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Maybey Aragón? I don't know if the old one it's still updated or not, and since you have done recent guides about castille and portugal, with aragon you will complete the cristian nations of Iberia
For anyone that might be curious, refusing the Lithuanian PU allows you to enter the HRE and the missions give you permanent bonuses to keeping the enperorship and getting higher imperial authority. I really enjoyed HRE vassal swarm as Poland
@@psychic_beth that's true, you get the better gov reform earlier, keep the parliament and later on you get a helluva lot of max absolutism from the mission that dissolves it
@@norezi8130 There is a slight chance that your local noble ruler will randomly get the Jagiellon dynasty because that was one of the possible Polish dynasty name in the Polish namelist. You can claim throne on Lithuania immediately with him
There was a cheese some time ago where with some fortunate diplomacy (bohemia hating you and Austria) you can ally Austria and then you need for game to crash every time when you get Lithuania pu or moldavia event before Austria let's you in HRE. you need this to happen before pu and moldavia as you have just enough dev to still make you eligible. After you are in and events fire you can be this behemoth within the empire, just kinda taking as you please.
1.36 path notes say "‘The Varna Aftermath’ mission for Poland will now grant 1 PU CB instead of 2, and claims instead of the 2nd PU CB, depending on the choice in the Jagiellon event." I dont know if you know of a seperate way to get both
you can get both. just make bohemia 90 trust and 200 relations (best option is to do it before ending war of unification with hungary, and click mission the bohemian throne. there is small chanve bohemia will choose to become polands pu, but somehow if they refuse to do that my game randomly crashes.
Another tip that wasn't mentioned: the mission tree can give you a PU CB on Sweden (or whoever holds Stockholm). You can take advantage of this by allying Sweden, feeding them Denmark/Norway, then breaking alliance and PU'ing them after they form Scandinavia for a very strong subject at low AE cost.
The one thing i would change in this guide is to vassalize Riga and develop it. You would accomplish a rigan mission where you could have a one minor province that would help you in your wars.
@@alexturony9143 it is not any kind of OPM. It's the best one in the game. If you complete two of their missions by developing it. it can handle 30K troops easily by making it a march
I tried it and it was definitely worth it once you get to the mid game. Get influence ideas and start diverting trade once you taken over the Baltic and PU'd Sweden. Managed to get 100 Ducats a month after transferring from Novgorod and Krakow
I normally do the first Sejm Debate before I assign the other 3 seats, that way I only have to pay one 'bribe' or they simply auto-accept. The second time around, you have to pay off all the people who have a seat in the Sejm. Also, after I get my PU over Hungary, I like to build some Mil buildings, so that when I hit the Hungary event, I get a +1 mil dev per province that has a Mil building.
I feel like to balance the great projects, they need to double the cost of the really good monuments (like ahlambra), or halve the cost of worse monuments (like Bran Castle).
@@BigPurpleCarrot Because when you combine all the existing monuments they are too strong already. If you buffed the weaker ones, they would make the game far too easy
Poland plays so fun. I have around 2.5k hours, hardly played outside of Europe, but played Poland like 10-15 times, it's always so much to do and so many ways to expand - wide or tall
I love the moment, when you say that the danzing-Teutons is a very easy war… while in mine there were livonians, whole Kalmar Union, and some minors from the hre
There are other approaches. Initially, Ally Burgundy, Bohemia, Lithuania, and Moldavia. Once you get Moldavia, get them as a vassal, and take the privilege. Take the mission and attack Wallachia and full annex. Then PU Hungary. Give Bohemia as much of Austria as you can in separate peace deal. Burgundy will also help with this war. Then, turn East. Crimea, Russia, and keep currying favors. Bohemia will become a PU with a mission once they have 200 relations and 100 trust. (be careful, your computer may crash a few times when you take the mission). Feed Lithuania Russia. Then, develop Lithuanian land, yoink, and you spend your development on low cost Ruthenian land instead of high cost Russian land. I feed Livonian order to Prussia along with the land bridge and Sweden. Gives a decent march that helps for a good bit of time. Get Lithuania up to 59 provinces before you form the commonwealth. Waiting may be a good idea to get enough governing capacity to absorb them. Alternate Russia and France as your targets to grow Burgundy and Lithuania. This gives a nice break to help with growing admin ideas. As far as idea - kinda disagree. I think Diplo, Religious, Admin are your best 3 to start. That gives you the ability to convert your land and get loads of papal influence, lowered cost to take land, an extra diplo slot, lower coring cost, and more governing capacity. With your PU/Vassal swarm, you don't NEED military ideas because your vassals do a great deal of the fighting. I like Offensive as the first Mil idea in slot 4 for the siegability and land force limit, but at that point, you ought to be 1500 dev yourself with another 1500 in PUs. Also, you can attack into the HRE and take Austria to split between Hungar and Bohemia. Once you have Burgundy and Hungary nice and fat, you can use the CB for Balkan independence on the Ottomans after you get the age of Reformation 25% against other religions. With the diplo idea and that age bonus, you can take a huge amount of the balkans in one war and feed everything in Ragusan node to Hungary, and keep the Constintanople node for yourself. During Age of Reformation, it's mostly expansion East and South. Use the Religious ideas CB to freely attack to finish off Ottomans, Nogai, Muscovy, kazan, and Uzbek. By Age of Absolutism, should border Oirat/Ming/Shun, Transoxiana,/Timurids/Mughals and Mamluks. I think the trickiest part about Poland is negotiating the Age of Absolutism disaster while still being effective in your expansion. You may end up spending a great deal of time just fighting magnate rebels, so consider getting a bunch of AE just before 1610 and then using the magnate rebellions to let the AE bleed off.
