The Worst Unplayable Nations of EU4

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There are thousands of nations in EU4 but some are so bad that you’ll be glad to check this list before your next campaign. This tier list of the worst EU4 nations includes states that have horrifyingly terrible national ideas, precarious starting positions and mechanics that actively punish any who dare play them. We’re back in EU4 - enjoy the latest AlzaboHD EU4 video!
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Table of Contents:
Introduction 0:00
Yas 1:31
Lakota 2:33
Rhade 3:29
Karabakh 4:43
Muisca 5:50
Waitaha 7:01
Beloozero 7:47
Palawa 8:37
Betsimisaraka 9:40
Hawaii 10:52
Honorable Mentions 12:18
Conclusion 13:11
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[@AlzaboHD]

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[@94sjolander]

I actually did Australia-Hungary as Palawa. You can easily move out of Tasmania when the tribe blocking you migrates. And sure its a very slow start but once you hit mil 6 and can turn into a tribe you got the most op ideaset in Australia, arguably one of the strongest in the game. Their religion and mission tree is also pretty fun once you get through the start.

[@94sjolander]

*turn into a horde at mil 6. I typoed. Also I didn't mention its easy to farm mana through show strength wars down there as you can easily find rivals to beat in your tribe state.

[@bigjohn5142]

@@94sjolander just edit the comment lil bro

[@samizoomer78]

naa this bro playing natives 😭💀

[@appropinquo3236]

I really like the mechanics added for natives in levitation, unfortunately playing as natives is still one of the most painfully difficult things I have ever experienced. Constantly getting seal clubbed by France, Britain, Spain, and whoever else feels like joining in is not very fun. Not saying its completely impossible or unfun, just very grating at times.

[@ShankaDaWanka]

@@bigjohn5142Editing the comment removes the heart.

[@noaccount4]

Rhade is hilarious just because I like the idea of having the entirety of the Eurasian+African continent launching a coalition against you because you annexed Cambodia

[@bartsfartandshart]

It's still absolutely criminal that Paradox left Polynesia and Melanesia broken and unfinished

[@Pigraider268]

Guess being Karabakh is equally difficult both in EU and irl

[@Canaanitebabyeater]

Turkic trouble I presume?

[@Pigraider268]

@@Canaanitebabyeater I don't know if you can call it that. Azerbaijan invaded Karabakh a few days ago

[@Canaanitebabyeater]

@@Pigraider268 They've been invading them since the Seljuks, this is just another Thursday for them, albeit maybe their last

[@unexpected2475]

@@Pigraider268 I think getting invaded by a Turkic country is the definition of Turkic trouble

[@AmilMuxtarov]

​@@Pigraider268none of countries in the world doesn't say that Azerbaijan conquer his own land wtf you are talking about just think simple every country recognize this territory a part of Azerbaijan even your country dont play to emotions accept truth

[@maximilienmavian4333]

The Armenia commentary was crazzyyyy, but thank you for remembering we exist 😅

[@AlzaboHD]

I wish you guys the best! Cheers

[@jpheitman1]

#7 is particularly prescient, considering the news headlines this week. Apparently Karabakh is hard to play IRL too.

[@AlzaboHD]

We're back to EU4! Would anyone like more content on this game? Let me know here!

[@downtowncoolsville.8958]

You should do some more achievement guides! Like '' the Buddhists strike back '' is one i would love to see you cover.

[@David-bh7hs]

Yas was one of my favorite games ever

[@user-tl6dv4kz7b]

Yea of course

[@jarco5000]

Still the best game!

[@metaclownfish5921]

I'd love more eu4

[@Dominik-lc4pl]

The Artsakh puns are as briliant as they are tragic

[@TheRusty]

The Siberian minors aren't the worst tags. You just wipe out your three neighbors, go colonial, and have a giggle at all the dudes in parkas invading Tahiti and Mexico.

[@dr0g_Oakblood]

4:57 - theoretically these Armenian lands should be getting some new stuff in the new update, we’ll see how it goes

[@Dominik-lc4pl]

This week was certainly an update...

[@ryanmattia433]

I once did a custom nation run starting in the hawaii area cause I thought the idea was funny. Even with specially tailored ideas and none of those stability events it was kinda miserable. At least I had colonial range BEFORE my last idea though.

