This Aztec Strategy is INSANELY STRONG in EU4 1.37

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[@LemonCake101]

Classic Playmaker, 'Insanely Strong' strategy, and then 'we shouldn't probably go bankrupt'

[@Theplaymaker57]

How could a strategy truly be strong if it does not also almost bankrupt you?

[@matis2964]

At least he didn't destroy the Karaman fort, which singlehandedly, beyond any doubt whatsoever, lost the war. (for the record that's a joke, I love both of you as content creators

[@LemonCake101]

@@matis2964 yeah that was a terrible idea last time I listen to advice from Playmaker and people in the chat

[@JK-qi7pp]

​@@Theplaymaker57 gotta be careful with that. Today I unexpectedly went into bankruptcy without warning when my king died and I lost stability. It was at a very unfortunate timing that sadly ruined a great start.

[@bobdenalio2074]

thats how we know hes not an imposter

[@wallyvargas-rios9305]

29:36 Native tribes passively accumulate "Tribal Development" on a monthly basis (which you saw under the federations tab). This, by default, goes to your capital and functions like actual development, in terms of boosting local income and manpower. However, this development can be "settled" (transferred) onto a province of your choice, for a flat cost. You can even do this to uncolonized provinces that are considered part of your "tribal land", colonizing them in the process. In this case, you just spent 156 mana to transfer 3 dev from your capital... to your capital. Still, arguably worthwhile, since this isn't "real" development, and you'd have lost it upon reforming out of a native tribe. The real exploit comes down to the fact, like with reform progress, native tribes can build tons of buildings to boost tribal development growth. Stack enough Irrigation buildings and the -20% to settle cost from federations (and maybe some all power costs where possible), and a sizeable Mesoamerican power like the Aztecs can conceivably stack 20 dev per province for less than 100 monarch points every couple of months. And if you want to farm monarch points, native OPMs can declare "Humiliate" wars on all neighboring OPMs for a "show strength" wargoal, not just their rivals, and not just other natives. You can even combine this with demanding cash, since that costs 0% warscore instead of the usual 25%. The "Force Migration" CB is similar, and not even exclusive to native OPMs (just natives OR migratory nations, like Ainu, or the Polynesians). You can even declare these sorts of wars on nations within the same federation as you, they're not like alliances. Natives are busted, federations are busted, and it'd be cool to see you to explore the potential here further. Zlewikk did a series on an exploit with Exploration ideas while remaining native, so I'm wondering if you could somehow cheese a country like Quizquiz or Cuzco into the HRE and just go wild with infinite development, reform progress, monarch points, etc. Or, hell, just start a game as Solon (or form Algiers with Evenk culture, same difference); they've got -10% warscore cost, -5 years of separatism, and stuff like construction cost, trade efficiency, and land fire damage in their ideas, with the ability to migrate from government reforms. Incredibly underrated.

[@stalingaming9304]

the playmaker making WC by 1600 strats only to have 1TB of half-played save files

[@mainaccount4585]

his ssd gonna die early

[@combrade-t]

I seriously don't get how every run you do you get so close to bankrupcy and yet come back to have such extreme success. Bangers of the insanity variety I guess.

[@Theplaymaker57]

Unfortunately, I am very experienced with near bankruptcy...

[@jorderon]

Thanks for this it's a neat theme for an interesting run. A few things to keep in mind. Exploration ideas are unnecessary, even temporarily, you can colonize your way up the coast fast enough to share the institution without exploring. Set each tributary to manpower asap. Take one subject, sacrifice the crap out of them alone, and then take 5 more subjects. This makes it a little easier to reform quickly. I tried economic ideas first and kinda liked them in this context. Solves a lot of your problems, and despite it being a mid idea group I think it might be strong enough situationally to work as a first pick. Prior to reforming into native tribe and losing your estates, give out every monopoly, and make sure you take the burgher loans, sell land, etc. Mesoamerican tributaries are much easier to annex than vassals due to the opinion requirements.