Something to add with forcing PUs: since you need to make sure you have positive relations with your subjects before your ruler dies, or the PU is dissolved; it's often a good idea to immeditaly declare another war. It increases subject relations by +25 instantly, and allows you to possibly get further bonuses for defending and de-seiging their land. In this case, going after Wallachia wouldn't hurt, since you have claims, and they aren't Catholic, like the rest of the coalition.
nah terrible idea, causes basically the entire HRE to declare war within a year of taking Hungary and the AE does another negative 100 to their opinion of you anyway making the 25 and any other bonus redundant. that 300k HRE army is gonna wipe the floor with most people.
Hawk One thing you forgot was to kill wallachia rightly After the event. You would own them directly so you could Spy on the ottomans and kills them instantly
In my game I waited until tech 8 to take the Negotiations of Lublin, then just gave Lithuania all of the provinces back and then immediately formed Commonwealth at tech 8 with no paper mana wasted on coring Ruthenia
Also the game definitely needs more vassal swarm mission trees lol! Not having to do tedious micro and letting vassals take care of things for you is my favorite playstyle by far. Which is why playing the HRE I never actually form the HRE.
Thanks for your guide, it was very helpful for me to have a nice start with good PUs. But one "incident" appeared during my game : the year is 1471 and I got France as PU. I was afraid I let the nobles have too much influence, but I think this game will be fantastic to play. Thanks again for your guide, I may still watch what to do after my war, but I think I'll chill and destroy all my enemies little by little.
"If Austria and Bohemia haven’t rivaled each other, restart. Don’t worry, you won’t have to restart too many times." Meanwhile I’m typing this after my 13th consecutive restart…
boyyy, i do the byzantium guide and have the same problem, the ottoman just keep attack me or my vassal and i have to restart 5 time now. BUT the poland one go great tho....
@@minhquanphung9641 Try to ally to hungary, insulting the ottomans + improving should be enough to get them. After that you dont need any more allies, they will ignore you
If you are able to vassalize Wallachia, it has a great mission where it can kill off the Ottoman leader and his heir by occupying the Ottoman capital. There's a prior mission you need to fulfill, which I believe is allying Wallachia while being rivaled to the Ottomans. It also gets claims against the Balkans, IIRC.
The easiest way to get Hungary as a PU is waiting untill Matyas Corvinus becomes the heir of the throne, when that happens Austria will get the restore the union CB and will not join the war if you declare on Hungary.
So I completed that mission "Develop Ruthenia" where it said I can take the Commonwealth decision. But it still says not until admin 10. My playthrough mimic'd yours almost exactly. But while I did get the Burgundian PU, I didn't get the other event that almost-always results in an instant inheritance once that occurs. Also, Austria is guaranteed by France?! lol. I've so far, released Novgorod, and Bulgaria, and have even gotten all but one of Bulgaria's cores back from the ottos. It's just weird how my playthrough almost completely matched this one. Including Muscovy taking all but the single province of the LO.
19:30 i usualy want Danzig to do the oposite and take Kulm(Chełmno) because in the event(The Peace of Thorn) from mission you get free core on it and no separatism.
Honestly it really sucks that there's no good reason to pick the local noble option. I wish the Bohemian and Hungarian unions were only avaliable if you went with "a local noble." In fact, I wish the local noble started another event that gave you a few options, either your Piast duke in mazovia ( insta-annexing them) or the current king of Bohemia or Hungary, with Hungary giving you Mattias (or his regent) and Bohemia potentially leading to you becoming Hussite and then potentially Lutheran. Maybe the Bohemian union gives you religious trouble drawbacks and the Hungarian one gives an option between ceding the Croatian union to Austria or having a war with them over both Hungary and Croatia, with the Ottos potentially demanding Moldavia in exchange for neutrality. Idk, it's a great mission tree, but there's alot of mission trees that suffer from having just plain nonsense options. Why not take the Lithuanian union? It's easy to become emperor anyway.
There is actually a very good reason to go local noble - you can join the HRE and easily become emperor (and elector by stealing it from Bohemia), which I have done in my game, and it gives you permaclaims over Lithuania anyway so you don't lose much. Lithuania's land is garbage anyway. Also you avoid the shitty government reform and get a god ruler right when you need one (early game to get to tech 4 before everyone else)
how? It's literally the easiest nation in eu4, easier than Ottomans at least. Just go east if the west is barricaded with big alliances and threat of coalition
claim russia asap and then once you're done you have open space to go into Asia or the turks. You also want to secure alliances and beat down Ottomans when they come otherwise they will grow to be your nightmare. Just avoid fighting colonial nations if they grow because it's annoying how much you have to invest in such wars and you gain nothing unless you are colonial yourself
I did an Ironman run of Poland without this dlc so it was a bit different but I think I did pretty well. I managed to conquer all of the balkans and dismantled the HRE. It was my first time so I don’t know any fancy maneuvers, but I don’t think any nation alive at the point could have defeated me other. Other than spain of course with like six colonies each with a hundred thousand troops. And of course they allied with Russia so I had to watch my step with anyone around me.
how the frick are people so good at this game I just started playing and have no idea what to click and stuff (apart from the basics in the turorial). I managed to take some land during the Danzig plea for help tho
As Poland, what you can do is form Ruthenia first by taking Ruthenian lands from Lithuania with the missiontree while still having them as a subject. Culture switch to Ruthenian, form Ruthenia and then you can form Russia, which is way more powerful of a formable than Commonwealth.
You should take Hont if you can, because it will boost your economy a lot in the early game! I didnt do it the first time and had such an easier time on my 2nd playthrough when I did.
Hi i just found your guide and followed it with a great pleasure. Even when my game looked a little bit different your guide was great enough to correct everything. Awesome Stuff. Thanks!
Before 1.34 patch as PLC I managed to form HRE as becoming emperor at some point was very easy. If you pay attention to HRE situation you can see when electors can not vote/do not want to vote for Austria and become disunited - then its likely best chance to get enough votes to be elected. Then its a snowball if you take care of diplo reputation and relations. Before 1.34 there was 100% discount(now 50%) for admin capacity cost. So after becoming HRE I was with 15K dev and usage of gov cap was 700? So it was totally insane around 1750. Of course I know that many likes just to use vassal swarm but for me it was very funny that nearly entire Europe was just mine, Mediterranean Sea mine etc etc. PLC is overpowered and enjoyable.
