Top 10 Most Rare & Unknown Nations in EU4

In this video we will be checking out some of the rarest and most unknown nations currently found in Europa Universalis IV. All of these nations do not appear in the 1444 start date, lack cores and require ridiculously specific prerequisite in order to appear. What nation is the most rare? Let's find out.
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[@AlzaboHD]

In this video we will be checking out some of the most unknown, rare and hidden nations found in Europa Universalis IV! What secret nations do you enjoy playing? Have you ever seen any of these nations in game? Do you agree with my list? We have reached 10k Subs - thank you so much for your support everyone! I will see you on the next video!

[@withche07]

I think you should have mentioned unique countries (with national ideas) that you could carry on over ck2, hashashins, knights templar, jomsvikings, israel. Playing with them is enjoyable. By the way there is one easter egg nation appears in Falklands through ck2 save, Trapalanda with horse culture lol. Kalmyk is nice find btw, its not included in eu4 wiki

[@withche07]

By the way Habsan is awesome country to try vassalize option. You can give them provinces next to various sea tiles so they can terrorize trade around.

[@realhawaii5o]

The 2 nations you can get if Tibet conquers a lot of horde land are woke.

[@joermundgand]

Only indigenous group? In Scandinavia we are all indigenous.

[@thirdyespedido9606]

Rwanda is pretty good to play if you manage to take Burundi and vassalize Buganda

[@is5052]

Confucian hakka chinese oligarch republic in borneo. Simply Amazing.

[@Victor-hy9ux]

I read the wiki about it, a company becomes a republic, so the new DLC of Stellaris is real lol

[@VadymSkl]

I've seen Darfur in more than one game, personally. Maybe, although their forming requirements are convoluted, the dynamics of the region allow them to appear quite often.

[@AlzaboHD]

I think there might also be an event that allows them to form? I scoured the Paradox wiki and couldn't find anything. That would definitely explain the amount of people in these comments also saying they've seen them.

[@doudoul8530]

I saw Darfur quite a lot too, but I dont know why tho

[@VadymSkl]

@@AlzaboHD Well, think about it, it's a region where cores and provinces come and go and where nobody has a clear supremacy or a fort to speak of. If the status quo changes, the repercussions are enormous in terms of who owns what and who stays alive in the first place. Also, with all that fragmentation, if the AI is anything less than god-like, then it's easy to lose to rebels and amplify the messines of the whole thing. Situations like these only end once a big power comes and conquers the land, in this case either the Mamluks or Ethiopia.

[@generalissimusleon]

Yes I have seen darfur as well

[@peterkorisanszky2950]

I've also seen Darfur a couple of times. I assumed it spawned by event since I saw it more than once.

[@alexandreprince8254]

The green, white and red flag used for Quebec is the flag that was used by the Patriotes, a rebellious independentist movement in 1837-1838. Kudos on the french pronounciation, you nailed it!

[@screamsinrussian5773]

Canadian Hungary

[@DaDARKPass]

@@screamsinrussian5773 canadian iran

[@Neeqh_]

And the colors meanings are Red for the English, White for the French and Green for the Irish. The stripes are horizontal to represent Equality between all the cultures in Lower Canada. The rest is History.

[@themorebike880]

@@Neeqh_ huh interesting, although I thought the Scots where bigger in lower Canada..?

[@SpyLeb1]

The Morebike Irish were a big community at this time. We have Saint-Patrick’s School and Church inside wall of Old Quebec. I’m sure Scots moved around the same period but Irish did leave a big mark. Many of us claim Irish roots. And I’m pretty sure Irish made stronger connections with us because of the shared desire of independence. We still like Irlande and love them culture, we have many pubs. At time of Patriots french and potentially Irish people didn’t have the chance to occupy politics positions or be a banker, doctor or anything like this.

[@Dylan-hy2zj]

I didn’t know how rare Malta was I actually had it as a vassal in my Savoy and Byzantine games

[@AlzaboHD]

Very rare find! Especially considering they don't have cores. I'm impressed you saw them twice!

