This is the EASIEST "Very Hard" Achievement in EU4
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- Опубліковано 3 вер 2022
- Today we're doing another "very hard" EU4 achievement. Start as France and own 100 cores in Europe before 1500. Technically I picked up another achievement too...
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I actually don't know much about the non-volcanic geology of France, but I do know a little bit about the volcanic geology! Mainland France has a few volcanic fields (regions of volcanic activity) that are technically considered still active due to having had eruptions more recently than 50,000 years ago, like the Chaîne des Puys volcanic field in central France, which includes the Puy de Dôme volcano. These volcanoes formed in a rift system over a period of about 90,000 years, with the most recent eruption occurring a little over 6000 years ago.
France was actually the country which experienced the deadliest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, but not in Continental France-it happened on Martinique, a French possession in the Caribbean. The volcano Mont Pelée began erupting unexpectedly on 23 April 1902, mainly just ash and steam, but it scared the populations of many smaller towns nearby into temporarily fleeing to the city of St Pierre, which was the cultural capital of the French Caribbean at the time. The eruptions grew more and more violent, before a brief lull, and then increased in intensity again. And suddenly, on the morning of 8 May 1902, a pyroclastic surge (basically a cloud of superheated gas and ash) emanated down from the volcano and straight into St Pierre. Around 30,000 people died in barely a few minutes, cooked or suffocated to death. There were only two* survivors in the direct path of the flow-a man in a poorly-ventilated prison cell and a man who lived near the edge of the valley. Both of them, and the handful of other survivors that were at the edge of the cloud, suffered severe burns. One of those two survivors in the main path narrowly avoided being killed by a subsequent pyroclastic flow only a few weeks later.
*Some sources claim three survivors-a little girl named Havivra da Ifrile is said to have escaped by fleeing in a small rowboat to a small sea cave, where she suffered some burns and fell unconscious; she was found hours later drifting in the boat 3-4 km out to sea.
thank you
Thank you I will forget this information shortly
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@@thomkinrade9314 Life's too short to not share cool volcano knowledge
12:10 “we don’t have canons yet, but we do have canons on board, somehow” , canons had been around for a while, but you couldn’t use them in battle back pause they were way to heavy, and got stuck in the roads, let alone muddy battlefields. But hard wood on floaty ships, very manageable.
a lot of people forget this
Of course what did people think the Ottomans used to busted down the walls of Constantinople?
@@brandonlyon730 the funny thing is that this is explained in the text for mil tech 7 (The Limber) but no one reads it LOL
Hate to break it to you dude but that's not quite right. Artillery was incredibly expensive and wasn't prevalent on ships until well into the 17th and 18th centuries. But the main thing is how rare it was, during the eighty and thirty years war even the greatest powers in Europe like France and Spain would only have 50-80 guns for a major siege of a city. Cardinal Richelieu tried to arm the French navy with cannons in the thirty years war, but only managed to acquire enough for some 20 odd ships. Plus galleys as they existed for the games time period essentially never had cannons. EU4 just says that ships have cannons because boardings/troop numbers on ships would add an added level of complexity that was unnecessary.
@Immortal Science of Hauntology You're absolutely right. I completely forgot about small-calibre guns, they were produced and used in much larger quantities on ships. Thanks for the correction
Should’ve played with 1% crownland constantly, having 100% autonomy on every single province.
I have no idea how far you got into this game without that France achievement. If there was a competition between the Mariana Trench and my jaw with my upper lip for the longest distance I would be winning.
I've gotten far without France. I don't like starting off powerful, there's no risk of challenge because you can easily eclipse everyone around you
@@Necromediancer True, I also start as small countries because they have the possibility to retake crownland from giving the +1 monarch points and also religious diplomats if I'm playing as a Catholic/Sunni country and loans to get as little influence as possible to take more crownland, this strategy helped me as Florence and it could also help you, I learned this from Budgetmonk.