I think the Danzig event will always trigger in 1460 because to avoid it you have to seize crown land right on time 3 times. If you don’t manage it Danzig will form. AI never does it so the event triggers. Should always be at the same time if I remember it right.
If you could first do the estates, then before assigning parliament seats start the debate. You can get policy to get 5% crown land for free as an possible option.
I prefer getting Wallachia early, then taking the connecting province in Hungary, get to Serbia before Kebabman. Then you get Kosovo+Hont and Bohemia's gold eventually. Really helps that slow early Polish economy
Copernicus was the first to model the solar system with the sun at the center rather than the earth, according to western history, since an ancient Greek did it @TheRedHawk
I got better one, -right when you get Jagiellon, no CB byzantium and vassal them (improve relationship with kebab for right of passage) -attack muscovy when they are dealing with novogrod and take 2-3 provinces - it makes dealing with them later easier -ally Austria, use them to beat up kebab by 1470 and reconquer most lands of Byz -you should try to annex most vassals ASAP, taking sejm perk to remove diplo -3 is good idea.
Little surprised you go for militarily forcing the Bohemia PU. I thought it would be easier to just ally them and get the PU peacefully by getting their trust up to 100. Means you don't have to reroll the start and can spend your manpower on TO or Hungary instead.
Did you end up going for the "compromise" path on the left hand side missions? Not sure how giving out that many nobility privileges will affect the whole struggle for power in Age of Absolutism.
is it possible to beat ottomans at the tech 6 / 7 point of the game ? had a few attempts of this and otto always declare war on me around this point? or should i avoid rivalling them ?
You could play with the fact that noble integration policy revokes itself when you run out of 'integratable' subjects. So if the nobles are loyal you can eat the influence over 100 for the time integrating and let the priviledge disappear. But that's probably for advanced players.
That is actualy creepy… I just started up eu4, didn‘t know which nation to play, went for Poland Then I realized I have no idea how to play Poland after the update So I start up UA-cam to find a guide you made and this is for real the first video I saw That and the fact that it was uploaded 2 hours ago is lowkey creepy
For me, I like to go Influence -> Aristocratic/Economic in whatever order you feel like you need(military buffs or economy buffs) -> Quality -> Diplomatic/Trade (pick trade if you are still struggling economically and diplo if you need to manage coalitions more) Vassalize Riga, Byz/Bulgaria and Novgorod And my special strategy is Guarantee Byz, this will weak the Ottos I like to stay with the Polish Ideas when i form PLC What do you guys think?
While doing this guide did You consider is very early game conquering Constantinople from Byzantium (even without CB), so by this action having Constantinople before Ottomans made them little bit mindfucked which might even end that Ottomans won't create any super powerful empire that will be after all difficult to handle before mil tech 15?
Good guide, but Quick suggestion! If there's some condition worth restarting over, please *lead* with that in the future. Having to reload my game AFTER doing a bunch of startup is quite irritating (Austria and Bohemia weren't rivals)
A small missed opportunity: if you do Lublin talks and take these Ukrainian lands from Lithuania, it decreases its province count to about 40. The decision to form PLC allows up to 60 provinces for Lithuania. So you could feed them a bunch of land in the East and then get it cored up for free when forming PLC. (I guess it is compensated by the fact that you spend admin on coring the lands you took in the first place - but having spent it should be an even stronger incentive to make up for it by feeding Lithuania.)
what about Nieszawa privileges?i think you accepted them althought its better not giving any privileges at all to szlachta and go for more centralized route. aaand what about giving away the crownlands that early since you need 50 for balance of power mission? i get it its for new players, but i feel like its REALLY inefficient. if you go that way you can remove the golden liberty privilege early on( as long as you have enough loyalty which is easy to get you need more or less 60-65) so you dont have to wait until 1600s. I understand that giving away your crownland early on is optimal, but i dont feel like is the case with Poland. Still love your vids.
Bro, what about an AJAM to PERSIA guide or may be ARDABIL to PERSIA but it will be more A TO Z thing then a GUIDE, But bro you're really missing out a guide on persia. You have covered Ottomans, Mughals and European Nations. I think you should make a Persia guide. Congratulations on 100K Subs 🎉.
What ratio of infantry/cavalry/artillery would you recommend with Poland or other cav combat boosted nations. I’ve got the gameplay sort of down but the mechanics can be so complicated. Like army composition at each tech level, i understand that it centres around width but after cannons are introduced i have no idea how to structure my stacks. I’m not even going to get into when to dev, tech/innovation and institutions which confuse me. Like when do you tech up and when to dev for certain institutions, how to optimise innovation by waiting(?). I know this would be a massive project and you’re busy enough already but would it be possible for you to do a mechanics guide series. While the nation guides are brilliant, after a certain point it can be difficult knowing what to do in certain ages, like wtf is absolutism etc. Things like monarch points and when to tech, when to wait and use them to dev instead can be really hard to sus out. Estates i think is a massive source of head scratching, like i see you choose them at the start of the video but don’t really understand why, or what they really do, that’s not even mentioning the clusterf*** estates i saw when attempting to play in India. Anyway, sorry rant over lmao, but if it’s at all possible would that be something you are interested in doing?
