YOU MUST DO THIS as Ming Or It's OVER In EU4

[@LudietHistoria]

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[@akkiaddizone6889]

Ming is a perfect example of something that exploded when controlled by an AI but can be extremely powerful when handed in the hands of a competent player

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

Are they that bad in the hands of a bad player? You can just play safe 🔒.

[@akkiaddizone6889]

@@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana Probably, Tbh Any nation can be bad in the hands of a bad player, same with any nation in the hands of a good player

[@akkiaddizone6889]

@@Thelionpaladin It's an incredibly tough but rewarding game

[@Puget55]

​@@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_CyavanaFor having play Ming in the last uptade and also their Qing couterpart, you can try it the chill way ( the Qing above all cause having a chill game with Ming is not so easy) but you'll only focus on your mandate, there is a big limitation as Qing cause you'll have to sneak throught India to expend your tributary system as a lot less nations are willing to pay you tribute without being crushed before. The Ming "chill" style is way more passiv as you've got really good diplo relations therefore with just à few colonists you should have enought range to expend your tributary system and more important you could go to potosi to get a massiv buff with your "law of the single whipe" mission. To be honest I think Qing are better if you wanna play chill and focus on your mandate as it's the only big thing to do, it's a bit contradictory with my previous words but the constant threat of exploding is a massive no no for the chill Ming.

[@georgesb3388]

I feel like this can be said for a lot of nations in the latest patch. I've had games where I've seen the Ottomans collapse, same with the Russians and the Austrians. It seems like most nations have been buffed in such a way that they can all be extremely powerful when in the hands of a competent player but when mismanaged they tend to fall apart rather quickly.

[@iloveallah5960]

Eu4 dev: ming exploded in 1600s, but in eu4 they explode in 1500s, what should we do? Other dev: *make them explode in 1444*

[@fritztogo]

Ming to Ludi: What do we need ?! Ludi: MANDATE ! MANDATE !

[@rzlnie]

Wow, they made it. I recently discovered that Paradox has altered the Yellow River's historical course, which differed from its current path. Impressive. Besides, the Yellow River is a violent river and its course changed over hundreds of times.

[@resentfuldragon]

Very cool, paradox seems to either get even the most minute details correct or miss completely. They have added so many great details to be more historical, but also do crazy things like give oman mogadishu in later start dates.

[@andreysilva8418]

Didint oman had a slave trade "empire" in the indian ocean?​@@resentfuldragon

[@montaine320]

Promising another part 2 when there’s so many you have left to do… I hope you actually do them! I remember when Vic came out and and so many fell through the cracks….

[@WealthyJester98]

What I did instead was release all the chinese nations as vassals and played as Yue. The game felt much more dynamic early on, which is always good

[@LudietHistoria]

thats actually not a bad idea !

[@jasonyun1158]

Also the new Chinese warlord government reform is pretty cool

[@WealthyJester98]

@@LudietHistoria with the unify china cb you get free cores as well and you can deal with the natural disasters at your own pace whilst skipping a huge part of the political issues AND you have the Eunuchs at much lower land share once you take the mandate, making it less of a pain to deal with

[@Grothgerek]

@@WealthyJester98 Do you still get the cores? In my game as Japan I don't get cores, which seems like a bug.

[@Brakiros]

@@Grothgerek you should get cores the mission gives you cores on the Greater China region, same as the Korean mission

[@Times_Ticking]

I suggest from day 1 diplo vassalizing 2 of the smaller nations around Ava, especially Mong Kawng. This allows Ming to turn on strong duchies in 1445. Also, use vassals borders to separate large tributaries from each other. This makes these tributaries static, which is nice. Don't want really strong tributaries.

[@MiniaAr]

If I may, I would recommend going the conquest path for both Korea and Dai Viet, as when you take the necessary provinces, the Vietnamese and Korean cultures sinicize (change to the variant in the chinese culture group). I know that accepting a culture is just 100DIP but you'll spare those points and more importantly can use the accepted cultures slots for other cultures (like the multiple mongolian ones). If you don't have the governing capacity, just taking the necessary provinces (basically current North Korea and Tonkin area of Vietnam) and then making tributaries of rump Dai Viet and Korea is perfectly possible (also Korea is going to develop like crazy)

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

Ming was my first ever campaign and the new content has been a great reason to go back to it. I love playing defensive ming and just focusing on attrition and fort defence.