[@Icadkren]

How bout darfur? In my game its always spawn lol

[@johnhobbes2268]

@@AlzaboHD I also saw Malta multiple times. The same for Sampi. I'm playing heavily focused on vasalization and royal marriages. Sampi almost always appears if I force RM Denmark and doesn't look out for Rebels in Sweden.

[@thepify3539]

Why the hell would you have a small island nation as a vassal?

[@sephikong8323]

@@thepify3539 Because they are near Tunisia and could take the brunt of the (now defunct it seems) +50% core creation cost. Before the admin efficiency kicks in it is very good to have a vassal to take it for you

[@annayosh]

Jan Mayen is shown as holding the Holy Roman Emperor if in the extended timeline mod you choose a start date before the HRE exists.

[@AlzaboHD]

That sounds unBEARable!

[@Grungeuncle]

But if you form HRE after the great schism and by having 7 vassals, all the catholic countries with a capital in germany and northern italy joins the HRE and becomes electors so jan mayen gets deleted from the current gameplay. Its just there to hold the HRE mechanics till the AI or players forms HRE.

[@novalter514]

4 words: Custom Ideas For Malta

[@AlzaboHD]

Malta needs unique ideas - I agree!

[@kantina4765]

-100% tax income

[@deltoroperdedor3166]

@@slavyanych231 fuck off, heretic!

[@beezyo3042]

@@slavyanych231 That would be historically inaccurate. The Catholic church was one of the strongest institutions at the time and therefore no tolerance towards other religions

[@nader50752]

@@slavyanych231 Barely 3 centuries.

[@aetu35]

Fun Fact: If you pop Sapmi into existence using the "assimilate (province)" command, it appears with its state religion as Fetishist. This is a reference to the Suomenusko pagan religion that isn't in the game (if it isn't a CK2 map import)

[@Charles-yi3mx]

I did manage to get Sapmi rebels to pop up after I annexed Novgorod in my Livonia campaign, but they didn't show up as fetishist. Is it only via console?

[@aetu35]

@@Charles-yi3mx Yes, only console

[@sheepykilly711]

Weird, I saw sapmi only a few days ago. Spawned in the one province Novgorod had of the right culture

[@metalltitan]

It does so on a regular basis if Muscovy is too busy to finish off Novgorod in 2-3 wars.

[@nebulastaralex]

I have Sapmi and Habsan and Darfur in a iron man game right now

[@SpicyMapping]

They are defaultly there in extended timeline.

[@adrianatgaming8640]

in my game, i played as muscovy, and denmark beat novgorod and took kola (which sorta became an exclave), and they rebelled, and gained independence. i ended up vassalising them as they were an opm.

[@isaacverhelst3983]

Spicy I have been in that same situation. Never seen Sapmi appear outside of Kola

[@theyeening]

I've seen 5/10 of these nations, but that's probably because I always play with extended timeline mod...

[@sergejmiladinovic1181]

Sapmi even exists in the normal 1444 start date... Also... *_UZ MARŠALA TITA!!!_*

[@teucer_]

Not anymore

[@alexbaseball4684]

Slovenian lefty how? It doesn’t work for me anymore

[@nebulastaralex]

I played a Jaunpur->Delhi->Hindustan ironman game and by 1570, Sapmi, Darfur, and Habsan were in my game

[@hamiamsandwitch6571]

I knew of all these nations except that german one and I have seen 7/10 of these nations

[@Keitreth]

In my last few runs after the Poland patch, Kalmyks appeared at least in 50% of them. So I wouldn't say they are rare, same as Darfur, but I have to admit, I had no idea that nations like the first top three ever existed. Subbed instantly.

[@EmpireTVDragon]

When I played as Russia. The Kalmyks came and I allowed the Kalmyks to come and become a march of mine. I kept the Kalmyks until the end game.

[@thisishuhwow]

I see malta, darfur and sokoto way more often than Prussia. :-)

[@adrianatgaming8640]

prussia spawns in about a quarter of my games, and they form if the teutons get beat, but not bad enough that they die.

[@TheMAXIFOD]

@@adrianatgaming8640 same, if Poland loose in mid-late game, pomerania or Brandenburg always takes it's lands and forms Prussia in my games.

