Can I Save 1815 Napoleon from his last Coalition? - EU4 Historical Disaster
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- Saving Your Ruined Campaign is the series where I'm trying to repair the worst situations sent to me by casual players. Situations where is seems that the save is not playable anymore and it should be resigned.
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your vids are the best man
Save historic ming crisis
Zlewikk, I do not know if you read all the comments, but if you do, I have some graphical mod suggestions for you that will improve your experience a lot, tell me if you are intrested in hearing about what they are !
watching this knowing damn well idk how to play eu4
Will you send Napoleon the save back so he can continue as he wants?
I did, but he said he can save it himself
@@ZlewikkTV he said he got destroyed in waterloo, he may ask you to save it again
Time travel only works in one direction: forward.
@@datzee9315 he just got bad rolls smh
@@Muck006 lmfao
Hats down to Napoleon, for not coping, because of getting ganked more than 4 times.
Strong psycha
@Kacper Kędrak Times were different, Things were not as fast as it is now.
@Kacper Kędrak Never implied that. Just told that back in this time it was possible ( Because he did it ), I doubt anything of sort would be quite possible nowadays. Mainly because of logistics reasons.
@Kacper Kędrak Well, only about 70 years ago one crazy lunatic in Germany did. The question is whether it's also smart to do so. Because he hurt both the world and Germany far more than he did any good to it. Same goes for WW2 Japan. Or North-Korea, who is also nearly fighting the entire world on its own.
@Kacper Kędrak annexing all of europe? Lmao this isnt hoi4 buddy, also you respect Japanese people for attacking people who are either occupied with other fronts ( british and french) or attackig those who are much lower in technology? ( Basically every asian country japan attacked) the only time they didnt do either of those is when they did a cheap sneak attack on the usa and got their asses kicked as soon as they picked a fight with someone their own size. Learn history before you talk about it.
Why is Napoleonic France not given the "Revolutionary Empire" government type? It already has "revolutionary target". The later start dates would be used more if they weren't so half-baked.
First you have to ask PDX, second is doable. You can be a birthplace of revolution without being a revolution ;)
@@ZlewikkTV Zlewikk, of course you can be the birthplace, but being revolution target makes no sense
Afaik the other start dates don’t have a lot of the features from newer updates. I think Netherlands and Great Britain are still protestant
Conspiracy theories:
Napoleonic France was not really a revolutionary empire, because there was no citizen's ideal regime in it or Napoleon prevent the revolution. It was just another empire with the Bonaparte dynasty.
@@hoyinching9313 disagree, napoleon had a fuck ton of reforms
Honestly huge fan of these historical disaster games, but of course all of your content is great
Thanks man!
15:08
Haitian Politician 1: "So, you know how we defeated the French to gain our independence?"
Haitian Politician 2: "Yeah?"
Haitian Politician 1: "Let's form an alliance with them!"
Haitian Politician 2: "... Sounds great!"
Americans and the British be like
I love this style of game you're doing right now. How about playing the Ottomans in the 1680s and making the Austrians disappear from the map, not just winning the Battle of Vienna in 1683, but blowing up half of Europe before the turn of the century?
Ottomans is a steamroller, not a challenge at all, especially for Zlewikk
The challenge is how quick and how powerfull he can bring the OP Ottomans in their peak to the ultimate. How powerfull he can go? How quick to destroy a lv8 fort in Malta? Can fight in 1:20 manpower?
would love to see that
I think 1768-1774 war between Ottomans and Russia is harder start for ottomans.
@@mr.potato4917 too bad there is no 1399 start, in eu3 ottomans after war with Timmy were a mess
Dude imagine if Napoleon actually managed to turn around the war and make the ultimate comeback against all odds, would've been crazy lol.
Bro Napoléon in history is already crazy.
He left elba and landed in france broad daylight with 900 of his followers, and 20 days later he had an empire along with Europe's most powerful army without a single real battle.
Yes but sadly he went on the offensive because he knew he had little time left so it wouldn't have changed much except for growing even more his legend
Now we want Zlewikk wearing napoleon's hat while playing ntw3
Kekw
@@ZlewikkTV Look up "Blackadder Back & Forth" ... you might not want to ...
Yeah i actually also noticed that AI can see enemies coming even when against other AI. I wonder if its some mechanic we dont know about…
Basically, the fog of war only works for players. This is true for all games with that mechanic, most of the time the AI is programmed to ignore some of the player's movements.
