benefits of being a republic. no regency councils can stop a world conquest. no pretender rebels. sometimes your monarch just sucks low or unbalanced monarch points. the merchant republic sucks, government however the most op government type is definitely the revolutionary republic.
Dude, you are a legend. I always wanted some fun strats with unexpected countries and you are the perfect guy for that. Try explaining the ternate strategy. I couldnt figure it out on reddit,
Ilanapo ternate is one of the easieste countries as you can always face just one equally strong enemy and not care about AE. the one Trick that is pretty good early is establishing a temporary colony once your spy network is high enough, since you can claim off of those then just abandon.
Culture swap to Sulawesi, too. For two reasons, one all of the cultures you'll be conquering are in that group, so you'll have an easier time converting and, eventually, they can become accepted once you become an empire. Two, it allows you to form Malaya for the achievement.
In my Milan game (no cossacks dlc) I got an alliance with France and they immediately went to war against Aragon and called me and Castile in. I basically did nothing and then when they got to like 90% war score I separate peaced out for transferring Naples to me. I had just taken the age bonus to do so. Best thing is the AE wasn't even enough to form a coalition against me and now I had almost all of southern Italy early in the game. Mopping up the rest of Italy was quite easy. Edit: It was around 1470-1480
This is great. So, I'm convinced, real excited to play, fire up a game and everything goes smoothly. I get myself access to the coast through Lucca, Albania of all countries makes Venice return Brescia to me out of the blue, France, Austria and Castile are all allied to me. Something... something seems a bit off though. That cool ambrosian republic you mentioned? Turns out I need either low legitimacy or no heir to get it. The Duke turns 60 and has a kid, which I then disinherit as soon as it gets old enough. He turns 70 and has another kid, which, again, I disinherit. What does he do when he gets to 80? You guessed it. Of course, now he finally decides to die, leaving me with a twelve year regency, since naturally his Queen Consort died just a year before. When the kid is grown at last, he immediately fucking dies in battle. I thought, cool, sweet Ambrosian nectar here I come - no heir, no duchy. Nah, but France wouldn't like that. Personal union that bitch. By the time I had fought myself out of that shitty union all by my lonesome since everybody and their mom loved France (the reason why I was able to secure an alliance with both Austria and Castile at the same time as France), it was 1520 already. I was about to declare the war with England and Poland on my side to fuck them up, when France decides it's best to leave me the fuck alone and breaks the union, leaving me with the worst ruler I've ever come across. He's completely legitimate in the eyes of the public of course, so, after living through another 30 years with that guy, making him a general, sending him into battle after battle after battle, it was 1550 and the event for Ambrosia... well, that shit won't fire after 1550. So, that's my story of playing Milan. Thanks a lot. Just kidding though, I had a lot of fun actually. Love your videos.
Erm wait, I had an heir at the age 15 when my ruler died, he was a 5 5 4. At that point my heir became the ruler but I could also relect him every 4 years. So I had a young guy at the age of 23 with a 6 6 6, that was pretty awesome. Your heir becomes a democrat when your ruler dies if this wasn't a glitch lol.
Just finished a Milan game I started because of this video. For the first half of the game it seemed like I could never catch up, but man, once you get do finally get enough tradition to get that 6/6/6, it all just falls into place. Quality strat.
The content that you make is A++++++. Thank you so much for making in depth videos on all of this. It just makes the game so much more interesting to know every oddity that you can take advantage of. Keep it up!!!
Honestly, I could never minmax a game this hard, but it always makes me happy to see someone take an underused or underrated feature of any game and play it really well!
Have to say, I really like how you're giving Milan the spotlight it deserves. I started a campaign as them about a month or so before you made this video and it was by far my most enjoyable one
Thanks so much Reman, I have ~760 hours in EU4 and had never even tried republics. But after seeing this video I gave Milan a go, and my God it was a lot of fun. The Ironman journey from Milan->Italy->Roman Empire was quite honestly the most fun I have ever had in an EU4 campaign since my First Ever campaign(way back when it was still Base Tax not Development) as Brunei into Malaya(if you're wondering why I chose Brunei for my first time it was because I'm an idiot, they were on an Island and I wanted to see how mechanics worked, and Europe looked scary). Again, thanks for this Reman, you earned a sub.
Your videos are really nice and informative. I've been playing this game since it's been launched but listening to your explanations made me get a better grasp of trade,institutions, etc. Keep it up, your EU4 knowledge is unparalleled.
Conquer a coptic province and let the zealots convert provinces, eventually accept their demands by changing your national religion. So yeah, go Egypt or go home
dude, i just love you. You bring high quality Eu4 Videos every 2-3 Weeks or so. Always having a blast learning something new from you,keep up the good work!