The cannons question is actually quite simple: - They are the most expensive unit in the game, so you only build them when you can afford them - They give bonus to sieging, at a rate of 1 cannon/every fort level for 1 bonus to siege (so a fort level 2 will require you to get 10 cannons for a max bonus of +5 to siege) - Cannons get +50% damage when they are attacking from the backrow, so your goal is to always have at least 1 stack of cannons as big as the current combat width. You then use this stack for battles while throwing inf/cav into the meatgrinder (keeping up their numbers in the battle by reinforcing it up to the combatwidth as the battle goes and casualties mount up) - In general, I follow the idea that you should only use as much cav as you can fully exploit over their flanking range. This is a little bit more complicated so you start with 4/combat stack and as the flanking range increases, you increase their number accordingly (so, if you don't have any cav bonuses, when you get +50% flanking range from the tech, the number of cav you want turns to 6 (1.5x4). - Cav is strong (but expensive) early game, with bonuses it can be up to early-late game, but it cannot match up the infantry of the late game (due to how infantry-heavy bonuses from ideas can get). - When you are playing around the cav, you always need to keep one element in mind. Insufficient support. WHenever your army (even if it happens in the middle of the battle) goes below the ratio of inf to cav ratio of your country, you get massive malus to cav fighting power. So by default, if you go around with stack of 10k inf and 10k cav (max of what you can use on the default ratio), then as soon as you lose a single infantry to attrition/in a battle, you get "insufficient infantry support" malus. That's why, depending on what you are comfortable with, cav should be always (personal opinion here) between 15% and 25% less than your current ratio. The obvious exception is when you are stacking inf to cav ratio bonuses that allows you to run greater % of cav in your unit (all the way to where you can get 100% cav units without malus) TL:DR - Keep combat stacks of artilery the size of current combat width but always bring enough infantry to put on the frontline - Keep siege stacks of 5x level of forts you want to siege (or as much as you can afford) for max bonus against forts - Cav has its specific uses but it introduces quite a lot of micomanagement of your armies and its generally accepted that without national ideas for cav, it's not worth the effort to run it (and unless you start or quickly develop a strong economy, its often too expensive to run it as well) This is by no means an expert's guide, just what I learned from various streamers and my own games :3 EDIT: - If you are rich but have small force limit, cav can be your best friend as its twice as strong as infantry early on (but 2.5x more expensive) - Cav is a shock oriented unit, so they are relevant as long as shock phase is more important than fire phase (and the reason why they fall off vs infantry later on)
@@michalkeblowski629 much appreciated, I love how you say it’s simple and then provide an essay 🤣 I guess it’s relatively simple for eu4. That’s helped massively though! I’ve always struggled with army composition and not knowing how to structure my stacks optimally in the game. Gonna try using some of your advice in my next play through.
Why rival Bohemia? Ally Bohemia and use it to defeat Hungary. Get Bohemia diplomatic way a bit later. Much better start is annexing Wallachia, PU Hungary and declaring on Ottomans when they are at war with someone else like Albania + Venice. In 1460 (before Danzig event) you can own Constantinople.
always reject pu over lithuania for 2 reasons, 1 you can join the hre and get tons of bonuses and a massive vassal swarm, 2 you can also form ruthenia which gives you a ton of bonuses better than commonwealth ones and also means you can have all the land and not have the terrible government reform that comes with the pu. honestly the pu is a massive trap.
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Maybey Aragón? I don't know if the old one it's still updated or not, and since you have done recent guides about castille and portugal, with aragon you will complete the cristian nations of Iberia
Austria or Venice would be nice
Would love to see a HRE Emperor run as Byzantium
Why not Gotland or the Teutonic order? Thatd be interesting
Great guide Red Hawk! It’s a beautiful nation!
How about an updated English guide?
For anyone that might be curious, refusing the Lithuanian PU allows you to enter the HRE and the missions give you permanent bonuses to keeping the enperorship and getting higher imperial authority.
I really enjoyed HRE vassal swarm as Poland
Honestly I think it's the better route, you avoid the shitty elective monarchy and you get permaclaims on Lith anyway so no big loss there.
@@psychic_beth big win was going for local noble and got random Lithuania PU when they ruler died 😂
@@psychic_beth that's true, you get the better gov reform earlier, keep the parliament and later on you get a helluva lot of max absolutism from the mission that dissolves it
@@norezi8130 There is a slight chance that your local noble ruler will randomly get the Jagiellon dynasty because that was one of the possible Polish dynasty name in the Polish namelist. You can claim throne on Lithuania immediately with him
There was a cheese some time ago where with some fortunate diplomacy (bohemia hating you and Austria) you can ally Austria and then you need for game to crash every time when you get Lithuania pu or moldavia event before Austria let's you in HRE. you need this to happen before pu and moldavia as you have just enough dev to still make you eligible. After you are in and events fire you can be this behemoth within the empire, just kinda taking as you please.
For anyone confused like I am; As of 1.36 you get either Hungary or Bohemia PU based on jagellion event choice. You DO NOT get both
You can still get both
@@mattroscoe1359 how?
1.36 path notes say "‘The Varna Aftermath’ mission for Poland will now grant 1 PU CB instead of 2, and claims instead of the 2nd PU CB, depending on the choice in the Jagiellon event." I dont know if you know of a seperate way to get both
ah that's why, i was really confused why i couldn't the bohemia PU cb, only the hungarian one, so that explains it thank you.
you can get both. just make bohemia 90 trust and 200 relations (best option is to do it before ending war of unification with hungary, and click mission the bohemian throne. there is small chanve bohemia will choose to become polands pu, but somehow if they refuse to do that my game randomly crashes.
Happy for you Hawk, sad that you couldn't hit 100k before PDXCon, but you'll be there next time! Keep up the quality content!
You reap what you sow :)
At least there’s still time for 100K by New Year's!
With this videos the 100k will be easy
Another tip that wasn't mentioned: the mission tree can give you a PU CB on Sweden (or whoever holds Stockholm). You can take advantage of this by allying Sweden, feeding them Denmark/Norway, then breaking alliance and PU'ing them after they form Scandinavia for a very strong subject at low AE cost.
The one thing i would change in this guide is to vassalize Riga and develop it. You would accomplish a rigan mission where you could have a one minor province that would help you in your wars.
