So aside from the Mossi thing someone mentioned, a few things were not mentioned: -The provinces of the culture you constantly promote and demote will end up having stupid amounts of unrest. When Florry did this, he used a culture that he deliberately only had one province of (IIRC it was Sorbian, there's very few Sorbian culture provinces) -Ruthenian ideas have CCR, Stab cost reduction, AND Promote Culture Cost reduction. Absolutely perfect for this build. -Inkushuk, usually one of the worst great projects, is now suddenly useful because it gives you another -15% promote culture cost lmao
1. Wait the unrest stacks? Damn, that's a rip. 2. Fair! Just 'Prussian' works, and I want to minimize setup, instead of the optimal perfect one, for this urn specificaly. 3. Oh god Inkushuk OP...
Inkushuk has always been great because it gives you more accepted culture slots which unlocks more great projects. AE stacks to -1000, it’s funny to see. This is sick and I’ll try and abuse it at some point.
For broken game machenics, do culture conversion stacking, and a Mossi kingdom button, which gives U raw manpower for clciking it, scaling with ur primary culture
Just checked the decision, it calculates manpower from your military development. Armenian culture converting bonuses will be good (converting faster and converting primary culture gives development). I know it just checks primary culture because I used it in cursed ways (I changed my primary culture to Turko-Iranian and converted Central Asia and Siberia, 3 devs for 3 dip mana was nice)
-50% gov cap is a real stinker tho. Looking at what Mughals and some others get without such a brutal penalty but none at all then Prussia seems bit meh.
I think prussia is supposed to be one of their nations that they purposely leave as broken considering stuff like it makes it much more fun to form Germany, allows ever newer players to form it.
@@ywoisug8845 Domination did the german culture group wrong anyways, except for Austria. While others did get lots of effort the german mission tree "rework" is nothing but lazy and the german culture assimilation mechanic which is nothing but a chicane without making sense. Shame its the last one.
The best way to have no aggressive expansion is to play as one of Frances appanages. In you independence peace deal you can take land with out becoming independent, and since subjects don’t receive aggressive expansion impact, you can conquer all of France within the first 20 years without AE, hard drive into Italy with no problems outside of Venice merc spam and maybe an Iberian Naples (though that’s really rare, and then have enough dev by 1500 chill and conquer for the rest of your game. Now that you know this, I want my -100% core cost video so I can conquer the world by 1550.
Reminds me of the good ol' Vic2 exploit where you'd play as Germany or maybe Italy and just release OPMs to drop your... whatever AE was called in that game. And then you'd just wait for the random event making them join you again, which as an added bonus also gave you prestige. So in a sense this almost feels like a callback to that, but I doubt it was intentional.
That's certainly something to rush for, last time I did a Dithmarshen into Prussia though I was ready with the formable in 1480 so its definitely doable! (Absolutely not claiming its easy)
I did this exact campaign pretty recently, and it was a rush towards Prussia as soon as possible, the main purpose of the run was to form Prussia so it was super important I get there first. I kept the Teutonic order safe until I knew I had a chance to break alliance and take it myself. It’s a hard start but rewarding
Well as is said i did that strategy, as Dithmarchen. Went plutocratic and administrative ideas. However nice thing i noticed are crownlands bonuses. You constantly seize land(and develop) and get this +70% reform progress growth and with that i achieved thier 7 of government in like 1490 waaay quicker than i could form prussia( at this point i decided to take that juicy 5% amin efficiency from the mission tree before forming prussia) I must say its really much fun incoming
True, but if I talk about anything past 1550 people yell at me in the comments going 'who cares the game ends in 1550' Also by 1700 AE is pretty irrelevant anyway.
Clergy estate can also help grow your government reform, speeding up the activation of this strategy
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If you also pick the diplomatic ideas, and reduce the amount of agressive expansion you get as much as possible, you will be able to conquer a lot of provinces, before having to reduce the agressive expansion. Thus you can conquer half of europe, and then reduce your aggressive expansion, then conquer the other half.
@LemonCake101 btw there is a monument in Canada(Inukshuk) that grants -15% promote culture cost, which would allow to these conditions to surpass the golden era
Having played it sortion and the hereditary one usually give good enough leaders. Being able to be at high Republican tradition is nice. Plus if you see a sick leader you can just pay the Republican tradition anyway and wait for it to build up
@@stephenbernard3003 yeah exactly. I think the average stats and rt loss are the same as term elections, but it's often good to just let the lottery choose and stay at 100 rt most of the time (high reform progress, no stab cost penalty and bad rulers are old anyway)
at 00:20 As Dread Emperor Terribilis I, the Thorough stated in the webnovel "A practical guide to evil" "The best defense is to have killed all of your enemies"
@@lepit3943 AE opinion modifier is capped at -200. But AE is not capped or very far away. I already got more than 1300 AE so maybe capped a 2k or 2M more probably.
7:35 Actually 🤓 For some reason Paradox capped AE on -1000. During my most recent Aztec campaign I ignored AE and reformed the Roman Empire before absolutism, safe to say Europe didn't like me after that.
