Why Japan has the STRONGEST Military - EU4 1.35 Japan Guide

EU4 1.35 Domination enables Japan to have the strongest military. The DLC buffed Japan with insane military modifiers from a newly revamped mission tree, reworked mechanics, the addition of a special samurai unit, and the ability to take the Mandate of Heaven.
Playing Japan is the best experience in EUIV 1.35, and in this guide video, I cover everything you need to know in this EU4 1.35 Japan Guide from unifying Japan to seizing the Mandate of Heaven and becoming Hegemon of Asia.
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[@siberiankarl451]

With the radical reform event you can fire them yourself in order to get them back after the event

[@TripleZHacker]

Ah right right good to know Will do that next time!

[@brandonlyon730]

I think it only works 3 times though and you won't get that event again, unless that was changed.

[@TripleZHacker]

@@brandonlyon730 I think it’s just once per game?

[@theporkin8tor227]

@@TripleZHacker Once per tag so you can form another nation and get the event again and technically as many as there is nations to form plus start tag soif you dont form end tags just go through all formables

[@kylekelly1167]

I thought they fixed this ages ago.

[@Mordacitas7]

Always remember to use state edict to reduce dev cost when spawning institution, and upgrade trade center to lvl 2 for additional dev cost bonus 😅 Not to mention in 1.35, you can grant a privilege which makes churches reduce dev cost

[@eddy4505]

Loved the video! I really like the more relaxed japan unifications. I wonder if you could have kept Ainu along in the sakalins so they would colonise for you by giving them some subsidies. Waiting for part 2. 😁

[@TripleZHacker]

Thanks and huh never considered that :) hehe well again the show of strengths allow for me to grab the institutions without having to go exploration and also gave me lots of innovativeness

[@chriswhinery925]

Wait do the Ainu take exploration ideas if you leave them alone? If so that's big. Edit: And after looking it up they do not. Too bad, that would have been a dope strategy. They take Religious, Defensive, Offensive, Trade, Diplomatic, Plutocracy, Spy, Economic.

[@tinyveil]

Great video man! Looking forward to seeing the Supreme Shogunate. Don’t forget to take Divine Ideas for that morale policy with Religious. Cheers!

[@TripleZHacker]

Yeah definitely!

[@tinyveil]

@@TripleZHackerBro you literally promised a part 2. What happened?

[@tertmade9769]

I watched your Total War Shogun videos years ago, which I love, now you're playing my favorite game EU4, great video I'm playing as Imagawa and doing Show Strength and they're so strong, Land Force Limit and Discipline, mix with Quality ideas of Infantry Combat Ability, they're as good as Oda

[@TripleZHacker]

Thank you and yeah Imagawa have some great ideas definitely agree with you~

[@confirmer3473]

Great video and awesome guide, looking forward to more EUIV content.

[@TripleZHacker]

Thank you will have more for you in due time!

[@TheShogunate]

So excited for this!

[@TripleZHacker]

ありがと

[@ShaneCheaser]

Very good guide for Oda... was so nice to see you play this nation and i learned something as well... so ty and have a nice day :)

[@jordansedlacek5627]

You can also release Ainu or Ryukyu as a vassal and then enforce religion on them to get the age bonus and get -25% war score cost vs other religions fast to fight China with

[@TripleZHacker]

Ah yeah I wasn’t gaining lots of splendor quickly so thanks I’ll try that in future runs~

[@MXK3000]

35:35 The mount Fuji monument only gives local development cost in the province of Kai not all of an area or your country.

[@TripleZHacker]

Correct yeah misspoke and corrected it later in the video I think~

[@serluke2388]

Great video! I got nearly 4k hours in the game, but I still enjoy you explaining why you play the way you do and seeing the micromanagement, etc. In the end, this is why I love the game, not just brainless map painting. New sub well earned, keep it up! :)

[@TripleZHacker]

Thank you so much~

[@josephwilson696]

Great guide waiting on part 2!

[@TripleZHacker]

Thank you~

[@joaquingarcia915]

interesting approach. Now I realize my campaigns were failling due to me not conquering at all for the first 20 years and letting everyone blob around me. Also I find it weird but Ming always implodes by 1470 ish ever since 1.35. So rare to me to see them standing still by the 1500s.

