I introduced my friend to eu4 because I thought he would enjoy it. He told me he was a long way in on his first run and confused on what to do next. He was playing as kamchadals and once he conquered the other minors he had sat for 100 years assuming other nations would spawn around him.
@Benwut Erm actually it's called a reply, a comment is when you leave a message under the video. In this case I left a message under my comment, a reply☝️🤓📋
The Chukchi are an interesting people. They were probably the most aggressive of their region. Fearless, too, described so at least, in face of Russian firearms. It’s said they were never ‘officially’ conquered, but signed treaties with the Russian state. They also had an interesting fella named Tenevil that invented them a script, though it never saw much use. The language is gorgeous and you should check out the folk song Nunligran.
I don't think Siberians are even close to the least played nations, their position is fairly unique (times 4) and super interesting. The small states around Ethiopia are probably way less played. I do wonder if PDX will ever release a coloured map of playing numbers for each nation, but I don't think these freezers would even be in the lower half of starting tags. (maybe Khodynt since they're inland)
Small Ethiopian States, Madagascar minors. Maybe some of Arabians like yas, and definitely there's gonna be Indians. Maybe also South East Asians, native oceananians and migratory muricans
Early in my EU4 career (probably 8 or 9 years ago at this point) I followed a Chavchuveny playthrough that was recounted as an AAR on the subreddit. I don't think it was a particularly well-known player or anything, but it stuck in my brain, and I've had a soft spot for them ever since. I'm happy to see someone else take a stab at them a decade later. Would love to see a part 2! Hopefully the next session will be a little less monotonous for you.
Fun Facts about the eastern siberians (in game and irl): Chukchi and Chavchuveny are in the wrong provinces they should have been swapped Chavchuveny is only a subdivision of the Koryaks meaning something like 'rich with reindeer'. Reindeer were pretty important throughout Siberia These tribes were famous raiders and renowned warriors despite the inferior technology, the Chukchi lasted into the late 1700s and even beat the Russians once, as well as being feared by their neighbors. The Koryaks being related to the Chukchi also fought all their neighbors. In the 1700s there was a forge in Paren' used by the Koryaks (of which again Chavchuveny was a part of)
Lol, I just finished a Chukchi game. I went exploration/expansion and built a colonial empire. Even managed to spawn colonialism and keep up in tech by farming mana points from showing strenght to the other tribes.
Honestly, Laithe if I can give you any advice. I recommend talking about some of the history of the nations you play, maybe show some pictures, actually showcase what the flavor text says on their national ideas and the like? I will also admit leaving siberia immediatly to go over to europe felt really counter intuitive & going south to interact with stuff like mongolia, korea & japan makes more sense to me.
The EU IV AI is funny, one time as an all-cav Oirat I declared war on the Ottomans in late game and the mad-lads stacked 750k in a single mountain province and because I was sitting in a mountain province we just sat looking at each other as tick after tick the entire Ottoman manpower pool died of attrition within 6 months, 6 months for over 500k reserve manpower to dry out because three quarters of a million AI troops sat on a mountain eating rocks. The war wasn't difficult afterwards.
„you should immediatly vassalize it and build it back up for all the benefit and no cost. A form acquaintance of mine said that about the man she dated“ Man that is based
Yeah I had to double-take when I heard this, then replayed it a third time with captions enabled just to be sure what I was hearing... I cannot imagine what kind of things happened to said guys to where she thought they were "all the benefit with none of the cost," it reeks of preying on their desperation after big breakups or something...
An Mp game where 4 people work as all 4 of them and work together or migrate together would be funny please consider it Laith. It's up there with colonizing America across the bering straits to be historically accurate.
