an Irish province? I've played Leinster three times (once in Ironman) and never had any trouble with England, they always seem to make suicidal attacks on France. In fact France was always a bigger problem for me in those games.
@lennongrad137 жыл бұрын
I don't know if you counted them as an Indian Minor but The Maldives seems like a truly impossible start being that it's Muslim in Southern India and the only possible expansion involves amphibious landings on possible Vijaynagar vassals or allies
@exitmusic1238 жыл бұрын
it s funny , it s feels like you are naming all DDRjake's late campaign , good vid though
@stephenchurch17847 жыл бұрын
Ryukyu is actually pretty easy. First off tech groups have been replaced with institutions meaning you can "westernize" a lot easier right off the bat. All you have to do is wait till the renaissance pops then develop the island until you get it. Once you've done that, rush colonization and grab all the high value ones around South East Asia. This also conveniently gives you neighbors you can vassalize to feed you'r gains on the mainland to but really you want to be heading to Alaska to build your war machine in private.
@tobym38088 жыл бұрын
I know this is off topic but you have that Pilot voice lmao... I can picture you telling your passengers the weather conditions and please fasten your seatbelts hahaha
@Boiling_Seas7 жыл бұрын
I've recently begun playing a game as Karaman. Not quite as difficult as some of those in this list, but still quite challenging thanks to the Ottomans.
@mateo3868 жыл бұрын
The difficulty or impossibility of Ryukyu lies on the WC achievement, but it's not a difficult country if you want to do a casual game.
@Enric.7 жыл бұрын
Urbino is quite hard too. You're a Papal vassal and the Pope will try to annex you. And if you break the vassalage you'll be annexed anyway xD
@Povest13895 жыл бұрын
I just play with Circassia.. it's ultimate endless survival game. :D
@enKageKagen7 жыл бұрын
Forgot about 2 vassals of Ayutthaya? All their land is their overlord core, so can be annexed with no cost also in terms of time. This is literally impossible to survive
@kianbedo28336 жыл бұрын
Wikipedia: 5,000 Albanians vs 32,000 Turks (After battle) 22,000 Turks dead and 10,000 wounded, 1,000 Albanians wounded 500 dead. *Idk if it's accurate but it's something like that*
@randomcommenter3957 жыл бұрын
I was playing as Poland and watched as the Theodoro AI occupied all the lands of the Crimea AI and won the war.
@Brynyar8 жыл бұрын
Now this video will finally get off my reccomended.
@BlackEydPanda6 жыл бұрын
In my game version, Albania is surrounded by Venice Serbia and the Ottomans. All of them have a CB on Alb, because they seek Alb territory (which in that game consists of a single province.) If thats not enough, albania is indeed a Catholic state, BUT the people are all orthodox thus pressuring you to convert 😂 fun
@incendiarybullet35166 жыл бұрын
I once saw Albania last all the way up to 1750, and when they died it was because of Naples, not the Ottomans.
@TheMadKingAshnard8 жыл бұрын
Only problem is you assume Ryukyu is so hard because it is hard to do three mountains. However you can probably put the game on speed 5 as Ryukyu and manage to not get eaten all game. Mostly all other nations will try and eat you.
@DaxRaider8 жыл бұрын
albania was so much harder when u started in the war vs ottomans :)
@odenat37018 жыл бұрын
You didn't see a difficult start until you played as Granada
@beckenbaylin31678 жыл бұрын
Why is circassia in this list, I've played it on hard and when I have united Caucasus region I had defeated quara qouynly and had conquered Golden Horde, Crimea and I've even got my hands on ottomans
@samapesh7957 жыл бұрын
BurninG ControlleR nice.
@MFRUW4LIFE7 жыл бұрын
I've never played circassia but for some reason they always seem to stay alive
@levishelm4266 жыл бұрын
Selly Kronosova I am circassian too 😀, you have any instagram account? It is hard to find circassian people these days :/
@levishelm4266 жыл бұрын
Selly Kronosova yep, I am in turkey too...
