Can I Survive as The Knights in one of the hardest starts in EU4? | Achievement Hunter

[@ZlewikkTV]

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[@Sumosh27]

Hi zlewikk, could you please share the information of the map? I really loved it and wanted to see it at my house :)

[@ZlewikkTV]

@@Sumosh27 It's a custom wallpaper I ordered based on a huge map from a reddit user www.reddit.com/user/ratkatavobratka/. He also has his shop linked if you'd like to order a smaller, framer version

[@johnhamer5596]

I’m pretty sure the separatists were able to enforce demands on your vassal due to holding their capital for a year

[@ZlewikkTV]

Right! On the other hand, rebels cannot enforce demands while you are at war and I'm pretty sure it happened during it

[@jonathanvtorp]

@@ZlewikkTV You peaced out on the 23rd of August, so sep 1. was the first tick where the rebels were able to break the country.

[@gabri-immortale]

Not because of capital but because was an opm

[@jakob2511]

They might have directly inherited it as well, this can happen rarely when they have the same dynasty and no heir.

[@IronWolf123]

@@ZlewikkTV Or maybe your vassal collapsed and folded to the rebels because they were an OPM and have no chance of winning?

[@Old_Sealand]

Little fun fact, some that might not know. With Knights (and any other OPM really) you can go easily to 0% Crownland, unless not wanting the extra tax penalties (Autonomy does nothing) and with you having capital fort lvl 3, rebels that pop out from estates or Byz rebels (less than 10k), instatly die because of that, so you can put your troops on transports, before the rebels pop, and back to island.

[@ZlewikkTV]

You will barely ever get enough unrest in capital to have rebels thoug, so in case of an island where you have naval dominance it's more worth to just remove the fort and save money

[@Old_Sealand]

@@ZlewikkTV Yeah. I just know that from my run from doing islands only game as Knights, where at the start, I just wait to build up big fleet to combat Venice/Genoa. :D

[@mk__cyanheron1154]

Played this campaign last month, stayed as The Knights, and let me tell you: raiding Native Americans gives nearly as much money as raiding the sunnis

[@3komma141592653]

He should have at least raided to costs once before forming Israel.

[@ZlewikkTV]

I did not have anything else to raid when forming Jerusalem :).

[@Bloodlyshiva]

Funny. The whole reason the Knights Hospitallier sold their new world holdings was they couldn't afford to support them.

[@Phantom-mg5cg]

11:44 That's quite a nice Navarra. I enjoy seeing the Bots succeed with hard nations. Once I had saw Granada almost forming Andalusia, but sadly I as France had to kill them to get the cores for my personal union Castille back.

[@hoyinching9313]

I like ZlweikkTV Yes, you can! Stop, giving up!

[@battlnerd2128]

start with deleting the fort (we don't need it) then delete the army (we don't need it)

[@ZlewikkTV]

just turn off the army and build more, not delete it :)

[@milan-px5uq]

Been looking forward to this one

[@bernardcornellisvanmeijere4375]

What would a Knights made Jerusalem play like if you were Orthodox? Cpuld you reform into Byzantium like that?

[@taras.chornyi]

The Knights is my favorite OPM to destroy Ottomans early.

[@niekao249]

You make it seem so easy!

[@fireoptions]

Where did you get that map behind you? I want one!

[@ZlewikkTV]

It's a custom wallpaper :) Shoutout to www.reddit.com/u/ratkatavobratka/s/WjqiphLNo6 as he made it

[@CollapsedGamer]

look up "map of europe 1444" and it will pop up in the images (as long as you're using google I might add). Funnily enough from what I've heard the map itself was made by an EU4 mod developer.

[@micahbonewell5994]

I played Livonian order for 100 years, and I don't think any of my rulers had more than 8 Monarch Points lol

[@3komma141592653]

Damn impressive. I wouldn't attack anyone at all because i am so tiny with that nation. Let alone the Mamelukes or Ottomans.

[@rottinio148]

You remember Jurusalem ❤

[@guido4096]

Nice background man.

[@ZlewikkTV]

Thanks :)

[@afridge8608]

i think that its pretty worth as a small country to not give privileges right away. only give out the mana privileges and then regain all the crownland after the first war and then give out privileges. low dev compared to your conquests plus low influence plus low influece makes you gain so much crownland from war. i think really low influence gives a 40%? buff to crownland gain. i feel like you could jump from 5 to 19 or 20 from that byzantium war. maybe thats a bit too tryhard

[@abrvalg321]

Are you going to wait for the New providence to fire and then make 2 saves? 1 to play as them and 1 to colonize as knights.

[@ZlewikkTV]

I want to trigger the event once I get the carribean achievement

[@navidsiami9738]

Did you swtich to Ortho? If not why France was DOF the Castille?