I play Paradox games exclusively for immersive RP with my friend, and one of my all-time favorite experiences with this region was a Scotland-England co-op save we did where we created a 'United Kingdom' alliance consisting of me (England), him (Scotland), and then an Ireland we helped forge and ally with. I sought an English Empire that effectively consisted of all of Central and Southern Africa. English Africa was my biggest concern of that save, BUT, along the way I got a casus belli against Kamchadals and just decided to pursue it because, why not, adventure and profit! Annexed Kahmchadals, developed great cities in its land, converted it to Anglican, converted culture to English, and eventually created an English Anglican Kamchadals vassal. Little did I know, I had just created a monster, because this English Kamchadals went on to absorb its neighbors, colonized like half of Siberia on its own, and ended up somehow even stronger than Korea. The late game saw its navy becoming obnoxiously powerful, and they became very toxic towards me. Got away from that save with them as a subject still, but they were a real pain in the ass right to the end. Then we converted to Victoria 2, and VERY early on rebellion broke their connection to me, making them independent. English Kamchadals went on to conquer Finland and pretty much everything down towards Persia, and by the end of that save, in fact, started to chip away at the Russian Empire, coming I think two or three states away from Moscow. By the end of that save they became Fascist. One more convert to Hearts if Iron IV, me, my friend, and Japan had to finally put Kamchadals down, and it was absurdly difficult as they converted into HoI IV with an unexpected level of manpower and divisions. We wanted to just utilize our alliance with Japan to just take down Kamchadals right at their capital, but what actually ended up happening is they plowed over Russia and engaged us right in Poland. We ended up pretty much having to march from Poland all the way east to their original EUIV territory. Long story short: I will never forget how my little EUIV experiment with Kamchadals made for one of the most engaging string of saves I've ever played.
I recently completed a Chavchuveney game myself, which I then converted to VIC3. I took a different approach though; you see, that "force migration" CB? It allows for "Show Strength", the peace that gives you 100 of each monarch point. The other nations outside of your neighbors? They can't see you. I declared war after war, breaking truce after truce, racking up enough PowerPoint to dev myself institution's and be ahead on tech. Then I used expansion ideas to make my way west... and encountered the strongest Russia I have ever seen in the 1500's. I spent the rest of the game desperately trying to curb their influence. Fun game, very satisfying to fully dismantle them in VIC3, even if it took awhile due to population differences.
The funny thing is back in the day my very first campaign finished was with chuckchi because I was so bad at the game and after a few tries in europe and japan I just wanted a remote place to learn the game. And I didnt have any DLCs, i still had fun by colonising Alaska for myself
this kind of editing style could be fun but maybe you could intertwine it with the old one a bit? i like long form videos a lot and having your live reactions in there is hilarious
I have a friend that plays hoi4 and i was trying to get into eu4, they said they enjoyed it and i was like oh what did you play, he kamchadal. He hasnt touched it since
Chavchuveny was the Star of one of the all time great AAR series in EU4 history and needs more recognition as a peak meme nation at the ass end of the world
I would be tempted to say that thanks to an "exploit" by TheStudent that has you effectively trucebreak one of them nonstop for almost infinite monarch points, that these nations are actually surprisingly broken. However, the New Zealand tribes can do the exact same thing, aren't saddled with a huge institution debuff, have a nice naval policy that allows for conquistadors and explorers without taking Exploration, and don't start out right next to decently powerful tags and the strongest tag in 1444 either. They also have a better mission tree, estates, and slightly better ideas. If you're really good at snowballing and doing max cheese, than the Siberian Clan Council countries are not a bad pick. Otherwise, play one of the NZ tribes and make modern New Zealand by beating up your neighbors and making them feel bad.
I would love more of this, you know we all love a good cursed campaign. I do think you should at least mix some more live commentary in among the scripted stuff; the edited commentary is good but so are your usual live reactions.
