I SAWED THIS FRANCE IN HALF

[@luke8205]

Laith annexing Scotland even though forming Great Britain annexes Scotland automatically. This is the kind of content I subscribed for.

[@OcaenNam]

didnt you know? paradox youtubers cannot read

[@humzaashrafcheema1900]

@@OcaenNam So true

[@MoldyChese]

It is

[@NickTheNickname]

Amazing that he's played over 3k hours of the game and forgets the most random things, it's impressive in its own way

[@MoldyChese]

@dihvocfoscocudvyvdd Yea they are Annyoing for Liberty Desire but just take those Ideas you would be Fine

[@mustardjar3216]

Laith: literally orders france to siege down tunis Also laith: "why is france sieging down tunis? It is not a priority"

[@micayahritchie7158]

Lol I thought I was the only one "I bet he could could troops over here"

[@themanwiththeplan728]

I don’t think Leith is over the loss to France at the World Cup

[@Joshieboy75]

Probably not that’s why he did this

[@Telegonos_]

0:40 he says it right here lmao

[@themanwiththeplan728]

@@Telegonos_ Oh shi, oh well I made this comment before I watched the entire video 😂

[@gamesarefun1338]

nah, but laith might be

[@grugthecaveman4565]

Laith’s pronunciation of Donegal has put him on the IRA’s hit list

[@TrollOfReason]

Dungle?

[@fernandoabril8726]

In 19 hundred and 16, the forces of the Crown To take the orange, white, and green bombarded Dublin town But in '21, Britannia's sons were forced to earn their pay And the black and tans like lightning ran from the rifles of the I.R.A. They burned their way through Munster and laid Leinster on the rack In Connaught and in Ulster marched the men of brown and black They shot down wives and children in their own heroic way And the black and tans like lightning ran from the rifles of the I.R.A. They hanged young Kevin Barry high, a lad of eighteen years Cork city's flames lit up the sky but our brave boys knew no fear The Cork Brigade with hand grenades in ambush waiting lay And the black and tans like lightning ran from the rifles of the I.R.A. The tans were caught, taken out and shot by the brave and valiant few Sean Treacy, Denny Lacey, and Tom Barry's gallant crew Though we're not free yet, we won't forget until our dying day How the black and tans like lightning ran from the rifles of the I.R.A.

[@corcra_.]

​@@TrollOfReason it's pronounced done-ee-gaul

[@Iamwtfboi]

Thought it was pronoucned like that Harry Potter professor's name is, the one that polymorphs into a cat

[@kenthodder6333]

Laith counting up how much his relations improve yearly when there is already a handy total at the bottom is peak content.

[@keanureeves2272]

Lol. I was looking for this comment.

[@TheManiac201]

i remember years ago i tried a england game, fought tooth and nail to win against france. However a few years after winning, my king died and i lost the PU. Needless to say i wasnt happy.

[@4ester709]

Alt f4

[@lucaseckert1690]

TheManiac201 TheManiac201: "My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined"

[@road-eo6911]

Literally what happened to Henry V

[@yiorgosravnio124]

That was such a satisfying episode, I cannot wait to see more. I could watch 3 hours straight of this

[@voidc4]

Laith the kind of guy to be directly responsible for actions he’ll be upset about minutes later

[@Esoterrible]

Considering that Aggressive Expansion is meant to simulate the response of nations to the expansion of strategic opponents...its probably accurate. Like even if the Ottomans have tons of territory and you aren't impacting them much, the larger concern is that a rival now has new ports/income/manpower/strategic positioning. So nations getting upset even if the gain is small seems pretty par the course for the era.

[@viniciusyugulis7278]

I don't think it works that way In my Naples to Italy campaign I kept absolutely destroying France and Spain after ating all of Italy bf the 1550, my AE with Europe was atrocious but I didn't care because I had very strong allies, but the Muslim nations didn't really care that I did this

[@artofthepossible7329]

@Vinícius Yugulis That's because they are Muslim and you are conquering Catholics, not exactly a cause for concern. This is why any given strategy for Ottomans, Russia and Indian domination is to toggle between the various religions in the area so that AE decays while you war and conquer.

