My favourite opening at the moment as Brandenburg is a super easy grab of Silesia as a vassal. It really helps early on, and when you Annex them it's an easy 40 or so development, and up until you diplo annex them, I've found they tend to have a standing army around 6k or so, even when vassalised. Which is practically a 50% increase on your own army in the early game if you set them to supportive. >Game start >Take "Conquer Silesia" Mission. (You always start the game with it) >RM Poland. >Mil Access Poland, split army in two and move one to the border of Ratibor (Silesian Capital) and the other to any other province adjacent to Silesia. >When Jagiellon happens Poland will almost always set a friendly relation to you, ally. >Declare war on Silesia, offering Poland land. >The Poles and Lithuanians will just obliterate Bohemia with absolutely no issue whatsoever, and Bohemia basically never allies anyone in the first few years. >100% warscore, take War Reps, transfer vassal Silesia, and take Niederlausitz from Bohemia >51 AE at most, and no one to actually join a coalition against you. >You don't need to give Poland land, they literally just don't care, because you have vassalised all of the land they would have wanted. >From, here, Vassalise Mecklenburg. Once you have Diplo annexed Silesia, Vassalise Pomerania. Remember that even though the allies of both of those guys will tend to outnumber you army-wise, you can usually stackwipe Pomerania/Mecklenburgs armies before their little OPM allies can help, and even then, often they cant get mil access from their (usually rival) neighbours. I usually have Pomerania, Mecklenburg and Silesia dip annexed by around 1480 or so. Saxony or Brunswick usually follows.
Now branderburg more hard to play, in about 90% of games danzing formed on teutonic order, guaranteed by poland, at 1450, that ruins fast and good start.
I really like my strategy of PU'ing Ansbach before your first ruler dies, and using their claims to core land in Southern Germany, and then you can just break the PU when you get that event. But I never see anyone do anything similar, most just prefer not taking the PU, but I think it's extremely useful as it can help you split your AE as you expand in the empire and into the PLC/Baltics.
You can PU Bohemia really early game as Brandenburg, you rival a opm next to u then 12th december u go to war for humiliate, for extra prestige. Then u got more prestige than bohemia then you PU them
Yeah this is true. you can even bring in Poland if Poland rivaled Bohemia by promising land. Which of course you will not give him. Brandenburg has a lot going on. Many options.
I've tried your start of Humiliating Rival CB. Worked perfectly, the only problem is that Poland gets in the way in my expansion into the Teutonic. In the second war, in 3 games, Poland full anexes Teutonic Order. Thats why my strategy with Brandenburg at the start is always race for Teutonic land, and doing that i can't do the HR CB in the first years.
I tried it and it works. I have one question though: how do you deal with Lubeck? I've tried over and over to play this out similarly to you but they just always have 5-6 trade members in, even with Denmark in the war the trade league swarm just destroyed me and denmark(+sweden and norway) combined.
They had about 5-6 members for me also. It is pretty simple. i just go when i have a good general or tech advantage ect. Making sure to use discipline advisor. When u declare the war just walk into Hamburg,Bremen ect and focus on stack wipes. Then leave 1 unit to prevent recruitment if it is safe. I find if you do 2-3 stack wipes and siege 2 provinces. Then usually a strong ally like Denmark will deal with the rest or at least stall until you are free. They often will have an advantage of numbers. But a huge disadvantage of not being consolidated. Sometimes i win wars where i am outnumber 2-1 or more by using this method.
That's great advice, I'll try to do another run right now! But another thing that I'm really uncertain about: how do I deal with the renaissance institute? Do I develop widely to get provinces to 10/20 dev, bulk develop one province to get it, or just tech up and not worry about the penalty?
Watch my video on humiliate rivals if you have not. This gives you a lot of points. i spend these points bringing some of the very low development provinces up to around 10 prioritizing provinces with nice resource's. The way i look at it is i am happy to tech up once for between 0-10% extra cost anything more, i instead develop pretty heavily in for example Berlin, With the capitol reduction cost. Also grass or farmlands i might consider aswell. If u can develop up to 20 it moves the Renaissance along fairly well, and also increase the gain each month considerably. at that point i just horde/develop until i accept (you will most likely fall behind neighbors in tech but can catch up)
I have watched it, and thank you yet again! I knew it gives lots of points, but I didn't know how I should have used them, hopefully I'll have a good run now.