I once played as one the Siberian tribes so I could get the Blood for the Sky God Achievement where you must be Tengrist and have Nahuatl as your syncretic faith
good video but my conspiracy theory is that laith recorded this whole thing with his mic on mute and most of the footage became useless but he didn't want to waste it so he did a well edited good voice over instead for a shorter video
You could have gone into -stability for extra migration speed. (Or has that been changed?, it has been some time since I played as someone who can migrate)
I've played as Khodyant before when i first started playing. It's boring but its beginner friendly. I took over the other 3 and then went colonial. This was so long ago that I don't remember what happened next other than colonizing Alaska
I haven't played them although i have played probably worse i for some reason played a Canadian native on victoria island i think and just settled and vibed up there
I have EU4, I just can't play it yet cos therez a steep learning curve. But siberia is one of the few places I will play cos I love the koryaks (kamatchkan siberians)
If Burgundy forms the Netherlands while France still exists, all of their French region cores are automatically given to France. Judging by the size of that Netherlands, I'd assume Burgundy was pretty successful, and only lost territory because of that mechanic in the decision.
I introduced my friend to eu4 because I thought he would enjoy it. He told me he was a long way in on his first run and confused on what to do next. He was playing as kamchadals and once he conquered the other minors he had sat for 100 years assuming other nations would spawn around him.
Did they survive?
It's always a good sign when new players ignore the recommended starter nations
@@Bevalderon fr my first playtrought was Xiu n the next 15 times until i formed The mayans conquer all america
I will take "things that didn't happen for 500"
@@amogususus12 Ooo how tough. I’ll take “Pretentious git” for 1000
Laith please don't play with minors
😱
The youtuber's weakness
uh oh
He hasn't released a minecraft video yet, he's safe for now
@@miguelpadeiro762 he's streamed it. ua-cam.com/video/RoRNUYcG3Lc/v-deo.html
Laith you've got to stop playing with minors
minors are fun
Laith going wild with the script in this one
I love it
@@miguelpadeiro762 Aint no way bro commented on his own comment 💀
@Benwut Erm actually it's called a reply, a comment is when you leave a message under the video. In this case I left a message under my comment, a reply☝️🤓📋
@@miguelpadeiro762 cook
@@Benwut Let bro cook
I want to see the adventures of chavcheveny as they seek to dominate the steppes and maybe return home. Thanks
I absolutely want to see this too
Chukchi's most notable contribution to strategy gaming is the time they actually won one of the Civilization Battle Royales (CBRX2 specifically).
based CBR enjoyer
(Leonardo DiCaprio pointing meme)
The Chukchi are an interesting people. They were probably the most aggressive of their region. Fearless, too, described so at least, in face of Russian firearms. It’s said they were never ‘officially’ conquered, but signed treaties with the Russian state. They also had an interesting fella named Tenevil that invented them a script, though it never saw much use. The language is gorgeous and you should check out the folk song Nunligran.
I don't think Siberians are even close to the least played nations, their position is fairly unique (times 4) and super interesting.
The small states around Ethiopia are probably way less played.
I do wonder if PDX will ever release a coloured map of playing numbers for each nation, but I don't think these freezers would even be in the lower half of starting tags. (maybe Khodynt since they're inland)
Small Ethiopian States, Madagascar minors. Maybe some of Arabians like yas, and definitely there's gonna be Indians. Maybe also South East Asians, native oceananians and migratory muricans
@@Idoexist._. West African minors other than Mali, Songhai, Air, Dagomey and KB probably too.
Early in my EU4 career (probably 8 or 9 years ago at this point) I followed a Chavchuveny playthrough that was recounted as an AAR on the subreddit. I don't think it was a particularly well-known player or anything, but it stuck in my brain, and I've had a soft spot for them ever since. I'm happy to see someone else take a stab at them a decade later. Would love to see a part 2! Hopefully the next session will be a little less monotonous for you.
Share? I actually do enjoy reading AARS
Fun Facts about the eastern siberians (in game and irl):
Chukchi and Chavchuveny are in the wrong provinces they should have been swapped
Chavchuveny is only a subdivision of the Koryaks meaning something like 'rich with reindeer'. Reindeer were pretty important throughout Siberia
These tribes were famous raiders and renowned warriors despite the inferior technology, the Chukchi lasted into the late 1700s and even beat the Russians once, as well as being feared by their neighbors. The Koryaks being related to the Chukchi also fought all their neighbors.
