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I think a Timurids/Mughals guide would be a good idea. On another note, I had my inflation reduction guy apparently die when I fired him when I got that event too.
Fun fact: If you become an elector before forming The Netherlands you get to stay in the HRE. I got a PU (on ruler's death) on The Palatinate and was friendly to the Emperor and asked for electorate
Why elector, if you can become emperor in the first 10-25 years by election? Only think you cannot use, Netherlands special government, which cannot become emperor.
@@aqvamarek5316 I prefer to take Stadhouder even though it bars you from becoming emperor. Sure, lots of benefits from being the emperor but Stadhouder is such a good government type that nobody else gets, plus the no stability loss on ruler death is amazing if you aren't playing Catholic. A portion of the mission tree expects you to play as Stadhouder too.
@@copeandseethe9279 Did both, a test run as emperor until 1530, and a test run as non hre Dutch special government. Emperor did perform far better, have in 1530 a fleet with 140 ships (all in forcelimit), and a army from 120k (all in forcelimit) as emperor. Image austria emperorship, but only in rich. I run 30 tax, 30 production, 140 trade income in 1530. And best, I didn't even start Baltic control + russian trade company until now. If I aim this, you push easily to 240 forcelimit and 280 trade income. And everything backed by your massive manpower and forcelimit as emperor
@aqvamarek5316 Obviously... that's why the electors voted for Ferninad to become Emperor not Charles the Bold who was actively campaigning for it. The marriage between Maximilian & Mary was already being negotiated when Charles died fighting the French... Germany would have be unified centuries earlier if Mary hadn't fallen off her horse.
If you don't care about RP, Brabant is probably the better subject to form NL with. NL is not an end-game tag, and Flemish culture is part of the German group, meaning that Brabant can form the NL, and then Germany afterwards. On top of this, Brabant starts with more dev and more provinces. In the opening war, if you opt for Brabant, I recommend taking Amsterdam and Den Haag (If AE allows that). I would also recommend keeping France happy (England can go suck eggs though), so you can fight Burgundy again to transfer overlordship using the age ability (or espi ideas) for half cost/half AE. Edit: forgot to mention that while Dutch culture is also in the German group, Dutch culture is uniquely prohibited from forming Germany Edit 2: It's not Burgundy lads. Forming NL as Burgundy forces you into Dutch culture, which still prohibits you from forming Germany. You have to wait until tech 10, unlike Brabant. You don't have access to the Dutch/Flemish culture unique government reform, the stadtholder monarchy. This is important, because it gives you a parliament which is VERY good for colonisation. Burgundy also doesn't have access to the Dutch trade fleets naval doctrine, AND it doesn't start in the HRE. It's not Burgundy.
You are right. Brabant is the best choice because they (and Flanders) can form Germany but Dutch culture tags for some reason can’t. And you can even still RP it. The Low Countries were part of broader the German cultural sphere in 1444. They wouldn’t split off again until 2 centuries later
Pretty sure if specifically burgundy forms the netherlands they lose all their provinces in france. Gelre would be the best cuz they can just inherit burgundy + get friesland and utrecht
Also brabant specifically can rival small nations like cleves and get a really easy show strength war Oh and easy faceting cuz of antwerp AND taking flanders boosts antwerp to a l3 centre of trade in the mission when as holland itll only to it to L2, saving you 250 ducats
Brabant is best option, you can get austria, england, france, castille and denmark to support your indepedence. But I choose normally "france, austria", and use my otherer dip slots on brandenburg, saxony and papatine, to become HRE emperor as fast as possible.
Appreciate your guide, would love to see long form content for the continuation of these guides. Some of them, like this one, leave me wanting to see how tall and wide you can get into the mid/late game
Just for the religion of the Netherlands, I think being Reformed is better than protestant since you have a mission that multiply by 2 the bonus of that religion. And it's pretty OP like +3 diplo rep, 15% morale or 15% trade power
interesting independence peace deal, i always opt to release as many burgundy subjects as i can because i can always conquer them later and i don't have to worry about burgundian inheritance, but you do you.