Berlin is always worth a visit if you are interested in history. So many stories to be told by the city and it's buildings Potsdam a few km away with Sanssouci and the legacy of Friedrich the great. The cathedral with the crypt of the Hohenzollern dynasty. The history of the split city and the peaceful reunion. Lots of museums aswell I guess most of the history is more interesting for a German but if you ever do a trip through Europe Berlin has to be on your list of places to visit ;)
No doubt brother. Trust me i have always wanted to travel through Europe, I always had other priorities coming from a poor family. But who knows i might find some kind of prosperity going into the future.
@@FluppiLP - Sanssouci is in dire need or some restoration now (at least the grave of Fredrick has some fresh potatoes regularly) - Berlin and its buildings are being raped by "modern architecture" (just look at the Bundeskanzleramt ... children's brick architecture) - the world has West-Berlin (and the STASI) to thank for Antifa, so I wouldnt say about "peaceful reunion" ... because it has led to lots of strife (including the current "problems" in Ukraine for example, because USA, GB, France and West-Germany PROMISED Russia that NATO wouldnt expand east after reunification ... and look what happened afterwards)
The reconquest thing. I can't even tell you how often I look at someone I want to fight searching for a releasable nation with lots of cores. In the early game, I'll take one or two provinces of the releasable nation as part of my peace deal, release, then use the reconquest to fight a future war with basically no AE (also avoids overextension, rebels, and admin points, which is especially helpful so I can keep conquering when working on an admin idea group). In the late game when I'm no longer worried about coalitions, I'll take peace deals that would give me 250% overextension without any of the nasty events because a big chunk of the land is cores of a nation which I immediately release and feed until I'm under 100% overextension. I have a habit of doing this to Russia, the Ottomans, the Ming, or anyone else that really blobs, releasing, for example, Novgorod, the Mamluks, Iraq, or any of the little releasable nations that start out as part of the Ming.
a interesting nation to play is Silesia, if you get trade, economic and quality ideas, you'll be able to increase your trade efficiency by 50 percent through policies you unlock and with the rich Silesian and bohemian provinces, plus manufactories, you'll be swimming in ducats for decades.
I once did a different tactic, if you dont buy nuemark and instead ally poland to attack teutonics, you can vassalize livonion order as early game you can do that with separate peace it will cost u exactly 100 warscore. After that I took 3 provinces from teutonics. Because of livonian lands I was able to expand into muscovy towards crimea and was all set to war with ottomans in late 1500s. However after watching ur video i m inclined to play brandenburg but instead of all out expanding early outside empire will try inside empire and form germany asap -> early 1600s when you get leve 20 admin. I ususally quit 1700 as game becomes boring and rather a chore to expand at the expense of weaker enemies. So these days I only focus on heavy interesting early and mid game without keeping any long term late game goals. So forming germany asap can be a good motivation to play brandenburg again.
Imo playing as an OPM is actually great in because in the end you can see just how massively you've expanded and it'll fee like more of an accomplishment, but maybe that's just me. I recently started an Anschbach game (because it has custom ideas) and it's been great so far.
budgetmonk, could you do a video maybe on how to address getting a personal union over a country many times larger than your own. I was playing as a released nation (Galicia out of Lithuania) and fell into a personal union with Muscovy, and am wondering... do I just abandon the union? They are at like 250% liberty desire.
lord6617 So you wanna develop their provinces as much as you can, lowers their liberty desire tremendously, of course improve relations to max, take reduced lib desire ideas if it's that bad, and try to stay at war as much as you can, but let Muscovy do 99% of the fighting, it will make them weaker by forcing high war exhaustion and debt on them, eventually through all those wars you'll be around the same size as them, so at that point lib desire won't be a problem and you can feed them a bit if you like
For 1500 the amount of provinces you have is a lot. Influence aggresive expansion reduction and brandenburg ideas should have helped a lot because that amount of territory is enough for a massive coalition against you.