In the 1700s there was a forge in Paren' used by the Koryaks (of which again Chavchuveny was a part of)
MORE CHAVCHUVENY
I DEMAND IT
Finally someone plays the Chotkoka nations
Starting army of 4 thousand is basically all the people I would expect to live there.
"Siberian MINORS" 🗿
Those who know 🐁🐁🐁
Lol, I just finished a Chukchi game. I went exploration/expansion and built a colonial empire. Even managed to spawn colonialism and keep up in tech by farming mana points from showing strenght to the other tribes.
show strength seems really strong, idk why i dont use it more. im too much of a land and money goblin ig
The student has a video on how to abuse the shit out of "show strength"
I actually love Chukchi, it's my go to minor -> colonial nation run
i didnt expect to get violated in the first 20 seconds god damn
Honestly, Laithe if I can give you any advice. I recommend talking about some of the history of the nations you play, maybe show some pictures, actually showcase what the flavor text says on their national ideas and the like? I will also admit leaving siberia immediatly to go over to europe felt really counter intuitive & going south to interact with stuff like mongolia, korea & japan makes more sense to me.
The EU IV AI is funny, one time as an all-cav Oirat I declared war on the Ottomans in late game and the mad-lads stacked 750k in a single mountain province and because I was sitting in a mountain province we just sat looking at each other as tick after tick the entire Ottoman manpower pool died of attrition within 6 months, 6 months for over 500k reserve manpower to dry out because three quarters of a million AI troops sat on a mountain eating rocks. The war wasn't difficult afterwards.
I swear whenever you go out to do something crazy in eu4, paradox programs the game to one up you at every turn
Europa Expanded implements a mission tree for the siberians and even a formable. It makes them more interesting!
That mod gives them the siberian frontier thing which makes playing Russia really annoying
@@goldenfiberwheat238 Revenge is best served below zero
Yoo that was very entertaining. I really like your style of storytelling!
You gotta make a three part series to this now and we won't take no for an answer
„you should immediatly vassalize it and build it back up for all the benefit and no cost. A form acquaintance of mine said that about the man she dated“
Man that is based
Yeah I had to double-take when I heard this, then replayed it a third time with captions enabled just to be sure what I was hearing...
I cannot imagine what kind of things happened to said guys to where she thought they were "all the benefit with none of the cost," it reeks of preying on their desperation after big breakups or something...
These were the first nations I ever played. I wanted to learn some basic mechanics and thought this will be good. It was terrible, but I learned a lot
1:41 I legit heard "Chuck E. Cheese"
funnier that i read this comment exactly when he sayed it
>The nations NO ONE plays...
>Comments are flooded by Kamchatka tag players
Laith has not accounted for the fact that there are DOZENS OF US. DOZENS!
An Mp game where 4 people work as all 4 of them and work together or migrate together would be funny please consider it Laith.
It's up there with colonizing America across the bering straits to be historically accurate.
Great new editing style! Good job :D
Fun fact, not sure if it is still in but at one point negative stability lowered migration timer
Havent watched one of ur vids in a while, but god damn this one was entertaining as fuck. Laith levelled up???
I play Paradox games exclusively for immersive RP with my friend, and one of my all-time favorite experiences with this region was a Scotland-England co-op save we did where we created a 'United Kingdom' alliance consisting of me (England), him (Scotland), and then an Ireland we helped forge and ally with. I sought an English Empire that effectively consisted of all of Central and Southern Africa. English Africa was my biggest concern of that save, BUT, along the way I got a casus belli against Kamchadals and just decided to pursue it because, why not, adventure and profit!