When you get HRE emperorship in the first 10-25 years, you can get the Burgundian inheritance yourself, even when they rival you. Got my 2 province burgundy in 1490 as two province HRE minor under my netherland as PU.
I just finished up a big Netherlands campaign starting as Brabant. Always find myself coming back to this tag - so satisfying to play colonial/economy with.
Thanks for this tutorial man, it went really shockingly well. I was already at mil tech 9 before conquering the last few lowlands provinces due to the sheer amount of points you have left over by not expanding rapidly. Making BANK too. Also, that's the first time I found out what the modify subject relationship button even does lol.
i highly recommend getting England and France as Supporters, as when they are in a war together, the 30 Yearswar event will always result in the english surrendering maine to france. This will strongly weaken france early to midgame because they slow down their expansion and the english will be weak too because of their disaster. This way youll have a much easier time in the lowlands.
You can take a little more in that first war with Burgundy. There is a mission that lowers AE by 10 if you control 5 provinces in holand and brabant. Also, there is a mission later on in the Netherlands mission tree that puts a University in the highest dev province between Denhag and Amsterdam. Then you can also get a university in Denhag via another mission. Thus, if you dev Amsterdam you can get 2 universities early.
Netherlands is one of my favourite nations to play. There are few nations that let you lean so heavily into playing tall. If you are a WC type of player who tends to blob in their campaigns I'd recommend giving the Netherlands a go and just follow the mission tree, it'll give you a good idea as to why so many players prefer the tall playstyle.
The Amsterdam Bourse is a stock/trade exchange, bourse meaning really any organised market with securities and contracts. The term bourse comes from both German and French which was related to the Belgian city of Bruges where rich traders (mostly Italians bc Italian trade go brrr) met at Ter Buerse Plaza named after the patrician family Van der Beurse
Although this is a decent guide and will for sure get you off the ground as the Netherlands there are quite a couple of things I would disagree with if you wish to play more optimally. Starting with the independence war, assuming you get France on your side, which is very common. You can actually take Brugge, Gent, Antwerp and Breda all in that one war. Brugge and Gent aren't HRE provinces and are better provinces than Utrecht and Oversticht or any north-eastern Lowlands provinces as this guide recommended as your next conquests. It's another center of trade as well, so all in all far better AE usage. All you need to do is have your diplomats and merchants improve with West german nations throughout the war to like 50-ish opinion, and you'll be safe from any significant coalition, the cost of doing this? Likely a slightly longer war and more war exhaustion, but it is worth. It also sets you up for completing that mission right away. On top of that you can cancel subject for Brabant and give France Nevers, this way you won't have to fight Burgundy again for a long time and France stays your ally. From there, another thing I would recommend doing differently is using a war of show strength right after the independence war against some weak rival. As for Utrecht, Gelre and Friesland I would recommend vassalizing them all through war for reduced AE and the emperor not demanding any returning of land, you can have all three and keep them loyal if you took Brugge and Gent. Then, I highly recommend using France to fight England and Portugal over Calais as it's another center of trade. Sure, it's not in the Lowlands region, but you will be forgiven that one single transgression, no? Also, a great reason to do this war is so you can take Algarve from portugal, greatly improving your colonial range. Finally, for ideas and colonization, I recommend going exploration as your second idea group actually and taking something like innovative first. You'll still be faster on the path of colonization than this guide since you have Algarve for colonial range. For your colonization route, I would highly recommend taking the time to get the treaty of tordesillas for the Caribbean, East Coast America, and Canada before moving to West Africa and Asia. You may have to do a quick war against Castille/Portugal to seize colonies in the Caribbean before they get the treaty, but that should be very doable with France on your side and the use of the seize colony buttons on your armies after sieging a colony. The new world is the race that you're in against the other colonizers from the get-go, so if you want presence there, win that race. The race for Asia and West Africa will not start for quite a while so don't stress it, if you only focus on these 3 colonial new world regions you'll still be the first to start the race for West Africa and Asia very likely anyways. It's still a decent video from RedHawk, however though. No hate, only love.