[@polktech]

10:21 ah yes no easier way to know that at all.

[@igortytarenko9136]

I wish they would write how much relationships with nation would change by... It would be so much easier!

[@benjy442]

Me having to watch through the needless eu4 footage to get to Laith's history facts.

[@azarshadakumuktir4551]

As for medieval government ressources, you are right that England had the best taxation administration in christian western Europe in the XIth to XIVth centuries, but you miss some subtelties : -Byzantium had also a very efficient taxation system, and it had more than 6 times the population of the english kingdom -The same can be said for the successive states that united Andalusia (the Umayyad caliphate, the Almoravid imamate and Almohad caliphate), those were the strongest states in Europe back then, but they had to contend with the catholic states united by their clergy and common aristocratic culture. -Normandy was more populated than England back then, and richer (the wool trade wasn't that profitable before the XIVth century), it was in the duchy of Normandy that the exchequer was invented, and untill the angevin inheritance, Normandy provided the majority of the monarchies taxes, its only after the loss of Normandy in 1204 and most of Aquitaine that England became the fiscal and political center of the monarchy. After its conquest by the french, Normandy kept its tax system and became the most profitable french province. -England was on the whole very lightly populated (around 1 million inhabitants), isolated from the big trade routes, centered on the muslim world and thus flowing to the Mediterrannean, most of its wealth came from the wool trade. Thus its tax revenues weren't that great quantitatively, but they allowed the kingdom to punch way above their weight on paper -Their better tax system became especially relevant in the XIVth century, since despite having lost their rich french possessions the english kings could muster a military strength that rivaled that of the french king who controlled a kingdom with around 10 to 20 times England's population (France had around 20 million inhabitants around 1300). That can be explained by the growth of the north European trade in which English wool was the most sought after for the drapperies woven in Flanders, creating strong economic growth, trade revenues which were of course very efficiently taxed (so England had actually good natural ressources, having oil in Medieval northern Europe wouldn't be worth anything, wool on the other hand...) -This situation would have a lasting legacy in english politics, with the birth of a wealthy urban merchant class, residing mostly in London, which often opposed the monarchy's high taxation, it would also lead to the urbanization of the country with the growth of London and coastal ports, which very easier to tax than the countryside that belonged to a often complicated patchwork of familial farms owned by freemen, huge properties owned by landlords and feudal estates. -Thus a XIth century englishman was actually quite poor compared to the average european, and the english state back then was rich mostly because of its french possessions, untill it lost them in the early XIIIth century. Yet in the XIVth century England became richer because of trade, allowing the english state to become powerfull again, this time thanks to England itself. -It is interesting to compare the english system to that of the HRE which failed to create a coherent administration and tax system in the first half of the XIIIth century, which made the emperor quite weak (the HRE was with France the most populated and rich catholic country, by far), and also to that of the french kingdom, which actually also used what was done in Normandy for its reforms in the early XIIIth century when it became a centralized kingdom, it thus became even more powerfull but was hindered from having a tax system as efficient as England because of the local power of great nobles who would only be subdued in the late XVth century (William the conqueror had managed to avoid that in England by controlling the redistribution of lands to norman nobles and scattering them through the country). -Another catholic kingdom with an especially potent tax system was Sicily, who benefitted from the advances made by both the byzantine and muslim tax systems. It actually became one of the most important sources of revenue for the Habsburg monarchy when they inherited it, even in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries. The spanish monarchies frequent fiscal issues in the XVIIth century because of the wars against France, the dutch or the protestant league led them to sell much of the crowns land there to landowners and give them great autonomy, leading Naples and especially Sicily to be completely taken over by landowners untill the XIXth century, this is the cause of many issues it still faces today like the lack of state authority and the influence of the mafia.