@levishelm4266 жыл бұрын
Selly Kronosova ok :)
@levonclark96046 жыл бұрын
I've not played as them, but surely as Athens u gain independence, conquer Naxos and Rhodes before the Ottomans, then get Cyprus, and then conquer one of the small Anatolian nations, at which point you can expand into Aq and Qara Qoyunlu and eventually the Mamluks
8 жыл бұрын
Teutonic Order 15 starts No good alliances, My cheesy join the HRE strategy stopped working because Poland declared 10 opinion (including a 25 opinion gift to austria and funding)
@max45l7 жыл бұрын
You've forgot The Maldives =P
@haydarelensari57227 жыл бұрын
looool I played with maldives yesterday I took half of india
@Koasterking2127 жыл бұрын
Let's not forget you get cool achievements with Byzantium if you reunite the Roman Empire
@carljones9828 жыл бұрын
Saxe-Laurenburg is actually kinda easy? Lubeck doesn't really turn her attention towards you, and Hamburg is a Free City so she doesn't really expand. Holstein is a subject, and Denmark won't attack into you. You only have one nation to really worry about, and some simple alliance building can make her work. Circassia is pretty simple too? You have a fair bit of time to expand before a serious threat in the Ottomans becomes an issue, and you can always change your faith to fit what is around you. Not easy, but not really impossible. Byzantium is super easy and is not really worth an honourable mention? They have one hard war and then they kinda just coast towards victory afterwards. They have a lot of cores up for the taking, and just so many events and missions that reward them with monarch points with Purple Phoenix. Of the harder starts, Byz is probably the most overstated and most blessed of them all due to them having a DLC just about them. Once you get off the ropes, you are soaring. Also, your qualifications for impossible start for many seem to be survival, and Ryukyu is super easy to survive as. Expanding is hard, but you are literally never at threat from foreign powers. This allows to to turtle as much as you please, develop your terrible province up and at least take a good shot at expanding well. Three Mountains is hard (as is any world conquest), but simply playing Ryukyu is not. Really, a big issue with some of your list here in general is that some of them face very little risk compared to some of the other starts out there, like nations which start as a subject. Here are some nations I would say are harder than some on your list: Loango: They are usually annexed far before you even know they exist. The Central African expansion made them a bit easier now, due to being able to possibly get allies to prevent the integration, but it didn't really change much. Salzburg: They may have more dev than Saxe-Laurenburg, but they have a bigger issue. An Austrian shaped issue. And Austria gets a very early mission on them too. Their paths of expansion include fighting the Emperor, or fighting Bavaria, who is the third biggest dog in the HRE. Tabarestan and Ardalan: They are tiny, Shia surrounded by Sunni's, have low dev and not a lot of choice for allies. Their direct neighbours are the Timurids and Qara, both being hostile. Good luck. Holstein: If you can get past the first problems of Holstein, then it is probably smooth sailing for you. It is just getting there in the first place that is the issue. You are a subject of Denmark, who has 2 other subjects who are very loyal to him. You have two rubbish provinces, 22 dev total. If you break free from the Danish oppressor, then you have another issue - your other border is the HRE. Your only real option is to join, if you even can. Naxos: How do you feel about being a 6 dev island province bordering the Ottomans? Not good? Alright, what if you were a subject too under Venice, will that make you feel any better? Didn't think so. Madurai, Venad and Kochin: These all border each other, and all share the same issue. They also border Vijaynagar, who will send you a warning in month 1 or 2. Your only effective way to expand at all means you have to fight the big yellow blob of India. You may think you have it bad, but poor old Jaffna has it even worse. They are a vassal of Vijaynagar, so expect to be integrated shortly, while you pay Vijaynagar some of your monthly income in the mean time.
@karenarmstrong81417 жыл бұрын
"number 1 ryukyu" me: excuese me
@winmaciek8 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure if Navarra is really that hard. I've once tried it and instead of focusing on colonization or fighting with surrounding powers I decided to jump north. I allied France, waited till Burgundy declares war on it, signed separate peace and got 1 province north of France. Maybe that's the way to play this country?
@TheRealXartaX8 жыл бұрын
There are no nations in eu4 that are really that difficult to merely survive with.
@darkfireslide8 жыл бұрын
I would argue that most of the nations in the immediate vicinity of the Ottomans take a little bit of skill and luck to survive as. Most nations after you hit about 300+ development are fairly easy to play, but getting there is the hard part.