[@Skrymaster]

Being under 20 mandate is a requirement for a LOT of very crappy events that Ming can get that make it considerably harder to get back up to 50, all you need is some patience to take reforms at 100 mandate and you avoid that risk, you only get the milder event pool to contend with.

[@gamgamesplayer4506]

23:39 1 BASE PRODUCTION IN KHORASAN REGION WTF THIS IS SO OP FREE 36 PRODUCTION DEV

[@mrbisshie]

It makes sense for Ming to be difficult, since they did collapse in our time. And then everyone was forced to have pigtails. lol

[@blueleafalan]

😅老歪脖子树

[@ReuterL]

they collapsed few centuries later. every empire collapsed by seldom rebuild like chinese history. So if we go by your argument, everyone make sense to be difficult bc in few hundred years all of them collapse. even if not by name, but de facto

[@嫩跌卧室]

​@@blueleafalan开局一个碗，结局一根绳，乐😂

[@neiiiiiiyyyy]

Just came back from school and bam i see ludi just posted a video and that makes my day

[@mateuscarmona7765]

I love your videos so much! Thank you, Ludi!

[@LudietHistoria]

Much love bro, thanks for watching them

[@hoyinching9313]

0:24 Ludi, you are right, I renew your membership. If you play Ming right, Ming will be right!

[@josephiroth89]

lol… Ludi literally pulled the “You’re going to Brazil.”

[@maksotto5081]

As Ming humanist ideas are extremely powerful. You will get more stability in country, less separatists, faster harmonization and higher harmony itsefl, -30% idea cost and most importantly confucian version of religious cb. Even if you struggle with admin points it's 100% worth.

[@sld1776]

I agree with Humanist opening for Ming. Not sure what to go second. Aristocratic, maybe.

[@johnnyboy3410]

nah opening ideas are infrastructure and court, you need the state maintenance low cost and prosperity growth and court for the estates loyalty and mandate growth, i went aristocratic 3rd and exploration 4th even though i wanted Humanist but Spain never formed because Aragon stole Granada from Castile

[@amirrezamahdian3923]

When Ludi Plays Ming! playthrough becomes King!

[@leonrodriguez7922]

There's a few "Expand the great wall" events that will eventually bump it up to level 2 and then you can do the mission for free level 3.

[@hoyinching9313]

9:19 Advise from Ludi: Always do the reform! Me: Yes! My Old Friend: No!!!

[@hoyinching9313]

22:22 Yeah, different strategy. I am a person, who is always military first because it is my playstyle. Yeah, the court idea in the Ming dynasty is amazing.

[@peachprincess758]

Great video!!

[@repcak5108]

Thank you Ludi! Keep working! Good job! :)

[@perubieber2516]

I never thought a video with only 3 wars could be so entertaining.

[@gaberobison680]

PDX has a problem with just nerfing things and then adding “content” to slowly remove it

[@hoyinching9313]

21:23 Chinese do love infrastructure nowadays. That is the best thing we can do.

[@jaksongraham9516]

Love to see more

[@georgesb3388]

I'm glad to see Ming get some love. For a long time they have been boring as hell to play so I'm glad to see paradox actually giving players a reason to play in this region in the latest patch.

[@ZephyrDogma]

Personally I think Qing Mandate is a lot better since they have the banners and they don't get the bad events from the mandate from the very beggining since they don't have the mandate yet, also the unify China cb gives extra mandate growth as you are at war for the mandate

[@Lasso1986]

Its not hard to play this campaign but there were lots of bugs with the mission tree when this patch first came out out. I think its fixed now though. Also you keep the banners if you become the celestial emperor as manchu or qing. Really fun!

[@foxdavion6865]

Changes since this guide was released a year ago: Ming have been rebalanced and nerfed: They now have 3 less armies than they did when this video released, however their remaining 5 armies have an additional unit added, start with higher internal autonomy meaning less tax, but to achieve the same amount of starting income had 3 of their armies removed.