Yep, unfortunate
You must first move to a wrong location and only when you are close change your direction. Eu4 AI is really cheap and player bias
It's actually could be used in an advantage. f.e. when ai sieges your fort and you don't have army big enough close to it, you can just click a lot of troops from anywhere in the world and ai would stop the siege and start running away
@@omanerasdu lol
Saving the 13 Colonies as the British Empire would be a cool historical save
Love this scenarios, great vid
Thanks!
Absolutely insane that you manage to turn this country around in only 5 years
7:14 Thats the most annoying thing for me about this game, fog of war being disabled for the AI.
Sure, AI doesnt have brain and is in a big disadvantage. But thats the wrong way to make it more "competent". The only thing this leads to is that wars just become silly ring around the rosie siege races against the AI which smells your armies from far away and runs to where its save. If you turn around to attack your target, it suddenly appears again.
Thats bad game design and one of the few reasons why i take my breaks from EU4. Its not making the game more dificult and engaging, its just making tiresome. As Dev you should avoid such experiences for your customers.
yeah it's annoying, last thing I want to do is to run around for few months just to catch some small stack of enemy troops because they start running away
It gets more annoying when your enemy army is hiding in some terra incognita in siberia and only comes out to siege some of your land, then retreat back to the terra incognita when any sizeable army gets close to them, just to stop you from fully annex them quickly.
@@primalforlorn True. Im always happy to just white peace countries like Uzbek because of this.
Zlewikk: "Napoleon was actually 168 cm tall!"
Me: *nods in American*
1/100 football stadium
Everybody else on the world uses the metric system, learn it already ! Its getting ridiculous with you stubborn Anglo-Saxons and your strange medieval systems you still use ;D
That means he is shott but not that much
@@TheEmolano At that time he was a bit taller than the average frenchman
@@gothia6515 the blatant eurocentrisim on this man
Imagine playing France in multiplayer and getting Napoleon during the revolutionary era. The amount of mouths that would drop from enemy casualties would be priceless!
14:16 Yeah I think he was actually like fairly normal for the time, I think i saw something that it started due to differences in the difference the british vs french feet & inches etc at the time, not sure though.
Yes, Napoleon was 5'2 French ft/inches, but the Brits saw this as being very short and made a meme of it, though converted to British feet & inches he would be 5'7, a way more common height
I think that lot of memes of Nap being short comes from british propaganda, they gave him really hard time 😂 and it really did not help him that he was mostly seen with escorts from the Old guard, and those were hand picket soldiers and surely there was a minimum height standard for the Guard members who unfortunately for their bosses reputation were probably all higher than the emperor
Also people from our times is taller than those from back then
For example the spanish in the argentinian patagonia discovered a tribe of giants, and said people were 1,80 tall. The average height today
0:00 Mr. Putin, what have you done here?
Absolutely love this sort of thing! Perhaps consider a Kutch campaign, as their tag is "KAT" and would therefore be utterly broken :D
Thanks :D
League of Cambria, I wanna see you suffer against half of europe as Venice (it's one of the recommended starting dates, I think like 1510)
Check it in EU4, there is like noone in it
@@marcoaccordini4535 I'm aware, in EU4 it's just France and Austria ;)
I love these saving eu4 historical disasters videos
Happy to hear that!
Really love these later start date videos. It's honestly a shame more players don't typically play the other start dates because you can tell paradox put a lot of effort into representing literally every year/month throughout the period. So I doubt they will ever do this again for EU5. But as a history nerd, I find it really fun to try these scenerios or even just to scroll through each year and look at the map change on the new game screen.
Thank you!
This was such a good watch, I'm kinda sad, history isn't filled with more disasters, they are so fun to watch.
There are still plenty to go! Thanks :)
@@ZlewikkTV Music to my ears!
This is such a great idea Zlewikk! I’d love to see more like this
Thanks! Did you see the previous 3? :D
@@ZlewikkTV In fact, I haven’t yet! Thanks for letting me know about that. I reckon it’d be a good playlist tbh
The saddest part of napoleon is how he was so close of victory so many times, yet in the end never won.