[@karlwittenburg5868]

Prussia probably isn’t ai formed all that much because 9 times out of 10 it’ll be Poland who conquers them rather than Brandenburg, that one time they don’t is when they don’t bring Lithuania under PU and teutons ally someone like Denmark

[@TheMAXIFOD]

@@karlwittenburg5868 it happens a lot in late game, now that a lot of nations gets claims in PLC through their mission trees. Also PLC often gets rivaled by nations like Russia, Bohemia and Austria who often don't have anywhere else to expand in to (of their rivals). Once PLC loose 1 war, they get completely ganged and some northern German state often conquers Danzig-Königsberg etc.

[@morsta99]

Sapmi has appeared for me in my latest game and I’ve been playing this game since launch. Really does tell you how rare it is

[@Ulkomaalainen]

Even though I haven't played THAT much EU IV (steam says 970 hours), I think I saw Darfour once without any conscious help on my part (non ironman game, if that's changing things). When I came to the region it just existed so I crushed it without knowing, until now, of its unicornity. Kinda feel bad. (I say "I think" because I do not have a save to check. Darfour was in the media a lot a decade ago for all the wrong reasons so I noticed. I cannot completely rule out that it was some other nowadays well known region I'm confusing it with, but wouldn't know which one that could be. Also I am positive that Funj existed at least at some time).

[@Meander_]

Darfur spawns itself after over 1600 as I remember, in provinces of Darfur and the one behind it.

[@o.o6104]

@@kylephilipe8347 thats not much considering how long a single playthrough typically last

[@videogamebomer]

@@kylephilipe8347 someone only has 2 hours

[@livium1297]

I had seen Eturia on the eu4 wiki on one of my hour-long escapades through the site and was instantly confused by this tag, especially by the fact that a releasable nation could god the exact same cores as a nation on the 1444 start date. Thanks for clearing the specifics of this...thing up for me, now I guess it’s off to try to play as it!

[@joaonunogsm]

I've actually seen Darfur a number of times , even had it as a vassal. Malta only once I believe? but some of the others are really too convoluted...

[@AlzaboHD]

I think Darfur might be more common because there is apparently an event that might spawn them from Funj. I couldn't find any information on this before the video but knowing this now I would rate them a bit lower on the list!

[@theEtch]

I totally agree with this list, didn't know any of those existed and it seems like most of them never will in my games at least since the requirements are so bizarre. The only one I saw was Sapmi but for some reason it was called Sami in my game and that was at the starting date I used with extended timeline anyway...

[@pascalkane3272]

Btw im québecois and just saying the quebec flag is actually really accurate , this flag is the quebec patriotic flag, from the 1837-1838 revolution, the patriotic flag is older than the fleurdelysée flag

[@AlzaboHD]

Super! Merci pour l'info , j'avais aucune idee.

[@pascalkane3272]

De rien ! Continue tes vidéos !

[@mastergameunited127]

Alzabo tu es français?

[@fyrenoftelios767]

@@mastergameunited127 si j'ai bien compris il est Americain mais vit en France ;)

[@vikrambasu9281]

Must say I was expecting the same old nations that are simply rare but I must admit you truly found some unicorns! 🦄

[@grimwaltzman]

Out of all those i actually saw Lanfang in my last campaing.

[@AlzaboHD]

As an AI nation? If Ming exploded and Yue colonized it's a definite possibility - very rare!

[@AlzaboHD]

As an AI nation? If Ming exploded and Yue colonized it's a definite possibility - very rare!

[@ardaylmaz1899]

@@AlzaboHD dont reply twice

[@unchartedsteppes7138]

@@ardaylmaz1899 it's a youtube bug, it happens when the connection throttles. Also, he literally posted the video.

[@Domhnall_A_Ghalltachd]

The only countries I’ve ever seen is Sampi and Malta...

[@AlzaboHD]

I'm impressed that you've seen Malta. They have to pass two layers of nationalist rebels to even have their seperatist rebels appear. You've spotted quite the unicorn!