[@ZlewikkTV]

That's a good question because we didn't switch. Idk why France would protect them then. Maybe I missed an alliance

[@trapzed5331]

I want to greet all my fellow human beings

[@SereglothIV]

Deus Vult!

[@DEVS_ET_DOMINVS]

I’ve watched you for years Zlewikk and I’m not sure you’re a real Pole. You never appear drunk and have never said kurwa so I’m not sure what to think.

[@Mowraq]

poor little Tolcu never got returned to bulgaria.

[@ZlewikkTV]

A small price to pay for salvation

[@eXistenZ15]

so if the navarra thing hadnt happened, what would have been the plan?

[@ZlewikkTV]

@@eXistenZ15 same, no cb one of nations in western med. Cas/Por/Ara/Mor

[@maras3naraz]

Why France would protect Castile as defender of Faith?

[@ZlewikkTV]

It's simple, I was wrong :p

[@maras3naraz]

@@ZlewikkTV za karę WC haida ;)

[@sieversen1235]

piracy mapmode? just keep learning new things about this game even after thousands of hours.

[@Vennomite]

Yas! wait.. :p

[@sprites75]

don't you need to lose all non island provinces to become new providence? but nice display of mamelukes killing

[@ZlewikkTV]

It will be last to be done, new providence is getting released as a separate tag from an event

[@pepeepupoo]

Get it zlewikk. I like your old profile picture better. Just me

[@7segador7]

Where is the map from

[@ZlewikkTV]

It's from this man on reddit - www.reddit.com/u/ratkatavobratka/s/WjqiphLNo6 You can buy a smaller version from his shop. I personally printed it as a custom wallpaper

[@alessandrograno9805]

Pls Mr Zlewikk Najd campaign with all 4 achievements 🫶🏻

[@gabri-immortale]

Z i love the no save scumming . I hate when guide are all about cheating like playmaker or ludi do. A guide is fun and good when you can try to play it

[@ericbyo9472]

EU4 youtubers are always so boring, they just mindlessly blob anywhere they get the chance. No matter how ugly the borders are or how little sense it makes.

[@ZlewikkTV]

>mindlessly blob without any reason >literally every move is done to get 4 different achievements, 2 out of 4 done already Did you just skip intro where I explain goals and what achievemets we are going after and mindlessly watch only parts of the video? That must be so boring to watch EU4 content with 0 idea about whole run goal and thinking it makes little sense :)

[@gorkemtekin5440]

Not Palestine it is Israel.

[@andrewmcallister9908]

The region is literally Palestine, Palestine existed before Israel. Contrary to what rightwing knuckledraggers think, Muslims have lived in Palestine for about a millennium. Israel was created 70 years ago and European colonizers displaced people to create it

[@AutisticAndBallistic]

@@andrewmcallister9908 Jews lived in Jerusalem way before Islam was even conceived and Muslims/Arabs only arrived in the area by killing and subjugating the people who lived in the area. This is true for all land surround the Mediterranean. The expansion of Islam through conquest is what triggered the Crusades. Also lmaoing at politics brainrot.

[@louisbaker4362]

​@@andrewmcallister9908 and those very same Muslims took the land and displaced/killed other people who lived in that area, the land wasn't uninhabited before the Arabs arrived. 😂 I think you took this moment more to dunk on "right wing knuckledraggers" than to research the history of the region.

[@INSANESUICIDE]

I quite enjoy Knights, never had difficulties with playing them, of course they are challenging in being stuck between some big expansive nations, but man oh man the raiding and galley combat ability? You can even dominate colonial Spain if you play your cards right.

[@INSANESUICIDE]

A good tip is to vassalize byzant and Epirus so you can nab their navies as well.

[@thegodv_]

vassalizing rebellium is bad now tbh

[@ZlewikkTV]

you don't really need their navies with your galley bonuses

[@INSANESUICIDE]

@@ZlewikkTV you don't need them, but having them allows you to confidently punch way above your weight, as well as barraging forts to lock the Ottomans on the straits, and you have 2 extra manpower pools that you can just annex later anyways. For Knights I enjoy keeping a powerful vassal or two early game, for other nations I'd rather annex, it's all about mood and which nation I play tbh. For mortals like me vassals are great, I am no zlewik skillwise I must admit.

[@ZlewikkTV]

@@INSANESUICIDE your allies/subjects fleet do not count for breaching walls sadly, I prefer to have constantinople for myself, easy 30 dev, which is great for age objective and quick golden era. Also you can get rid of Genoese malus in Constantinople and spawn faceting yourself. It's good to have Byz lands for yourself and have Bulgaria for reconquest cb. Obviously everyone can play however they want to, I just find this more useful as The Knights :)

[@andrewmcallister9908]

I typically like byz vassal for reconquest, but small nations benefit more by having direct cores