[@JoaquinGarcia-qv4ju]

hey

[@joaquingarcia915]

Update! After restarting a heinous amount of times I managed to form Japan as the Oda. The year is 1506 and I got most of southern and eastern Korea, and I'm sad to say that, with Ming already gone and no propper heir to the mandate, this run feels like it's already over u.u Japan needs to be nerfed or Ming has to be buffed. Your guide is really really helpful! Thanks for uploading it.

[@TripleZHacker]

Of course glad it helped~ @@joaquingarcia915

[@pacemaker9483]

@@joaquingarcia915 skill issue

[@gusjanson2770]

For a KZbinr I had never heard of, and who doesn't seem to usually play EU4, I was amazed at your skill at this game. Good job man, you played beautifully and still weren't try-harding. I've always formed Japan slowly and taken a billion show of strengths, but I've never seen any eu4 KZbin do that. Well played home boy.

[@TripleZHacker]

Thank you! I barely am at 1k hours so still learning more and more! I followed Absolute Habibi’s advice to get the show of strengths for Japanese unification. I like getting idea sets completed and having the institutions~

[@gusjanson2770]

@@TripleZHacker As somebody with almost 6k hours, you're a natural

[@chriswhinery925]

I like the idea of taking a slower pace to unifying Japan, every time I try to speed rush it I end up absolutely wrecking the country and it takes forever to restabilize it. Still, 1500 for unification is pretty rough, I think I'd do a few less Show of Strengths and try to get it done by like 1480.

[@TripleZHacker]

Yeah definitely no need to do as many! It worked out for me but certainly is fine to unify a bit quicker but not speed~

[@chriswhinery925]

@@TripleZHacker Loved the video BTW, looking forward to part 2!

[@LeastPatrioticIsraelbelike]

I cant decide between unifying fast or showing strengh... I have unified japan as hosakawa in 1455(november) and due to that no rebels spawned because when you form a country sepratism is gone,i also had good income(but behind in tech for 15 years). However some peope say that showing strengh is better because you can get tech and ideas but you will also get rebels...

[@TripleZHacker]

@@LeastPatrioticIsraelbelike try both whichever one you want to do, I prefer the show strength for tech and ideas the tech advantage helps because the wars later are easier and I like grabbing the ideas quickly but rapid expansion can be nice just painful to grab the first few institutions in my opinion~ both are valid ways to play!

[@LeastPatrioticIsraelbelike]

@@TripleZHacker thanks

[@MundaneThingsBackwards]

Excellent playthrough. I do think it was a bit of a mistake to take so much from Ming when you seized the mandate, though, because you can get all those cores for free just by sieging it down with the unite china CB. Grabbing money from them (they are the bank of Ming, after all...lol) and securing the imperial cities you need to keep the mandate high as well as some territory to Isolate them from their greedy neighbors might have been better.

[@lilithlee3302]

Welcome back!

[@TripleZHacker]

Thank you am glad to be back won’t make a habit of being MIA so long next time!

[@Bleiser3]

Thank you for the video! I watched a lot of japan videos but couldn't get it working properly but now I feel like I know a lot more on what to do. As a noob, I miss a lot of game knowledge and proper understanding of the gameplay etc. I only have 144 hours. EDIT: Please, part 2!!!

[@TripleZHacker]

Glad you enjoyed the video and yes part 2 will be coming in a bit~

[@AquesticYT]

Nice vid bro, glad it appeared on my recommended. Got a new sub

[@TripleZHacker]

Thanks glad you liked it :)

[@verde629]

Thanks fir the guide! Definitely proves that rushing to unite Japan doesn’t benefit the player at all

[@sergiusko4327]

the thing is to find out how many show strength are worth delaying your conquests...