I currently am in a 1590 game where I have developed the crap out of the lowlands, PU'd France, Russia, Great Britain and enough favors with my ally Spain to put my dynasty on their throne. They only managed to colonize La Plata, Mexico and Louisiana, but that trade still ends up in the English Channel. This because I own all other regions of the new world by treaty. I also own all of West Africa, South Africa And Malaya plus Phillipines. Granted, no presence in India yet unlike this guide, but that will be the next focus.
I think it's better to try and end overloadship of burgundy of one of the minors or release one of the not yet released one in the first peace with burgundy, especially because the inheritance might happen any moment
When getting independence from burgundy, it's better to move your army to the province above your capital and transport it out by sea. For some reason the AI are less likely to siege your capital that way, saving your economy
I find that you can easily avoid the initial coalition via making sure you peace out in late December and constantly microing the diplomat that's not in Austria (unless it supports you) to improve with bigger HRE neighbors like Berg, Cologne, Munster, Palatinate, etc to make sure they stay above 0 relations even with above 50 AE. If you're willing to savescum, Careful or at least Silver-Tongue ruler trait will help too. Give at least one of the big allies that desire Burgundian land what they ask for, usually France. If you have both Austria and France, give land to both. Burgundy's provinces are fairly good dev thus the AI will be satisfied with only one province. Just make sure to not give away Low Countries provinces to France. Priritize taking centers of trade and Flanders' provinces (not HRE) for less AE. You should be able to get 2/3 of Flanders plus Antwetp with no coalition forming. If you have a Careful trait and Austria supports you, whole Flanders.
Thanks to the new missions you can get Antwerp, Breda and all of Flanders, time the peace deal properly and get the -10 AE with all Imperial princes and you'll only have a small coalition, and you can just use that time to go for Show Strength wars against your neighbours.
Since France comes into the independence war from the start, can you have armies already in France without them getting black flagged? I think you already have access through Burgundy as a subject before the war, so all you'd need is access through France. This doesn't work for some reason?
I usually will restart if I can’t get France to support. I avoid England because they want Brugge, and so do I. So I go France and someone else (prefer Austria but either Iberian nation or Denmark is OK). I usually take all of Flanders because Brugge has a bonus to spreading Renaissance. I release Brabant so they aren’t a Burgundy subject and give something to France in the south (far from you) to keep them happy and allied.
People keep forming Netherlands as holland which is pretty weird considering they're not like, the historical unifier or anything. Theoretically the two best nations to form the netherlands as is either Brabant (more dev + antwerp for faceting + better located and can easily pop off a show strength war on cleves and others) Or gelre if you want to meme the inheritance (Austria will try to fight you but that just means a free HRE dismantle)
Obviously people form the Netherlands as Holland because it was the center of power of the Republic and it still is the most important region of the country
I think you can complete all the Hansa missions without taking any province there. In my game I didn't wante to expand in that direction, so I managed to do all of them except the grain one by just sending a lot of ships to protect there early one, and got a little bit of money
If you own the provinces directly, you would get high autonomy and a small amount of goods produced. If you give the provinces to the VOC, then it would have 0% autonomy and a high amount of goods produced.
you should %100 release the voc. feeding it all of india might not be “optimal” however even if youre a “minmaxer” give it 10 provinces atleast to get the full bonuses
Alternatively, don't massacre the natives and just station two regiments on or adjacent to the colony. There are a handful of provinces in the world where 3 provinces is safer than two, but two is generally enough and even one or ero are OK for some provinces. If you can spare the manpower and transports, it makes the colonies more developed.
Giving the cheaper adviser privileges arent worth it. You would spend 540 ducats(basing that advisors are 1 ducat for all of the period) For %30 stability discount for 100 years right? Then why are you giving those privileges?