[@pileofcheese5017]

To anyone looking to play England in the future, I personally can strongly recommend going influence first, and then admin. Admin is always good, it gives CCR and govcap which is sorely needed (Laith was over GC during the latter half of this video, giving penalties to admin efficiency), but the adm-inf policy gives a nice 20% reduction in diplo annex cost, which combines with catholics' 10%, GB's 15%, influence's 25% and the 5% from the nobility to give a nice 75% diplomatic annexation cost reduction (there is also a parliament issue which can grant another 15%, putting you at the cap of 90%). The third policy is up in the air, but I heartily recommend taking diplomatic to take more land faster and reduce coalitions. Diplomatic also enables the pu game because you can break RM's no worry, and the PU game is further enhanced by your 75% resting diplo annex cost reduction. With this playstyle, you'd probably be better off turing Brittany into a vassal. Also recommended is taking at least 1 province in sicily to release sicily during the first war against the Iberians, and vassalising Brittany (You play very well with vassals because you have influence AND diplomatic ideas). Make as much vassals as you can, you could even feed all of ireland to a vassal so you don't have to core it. Also, don't manually annex scotland. You get them for free when you form GB (Like Castille gets Aragon for free when forming spain (or the other way around if Aragon is a player), or like Savoy and Sardinia can get each other for free when forming Sardinia-Piedmont).

[@flyingcapybara8202]

It would genuinely be hilarious if you went for the emperorship, I would love to see it. Absolutely love your content, keep it up.

[@ianmiller8399]

The AI doesn’t consider the overlord of a junior partner when declaring war on the junior partner’s vassal It happened to me when I PUed burgundy as France and some tiny nation with 7k troops attacked one of burgundy’s vassals

[@ALANisnotmyname]

Recently found you, loving the videos. I was wondering if you would consider doing a megacampaign?

[@TocsTheWanderer]

3550 hours? You mean I have more hours than you, Laith? Impossible!

[@humzaashrafcheema1900]

Hey Laith a strategy for a neighbor of Burgundy is when Burgundy falls in PU and then loses all its HRE holdings to attack and vassalize it as it doesn't lose its core and as it is your vassal you can very easily tell it to transfer trade power in the English Channel and get very little aggressive expansion for all that valuable land

[@tigrecito48]

35:32 i always take the as-suways province to split mamluks up so they cant deal with rebels & stuff & are a lot weaker

[@tromedlovdrolmai]

The last England game I did just for fun, I got super lucky and got a Mercenary Company with 3 Fire, 5 Shock, 6 Manuever, and the Swiss Company had a 5 siege general. I Handily beat the French

[@ohNojames]

Vassals and PUs always seem to ask for access from someone when my entire plan is centered on my enemy not getting access.

[@mark-A-antonius]

People clown Laith for his frequent force quits, but you gotta respect it. Too many KZbinrs fudge their games and cheat for the sake of views, while Laith is somewhat honest about how much of a hack he is.

[@burgerking2783]

Day 4 of asking for an eu4 colonial Novgorod game without forming russia

[@hurpdurpize]

Y tho

[@burgerking2783]

@@hurpdurpize pain

[@ishthewall1915]

@@burgerking2783 understandable

[@squirrelinarmor]

Is that his majesty King McDonald Burger?

[@burgerking2783]

@@squirrelinarmor indeed it is comrade Gorbachev

[@comb-t]

43:27 Huh, that's an interesting idea. I feel AE is a bit weird with how it works in that like, and I feel like beating a country that is bigger / comparable in size to you should have some impact on AE. It could well be a more fun gameplay mechanic, and I mean warscore cost does scale with country size so you can conquer a big country easier, but the AE doesn't. I feel it could be interesting in that it would legitimately encourage you to allow a nation to grow big if you wanted to get less AE from it. (And it would make sense that as you dismantle an empire war after war local powers would become more wary about you destroying it and removing local predictability and balance) Which can make for more fun wars and a more challenging game. Like with warscore each province is marginally cheaper for big nations, but it's much harder to get Warscore and it's much harder to get them to accept to give up land so it kinda balances. I'd love to see a mod that tried to implement it, see how it feels, but no clue how it'd have to work lmao. (Unless it was just like, a triggered modifier for enemy being over x amount of dev, ig)

[@Whoopz]

I went to Gibraltar when I was 5 and a monkey literally stole my pants. Thank you for reminding me of this terrible trauma!

