DOMINATE Europe with This INSANE Angevin Empire Strategy in EU4 1.36!

[@Scott-qp6fs]

If you release Ireland (or wait to conquer it) until after you hit Admin 7, they'll have exploration as one of their ideas and can colonize North America for you, which is a nice bonus when playing the Angevin route.

[@zagsarraykland6291]

My man , you can beat shit ou of castile , and portugal at same time, spawn SPAIN(they already have explo) , then in 2-nd war vassalize portu , then beat shit out of castile again(2-3 times) (if he have PU over ARA , you take ARA as vassal with perk for splendor , that halfs cost of taking vassals) , and after that vassalise him , and give them all subsidize , TA-DA you have 3 colonizing vassals. (oh yes ,and beat shit out of denmark , and vassalize norway and sweden like you do it with ARA) so now with norway you have 4 colonizing vassals. Do you really need more?

[@Pokemark17]

or just realese leon as a vassel lol

[@seanburke997]

Ireland takes so long to dev up it's economy to the point where it can really support colonies/exploration though. You really have to subsidize them if you want them to do it anytime soon early game.

[@elcazador3349]

What would negative aggressive expansion impact look like from the perspective of other nations? "Ah yes, the Angevins are pursuing their perfectly legitimate claims. Good on them!" (+X% opinion).

[@catboy9751]

I am so grateful for a EU4 youtuber who is not obnoxious but still puts effort into their content!!!

[@johnny-smith]

You can consistently win the Maine war with France as long as you can get 1 or 2 strong allies to promise land to, preferably Burgundy and Castile/Aragon. In that peace deal, you should easily be able to give enough land to Burgundy, which doesn't matter since you'll likely be going for the BI later anyways, and have enough AE reduction from the missions to PU France without being coalitioned. This allows you to PU France and still go down the British branch of the mission tree.

[@kylekelly1167]

I think the point of this video is you don't need the massive AE reduction from the PU CB.

[@KitiHey]

@@kylekelly1167you actually dont, only improve relations and thats it, only like 5 minors will want to coalition you

[@kylekelly1167]

@@KitiHey if you kill France with the PU CB can you take Paris in prace deal it's not fun waiting 50 years for that great project.

[@KitiHey]

@@kylekelly1167 i think yes, but idk tbh

[@Sumosh27]

Great content, different and smart playstyle. Thx for the video man.

[@Theplaymaker57]

Thanks! I'm glad you are enjoying it.

[@seanburke997]

I tried this strategy, it was really educational. It's a completely different way to play than I would usually go, and really forced me to be very disciplined with my play, and taught me a lot about the various mechanics, many of which i hadn't paid a lot of attention to before. You really have to plan with this strategy, you want to get the ball rolling well before age of reformation for the extra 20% AE age ability. I'd really like to see the follow up video where you form Rome btw.

[@vlance4033]

I think before switching to France and Forming Angevin, as England you should attack Castille and Aragon getting 15 provinces in Iberia so you can complete the "Kingdoms of Spain" mission and you can form Spain under a PU same as Ireland, even if Castille and Aragon still exist. This way you can get Spanish colonies easier and earlier. This can also apply for conquering 15 states in Italy which will then let you form Italy under a PU as well at the same time

[@shs_89iyadg39]

wow man i never knew you can get more than 100% AE, great tutorial

[@oKnuTo]

micro optimization if you plan on releasing gascony ,wich i generlly think is the best approach, you can sell the monopoly on wine to the cleargy. Proably the only instance i´d ever take these.

[@sageof6pandas233]

This seems like an OP strat to form rome, IMO after you take england, france, italy, and iberia, forming rome just becomes very easy

[@user-ru7ky2ec7v]

Basically it’s brexit backwards

[@benabaxter]

Why not dev Provence to reconquer cores on Naples?

[@CMVBrielman]

I’m a huge fan of the gimmick of tag-switching while forming Great Britain/Angevins. My goal is to figure out how to make it work with forming Russia. The issue is that you’re stuck as Russia cuz you lose the English Parliament by switching culture.

[@Sizzler-z3r]

Did my man really call Castile a castle?!?🤣4:44 and 5:08

[@panidesh]

what if austrian painter was not austrian in 1939, but englishman in 1440

[@nogeeef201]

Are these army templates very good? It seems like you don't fill up the combat width with infantry/cav (12/4 when 20 is the starting width and 15 later on) which would make the cannons take double damage. I've always seen guides say to take as much infantry as the combat width, but you seem to be doing well enough with your templates!

[@mikewazowski7024]

His army composition is not very optimised. But as said army composition is more critical in multiplayer than singleplayer.

[@seanburke997]

So, I tried this again, and accidentally ended up as HRE emperor, and now I'm not sure wtf to do. I just decided to go with it, but it's thrown my whole strat off. It's 1516, the age of disc is just about to end, and I've got prague and 4 reforms passed. Ottomans are cucked because Athen (!?) somehow ended up with constantinople, and I guaranteed them, so they were too afraid to declare for it. I've never done this well as HRE emp before, I feel like the dog that finally caught the car. I also made it a goal to try to get as much of the british tree done before going angevin, so I've got South Africa, a bunch of the mediterranean, most of Aragon, and Ireland has been colonizing for me a little. I'm thinking expansion for my third idea group? I'm a little lost tbh

[@Fashbinder]

Please check pronunciation of absolutism and annexation. Ty

[@therockontheshelf]

I cant think of any way to describe Frances role in this video other than "used" haha

[@jess09ra]

Very unique indeed! Great Strat

[@Tn089-b6g]

I was like « Wait this doesn’t look that fast » and then you cranked it up 20 times after 1500s lol

[@Americanizzle]

I never play England since I don't care for the colonization mini-game, but THIS kind of England game is right up my alley. Thanks!