I have over a thousand hours and I probably played France once or twice. I just don’t like nations like France. If I wanna play a colonization game I will play GB or Portugal, if I wanna play both colonial and military I will play Spain, for a Mediterranean conquest Aragon, for HRE I can play Austria, Brandenburg and Bohemia, Eastern Europe is fun all around and I mostly play outside Europe. I just don’t see a reason to play France.
I don’t think I played any “lucky” nation since I was beginner, I’m just in love with pain and I play obscure nations so that may be a reason why he doesn’t have that achievement
Over 1k hours and I've only played France 1 time, and the Ottomans 1 time. Like everyone else commenting here I get a lot of satisfaction from starting small
I didn't freak out, but it sure caught me off guard!
I somehow managed this first try in August 1499. I was desperately making sure separatists didnt siege down the provinces i was coring and i think I cut it as close as I could
@@wunderpuma4453 all I'm saying is i wasn't trying to cut it that close, I'm just fucking bad
When I tried it, I think I got the 100 provinces around 1502, I was pissed XD
i made it easy in 1461 i just gor burgnundy and inhereted her lol
It was way harder in 2013-2015 before paradox just added a ton of new provinces
One of my first ever games I was playing France and inherited Scotland a couple years in. Didn’t know about BBB at the time and I had no idea how lucky I got, thought that was just a thing that happened
In one of my games France inherited all of savoy once and it was a big beefy one with half Milan, of course i was playing in italy...
Don't forget that they can also get personal union over the Kingdom of Naples due to their historical claims.
ngl when i first found out you could cobeligerate to fight and annex 20 countries at the same time and annex them all at once i thought it was so good (for some reason i didnt like fabricating claims), then i found out about overextension and dealing with 500k rebels. maybe its not so strong after all.
My name, the english version of it, is John, and the big name means I'm winning because I play the game right and I'm only that big in mid game, and most stuff is stated
I got this achievement pretty easly by conquering random land around europe. I had Granada , slices of Hungary and greece and half of russia and scandinavia
Might as well make a sequel of this for Better Than Napoleon and Napoleon's Ambition.
the achivement became much easier as patches came out. more provinces got added to most of europe, especially ireland making the achivment pretty calm to achive.
I got that core achievement by revoking all of my cores on 11 November 1444
This is also how to get the USA achievement
Started sweating when i heard John-
Your effort to ally Austria as France was very funny :)
Dude I had this video on in the background and damn near shit myself when you said John
Ah, BBB. Inspiration from chewy shoot? Lol. Awesome vid!
nah, I recorded this 2 weeks ago
it was funny when he mentioned how many times he restarted in discord tho :P
edit: 3 weeks ago
Yep did freak me out!
Honestly this achievement is very easy, you can do it with pretty much any strategy
Liked to continue this very cursed France run
Am just gonna use the estate modifies and try to do this my way
I have a quarter of Quarbit's hours and a twentieth of the skill
As a John I was a little taken aback at first
I still cant believe quarbit only played France 5 years ago
quarbit: big blue blob is easy
me *took me four thousand hours to get BBB : ok
18:57 I guess Big Brother is watching, since my name is John.
The John comment really dug deep
Never stop using Yoink!
Austria was the biggest European rival of France for like 3/4 of the time EU4 takes place in, so it would be natural for them to have a historical rival modifier
I'd bet on basilious or if the bug isn't fixed forming Mongol empire before 1610
I think I never plated as France because I always thought they are to strong to begin with. I started to play eu4 this year
can confirm title, got it on accident playing france normally
4:27 LOTR reference xdd
Omg I was laughing when you said "some people actually play like this" because I'm useless at the game and play like that..... And then you said my name!
Harsh dude
And I haven't played France game ever and I started playing back in 2017.
Chewyshoot is looking at you 👀😂
Note : this achivement becomes really easy if you annex wasteland provinces (land below 5 development) in Northern Europe or if you diverse your conquest by invading the orthodox or sunni countries of Europe.