I disagree about 48:26. I def feel you should colonize the Cape of Africa just in case. That gives a stupid amount of trade power and imo is worth delaying the push to malaysia.
I always give France a bit of land to keep them as an ally. You can then 'control' all the wars against Burgundy in the future and stop France from grabbing any choice provinces
Dude, what kind of weird peace deal for your independence was that? Its even worse than just casual. You can easily annex whole of Flanders and make Burgundy give up Brabant. Just dont use England for independence, because they wont transfer Flanders provinces, France will do that. You also dont really need to run away after declaring. You can just stand in Amsterdam and have your fleet out, so they have to siege Den Haag and that will cost them so much time, especially when you stack a little fort defense. In my experience your fleet is big enough so that at least Burgundy and their PUs wont attack it, but it also works even when they allied north-german nations who have also a fleet. I have to say that i expected more.
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Urgh Catholic Netherlands. Hate to see it. Otherwise love the video. By far my favorite country in EU4. You can still do the Burgundian Succession Cheese, where you play as a subject, brake free marry Burgundy and "cheese"/"hope for" the Succession. Or as Gelre
what dlc are you using? I don't have some buttons/views, also I don't have naval strategy and my colonial range too low, to start to colonize west Africa...
Question to the creators of mods, if they exist here. I'm trying to remove the permanent militarization debuff -0.5 (Militarization of the state or Militarization of the country) through the game directory (files). But I can't do it. I tried through the file 00_static_modifiers.txt and through the file 16_prussian_militarization (government_mechanics folder) Does anyone know how to remove this modifier through files?
You should never build transports as Netherlands, your trade ships already act as a transports too. You are justing wasting your Naval Force limit. And also play greedy as a colonizer, never wait for a colonist to finish to colonize a province (you won't have a money problem because you are Netherlands). Jump them around like crazy and don't let the other colonizers to reach the old world through Cape of Good Hope.
I feel like you repeat yourself quite often. Like explaining things 3 times in a row. If something was unclear I would have just go back and watch again. Mby something to consider.
Question to the creators of mods, if they exist here. I'm trying to remove the permanent militarization debuff -0.5 (Militarization of the state or Militarization of the country) through the game directory (files). But I can't do it. I tried through the file 00_static_modifiers.txt and through the file 16_prussian_militarization (government_mechanics folder) Does anyone know how to remove this modifier through files?
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Venice!
Maybe a native
I would love a venice guide
I think a Timurids/Mughals guide would be a good idea. On another note, I had my inflation reduction guy apparently die when I fired him when I got that event too.
Savoy
For 200k subscribers Hawk should do a mustache grooming guide
I'll remember that
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Seriously looking for a good razor recommendation lol
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Islam says to trim your mustache and grow your beard
Fun fact: If you become an elector before forming The Netherlands you get to stay in the HRE. I got a PU (on ruler's death) on The Palatinate and was friendly to the Emperor and asked for electorate
Why elector, if you can become emperor in the first 10-25 years by election?
Only think you cannot use, Netherlands special government, which cannot become emperor.
@@aqvamarek5316 I prefer to take Stadhouder even though it bars you from becoming emperor. Sure, lots of benefits from being the emperor but Stadhouder is such a good government type that nobody else gets, plus the no stability loss on ruler death is amazing if you aren't playing Catholic. A portion of the mission tree expects you to play as Stadhouder too.
@@copeandseethe9279 Did both, a test run as emperor until 1530, and a test run as non hre Dutch special government.
Emperor did perform far better, have in 1530 a fleet with 140 ships (all in forcelimit), and a army from 120k (all in forcelimit) as emperor.
Image austria emperorship, but only in rich. I run 30 tax, 30 production, 140 trade income in 1530.
And best, I didn't even start Baltic control + russian trade company until now.
If I aim this, you push easily to 240 forcelimit and 280 trade income.
