Why FRANCE Is THE STRONGEST EU4 Nation

[@LudietHistoria]

Watch the opposite of France next, the English wet dream of an Angevin Empire - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqe8Y2SDo96ShbM like goal achieved so part 2 here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/rouxpaVjmM6Nn68

[@ΠαναγιώτηςΚριπεντηρης]

you ask snapudl you recive snapudl haha.... great video ceep going on

[@BTweird]

Instead of PU Naples you can follow the Provence mission tree to get Naples. They get cores on all of Naples ( so no AE if you take their lands) and then claims Aragon.

[@charlielimber5441]

When new swiss?

[@kirkjiao3296]

France also lost the franco prussian war pretty badly. Not just WW2.

[@snake34353]

Ludi Jean Bureau mean Jean Office or Jean Desk. Butter is beurre in French. By the way i Love what you're doing man

[@dano4996]

Fun fact, if Jean Bureau is dead and you still don't have finished the mission you can recruit a general, name him Jean Bureau (don't forget the capital letters) and you can finish it

[@agustinsanjuan4934]

Found this out the hard way. Had Jean Bureau die before the Surrender of Maine and I thought it would be funny to name a new general after him only for the mission to be completed after

[@dapimp6861]

Really? I had Jean Bureau die before i started the war against england lol

[@dapimp6861]

But it aint the same because Jean Bureau has the siege :(

[@dano4996]

@@dapimp6861 yes

[@arshadshauib7201]

Do you know if you can name your second starting general Jean Bureau too and finish the mission by having him win 4 battles?

[@apples.e]

France is so satisfying to play as - until you see England inherit Burgundy...

[@CoL_Drake]

Do ur missions So u are the one

[@bioemiliano]

I prefer to conquer it, otherwise is too easy. It's infuriating when Burgundy releases their pus mid war and game considers them allies so double AE. Happened to me as castile a few days ago

[@Olter_]

England missions are trash in comparison

[@thomas_asunto]

Angry French noises Angry HRE Emperor noises

[@L0rd0fLight1]

@@CoL_Drake Which mission?

[@Zygmunt-Zen]

Playing as France now. Thanks Ludi for highlighting some of the mission tree, since it is so large, it is easy to overlook .

[@milanpodmanik5386]

great choice. I played them immediately after new patch and now I cant finish their mission tree cause one idea and even dont have revolutionary ideas :D

[@hoyinching9313]

8:28 Taking Pale is an important treaty if you want the big blue blob achievement.

[@zewox26]

dude i have been watching your videos for more than one year i guess and each one of them getting more chaotic and im loving it (im not a paid actor from mcdonalds) especially in this video with you doing whatever you feel like and having soo much fun made my day i hope you never lose this.

[@MrTygrac]

Great Video Ludi, I just wanted to ask: If you have the aliance, the relations and some of the passive favour gain with the Papacy, why dont you use the favours to get back cores of Provence and Savoy? It might save you some AE in europe.

[@Urlik7]

Exactly my thoughts 👍

[@ElZorro85]

Oh man I never considered actually reclaiming the holy land until you now described the extra bonuses. Gah, gonna have to restart my game then.

[@christos_thedoge2751]

Ludi the island is called Great Britain (you've probably searched it by now). Anyways, i've been watching you the last 7 months and you are the reason i'm playing eu4. Keep it up.

[@sebsam02]

Just for your information, maybe you should wait next time before you complete the Burgundy mission. In your case, they rival Austria anyway. So if you do the mission after you just inherite them insantly.

[@noanyidea87]

Yes, but it's a lot of governing capacity.

[@fabienr.8817]

It's better to conserve PU until you have gov capacity

[@laca9198]

@@fabienr.8817 Gov capacity estate privilages and problem solved (from the new missions estates super loyal). Also the extra income from the Lowlands and the full control over the Chanel is so much better.

[@freddekl1102]

If you inherit Burgundy naturally you get +1 adm mana for 20 years

[@fabienr.8817]

@@laca9198 Except if you invade england and hispanic lands like me

[@sharkoman1]

29:30 when you were wondering what province byzantine we're at check the states and territories map and you can see which province(s) they are currently coring. This works for everything except reconquest and personal Union wars where they don't have to core. It's a good way to see who you need to ally to join a war with you

[@niewiarygodny6853]

I always liked missions where with click of a button we get PU over specific country. You can save so much AE with such missions ^^.