[@verde629]

@@sergiusko4327 Definitely needs to be a happy medium. I’ve just heard so many complaints on how much stronger Korea is when they unite Japan by 1470. That wouldn’t be the case if they focused a bit more on development and institutions then just rushing a united Japan

[@jorgovan-ni9kz]

Great video, you still have lot to learn.(Sorry i sound like Yoda 😂) Cheers from 24 year old Serbian EDIT: Maybe you prefer not to focus on details how to do it the way i prefer, if you do, I won't watch (sorry if i sound too rude) But It's very refreshing how u made the video... Pick the dev cost thingy(sorry i forgot the word) and also check so burghers are at 60%+ loyalty, also check whenever you have 50% cost reduced +2 diplo advisor which u had when picking for +200 adm and diplo event... But you picked lvl 1 advisor... Also your playstyle is very very good... Smooth like butter... I would like to see how you develop your skillset eventually... You know some things that I don't know so please again dont take my comment harshly, i learned new things from you today... Like the idea -5% event that happens if you pick humanist... If you know what i was commenting here already then don't mind it... Anyway i like this video... But idk if you can make them this long since most folks tend to focus on shorter videos... I prefer it like this and very well explained... Not all of gameplay just the "juicy" parts... Sorry for long comment 🙂

[@TripleZHacker]

Thank you for the tips yeah I’m at 1k hours so definitely still have more to learn! I greatly appreciate the advice! I had to edit out so much from the run sadly hehe but I’m glad you enjoyed the video~

[@jorgovan-ni9kz]

@@TripleZHacker thank you for appreciating my comment... Cheers bro :D

[@anthroposium]

Hey, if you read this: lowering the autonomy removes the -100 unrest from recent uprising, so rebels will immediately start loading again.

[@TripleZHacker]

Ah good to know thanks for the info

[@pawedobrosz152]

Min.: 48: There really is no point in taking anything from china in this war, since you declared it with "Claim Mandate of Heaven" CB. In the next war you would have a "Unify China" CB, which grants you cores for all occupied provinces in China subcontinent. So if you wait for the next war to start taking their provinces, it'll save you sth like 1000 admin points

[@verde629]

This is the best Japan guide for 1.35. People that complain about Korea being too strong need to watch this guide

[@TripleZHacker]

Thank you so much, also yeah Korea is really strong though, I think the extra defensiveness is rough. However defeating their navy and getting and landing and properly building up is good

[@wolfcrushp]

Should have waited a couple months to let cores finish before starting to increase your stability.

[@TripleZHacker]

Oh true yeah I was bit too quick with it :/

[@StepwaveMusic]

Literally playing Japan right now and I've just noticed that because I'm missing 1 DLC (Dharma I'm quite sure, could be Domination too though) it is literally impossible for me to make an equal amount of money as you are at that stage of the game. I went full on conquest at first, owning the entirety of China by 1550 and tried colonizing the Americas but I was immediately kicked out. Now I'm doing a run going colonization, my economy actually helps a ton but it's still like 1580 now and I'm barely making more of a surplus than you are! And I'm mounting about 70k men. Really weird and honestly annoying that all the DLC does is just make your economy more op.

[@TripleZHacker]

Ah dang that’s a shame, and you were able to get the gold income as well? Also make sure to use a lot of diplo power to develop provinces but yeah paradox dlc policy with this game especially is painful glad you are having a more successful run this go~ best of luck on your play through!

[@LeastPatrioticIsraelbelike]

Just pirate eu4

[@Dmitrisnikioff]

Five Rings event, going Naval is actually legit because it means you can get some extra marines without having to go into Naval

[@guccicoupons]

Could we perhaps get some more eu4 content? You seem like a highly adept player

[@TripleZHacker]

Of course working on some more videos~

[@bretthuff8971]

I keep having to restart because Ashikaga ends up either diplo annexing or declaring war on enough daimyo's to get too big to full annex. I definitely like the idea of multiple show of strengths in order to get mana out the ass, but it just takes too long. How did you manage to keep ashikaga small? They didn't grow by a single province in your game. In my game it is 1460 and they have nearly half of japan.

[@TripleZHacker]

Yeah I noticed that recently the ashikaga do that, idk why it happens or how prevalent it is, they didn’t do it in the initial 1.35 patch but now after later patches it happens much more, so yeah you might only get a few show of strengths in. If you see ashikaga annexing you might just have to speedform Japan

[@RyanPowers77]

I really enjoyed this video

[@TripleZHacker]

Glad you did! :D

[@juanma9511]

how is the peace deal in 48:00 even possible ? does the cb provide a massive amount of warscore discount ?

