EU4 A to Z - I IMPALED THE SULTAN With The HARDEST COUNTRY In Europe

[@TheRedHawk]

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[@fillerchannel4444]

Montferrat is the only nation that can form Byzantium without switching to Orthodox religion and Greek culture… so, as Montferrat, form Byzantium!

[@Mithras734]

Vassalize Mantua, as they historically vassalize Montferrat. Then Annex savoy, as they would annex Montferrat. Vengeance for Montferrat! Then after that...im not sure.

[@vanart8903]

As Montferrat, conquer Montenegro and nearby Mountain province's

[@Stevonicus]

Conquer a Mon culture province

[@zadyy8715]

Try to conquer every wine province in the mediterranean lol

[@victornunes900]

As Montferrat, conquer all of Italy, all of the Balkans and form Byzantium.

[@azlanadil3646]

Anatolia too.

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

To form Byzantium you do need to take out both Byzantium and Ottomans (thats what the decision says) Edit: better said you need to completely make them both not exist

[@felipesantana2438]

I'm assuming this is a reference to that guy from montferrat that brought Alexios IV to the fourth crusade and suggested they sailed to Constantinople?

[@brutusthebear9050]

​@@felipesantana2438It's because Montferrat is the only Catholic nation able to form Byzantium.

[@janushahn6950]

⁠@@brutusthebear9050That is because many members of the Byzantine elite fled to Montferrat after the collapse of the empire

[@n_0477]

Obviously this wont be for ages but this just came to mind so Im posting it here, for wallachia, the goal should be to conquer welsch tirol, all walloon culture provinces and wales as all of these words are cognate (From Walhaz, an old germanic word for foreigner) Anyone who sees this feel free to repost it on the video right before wallachia if you remember

[@MrBattlecharge]

No way anybody remembers

[@victornunes900]

@@MrBattlecharge Challenge accepted

[@irmaosmatos4026]

wales doesn't come from the word Gaelic

[@n_0477]

@@irmaosmatos4026 what

[@irmaosmatos4026]

@@n_0477 I always knew Wales as having the same origin as Gaul or Gaelic or Galicia-Lodomeria

[@halosldr]

Man, the pain from this episode hurt my soul. Solid job!

[@recklesspotato8657]

As a Romanian, watching you play Moldavia was soothing, as you've now got a taste of our history. See you on Wallachia 😵

[@carrypotter419]

This is the most fun A to Z to watch since a while though.

[@DaGaJbmKojJe]

Friendly tip: it is worth intentionally staying behind in admin and diplo tech so you can dev your provinces, it makes a huge difference, especially if you are a small nation

[@178teko]

Admin tech is hella important tho and tax dev is pointless and bad for you, idea slots are must have rushing adm tech 7 should always be a priority, dip as long as you no futher than 2 behind is fine when your not doing naval battles, but you should never prioritize dev over tech unless u play outside euope and need an institution, lowe autonomy and conquoring the gold provinces would have helped way more than ditching tech.

[@harku123]

This is one of my favorite campaigns you've played so far. All this pain was very suspenseful from an observers POV fyi

[@harunkuf7055]

This video is actually cool. Most eu4 youtubers record the optimal run but this one was just like one of my runs. Nobody allied you in the beginning Got warned by the ottomans Lost the polish guarantee Austria allied hungary Yet you still showed how you can make a comeback instead of having a super romania by 1472.

[@Lol-dx8lt]

The pain that you felt pretty much sums up the history of Moldavia and Wallachia 24:25

[@dweeb24]

"im stuck between the 2 greatest powers in the world" also sums up them

[@subgivtara]

@@dweeb24 actually between 3

[@dweeb24]

@@subgivtara how much does it matter 😭

[@mikeandersson1486]

I did the Dracula's revenge couple months ago, and I enjoyed similar amount of pain. Funny that Ottomans declaring on you is probably the best thing that can happen.

[@yxolloxy3273]

15:08 if you get the popup that someone will declare war on you there is no way to stop them; even if you ally the whole world, the wardec is effectively already sent from the perspective of the game

[@pology4618]

Red hawk was just trying to get more allies so the war would be easier

[@declanlong4676]

@@pology4618He says “They still declared war on me” after getting a bunch of allies like he thought that would stop them from declaring

[@danshakuimo]

With Moldavia it's actually kind of OP if you choose to submit to Poland and get Poland's rivals to support your independence. I think it's actually the easiest country to form Ruthenia besides Lithuania.

[@yaldabaoth2]

You made Ludi proud.

[@marekaureliusz2814]

Very nice episode, as always love to see you experiencing pain in A to Z

[@asdffsasdffaa]

I have never seen so much pain in one redhawk video. I feel guilty for liking it, as if I've watched some immense human suffering just for my entertainment. Which I have.