With the new Innovativeness feature, your point costs get even cheaper. Plus, with your 6/6/6 ruler, staying ahead of the curve to get that sweet sweet green ooze is pretty easy.
I'm planning on making a series of tutorials on all things related to the military in EU4. I'll cover army comp in them. They're on my medium term to-do list.
Reman's Paradox yo dude why did you delete your ryukyu world conquest? I know that you are remaking the video but it got recommended to many eu4 players and gave you a large amount of subs in a smal amount of time. If you had just let it stay up you channel would be far bigger right now right?
everything you need to know, on how 2 build your army is on the mil page in game -frontline size and flanking range... early game 4 cav, than ~ +2 cav / mil tech that buffs flanking range, watch out for your nations ideas, eg kasan etc get higher flanking range know how much cav you can have without suffering dmg penalties, you deal more dmg with more cav obvs.. but its general tactic to only have as much cav as your flanking range is even tho you dont suffer the penalties with a few more cav - benefits of lesser cav / army : - less maitenance, less refreshing cost after battles, lower neccessary supply-limit of provinces ( especially in the early game!) ofc, for hordes this doesnt count ;-)
DeathColor96 did it have spoils? i'd love to see a 3 mountains by Reman playing fairly, nowadays it seems almost impossible without spoils like that used by florryworry. what's the point playing very hard if you cheat?
I would very much appreciate a video about Venice and it’s surprising power. I know you haven’t uploaded in awhile but a return to video making would be great.
Extremely interesting video =) If you ever feel like making other country guides I'd love that! Your video on institutions is also very instructive. You are gifted at teaching others!
There is a bonus which you can activate completing espionage and one other idea group (I can't remember which one). This bonus gives you -25 mercenaries maintans and +25 available mercenaries. This bonus with administrative ideas and Milan's ideas gives you a huge armie of cheapest mercenaries in the game. And there is an event for republics which happens when you have less than 50 traditions, that event makes you lose 1 stability but gives you 20 traditions!!! So it is better to keep traditions more than 40 and less than 50, because an event which returns you to monarchy happens when you have less than 40 traditions.
i really hate doing this, but i need people to play EU4 with, mainly because i cant for the life of me figure out how to beat the steppe factions (kazan) as muscovy. great video btw, this channel needs more subs
I have 3 problems with your advice for staying in the HRE ( 9:40 ) : 1. Why not helping the Emperor to reign the provinces in? You can add territory as a member. (Or does it not count? I've never bothered with the Shadow Kingdom Event) Especially with protestant Milan, you would get 0,5 prestige per month from holding Rome. 2. You can't become the Emperor as a republic. 3. How do you change the culture to a non Italian? I mean from a strategic point of view. Which provinces would you recommend conquering?
gotta agree milan is great I had this one game when I went with a monarchy in milan got my dinasty on the throne of france and hungaria. then I claimed the throne of hungaria and solo'd them and then I turned around to claim frances throne. I went on the form the HRE and eventualy conquer the world.
My friend and I were playing eu4 the other day. He was in C.A and I was Milan. I formed Italy by 1600, and my friend was really confused when he saw Italy land in the New World almost a century before Italy is usually formed. I love this strat.
wow, thats an awesome country, I just finished campaign with it and I ended up with italy , balkans , egypt (some arabia) , bit of turkey, south france, east spain coast and whole india. thanks for recomending this country :)
So I did this campaign a few patches ago. It turned out to be my most fun and chill campaign. O went ahead and formed Italy unifying my culture. After that I was doing a lot of role playing. Actively fighting for my allies, trade wars, using client states and marches to extend my power (North Africa, Greece and Aragon). Only taking a few provinces at a time. I built tall, all my provinces had min 25 dev and I developed my subjects too. I had a life long enemy of the Ottomans and eventually France who betrayed me. Funding revolutionaries, and fighting to free colonies (the one time I took espionage) I never took quantity so alone I didn't have the largest military but went all out for quality, trade and navy.
You make some top quality videos and guides, my good sir! Respect and greeting from the Netherlands. And BTW try to start as Milan and proc the Burgundian Succession and form Netherlands, its awesome.
Playing and Italy and starting as Milan was also for me my funnest playthrough. At the beginning you are tiny but strong and you can literally do everything later.
Excellence video dude, but one thing I picked up on is you saying that becoming Emperor will remove the modifier for staying in the HRE, whilst it is true, it won't apply to Milan as Republics cannot be Emperor.
In my calculations I also didn't include the points you should gain from not losing stability on ruler death. I expect they should approximately cancel out.