Agressive expansion is capped at -200? As far as i know its -999. In the olden days i always uses to vassalize the plc as france while owning all of europe and they hated me because of 999 AE in all of europe
The 4th way of reducing AE still works right? When you have a subject 100% annexed and you offer to release them in the same month, effectively getting the AE reduction from giving up a subject but still integrating them on the next monthly tick.
So aside from the Mossi thing someone mentioned, a few things were not mentioned:
-The provinces of the culture you constantly promote and demote will end up having stupid amounts of unrest. When Florry did this, he used a culture that he deliberately only had one province of (IIRC it was Sorbian, there's very few Sorbian culture provinces)
-Ruthenian ideas have CCR, Stab cost reduction, AND Promote Culture Cost reduction. Absolutely perfect for this build.
-Inkushuk, usually one of the worst great projects, is now suddenly useful because it gives you another -15% promote culture cost lmao
1. Wait the unrest stacks? Damn, that's a rip.
2. Fair! Just 'Prussian' works, and I want to minimize setup, instead of the optimal perfect one, for this urn specificaly.
3. Oh god Inkushuk OP...
Inkushuk has always been great because it gives you more accepted culture slots which unlocks more great projects.
AE stacks to -1000, it’s funny to see.
This is sick and I’ll try and abuse it at some point.
Try to explain this thumbnail to a Victorian child
Why was the child allowed outside the coal mine?
@@LemonCake101shit you’re right
@@LemonCake101use the thumbnail to explain why they should go back in the coal mine.
The gray man is the good guy and the white man is irrationally angry at the gray man for being good.
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For broken game machenics, do culture conversion stacking, and a Mossi kingdom button, which gives U raw manpower for clciking it, scaling with ur primary culture
I didn't even know that was a button... oh no.
Just checked the decision, it calculates manpower from your military development. Armenian culture converting bonuses will be good (converting faster and converting primary culture gives development). I know it just checks primary culture because I used it in cursed ways (I changed my primary culture to Turko-Iranian and converted Central Asia and Siberia, 3 devs for 3 dip mana was nice)
If you want a manpower button just play as any sunni.
If you want big manpower button play the Turks on VH and use the eyaletswarm.
I think Prussia may be a touch too strong, but at the same time, they should make it much easier to maintain 100% militarization
-50% gov cap is a real stinker tho. Looking at what Mughals and some others get without such a brutal penalty but none at all then Prussia seems bit meh.
@@ManuR-l4mIt's definitely outdated. I hoped they would rework it in domination but instead prussia got a straight up nerf.
The secret to Prussia is White House. That gives you enough cost reduction that you can have alot or states.
I think prussia is supposed to be one of their nations that they purposely leave as broken considering stuff like it makes it much more fun to form Germany, allows ever newer players to form it.
@@ywoisug8845 Domination did the german culture group wrong anyways, except for Austria.
While others did get lots of effort the german mission tree "rework" is nothing but lazy and the german culture assimilation mechanic which is nothing but a chicane without making sense.
Shame its the last one.
The best way to have no aggressive expansion is to play as one of Frances appanages. In you independence peace deal you can take land with out becoming independent, and since subjects don’t receive aggressive expansion impact, you can conquer all of France within the first 20 years without AE, hard drive into Italy with no problems outside of Venice merc spam and maybe an Iberian Naples (though that’s really rare, and then have enough dev by 1500 chill and conquer for the rest of your game. Now that you know this, I want my -100% core cost video so I can conquer the world by 1550.
True, but you can also start as France and have no AE from taking over France :)
@@LemonCake101 Fair enough, and considering how overpowered France is, AE might as well have no impact. But who wants to play as France?
@@Rudra-b5d me France big France strong France big number
"AE is just a number"
Yeah... Zero
Yes
Reminds me of the good ol' Vic2 exploit where you'd play as Germany or maybe Italy and just release OPMs to drop your... whatever AE was called in that game.
And then you'd just wait for the random event making them join you again, which as an added bonus also gave you prestige.
So in a sense this almost feels like a callback to that, but I doubt it was intentional.
Infamy is the word you're looking for
The WB Napoleonic Wars thumbnail...
No AE there :)
either way, interesting way to decrease AE, always been an issue for me atleast
Hey, if it works it works!
Now this sounds amazing
Good luck!
@@LemonCake101 thanks! :D
Btw there's that monument in canada ,, the Inukshuk" that grants you -15% promote culture cost. With that we can essentially avoid the golden era
Yup, but Golden Era is much easier then getting to Canada. The point of this demo was an 'achievable easy enough for the average player' build.
This is an actual really fun idea. But good luck trying to get Prussia before Poland conquers all of it.
That's certainly something to rush for, last time I did a Dithmarshen into Prussia though I was ready with the formable in 1480 so its definitely doable! (Absolutely not claiming its easy)
I did this exact campaign pretty recently, and it was a rush towards Prussia as soon as possible, the main purpose of the run was to form Prussia so it was super important I get there first. I kept the Teutonic order safe until I knew I had a chance to break alliance and take it myself.