[@Greg_Abandoned]

Ming doesn't want us to know about Ming 👀

[@LudietHistoria]

its a mingspiracy

[@manthebat]

Ludi was just Koch blocked! 14:33

[@bilbobaggins8794]

How much mandate do you want? Ludi: Yes

[@hagrid5491]

Every time I played in europe they exploded into pieces, but as soon as I played majapahit Ming killed everything around them, stayed at Greatpower rank 1 and they of course took exploration ideas to steal islands from me. Feels bad man...

[@resentfuldragon]

Thats how the game works, everything fun or interesting is always not where you are playing. Are you playing in asia? the ottomans lost badly and there is an interesting and dynamic east europe. Are you playing europe? the ming are weak and there is a scramble for the mandate of heaven. Are you in africa? the americas resisted colonial powers and massive tribal coalitions are doing great, etc. Eu4 loves trolling us.

[@johnnyboy3410]

wait for Shun, Ming always dies when Shun shows up

[@hagrid5491]

@@johnnyboy3410 They actually went Buddhist und than got eaten by Wu

[@Sworddeath727]

You missed the perfect opportunity for "Quit hiding away, It's time to Tsang'go" 18:35

[@Boybala]

Bing chilling reform is a must

[@Ben.....]

Ludi with the Fatboy Slim References. respect

[@BaneofBots]

Holy shit, Maoms are bussin man

[@rayx458]

In previous version I first attack Tibet tags to get mechants by setting up trade company, then storm into India to get great amount of tributary state (which means mana & MANDATE & even manpower)! 😜 And colonism can bring a bundle of tributaries

[@rayx458]

Yes low mandate makes Ming's army weak but Ming has way too MUCH troops, no (AI) tags can stop Ming in the begining of the game in spite of the debuffs . But I am not sure whether Ming is too weak in the 1.35 version so that you have to wait until mandate growth. Think about a lot of MANA & MANDATE in India superregion🤤

[@Grothgerek]

13:14 Isn't 30 army professionalism not way better than just 5 Mandate? Thats around 1000 mil power, if you buy cheaper generals for it. And having a third of your professionalism bonus before 1500 is quite nice.

[@joobi2952]

I was thinking the same thing. Free 30 army professionalism is insane!

[@Upgrade220]

I'm asking for Oirats video! Especially after it's not so easy to get manpower from points.... Would appreciate working on that colonial farm for that video Ludi!

[@hoyinching9313]

In my game, I just maintain Asia and finish the Copium War. This game is more realistic than before 1.35 patch. The only thing I wish they could add is the East and West Bureau. Historically, Ming has both the East and West Bureau.

[@hoyinching9313]

Instead of choosing a tributary, I would rather conquest Oirat and Jianzhou. They are rising quickly and I need access to Siberia.

[@Someone-by6jm]

hey ludi,small suggestion,but can you at the end of your campaigns zoom out so we can see your exapansion?

[@LudietHistoria]

Not a bad idea, will try to do so ^-^

[@1-ZombieMad]

The gool went fast 🎉

[@stigdavidsen4727]

Would have been cool if there was province that could spawn opium as trade good in asian just like they did with coal

[@wassa7879]

Hey Ludi can you please in future show us the other options of the events please, most of the time you just show us what you take and I think most of us would be interested the other options as well :)

[@LudietHistoria]

thanks for the feedback brother, will try to show all the options in the future, good advice!

[@LionTsar]

Part 2 will be a walk in the park 5. Can you make EUIV Bulgaria video?

[@iamaim2847]

Mingsplosion in ~1550 is a fun part yet.

[@hoyinching9313]

1:04 The decree updates are so funny and historical🤓 Historically, different Ming Emperors choose different decrees and different disasters happen. In my game, I only choose to expand the palace bureaucracy. That's the only way to Ming's greatness.😎

[@Grothgerek]

Proclaim dynasty is also quite nice, especially if you get the mandate quite late. +0.1 mandate per Month is quite much. Thats one extra reform every 67 years.

[@hoyinching9313]

@@Grothgerek Yeah, also changing the Eunuchs early on is pretty important. The corruption could damage Ming economy. Yeap, we still have different playstyles.