I was really excited about the strengthen government option for republics when I saw it, but mistakenly thought 3 per click was much more often than this.
I already tried 3 different Milan runs and I cant ally Austria. What do I do to avoid unlawful territory? My 3rd run, my ally Savoy went to war with Genoa and the Papacy. I got stackwiped. And the Swiss declared war on me. Then I quit that run
If you do Innovative + quality and pick the "modern firearms techniques" policy you get something like 40% Infantry combat ability. Doesn't sound like much but it let me stack wipe 30k stacks sometimes
Another factor to consider with Milan/Ambrosian Republic is the special event that can fire if you get below 50 RT (Guelfs versus Ghibellines). Not sure it's worth hanging around at low RT to milk this event though, now that you can reliably build up and maintain high RT by using Strengthen Government + military doges.
Because of this video, just started a Milan game and converted to Ambrossian Republic! Edgy, but exciting... Venice and Genoa allied against me... oh well, I guess taking Ferrara's 2 provinces in one war will do that to you.
Having a lot of neighbors puts you in a good position to take advantage of excommunicated rulers. That lets you force-vasalize people for half the usual AE. Proximity to the Papal states and the Catholic majors means that your neighbors will often wind up rivaled to the papal controller, so this is a more frequent occurrence than you might expect. Perfect for taking over neighboring princes of the HRE without coalition problems. In my Milan--> Italy--> Rome game, I got Florence and Savoy as vassals very early thanks to excommunication.
people dont give a fuck about milan... i had to conquer the whole naples from spain just to get any1 of significance to join a coa against me... and then again they never capitalized on it, coz i had france and ottoblob as my daddies and papal states as my most loyal ally(also had monferat as vasal to which i forcefed savoy and switzerland)...
Couple quick questions: How can I convert to Coptic as a European Christian power? (And, is Coptic really better than Protestant if I have no plans to expand into the Coptic Holy Sites?) Thanks!
*First Question* 1.Conquer toward any Coptic provinces--AQ and QQ by the ottomans, or down toward Ethiopia. 2. Set missionary maintenance to 0. Begin converting the new province(usually before coring to ensure separatists do not fire first). Tank stability if you have to to get missionary strength down. Let the rebels spawn (Coptic zealots). 3. Now, recall missionary and send to any province that has unrest. IIRC, the rebels will now spawn as Coptic zealots as well. Allow the rebels to convert country to coptic. At 50% of your country seized under rebel occupation, you will break and become Coptic. Tip: Do NOT seize these back, do NOT allow allies military access to your country, do NOT allow them(rebels) easy access to your capital. Rebels may*(Edit: I am pretty certain they WILL, but still, do not bet on this) avoid a significantly larger military stack for a nearby unoccupied province. Pro(ish) Tip: Go to war with a simple country you can sit on for a few years (a one province minor with no allies for example). This allows the rebels to control more than 50% of your country without >>automatically.
Personal I think Geno might be better for blobbing since while the don't have the best ideas and development compare to Milan, they have better expansion potential by their position and their missions so you are not just constantly waiting for AE to go down in one area and just expand elsewhere.
How about a game which is a guide to the Dutch? That would be really cool. Thanks for this video, I'm getting the itch to play Milan again and take over Europe!
Did you ever think to possibly do economic and plutocratic idea for the increased republican tradition? I think that's the ideas at least. And would that help some of the other republics that don't get some of the Milanese bonuses?
Prussian ideas don’t have reduced CCR French ideas don’t have reduced CCR Polish ideas don’t have reduced CCR But I do agree that any idea group is made strong by CCR
Every country might be OP. Starting position only makes it easier. The true thing, that can be OP, is player's mind. Would destoyed Austria still be OP or a mighty Sardinia-Piedmont going for an Italian Ambition, that started from little Savoy?
Awesome video man! But i have a question, every time i try to play as milan i find myself surrounded by nations with strong allies (for example france, austria etc) so i really dont have a lot of opportunites to expan. did you struggled with that problem too?
It's very common problem in Italy. But usually italian minors have some other allies, not so strong as France or Austria. Also you can use opportuniti of being great power - force to dissolve alliance.
Got into a coalition war as Milan in 1476 and had to take out 7 loans to wind up with a white peace. None expired. Insane amounts of income if you play it well.
Great video. You could also form Sardinia-Piedmont, if you want to play something that "never" appears in Ironman games. (Needs Lombard culture and Corsica and the Lombard region). Be warned, though the colour is somewhat blinding xD (You can later form Italy if you so choose). Also: Why do so many say morale is so crucial early game? To my (extensive) experience, it is quite the opposite... it's more important late game, while discipline is more important early game (again, in my experience)
Or you could just work for a couple hours and buy it now? How many 100s of hours of enjoyment are you going to get out of those 2 hrs of work? Seems like a great deal to me.
student too. isthereanydeal.com or something can give you a good pointer for some sweet bargains on the dlcs. its fucking paradox. shit's on sale almost all the time.