Poland already has too many diplomatic relations, it is not worth an opm vassal
@@alexturony9143 it is not any kind of OPM. It's the best one in the game. If you complete two of their missions by developing it.
it can handle 30K troops easily by making it a march
@@augustosannita9329 Yeah, but you already suffer greatly from too many diplomatic relations
I tried it and it was definitely worth it once you get to the mid game. Get influence ideas and start diverting trade once you taken over the Baltic and PU'd Sweden. Managed to get 100 Ducats a month after transferring from Novgorod and Krakow
@@SoulBro12 And even when you steal their trade, Riga keeps making a lot of money. Its so worth.
I normally do the first Sejm Debate before I assign the other 3 seats, that way I only have to pay one 'bribe' or they simply auto-accept. The second time around, you have to pay off all the people who have a seat in the Sejm.
Also, after I get my PU over Hungary, I like to build some Mil buildings, so that when I hit the Hungary event, I get a +1 mil dev per province that has a Mil building.
I feel like to balance the great projects, they need to double the cost of the really good monuments (like ahlambra), or halve the cost of worse monuments (like Bran Castle).
Why don't they just buff the weaker monuments to be more in line with the stronger ones?
@@BigPurpleCarrot Because when you combine all the existing monuments they are too strong already. If you buffed the weaker ones, they would make the game far too easy
Poland plays so fun. I have around 2.5k hours, hardly played outside of Europe, but played Poland like 10-15 times, it's always so much to do and so many ways to expand - wide or tall
I wish they gave negative modifiers to Frances starting privilege, rather than it just being a better version of the privilege everyone else gets.
I love the moment, when you say that the danzing-Teutons is a very easy war… while in mine there were livonians, whole Kalmar Union, and some minors from the hre
ik im late but it depends who teutons will ally. mostly it is easy war
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@@freelandguy121 paradox probably
There are other approaches. Initially, Ally Burgundy, Bohemia, Lithuania, and Moldavia. Once you get Moldavia, get them as a vassal, and take the privilege. Take the mission and attack Wallachia and full annex. Then PU Hungary. Give Bohemia as much of Austria as you can in separate peace deal. Burgundy will also help with this war. Then, turn East. Crimea, Russia, and keep currying favors. Bohemia will become a PU with a mission once they have 200 relations and 100 trust. (be careful, your computer may crash a few times when you take the mission). Feed Lithuania Russia. Then, develop Lithuanian land, yoink, and you spend your development on low cost Ruthenian land instead of high cost Russian land. I feed Livonian order to Prussia along with the land bridge and Sweden. Gives a decent march that helps for a good bit of time. Get Lithuania up to 59 provinces before you form the commonwealth. Waiting may be a good idea to get enough governing capacity to absorb them. Alternate Russia and France as your targets to grow Burgundy and Lithuania. This gives a nice break to help with growing admin ideas.
As far as idea - kinda disagree. I think Diplo, Religious, Admin are your best 3 to start. That gives you the ability to convert your land and get loads of papal influence, lowered cost to take land, an extra diplo slot, lower coring cost, and more governing capacity. With your PU/Vassal swarm, you don't NEED military ideas because your vassals do a great deal of the fighting. I like Offensive as the first Mil idea in slot 4 for the siegability and land force limit, but at that point, you ought to be 1500 dev yourself with another 1500 in PUs. Also, you can attack into the HRE and take Austria to split between Hungar and Bohemia. Once you have Burgundy and Hungary nice and fat, you can use the CB for Balkan independence on the Ottomans after you get the age of Reformation 25% against other religions. With the diplo idea and that age bonus, you can take a huge amount of the balkans in one war and feed everything in Ragusan node to Hungary, and keep the Constintanople node for yourself. During Age of Reformation, it's mostly expansion East and South. Use the Religious ideas CB to freely attack to finish off Ottomans, Nogai, Muscovy, kazan, and Uzbek. By Age of Absolutism, should border Oirat/Ming/Shun, Transoxiana,/Timurids/Mughals and Mamluks.
I think the trickiest part about Poland is negotiating the Age of Absolutism disaster while still being effective in your expansion. You may end up spending a great deal of time just fighting magnate rebels, so consider getting a bunch of AE just before 1610 and then using the magnate rebellions to let the AE bleed off.
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You were the first eu4 channel I found and I think you’re entertaining and informative as hell! Congrats on the 100k dude!
i see Poland, i hit the like button. simple as that
So you’re either polish or Hungarian, either way, pretty based
@@legitplayin6977 or they could be Mongolian fans of Sabaton who like the song the winged hussars
You can start the debate on the Sejm before assigning new seats for reduced costs
Something to add with forcing PUs: since you need to make sure you have positive relations with your subjects before your ruler dies, or the PU is dissolved; it's often a good idea to immeditaly declare another war. It increases subject relations by +25 instantly, and allows you to possibly get further bonuses for defending and de-seiging their land. In this case, going after Wallachia wouldn't hurt, since you have claims, and they aren't Catholic, like the rest of the coalition.
nah terrible idea, causes basically the entire HRE to declare war within a year of taking Hungary and the AE does another negative 100 to their opinion of you anyway making the 25 and any other bonus redundant. that 300k HRE army is gonna wipe the floor with most people.
Hawk One thing you forgot was to kill wallachia rightly After the event. You would own them directly so you could Spy on the ottomans and kills them instantly
wat
In my game I waited until tech 8 to take the Negotiations of Lublin, then just gave Lithuania all of the provinces back and then immediately formed Commonwealth at tech 8 with no paper mana wasted on coring Ruthenia
Also the game definitely needs more vassal swarm mission trees lol! Not having to do tedious micro and letting vassals take care of things for you is my favorite playstyle by far. Which is why playing the HRE I never actually form the HRE.
lazyman playstyle
Love these lengthy guides :)
They nerfed the Varna Aftermath mission in 1.36. The mission no longer gives 2 PU's :(
You can still get a PU with bohemia by going the diplomatic path
Sad days :(
Thanks for your guide, it was very helpful for me to have a nice start with good PUs.