Snaking your way through Russia to the various European suni hordes can become really helpful!
from what i remember the "meta" is to invade north africa bc it has alot of those wasteland provinces and you have rangefor everything and the war is super easy
I did freak out when you said John hahahaha
69% warscore
I just realized i don't have Big Blue Blob either.....but i'm only 2.5k hours into the game so i'm good for another 2k hours i guess.
this achievement got way easier over time.
damn can't believe i have been called out like that
Inheriting others nations I think high opinions are a factor I inherited a nation once.
This game should be continued as a disaster save.
why disaster?
i mean the state of the game is not perfect but he has everything he needs
he could conquer all of europe by 1550, solving the ae problem xD
Bro tried to ally Austria as France
I got Big Blue Blob on my first try (technically second because I restarted immediately once), and I'm definitely not that good at EU4. So It's not that hard of an achievement.
What idea to take?
they should increase the amount needed for this achievement by 50% or so
but at this point they would have to rework a lot of other achievements too so it probably wont happen x)
speedrun sokoto? :)
Challenge idea: You can only take land via getting PUs. And you can't play as Austria.
you're going to love next week's video
@Immortal Science of Hauntology not necessarily, overloading on royal marriages gives you a decent chance of either spreading or gaining a shared dynasty
11:54 WHO’S in Paris!??!??!!!??
11:55
Who? Who's in Paris Quarbit?
Ah yes, the Genghis Khan strategy
whats the name of the mode that make ur events colorful?
The Great Exhibition (you can see all his mods in the description)
It kind of would be interesting to see you continue this garbage France. Winning despite themselves. Haha
kid named John:
Big name does mean your winning
change your name to john
umm monferat is a vassal of savoy and gets annexxed by them all the time..
inheritance is different from regular integration
@@QuarbitGaming yeah I know. You're talking about monferrat being a junior partner or something. It is always a vassal. I think savoy may have an event that instantly annexes it, because I see monferrat disappear frequently when playing in Italy
As someone who played EU3 a lot, I often played in Europe because much of the rest of the world was neglected in features, unique events, etc. With EU4, I mostly play outside of Europe. I don't have the achievements for Castile, France, or Portugal and I have over 600 hours. But I do have achievements for nations like Kilwa, Madyas, and the Madagascar nations.
Hello
im John and i freaked out lol
France invades Russia and realizes it's a huge place and most of it is garbage nobody wants? Talk about unrealistic! :P
Just play a run as intentionally bad as possible trying to get as many achievements in the most scuffed way you can think of. I'd watch that.
Taking Ceuta from Portugal in the first war helps with adding an avenue for expansion with less AE in the Maghreb
the Maghreb is not in Europe. it doesn't count towards the achievement
11:52 …who was in Paris?🤨🤔
fine gentlemen of Danish descent
I have 900 hours(893) and i didn't play ironman (zero achiments) i don't even reload games just deal with RNG... Maybe i should start with playing ironman 😂
You think thats bad I have 2000 hours and have never played as Protestant or Reformed
Never got any France achievement despite having 1000+ hours but that’s cuz I never played as France. It’s just so boring starting as a nation that’s the biggest in its region and is given a ton of buffs for historical accuracy, like France, Ottomans, and PLC. Not my cup of tea. Underdogs ftw!
Fair, more than fair. All I can say is that sometimes ya just gotta smack somebody upside the head with a baguette. Ya just gotta. And that means playing as France.
It's is "hard" now
after domination, that was expected lol
@@QuarbitGaming ofcourse. Now the easiest VH achievement is imo this with the highest income without over 10 dev provinces. I did it as Kilva and didn't even have any provinces in the Horn of Africa. You just need to remember to lower development in 10+ dev province 😄
Many VH achievements aren't really hard like basileus, khaaaan etc
fr*nce
11:53 who is in paris?
Danes
Wow… Quarbit is such a Francophobe..
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