[@dragoneer121]

His pronunciation of the Australian and Maori nations amkes me cry. I like playing Palawa though because it is home, Though it is in the wrong end of the island.

[@AlzaboHD]

I really tried to pronounce aotearoa correctly, is the pronunciation on forvo incorrect? Cheers

[@saulgallagher5668]

​@@AlzaboHDso to pronounce Aotearoa, pretend you just got hit in the head by an oar. Ow-teha-rowah Don't get me wrong I'm very appreciative of the attempt regardless

[@L3FT2BURN]

@@saulgallagher5668 Idk why, but that's gotta be the most kiwi way to explain that i've heard

[@pedrotbird5426]

I am terrible at EU4 so all nations are terrible for me but I am hoping to learn soon enough!

[@reddawn1873]

to be fair of the game really sucks And for lies a lot on luck in order to win your battles So because of the Luck reliance i'm going to make things an inevitability

[@CW-po4bx]

I just assume Im doing everything wrong so I just forget about how hard the game is

[@erhansolhan9564]

​@@reddawn1873Good terrain usage, good army composition and good generals win you a battle. Not luck.

[@reddawn1873]

@@erhansolhan9564 Excluding the overwhelming force of a Military with Is much better stats

[@rubenvanbelzen1940]

What helped me was to start as an OP nation like France or the Ottomans and play the game. After those campaigns became boring, I played a nation that was a little bit more difficult, like Muscovy (with its money problem) or even Brandenburg. And when you don’t understand something, don’t hesitate to look it up or to look up a guide

[@tromedlovdrolmai]

I love the EU4 content, but your voice volume on this video was even lower than in the past, and it makes it really hard to hear without turning the volume way up

[@AlzaboHD]

Cheers and thanks for the feedback! Just moved my office and still working with the acoustics - I'll boost everything up for next video. Cheers!

[@tromedlovdrolmai]

I played Hawaii once, to get the Surf City USA achievement. I formed Nahuatl USA, cuz of the Pagan religion event that triggers by capturing a pagan holy site. It wasn't fun having to move my capital out of the Pacific to North America, but I did no cb Samoa after forming Hawaii, vassalize them, then use them to unite the pacific and Australia before moving to America

[@datopapunashvili6101]

the "hello strategy game enthusiasts" with a very deep voice never gets old

[@ThighErda]

I can remember playing chukchi & colonizing Cascadia then getting curbstomped by the British.

[@SuperBadadan]

RIP Karabakh, you had a good run.

[@CrackJeezus]

Honestly I gotta say Betsimisaraka is really strong if you become a pirate republic. They have excellent naval ideas and you can just bully the seas with them. Quite an easy nation to play as if you lean into the naval dominance imo

[@NokiaRokia]

Kongo is actually super fun and got some good buffs

[@ZeroCGR2]

Its been so long since I played EU 4 but still I do enjoy these videos

[@livingthemcdream]

we all know in our hearts that Ulm will always be the strongest nation in EU4

[@steppedwellerUA]

Alzabo's puns are worth living for

[@combrade-t]

To be fair, Palawa has pretty good military ideas if I recall. I remember a while back doing a mini campaign where I beat up a bunch of the other Australian Natives before getting bored.

[@MenwithHill]

Extremely blessed to have more Alzabo top 10s

[@lawrencerutherford4260]

you clearly underestimate the patience of people who play with extended timeline from the earliest date

[@sirnipplelickerofjustice774]

I would really enjoy all the bloopers of this video, you can clearly hear he's on the verge of cracking up multiple times

[@anthroposium]

If anyone is wondering, the graphical mod Alzabo used is called Imperial Graphics on Steam :)

[@leonilyas3593]

Thanks man, was hoping it was gonna be in the desc

[@stoopidapples1596]

As a Tasmanian it is weird hearing anyone talk about the Palawa people. I find the fact that they can just migrate to the mainland at will so hilarious!

[@Battledongus]

Super funny video! I really liked the callback to the "try being Armenian" joke from the old video. Please do more worst x videos!

[@Hyperblowfish]

EU4 is my favorite game and I would love to see more content from it!