And everything backed by your massive manpower and forcelimit as emperor
@aqvamarek5316 Obviously... that's why the electors voted for Ferninad to become Emperor not Charles the Bold who was actively campaigning for it. The marriage between Maximilian & Mary was already being negotiated when Charles died fighting the French... Germany would have be unified centuries earlier if Mary hadn't fallen off her horse.
If you don't care about RP, Brabant is probably the better subject to form NL with. NL is not an end-game tag, and Flemish culture is part of the German group, meaning that Brabant can form the NL, and then Germany afterwards. On top of this, Brabant starts with more dev and more provinces.
In the opening war, if you opt for Brabant, I recommend taking Amsterdam and Den Haag (If AE allows that). I would also recommend keeping France happy (England can go suck eggs though), so you can fight Burgundy again to transfer overlordship using the age ability (or espi ideas) for half cost/half AE.
Edit: forgot to mention that while Dutch culture is also in the German group, Dutch culture is uniquely prohibited from forming Germany
Edit 2: It's not Burgundy lads. Forming NL as Burgundy forces you into Dutch culture, which still prohibits you from forming Germany. You have to wait until tech 10, unlike Brabant. You don't have access to the Dutch/Flemish culture unique government reform, the stadtholder monarchy. This is important, because it gives you a parliament which is VERY good for colonisation. Burgundy also doesn't have access to the Dutch trade fleets naval doctrine, AND it doesn't start in the HRE. It's not Burgundy.
You are right. Brabant is the best choice because they (and Flanders) can form Germany but Dutch culture tags for some reason can’t.
And you can even still RP it. The Low Countries were part of broader the German cultural sphere in 1444. They wouldn’t split off again until 2 centuries later
Pretty sure if specifically burgundy forms the netherlands they lose all their provinces in france.
Gelre would be the best cuz they can just inherit burgundy + get friesland and utrecht
Also brabant specifically can rival small nations like cleves and get a really easy show strength war
Oh and easy faceting cuz of antwerp
AND taking flanders boosts antwerp to a l3 centre of trade in the mission when as holland itll only to it to L2, saving you 250 ducats
Brabant is best option, you can get austria, england, france, castille and denmark to support your indepedence.
But I choose normally "france, austria", and use my otherer dip slots on brandenburg, saxony and papatine, to become HRE emperor as fast as possible.
If you don’t care about rp it’s really burgundy. I like holland for the rp but also the fleet.
Appreciate your guide, would love to see long form content for the continuation of these guides. Some of them, like this one, leave me wanting to see how tall and wide you can get into the mid/late game
Just for the religion of the Netherlands, I think being Reformed is better than protestant since you have a mission that multiply by 2 the bonus of that religion. And it's pretty OP like +3 diplo rep, 15% morale or 15% trade power
I don't allow myself to play eu4 anymore because its too addictive but I like watching your guides anyway
I don’t allow myself to play eu4 because i suck at it too much
smart
Same. Ain't nobody got time for that.
interesting independence peace deal, i always opt to release as many burgundy subjects as i can because i can always conquer them later and i don't have to worry about burgundian inheritance, but you do you.
When you get HRE emperorship in the first 10-25 years, you can get the Burgundian inheritance yourself, even when they rival you.
Got my 2 province burgundy in 1490 as two province HRE minor under my netherland as PU.
I just finished up a big Netherlands campaign starting as Brabant. Always find myself coming back to this tag - so satisfying to play colonial/economy with.
Perfect timing. I’m having trouble getting a Dutch game off the ground, I’ve had to restart about 3 times already
Thanks for this tutorial man, it went really shockingly well. I was already at mil tech 9 before conquering the last few lowlands provinces due to the sheer amount of points you have left over by not expanding rapidly. Making BANK too. Also, that's the first time I found out what the modify subject relationship button even does lol.