[@dominus.felixnontristi3751]

You could use the alliance favor interactions to ask the Papal States for your vassals code back. Even if you don’t want to keep them as an ally it lets you take the land for no AE in exchange for favors.

[@imperiumgallicum]

Well done Ludy, cannot wait for the next part of this series. Actually France was during the time of the games (15-18 centuries) a super power. It is normal for Paradox to make them powerfull.

[@bioemiliano]

Found the french

[@theortheo2401]

​@@bioemiliano he's right though, just like Spain, England and the Ottomans.

[@Simon-.-]

@@theortheo2401 for Spain it's only during the 16th and 17th century, it was never very powerful otherwise. the same for England, it only became an important power from the 17th century. only france, austria and the ottomans were powerful from the middle age to the 20th century and france more particularly.

[@ulfekenberg6463]

A super power was not even a term back then

[@krankarvolund7771]

Yeah, except during the reign of François Ier, he's remembered as a super monarch and the symbol of Renaissance in France, but he's got his ass kicked several times by Spain while trying to conquer Italy XD

[@flashpackingeverycountryin4512]

this dude makes me start up EU4 every fucking time

[@niewiarygodny6853]

Ok so France is actually an AE monster with those free Burdungy/Provance/Papal state missions. Sadly there is no information in "Which land your ally wants exactly and how much of them he wanna take during 1 war" I mean you can check their intrest but you don't know if someone will take whole Florence or just 3 provinces. 1. Feed Provance as much you can, so you don't get AE. In my case i gave him 3 provinces from Brittany, 1 from Pope, Saluzo and bunch of Savoyrian? Lands. Also 2 provinces for Lorraine. In exchange i got a lot of favours so if i wanted i could finish that quest faster. 2. Burgundy - Similar as above, each time i had war with someone close to his PU - Gave 1/2 provinces if i could Feeed Savoy 3. Papal - Had him since start, was slowly feeding him Whole Italy. + Once i knew i wanted to click missions i made few vassals for myself just to give Papal extra provinces. In my game i had before 1500 all England, close to whole Italy (just few Aragoneese lands left cause i was trying to get PU over Castille, didn't work and i didn't abuse restarts), Standard Vassals as Byzantine/Bulgaria/Styria, Burgundy etc, With close to no AE :D

[@AOkana-rd1im]

thank you ludi for this special video, merci beaucoup

[@peachprincess758]

Great video Ludi! Love youuuuu

[@LudietHistoria]

love you more bebe

[@Supertube2309]

u could just ask for return core under favors from the papel it would prob be like 30-40 favors each but worth it if u wanna keep the alliance

[@Uchroniae]

Thanks for this video ludi , i'm french and for the 8th may you do a video about France, the day of the end of the War 😉 good job , my Romanin boy

[@LudietHistoria]

VIVE LA FRANCE !

[@joedh23]

26:11 As a Brit, yes Ludi, that island is Britain. Here are a few more things in case you are wondering: - British Isles - Britain, Ireland, isle of man etc. - United Kingdom - Britain + northern ireland (although channel islands are usually included) - Great Britain - UK + British overseas territories + channel islands Hope it helps :) (Great video as always)

[@incarnateblizzard4874]

Wasn't Great Britain only the big island, UK is GB plus Northern Ireland and british isles are including also isle of man and channel islands?

[@Hyperblowfish]

I had a great France to Roman Empire game in 1.35. Super fun glad to see you destroy as France

[@fanofcodd]

Because France dominated Western Europe from the end of 15th century to the 18th century ?

[@Simon-.-]

@@fanofcodd even at the beginning of the 19th century.

[@REj_Music]

Love you so much! xx

[@wouldntyouliketoknowdeli7640]

I still miss the old 1.33 days when England won't even naval invade when you declare on them.

[@blauerwolf6405]

Every video starts with: this Nation is insanly powerfull, one of my favrit nations

[@jorgovan-ni9kz]

One KZbinr, flying Dutchman i think is the channel name... Posts full gameplay of his videos... And barely gets views above 3k... For years now... I always remember how u and others commented that, that kind of videos are dead... Sad to see that since i do enjoy those kind of videos too... Cheers from Serbia to u Ludi

[@yxolloxy3273]

11:20 with condotieri from castille; if you look at your video at 10:37 you see a castillian condotieri stack walking around

[@alexeyshimolin2040]

Ludi, you forget that you can ask Pope to return our Provence cores for favors!