Hey Budget! I am a longtime watcher, I love the videos! I had a question / request for you if you had time! I absolutely love the idea of playing as a de-centralized realm, with vassals and marches to fight wars for you, somewhat as a Victorian Era Britain, calling in soldiers from other areas. The Request It would be amazing if you played a game where you are only minimally allowed to use your own armies as a self defense force, you can only primarily fight with vassal soldiers. The Question Is it practical to have a vassal focused country? Or is the A.I in Eu4 to dumb to allow this? What nation do you think is best to do this idea with? Thanks a bunch Monk, I typed this all rather fast and I hope it all makes sense, love the videos! Cheers
Alot to this question. It obviously depends on what you want to achieve. GB is a good nation to do this with in the new world. Taking a loss against france IE not using solders. Declare on new world targets once your CN's are strong enough to fight for you. However playing this style in general suffers serious limitations. Not including how dumb the AI can be. I think other options could be Denmark for example or any nation that has strong ish subjects. You can not do very much if you do not use your own troops. Even Victorian Era Britain had a history of sending its own troops to conquer.
I usually try to annex as few as possible provinces that i get permanent claims later on (from forming germany, prussia). Influence is nice, but I personally dont like it that much, since it doesnt add anything to the actual lategame. You invest dip points into reducing your dip points investment, kinda turns me off. But i think its just my personal preference. I like to go economic ideas with prussia once you took polish farmlands, since spawning institutions there will be great and mainly spread myself thin through eastern, nothern and western europe, so i can jump onto everything once i stack that admin eff. I usually let them keep a few provinces so they will develop their capital for me until i turn on them again. Also: I like to go for bohemia as soon as possible, since they get their stupid core creation after a while which u wont get rly rid off until adm effc.
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Hey monk cool vid and please do more like these but questions is it smart to claim bohemian throne in early game by allying Poland then don't give land
You should do a detailed video on how to obtain wc. I have around 1200 hours and I’m still kinda struggling with it as the ottomans. Either because its too tedious or because I feel I’m just not going fast enough
I was thinking about a short series each composed of 'updates' where i give a run down of what has happened over the last 50 years or so. But these daily episode series drag on for months haha
but its not difficult? just play the game and record it, cut it in 1h pieces and uploaded with a publish date. so you can play how often you want and how long you want, because you just upload it when you finished the whole run. i just really like watching you play this game. you dont have to talk that much, but you can if you want ;) PS: just my opinion you can do what you want =D
Kiame it's nice to play games on your own without having to commentate every 20 seconds is probably why he doesn't wanna do that I agree with budget that would get annoying
It is worth asking. My upload speed sucks, atm i am uploading almost 100% of the time because of daily uploads. This is something i am going to fix next year by moving. Then i will take this 'job' real serious.
1 simple trick is you DoW on an ally of the one whom provinces you gonna take. Conquer and core them before peacing out with the war leader w/o taking any province from the war leader. Then HRE cannot demand the provinces that you have cored during war. Works perfectly with alliance of OPM's.
Taking provinces from people who aren't co-belligerents gives you increased aggressive expansion. That price is worth paying for provinces like Hamburg or Bremen that simply can't be taken any other way without fighting the emperor, but otherwise vassalize people (for less AE) or chain wars (can't demand land while you are at war, even if the land comes from another war) to expand with regular AE and no territory demands.
Guess your fed up with Brandenburg now but another strategy is to eat Bohemia early with the help of Poland to avoid that nasty core creation cost. They also has a non german culture group so ae is not a big problem. After that the world is your oyster
that's weird how you got Bohemia to not rival you first, they always rival me, I generally end up leaving the Teutonic order for Poland (though I annex danzig if I can) and go after the HRE, use my diplomats to make a weak sate (Palatinate or some other small distant state) the emperor and then Vasalize a few neighbors who I then feed, by the time I reach tech 10 I have taken Silesia and Austria has Hungary in a PU so I ally Muscovy/Russia and go to war with Poland-Lithuania, take the Prussian areas then convert to Prussia. The key I have found is to 1, make the Emperor a weak state minimize problems and allows Austria to help with HRE states like Bohemia, 2 ,don't try to get the Prussian Lands before at least tech 8, since it is impossible to form Prussia by that point anyway, and 3 to get Lubeck and Saxony (Holy shit the income from those two is insane), oh and make sure YOU don't become the HRE (cause that sucks)
It isn't *that* hard to get the provinces to form Prussia before Poland does. Those provinces are also provinces that people in the HRE tend not to care about, so it doesn't slow your expansion into the Lubeck node all that much (I find that expanding through Denmark is easier and more consistent than expanding through Poland).
John Crofford i play with few expansions. In everygame i have unless the tuets ally with hungary or demark (whole different problem) then poland declares war within the time it takes to declare war on pomerania take stolp and then take the tuets states. And honestly you dont need them considering you already have prussian ideas it doesn't make a difference gameplay wise.