Reman, check out the central African nation of busoga, it's a tribal democracy and can reform into an oligarchic Republic. The special thing about them is that if you pick the fetishist cult that gives you +2 tolerance of true faith, you also get +. 5 yearly Republican tradition as long as you have the cult enabled which makes it super powerful.
He did and He paints a good albeit incomplete picture, for example the event cycle is packed with events other than the two described trading money and monarch points for RT, for example there is one on that same cycle so the same reliability to fire that is loose 1 stab of 10 RP tradition (ofcourse you choose stab) but that should be factored in too not just the best ones for RP gain if you are taking them into acount for monarch point generation cost. I do believe that republics still come out ahead, but by a more narrow margin than described. you should also take int account that early game your cost is higher since you can't be Protestand/coptic yet and that lategame you won't be able to hold 50 PP due to a lack of potential rivals. His video is great and very informative especially for newer players but it has some flaws.
They are relevant because they are on the same exclusive cycle as the RP traditions ones, just picking the best of those and factoring them in but not the others is where the error is.
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-my ear
Time to try Milan
This channel deserves more subs
Shh. I don't want my friends to find it so I can appear to be awesome at EU4 in our MP games.
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benefits of being a republic.
no regency councils can stop a world conquest.
no pretender rebels.
sometimes your monarch just sucks low or unbalanced monarch points.
the merchant republic sucks, government however the most op government type is definitely the revolutionary republic.
Alright
Seriously best eu4 content that currently exists.
Dude, you are a legend. I always wanted some fun strats with unexpected countries and you are the perfect guy for that. Try explaining the ternate strategy. I couldnt figure it out on reddit,
Ilanapo ternate is one of the easieste countries as you can always face just one equally strong enemy and not care about AE. the one Trick that is pretty good early is establishing a temporary colony once your spy network is high enough, since you can claim off of those then just abandon.
Kill Tidore no cb makassar...
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alright
Culture swap to Sulawesi, too. For two reasons, one all of the cultures you'll be conquering are in that group, so you'll have an easier time converting and, eventually, they can become accepted once you become an empire. Two, it allows you to form Malaya for the achievement.
So, you are basically a Spirit of the Law for EU4?
Long live AoE2!!
In my Milan game (no cossacks dlc) I got an alliance with France and they immediately went to war against Aragon and called me and Castile in. I basically did nothing and then when they got to like 90% war score I separate peaced out for transferring Naples to me. I had just taken the age bonus to do so. Best thing is the AE wasn't even enough to form a coalition against me and now I had almost all of southern Italy early in the game. Mopping up the rest of Italy was quite easy.
Edit: It was around 1470-1480
This is great.
So, I'm convinced, real excited to play, fire up a game and everything goes smoothly. I get myself access to the coast through Lucca, Albania of all countries makes Venice return Brescia to me out of the blue, France, Austria and Castile are all allied to me.
Something... something seems a bit off though. That cool ambrosian republic you mentioned? Turns out I need either low legitimacy or no heir to get it. The Duke turns 60 and has a kid, which I then disinherit as soon as it gets old enough. He turns 70 and has another kid, which, again, I disinherit. What does he do when he gets to 80? You guessed it. Of course, now he finally decides to die, leaving me with a twelve year regency, since naturally his Queen Consort died just a year before.
When the kid is grown at last, he immediately fucking dies in battle. I thought, cool, sweet Ambrosian nectar here I come - no heir, no duchy.
Nah, but France wouldn't like that. Personal union that bitch.
By the time I had fought myself out of that shitty union all by my lonesome since everybody and their mom loved France (the reason why I was able to secure an alliance with both Austria and Castile at the same time as France), it was 1520 already. I was about to declare the war with England and Poland on my side to fuck them up, when France decides it's best to leave me the fuck alone and breaks the union, leaving me with the worst ruler I've ever come across. He's completely legitimate in the eyes of the public of course, so, after living through another 30 years with that guy, making him a general, sending him into battle after battle after battle, it was 1550 and the event for Ambrosia... well, that shit won't fire after 1550.
So, that's my story of playing Milan. Thanks a lot. Just kidding though, I had a lot of fun actually. Love your videos.
For the glory of Mil---CRAP NO THE UNION!
Erm wait, I had an heir at the age 15 when my ruler died, he was a 5 5 4. At that point my heir became the ruler but I could also relect him every 4 years. So I had a young guy at the age of 23 with a 6 6 6, that was pretty awesome. Your heir becomes a democrat when your ruler dies if this wasn't a glitch lol.