It’s a hard start but rewarding
Well as is said i did that strategy, as Dithmarchen. Went plutocratic and administrative ideas. However nice thing i noticed are crownlands bonuses. You constantly seize land(and develop) and get this +70% reform progress growth and with that i achieved thier 7 of government in like 1490 waaay quicker than i could form prussia( at this point i decided to take that juicy 5% amin efficiency from the mission tree before forming prussia)
I must say its really much fun incoming
One of my provinces has now 300 unrest because of that
The Revolutionary tier 3 reform i believe also gives a lot of promote culture cost, can probably even skip the modifier stacking
True, but if I talk about anything past 1550 people yell at me in the comments going 'who cares the game ends in 1550'
Also by 1700 AE is pretty irrelevant anyway.
0:29 welcome back comrade mussolini
Clergy estate can also help grow your government reform, speeding up the activation of this strategy
If you also pick the diplomatic ideas, and reduce the amount of agressive expansion you get as much as possible, you will be able to conquer a lot of provinces, before having to reduce the agressive expansion. Thus you can conquer half of europe, and then reduce your aggressive expansion, then conquer the other half.
I mean sure, that's literally what I suggested initially.
@@LemonCake101
The only problem would be coring the provinces. But you can always just release vassals...
Aggressive expansion? What's that?
Woah that’s cool that pacifist guy from way back when is a channel member, what a handsome guy!
Damn I can't believe you remembered him!
Oh my God, now I know my next campaign
enjoy!
@LemonCake101
btw there is a monument in Canada(Inukshuk) that grants -15% promote culture cost, which would allow to these conditions to surpass the golden era
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The biggest problem with this build is probably keeping your war exhaustion down with all the truce breaking
True
That's why sortition is better.
Usually, your not that desperate for Republican Tradition
Having played it sortion and the hereditary one usually give good enough leaders. Being able to be at high Republican tradition is nice.
Plus if you see a sick leader you can just pay the Republican tradition anyway and wait for it to build up
@@stephenbernard3003 yeah exactly. I think the average stats and rt loss are the same as term elections, but it's often good to just let the lottery choose and stay at 100 rt most of the time (high reform progress, no stab cost penalty and bad rulers are old anyway)
at 00:20
As Dread Emperor Terribilis I, the Thorough stated in the webnovel "A practical guide to evil"
"The best defense is to have killed all of your enemies"
Isn’t AE capped at 1000????
(Still extremely overpowered)
I was sure it was 200...
It is indeed.
@@LemonCake101 I know it’s not 200, because I got like 250 with Castile in one of my ottoman games after one war
@@lepit3943 oh damn fair, just goes to show how little attention I pay to AE once it goes over 100
@@lepit3943 AE opinion modifier is capped at -200.
But AE is not capped or very far away. I already got more than 1300 AE so maybe capped a 2k or 2M more probably.
I thought AE was capped at -1000?
It is 1k, I was wrong.
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Alternative: play Ulm and get 0 ae as well as a pre 1444 wc
(Waiting for Ulm wc)
Too easy clearly, need a real challange
@@LemonCake101 pre 1600, ill make it even easier, or harder, cause you cant take THAT long
I would like to see that mechanic in real life
I thought agressive expansion was capped beyond 200, because I ended up like at -700 ae with the whole Asia doing True heir of Timur
It is 1k, I was wrong
Aggressive Expansion is just a number
They should probably make AE grow less naturally.
I feel like every game i need to open with espionage if I want to conquer anything in europe.
wow, im early
Hello, and welcome, gg on first comment!
7:35 Actually 🤓 For some reason Paradox capped AE on -1000. During my most recent Aztec campaign I ignored AE and reformed the Roman Empire before absolutism, safe to say Europe didn't like me after that.
It is 1k, I got it wrong. Sounds like a fun run!
Agressive expansion is capped at -200? As far as i know its -999. In the olden days i always uses to vassalize the plc as france while owning all of europe and they hated me because of 999 AE in all of europe
It is 1k, I was wrong.
@@LemonCake101 i guess even gods can be wrong sometimes
I still have no idea on how to remove aggressive expansion
Press culture accept button
ae is just a number(do not add the letter g)
forbidden g
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The 4th way of reducing AE still works right? When you have a subject 100% annexed and you offer to release them in the same month, effectively getting the AE reduction from giving up a subject but still integrating them on the next monthly tick.
Shh, that is the forbidden technique!
I just pretend that it does not exist
2nd choice was. Abuse truce mechanics :)
'creative peace deal optimizations'
wdym AE is capped at 200, did they change that?
Its 1k, I was wrong
@@LemonCake101 happens to the best of us, should've read other comments before posting myself x)
@@alexanderabramov2719 no worries, it happens
So republic isn't even necessary, just become prussia.
Republics are necessary for that Tier 5 reform, monarchies don't have access to it.
0:30 fascists be like:
Oh no is it over for me...
Smh game abuse
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7:37 AE ist capped at -200??? Did they change it? I'm sure it was 1000 for a looooobg time.
its 1k I was wrong :(