My Four Time Great Grandfather fought in Napoleon's Grande Armee. He was 20 when he survived the Russian Invasion and he also fought at the battles of Leipzig and Waterloo. He was a Hussar and he was captured by the Prussians so I think we was a part of Grouchy's 30,000 sent to pursue them. He spent six months in a POW camp in Danzig. He was an ethnic German from Alsace Lorraine so I bet he was a translator between his French speaking comrades and the German speaking Prussians. If I ever have a son, his middle name will be Nikolaus in his honour.
play as the ming when they are about to get smashed by the qing
14:20, the moment you said that i started imagining every person at that time as tiny dwarfs walking in the street.
Kekw
I wish you could turn off end date to do these start dates
but you can without ironman, check the video
Campain Ideas -
1. Save Russia during "The Times of Trobles" and take both the capitals of Poland and Sweden.
2. Save Poland during "The Deluge", crush Russia and the Cossacks and make a reverse-deluge in Sweden
3. As the Ottomans defeat the "Holy League" in 1683 and take Vienna
Edit: And maybe to make the Deluge challenge a bit more interesting, to do the polish mythos justice, build a fort in a province closest to Częstochowa, and don't let anybody siege it down.
Hmmm ... "Time of Troubles"? When the gods roamed the land and magic didnt work properly?
@@Muck006 In Russia is called "Smuta" wich is roughly translated to "Time of sadness/despair". Its a period during the early 17th century, where Russia was plagued by famine, rebellions, a dynastic crisis, and wars with Sweden and Poland, where the poles even conquered Moscow twice.
These just sound like possible later start date achievements if pdx actually cared about them
Nice video, I would like to see you trying to save the Netherlands in the 80 Years War vs Spain in 1573. Good luck 💪🏻
Thanks!
"wE HaVe onE FuRNaCe"
casually just 50 billion provinces in France, lol 1 furnace will boost up the economy, i mean it will but not alot, and i have never seen somebody so happy to see a furnace in my life.
Yes, this is a significant boost
1. Production in particular province that is then increased by prod efficiency in country
2. Trade value in the province which is then increased by goods produced modifier that i then increased even more bt trade efficiency
3. National goods produced modifier that increased production income as well as trade income with same modifiers applied as above
Do not underestimate a furnace
@@ZlewikkTV i was saying in real life it would be funny, i do know though now thanks to you that a furnace is very helpful in your game
Kekw
Woo my idea was used! Great vid
Long live Napoleon and Long live Zlewikk!
Also nice shirt at the start
Thanks!
Greta video, really like this series. Wasn't this basically what Napoleon wanted to do historically: win in the Lowlands and then negotiate from a stronger position?
Thanks! I guess great minds think alike :v
@@ZlewikkTV very true. excited to see your portion of the succession game with the red hawk
A great scenario for this series would be the Boxer rebellion. The extended timeline technically includes this events but it is broken. Perhaps there is another mod for it
"There is nothing we can do."
"Or is there!?"
10:15 3000IQ AI with the 4k inf 41k cav stack
Perfectly balanced
I love how you don't bankrupt your country and destroy its economy, like many others...
It's an art!
"D'un côté c'est l'Europe et de l'autre la France
Choc sanglant ! Des héros Dieu trompait l'espérance"
- Victor Hugo, L'Expiation, part III
> Saving Napoleon from the Coalition
> 3:52 "Our emperor Louis XVIII de Bourbon"
Paradox Interactive?
Unfortunate
You could try saving some ruined campaigns in the extended timeline mod, would be interesting to see what situations you can save pre 1444
I didnt know the reason cuz I wasnt subs to your channel, amazing video you are the best :p
Btw nice cat ^^
Thanks man!
I love the later start dates one of my favorite features in eu4
4:50 i don't understand why you're building manufacturies. They're gonna finish in 1820. They would repay themself in some decades so why did you build them ?
Is it a real question? For higher income at the end of video of course!
@@ZlewikkTV hahahaha
Pretty good , but i don't really like the missing Savoie (from modern borders, including Geneva) and the exclave in Belgium. I also didn't know you could continue without mods, thought 1821 was a hard stop.
hmm... 1477 Morocco?
1492 Granada?
~1580 Otomo , to play as a catholic Daimyo?
Thanks!
European leaders in 1815 be like:
Somehow Napoleon returned
Nice video and cool gameplay. I wanted to suggest this historic ruined campagne: the byzantine against the islam caliphate on the VII century with the extended timeline mod.
Thanks!
I think that would be the hardest of all these challenges.
5:29 Louis XVIII.