But one "incident" appeared during my game : the year is 1471 and I got France as PU. I was afraid I let the nobles have too much influence, but I think this game will be fantastic to play.
Thanks again for your guide, I may still watch what to do after my war, but I think I'll chill and destroy all my enemies little by little.
"If Austria and Bohemia haven’t rivaled each other, restart. Don’t worry, you won’t have to restart too many times."
Meanwhile I’m typing this after my 13th consecutive restart…
boyyy, i do the byzantium guide and have the same problem, the ottoman just keep attack me or my vassal and i have to restart 5 time now.
BUT the poland one go great tho....
@@minhquanphung9641 Try to ally to hungary, insulting the ottomans + improving should be enough to get them. After that you dont need any more allies, they will ignore you
For the life of me I cannot get Moldavia game started can’t wait to see you play them
100k, congrats man, you deserved it
If you are able to vassalize Wallachia, it has a great mission where it can kill off the Ottoman leader and his heir by occupying the Ottoman capital. There's a prior mission you need to fulfill, which I believe is allying Wallachia while being rivaled to the Ottomans. It also gets claims against the Balkans, IIRC.
I always find it interesting but respectable that in these guides you give up great opertunities that come your way.
I also would love to see you do a full Poland play through on stream. It looks like it would be a fun watch.
The easiest way to get Hungary as a PU is waiting untill Matyas Corvinus becomes the heir of the throne, when that happens Austria will get the restore the union CB and will not join the war if you declare on Hungary.
Congrats on 100k subs! I've been hearing that goal from you for awhile so its nice to see you finally hit it!
Congratulations on the 100k Subs Hawk, you earned it!
Damn he's so close to 100k!!! Come on ppl! Share this great content!
So I completed that mission "Develop Ruthenia" where it said I can take the Commonwealth decision. But it still says not until admin 10. My playthrough mimic'd yours almost exactly. But while I did get the Burgundian PU, I didn't get the other event that almost-always results in an instant inheritance once that occurs. Also, Austria is guaranteed by France?! lol. I've so far, released Novgorod, and Bulgaria, and have even gotten all but one of Bulgaria's cores back from the ottos. It's just weird how my playthrough almost completely matched this one. Including Muscovy taking all but the single province of the LO.
19:30 i usualy want Danzig to do the oposite and take Kulm(Chełmno) because in the event(The Peace of Thorn) from mission you get free core on it and no separatism.
You shouldn't have any separatism either way because its the same culture and religion as you
Honestly it really sucks that there's no good reason to pick the local noble option. I wish the Bohemian and Hungarian unions were only avaliable if you went with "a local noble."
In fact, I wish the local noble started another event that gave you a few options, either your Piast duke in mazovia ( insta-annexing them) or the current king of Bohemia or Hungary, with Hungary giving you Mattias (or his regent) and Bohemia potentially leading to you becoming Hussite and then potentially Lutheran.
Maybe the Bohemian union gives you religious trouble drawbacks and the Hungarian one gives an option between ceding the Croatian union to Austria or having a war with them over both Hungary and Croatia, with the Ottos potentially demanding Moldavia in exchange for neutrality.
Idk, it's a great mission tree, but there's alot of mission trees that suffer from having just plain nonsense options. Why not take the Lithuanian union? It's easy to become emperor anyway.
There is actually a very good reason to go local noble - you can join the HRE and easily become emperor (and elector by stealing it from Bohemia), which I have done in my game, and it gives you permaclaims over Lithuania anyway so you don't lose much. Lithuania's land is garbage anyway.
Also you avoid the shitty government reform and get a god ruler right when you need one (early game to get to tech 4 before everyone else)
i was literally dying 5 minutes ago as poland, I rage quited and came to yt and you just uploaded this guide. Thank you man
Also, congrats on 100k man!!
how? It's literally the easiest nation in eu4, easier than Ottomans at least. Just go east if the west is barricaded with big alliances and threat of coalition
claim russia asap and then once you're done you have open space to go into Asia or the turks. You also want to secure alliances and beat down Ottomans when they come otherwise they will grow to be your nightmare. Just avoid fighting colonial nations if they grow because it's annoying how much you have to invest in such wars and you gain nothing unless you are colonial yourself
@@dawidpotega882 let's say i am really bad at this game xD
I did an Ironman run of Poland without this dlc so it was a bit different but I think I did pretty well. I managed to conquer all of the balkans and dismantled the HRE. It was my first time so I don’t know any fancy maneuvers, but I don’t think any nation alive at the point could have defeated me other. Other than spain of course with like six colonies each with a hundred thousand troops. And of course they allied with Russia so I had to watch my step with anyone around me.
how the frick are people so good at this game
I just started playing and have no idea what to click and stuff (apart from the basics in the turorial). I managed to take some land during the Danzig plea for help tho
@@GotMyTowel42 I watched a lot of UA-cam content before I ever started playing the game. It really helps you understand what little things you can do.
@@meatloafisgood2374 okie, thanks man
As Poland, what you can do is form Ruthenia first by taking Ruthenian lands from Lithuania with the missiontree while still having them as a subject. Culture switch to Ruthenian, form Ruthenia and then you can form Russia, which is way more powerful of a formable than Commonwealth.
Hi there! Awesome tutorial!! Make a Genoa guide! There are no one out there. Very cool nation to play with.
Been waiting for this one, I knew a Poland guide was imminent.
Finally! I tried playing PLC the other week but I just struggled to get my economy off the ground so much. Gratz on 100k subscribers king 👑
You should take Hont if you can, because it will boost your economy a lot in the early game! I didnt do it the first time and had such an easier time on my 2nd playthrough when I did.