[@asdfasdf-dd9lk]

Call me crazy, but Hawaii is actually pretty fun; you can fight and conquer all of polynesia and new zealand, push into australia and go horde, and begin to raze the east indies and china to the ground, all before 1500.

[@thepompf2049]

Its at least more fun than playing in Australia, since you can at least see the map and can no CB cheese your way through the campaign

[@GaijinEncarmine]

It's kind of incredible that Paradox made my home state a playable tag considering the pre-colonial population was, at most, around 15,000 people!

[@2Links]

To be fair, I'm not sure how populous even european city-states were at the time...

[@GaijinEncarmine]

@@2Links You're kind of right, but I think most of the ones represented on the map are actually large enough to qualify as tags; Ulm, for example, managed a population of around 60,000 in EU4's timeframe. I think quite a few New World tribal tags in general exist more for gameplay purposes (which is fine, of course).

[@Joseph_417]

Hawaii?

[@matthewgladback8905]

That'll obviously support a standing army of 10,000 with another 10k in reserve, just like every other OPM in the game. No, we won't reconsider this for any reason even after a decade. When the multiplayer crowd makes a mockery of this, we'll slightly nerf vassals instead of addressing the core issue.

[@Trethan3266]

LETS GO ALZABO EU4 Is back

[@sandercohen5543]

I made the mistake of feeding my vassals as cambodia with vietnamese land, not realizing those vassals were stateless societies. They would spawn so many rebel armies it nearly ran me bankrupt, because they got like 100 unrest due to gov capacity.

[@Kafkawaswrongbeetlesarecool]

Love these videos bro

[@Jakdaw13]

Can you make a ck3 video on mazaradan? Reclaiming the sassanid empire would be a cool video

[@Nikkidafox]

3:34 but first a word from our sponser: Rhade Shadow Legends

[@saulgallagher5668]

New Zealand mentioned! Even if they gave us like a handful of salt to flavour us with

[@blue291]

always enjoy your style on EU4... maybe with the King of Kings you'll revisit some of the old tags and their new content. Until then, stay chill.

[@jft3730]

Great video man! Does anyone know what the outro beat song is? I love it so much :D

[@ADrunkBassist]

I did a Hawaii run. I don't remember it being that painful. I took exploration and expansion ideas and just started colonizing stuff.

[@mikolajkulas7326]

Nice vid

[@reginaldtickle74]

You should do a video on something in Anebennar

[@yaldabraxas]

Come non. No one joked about the insult to the great Ulm?

[@Arda0801]

I played hawaii in a multiplayer game. Got all the institutions from deving all of hawaii. That event is good for deving. In the end, I controlled whole west coast of americas along with australia.

[@ianschiefer2823]

Funnily enough, my first successful campaign was Muisca. Since, I largely enjoy playing as native peoples.

[@Djentle-Rain]

Oh shit I was the 5,000th like for the video aha!! I have played to many of these terrible nations and had some fun with them lol

[@mrstopanimationguy]

Soooo WC challenge with one of these nations next?

[@jukesduck9363]

Babe wake up, new EU4 video from Alzabo dropped!

[@punkaludunk]

I love you Alzabro

[@justinsculley1536]

I've been watching this channel for a while and @5:00 "there's nogorno-goingbakh" is hands down the worst, most unforgivable pun this channel has ever made. I don't know if I should be impressed or mad lmfao

[@borderlinebear5509]

Ah, that pronounciation of Betsimisaraka makes me (still) wish for a video from you on Madagascar.

[@nooncob1915]

Palawa so happens to be one of my favourite nations to play. In fact it's the only native I play. But still a well deserved title for the nation.

[@trite4654]

I definitely want more eu4

[@sebastienhardinger4149]

I had a really enjoyable Karabakh game after like a dozen restarts...until I finally amassed a decent sized slice of the Caucuses before the Ottoman juggernaut destroyed me

[@michael120.]

i honestly feel bad for the ai player who is damned to play hawaii forever

[@compatriot852]

Not surprising that some of the worst nations are in Oceania. It's mind numbingly dumb how Paradox placed more development time into these lands while forgetting to add in Romuva paganism and flesh out Lithuania and Poland

[@mojewjewjew4420]

romuva was gone by 1444 so why bother adding it? You have to be rtarded to want paganism back.