[@daynedsouza2639]

you can keep the holy orders and swithc back to the offensive pope branch u get to choose another option when u do the mission alpine pass.

[@Zeroyue622]

The problem with the mission tree is that you need to own or have subject own naples inorder to complete the mission that make pope your march. But sometimes pope can do it himself, which is super frustrating. The should also make a condition that if you align with pope and the pope control the naples also can complete the mission

[@yeaman1]

Ludi: France takes taxes left and right. Turkey: Am I a joke to you?

[@smeglan95]

You can ask to Pope for the Provence cores and if Provence get more than 100 dev points you get cores over Napoli, not claims cores and you can get back with not agreesive expansion and remember the new missions of France do more easy integrate Provence.

[@IoanCenturion]

26:00 It's called Great Britain Ludi, lol

[@nickriendeau1617]

Ludi, why don’t you use the returner core favor mechanic to return the papal lands to provence?

[@zaculliz]

Easy to answer. Ludi be wanting em faster. Warmongerer style ;D

[@daniel.stafford]

26:10 - the larger island is "Great Britain" whereas the island of Ireland has been known by various names - Hibernia (the Roman name) and Britannia Minor are two examples. The more strident Irish nationalists refer to the isles as "the Atlantic isles" disputing British ownership of Ireland.

[@gogo2694]

I was waiting for this video, I hope there will be enough like to continue this campaign !

[@gannonpatton2858]

Ive noticed a lot of KZbinrs have the same game of Ottomans not expanding into Mamluke territory. Otherwise, cant wait to do a new France playthrough!

[@emrekalyon903]

ottoman ai is confusing because of new mission tree.

[@Kronos221292]

I don't play/watch EU4 : But someone told me watch this video at 7:40 to increase my PP by 10% permanently. So here I am. This is not what I had in mind for sure.

[@cunurelive]

For people who play ironman dont go for provence unless you feel lucky, theres only a 10% chance to get the PU over them with the diplo version of the mission (you still get pu cb)

[@jenshendrickx2230]

i mean you can alt f4 till you get it, if you want to do that

[@CoL_Drake]

That's wrong my dude. They removed auto inheritance of Provence Mission and drasticly increase chance for then to accept our. In 3 tries they accepted three times

[@LudietHistoria]

I had 5 tests for this run and all 5 times they accepted.....use newest patch bro

[@ulfekenberg6463]

It is now 100% however You cant insta annex them now via the other mission. Keep in mind You cant get Musketeers until you have no vassal on mainland france so it’s at least 50 years extra if you get them in a pu

[@hoyinching9313]

EU4 Franc is kind of like even if you are not aware of enemy, your nation protects the player a lot.

[@ertinox_9422]

Ludi, for your culture, Jean bureau doesn't mean john butter but john desk, maybe you already know this but why not remind you that

[@LudietHistoria]

thanks you bro, I am now more enlightened ^^

[@MTM_22]

Ludi, you could ask Pope to return your vassal provinces, and then when Provence reach 100 dev (or just own Corsica) they will get cores on Naples

[@balthazarlaury1567]

great vid

[@morganrenders3139]

The 1.35 make french mission tree so historically accurate, it's beautiful

[@jordangoffin5112]

20:22 i had the same bad luck in my run with japan, maybe it's a feature in 1.35

[@brevinskijerem9184]

history is cruel, one misstake and everyone forgot all the good stuff u did. thanks for the leason ludi luv u

[@jibrilcarletti4025]

Wir wollen Teil 2 Ludi. Und zwar SOFORT!!

[@greatbritishmale]

The great thing is that the benefits of subscribing to Ludi’s channels stack, so having a subscription to all 3 increases peepee size by 30%.

[@montaine320]

Lot of part twos on the way….very excited!

[@Geraduss]

Hey I'm exotic I'm not in my parents basement, I'm in a hollyday home in the middle of the woods even MORE away from civilization !