[@mandeloevids]

laith please play as ainu with missions expanded, its real good

[@h0ndesohn708]

there should really be an angevin kingdom/dual monarchy formable. mixed french/english ideas, maybe a branching tree where you decide between collecting thrones in europe, big military and economy, dominating hre vs colonizing

[@ToothpikcOriginal]

Galicia Volhynia turning into a horde and taking revenge on the Mongloians for Christmas? It's all I want this year, and I've mostly been a good boy

[@wespickett2479]

Id love to see this continued. British world conquest would be dope

[@duskpede5146]

somehow, no matter which nation he picks and where in the world he plays. laith always ends up battling the ottomans around the dardenelles and taking Byzantium in the peace deal

[@AbdulAli786o]

Tbf, byzantines are a cracked vassal

[@resentfuldragon]

they are basically the most dangerous in eu4 (unless you are in se asia) so it makes sense to battle them in the end. If you defeat them early then the end game bad guy is either france or the iberians.

[@Otto_Von_Beansmarck]

I don't think there would be a more cursed and thus better way to end this campaign then to form the holy roman empire as england

[@Rex_Silvermoon]

My man I feel like you need to know I actually learned that Bulgaria rebel strat from a budgetmonk vid like 6 months ago. (Edit: still call it the laith strat tho, no one else has named it at the very least my fair edison)

[@bytoadynolastname6149]

3350 hours, and he still hasn't noticed the 'yearly opinion change' at the bottom of that tooltip.

[@D.AbyssMusic]

love how laith just doesnt trust the yearly relation tooltip and manually counts it

[@Ryan-tz7sx]

Did you just add up the yearly opinion change when it just says it at the bottom of the tooltip?

[@suvo_cboipo]

17:20 as England this is the best thing to happen in my opinion; it happened to me twice; fought the tiny overlord and took the entire Burgundian land for myself; and Western Europe is just totally a English backyard lmao.

[@Goldenblitzer]

When watching Sharpe, Harper says he’s from Donegal, and it’s pronounced ‘Donny’ (like Danny but with an o) and Gaul Donnygaul

[@isaacshultz8128]

Omg I just discorvered sharpe I am halfwa through sharpes eagles

[@Xcyiterr]

hey laith look you unlocked yourself-- wait no wrong game

[@JurasJankauskas]

As long as Laith is buying things, it's not a mask he needs. What he needs are a series of helmets for all the different countries he plays as. Prolly a bearskin or some sort of crown for britain, unless he plays Victoria, then it's top hat time.

[@isaacshultz8128]

He alr3asy has his tunis shirt

[@michaelsurratt1864]

Love the S&M mask can't wait for the BDSM stream

[@gawkthimm6030]

continue the series PLEASE, and stay catholic and become the HRE emperor and then try to crush Protestantism and orthodoxy, by force converting everybody. ally the papal states, give them land in wars to make them powerful. A British Holy Roman Empire, defender of all Catholics (that arn't conquered). That sounds like the opposite of an England breaking with the church and forming an overseas British empire with a french rivalry. A sort of "Anti-Splendid isolation", protector of the Pope

[@sahilhossain8204]

Lore of Forming a EUROPEAN English Empire momentum 100

[@vitorcafe9102]

Become Anglican, no other way! If you wanna be emperor, win the Protestant league!

[@paulnolack297]

I was just watching the redhawk England guide and I see you upload this 😂

[@evilstatistic1994]

Loved the video I'd like to see a part 2

[@prestonjones1653]

24:50 What could be more accurate than bribing politicians to do whatever you want, and constant events of said politicians bitching and whining about not being rich and pampered enough?