[@hoyinching9313]

@@Grothgerek later on, I choose fund education centre. It gives tech discount. Then Ming troops could always be ahead of other nations

[@smeglan95]

Ufff nice video, i liked but Ludi bro wait for 90% - 100% to harmonize a religion is quicker and get some more meritocracy, you can add 2 good privileges that help harmonize speed.

[@ohNojames]

What’s the disaster ticking when you’re in negative stability? Now it’s ticking at 3 stability. Eunuchs? And what’s with all the inflation, seems like you have a lot?

[@MrShaltir]

WHERE IS PART 2 >_< Love on you btw

[@swenglishdude1527]

Take a shot every time Ludi says mandate

[@LudietHistoria]

I'm drunk. I hope you happy now....

[@MahsaKaerra]

I live in England and I endorse the Copium Wars achievement.

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

Did you remember to fet monarch points from your tributaries? Apparently not. It is really worthwhile and more than makes up for your terrible starting ruler.

[@tr0nics1990]

would love to see a run where no testruns have been made prior ^^

[@chrisfliesser541]

always wait until 100 harmony to start harmonizing...

[@garabic8688]

I haven’t seen anyone restore the emperor in Japan yet, I’d love to see that

[@LudietHistoria]

did it a few days ago in 12 years, heres the video kzbin.info/www/bejne/movSZouHYsmrmq8

[@garabic8688]

@@LudietHistoria can’t believe I couldn’t find this video, thank you very much!

[@Scafloc29]

My god what are the Oirats though! In the first battle I lost 18k, they lost 5k. Immediately I attacked them again, hoping that after the previous battle they would have lower moral. Bad idea, I lost again: 21k casulties against 5k. Generals were af same strength, no terrain effect and armies of the same size (though mine was stronger in the first 7 days of the 1st battle). But if I don't attack them attrition keeps going on decimating my armies. This is really hard

[@flazzorb]

Started a Jianzhou to Qing game when domination first came out, and finding the banner exploit was fun. The old "Silver houses of China" province modifiers that you got as a mission reward? Not fun. +0.1 yearly inflation in _three_ provinces fucking hurt.

[@Grothgerek]

The single whip law seems to be quite broken... in a negative way. It transforms one of your provinces into gold, and provides a special modifier to all gold provinces that adds +1.5 goods produced and depletion reduction. Sounds great? Well, the modifier also adds 0.1 inflation per month. In my case I had 4 provinces. So in just 20 years, I would have reached 100% inflation (there is no cap, as far as I know). Totally game ruining. Because before the game ends, you would pay multiple ducats for a single unit. (giving the provinces to a vassal, removes the modifier).

[@stonernation7221]

how has the river flooding event not fired for you yet?

[@chengzhou8711]

You got 5k likes within 24 hours, gg

[@警戒-u8p]

好久没看到玩大明的了

[@howlingwolf9906]

Well they always start with a nerf, like for the 2020's start also hard for them but then they got massive buffs

[@hey-sq6km]

What about ming crisis? Is it still there?

[@devonjardine9603]

Too bad I am already in the colonies. In the Okanagan province specifically. In terms of physical environment, best place on earth.

[@DethmourneSilvermane]

How do you feel about Mingsploration as first idea group? EU4 wiki suggests doing it and prepping to spawn colonialism then move capital to new world.

[@jetx7066]

would you play as zaporoze then create poland to obtain strongest cavalery in the game?

[@mosanasir4465]

Hey Ludi love your content and I thank you for getting me into eu 4. I was on nexus to get domination and the pre order bonus but it says coming soon on the bonus. Is there a reason for that?

[@johnnyboy3410]

our lord and savior has released thy retribution, thank you Ludi

[@KAKUN_DESU]

Ludi my man, you said you wanted to do an updated army composition guide for the new patch. Is that still coming? Apparently we are not supposed to get rid of all Cav at Mil tech 10 anymore? Is that true?

[@spatrk6634]

i have no idea, but im still doing old army compositions and its working fine against AI

[@aaee2815]

Hey I dont know if my game glitched but i never assigned my ruler as general and i still got the caputure of the ming emperor event

[@mroku8094]

Okay bois, lets go for 5,000 likes, dont be Eunuchs and DO IT for Ludi okay? Promise me this okay?