Annexed Kahmchadals, developed great cities in its land, converted it to Anglican, converted culture to English, and eventually created an English Anglican Kamchadals vassal. Little did I know, I had just created a monster, because this English Kamchadals went on to absorb its neighbors, colonized like half of Siberia on its own, and ended up somehow even stronger than Korea. The late game saw its navy becoming obnoxiously powerful, and they became very toxic towards me. Got away from that save with them as a subject still, but they were a real pain in the ass right to the end.
Then we converted to Victoria 2, and VERY early on rebellion broke their connection to me, making them independent. English Kamchadals went on to conquer Finland and pretty much everything down towards Persia, and by the end of that save, in fact, started to chip away at the Russian Empire, coming I think two or three states away from Moscow. By the end of that save they became Fascist. One more convert to Hearts if Iron IV, me, my friend, and Japan had to finally put Kamchadals down, and it was absurdly difficult as they converted into HoI IV with an unexpected level of manpower and divisions. We wanted to just utilize our alliance with Japan to just take down Kamchadals right at their capital, but what actually ended up happening is they plowed over Russia and engaged us right in Poland. We ended up pretty much having to march from Poland all the way east to their original EUIV territory.
Long story short: I will never forget how my little EUIV experiment with Kamchadals made for one of the most engaging string of saves I've ever played.
I recently completed a Chavchuveney game myself, which I then converted to VIC3.
I took a different approach though; you see, that "force migration" CB? It allows for "Show Strength", the peace that gives you 100 of each monarch point. The other nations outside of your neighbors? They can't see you. I declared war after war, breaking truce after truce, racking up enough PowerPoint to dev myself institution's and be ahead on tech. Then I used expansion ideas to make my way west... and encountered the strongest Russia I have ever seen in the 1500's. I spent the rest of the game desperately trying to curb their influence. Fun game, very satisfying to fully dismantle them in VIC3, even if it took awhile due to population differences.
ahahhaha basically you were bullying a nation in a spot where no one could see it and that was your main source of richness
Лейт, тебе уж точно не пересилить Воеводу, не пытайся
Этот коммент я и искал
Laith, you need to continue this cursed campaign
The funny thing is back in the day my very first campaign finished was with chuckchi because I was so bad at the game and after a few tries in europe and japan I just wanted a remote place to learn the game. And I didnt have any DLCs, i still had fun by colonising Alaska for myself
Laith woke up and chose violence
this kind of editing style could be fun but maybe you could intertwine it with the old one a bit? i like long form videos a lot and having your live reactions in there is hilarious
There's nothing I would love to see more than the Bizarre adventure's of Chavchuveny
Kinemod did himself dirty with the editing
The truth can't be hidden
2:10 if your subject is ever in a war that you weren't called into for some reason, you can do Enforce Peace to take over leadership of the war.
Great video! Fun campaign and absolutely hilarious
Laith please do a Great Moravia playthrough, no one ever does that besides Chairman's video. You gotta do it man
I have a friend that plays hoi4 and i was trying to get into eu4, they said they enjoyed it and i was like oh what did you play, he kamchadal. He hasnt touched it since
Chavchuveny was the Star of one of the all time great AAR series in EU4 history and needs more recognition as a peak meme nation at the ass end of the world
I demand a part 2!
I don't comment terribly often, but this one will need a part 2
I would be tempted to say that thanks to an "exploit" by TheStudent that has you effectively trucebreak one of them nonstop for almost infinite monarch points, that these nations are actually surprisingly broken. However, the New Zealand tribes can do the exact same thing, aren't saddled with a huge institution debuff, have a nice naval policy that allows for conquistadors and explorers without taking Exploration, and don't start out right next to decently powerful tags and the strongest tag in 1444 either. They also have a better mission tree, estates, and slightly better ideas.
If you're really good at snowballing and doing max cheese, than the Siberian Clan Council countries are not a bad pick. Otherwise, play one of the NZ tribes and make modern New Zealand by beating up your neighbors and making them feel bad.