@TheRealXartaX8 жыл бұрын
darkfireslide It's not hard to get there. Eu4 is only hard if you go for things like WC (as a weak nation).
@darkfireslide8 жыл бұрын
It also depends on what metric you measure yourself as "doing well." Ending a game as Brittany with 1200 development, for example, felt like an accomplishment to me. But to other people, I feel like some aren't satisfied unless they go for WC. To each their own- I'm glad we can all enjoy this game in our own way.
@tristanmarienhagen5117 жыл бұрын
Ryukyu: Own at 1500 Japan and Manchuria, 1501: Don't be motivated for playing further 😂
@UTO78 жыл бұрын
I actually had a game where AI Circassia blobbed and took over a good portion of the Crimea area. I think Muscovy helped them though.
@stefdasca8 жыл бұрын
I played as Sarig Yogir and managed to conquer Tibet,Central Asia,most of Mongolia and northern India before Ming and Russia ganged up
@lord66177 жыл бұрын
If you were going to call out an entire area like ireland, I would call out all of the caucuses (?) (shirvan, circassia, gazimukh, georgia) instead. You have expansion options of against the 1) ottomans 2) russia 3) Lithuania/commonwealth 4) horde lands /uzbek. You start with low development and terrible rulers, with religion that does you no favors for allies, and in an awkward and fairly poor trade region. Any of the irish nations can chain war to easily conquer 2/3 of ireland to start off the game, and then choose to ally scotland or england to grab more land on the larger landmass before eventually turning on your ally to take a huge chunk of one of the best trade end nodes in the game.
@emilya85807 жыл бұрын
the "civilized world" must be the most offensive thing ive heard today
@seiban84558 жыл бұрын
How the fuck? I can't even win even the most basic wars I declare, and yet people continue to beat the ottomans as byzantium and make the game look easy while doing so. Worth my salt? No. Salty? Yes.
@withche078 жыл бұрын
eu4 is really hard to master. when I first started I couldnt even play at easy with small countries but I kept trying trebizond, circassia, knights, dai viet, ainu, ardalan... you learn something from every try or save-load when you fucked up. you learn how to not fuck it up. at last I could make ardalan (on medium) from crimea to arab lands from cizre to some timurids lands. It was my first half success. now I realized I do better in overall, I dont get disasters that often. my gameplay is more stabilized
@seiban84558 жыл бұрын
okay, I'm currently trying out some of the hordes.
@starsantasta43517 жыл бұрын
Surviving with Aq Qoyunlu is also painfull. Their economy is very bad throughout the game and that makes you not able to create enough regiments.
@Zapperr4598 жыл бұрын
heh, try playing as nevers
@Zapperr4598 жыл бұрын
+Abudullah the Egyptian Gamer and why is that.
@vincents.63108 жыл бұрын
+Zapperr459 Because everyone hates Burgundy, just take Burgundian rich land and then it's easy to get Austria to go to war against France w/ you
@Zapperr4598 жыл бұрын
Vincent Susilo ... ok
@DMSBrian248 жыл бұрын
nevers urrender
@TheSGtob8 жыл бұрын
Byzantium is not so impossible
@tylerkane56038 жыл бұрын
it's hard luck has to be on your side I ran and invade Rome right off the bat won and lost Byzantium to the ottomons
@StylesisTNA8 жыл бұрын
+Company007 exactly. In my game I got super lucky, literally on the day I allied Poland the ottomans declared war those poor sons of bitches.
@saiien28 жыл бұрын
I agree. If you have powerfull allies like Hungary and Poland you're ok. Primary quest is to secure greece and "reconnect" your 3 provinces in Peloponnese and Thrace (Constantinople)
@serhatdemir15007 жыл бұрын
i dont know if i am professional but i defeat ottomans with serbia, wallachia lmao. but i was only managed to get yanya then i got bankrupt and shit then deleted the save
@ademhavva15357 жыл бұрын
Its possible with allying albania too,
@CRUSADERO17 жыл бұрын
Ryukyu is still easy with colonization. The hardest starts in this game is about having place near much more powerful rival that will eager to eat you alive soon and no one want to ally with you.