[@faisalal-qassem3758]

Mom, funny Aztec man posted another video

[@Draexan]

the event at 2:31 , you say for the sake of the monument don't pick the wrong option, although unless you are Very Very unlucky. when you can pick the first option you need to hit 1 out of 4 80% rolls for the modifier to get a 40 mana discount considered to the 2nd option, or a 2 out 4 80% rolls to get a 50mana discount. in both cases after 120 days the Great Project gets Upgraded and you get 4 Free Dev (either 4adm, 4dip or 4mil) in your Capital City which immediately completes the dev mission in the tree, and you can then dev to 40 and exploit once for extra cash, so basically you shift the mana cost from event to dev and then get more cash out of it

[@Theplaymaker57]

Good tip, I think I got the bad luck once and figured it was just not worth it

[@DylanSargesson]

That settle button takes your "Tribal Development" and puts it into the province proper.

[@smurfaccount282]

Almost midnight and I get to watch a playmaker video, nice. 8 views already too! Good stuff

[@azpont7275]

So, a few things I experienced so far trying to refine this. As for getting tribal, you need a tribe that has the 3rd gov reform and chose to settle. You can’t rush this beyond that. As for not worrying about money, I’d suggest staying animist until you conquer the whole or most of the subcontinent. You can release others later amd truce break them if needed. (Just don’t pick up High American tech before you reform manually) As for Ideas, you could do it w/o exploration if you use the colonist from the religion amd the explorer from the burghers privilige. Also, I think diplo isn’t needed, just after the age of reformation.

[@Theplaymaker57]

Thanks for the info, my run certainly needs some refining.

[@azpont7275]

As for pwcs I might have missed out on something, but I only have 90% w diplo, so definitely needed. I'd still pick admin as 2nd tho. You could also go for a federation, but I play on VH and the other tribes hated that idea.

[@felipevega484]

Paradox is leaving EUIV because they are afraid of adding more mechanics for him to exploit, absolute fools they are , they think starting over will save them, .

[@Theplaymaker57]

Seriously, they have no chance. I will find a way.

[@planetazia]

‘We did lose our estates, it is what it is’ 😂

[@jeffpenner7083]

I feel like this mans videos have steadily gone from convievably doable by the average player to the most superhuman stuff, the strats keep getting harder

[@FORD-wz8dk]

nice one war 500 over-extension living nightmare

[@SugarRushBob]

Heck yeah, let's go for part 2! Great video.

[@DnaKGames]

glad to finally see this posted!

[@VivaChandles]

If playing a smaller nation you should try holding off on giving out a lot of influence raising estate privileges until after the first few wars. Like only mana points and ones that you really need right now. Your crown land plus all its benefits will skyrocket with low influence and then you can give out more privileges later. It’s only a little bit more micro for a big payoff

[@smeglan95]

The funny thing is that if you pass institutions to the tribes they will probably end up becoming monarchies

[@carltonleboss]

Part 2 please. You might as well use this build to its highest potential!

[@Martin_Hermann]

When forcing countries into the HRE, whats the reason that sometimes capitals don't switch back to the original? It happened to me with the commonwealth: Krakow switched to Warszawa and then to Kulm; And with Russia: Moskva switched to Jaroslawl then to Nischi Novgorod.

Has thus been patched out? I tried but something went wrong and after switching back to nahuatl I couldn't reform anymore?!

[@tabularasa78]

@Theplaymaker57 any ideas how to make it as Ryukyu? Indigenous & long houses 🏔⛰🏔

[@tabularasa78]

Ok, done by 1580

[@roland4610]

I would like a part 2 or a redo of part 1 because i believe you when you said this can done a lot better

[@zaszz]

Could you combine the longhouse reform progress with that aztec decision to make frontiers out of reform progress?

[@Gusfrfr]

Day one of asking for a true one tag, one faith, one culture, Theodoro guide.

[@Gusfrfr]

You should stream this entire run as an event stream :)

[@Xylyvy]

Still cant believe, that this man didnt play Trapezunt. Non end game tag with literally free -10% core cost and warscore cost until the end of game. With admin and diplo you can just eat all europe, if decide to form Byz. And dont forget that you can try to form Russia and eat even better.