23 seconds ago is Siberian suffering
I would love more of this, you know we all love a good cursed campaign. I do think you should at least mix some more live commentary in among the scripted stuff; the edited commentary is good but so are your usual live reactions.
MAKE MORE OF THESE PLEASE
We need a continuation.
Chukchi was the First Nation I played.
I played it over and over until I could beat Ming in a single war
I love this new video style
It is ok Laith, you can make jokes about us, our dads taught us to get used to abuse.
I played it as the Kamchadals I think years ago with that popular mission expanded mod
We need a 2nd Tiwi playthrough
I once played as one the Siberian tribes so I could get the Blood for the Sky God Achievement where you must be Tengrist and have Nahuatl as your syncretic faith
These tribes are far eastern not siberian...
Please. PLEASE. Do a world conquest
good video but my conspiracy theory is that laith recorded this whole thing with his mic on mute and most of the footage became useless but he didn't want to waste it so he did a well edited good voice over instead for a shorter video
Wish Europa Expanded would do something with them alongside Alaska
When I first started playing eu4 I played one of these nations lol, forgot which one it was though
Bearded laith is a sight to behold
To quote Scooter:
"Siberia - the place to be!"
I must admit, I vastly prefer videos with live narration, rather than this recorded post-game.
We demand the adventures of the little kamchatkan state that could
Wow this video is a true master piece!
I'd love to see a continuation of this!
That is beautiful, gib mor
Damn you love absolutism so much your haircut is from the Age of Absolutism.
You could have gone into -stability for extra migration speed.
(Or has that been changed?, it has been some time since I played as someone who can migrate)
Oh I've actually played some of these guys, tried colonizing and stuff
7:04 certified durham girl moment
I want to see a world conquest
Laith, my therapist is going to hear about this :/
(But also I'm actually super excited for the reformation into a horde)
I've played as Khodyant before when i first started playing. It's boring but its beginner friendly. I took over the other 3 and then went colonial. This was so long ago that I don't remember what happened next other than colonizing Alaska
Play as Capua in Ante Bellum
A de Hauteville and unique events, which if IIRC, you can be immortal?
Nic e idea. Did you end the run there or did you finish the goal?
I really wanna see a continuation not just because of the siberian minor but also because the "interesting Europe" lol
ok but we need a second video fr
really like these shorter videos
LAITH NOOOO, DONT STRIKE THAT CHORD, PLEASEEEEEE
Seems like it would've been stronger/quicker to migrate towards the Jurchen Tribes, reform, and then just conquer everything towards Russia.
Please part 2
Laith... you should play as muisca and try to survive, im pretty sure muisca isnt migratory, and doesn't have any neighbors
I haven't played them although i have played probably worse i for some reason played a Canadian native on victoria island i think and just settled and vibed up there
I have EU4, I just can't play it yet cos therez a steep learning curve. But siberia is one of the few places I will play cos I love the koryaks (kamatchkan siberians)
As the beard grows, so too must chavcheveny
If Burgundy forms the Netherlands while France still exists, all of their French region cores are automatically given to France. Judging by the size of that Netherlands, I'd assume Burgundy was pretty successful, and only lost territory because of that mechanic in the decision.
Hot, sweaty, Laith. New favorite.
Part 2 please!!
That was actually the First Nation I ever played lol
I wish there's a mechanic that lets you migrant to alaska as these nations
You should've made sure Russia would keep a connection to the east so they would keep using Siberian frontier so you can take those provinces after
You obviously need to annex your starting province and make into your capital again
Nice fun video, i want more
ya gotta finish this wacky run
Laith is a Certified Diddy Disciple
Imagine you are a bank employee and a Siberian tribesman in stinking animal furs walks in and asks for 40 loans.
I fucking swear I literally just did this playthrough yesterday lmao
Bruh, one of the is literally called KamCHADals, missed opportunity to be a chad horde