I am really enjoying my game. i was wondering if i should do a short series of updates on this same playthrough. However i am worried that some people might think it is cheap or shallow content.
You can have a ruler with 0 mil (without counting the +3mil prussia has) so it's actually 1/6 chance of a 3mil, 1/6 of a 4mil, 1/6 of a 5mil, and 3/6 of a 6mil
Are the ruler's monarchy points really completely random? I thought it was more likely to have a ruler with a lower monarch point, but maybe I just have bad luck.
7:30 Aggressive expansion reduction through Deus Vult doesn't really work in the situation you're describing. The -25% AE from the CB is balanced out by the +25% AE that same religion as target nations get when the conqueror religion is different. [E.g., Catholic nations will build up 25% more AE against a non-Catholic nation if the conquered provinces are taken from a Catholic nation, regardless of what religion the provinces are. Check the wiki.] I still like religious ideas, though; you save a lot of diplomat time and diplo points. Also, being able to launch wars at will is key for truce cycling.
I became the emperor early on and so I don't get unrightful territory, but damn Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck are impossible to conquer, not because of beeing a citystate but because their just allied to each other and Denmark. Denmark is still too strong to conquer.
Surgically strike them, sneak into their lands (Sweden) while they're all at the front and quickly siege as much as you can and peace them out - then work on your original targets!
Monk if you able take whole hre lands and expend east u will make another WC, btw with prusiia and absolutism you will do it better than Hungary and you can smile to coalitions, they will lose with your superior army ( take third quality idea)
You do vassalising, puing, upgrading your provinces etc, Im new and I feel like im doing pretty well, then I look at your vids and I feel bad. Im just incapeable of utilizing vassals. Should I vassal Native American? It feels pointless to me.
This is true. I have a video talking about that. In my case i do not save scum or exploit. I cannot prove it to you in this case, in my full series that i upload i can.
BudgetMonk 119 I believe you. My first full campaign was as Portugal and I used Aragon to fight Castile. Unfortunately for me the AI ( and probably me at the time since I was new) are incompetent. After that I just got used to it. Would you consider making a video on the MEIOU and taxes mod
mate, get some sleep! your videos are great but those eyes... oh goodness. btw are you australian or something? I have never heard an accent like yours
well what you think about that take teutons and all minor german nation ae allows do no cb on circassia. and take russia. or what my friend did attack denmark. and when sweden declares independence and is still in the war vassalise denmark win the war against sweden have 2 pu's and then you can go ham
Brandenburg/Prussia without Hohenzollern dynasty? Thats very sad. You need to start a new game definitely.
My favourite opening at the moment as Brandenburg is a super easy grab of Silesia as a vassal. It really helps early on, and when you Annex them it's an easy 40 or so development, and up until you diplo annex them, I've found they tend to have a standing army around 6k or so, even when vassalised. Which is practically a 50% increase on your own army in the early game if you set them to supportive.
>Game start
>Take "Conquer Silesia" Mission. (You always start the game with it)
>RM Poland.
>Mil Access Poland, split army in two and move one to the border of Ratibor (Silesian Capital) and the other to any other province adjacent to Silesia.
>When Jagiellon happens Poland will almost always set a friendly relation to you, ally.
>Declare war on Silesia, offering Poland land.
>The Poles and Lithuanians will just obliterate Bohemia with absolutely no issue whatsoever, and Bohemia basically never allies anyone in the first few years.
>100% warscore, take War Reps, transfer vassal Silesia, and take Niederlausitz from Bohemia
>51 AE at most, and no one to actually join a coalition against you.
>You don't need to give Poland land, they literally just don't care, because you have vassalised all of the land they would have wanted.
>From, here, Vassalise Mecklenburg. Once you have Diplo annexed Silesia, Vassalise Pomerania. Remember that even though the allies of both of those guys will tend to outnumber you army-wise, you can usually stackwipe Pomerania/Mecklenburgs armies before their little OPM allies can help, and even then, often they cant get mil access from their (usually rival) neighbours. I usually have Pomerania, Mecklenburg and Silesia dip annexed by around 1480 or so. Saxony or Brunswick usually follows.
You guys would be proud to know that i have been perfecting my Stettin Burghers!
BudgetMonk 119 I hope they're gourmet burghers this time.
Now branderburg more hard to play, in about 90% of games danzing formed on teutonic order, guaranteed by poland, at 1450, that ruins fast and good start.