[@TripleZHacker]

Yes the Mandate of Heaven CB does! It’s 50% cheaper I believe I mention it in the video right before the start of the war if you didn’t catch it!

[@verde629]

How did you keep the Oda red when you United Japan ?

[@mislavtomica-lenuzzi3390]

I still don't understand how you managed to get this lucky. Whatever playthrough I tried, litterally a couple dozen, after the initial couple show of strenght wins, everyone around you alies too many daimyo and your forces get wiped, or you end up going so far in debt you can never get out. Once you break one promise land, others won't join your wars with the same promise, even with favors. As a result, unifying Japan takes a lot longer than 1500. That fantastic start is what in turn keeps your tech very high, and makes korea afraid to engage you when you land on their shores. Otherwise they get a hefty bonus for that disembark penalty. Also, I tend to play quite a bit in that region, japan, philippines, south east asia nations. You attacked a pretty much full solid ming at 1537. In more than half of my games, ming has released the south by 1510, and completely collapsed by 1530. I have several saves where without any interference, Ming is completely gone at 1530, replaced by shun, or some other entity as emperor. In lots of games, the emperor title doesn't exist at 1540. I'm calling console shenanigans.

[@TripleZHacker]

No console commands whatsoever some unify Japan without show of strength and if you manage to pick the right fights and get ahead of military tech you should beat everyone in the Sengoku Jidai. There have been a few patches since this video so again things have changed a bit. In certain runs sometimes the Ashikaga begin to annex daimyo so you have to unify Japan faster and not get so many show of strengths also yeah Korea/Ming is rng too. Every run is different that’s why making guides are difficult for this game you just have to adapt to the circumstances and rng you receive in your run.

[@montaine320]

Is another part still coming? I’d love to see it.

[@TripleZHacker]

Yep working on it currently!

[@Bruh-ff2tw]

If Korea is still a tributary of Ming, should we instead invade Manchuria?

[@TripleZHacker]

Yeah I would go for Manchuria or you could fight both Ming and Korea at the same time and hope you make Ming implode if you are strong enough! Otherwise ya going into Manchuria to get a land border would be easier. Hopefully Korea breaks away though but if not yeah get the land border!

[@raphaelortman7801]

Silly question, but how we take the mandate and make this mission if Ming just exploded?? LoL

[@TripleZHacker]

You have to be in a war against the current emperor of China and met the requirements! So go after the Emperor to seize the mandate! :)

[@andregrahlai]

Please post second part.

[@Gringo890]

how frequently does the wayward son event occur? ive played japan al ot and ive never that event fire

[@TripleZHacker]

I honestly have no idea but I got it twice lol I just disinherited my heir got it and then my next ruler got the event before I even got an heir

[@ashutoshtripathi.]

This channel is so underrated

[@TripleZHacker]

Thank you :)

[@MuppetLord1]

Prefer Shimazu, Oda has 3 wasted ideas, the +1 to pips that you get from high army tradition anyways. :) Nice video tho, subbed. :)

[@TripleZHacker]

That’s fair I like those ideas since it helps if you get bad rng on general rolls but Shimazu has a great idea set so can’t disagree with you! Thanks for the sub glad you enjoyed the video~

[@arvidboestad4923]

I hear you have played shogun 2👌🏻😉

[@TripleZHacker]

Of course~ ^^

[@justwatching5867]

Hey, Do you know what I should do to not get Rebellions? When I take a Province theres always a Rebellion level that has like 6k rebells, but you dont seem to struggle with that, so what should I do?

[@TripleZHacker]

Kinda happens when I edit out fighting rebels for the most part. Which provinces do you struggle getting them in? In Japan or on mainland Asia? Also would recommend using mercenaries to fight them earlier on. Later you want to just have forces dedicated to fighting them. You want to keep your autonomy low but getting rid of unrest is the best way.

[@justwatching5867]

@@TripleZHacker Oh, so theres nothing I can do to prevent them, like in Shogun 2? Im currently In Japan ( annexed Tokugawa and Musashi and main capital of Uesugi) and I was scared to move on without knowing if I cant prevent it. Btw are you planning on a new video 🤔🤔 We miss you

[@TripleZHacker]

@@justwatching5867 yeah I am planning on a few sorry I have been busy :( and yeah can’t prevent them from the most part

[@justwatching5867]

​@@TripleZHacker Btw thanks to you I learned the game now and formed japan multiple times now. But do you know how I can convert to shintoism when I play Southeast asia like Majapahit, Sunda...