[@Domhnall_A_Ghalltachd]

@@AlzaboHD Yes I believe Sicily got independence from Aragon and then Maltese independence after that. However it was so long ago it could have been sicily.

[@TheWanderingPlayer]

I have seen malta multiple times. To be fair I even thought it was a rather common tag to find

[@localgremlim5688]

@@Domhnall_A_Ghalltachd I know this comment is months old but I literally had your name and a tartan as my profile picture a while ago

[@Domhnall_A_Ghalltachd]

Literally A Snorlax aha why ?

[@ksundheitkek6371]

Preeetty sure a friend of mine formed Sokoto when we played as the African alliance. With me as Mutapa (getting to conquer the horn of Africa, Arabia and India), said friend played Mali and got western Africa and northern Africa of course as well as Iberia and the Mediterranian and one guy that played as the Kongo who got to play as the African colonial power beating Castille, Portugal and England on all continents. Really fun game but we did not finish it yet

[@AlzaboHD]

Sounds like a fun game! Given that Sokoto is really only able to be formed after the 1700s I'm sure you guys are almost finished - I'd like to see a map once you guys do! Thanks for watching.

[@kevinboros7427]

I was playing the extended timeline mod as Russia. I vassalized Mongolia and developed their provinces. After some time, this guy appeared. I remember I saw this nation on your video so I came back here to see why.

[@jackluck2538]

I remembered this video when Sapmi appeared in my french game, nice to find it with less than 50 hours.

[@AlzaboHD]

That's rare - good find! I've yet to see it in any of my games

[@Enric.]

Great video. I've only seen Darfur and Sapmi in 2000 hours

[@sheldonfavela5423]

First KZbin Comment in 5 years, I really needed to shot out your BEAUTIFUL pronunciation of "tabarnak" x)

[@mikefast1740]

wow, great video

[@AlzaboHD]

Thanks for the great comment!

[@mikefast1740]

@@AlzaboHD thanks for the good video, i thought this wasnt going to be any new information but I really didn't know about meissen etruria or the buddhist horde!

[@rairarku2964]

Coming back here because I literally saw an AI lanfang in my Aragon-Spain-Rome playthrough and am baffled as to how that happened Edit: I looked at timeline thingy and apparently there's a nation at game start called Sambas that just tag switched or something... that's so much less fun

[@krissludriks8520]

Didn't know that Malta was so rare, it had appeared for me many times. Sold it once to Savoy, they didn't even kept for a year, the Maltese rebels won almost immediately. But I've never seen Malta as an independent nation before the 1500s tho.

[@Arwilus]

Sapmi isn't the only indigenous culture, it's the indigenous to the most northern bit. Swedes, Danes, Norwegians and Finnish people are also indigenous.

[@seekerseraphimtherecluse4314]

Many forget this

[@shatzinorris1417]

prfff finns are immigrants I swear just look at their language...

[@GAndreC]

Finns were in the area before Swedes Danes or Norwegians though

[@Arwilus]

Non-Agglutinative Krenak only of you mean that they were there before the Norse culture split into said cultures. The Norse and sapmi were the people who followed the receding ice, with the Finns shortly after, pushing the sapmi further north.

[@GAndreC]

The thing is Finno Ugric people had a regional presence in Scandinavia that predates the norse in both genealogical and settlement records. Yes they migrated but did arrive before anyone else currently in the region.

[@cloudsclouds]

yr blowing my mind right now with lanfang. i just played a madyas campaign where lanfang popped out randomly. i never play in the east indies so i had no idea it was so rare

[@ultimatox]

Cool! Kalmyk actually appeared in my current Byzantium game. I even let them live for a while as my March.

[@crimsonwolf7248]

2 years after I first watched this, I saw Darfur in a campaign and wiped it out without realizing how rare it was >.

[@metalltitan]

Sapmi usually forms when Novgorod is almost dead and Muscovy has not yet claimed the Kola province. I've seen it form in most my playthroughs as Sweden, Norway and Prussia as you usually keep Muscovy busy for a while so the unliving of Novgorod is prolonged and rebels will inevitably spawn.