I think the reason your heir became the leader was because he was of age, unlike Jan's.
Jan Massey Holy Hell! I NEVER got that!
Jan Massey It's 1490 in my game and I too don't have the ambrosial republic. Also France PUed Castile so Ima try and get a PU on France
Just finished a Milan game I started because of this video. For the first half of the game it seemed like I could never catch up, but man, once you get do finally get enough tradition to get that 6/6/6, it all just falls into place. Quality strat.
I really think your channel is THE best EU4 channel, i just want you to know that.
But ... DDRJake! ^^
Fuck you have the same picture in here that I got on Steam
The content that you make is A++++++. Thank you so much for making in depth videos on all of this. It just makes the game so much more interesting to know every oddity that you can take advantage of. Keep it up!!!
Honestly, I could never minmax a game this hard, but it always makes me happy to see someone take an underused or underrated feature of any game and play it really well!
Have to say, I really like how you're giving Milan the spotlight it deserves. I started a campaign as them about a month or so before you made this video and it was by far my most enjoyable one
Thanks so much Reman, I have ~760 hours in EU4 and had never even tried republics. But after seeing this video I gave Milan a go, and my God it was a lot of fun. The Ironman journey from Milan->Italy->Roman Empire was quite honestly the most fun I have ever had in an EU4 campaign since my First Ever campaign(way back when it was still Base Tax not Development) as Brunei into Malaya(if you're wondering why I chose Brunei for my first time it was because I'm an idiot, they were on an Island and I wanted to see how mechanics worked, and Europe looked scary). Again, thanks for this Reman, you earned a sub.
"Europe looked scary"
Looked?
Look at this map and tell me it doesn't strike fear into your heart. www.hoeckmann.de/germany/index.htm
Your videos are really nice and informative. I've been playing this game since it's been launched but listening to your explanations made me get a better grasp of trade,institutions, etc. Keep it up, your EU4 knowledge is unparalleled.
I subbed after watching 30 seconds of a video. Watched the rest of it, great vid.
How would one go about converting to Coptic as Milan?
Drilling down through the Mamluks seems like a fairly unwieldy way to go about it.
Just drill through the Turks seems simple enough.
Conquer a coptic province and let the zealots convert provinces, eventually accept their demands by changing your national religion.
So yeah, go Egypt or go home
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@@alexeyamosov664 mine is a world conquest as the jewish golden horde xd guess why :)
Milan is the best Italian city-state and can easily form Italy by 1550
Ryan Rusch i easily formed Italy as Florence in 1540 So it’s not the best
I think it's Venice.
Its the easiest but naples is F U N.
F uck aragon
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N fuck everyone who allies some 2 province minors who never get vassalized
@@sanskaarkulkarni1036 Venice has to wait for Shadow Kingdom to fire, and then has to pray that Genoa or Milan or Florence don’t stay
@@shardtheduraludon but da trade tho... you can get sooo rich as venice
dude, i just love you. You bring high quality Eu4 Videos every 2-3 Weeks or so. Always having a blast learning something new from you,keep up the good work!
This is pretty neat. I like your video style as well, as it is well-paced and provides plenty of interesting information.
I've seen a lot of eu4 videos on yt so far, mostly tutorials.. but yours are by far the best
With the new Innovativeness feature, your point costs get even cheaper. Plus, with your 6/6/6 ruler, staying ahead of the curve to get that sweet sweet green ooze is pretty easy.
Milan is my go-to these days and has been for a while, so seeing this video in my suggestions was pretty cool.
Reman, you are the best! You always shows the blind spot! you really deserve more subs.
My milan playthrough was one of the most fun i've had with EU4... that was quite some patches ago though.
Will you do a video about an army composition ? (At least in the near future)
P.S.
Your videos are great !
I'm planning on making a series of tutorials on all things related to the military in EU4. I'll cover army comp in them. They're on my medium term to-do list.
Thanks for the reply !
Reman's Paradox yo dude why did you delete your ryukyu world conquest? I know that you are remaking the video but it got recommended to many eu4 players and gave you a large amount of subs in a smal amount of time. If you had just let it stay up you channel would be far bigger right now right?
everything you need to know, on how 2 build your army is on the mil page in game
-frontline size and flanking range...
early game 4 cav, than ~ +2 cav / mil tech that buffs flanking range, watch out for your nations ideas, eg kasan etc get higher flanking range
know how much cav you can have without suffering dmg penalties, you deal more dmg with more cav obvs.. but its general tactic to only have as much cav as your flanking range is even tho you dont suffer the penalties with a few more cav - benefits of lesser cav / army : - less maitenance, less refreshing cost after battles, lower neccessary supply-limit of provinces ( especially in the early game!)
ofc, for hordes this doesnt count ;-)
DeathColor96 did it have spoils? i'd love to see a 3 mountains by Reman playing fairly, nowadays it seems almost impossible without spoils like that used by florryworry. what's the point playing very hard if you cheat?