[@DD-nb9rn]

im pretty sure montferrat has like a palialogous on the throne or something or maybe thats another opm, either way conquer constantinople

[@dieidiotten]

Since Montferrat is ruled by the Paleologos dynasty that rules Byzantium in 1444, form Byzantium as them

[@Josh-vg2lj]

"Why are you giving me your toughest battles" Because you are my strongest Romanian

[@stuartwatson7524]

One of my favourite achievements, took me a while, ended up allying up and not getting declared on by otto, built up a power base in Poland and then finally beating ottomans in 1600s, though by that stage it was basically commonwealth (dev wise) vs ottomans,

[@Otterpawp]

The self defeated look while saying, "why didnt i tell my self to dev besarabia" had me laughing so hard.

[@noobminer725]

Watching the series as we speak, awesome stuff mate, and cool mo!

[@lordwarrior8416]

When he said the 4th goal for a moment I thought he need to betray one of his allies as Romania 😂😂

[@ichhh4]

It wouldn't be a Romania campaign without every neighbor declaring war on you, thats pretty much our historical heritage.

[@iamhatefield]

haidi uăi la sarmali! me being happy you finally got here :)

[@Barista.Nathan]

The only thing you can do as Montferrat is form Byzantium. It's the most unique aspect about them.

[@НикитаПерминов-з5в]

Good job, Ludi is proud of you now

[@Alexander99602]

I mean, the people at paradox did do Romania historically accurate. The pain you feel playing them is exactly the same pain the historical voivodes felt. Take Michael the Brave, united the voivodes, all three, Transylvania too. Had a damn great general and friend too (Baba Novak), then the Austrians killed his friend, then a few months later killed him too and screwed over the voivodes again. One must imagine Sisyphus happy, right?

[@x0lopossum]

14:55 Nightmare war, OPM horde vs Ottomans

[@mrbisshie]

Ludi liked this video.

[@wedakrishna1069]

I was so about to said that kek

[@GoldShockAttack]

I would love to see you form the great horde as Mongolia if you have the time in the episode

[@frankazgradic-uy5si]

As Montenegro,conquer all mountain provinces in europe

[@Stevonicus]

The Romanian jellyfish, with its tendrils stretching across Europe

[@soumajitsen1395]

The pain was too much this time, F in the chats for Hawk.

[@BanMaster2]

Since Monferrat has a Byzantine Cousin dynasty, you could go for a bit longer game (like with Ming) and aim to Conquare Italy and Balkans and form again Byzantine empire. :)

[@GumbaFan]

Meanwhile Naxos, Epirus and Muscovys Vassals:

[@Kasaaz]

I usually skip the episodes where you look like you’re just suffering. This is the kind of difficult games that are actually fun to watch imo. It was incredibly skillful play.

[@kyleholmgren5939]

Not taking Hont in that peace deal with Hungary= PAIIINNNN Despite that, great job with Moldavia man

[@noneofyourbusiness3288]

20:08 When your border gore looks like some alien tentacle monster.

[@wmcduff]

As Montferrat (Mountain of Iron), you are dwarves. First goal, surround the impassible parts of the Alps. Bonus goals, do the same for the Pyrennes and Carpathians.

[@acanthoscurriageniculata7141]

As Mongolia, form the Mongol Empire before the Age of Absolutism. Btw, A to Z is more fun when you get pain! This video is one of the good ones.

[@IronWolf123]

It is funny how you chose the Punitive war as the beginning for the video and not the Ottoman-Poland sandwich

[@gabrielstoica390]

Well cant wait until you play wallachia Ots even MORE Pain 😂

[@barbadoskado2769]

yep.. very hard with vallachia no cb moldavias ally nd you cant even 100% him then

[@gabrielstoica390]

​@@barbadoskado2769The Polish guarantee its really a pain my stategy is allying Bohemia and striking Hungary first than go for balkans and the ottomans if their fighting a big war like Mamluks.

[@SereglothIV]

I'm actually surprised that it was Spain to declare the coalition war and not some random OPM of Uberschnitzelberg

[@Frozen0wl]

as the ottomans you should form the roman empire

[@Gafrudal]

OFFALY COMING SOON BOYS LET'S GOOOOOO YOU GOTTA CONQUER ITALY AS OFFALY

[@saintwumples4403]

Moldavia is definitely easier than Wallachia. I got the achievement as them for that reason

[@deanpatterson4139]

Have you played the bear faction? I just found and had no seen it ever played.

[@rensvopstal]

of course as Mongolia: form mongolia (n empire). Khaaaaaan can easily be done by them, especially now with the stronger start for tribes by getting a lot of free cav. Just be sure to declare on solon or someone like that immediately after becoming independent otherwise you can't complete your first mission

[@thedefaultsociety1161]

steak 🥩 the Sultan

[@gujjewman96]

Kebab 🍢 the sultan

[@tanjiro2507]

Sultan kebab. 🌮

[@anate9]

At least we had a sultan not a vampire

[@jodiemcadams1418]

Since they added a path for the Teutonic knights to form the Mongolian Empire you should conquer their lands for such hubris.