[@InTenZeGamingHD]

I knew about some of these. Sapmi - used to see them alot Quebec - a player formed them in multiplayer Darfur - they randomly spawn when i play as a colonizer Sokoto - i had a campaign just so i could form them Etruria and Lanfang- alot of streamers has tried to form these nations, but i’ve never seen them ingame

[@Alexander99602]

Oh, I've seen Darfur form in my byzantium campaign, I was preparing for my 5th war agaisnt the mamlukes when suddnely I get a loan offer from Darfur... Of 30 ducats... With an intrest of 3%... I was having a total income of like 71....I felt so merciful then that I accepted his loan and payed it back right up... And I still managed to win 20 ducats that month... Edit : I could imagine that darfur diplomat travaling the saharan desert and reaching Alexandria...to then take a ship to Constantinopole and finally reaching the Imperial Palace, on his way aweing at the Hagia Sophia and the Neobyzantine architecture... Edit 2: I've also seen Malta, but only its core on malta in the same campaign when I've conquered the mediteranean islands off aragon (what remained of them, since sardinia was free and syracuse was Tunisian)

[@doktorhammerfaust6152]

I've seen that you made Eu4 timelapses. So I made a small challenge for you but it's your desicion to do it or not. 1. Play as Saxony 2. Switch to Meissen 3. Make Meissen a Naval Power and take all important Chinese and Indonesian Trade Ports 5. (this one is for free to choose) make Meissen a Colonial Power and take all important trade ports in the New World and Africa Since Meissen is known for its porcellan it would be kinda funny to see a "Porcellan Empire" ^^

[@guillaumelarmor7286]

Your pronunciation of Québec is perfect!!! Its a pleasure to see people not butcher it. Vive le québec libre :)

[@knpark2025]

2:40 those rebels will not be the easiest to make up, but they definately sound like the most adorable rebel ever.

[@joshuasims5421]

Kalmyk appeared in my recent Qing game--of course, in this same game, Gazikumukh rose up during the collapse of Russia and became a world power.

[@AlzaboHD]

Europe always becomes interesting when you play in Asia! Its the law of universalis haha, that sounds like a bizarre world

[@alejandrocosials]

It seems I was extremely lucky. Playing as Muscovy I had in the same game both Sapmi and Kalmykia. The Sapmi appeared right after conquering Kola to Novgorod. Rebels spun and as I was fighting a long war against Kazan/Uzbek/Crimea I couldn't crush them. Kalmykia appeared long after when I had already expanded into Asia

[@nagromtw5673]

In my first game ever Sapmi. Thats pretty cool i guess.

[@HeyItsJakegaming]

I’ve seen a few of these, especially sapmi which I’ve had in 3-4 games (I’ve only played around 200 hours) . Sapmi is pretty common at the moment since when Norway and Sweden revolt against Denmark they usually are swarmed with rebels

[@Zerpderp0]

World Conquest as any of these nations should be a freaking achievement. Especially the Italian one. It's so convoluted that I already have the achievement name for forming it and getting WC. Forming: "The Best Laid Plans O' Mice and Men..." WC: "...Gang oft awry"

[@paceky1556]

I got Kalmyk in my recent mughals game yay

[@michaelfolk888]

I am actually playing a Poland run right now where Kalmyk appeared. Currently I formed the Commonwealth and the game is passed 1600. Idk what happened but suddenly I looked over that region and Kalmyk was there and as a Muscovite vassal. Muscovy owned that area for a while but I've been crushing them causing horrible rebels in their land after each war. I'm not sure if that may of helped cause Kalmyk rebels to spawn. But anyway Muscovy either diplo or militarily vassalized them. They will eventually be eaten by me, but still really cool they appeared and are existing in my game at the moment.