2:00 If you start a debatte befor gifing out more seats you can avoid giving out 3 concession
Hi i just found your guide and followed it with a great pleasure. Even when my game looked a little bit different your guide was great enough to correct everything. Awesome Stuff. Thanks!
Before 1.34 patch as PLC I managed to form HRE as becoming emperor at some point was very easy. If you pay attention to HRE situation you can see when electors can not vote/do not want to vote for Austria and become disunited - then its likely best chance to get enough votes to be elected. Then its a snowball if you take care of diplo reputation and relations.
Before 1.34 there was 100% discount(now 50%) for admin capacity cost. So after becoming HRE I was with 15K dev and usage of gov cap was 700? So it was totally insane around 1750. Of course I know that many likes just to use vassal swarm but for me it was very funny that nearly entire Europe was just mine, Mediterranean Sea mine etc etc. PLC is overpowered and enjoyable.
We finnaly hit those 100k subs GG !
32:53 Wouldn't it be a little better to annex the Livonian Order and release them so they like you more and are more loyal?
I think the Danzig event will always trigger in 1460 because to avoid it you have to seize crown land right on time 3 times. If you don’t manage it Danzig will form. AI never does it so the event triggers. Should always be at the same time if I remember it right.
100k, man. I wish you a good Christmas
Congrats with 100k subs! May your channel grow even bigger!
:)
If you could first do the estates, then before assigning parliament seats start the debate. You can get policy to get 5% crown land for free as an possible option.
I cry everytime Red Hawk plays with high estates influence
Just started playing eu4, really helpful video
Let's goooooo, More life my brother. Keep doing your thang
my king died at 1448 and i lost my pu 💀
Local noble is a viable path if you want to do the whole hre revoke thing. Its good in a way but you get bored after a few times.
I prefer getting Wallachia early, then taking the connecting province in Hungary, get to Serbia before Kebabman. Then you get Kosovo+Hont and Bohemia's gold eventually. Really helps that slow early Polish economy
Congrats on 100k bro!
Austria guide next? :^)
Great video man!
Varna Aftermath no longer gives Restoration pf Union cassis belli on Bohemia, only on Hungary.
Hawk, congrats on hitting 100k
Copernicus was the first to model the solar system with the sun at the center rather than the earth, according to western history, since an ancient Greek did it @TheRedHawk
Hawk, first you choose agenda, then asign new seats, everything else 👍
Inheriting Burgundy was so awesome lol you would have been simply unstoppable
100k special gotta play imperator invictus now 👀
wow, are you ever going to stream a world conquest as Poland?
i had a good run and hungry fell to the austrians as common pu form their choice event
Didn't even need to do anything and I became the HRE emperor from bohemia.
If you start a debate before giving seats, the debate wins instantly.
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I dunno, man. It's just what came to my head first.
I got better one,
-right when you get Jagiellon, no CB byzantium and vassal them (improve relationship with kebab for right of passage)
-attack muscovy when they are dealing with novogrod and take 2-3 provinces - it makes dealing with them later easier
-ally Austria, use them to beat up kebab by 1470 and reconquer most lands of Byz
-you should try to annex most vassals ASAP, taking sejm perk to remove diplo -3 is good idea.
Little surprised you go for militarily forcing the Bohemia PU. I thought it would be easier to just ally them and get the PU peacefully by getting their trust up to 100. Means you don't have to reroll the start and can spend your manpower on TO or Hungary instead.
how does that work ?
Did you end up going for the "compromise" path on the left hand side missions? Not sure how giving out that many nobility privileges will affect the whole struggle for power in Age of Absolutism.
is it possible to beat ottomans at the tech 6 / 7 point of the game ? had a few attempts of this and otto always declare war on me around this point? or should i avoid rivalling them ?
Wait until they fight someone in asia and then attack
You could play with the fact that noble integration policy revokes itself when you run out of 'integratable' subjects. So if the nobles are loyal you can eat the influence over 100 for the time integrating and let the priviledge disappear. But that's probably for advanced players.
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That is actualy creepy… I just started up eu4, didn‘t know which nation to play, went for Poland
Then I realized I have no idea how to play Poland after the update
So I start up UA-cam to find a guide you made and this is for real the first video I saw
That and the fact that it was uploaded 2 hours ago is lowkey creepy
Well in my game Hungary got PU'd by Austria via event right when i went to declare war
For me, I like to go Influence -> Aristocratic/Economic in whatever order you feel like you need(military buffs or economy buffs) -> Quality -> Diplomatic/Trade (pick trade if you are still struggling economically and diplo if you need to manage coalitions more)
Vassalize Riga, Byz/Bulgaria and Novgorod
And my special strategy is Guarantee Byz, this will weak the Ottos
I like to stay with the Polish Ideas when i form PLC
What do you guys think?
Why do you prefer polish ideas?
@@adrodelgado bcs Polish ideas are more military focused and PLC ideas are more blob style
While doing this guide did You consider is very early game conquering Constantinople from Byzantium (even without CB), so by this action having Constantinople before Ottomans made them little bit mindfucked which might even end that Ottomans won't create any super powerful empire that will be after all difficult to handle before mil tech 15?
Maybe tell me to check if austria and bohemia are rivaled before I go thru all of the set up first. thanks.
I exploit tax dev until i can join hre in my Poland games and become Emperor
perfect guide mateeeee
this is everybodys favourite nation like fr
Good guide, but Quick suggestion!
If there's some condition worth restarting over, please *lead* with that in the future. Having to reload my game AFTER doing a bunch of startup is quite irritating (Austria and Bohemia weren't rivals)
A small missed opportunity: if you do Lublin talks and take these Ukrainian lands from Lithuania, it decreases its province count to about 40. The decision to form PLC allows up to 60 provinces for Lithuania. So you could feed them a bunch of land in the East and then get it cored up for free when forming PLC. (I guess it is compensated by the fact that you spend admin on coring the lands you took in the first place - but having spent it should be an even stronger incentive to make up for it by feeding Lithuania.)