[@Lawrance_of_Albania]

Storm here in the balkans, and storm of moldavia in EU4 as well

[@alexandrugheorghe7974]

Can't wait until you get to Wallachia muahaha

[@Salnax]

Montferrat did a fair amount of crusading back in the day, so try to take Jerusalem.

[@3zzzTyle]

That final peace deal lmao

[@dripstein5068]

always satisfying to see the ottomans get beasted on by moldavia/wallachia

[@OddlySpecificGaming]

When you get to Ottomans don’t do anything boring like migrating go to war with the other top 7 great powers day one or after like 10 years

[@viniciusyugulis7278]

Once you go for the Ottomans try the Mehmed's Ambition

[@AmodeusR]

how can this campaign be harder than many one nation campaigns I've seen in this channel?

[@ekose61]

24:51 ahahahaha frick you ! 15 ducats...

[@francesco_boccardi]

as Mongolia, re-establish the Borjigin as the Chinese Emperors, form Yuan, and avenge the mongol's greatest defeat by conquering Tokyo

[@Elyseon]

Impaling one of those greasy creeps is always morally correct.

[@AtoMiZeR224]

Good strat as Moldova is to non-cb Byzantium after improving with Ottomans

[@GiorgioOttria]

As Montferrat culture convert all of italian region to Piedmontese culture and then form byz maybe

[@alonsocerva2596]

Ludi would be proud

[@ItsGroundhogDay]

The start is the annoying part, but Wallachia allying Byzantium is your golden opportunity, though it does mostly remove any pain. No CB on December 11 and full annex Wallachia and vassalize Byz. That's all you need to setup an expansion path and alliance network to take down the Ottomans.

[@flashline7597]

I think Muscovy is probably the worst ally in the game

[@Canaanitebabyeater]

Cav only challenge as Mongolia

[@electricVGC]

As Montferrat dev Montferrat to 100 :) you wanted to dev right :)

[@illmaster]

For Mongolia? Of course form Great Mongol

[@viniciusyugulis7278]

If you think Moldavia is hard try Wallachia, literally impossible, at least Moldavia has better ruler, better ideas and sea access

[@snomcultist189]

As montferrat have the AI form lotharangia and outshine you

[@doctorothon]

I no cbed wallachian and ate them on december 12th in my draculas revenge run

[@twocows360]

i think if you hadn't gotten that popup for the ottomans you would have lost. no way could you have fought the ottomans with your original alliance network at that point.

[@moonbeam4392]

what graphics mod does he use?

[@yeoldmanriver4881]

Pain.

[@TheSaoMagnifico]

It's not real Moldovan gameplay without getting stabbed in the back by Moscow

[@C1azed]

Deving 90%autonomy gold😂

[@osiris3676]

For Mongolia annex japan and move your capital there so you are reverse real life mongol empire

[@ivc3092]

Trăiască România!

[@monx94]

Could've deleted some ottoman forts to not lose money tbh

[@TheAnalyst38]

As Montferrat unify not İtaly but all of france region

[@samwill7259]

When I said I wanted to be staked hard by a burly eastern european, this is not generally what I meant

[@Pyrozeen26]

As monferrat form sardinia-piedmont and vassalize france and take nice

[@rimanpele]

Navarra isnt Europe anymore?

[@NiceBoaT_98]

Do the same thing as wallachia

[@poemdude7747]

we want Montenegro!

[@amilavxilmen5632]

PAIN

[@inferno_slayer]

Brah how you call them the hardest country when wallachia is right there

[@xXxMonkeyBoomxXx]

Conquer Rome ? You clearly ment *STEAL* Rome, right ? PS: Romania, where is my wallet ? 🤔

[@Tytotius]

Take Deli and make it your capital in the same sense of the Mugals achievment named after the home of the Mongols.

[@rsabinioan]

Moldavia? You mean Ludistan?

[@Notbigbando]

Walachia is far far harder than moldova come on

[@yektakarabatak68]

Welcome the Balkans xd

[@cloroxbleach9222]

i do love some shish kebab

[@TheLibermania]

Not cored Rome though. Challenge not won.

[@Nerazmus]

Are the view so bad we are to this level of cliclbait? My dude, Walachia is literally just more difficult version of Moldavia.

[@nathanalbright]

Restore Mongolia to its Genghesid maximum borders.....

[@monkeydetonation]

glorious Romanian borders 😍😍🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴

[@browniniobrowni2074]

It was such pain, why did you white peace biz? You could have waited and then vassalized them when Ottomans peaced out