[@jean-marcstaehli6058]

If you start with burgundy and finish the focus tree and after switch to France you get 35 power projection until thé and of the game 😉

[@patratgames4712]

He saying France always dominated: Me thinking about the Franko-Prussian war.

[@Freedmoon44]

France vs Prussia 1806 Yk just 60 years prior, and before anyone complains (oh twasnt full Germany! It doesnt count and France had more than France, im pretty sure getting out of over a decade of political instability, military crisis against several countries economical crisis etc... winning several coalition wars prior, defeating the 2 other strongest continental Empires like half a year prior makes up for lack of german unification) Beside losing a war isnt anything new, France was still very shortly afterward back to one of the strongest of Europe just no longer an potential Hegemon. The only severe defeat that lasted a sh** ton of time really was 1940 and thats really it

[@LionTsar]

Great video! 2. Can you make EUIV Bulgaria video?

[@lol_histicall4289]

28:28 dude idk how this happens like it happened to me too I was playing Castile and Aragon not only became a republic but alliances boxed me like wtf it affected my campaign so much I went colonial instead of Roman Empire run but hey atleast I got the hood queen automatically

[@Nobun4g4]

So in essence ludi started the video with a never gonna give up, never gonna let down, never gonna run around and desert…

[@carltonleboss]

Yeah, the big island is called Great Britain

[@raven201]

I never manage to get the burgundian inheritance as france. They always rival me and when i remove the rivalry through war they hate me

[@ranndo2606]

I just say "Schlacht von Sedan"

[@pgjuzek]

Ok mr et Historia, we had some fun, you got some likes, now - where's my brandi campaign?

[@konstantinosangelopoulos6644]

Even better if you play before they changed the one click Provence integration mission! I had to roll back to continue my game! :)

[@mikolajtrzeciecki1188]

When you try to play a little bit more historically and stay on the continent (meaning no Pale), the game as France gets much more challenging.

[@hoyinching9313]

Really like this quote Sun Tzu and his followers: Know the enemy and know yourself, you will never be in danger. When you ignore enemy but know yourself, your will either win or lose. If you ignore enemy and yourself, you will fail everytime.

[@justpino7]

I keep having heirs falling down windows too. The French can be so clumsy!

[@brandoncampanaro7571]

I do still like army professionalism but i do entirely agree its like a shadow of itself now

[@worldsbestpodcast6674]

Throw them in the darkness pit has made me laugh like 5 times

[@ArtemKotenev-m2t]

Ludi owes us a ton of second parts 😭

[@CatladyAyaki]

I love you!!!

[@nifilium5738]

you just wait for the maine event to trigger but before pressing the button to take maine, you declare war. now you have a free province. :)

[@nubber04]

I always co-belligerent Portugal in the war. So I can take lands from them. The I usually go for Spain next while I start getting claims in north africa. Spain usually allies with Portugal at this point which allows me to reset the truce timer. And then snake my way around Castile.

[@BaluBrew]

Putting out a France video on the 8th of May is a really nice touch!

[@darrendin2050]

Why?

[@BaluBrew]

@@darrendin2050 WW2 victory day. In Russia it is on the 9th because f the west lol

[@darrendin2050]

@@BaluBrew But if its victory day for all the Allies, why is it just special for France?

[@BaluBrew]

@@darrendin2050 I see what you saying. Still due to the somewhat special situation of France (Vichy France and occupied France) and the resistance's fight the victory tastes a bit more sweet. Nonetheless it couldn't have been achieved without the allies! And it's a bank holiday here in France today. On the other hand it might be sheer luck to upload this France video today. :)

[@darrendin2050]

@@BaluBrew Good points, to be fair! I was just about to say how it's a Bank Holiday here too, mais ça c'est juste pour le roi Charles haha

[@Chuck12312]

it was a good move by Ludi to attack England rather than wait for the event as I've started as France, 4 times and England always gave me maine without fighting over it

[@LudietHistoria]

exactly brother, aggressive is key in this run :D

[@LudietHistoria]

make sure to steal their women, rape their land and pillage their wallets

[@SgtPeppr]

I got an event where the King of Naples abdicated and I got the PU on them

[@pachejarlet2918]

well, actually there's a favor option to return cores of your subjects from your allies, you don't need to get into war with de papal states for any of the provinces in the provence or the ligurian areas

[@Darth_Conans]

"Just like I need the Pale. 'Cause I'm into those Pale people!" That's why I always conquer Niger.