Man I love your videos. They are very informative, and great subject matter. I can't wait for more.
I would very much appreciate a video about Venice and it’s surprising power. I know you haven’t uploaded in awhile but a return to video making would be great.
Thank you for making me so much better than my friends at this game.
how come that i never knew about ur channel? ur my fav youtuber from now on
Extremely interesting video =)
If you ever feel like making other country guides I'd love that!
Your video on institutions is also very instructive. You are gifted at teaching others!
There is a bonus which you can activate completing espionage and one other idea group (I can't remember which one). This bonus gives you -25 mercenaries maintans and +25 available mercenaries. This bonus with administrative ideas and Milan's ideas gives you a huge armie of cheapest mercenaries in the game. And there is an event for republics which happens when you have less than 50 traditions, that event makes you lose 1 stability but gives you 20 traditions!!! So it is better to keep traditions more than 40 and less than 50, because an event which returns you to monarchy happens when you have less than 40 traditions.
This has inspired me to start a new Milan play-through today! I would love more nation spotlight videos in the future.
Wow dude, this is such a great video. Very good work !
First time watcher of your videos. Must say that I love your voice. Its very soothing
i really hate doing this, but i need people to play EU4 with, mainly because i cant for the life of me figure out how to beat the steppe factions (kazan) as muscovy.
great video btw, this channel needs more subs
Fantastic stuff as always. Well researched and clearly explained.
I like your spotlights. I was super excited to turn on a spotlight playlist and just watch it through. Alas, there are only 2 :P
i love these nation spotlight videos they're really good.
I have 3 problems with your advice for staying in the HRE ( 9:40 ) :
1. Why not helping the Emperor to reign the provinces in? You can add territory as a member. (Or does it not count? I've never bothered with the Shadow Kingdom Event) Especially with protestant Milan, you would get 0,5 prestige per month from holding Rome.
2. You can't become the Emperor as a republic.
3. How do you change the culture to a non Italian? I mean from a strategic point of view. Which provinces would you recommend conquering?
You deserve so much attention in the paradox community for your videos.
Please, keep making these kind of videos. Great channel :)
As a milanese I think we shoulded re-elect our last mayor but well...good video Reman!
Playing as Milan to Italy to Rome was probably one of my best campaigns in terms of fun.
Milan got the Burgundian inheritance in my game
What? Lmao
Make more nation spotlight videos! They are insanely informative and helpful to new players like myself.
Oh god, this strat becomes even crazier with the inclusion of absolutism. Boat loads of mana and massive admin efficiency is crazy.
gotta agree milan is great I had this one game when I went with a monarchy in milan got my dinasty on the throne of france and hungaria. then I claimed the throne of hungaria and solo'd them and then I turned around to claim frances throne. I went on the form the HRE and eventualy conquer the world.
My friend and I were playing eu4 the other day. He was in C.A and I was Milan. I formed Italy by 1600, and my friend was really confused when he saw Italy land in the New World almost a century before Italy is usually formed. I love this strat.
You make really good videos! Keep it up!
wow, thats an awesome country, I just finished campaign with it and I ended up with italy , balkans , egypt (some arabia) , bit of turkey, south france, east spain coast and whole india. thanks for recomending this country :)
So I did this campaign a few patches ago. It turned out to be my most fun and chill campaign. O went ahead and formed Italy unifying my culture. After that I was doing a lot of role playing. Actively fighting for my allies, trade wars, using client states and marches to extend my power (North Africa, Greece and Aragon). Only taking a few provinces at a time. I built tall, all my provinces had min 25 dev and I developed my subjects too. I had a life long enemy of the Ottomans and eventually France who betrayed me. Funding revolutionaries, and fighting to free colonies (the one time I took espionage) I never took quantity so alone I didn't have the largest military but went all out for quality, trade and navy.
You make some top quality videos and guides, my good sir! Respect and greeting from the Netherlands. And BTW try to start as Milan and proc the Burgundian Succession and form Netherlands, its awesome.
I really enjoy this channel
You should mention "Guelph-Ghibelline Feud in Milano" event. It is really good.
Great guide neverthless. Milan is my favourite nation to play.
Well done! Most informative!
Playing and Italy and starting as Milan was also for me my funnest playthrough. At the beginning you are tiny but strong and you can literally do everything later.