[@uka3739]

I wonder whats up with the "Face the empire mission" , as it keeps switching the missions back to original nation. Like with Teutons in the other vid. Awesome playthrough though, its always nice to go burn half the europe in 30 years :D

[@luctapia]

it probably has to do with unlocking branching missions and thats seriously bugging it out for some reason

[@ifer1280]

There is only one process to get new missions, and branching missions use that process too. The 'face the empire' assumes you will still be France, but if you're not you will get the missions appropriate for your tag/culture.

[@SvenBVBKlopp09]

Hi, any chance you can start future videos with a short overview for the plan/strategy of the run?

[@kylekelly1167]

Many EU4 play thoughs colonisers had 150k troops fully occupied there home lands and never saw an enemy army.

[@luctapia]

why did you remove the state cores from ireland? sorry if you explained in the video i must have missed it, isnt it nice it gives you free state cores if you want to state it later?

[@jeneconepalortografe4984]

Most likely for gov cap (gov cap isn’t as important in non-fully cored provinces) so you can exploit that to get more land cored and integrated in your Empire

[@lovis1188]

Is there a reason you didnt try to get the naples cores for provence?

[@megabotvideos]

how have I never thought of giving maine to provence...

[@plog9572]

Great videos, my new favorite EU-tuber!

[@Outlaw8908]

Well considering I Went through a massive Coalition war after I PU’d France… That would be interesting to try.

[@spatrk6634]

spam improve relation with all countries near you. game does not tell you that if a nation has +50 opinion of you they dont join coalitions. if they already did join coalition, they would not attack you and will leave coalition soon. and if coalition war starts that you cant win, you can always give away one or two provinces from france to coalition and couple hundred ducats to end coalition war instead of trying to fight. and get the provinces back later.

[@FantasticKruH]

​@@spatrk6634 I think for them not to join they only need 0 relations. For them to leave they need 50. Also allying big nations always helps, I just allied austria portugal and a few other nations and it was enough for the coallition.

[@Bryandbutcool]

why did he still get the burgundian inheritance after burgundy rivaled him? 11:35

[@willg3717]

He may have still had a royal marriage to Burgundy as they would have not wanted to lose the stability from breaking it off.

[@explicitcontent320]

Wait a second, how were you able to release Provence from Maine? Isn't Provence the primary nation of Occitan culture?

[@guyuefy]

It has to be core in same culture group as main culture

[@Sizzler-z3r]

Chaotic Florius responded.

[@filipsz.8309]

More than -100% AE should actually improve everyone opinion about you as you conquer lmao

[@Theplaymaker57]

I agree 100% 🤣

[@zilosis3794]

Damn that guy is cool for conquring stuff

[@filipsz.8309]

@@zilosis3794 - world reaction to Alexander the Great

[@jeneconepalortografe4984]

Very nice video with a nice aggressive strategy but I feel like you could go way faster if you didn’t return the cores to your vassals but simply gave them the land they have cores on (it gives less AE and costs less warscore to simply give the land they have cores on to your vassals because while returning their core you also cancel France’s core on the province so it costs wars ore and AE)

[@premidel1]

Same cost im 136.

[@Oivn-]

when you waits France truce to end try to retake Provence land in Naples

[@elitejv]

Liked the video and strategy, but dude, please: give those A and D keys a rest :')

[@nexalacer]

The way you play, deleting forts makes no sense to me. You create a bunch of hassle with no control over the AI carpet sieging you, miss out on free income from high devastation, and face longer rebel issues due to extended separation/autonomy reductions

[@FanskapeeT]

I've been playing this game for 10 years and have far to many hours plowed into it. I don't mean to brag but i know most things in eu4. Today i learned that you get bonus modifiers for 10 years from your church power... thanks i guess😂

[@LibertyMonk]

It was added in a "recent" patch, I think Empire or maybe Lions of the North. They basically copied over from Jewish.

[@maperns]

No Maine, no problem

[@toftof5929]

good strat but a lot of wasted admin points

[@Saberu_o_oppai_de_momu]

me new playmaker wacky shit

[@archimedes6154]

База

[@RickNVavas]

You're talking way too fast

[@dakota6050]

slow down video then

[@maxwalker1159]

!

[@masonhales]

Still altf4ing the Burgundian inheritance I see. I'll come back when you finally learn to get over this crutch

[@Theplaymaker57]

if you'd rather I can not show it 🤣

[@masonhales]

@@Theplaymaker57 how did you reply to my comment if you're live streaming?

[@dakota6050]

If you dont like altf4ing then dont do it lol

[@jacobhammock3355]

I love your videos. This is bad. All i play is England. This isbl not the way lol Some real 5head shit. GB tag can really stack diplo annex and better missions. You can still use the 100 years war cb until 1465. Even if you click abaondon the continent Ijs

[@Theplaymaker57]

I'm not sure what you mean, but if you have a nice strategy, my dm's are always open