[@adrianobermuhlner2525]

dude of course we want part 2

[@jtb301]

Damn get the 1k ima wanna see more

[@whitehunter2545]

Just a lil question: A few days ago I discovered the Aztec mission where you need 45 dev in Mexico to get 10 reform progress for every expand infrastructure and it works to just lower it and expand again to basically convert 5 admin to 1 reform progress. Isn't that kinda super broken or am I missing something? And is it intended?

[@Theplaymaker57]

Its decent for sure, but admin is super import, and its still alot of admin.

[@harys4442]

Is diplomacy really needed? you have 105% province warscore cost max is 90 and dip gives 20% is it really worth it to take a whole idea group for effectively 5% province warscore cost?

[@azpont7275]

Maybe not so early, but yeah. The age of reformation war score cost goes away eventually. I’m currently trying this one out, I went for Indigenious, Admin, Divine and I’ll probably take up diplo as 4th or 5th.

[@xzibit1888]

maybe his colonial range was bad ...do you think maybe moving your capital next to him would help?

[@Theplaymaker57]

Possibly a good idea

[@Dmitrisnikioff]

@@Theplaymaker57 could it have been the fact he was landlocked and your colony had no land connection to capital?

[@100beep5]

1.1K likes, where's part 2?

[@Pie___]

If you reformed into a federation could you also get all of North America in the 1530s like in that quarbit video before you become a theocracy

[@muminek5954]

with this animist is not work now yes ?

[@Monsterkumpel]

is it not smarter to first go high american for all the reforms when turning back to aztec?

[@Theplaymaker57]

If you do that, you can no longer reform off a tribal nation. as if you switch back to the religion you will already be reformed

[@oliverwilliams7375]

I don’t understand how you keep your land when reforming - when I reform to a tribe, I lose everything except Mexico - how do I prevent this?

[@Theplaymaker57]

You need to reform off of somebody with more than 1 province

[@oliverwilliams7375]

@@Theplaymaker57 ohhh damn, thanks I never realised! Will give it another go, strategy is pretty fun and quick to do

[@unstable_7071]

p2 roman empire before 1700

[@klaasvaak2575]

54 seconds ago? jeez thats close

[@vandarkholme8548]

Every time they try to fix the natives they only en up making them more broken

[@macaronisushi4512]

Where's part 3 of the Austria WC

[@Theplaymaker57]

Should be Friday

[@macaronisushi4512]

@@Theplaymaker57 thanks

[@jorgovan-ni9kz]

Broke up with my gf. Although relationship didn't last long(2 months) and it had it's issues but I'm pulling through watching videos to get my morale back up 😃

[@Theplaymaker57]

Hell yeah, You got this

[@harys4442]

same happened today 1 year down

[@rodi8266]

Couldnt it be smart to sit a bit longer on your animist phase, dev renaissance somewhere in mexico state, accumulate more $ in the meantime, then continue with your strat? Taking some of the techs around the mid-time of your video would be much cheaper (like adm 7) and you could probably bait portugal into attacking you before he spawns his CN, so you get a big truce with him and money from his colony? Now what this would net you, is faster tribal ideas, probably a better loan situation (as youd bank more money 50 years beforehand), better mil tech for the 2nd portugal or even a castile war(?). It would probably delay the theocracy swap by a few years, but then again, the run you showed could *probably* be optimized somewhat.

[@Theplaymaker57]

Yeah, There is tons of room for improvement, its kind of just exploring the base idea

[@Piekarz_1]

thats some great ideas. Also during this time everything could be conquered and later released to gain some loyal vasals.

[@johndoe6011]

Why would bankruptcy be bad thouh? You get rid of your debt for a bit of debuffs, but noone around you can attack you anyways. Edit: I just wrote this comments a few seconds before Port. attacked you again lol.

[@mainaccount4585]

26:43

[@wischfulthinking]

So I was high American, caught up in tech, & controlled every province in mesoamerica by 1480 pretty easily & I’m not that good at this game.

[@Theplaymaker57]

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make, did you have 90% PSWC? I feel like you just skipped to end of video and saw the land I had xD

[@tucoramirez988]

@@Theplaymaker57 What's PSWC?

[@luiseduardosilva145]

@@tucoramirez988 Province Score War Cost