Took me 12 restarts, but thanks for the guide nonetheless!
Poland has Danzig? Oh boy!
what about Nieszawa privileges?i think you accepted them althought its better not giving any privileges at all to szlachta and go for more centralized route. aaand what about giving away the crownlands that early since you need 50 for balance of power mission? i get it its for new players, but i feel like its REALLY inefficient. if you go that way you can remove the golden liberty privilege early on( as long as you have enough loyalty which is easy to get you need more or less 60-65) so you dont have to wait until 1600s. I understand that giving away your crownland early on is optimal, but i dont feel like is the case with Poland. Still love your vids.
i go blind with aggressive expension
I keep attempting this guide but the crown looses land every time
This is an amazing guide, thanks!!
for 100k play an entire campaign for a releasable or a to z
Bro, what about an AJAM to PERSIA guide or may be ARDABIL to PERSIA but it will be more A TO Z thing then a GUIDE, But bro you're really missing out a guide on persia. You have covered Ottomans, Mughals and European Nations. I think you should make a Persia guide. Congratulations on 100K Subs 🎉.
Show how to seat the ottomans they roffelstomp me every game this is the perfect save to use
are you prefer to play with licky nations?
What ratio of infantry/cavalry/artillery would you recommend with Poland or other cav combat boosted nations. I’ve got the gameplay sort of down but the mechanics can be so complicated. Like army composition at each tech level, i understand that it centres around width but after cannons are introduced i have no idea how to structure my stacks. I’m not even going to get into when to dev, tech/innovation and institutions which confuse me. Like when do you tech up and when to dev for certain institutions, how to optimise innovation by waiting(?).
I know this would be a massive project and you’re busy enough already but would it be possible for you to do a mechanics guide series. While the nation guides are brilliant, after a certain point it can be difficult knowing what to do in certain ages, like wtf is absolutism etc. Things like monarch points and when to tech, when to wait and use them to dev instead can be really hard to sus out. Estates i think is a massive source of head scratching, like i see you choose them at the start of the video but don’t really understand why, or what they really do, that’s not even mentioning the clusterf*** estates i saw when attempting to play in India. Anyway, sorry rant over lmao, but if it’s at all possible would that be something you are interested in doing?
The cannons question is actually quite simple:
- They are the most expensive unit in the game, so you only build them when you can afford them
- They give bonus to sieging, at a rate of 1 cannon/every fort level for 1 bonus to siege (so a fort level 2 will require you to get 10 cannons for a max bonus of +5 to siege)
- Cannons get +50% damage when they are attacking from the backrow, so your goal is to always have at least 1 stack of cannons as big as the current combat width. You then use this stack for battles while throwing inf/cav into the meatgrinder (keeping up their numbers in the battle by reinforcing it up to the combatwidth as the battle goes and casualties mount up)
- In general, I follow the idea that you should only use as much cav as you can fully exploit over their flanking range. This is a little bit more complicated so you start with 4/combat stack and as the flanking range increases, you increase their number accordingly (so, if you don't have any cav bonuses, when you get +50% flanking range from the tech, the number of cav you want turns to 6 (1.5x4).
- Cav is strong (but expensive) early game, with bonuses it can be up to early-late game, but it cannot match up the infantry of the late game (due to how infantry-heavy bonuses from ideas can get).
- When you are playing around the cav, you always need to keep one element in mind. Insufficient support. WHenever your army (even if it happens in the middle of the battle) goes below the ratio of inf to cav ratio of your country, you get massive malus to cav fighting power. So by default, if you go around with stack of 10k inf and 10k cav (max of what you can use on the default ratio), then as soon as you lose a single infantry to attrition/in a battle, you get "insufficient infantry support" malus. That's why, depending on what you are comfortable with, cav should be always (personal opinion here) between 15% and 25% less than your current ratio. The obvious exception is when you are stacking inf to cav ratio bonuses that allows you to run greater % of cav in your unit (all the way to where you can get 100% cav units without malus)
TL:DR
- Keep combat stacks of artilery the size of current combat width but always bring enough infantry to put on the frontline
- Keep siege stacks of 5x level of forts you want to siege (or as much as you can afford) for max bonus against forts
- Cav has its specific uses but it introduces quite a lot of micomanagement of your armies and its generally accepted that without national ideas for cav, it's not worth the effort to run it (and unless you start or quickly develop a strong economy, its often too expensive to run it as well)
This is by no means an expert's guide, just what I learned from various streamers and my own games :3
EDIT:
- If you are rich but have small force limit, cav can be your best friend as its twice as strong as infantry early on (but 2.5x more expensive)
- Cav is a shock oriented unit, so they are relevant as long as shock phase is more important than fire phase (and the reason why they fall off vs infantry later on)
@@michalkeblowski629 much appreciated, I love how you say it’s simple and then provide an essay 🤣 I guess it’s relatively simple for eu4. That’s helped massively though! I’ve always struggled with army composition and not knowing how to structure my stacks optimally in the game. Gonna try using some of your advice in my next play through.
Why rival Bohemia? Ally Bohemia and use it to defeat Hungary. Get Bohemia diplomatic way a bit later. Much better start is annexing Wallachia, PU Hungary and declaring on Ottomans when they are at war with someone else like Albania + Venice. In 1460 (before Danzig event) you can own Constantinople.
always reject pu over lithuania for 2 reasons, 1 you can join the hre and get tons of bonuses and a massive vassal swarm, 2 you can also form ruthenia which gives you a ton of bonuses better than commonwealth ones and also means you can have all the land and not have the terrible government reform that comes with the pu. honestly the pu is a massive trap.
I dont have "Restoring the union" CB, only conquest of Bohemia - which DLC is that in?
"Restoring the union " only works for either Bohemia or Hungary now; for the other country you get "Conquest" of entire country, but AE hurts ;)