I really like my strategy of PU'ing Ansbach before your first ruler dies, and using their claims to core land in Southern Germany, and then you can just break the PU when you get that event. But I never see anyone do anything similar, most just prefer not taking the PU, but I think it's extremely useful as it can help you split your AE as you expand in the empire and into the PLC/Baltics.
You can PU Bohemia really early game as Brandenburg, you rival a opm next to u then 12th december u go to war for humiliate, for extra prestige. Then u got more prestige than bohemia then you PU them
Yeah this is true. you can even bring in Poland if Poland rivaled Bohemia by promising land. Which of course you will not give him. Brandenburg has a lot going on. Many options.
I've tried your start of Humiliating Rival CB. Worked perfectly, the only problem is that Poland gets in the way in my expansion into the Teutonic. In the second war, in 3 games, Poland full anexes Teutonic Order. Thats why my strategy with Brandenburg at the start is always race for Teutonic land, and doing that i can't do the HR CB in the first years.
This is a link to the save file. So you can play it if you wish.
drive.google.com/file/d/0B7-m6iCJ0M_sOUpadTRWTHprSFk/view?usp=sharing
I tried it and it works.
I have one question though: how do you deal with Lubeck? I've tried over and over to play this out similarly to you but they just always have 5-6 trade members in, even with Denmark in the war the trade league swarm just destroyed me and denmark(+sweden and norway) combined.
They had about 5-6 members for me also. It is pretty simple. i just go when i have a good general or tech advantage ect. Making sure to use discipline advisor. When u declare the war just walk into Hamburg,Bremen ect and focus on stack wipes. Then leave 1 unit to prevent recruitment if it is safe. I find if you do 2-3 stack wipes and siege 2 provinces. Then usually a strong ally like Denmark will deal with the rest or at least stall until you are free. They often will have an advantage of numbers. But a huge disadvantage of not being consolidated. Sometimes i win wars where i am outnumber 2-1 or more by using this method.
That's great advice, I'll try to do another run right now!
But another thing that I'm really uncertain about: how do I deal with the renaissance institute? Do I develop widely to get provinces to 10/20 dev, bulk develop one province to get it, or just tech up and not worry about the penalty?
Watch my video on humiliate rivals if you have not. This gives you a lot of points. i spend these points bringing some of the very low development provinces up to around 10 prioritizing provinces with nice resource's. The way i look at it is i am happy to tech up once for between 0-10% extra cost anything more, i instead develop pretty heavily in for example Berlin, With the capitol reduction cost. Also grass or farmlands i might consider aswell. If u can develop up to 20 it moves the Renaissance along fairly well, and also increase the gain each month considerably. at that point i just horde/develop until i accept (you will most likely fall behind neighbors in tech but can catch up)
I have watched it, and thank you yet again! I knew it gives lots of points, but I didn't know how I should have used them, hopefully I'll have a good run now.
Berlin is my city
Cool, i never been to Europe would like to see it.
Berlin is always worth a visit if you are interested in history.
So many stories to be told by the city and it's buildings
Potsdam a few km away with Sanssouci and the legacy of Friedrich the great.
The cathedral with the crypt of the Hohenzollern dynasty.
The history of the split city and the peaceful reunion.
Lots of museums aswell
I guess most of the history is more interesting for a German but if you ever do a trip through Europe Berlin has to be on your list of places to visit ;)
No doubt brother. Trust me i have always wanted to travel through Europe, I always had other priorities coming from a poor family. But who knows i might find some kind of prosperity going into the future.
@@FluppiLP
- Sanssouci is in dire need or some restoration now (at least the grave of Fredrick has some fresh potatoes regularly)
- Berlin and its buildings are being raped by "modern architecture" (just look at the Bundeskanzleramt ... children's brick architecture)
- the world has West-Berlin (and the STASI) to thank for Antifa, so I wouldnt say about "peaceful reunion" ... because it has led to lots of strife (including the current "problems" in Ukraine for example, because USA, GB, France and West-Germany PROMISED Russia that NATO wouldnt expand east after reunification ... and look what happened afterwards)
Absolutism is nuts. I formed the Roman Empire as Byzantium just after 1700 because I maxed it out around 1670. Absolutely OP
Brandenburg/Prussia without the Hohenzolleren dynasty? Thats blasphemy! Absolutely barbaric....0/10 would not reccomend ;P
The reconquest thing. I can't even tell you how often I look at someone I want to fight searching for a releasable nation with lots of cores. In the early game, I'll take one or two provinces of the releasable nation as part of my peace deal, release, then use the reconquest to fight a future war with basically no AE (also avoids overextension, rebels, and admin points, which is especially helpful so I can keep conquering when working on an admin idea group). In the late game when I'm no longer worried about coalitions, I'll take peace deals that would give me 250% overextension without any of the nasty events because a big chunk of the land is cores of a nation which I immediately release and feed until I'm under 100% overextension. I have a habit of doing this to Russia, the Ottomans, the Ming, or anyone else that really blobs, releasing, for example, Novgorod, the Mamluks, Iraq, or any of the little releasable nations that start out as part of the Ming.