[@tropicalfruit4571]

I think lowered AE against larger nations would be bad. Sounds good in theory but it would really just punish you for getting bigger. What would be nice is AE and coalitions actually working against AI, I'm tired of seeing the Ottomans take 10 provinces, have everyone be threatened by them, and yet everyone's AE is -12... If I do that it's gonna be -120.

[@Hadar1991]

10:06 Laith, you have written the yearly change at the bottom and yet you still count it manually, why?! :v

[@Aarlaeoss]

I am surprised you did not release Gascony before the first war

[@MasterBeiberEverything]

that is because he was going to PU france. no need for gascon vassal

[@Aarlaeoss]

@@MasterBeiberEverything Oh. Big miss on my part. Perhaps I was thinking of cutting up france before PUing but he clearly said he wasn't going for that

[@TeaMsGu]

I’d like to see more! Maybe you can get the anglophile achievement if you don’t have it already?

[@SilvaDork36]

ok somone find him a quality plague mask for him to wear

[@makiskanyt9269]

Oh my god it's amazing plague doctor laith

[@spudzzy0373]

If you haven't got the Anglophile achievement then you should 100% make this a series where you get it. Even if you have then just restore the British Empire

[@wpjohn91]

The thumbnail has Victoria who was a Tudor. Thoght the angevin empire was inder the plantagenets?

[@carltonleboss]

Please continue this campaign.

[@visiblur]

I mean, the mask might be uncomfortable, but now you can write it off as a work expense

[@tigrecito48]

43:26 i definitely think that ae impact should be scaled based on the size of the nation. not only that but the amount of provinces you can take in a war, maybe it should be percentage based also? i find it rather tedious to have to war a huge otto, losing like 300k manpower, taking 8 years, and then you get 5-8 provinces and by the time ur truce is up they are even bigger.. its kinda ridiculous

[@adamsmith8070]

id like to watch more of this

[@corcra_.]

Laity you have to do an ireland campaign to make up for your horror pronunciations of places in ireland

[@burgerking2783]

I think he did

[@hueylong4412]

Love the video thanks a bunch!

[@isaacshultz8128]

Anglican holy roman emperor!

[@tigrecito48]

talking of history i saw a documentary video on France the other day that was saying that France did so well in wars etc especially during the reign of Napoleon etc because in the Renaissance up to Industrialisation they apparently had more population than most of the rest of Western Europe combined... dunno if it is true?

[@drikai]

whats up with the frosted tips, I dont think laith was even alive when they were in style

[@tigrecito48]

if i have a pu cb against milan and they are allied to provence, can i take milan as a pu still whilst declaring war on provence to avoid hre austria etc? or to get the pu do i need to declare war directly with milan under the pu cb?

[@michalhruska362]

You have to declare on Milan using union cb

[@marcus4046]

Laith get the sutton hoo hat and play as the anglo-saxons again.

[@tropicalfruit4571]

In my last England game I played as the Danes because I thought it'd be funny to restore the Danelaw. I was utterly disappointed when I found out that it's not a formable nation. So anyway, I started blasting into Continental Europe. Genuinely one of the most interesting games I've played, riddled with wars that I dominated in and wars that I had to surrender because best I could do was either small victory or white peace at the cost of ruining the nation. Usually on singleplayer once you get the ball rolling you win all the time so it was a nice change of pace.

[@cryed0]

well, there is an achievement for restoring the danelaw as denmark

[@tropicalfruit4571]

@@cryed0 Yeah and you'd think Danelaw is a formable nation but no. It's just an achievement.

[@gerrardjones28]

Well mybe we cant beat them in the world Cup but at least we can beat them in EU4

[@JoeJabby]

Laithe didn't you make this video 3 months ago? You formed the angevian empire as england with the mission expanded mod

[@rimanpele]

00:40 You mean the legend? Wilton Pereira Sampaio? You should be aware that he's the best brazilian referee right now, lol.

[@bigolbrad8799]

Continue and, take over the HRE, PU Portugal for easy colonies.