[@erwannthietart3602]

At this point its not forgetting, its straight up refusing They allowed Norse in the game which has even less a reason to exist, it took years to have it playable without custom or random new world, but a religion that is supposed to exist even if maybe only as a religius minority in 1 or 2 province top, could be done And against the argument of simplifying it, Zoroastrian is in the game too lol

[@mojewjewjew4420]

@@erwannthietart3602 zoroastrian compared to your oga bonga was a organized religion and one of the biggest in the world, no one in his right mind would go back to paganism.

[@erwannthietart3602]

@@mojewjewjew4420 now i hate to say it, because i find zoroastrianism interesting, but in this case i dont care Even if Romuvian wasnt an organised religion (like Norse, Animism and many more already in the game) they were one of the last traces of European Paganism that were still alive to an extant by the starting date, the matter is, it existed still, even as minority, while Zoroastrianism only existed as a minority yet they gave it 2 province as many as Jewish another minority essentially everywhere else if memory serves well. Theres little to no argument why it shouldnt at least exist in one province, and dont worry.

[@mojewjewjew4420]

@@erwannthietart3602 There werent any pagan provinces in Europe by 1444,romuva is dead and reviving it while bordering 2 holy crusader orders and the ultra catholic Poland is suicidal, which is why by 1444 its gone, judaism only has semien (or they added 1 more?) because those actually had a jewish majority by that point, atleast supposedly, not gonna get more into it bc then some snowflake will be triggered, zoroastrian is alive even today and supposedly is growing, romuva doesnt, zoroastrian is present in Yazd or how its spelled which is its holy center which makes sense. Your "arguments" make no sense, if you really want to larp so hard then use extended timeline.

[@princekrazie]

Karabakh is terrible both in real life and in game.

[@Alexander99602]

I remember playing Hawai'i. I think I did a pretty decent job, you essentially play a bad city builder, you build up all your provinces and catch up with institutions, then go colonial. European powers are so far away from you that you pretty much can even catch up to them. Maybe even surpass them. In conclusion, it's not exactly the worst nation I'd say, because the sheer distance from Europe gives you so much time to catch up technologically that the only time you'll start seeing Europeans it's around 1600s'. By then I'll guarantee you'll catch up with all the institutions and tech on par with Europeans. The minuses are the boredom, the absolute boredom of pressing buttons to level up a city. It helps have an active imagination and thinking about how life would be in these islands, as they go through the massive development. You essentially level up the Hawai'ian archipelago to level 30 each island. Oh right, and the achievement is kind of stupid to tell you the truth, because colonial range to the Americas is... basically you'll much rather colonize Australia than you even reaching America. Around the 1600's or so you'll start seeing a European, for the most part actually they'll leave you alone if you don't trouble them too much, but I'd say you'll have to be the one to attack them first, the distance from mainland Europe means it'll take some time for them to bring out a serious army to defeat you, if they even bother to bring out their whole army to begin with, as that would leave them vulnerable to other Europeans powers, but pretty much, you'll both contend for Australia and New Zeeland, that's your main direction point. If you get those, then you're safe, you can build up and even become a world power. It's essentially a from rags to riches playthrough.

[@Alexandru1996_]

Mamluks don't have bad ideeas, it is just that they have no missions that help with expansion. On the other hand, they can become a great trading hub due to that steering power bonus of like 20%. If you own like 1-2 centers of trade in every node upstream it helps alot with pushing money to Alexandria.

[@Ejosii]

11:09 this guy has a macro when he LANDS off a fuckin' flight like a griffin

[@professionalgoob]

2:44 Don’t ever take a foot on my corn field or else smh 😤😤😤

[@dantejones1480]

Your voice doesn't sound like it's usual self. No need to lose your voice for us. We can wait if you need a longer break.

[@ethanbrown7198]

Is Alzabo whispering in this video?

[@the_phobia]

I did surfing USA as hawaii and it was a ton of fun!

[@brenokrug7775]

I own EU4 on steam but haven't played in years. What DLCs do I need to have a decent experience?