a interesting nation to play is Silesia, if you get trade, economic and quality ideas, you'll be able to increase your trade efficiency by 50 percent through policies you unlock and with the rich Silesian and bohemian provinces, plus manufactories, you'll be swimming in ducats for decades.
That's a bloody impressive amount of expansion given the year mate.
Once beat a coaliation headed by Austria and consisted most of the HRE as Prussia, didnt siege one province just beat the coaliation forces in battles
I just started a Prussia game last week and am at the early 1700s now, very fun
I once did a different tactic, if you dont buy nuemark and instead ally poland to attack teutonics, you can vassalize livonion order as early game you can do that with separate peace it will cost u exactly 100 warscore. After that I took 3 provinces from teutonics. Because of livonian lands I was able to expand into muscovy towards crimea and was all set to war with ottomans in late 1500s. However after watching ur video i m inclined to play brandenburg but instead of all out expanding early outside empire will try inside empire and form germany asap -> early 1600s when you get leve 20 admin. I ususally quit 1700 as game becomes boring and rather a chore to expand at the expense of weaker enemies. So these days I only focus on heavy interesting early and mid game without keeping any long term late game goals. So forming germany asap can be a good motivation to play brandenburg again.
Imo playing as an OPM is actually great in because in the end you can see just how massively you've expanded and it'll fee like more of an accomplishment, but maybe that's just me.
I recently started an Anschbach game (because it has custom ideas) and it's been great so far.
Awesome. Upload your game save so we can play
what is the expansion that allows you to develop your provinces? I don't have it on my game.
wealth of nations i think
it's common sense
only common sense
Common Wealth
budgetmonk, could you do a video maybe on how to address getting a personal union over a country many times larger than your own. I was playing as a released nation (Galicia out of Lithuania) and fell into a personal union with Muscovy, and am wondering... do I just abandon the union? They are at like 250% liberty desire.
lord6617
So you wanna develop their provinces as much as you can, lowers their liberty desire tremendously, of course improve relations to max, take reduced lib desire ideas if it's that bad, and try to stay at war as much as you can, but let Muscovy do 99% of the fighting, it will make them weaker by forcing high war exhaustion and debt on them, eventually through all those wars you'll be around the same size as them, so at that point lib desire won't be a problem and you can feed them a bit if you like
For 1500 the amount of provinces you have is a lot. Influence aggresive expansion reduction and brandenburg ideas should have helped a lot because that amount of territory is enough for a massive coalition against you.
Hey Budget! I am a longtime watcher, I love the videos!
I had a question / request for you if you had time!
I absolutely love the idea of playing as a de-centralized realm, with vassals and marches to fight wars for you, somewhat as a Victorian Era Britain, calling in soldiers from other areas.
The Request
It would be amazing if you played a game where you are only minimally allowed to use your own armies as a self defense force, you can only primarily fight with vassal soldiers.
The Question
Is it practical to have a vassal focused country? Or is the A.I in Eu4 to dumb to allow this? What nation do you think is best to do this idea with?
Thanks a bunch Monk, I typed this all rather fast and I hope it all makes sense, love the videos!
Cheers
Alot to this question. It obviously depends on what you want to achieve. GB is a good nation to do this with in the new world. Taking a loss against france IE not using solders. Declare on new world targets once your CN's are strong enough to fight for you. However playing this style in general suffers serious limitations. Not including how dumb the AI can be. I think other options could be Denmark for example or any nation that has strong ish subjects. You can not do very much if you do not use your own troops. Even Victorian Era Britain had a history of sending its own troops to conquer.