[@aiman9088]

As a malaysian, I didn't even know that Lanfang even existed on Borneo. Thank you so much

[@daljan1101]

I was playing eu4 and saw sapmi so that's pretty cool

[@equinsuocha5397]

In what has to be roughly my 20th Muscovy to Russia playthrough over the years of playing this game, I had the Kalmyk event spawn on me around 1650 I think. I had to pause for quite a while b/c I couldn't believe my choices were to either accept them as a march, or fight a war against them (not spawned rebels, but an actual war-they take the Astrakan area regardless). While it was quite simple to win the the war in less than a year, I couldn't believe this event. I just lost an entire area, had to reconquer them, restate them, and they even kicked my trader out of the Astrakan node.

[@alpharius4208]

I didn't even realize Habsan was a hard to form nation. I was playing as Gujarat and just after 1500 the event popped up, so I took the new march since my army of mercs was nearly wiped out

[@DSTXproduction]

FYI Quebec's green white red flag is the Patriot's flag, flag the patriot party rebels used during the 1837-38 rebellion. It's now a symbol of Quebec's resistance and you can see it everywhere in Quebec on May 24th as it's Victoria Day (called Patriot's day in Quebec).

[@Pr0manStream]

It states on the Event "Papal State" at 8:01 that the selectables are DEBUG: Event ID - so I assume Etruria was never meant to be played as a player nation to begin with?

[@AlzaboHD]

Good eye! The debug interface is because I was using console commands to spawn and play as these nations. Normally the Event ID would not be present and the debug menu would be hidden.

[@Pr0manStream]

@@AlzaboHD So this is simply due to the fact that the nation was spawned in via console commands? Since these nations have absurdly rediculous spawning conditions I was hoping to be on something related to the idea that those nations were never supposed to be played as, dang.

[@srccde]

@@Pr0manStream No, using the console you can activate debug mode so that you can see province IDs, country tags etc. And it will also show event IDs like you can see in the video. Normally, this isn't visible. It's got nothing to do with the rarity of the nation or with how unlikely it is to spawn.

[@MeAndI338]

@@Pr0manStream You _can_ play as some of these nations. Etruria appears in the 1800s as Napoleon's vassal, Darfur is present in most start dates past 1500, Habsan also frequently spawns for me. I'm unsure for most of the other ones, but Sapmi and Malta appear pretty often for me too.

[@oRange_brOwn]

In my very first 2 games of EU4, I've seen both Malta, and Darfur! I'm feeling lucky! :D

[@furiousfox7712]

Someone pronouncing Québec the right way instead of saying Qwébec, well done to you 👌

[@Ben-qs9fw]

I have seen Sapmi pretty often when Muscovy takes over Kola and then they usually rebel and become independent for a short time

[@tspoon772]

Just played a Byzantium game where I got Malta to revolt, vassalized and then annexed. Never realized how rare it was.

[@frostyguy1989]

How can Etruria be a thing this late in history? The Etruscan culture had already been dead for nearly 2000 years before 1444, and had long been overshadowed by Roman culture.

[@AlzaboHD]

Etruria was a client state of Napoleonic France between 1801 and 1807 : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Etruria

[@bentleykennedy-stone673]

@@AlzaboHD interesting. but of course it wasnt really etruscan, it just borrowed its name from the region it was created in. like the holy roman empire.

[@sirol97]

@@bentleykennedy-stone673 Napoleon also created a nation in Balkans called the Illyrian Kingdom. Guess he was a fan of history.

[@lowlsqwid]

@@bentleykennedy-stone673 well tuscans are technically etruscan hence the similarity in name. But it might just be in name alone aside from a few genetic similarities.

[@WeirdViking]

Came back to this video because the first one Sapmi appeared on my game and so did Kalmyk. I remembered seeing them here before but found it funny i only have 100hrs played

[@hirocheeto7795]

I actually did see Malta once during a Naples campaign. I diplo-vassalized them and annexed them though, so they lasted all of 20 or so years.

[@awildfilingcabinet6239]

Oh, I missed the 4 on the end Thought I had clicked on something that would become a memefest

[@AlzaboHD]

Lichtenstein, San Marino and Andorra? Ayyyyyyeeee!