[@TripleZHacker]

@@justwatching5867 uh you’d have to get Shinto rebels and then trigger them and accept demands I believe

Did you miss the part that samurai are bugged and cost 2x manpower to reinforce, so you should absolutely never use them until they're fixed? None of these bonuses are worth twice the manpower cost.

[@TripleZHacker]

I honestly had no idea that was a thing, great to know now, did they fix this bug at all? It’s a shame then because the bonuses would be great to experience

@@TripleZHacker The bug is still there in 1.35.6

[@TripleZHacker]

@ Pain.......thanks for letting me know. I have struggled with manpower during the run and had to slow down my pace a few times for it to recover, I thought it was just due to attrition but now it makes way more sense. I simply didn't pay close attention to it since I thought it was just the cost of the units not their actual manpower.

[@leviathan5530]

Sell 2 cogs at beginning

[@jayden1267]

Do the rise of the samurai campaign

[@mattcvlh]

This Max Absolutism Effect is just a bait. It adds very little compared to what you're giving up - a lot of good state privileges and revolutionary gov. I managed to get 132,5% discipline on the army and 137,5% on Samurais, while maxing ICA and ACA. I believe the strongest military nation is basically Switzerland with their 170% discipline mercs. Plus, going revolutionary means you stack everything else unlike Japan lol

[@TripleZHacker]

Gotcha good to know thank you for the info~

[@johnnotrealname8168]

I have got all the Downloadable Content for EUIV but my Oda missions are basic. Why have I not got Bushido code for example? What is going on? Do you have any idea why mine would be the basic mission tree, I mean get spice and silk sort of thing.

[@TripleZHacker]

It’s the basic setup until you form Japan sadly, which is unfortunate, I hope they add daimyo specific missions in the future that would be a free update?

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@TripleZHacker But in your playthrough, Oda has Bushido Code. I do not have that. I have the basic Asian focus tree. I do not understand why, I have all the Downloadable Content. Might be a bug, I hope not. Edit: Thank You for mentioning the thing about Japan getting a different tree.

[@TripleZHacker]

@@johnnotrealname8168 Huh dang yeah it should be only Mandate of Heaven and um Domination that affect the Japan mission tree I think, yeah it’s confusing for sure since you’d not expect to have two mission trees

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@TripleZHacker I will try again and see if those files have issues but *SIGH* I am not exactly the most intellectual type Edit:. Thank You again, for specifying which Downloadable Content I should look out for.

[@TripleZHacker]

@@johnnotrealname8168 of course and no worries hopefully it works that sucks it’s causing you so much trouble :(

[@carltonleboss]

Japan is so damn OP

[@Yougottacryforthis]

i got super slowed down by the shogun killing my ruler then consort, had to stay within regency... fucking seppuku mechanic is dumb

[@TripleZHacker]

Yeah it’s very painful having to deal with that :/

[@CSDragon]

how do you never run out of manpower?

[@TripleZHacker]

Using extra mil points to dev for base manpower and also making sure to not take attrition with forts and conserving manpower between wars

[@thisisDaKing]

i'd argue Shimazu ideas are better than Odas as far as military goes

[@TripleZHacker]

Yeah that’s fair they have a nice idea set for sure~

[@MrSky21448]

Japan get really good general.

[@TripleZHacker]

Yep lots of high army tradition helps with that~ that’s why the Sengoku Jidai sets Japan up so well constant wars = high army tradition

[@oguzhan9328]

Why don't I have samurai?

[@TripleZHacker]

Do you have the domination dlc?

[@jestersnb9761]

This is like southeast Asia nightmare fuel...

[@TripleZHacker]

Truly :>

[@Mr.M9323]

Shimazu have better army, no? +5% dicipline 10% infantry combat ability 10%morale and 10%landfire damage Oda no have 5% dicipline... :c

[@sveinhongset4725]

seems a bit broken

[@jacobhammock3355]

Stop the cap lol

[@fastgamingchannels7024]

First!

[@TripleZHacker]

Cheers~