[@newtubevector]

Next update bizantium will become the most unplayable nation 💀

[@yamameeven967]

3:21 You are wrong about this, recently I played Yokutz and I had tons of fun and Yokutz doesn't have much content in terms of missions

[@ElPastalero]

i love alzabohd asmr

[@Slavesforsale1]

Aotearoa is pronounced (ow-tee-a-ro-a) and means "Land of the Long White Cloud" in Maori.

[@thenamesianna]

These I believe weren't added to be played, but only for historical accuracy because they existed.

[@foxdavion6865]

The only way to get rid of the yearly event in Hawaii is to enact a reform which IRL never happened till the 19th century and it would first require you to be in contact with a European nation, meaning you have to sell one of your provinces first to acquire it - then once the truce is up they'll declare war on you

[@vhhawk]

Modern Midwest over here catching strays.

[@grantforester1864]

When a broken mission tree only gets you number 8 then you know the next 7 must be complete aids

[@Bitt3rSteel]

I liked the part where warpath x metal. Slug explodes the mission of battlefield

[@chimera9818]

You should be able to form el dorado with musica (they are the ones that thanks to some tradition their leadership had the Spanish believed in el dorado

[@GarfieldRex]

Necessary cocaine puns?

[@lawler197]

When will you do more gameplay content on the channel?

[@AlzaboHD]

Next one I think, really depends on what gets views tbh

[@lawler197]

@@AlzaboHD that's fair. Tier lists don't really do anything for me, since I don't play the games due to a lack of time.

[@carver3147]

Can't say I'm surprised that a game focused on the Old World got this wrong, but the Lakota weren't in the great plains in the 1400s. They migrated from the east (likely near the Ohio valley) in the 17th century due to conflicts with other native tribes being pushed West by European settlers.

[@jakubn3809]

No Iceland, AKA the most isolated nation in Europe?

[@tylerharless5153]

Yeeesssssss more eu4!

[@SpicyMapping]

were your parents asleep in the other room or something

[@RamanShrikant]

What is the music at the start?! :)

[@AlzaboHD]

The song is "EU4 Origins - Strategy Reborn". Cheers!

[@spyczech]

For musica just no cb other inti nations then seize provinces from them as vassals

[@hawkticus_history_corner]

"As mediocre as the modern midwest" Ok bud, thats it youre on the blacklist. No cheese curds for you

[@konplayz]

Karabakh Aware

[@alex_zetsu]

How about "all nations are unplayable" since this game is basically a demo and without DLC the whole game is an unplayable mess.

[@hachijospaniard5643]

Because then Alzabo would launch a cruzade to Paradox to begin another shitty baed companie vyagame drama.

[@richardalex4516]

Armenian campaigns in Paradox games are automatically Impossible difficulty

[@patton890]

very true. art imitates life i guess.

[@michaelthomas5433]

Lakota mission tree should be fixed. Maybe in a few more years. :(

[@sardiniapiedmont]

Mamluks being an honorable mention makes no sense. Yes their national ideas are mid and they have shit missions(especially compared to the mission power creep in DLC the past couple years) but the cav combat ability and 5% discipline will suffice in gutting the Ottomans early and after that, you have literally no threats with a great economy and can literally play any kind of game you want. I've seen AI Mamluks create Mamlukian Australia on their own. The government is also pretty good and its the second great power in 1444. I don't know what changes they're making in the new DLC but the Mamluks are already underrated.

[@xseperatistx]

Hawaii well deserved 1st place, even harder irl as vassal and it's population dying, when liege only cares about nations on the other side of the globe with few exceptions (that is have oil)

[@erwannthietart3602]

Not vassal state technically Its been anexed and core stated for a while now Puerto rico is a territorial core though and they suffer similarly And dear god Guantanamo is not even cored and Cuba is still claiming it ^^

[@joshuaalach9431]

The Maori pronunciations were really bad. Aotearoa is pronounced "ow-tee-ah-ro-ah". Other than that nice vid!

[@yurilemay884]

Put the "pain" in campaign 😂

[@OblomSaratov]

I can't agree that Hawaii is the worst, because as Hawaii it is easy to survive till 1821, which is not the case for many other nations.

[@duckstm]

why tf is Yas #10 and honourable mention

[@AstroPhis]

Can someone please tell me name of map mod?

[@viktor7879]

goood vid

[@MrWellls]

lol aoteraaaaa i like the pronunciation