Ol Nappy should get an event making him Emperor again instead of the King, and a Rev Empire, tbh
How very Napoleon declaring war in the middle of world war 0.5
was looking forward to this one
:>
I suffered a heart attack when you deleted the fleet. In my last runs I kinda developed a taste for mobility and sea domination style, when I could use my 2 or 3 transport fleets to deploy my armies whereever I need in speedily manner. Helped me immensly agains multiple enemies on multiple fronts: i could do hit and run operations around my country almost unopposed. Like, if you play as a Byzantium and got yourself coalitioned from all the sides, would need 100-200 thousand men on all the frontiers. With a fleet you can swing them where you need it in a few weeks of a month, you don't have to wait monts for you army to came from Paris to Egypt or Balkans by land, it takes like 40 days by travel by the sea.
You hit and run against seiging armies, smaller detachments on the move, arrive into advantageous provinces a day before your enemy to gain a favourable defence positions. Running away and saving beaten armies also way more handy if you can achieve a naval superiority.
I know, french naval superiority in 1790-1815 was less real than the Santa Claus, but Antverpan could have been a nice bait to lure enemies armies for you to stockwipe them.
Anyway, thanks for the video, waiting for the next disaster) Strange though, it's Loui the XVIII on the throne, not the Napoleon
Navy is crucial... but not in this scenario when your enemie not only have hundreads of ships, but also far better quality. Then that's just a waste of money, especially in late game and with such a small country territory wise and it's just specific scenario when you pretty much play one war and end
@@ZlewikkTV well, yeah, you are right. There was no space for naval maneuvering.
2:41. A sneaky fort on Corfu
Lvl 2 unfortunately
Brakowało mi ciekawostki o zamachu na Napoleona przez króliki.
Poza tym jak zawsze świetny odcinek!
Another suggestion which I haven't seen is the nation of Zhou in 1673 where you 1v1 a 1k dev Qing during the Three Feudaltories Revolt
hey zlewikk, I know it's not efficient but for SP I like to keep my front row at 1.5x the combat width, mostly so I can shift consolidate and still have a full frontline after a small battle or two
6 years left until the end of the campaign? Let me spend all my cash on manufactories that take 5 years to build.......
Is this even a serious question? First of all, of course, it's about higher income at the end, what would you spend your money on? Kekw
Second of all, did you even watch till the end? 1821 is not a hard stop date, you can play longer like I did
Zmiany historycznych momentów to prawdziwe perełki jesli chodzi o opowieści z eu4
zlewikk! you have to save venice in war of the cambrai league!
I actually checked and in eu4 it seems super easy
I saw enemy armies can see when u order your army to march to a province they are in or adjenct tile. So if you command your army to march to a province that is 1 tile away. They dont consider it. And you can catch them more frequently this way
Wrong, ai does not have fow unfortunately 🙃
TheDeluge darkest hour, 1655 or like that, when 95% of Commonwealth was occupied, by Sweden, Russia, Cossacs, Brandenburg, Radziwiłł betrayal and Transylvania! :D
AI has no fog of war and always sees you
Of course, I know that since 2013, just always triggers me as anyone else :v
Mans even did it without using Napoleon. Crazy
LOL, it's funny that in war window there is "hundred years war" name for that starting war
Paradox cares about details in many cases. When I was saving Prussia and Sweden their wars also had correct names
You are officially the second person to use the alt start dates in EU4. The first was me.
Kekw, there are fefinitely more!
How about playing as Japan in the Imjin war of 1592, against the Ming and Korea?
I loved these kind of campaigns
I started with the famous byzantium, then i went for the knights during the siege of malta and ended up taking most of the caribbean while weakening the turks after some coalition wars
Michael The Brave 1600. At war with the ottomans, but he unified the 3 romanian principalities
ottomans in extended timeline mod - 1882
Zlewikk, I am waiting for that Louis XIV roleplay where you try to do his grandiose wars
France: **p0r eL cUl0 No0oø**
I loved your video and I think you should make more videos about Napoleonic wars and taking over Europe forming the great french empire (Napoleon's dream)
I wonder why you don't start as a revolutionary empire.
I got the revolution back anyway
Interesting idea, keep it up!
Thanks!
splendidly done
Thanks!
Why our ruler is Louis XVIII, but not Napoleon? Also, we have modifier "birthplace of revolution" in the Holy sea, but our government is usual monarchy, not revolutionary empire.