[@PhilipsPESEditing]

I'm on my first playthrough, and I had Sapmi for a while, they conquered a big part of Scandinavia but eventually lost wars against Norway and Sweden and they ended up disappearing... Lasted for 48 years, 1622-1670

[@maximonamitzhian9064]

I SAW KALMYK I thought it must had been an event, because Moskovy was doing relatively good suppressing revels and then all of the sudden there was this huge state on Astrakhan. Came out of nowhere.

[@binzychanuwu]

I never even knew Darfur was rare, I just randomly saw it in an Ethiopia game and I made it a vassal quite quickly

[@sigh173]

Hi!!😊 I love this video and your EU 4 top tens very much, and I think many Chinese fans of EU 4 will love it too! Can I translate it and repost it on a website called bilibili in China? I will quote you as the author and include the link of your video, and I'll be very happy if you agree!!!

[@BartmanGS]

i see malta pretty often and sometimes kalmyk but never the others you've mentioned

[@G-Rat124]

I saw kalmek recently. I was playing a Philippine tiger run and was scanning the map for troops from western powers since as i had to go to war for some chartered company land. Across the steppe i just see a grey block of buddhist horde. It was weird

[@AlzaboHD]

Whenever you play outside Europe the strangest things always happen it seems! Thats awesome

[@aidenchisum8804]

Hey that’s cool Malta was in my last French game and Darfur is allied to the Mamluks in my Ottomans game right now

[@aarohalme1020]

I knew a lot of these also you can choose where those 2 spawn by typing a province id after bearhaslanded (for jan mayen) or typing a country tag after syntheticdawn (for the synthetics)

[@oskariylonen3574]

I've seen Sapmi multiple times and I'm a newbie. The Sapmi province Novgorod owns tends to revolt when they get rekt by Muscovy.

[@frislander4299]

I saw Lanfang in my first game I actually played out without restarting after a century (as Portugal because I like being terrified of personal unions apparently).

[@everettburns6674]

I have seen sokoto in my very first eu4 game since I was an avid victoria II player I recognized it I had no idea how rare it was

[@emilstnt3495]

meissen is still possible to be played i saw them as rebels but not an indepedent nation im not really sure what exactly happend since i was playing in asia but what i think happend was 1. the hre became protestant and got a weak emperor 2. poland then invaded saxony and might have taken all the saxon culture provinces so saxony did that thing where they adopt the new religion and culture of the province they are now in which made them no longer have permanent cores on saxon provinces 3. the saxon cores were lost so poland now had unaccepted non-saxon saxon cores 4. and then the rebels appeared so meissen could appear from just the ai doing its thing which is quite interesting edit: fixed spacing to make it easier to read

[@byzantinemapper6145]

I actually saw Etruria appear in my game while playing as Ruthenia. I asked what that was to one of my friends and they told me to watch this video... I am lucky I guess.

[@aetu35]

neat

[@IwieIch123]

Nafur appears by event. I got a notification about „a nation forming in the south“ in my mamluks run

[@DoZeEternity]

I’m Québécois and I liked your little quote of « Tabarnak, Vive le Québec libre! » 👏🏻👌🏻

[@marsing69]

sapmi, kalmyk and darfur just spawned in my game crazy stuff

[@Mr556x45mm]

I've had the Kalmyk event fire when I was playing a Bulgaria game.

[@waywardstoner9416]

I got to see Kalmyk formed as a OPM in my gameplay as The Isles. It barely lasted 5 years.

[@Roman-fg4nf]

Tabarnack at you to, my friend

[@cheese3284]

Only one of these I recall seeing is a Sapmi that was getting bullied.

[@vvsniper99]

sapmi just spawned in my sweden game i had most of its provinces except Kola which was muscovy province which in turn had rebels that formed sapmi

[@ZackaryMusgrove]

I've seen Sapmi (two or three times) and Darfur, the latter fairly regularly, but I play in the Horn of Africa a lot.

[@caeao3126]

I once saw Quebec and Darfur, and Malta in my one of my Ottoman and Prussian campaigns.

[@AlzaboHD]

You need to buy a lottery ticket! I've never seen any of those, much less all at the same time!