@12:25 you and I both know he gave us that quick reminder because he forgot to cancel mil access
i highly recommend getting England and France as Supporters, as when they are in a war together, the 30 Yearswar event will always result in the english surrendering maine to france. This will strongly weaken france early to midgame because they slow down their expansion and the english will be weak too because of their disaster. This way youll have a much easier time in the lowlands.
6:30 "I'm just gonna get this production efficiency guy" proceeds to choose a girl
did you just assume their gender?
@@kojbo no EU4 has silver outlines for every "female" advisor, and different sprites too.
You can take a little more in that first war with Burgundy. There is a mission that lowers AE by 10 if you control 5 provinces in holand and brabant.
Also, there is a mission later on in the Netherlands mission tree that puts a University in the highest dev province between Denhag and Amsterdam. Then you can also get a university in Denhag via another mission. Thus, if you dev Amsterdam you can get 2 universities early.
Every time you say "sit back, relax" I think you're gonna say "and let yourself go" from Tribe Called Quest's song Scenario
Netherlands is one of my favourite nations to play. There are few nations that let you lean so heavily into playing tall. If you are a WC type of player who tends to blob in their campaigns I'd recommend giving the Netherlands a go and just follow the mission tree, it'll give you a good idea as to why so many players prefer the tall playstyle.
The Amsterdam Bourse is a stock/trade exchange, bourse meaning really any organised market with securities and contracts. The term bourse comes from both German and French which was related to the Belgian city of Bruges where rich traders (mostly Italians bc Italian trade go brrr) met at Ter Buerse Plaza named after the patrician family Van der Beurse
Although this is a decent guide and will for sure get you off the ground as the Netherlands there are quite a couple of things I would disagree with if you wish to play more optimally.
Starting with the independence war, assuming you get France on your side, which is very common. You can actually take Brugge, Gent, Antwerp and Breda all in that one war. Brugge and Gent aren't HRE provinces and are better provinces than Utrecht and Oversticht or any north-eastern Lowlands provinces as this guide recommended as your next conquests. It's another center of trade as well, so all in all far better AE usage. All you need to do is have your diplomats and merchants improve with West german nations throughout the war to like 50-ish opinion, and you'll be safe from any significant coalition, the cost of doing this? Likely a slightly longer war and more war exhaustion, but it is worth. It also sets you up for completing that mission right away. On top of that you can cancel subject for Brabant and give France Nevers, this way you won't have to fight Burgundy again for a long time and France stays your ally.
From there, another thing I would recommend doing differently is using a war of show strength right after the independence war against some weak rival. As for Utrecht, Gelre and Friesland I would recommend vassalizing them all through war for reduced AE and the emperor not demanding any returning of land, you can have all three and keep them loyal if you took Brugge and Gent.
Then, I highly recommend using France to fight England and Portugal over Calais as it's another center of trade. Sure, it's not in the Lowlands region, but you will be forgiven that one single transgression, no? Also, a great reason to do this war is so you can take Algarve from portugal, greatly improving your colonial range.
Finally, for ideas and colonization, I recommend going exploration as your second idea group actually and taking something like innovative first. You'll still be faster on the path of colonization than this guide since you have Algarve for colonial range.
For your colonization route, I would highly recommend taking the time to get the treaty of tordesillas for the Caribbean, East Coast America, and Canada before moving to West Africa and Asia. You may have to do a quick war against Castille/Portugal to seize colonies in the Caribbean before they get the treaty, but that should be very doable with France on your side and the use of the seize colony buttons on your armies after sieging a colony. The new world is the race that you're in against the other colonizers from the get-go, so if you want presence there, win that race. The race for Asia and West Africa will not start for quite a while so don't stress it, if you only focus on these 3 colonial new world regions you'll still be the first to start the race for West Africa and Asia very likely anyways.
It's still a decent video from RedHawk, however though. No hate, only love.