First question you have to ask who made the game, not me ;)
Second yes, you can be a birthplace of revolution without being a revolution anymore
I think Napoleon was 5 feet 2 inches. Of course those were pre-Revolutionary French feet & inches. In English feet & inches, it would have converted to 5 feet 7 inches (or 168cm as Zlewikk said.)
Did he ever activate the other military policies? Also, no Poland end game goal :(
I think ottomans vs the holy league would be quite fun.
Thanks!
you could try (with the extendet timeline mod) saving Russia in World War 1 from Germany, Austria-Hungary and most importantly Lenin
Napoleon was seen short her than he actually was coz he was surrounded by the imperial guards and they were a lot taller than him ;))
Ottomans in ww1 extended timeline
10:14 what is this 4:41 composition my guy
Perfectly balanced
Native Americans vs USA date after lets say 1820 could be painfull 👷
Love your contents ❤️
Zlewikk!!! When you gonna do Mughals historical save???
🤔🤔🤔
Cool Short Campaing. Another Challange could be the Great Northern War as Sweden.
But I already did Great Norhern War as Sweden? :p
@@ZlewikkTV oh you have plenty of those - really greate series :) now I dug a bit deeper and found some (hopefully) interesting ones:
01. January 1453 as Austria, against the Ottomans, in this point Austria lost the empire and half of its clay including the goldmine
02. April 1453 as Byzantium against Ottomans (even though you have plenty of purple phoenix guides ;) )
26. December 1482 saving Granada from Castile while going through a civil war (maybe a later date will also be challangeing enough without the rebels)
01. January 1531 as Inca vs Spain saving the last american empire from the europeans :)
these videos are rally cool (and the saving ruind campains as well) you are doing a good job and entertaining content for the EU IV community
Uh, did you check if you really got the right start date? Your rulers are Bourbon, not Nappy, so you probably had to start a bit earlier
Zlewikk started during the Seventh Coalition which was the final time Napoleon was in power. Not really sure why the leader is Louis, my guess would be because his rule was restored shortly after this start date IRL.
Look at the date, 15th June 1815 is 3 days before battle of Waterloo, there is no date in EU4 in 1815 at which Napoleon is French ruler
can you save ottoman for 2.vienna war disaster after that annex wien?
I love the little fun facts :)
Thanks!
Napoleon wasnt the leader
oh yeah, my requested scenario is here
Your abs like 50 other people :p
The Polish love Napoleon for at least temporarily putting Poland back on the map, he's even mentioned in their national anthem.
And if Poland would ve been a neighbour of France, he would ve annexed it. Dont give too much about historical alliances as they were only out of everyones own strategical interest.
@@gothia6515 The year 2003 confirm you sayings.
>year 1815
>6 year for game to end
>start building manufactories (5 years to build)
was that worth?
Are you serious with this question? Of course, for higher income at the end of the video. Also, you can play past 1821, as I did here :p
@@ZlewikkTV but why? playn after 1821 makes no sense (for me at least). i think doin "Better than Napoleon" achivment at this historical start could make more fun & challange.
no offence btw, i wrote 1st comment at the start of the video)
@@ВикторИванов-ф5к ummm, you tell me, why not playing past 1821 for this video? If you want to see proper 1444 France than check my recent double BBB, this series are about something else ;)
@@ZlewikkTV Each manufactory you built increased income by 1.3-ish per month (production plus trade). It would take 426/1.3 months to get even, the profit would come only after that. That means 328 months, or 27 years. The manufactories are made only in 1820, so only in 1847 you profit. Waste of money, better use that 854 ducats throughout the game in armies or mercs. The furnace is ok though.
No, of course it is worth it. What matters is how much income you have at the end of the campaign, what other goal you need in this particular scenario?
As a french u french is perfect 👍
:>
Nice shoutout to Oversimplified in the thumbnail.
How come France doesn't start out with Napoleon in power at this start date?
Ask pdx not me ;)
Dał nam przykład Bonaparte, Jak zwyciężać mamy.
When the video has Napoleon’s name but the game doesn’t
Unfortunately Napoleon is non-existant in EU4 past his 1814 abdication
why is the ai able to cheat by knowing where your armies are always? I notice this all the time in my games
Because otherwise it'd be even more braindead.
I actually don't know any game where the AI doesn't have full information, age of wonders, civ, xcom, EU4, etc, the AI knows everything, it's just programmed to make it actually fair, as in ignoring units that are hidden in XCom and such.