I usually try to annex as few as possible provinces that i get permanent claims later on (from forming germany, prussia). Influence is nice, but I personally dont like it that much, since it doesnt add anything to the actual lategame. You invest dip points into reducing your dip points investment, kinda turns me off. But i think its just my personal preference. I like to go economic ideas with prussia once you took polish farmlands, since spawning institutions there will be great and mainly spread myself thin through eastern, nothern and western europe, so i can jump onto everything once i stack that admin eff. I usually let them keep a few provinces so they will develop their capital for me until i turn on them again.
Also: I like to go for bohemia as soon as possible, since they get their stupid core creation after a while which u wont get rly rid off until adm effc.
Reduced annexation cost also reduces annexation time. It is *very* nice when I am trying to annex 500-1000 development vassals in the late-game.
Ich bin ein Preuße, kennt ihr meine Farben?
Die Fahne schwebt mir weiß und schwarz voran;
daß für die Freiheit meine Väter starben,
das deuten, merkt es, meine Farben an.
Nie werd ich bang verzagen,
wie jene will ich's wagen
sei's trüber Tag, sei's heitrer Sonnenschein,
ich bin ein Preuße, will ein Preuße sein
Hey monk cool vid and please do more like these but questions is it smart to claim bohemian throne in early game by allying Poland then don't give land
It is an option i personally do not think it is smart.
You should do a detailed video on how to obtain wc. I have around 1200 hours and I’m still kinda struggling with it as the ottomans. Either because its too tedious or because I feel I’m just not going fast enough
maybe upload the new Brandeburg episodes? donnu 1h episodes? after you finished it.
I was thinking about a short series each composed of 'updates' where i give a run down of what has happened over the last 50 years or so. But these daily episode series drag on for months haha
but its not difficult? just play the game and record it, cut it in 1h pieces and uploaded with a publish date. so you can play how often you want and how long you want, because you just upload it when you finished the whole run.
i just really like watching you play this game.
you dont have to talk that much, but you can if you want ;)
PS: just my opinion you can do what you want =D
Kiame it's nice to play games on your own without having to commentate every 20 seconds is probably why he doesn't wanna do that
I agree with budget that would get annoying
i dont ask for a commentary, i asked for gameplay.
but as i said, if he dont want to, its fine for me.
but its worth asking in my opinion.
It is worth asking. My upload speed sucks, atm i am uploading almost 100% of the time because of daily uploads. This is something i am going to fix next year by moving. Then i will take this 'job' real serious.
How do You deal with the emperor? O_o
Hmm... I didn't see a Hohenzollern. This run is TAINTED
Did you pay the 100 for Neumark?
What difficulty are you playing on???
How do you expand into the HRE when the emperor demands the provinces to be returned?
you refuse
If you ally the emperor you don’t get that “unlawful territory” malus.
1 simple trick is you DoW on an ally of the one whom provinces you gonna take. Conquer and core them before peacing out with the war leader w/o taking any province from the war leader. Then HRE cannot demand the provinces that you have cored during war. Works perfectly with alliance of OPM's.
Taking provinces from people who aren't co-belligerents gives you increased aggressive expansion. That price is worth paying for provinces like Hamburg or Bremen that simply can't be taken any other way without fighting the emperor, but otherwise vassalize people (for less AE) or chain wars (can't demand land while you are at war, even if the land comes from another war) to expand with regular AE and no territory demands.
Guess your fed up with Brandenburg now but another strategy is to eat Bohemia early with the help of Poland to avoid that nasty core creation cost. They also has a non german culture group so ae is not a big problem. After that the world is your oyster
Remember my first Brandenburg game where I managed to get a PU over a gigantic Russia without knowing what I was doing, lol.
what happened?
that's weird how you got Bohemia to not rival you first, they always rival me, I generally end up leaving the Teutonic order for Poland (though I annex danzig if I can) and go after the HRE, use my diplomats to make a weak sate (Palatinate or some other small distant state) the emperor and then Vasalize a few neighbors who I then feed, by the time I reach tech 10 I have taken Silesia and Austria has Hungary in a PU so I ally Muscovy/Russia and go to war with Poland-Lithuania, take the Prussian areas then convert to Prussia. The key I have found is to 1, make the Emperor a weak state minimize problems and allows Austria to help with HRE states like Bohemia, 2 ,don't try to get the Prussian Lands before at least tech 8, since it is impossible to form Prussia by that point anyway, and 3 to get Lubeck and Saxony (Holy shit the income from those two is insane), oh and make sure YOU don't become the HRE (cause that sucks)
It isn't *that* hard to get the provinces to form Prussia before Poland does. Those provinces are also provinces that people in the HRE tend not to care about, so it doesn't slow your expansion into the Lubeck node all that much (I find that expanding through Denmark is easier and more consistent than expanding through Poland).