I currently am in a 1590 game where I have developed the crap out of the lowlands, PU'd France, Russia, Great Britain and enough favors with my ally Spain to put my dynasty on their throne. They only managed to colonize La Plata, Mexico and Louisiana, but that trade still ends up in the English Channel. This because I own all other regions of the new world by treaty. I also own all of West Africa, South Africa And Malaya plus Phillipines. Granted, no presence in India yet unlike this guide, but that will be the next focus.
I think it's better to try and end overloadship of burgundy of one of the minors or release one of the not yet released one in the first peace with burgundy, especially because the inheritance might happen any moment
Would LOVE to see Venice next.
When getting independence from burgundy, it's better to move your army to the province above your capital and transport it out by sea. For some reason the AI are less likely to siege your capital that way, saving your economy
I find that you can easily avoid the initial coalition via making sure you peace out in late December and constantly microing the diplomat that's not in Austria (unless it supports you) to improve with bigger HRE neighbors like Berg, Cologne, Munster, Palatinate, etc to make sure they stay above 0 relations even with above 50 AE. If you're willing to savescum, Careful or at least Silver-Tongue ruler trait will help too.
Give at least one of the big allies that desire Burgundian land what they ask for, usually France. If you have both Austria and France, give land to both. Burgundy's provinces are fairly good dev thus the AI will be satisfied with only one province. Just make sure to not give away Low Countries provinces to France.
Priritize taking centers of trade and Flanders' provinces (not HRE) for less AE. You should be able to get 2/3 of Flanders plus Antwetp with no coalition forming. If you have a Careful trait and Austria supports you, whole Flanders.
Thanks to the new missions you can get Antwerp, Breda and all of Flanders, time the peace deal properly and get the -10 AE with all Imperial princes and you'll only have a small coalition, and you can just use that time to go for Show Strength wars against your neighbours.
New Red Hawk video, it is a good day
Since France comes into the independence war from the start, can you have armies already in France without them getting black flagged? I think you already have access through Burgundy as a subject before the war, so all you'd need is access through France. This doesn't work for some reason?
Absolute favorite nation to play as!
I usually will restart if I can’t get France to support. I avoid England because they want Brugge, and so do I. So I go France and someone else (prefer Austria but either Iberian nation or Denmark is OK). I usually take all of Flanders because Brugge has a bonus to spreading Renaissance. I release Brabant so they aren’t a Burgundy subject and give something to France in the south (far from you) to keep them happy and allied.
Been waiting for this
babe wake up new red hawk guide dropped
People keep forming Netherlands as holland which is pretty weird considering they're not like, the historical unifier or anything.
Theoretically the two best nations to form the netherlands as is either Brabant (more dev + antwerp for faceting + better located and can easily pop off a show strength war on cleves and others)
Or gelre if you want to meme the inheritance (Austria will try to fight you but that just means a free HRE dismantle)
Obviously people form the Netherlands as Holland because it was the center of power of the Republic and it still is the most important region of the country
I think you can complete all the Hansa missions without taking any province there. In my game I didn't wante to expand in that direction, so I managed to do all of them except the grain one by just sending a lot of ships to protect there early one, and got a little bit of money
The grain one was the only reason I took Trade ideas hhhhhh that mission is so frustrating.
Netherlands is the one nation I consistently fail with due to coalition wars. I guess I go too fast.
If you own the provinces directly, you would get high autonomy and a small amount of goods produced. If you give the provinces to the VOC, then it would have 0% autonomy and a high amount of goods produced.
Can we get an ardabil guide pls ?
you should %100 release the voc. feeding it all of india might not be “optimal” however even if youre a “minmaxer” give it 10 provinces atleast to get the full bonuses
Excellent video. Timurids for the next one, please :D
25:51 native repression police? What natives? There was no one in there!
you mean....native high-fiving policy ?
It would still be nice to stab up to +1 and THEN take the cheaper advisor priveleges.
only taking +3s then finishing the setup once youre at 15-20 crownland is optimal
Alternatively, don't massacre the natives and just station two regiments on or adjacent to the colony. There are a handful of provinces in the world where 3 provinces is safer than two, but two is generally enough and even one or ero are OK for some provinces. If you can spare the manpower and transports, it makes the colonies more developed.