[@pauljanen1558]

14:09 could someone tell me how Ludi is able to integrate his vassals with less than 50% crown lands? Thought France got nerfed at this point....

[@LudietHistoria]

Using the latest update which lets france integrate without 50% crownlands.....

[@pauljanen1558]

@@LudietHistoria thank god they changed that. Thanks for showing and responding, wouldnt have tried it again ^^

[@Abibaldi]

Just FYI British isles are: isle of Great Brittain, isle of Mann and Ireland

[@erusean8492]

The big british island is just called Great Britain. Great Britain, Ireland and the other small islands form the British Isles. In this case the most obvious answer is the right one

[@zhengaolou]

17:00 That's Amy Winehouse Rehab!😀

[@arjanjohal8160]

Great Britain is the main island, UK includes northern island and the British Isles includes Republic of Ireland and the surrounding small islands

[@James100707]

When it is France, I see no cries for a nerf. They didn't even have toilet tech 3 back then.

[@Volmest]

'Me watching my PP grown', so 10% makes me above average European. Very nice

[@meceffeukada3767]

It's not a ludi campaign unless an heir is not disinherited

[@ymer234]

So 20% morale from Elan (1.34) is worse second idea than the 15% now? No, Sir, that's a nerf.

[@AragornV]

Now I regret not waiting for patches :( Save scummed 12 times and didn't get a PU with Provence so...

[@Aug__]

The island's name should be Albion

[@aang2976]

you could just in the second part of the video beg the pope for provances cores via favors

[@benunderwood6525]

Why not take Ceuta from the Portugese in the first war and then you get another free expansion route with basically no ae?

[@nilrold]

Are these soundtracks from the Battle for Wesnoth?

[@MiniaAr]

Not Johnny Butter (Jean Beurre), but Johnny Office (Jean Bureau). I thought we solved it last time ludi...

[@LudietHistoria]

yes, yes we did, but I like johnny butter more Q_Q

[@oneofmanyjames-es1643]

One thing I have noticed in 1.35 is that playing as Morocco is a nightmare. Spain and Portugal just destroy me. They'll wait until a moment when the Ottomans won't honour their alliance, then swarm 150k troops into Maghreb while your troops are conquering west Africa.

[@letagorne0180]

Hello Ludi, amazing vidéo as always ! i love you'r weird humor, a bit kind of like mine XD I've try one run with france 2 week ago and i've lost the casus belli for pu milan 5 years after the milanese succesion event, have you any idea why it's happen ? I hope you forgive my bad english as I forgive you your bad pronciation of Caen XD

[@andrewsorenson4408]

Not 100% positive but I believe that it is due to the Milan resolving their Golden Ambrosian Republic crisis. I'm pretty sure the event that France and the HRE emperor get that gives them a PU CB on Milan "The Milanese Succession" fires if AI Milan takes a certain choice during their crisis event. Then once AI Milan resolves the crisis both France and the HRE emperor lose their CB. If anyone else has any information or can correct me I would like to know as well because like I said, I'm not certain.

[@CoL_Drake]

Remember the artillery does zero DMG in fights

[@notepic6242]

They fight in the back rows they do dmg

[@immortalmanwa]

Witch countries campaign continuation video are still on the making? :D

[@pluviaum2930]

Why not use favors to return core for subjects and instead go for war? It is a great way to expand fairly easily with no AE with proper subjects. As a big nation with good diplomatic reputation like France it is a piece of cake!

[@shawnb1649]

Ahh, the new France.. Nothing like my own vassals going to war with each other and forcing each other to release other countries and wrecking my diplo relations slots.

[@Cojaecer]

I feel like we barely got a lot of second parts lately :D

[@nacreses3544]

When Ludi says your pp increases %10 he mentions your "pp" so subscribe guys make your girlfriend happy

[@zdeneek]

Can you make Orlean guild with their insane goverment?

[@anti-spiral159]

After getting called out for being in my awesome basement against nuclear threats I unsubscribed and conquered France as the Ottomans

[@Shadowking-jtm]

3.6k in 4 hours.. seems part 2 is coming