[@kyx-001]

my man needs to set higher like goals, I'm starting to think that ludi wants to make the follow-up videos. Nah... there's no way.

[@bwarre2884]

Ming-Meta! 😃👍

[@ashwest9258]

Oirat cam still capture thr emperor, they just have to win a battlr

[@HAMMERMAAN]

Hey Ludi, I see you were harmonizing during this video, but when I harmonized, I got super low harmony which gave me high corruption and I was paying 35 ducats to keep it down, and the harmony also lowered my meritocracy. How did you keep yours up?

[@iamaim2847]

You should wait for 100 harmony, than start harmonization. It will not only give you bonuses from 50+ harmony in time of the process, but even the process will take less time, and you will lose less harmony in it. So in the end you will have ~70 harmony and subtraction of corruption. Wait for 100 again, and start the next group. Missionaries are obviously a waste. It is possible to harmonize everything to 1750.

[@Puget55]

Wait till having a high harmony then you can harmonise religion without being debuffed, you can build the monument in Youzhou who gives +0.33 harmony per year at max level

[@crisc6958]

Does somebody know if I can still use the DLC’s benefits (missions, privileges) in campaigns started before i bought it?

[@TheOliwierr]

More Ming ❤

[@gpolonia]

How do you keep meritocracy so high?

[@PeteL-u1d]

How do you crush Oirat? The Ming stacks are being destroyed in steppes.

[@lyonard9226]

Focus on sieging and avoid fighting Oirat stacks unless you largely outnumber them

[@harshu346]

I can't see many of the features such as the mandate and this type of mission tree, is this available in the dlc ? I don't have any dlc

[@iamaim2847]

Yea, it was Mandate f Heaven DLC, and than modified in Dominion.

[@TheVishwajeet9]

Ludi love your content....and has learned a lot from your videos... Wanted to play Ming... can you please share the savegame file

[@scorpioneldar]

exploration is key. that way you can get colonialism by going to alaska and get the trade companies you need to use your massive trade system.

[@sahilhossian8212]

Lore of YOU MUST DO THIS as Ming Or It's OVER In EU4 1.35 momentum 100

[@Randybobandy12345]

Very cool of paradox to add a redditor estate to the Chinese region

[@LudietHistoria]

Ahahah this made me laugh hard, thanks xD

[@Phillip_of_Burns]

Still can't get over Eunuchs... Why would someone choose it, and why would I trust someone it was inflicted upon as punishment... "Hey, you know that guy who's balls we cut off, what's he think about the situation?"

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

They can't have children, so they more often have nothing better to be doing than being productive ⚙. Plus, children 🧑‍🍼 are a constant source of desire for *corruption,* due to parental affection and attachment. They also take up a lot of time.

[@Brakiros]

It was a Confucian thing, the educated classes were almost entirely Eunuchs. It was a method of control as well though

[@Turamwdd]

It also gave you the opportunity for power (and wealth) and immunity during times of war/turmoil. Family members of eunuchs tended to have significantly more prosperous lives than before a family member became a eunuch.

[@Jesus-jb6ho]

30 army professionalism or 5 mandate ? Meh i'd go 30 army prof

[@H3LLGHA5T]

Can you remove a religious group from the harmonized religious group so you can convert them later?

[@iamaim2847]

No, and you totally don't need. Harmonized works same as true faith. One faith achievement is not for Ming. Ir at least you will suffer from low harmony.

[@olilibich6867]

the eunuchs privilige gave me onli + 19 percent tax why is that? pls help

[@iamaim2847]

Depends on influence, or probably land %.

[@cwshellhamer342]

Almost 100 likes in 8 minutes... Lets goooooo!!!! 😂

[@oguzcanmaden4196]

Please continue

[@leviathan574]

LemMING moment.

[@edvinbjersander979]

14:49

[@SnowlLeopardSB]

我大明，天下无敌呀

[@Роман-м6ъ8р]

More!

[@unironicaluser1867]

waiting for the sequel smh

[@MrSky21448]

Make a part 2 please