[@Chornobyl1989]

more! More!! MORE!!! Also colonial empire, take India and North America? And maybe on day we get a laith grand campaign

[@svineraugenplayz1644]

Continue, but i would love for you too play football manager 23 or 22

[@zekurre5962]

Where is pt 2 man

[@jollyollybolly6250]

There is a better version of the Bulgaria strat where you don't release Bulgaria as a vassal and you just take the land directly when the rebels enforce. It doesn't cost much ae because they are orthodox. Works best as Byzantium because you get permanent claims on them

[@tigrecito48]

does the bulgaria strategy work for any nation that another nation has cores of ur vassal with if u surround those provinces or only bulgaria?

[@viniciusyugulis7278]

I don't think this Bulgaria thing is worth it tbh, you'd get insane liberty desire from provinces that were returned from rebel demands

[@tigrecito48]

@@viniciusyugulis7278 so in a sense what he's invented is a gun where the barrel points back at the person firing it? lol

[@viniciusyugulis7278]

@@tigrecito48 he won't annex Bulgaria for a very long time that's for sure

[@tigrecito48]

@@viniciusyugulis7278 sometimes i like to have a really big march so doesnt matter if they wont ever get annexed... im playing france right now and couldnt be bothered to go colonial so i force vasalised portugal & got the pu over castile from the missions and invaded england... i marched portugal.. also i noticed a tiny 2 province prussia so i force vassalised them and then took out half of bohemia to feed it to them, made them a march too.. its kinda cool having big vassals if ur not worried about world conquest etc.. i also quite often try to get ming as a vassal if they had the mingsplosion & only have a few provinces left.. problem is it gets real hard to keep their liberty desire down if u feed them all their cores.

[@viniciusyugulis7278]

@@tigrecito48 disloyal subjects don't help in wars at all

[@christophhanke6627]

Sad fact: I played 5 times as Castile and i never got the iberian wedding. Which is so damn annoying

[@isaacshultz8128]

American holy roman emperor!

[@alexgoldsmith8598]

21:30 if you know, you know

[@isaacshultz8128]

More angevin empire please

[@tigrecito48]

hey.. a question.. i just got a pu of milan cb as france and unfortunately they are still in the hre.. i dunno if that event has an expiry date... they are allied to provence and i need provence provinces for missions.. im wondering if i can still get the milan pu while declaring war on provence but not cobeligerating milan so i dont need to fight austria or can you only get them as a pu if u declare war with that specific cb? thanks

[@Bugitoto]

Go for Holy Roman Emperor

[@aidanderby5803]

Stonehenge is in wiltshire?

[@jackeden4141]

based angiican Rome Restored incoming surely

[@wpjohn91]

Also why form great britain when you cam form the angevan empire instead?

[@DekuTheDestroyer]

You cant complain the ref was bad in eng vs fra in den vs eng he didnt care that english fans were blinding danish playees

[@giorgosthoma849]

I would love to see this contiue

[@limezebra2623]

Seems in this recent patch the north African nations are getting lots more of European alliances

[@yaboipalps8616]

Flavor Universalies has the Angevin Empire as a formable nation.

[@connoringram3363]

Forming the Roman empire as the UK !!! Nah thats just an Idea since your playing mostly in Europe.

[@thegrumpyraccoon]

Can you combine Spanish Fly and Anglophile?

[@Macloom84]

Hello Laith from your forth viewer here!

[@thatponybro6940]

vid 2 of asking Laith to play as the Cherokee in modded Vic 3

[@liamtan865]

Day 9 of thanking laith for playing more eu4 anbennar.

[@papazoulou9326]

Wait that's the shaved kid from Mr Bean in a doctor mask

[@thecallum1234567890]

Laith, you added up the change in opinion for France but it literally says that on the bottom of the list. Also what mods do you use?

[@anthroposium]

More like the English European Union :)

[@samarumayr5174]

Laith can you in the next video conquer Iberia and the balkans and becomes holy Roman emperor

[@OrlovKruskayev]

6 people?

[@G2598-c4o]

What mods do you use?

[@jeromeryan4550]

I think it would be cool if you became hre emperor laith 😎