Giving the cheaper adviser privileges arent worth it.
You would spend 540 ducats(basing that advisors are 1 ducat for all of the period)
For %30 stability discount for 100 years right?
Then why are you giving those privileges?
for some reason when i try this i end up with like 200+ ducats in debt
thats normal you can pay it off later anyway.
I have a question, could Mission Tree only runs be a possibility one day?
I disagree about 48:26. I def feel you should colonize the Cape of Africa just in case. That gives a stupid amount of trade power and imo is worth delaying the push to malaysia.
Ive never been able to follow a single guide even closely its so sad
can you make flanders guide
okay not expected myself to be this early
I always give France a bit of land to keep them as an ally. You can then 'control' all the wars against Burgundy in the future and stop France from grabbing any choice provinces
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My guess is hawk is from Netherlands
Why not Dutch Republic instead of Stadholder monarchy? I love the Dutch navy. Especially if you PU England. Having Indianman and Man-of-Wars is OP
its always bothered me that you are forced to leave the HRE when you form certain nations. i'm sure they have a reason for it, but i don't care.
how did you make your game look like that?
Dude, what kind of weird peace deal for your independence was that? Its even worse than just casual. You can easily annex whole of Flanders and make Burgundy give up Brabant. Just dont use England for independence, because they wont transfer Flanders provinces, France will do that. You also dont really need to run away after declaring. You can just stand in Amsterdam and have your fleet out, so they have to siege Den Haag and that will cost them so much time, especially when you stack a little fort defense. In my experience your fleet is big enough so that at least Burgundy and their PUs wont attack it, but it also works even when they allied north-german nations who have also a fleet.
I have to say that i expected more.
Urgh Catholic Netherlands. Hate to see it. Otherwise love the video. By far my favorite country in EU4. You can still do the Burgundian Succession Cheese, where you play as a subject, brake free marry Burgundy and "cheese"/"hope for" the Succession. Or as Gelre
Catholic Netherlands best Netherlands
If everything is so obvious, what's the point of a guide?
Since you have the indian ships i don t understand why u keep saying we will need cogs.
It doesnt work to charter company. It just said: they own no costal provinces on a different continent bla bla bla... 😥
what dlc are you using? I don't have some buttons/views, also I don't have naval strategy and my colonial range too low, to start to colonize west Africa...
He uses them all
Question to the creators of mods, if they exist here. I'm trying to remove the permanent militarization debuff -0.5 (Militarization of the state or Militarization of the country) through the game directory (files). But I can't do it. I tried through the file 00_static_modifiers.txt and through the file 16_prussian_militarization (government_mechanics folder) Does anyone know how to remove this modifier through files?
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You dont need to use cogs man VOC ships can carry armies
TC everything? even states with gold in zanzibar? seriously?
I saw what you did
You should never build transports as Netherlands, your trade ships already act as a transports too. You are justing wasting your Naval Force limit. And also play greedy as a colonizer, never wait for a colonist to finish to colonize a province (you won't have a money problem because you are Netherlands). Jump them around like crazy and don't let the other colonizers to reach the old world through Cape of Good Hope.
I feel like you repeat yourself quite often. Like explaining things 3 times in a row. If something was unclear I would have just go back and watch again. Mby something to consider.
AGREED! But it's between this and playmakers "give the estates these privileges here, and as you can see europe is now hindu thanks guys!"
Go cry
Question to the creators of mods, if they exist here. I'm trying to remove the permanent militarization debuff -0.5 (Militarization of the state or Militarization of the country) through the game directory (files). But I can't do it. I tried through the file 00_static_modifiers.txt and through the file 16_prussian_militarization (government_mechanics folder) Does anyone know how to remove this modifier through files?
GEKOLONISEERD