Would be interesting a version of this video with Dharma government mechanics.
Yay, a new Reman video! Awesome!
Excellence video dude, but one thing I picked up on is you saying that becoming Emperor will remove the modifier for staying in the HRE, whilst it is true, it won't apply to Milan as Republics cannot be Emperor.
You slightly bias the point generation by not including the negative effects of events that give you RT. The trial is -120 for example.
The trail one is worth it you get more for it then you pay thats not bias i count that into he strenghten goverment button
In my calculations I also didn't include the points you should gain from not losing stability on ruler death. I expect they should approximately cancel out.
There's an event that trades 20RT for -1stab or 1stab for -20RT too when your tradition gets low.
keep your tradition above 70 or the game will screw you over.
I was really excited about the strengthen government option for republics when I saw it, but mistakenly thought 3 per click was much more often than this.
I already tried 3 different Milan runs and I cant ally Austria. What do I do to avoid unlawful territory?
My 3rd run, my ally Savoy went to war with Genoa and the Papacy. I got stackwiped. And the Swiss declared war on me. Then I quit that run
If you do Innovative + quality and pick the "modern firearms techniques" policy you get something like 40% Infantry combat ability. Doesn't sound like much but it let me stack wipe 30k stacks sometimes
seperb quality like always!
Another factor to consider with Milan/Ambrosian Republic is the special event that can fire if you get below 50 RT (Guelfs versus Ghibellines). Not sure it's worth hanging around at low RT to milk this event though, now that you can reliably build up and maintain high RT by using Strengthen Government + military doges.
I love these videos!
playing in italy is realy fun, my favorite playthrough was with montferrat, reforming the roman empire.
I hope you kept the Palailogos dynasty;)
Why would you ever go Milan when you can go with the fresh prince of Sardinia-Piedmont?
Because of this video, just started a Milan game and converted to Ambrossian Republic! Edgy, but exciting... Venice and Genoa allied against me... oh well, I guess taking Ferrara's 2 provinces in one war will do that to you.
I could picture Reman running like a coaching business for EU4. $20 a session I'll make you great XD.
Currently happening in FIFA. Will it happen in EU4?
how do you conquer northern Italy so fast without getting murdered by a coalition??
vassals?
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Having a lot of neighbors puts you in a good position to take advantage of excommunicated rulers. That lets you force-vasalize people for half the usual AE. Proximity to the Papal states and the Catholic majors means that your neighbors will often wind up rivaled to the papal controller, so this is a more frequent occurrence than you might expect. Perfect for taking over neighboring princes of the HRE without coalition problems. In my Milan--> Italy--> Rome game, I got Florence and Savoy as vassals very early thanks to excommunication.
people dont give a fuck about milan... i had to conquer the whole naples from spain just to get any1 of significance to join a coa against me... and then again they never capitalized on it, coz i had france and ottoblob as my daddies and papal states as my most loyal ally(also had monferat as vasal to which i forcefed savoy and switzerland)...
I think Milan can conquer some non-HRE provinces easily. I had more trouble with coalitions as France than with Milan tbh
Start by focusing on not getting murdered and generalize the concept to all circumstances.
do a video about elective monarchy and Poland/Commonwealth
Good strategy for Milan. Think I might try it out.
Another great video.
the bird protects the snake while the snake eats the humie
Couple quick questions: How can I convert to Coptic as a European Christian power? (And, is Coptic really better than Protestant if I have no plans to expand into the Coptic Holy Sites?) Thanks!
*First Question*
1.Conquer toward any Coptic provinces--AQ and QQ by the ottomans, or down toward Ethiopia.
2. Set missionary maintenance to 0. Begin converting the new province(usually before coring to ensure separatists do not fire first). Tank stability if you have to to get missionary strength down. Let the rebels spawn (Coptic zealots).
3. Now, recall missionary and send to any province that has unrest. IIRC, the rebels will now spawn as Coptic zealots as well. Allow the rebels to convert country to coptic. At 50% of your country seized under rebel occupation, you will break and become Coptic.
Tip: Do NOT seize these back, do NOT allow allies military access to your country, do NOT allow them(rebels) easy access to your capital. Rebels may*(Edit: I am pretty certain they WILL, but still, do not bet on this) avoid a significantly larger military stack for a nearby unoccupied province.
Pro(ish) Tip: Go to war with a simple country you can sit on for a few years (a one province minor with no allies for example). This allows the rebels to control more than 50% of your country without >>automatically.
Currently in a Milan game with Meiou&Taxes : issue with Ambrosian rep is that you are stuck at Duchy governement rank level the whole game...