[@caeao3126]

​@@AlzaboHD My luck is weird, if I don't know if it's rare then it would show up but if I wanted it, it would never be granted. I saw Quebec in an Ottoman campaign of mine. After I was beaten with the combined might of Russia and Prussia (I hate that game since the AI formed PRUSSIA - it was weird game), I simply just quit and saw Quebec in the end. As for Darfur and Malta, it was either my 1st or 2nd Prussian campaign. I saw Malta first (it was taken by Naples later) then Darfur (I actually thought Darfur was a generic nation in that region at that time.)

[@julefmapper6143]

1:44 Your french is glorious. You have accomplished to make me proud, which is also an incredibly rare event.

[@AlzaboHD]

Merci! I speak French because I live(d) in France but I'm not a native speaker. Appreciate the kind words!

[@y33t23]

Meißen is still playble in 2020. I tested this today, on 27th of April 2020. It is hard to achieve, but it is possible to play as that nation. There is a guide on how to do it on Reddit, just google and you will find it. I followed it and I could spawn the rebels, but without cheating to increase unrest it can take very, very long for them to fire, as it is hard to trigger these rebels.

[@kesorangutan6170]

What about cossack nation with a random tag? I saw that while browsing r/eu4.

[@AlzaboHD]

Those tags are interesting! I'm pretty sure they are dynamic and change depending on the territory / city name that is formed from them.

[@gamerdinbasarabia2093]

I've played with the Mamluks recently and the Habsan event fired but I didn't know its rare so I just crushed the rebels :)

[@schoenwettersl]

6:43 they did actually appear in one of my saves. but were gone in like a sec

[@adrianatgaming8640]

i remember habsan came into existence once, while playing as the mughals.

[@WizoIstGott]

My favorite of the rare tags is Hojo, because you can have the Triforce on your Flag :)

[@konplayz]

I saw Sapmi when their rebels occupied Kola from Novgorod I had Habsan rebel when i played Mughals. Kalmyk became Russias vassal in my Mughal campaign Darfur appears really often for me. The ones I haven’t commented on are the ones i’ve never seen.

[@ytjessaie]

My current game has Sapmi, Habsan, Kalmyk and Darfur all at same time and I didnt do anything to make it happen :P

[@AlzaboHD]

You need to buy a lottery ticket!

[@gaellemat]

pic or didn't happen

[@deltoroperdedor3166]

Yer a wizard, Henry!

[@schwany6703]

Sure kiddo

[@ytjessaie]

@@schwany6703 did you just call a 30 year old man "kiddo" because you a jealous of him relating a random event which occured in a game with no effort or consideration being put into it ? I'm genuinely impressed.

[@bradenpotts]

I had Kalmyk appear in my most recent Byzantium to Rome attempt, I had conquered the region and when it appeared I made them a march

[@X9Z17]

I’ve only played two games this far and Kalmyk has been in both 👀 although it got eaten in the first game by Crimea

[@kristianstave3904]

I saw the Sapmi nation actually! I don't know what the hell happened but I was playing as the Ottomans. I was casualy fighting the Mamluks (Like you do) when my view finally was lifted from the north of Scandinavia and there they were. And they had allied both Austria and France. At the end of the campaing they were a powerhouse. I learned about them from that campaing!

[@blueoceancorporations1019]

Not too long Ago I had Habsan appear in my game as Hormuz.

[@worldboxvn8214]

I saw dafur once in my ottoman campaign in 1774. I don't know why but they pretty big at that point

[@goksir5845]

Have you looked at the japanese Daimyo Maeda and Ikeda that appear at the starting dates 1583 and 1590? I have never seen them appear in-game and they have no cores. I believe all the other "hidden daimyo" have cores

[@LilacVeritas]

Several daimyos can spawn via an event the Shogun gets to release a daimyo in a province, that could potentially put em on the map

[@goksir5845]

@@LilacVeritas I have gotten these events for Chosokabe and Akamatsu. Both of those already have cores there at the starting date. I'm guessing you could probably get events for at least the other ones that have cores (such as Mori), but I haven't ever seen the coreless daimyo.

[@Spacegamer1250]

Didnt know Darfur was so rare saw it the other day on my first ottomans game they were allied to the mamluks