@CricketStyleJ8 жыл бұрын
I was recently playing as Champa, and that is a miserable start. Bad king, bad heir, bad national ideas, bad trade node, bad tech group, and not much development. You are a small Hindu nation surrounded by more powerful Buddhists who hate you. It is tough to get any useful alliance at all before your neighbors crush you. And then, if you start to do well, you will likely be boxed in by Ming and/or Ayutthaya. I restarted about 20 times before my current run, which is going okay. I'm not sure if it is as hard as some of these nations (I haven't played all of them), but it's pretty bad.
@pauljeff6227 жыл бұрын
with odoyez you can make allies with muscovy because they the same religion, and with the help of muscovy you can take over golden horde and ryzan very easily
@sik3xploit8 жыл бұрын
All of this seems to remind me of the super OP rebels you get when reforming in Inca. Your reforming won't survive those rebels unless you take some drastic measures!
@Yogscastjt7 жыл бұрын
"Impossible is a word in the dictionary of idiots"-Napoleon Bonaparte
@TheLastRoman8 жыл бұрын
No Trebizond? THAT'S REALLY IMPOSSIBLE.
@carteradams435 жыл бұрын
i got a challenge: restore the roman empire as Athens
@valiatus67194 жыл бұрын
Carter Adams you mad man
@Poffean7 жыл бұрын
for navvarra, I counted 4 neighbors (france,castile,england,aragon)
@xgraharax8 жыл бұрын
Byzantium isn't really difficult, sure, it has maybe the most enraging starts in the game, but once you overcome the ottomans in your first war, you pretty much have smooth sailing for the rest of the game.
@bagnfbs39667 жыл бұрын
My top 10. Circassia 9. Napoli 8. Lübeck 7. Navarra 6. Ming (it's impossible I think) 5. Hormuz 4. Odoyev 3. Ulm 2. Sulu 1. Ryukyu
@Ben01tM8 жыл бұрын
I started with Navarra, colonized something in the caribbean sea, moved my capital and colonized almost all of Americas.
@jonatanng7 жыл бұрын
Theodoro guide: ally ALL the nations you can, wait for crimea to declare, let your allies kill them, decline later call to arms, take the full crimea land, wait for rebels, wait for golden horde to attack you, let golden horde kill the rebels, and then vassalize you, get independence support from muscovy and whatever other nations you can get, take as much land as possible from golden horde, wait for rebels, get into a war with muscovy as your ally, preferably vs another strong nation, let muscovy and your enemies kill your rebels, GG EAZY NOOBS!
@Ulkomaalainen7 жыл бұрын
Ryukyu got beefed up compared to EU III though. Sure, getting the achievement is hard, probably more difficult than in EU III, but surviving is a breeze. Comparatively.
@Solicarako8 жыл бұрын
A little tip for Ryukyu? I mean, can you do claims so far away? because attacking japan is not an early option... So what do you do, eat stability stuff and declare wars on Indonesia or south-east asia?
@darkfireslide8 жыл бұрын
Essentially, yes. I believe the youtuber/streamer by the name of Florryworry has successfully done the Three Mountains achievement on camera. If not, he is currently doing a run of it on Twitch on Very Hard. The man is quite possibly insane, or at the very least, very Dutch. But yeah, you need to do a no-CB war. I've read that Ceylon is a good target, but I imagine some of those isolated Indonesian states are pretty good as well.
@Solicarako8 жыл бұрын
Hmmmm I guess I'm gonna look for that Florryworry dude, and I'll do a first try soon. Guess that's gonna be tough, but it can also be funny... Anyway, good job with those tops, you gained a subscriber. Keep it high!
@nocookies20148 жыл бұрын
+darkfireslide florry is the greatest XD
@sup69168 жыл бұрын
+noCookiiezzForYou he should get the achievment to convert the entite world to the nation religion xD
@straight_edgespartan80948 жыл бұрын
I'd probably start with no CB'ing Ternate, and Tidore. Both are Animist and have decent development.
@ishhanian6 жыл бұрын
Karabakh is pretty challenging as well.
@softenbysam6 жыл бұрын
I'm an Irish player, quite literally, but I wouldn't call them that hard, it's pretty easy. It was hard back when it was just 4 provinces.