Milanese ideas or Italian Ideas? The tech & idea cost reduction along with development cost reduction is very nice as Milan.
Italian ideas to blob, Milanese ideas to play tall
Milan is one of my favorite nations in the game. Playing as them now. The plan is to head towards Egypt, then India.
Hey, great video. I would love to see you play Caddo or Milan.
great work!
Personal I think Geno might be better for blobbing since while the don't have the best ideas and development compare to Milan, they have better expansion potential by their position and their missions so you are not just constantly waiting for AE to go down in one area and just expand elsewhere.
How about a game which is a guide to the Dutch? That would be really cool. Thanks for this video, I'm getting the itch to play Milan again and take over Europe!
Did you ever think to possibly do economic and plutocratic idea for the increased republican tradition? I think that's the ideas at least.
And would that help some of the other republics that don't get some of the Milanese bonuses?
No idea group can be called unusually strong without any form of core reduction, sadly.
_influence ideas_
TheRealXartaX just form Italy. Presto huge core reduction
wilkic2
Italy has quite strong ideas. Not like... the absolute best, but definitely top tier. That's not the Milanese ideas anymore, though.
Prussian ideas don’t have reduced CCR
French ideas don’t have reduced CCR
Polish ideas don’t have reduced CCR
But I do agree that any idea group is made strong by CCR
Every country might be OP. Starting position only makes it easier. The true thing, that can be OP, is player's mind. Would destoyed Austria still be OP or a mighty Sardinia-Piedmont going for an Italian Ambition, that started from little Savoy?
Awesome video man! But i have a question, every time i try to play as milan i find myself surrounded by nations with strong allies (for example france, austria etc) so i really dont have a lot of opportunites to expan. did you struggled with that problem too?
It's very common problem in Italy. But usually italian minors have some other allies, not so strong as France or Austria. Also you can use opportuniti of being great power - force to dissolve alliance.
Timur Grachev thank you man, I've always struggled to play in Italy, and i never formed it, but i will try again
Got into a coalition war as Milan in 1476 and had to take out 7 loans to wind up with a white peace. None expired. Insane amounts of income if you play it well.
You forget you could get an extra general and not have to worry about succession.
Next video you should show off Revolution republics
Great video. You could also form Sardinia-Piedmont, if you want to play something that "never" appears in Ironman games. (Needs Lombard culture and Corsica and the Lombard region). Be warned, though the colour is somewhat blinding xD (You can later form Italy if you so choose).
Also: Why do so many say morale is so crucial early game? To my (extensive) experience, it is quite the opposite... it's more important late game, while discipline is more important early game (again, in my experience)
best is evechy. You usually get good rulers, no stability hit, no regency and no risk of PU
Milan is super good. First time I reformed the Roman Empire was with them.
Could you do the same as venice? Austria always love them and venice is hostile
Your voice is sweeter than DDRJake's
Unfortunately, this only works with RoM. Makes me sad, really.
The Existence We'll just have to wait until the price of RoM drops in a sale or something, I guess.
Or just pirate it.
Or you could just work for a couple hours and buy it now? How many 100s of hours of enjoyment are you going to get out of those 2 hrs of work? Seems like a great deal to me.
as a student you don't swim in money mate
student too. isthereanydeal.com or something can give you a good pointer for some sweet bargains on the dlcs. its fucking paradox. shit's on sale almost all the time.
Reman, check out the central African nation of busoga, it's a tribal democracy and can reform into an oligarchic Republic. The special thing about them is that if you pick the fetishist cult that gives you +2 tolerance of true faith, you also get +. 5 yearly Republican tradition as long as you have the cult enabled which makes it super powerful.
stonewalljackson211 You lost me at African.
1 monarch point but you also have to send a Lot of those as strenghten govt points. None the less really good.
NoOnes BCE oh, cmom he even made the math!
He did and He paints a good albeit incomplete picture, for example the event cycle is packed with events other than the two described trading money and monarch points for RT, for example there is one on that same cycle so the same reliability to fire that is loose 1 stab of 10 RP tradition (ofcourse you choose stab) but that should be factored in too not just the best ones for RP gain if you are taking them into acount for monarch point generation cost. I do believe that republics still come out ahead, but by a more narrow margin than described. you should also take int account that early game your cost is higher since you can't be Protestand/coptic yet and that lategame you won't be able to hold 50 PP due to a lack of potential rivals.
His video is great and very informative especially for newer players but it has some flaws.
Every country has -Stab events, that isn't special to republics and thus not important to comparing relative strength.
They are relevant because they are on the same exclusive cycle as the RP traditions ones, just picking the best of those and factoring them in but not the others is where the error is.
Great video. Moar.
finally another video!