John Crofford i play with few expansions. In everygame i have unless the tuets ally with hungary or demark (whole different problem) then poland declares war within the time it takes to declare war on pomerania take stolp and then take the tuets states. And honestly you dont need them considering you already have prussian ideas it doesn't make a difference gameplay wise.
The AI won't release me from being the HRE'r. It's very weird.
I once played Bohemia conquered Saxony and culture converted to saxon culture so i could form prussia.
Does nobody else do this?
i'm not getting the minimum 3 military points for my king, am i missing something?
I'm am super late, but I think you need Rights of Man.
Policies ?? Never seen this ingame. What is wrong ?
When in doubt, Deus Vult!
Loved this video!
I am really enjoying my game. i was wondering if i should do a short series of updates on this same playthrough. However i am worried that some people might think it is cheap or shallow content.
BudgetMonk 119 Please Make it a series
Please make more! I much prefer this summary video with gameplay strategy.
I just did the maths, turns out about 3/5 of the time, you'll have a 6 mil stat as prussia, with 1/5 chance of a 5, and 1/5 chance of a 3 or 4
You can have a ruler with 0 mil (without counting the +3mil prussia has) so it's actually 1/6 chance of a 3mil, 1/6 of a 4mil, 1/6 of a 5mil, and 3/6 of a 6mil
Are the ruler's monarchy points really completely random? I thought it was more likely to have a ruler with a lower monarch point, but maybe I just have bad luck.
7:30 Aggressive expansion reduction through Deus Vult doesn't really work in the situation you're describing. The -25% AE from the CB is balanced out by the +25% AE that same religion as target nations get when the conqueror religion is different. [E.g., Catholic nations will build up 25% more AE against a non-Catholic nation if the conquered provinces are taken from a Catholic nation, regardless of what religion the provinces are. Check the wiki.] I still like religious ideas, though; you save a lot of diplomat time and diplo points. Also, being able to launch wars at will is key for truce cycling.
I became the emperor early on and so I don't get unrightful territory, but damn Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck are impossible to conquer, not because of beeing a citystate but because their just allied to each other and Denmark. Denmark is still too strong to conquer.
Surgically strike them, sneak into their lands (Sweden) while they're all at the front and quickly siege as much as you can and peace them out - then work on your original targets!
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great video some nice explaining :)
i always as teutonic order colonise americas :) and its works
Noob here. Why not take diplo ideas and go for Emperor while focusing expasion into Poland/Scandinavia/maybe Russia?
Great start dude. Just be carefull i believe the ottomans can get acces through poland. I'm not aware of their relations ofcourse.
Monk if you able take whole hre lands and expend east u will make another WC, btw with prusiia and absolutism you will do it better than Hungary and you can smile to coalitions, they will lose with your superior army ( take third quality idea)
long german boi!
You do vassalising, puing, upgrading your provinces etc, Im new and I feel like im doing pretty well, then I look at your vids and I feel bad. Im just incapeable of utilizing vassals. Should I vassal Native American? It feels pointless to me.
Only if you're playing a native american. otherwise it is useless since nobody cares about AE in america
Vassals to reduce AE are mostly a Europe thing, but can be a big help in other rich regions like India
Near any PU is possible when you save scum to all hell :D
This is true. I have a video talking about that. In my case i do not save scum or exploit. I cannot prove it to you in this case, in my full series that i upload i can.
BudgetMonk 119 I believe you. My first full campaign was as Portugal and I used Aragon to fight Castile. Unfortunately for me the AI ( and probably me at the time since I was new) are incompetent. After that I just got used to it.
Would you consider making a video on the MEIOU and taxes mod
mate, get some sleep! your videos are great but those eyes... oh goodness. btw are you australian or something? I have never heard an accent like yours
well what you think about that take teutons and all minor german nation ae allows do no cb on circassia. and take russia. or what my friend did attack denmark. and when sweden declares independence and is still in the war vassalise denmark win the war against sweden have 2 pu's and then you can go ham
I was better cuz mine wasnt ironman