EU4 1.35 Switzerland Guide - This Is The MERCENARY PRUSSIA

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  • @TheRedHawk
    @TheRedHawk  Рік тому +15

    What is the next nation that I should do a guide about? Leave a comment here and join The Discord to chat with me: discord.gg/ksDjjUhKHd
    Check out more nation guides here: ua-cam.com/play/PLsO8A6cTBgguX6W3b2j-9IlbSHn2nR8wO.html

    • @boot-4704
      @boot-4704 Рік тому +1

      Oirat!

    • @Cave30060
      @Cave30060 Рік тому +1

      England

    • @fabianbartoszek7442
      @fabianbartoszek7442 Рік тому +1

      Bavaria

    • @reverendteej
      @reverendteej Рік тому

      Thanks once again Red Hawk! Amazing guide!
      Can we get one for Great Horde?

    • @reverendteej
      @reverendteej Рік тому

      @@fabianbartoszek7442he’s already done one just recently! Check it out, it’s awesome!

  • @Brewmaster13
    @Brewmaster13 Рік тому +121

    Best not to ally France early to get the triggered event to rent mercenaries to them during 100 years war. Ally them afterwards and use them to fight Burgandy and Austria. Also good to hit Austria sooner rather than later to grab Tirol and potentially spawn diamonds district. Switzerland is my favorite HRE start. I just wish their mission tree was more fleshed out.

    • @yummyananas
      @yummyananas Рік тому +14

      Solution to the mission tree situation is forming Swabia

  • @heisenstein6392
    @heisenstein6392 Рік тому +46

    You can just ally the three leagues and turn them into a vassal via an event. Just improve relations and you can annex them quickly, their lvl3 mountain fort is VERY valuable to fight against Austria early!

    • @ruffusgoodman4137
      @ruffusgoodman4137 Рік тому

      I didn't know that, it wouldn't matter in my game since they rivaled me. I get that you can Alt+F4 and try again, but I was fine with that run

    • @Quincius
      @Quincius Рік тому

      Yup, all you need is for them to have at least 100 opinion of you, very noice event.

  • @InfiniteTimesEf
    @InfiniteTimesEf Рік тому +37

    Also just a general tip for those who might not know: There is a scripted event for Switzerland if you form an alliance with the Three Leagues and have high enough relations, you are going to get them as a vassal.
    This is only worth it if there is some kind of alliance block that you cannot work around with though. Otherwise even though it'll be free to integrate them, since you have cores on them, this is going to mean you are going to have to wait for 5 years till you are gonna be able to annex them.
    Oh and also, if you offer condottieri to either one of the sides and if the side you are supporting has more than 10% war score on the Hundred Years War, there is a scripted event for that too which gives army professionalism and army tradition.
    And other than that, great video all around as always Hawk!!

    • @ruffusgoodman4137
      @ruffusgoodman4137 Рік тому

      Not to mention you could maybe exploit the France call to arms to get the White Company achievement as well. Great idea, btw, gonna test this later

  • @Mad-Cat_Dan
    @Mad-Cat_Dan Рік тому +32

    I've never seen Sweden get the Burgundian Succession. Moving up in the world to become a true Lion!

    • @Martin199659
      @Martin199659 Рік тому +1

      it only happens if it breaks free and gets Burgundian as a supporter. So far it only happen twice in around 200 games ive startet since the dlc dropped.

    • @TheMcgreary
      @TheMcgreary Рік тому

      I remember getting it as my first 1.34 campaign as sweden, good times😁

    • @Martin199659
      @Martin199659 Рік тому

      @@TheMcgreary nice. Tbh it's a little disappointing that Sweden rarely breaks free. Sadly the AI is afraid to break free even if it has like 3 big nations. It had once england, Burgund, Poland and Muscovy and didn't declare. Maybe it should be more aggressive

    • @misteryjeux
      @misteryjeux Рік тому

      it's because Denmark starts with an interest in the GB area,so the Burgundy Ai assume they both want Calais and starts hating Danemark,so Sweden ends up becoming friend with them since they share hatred of the Danes.
      Yes,it is THAT dumb.

  • @ruffusgoodman4137
    @ruffusgoodman4137 Рік тому +3

    Swiss was my first succesful gameplay, playing for the achievement. I had so much fun with this game, whole gameplay on the edge of my seat against insane coalitions and last minute alliances. Eventually, the achievement fulfilled, I formed Germany and the game shifted to a broader more complex set of mechanics.
    Fun fact, I only tackled switzerlake achievement because I hated and couldn't understand naval battles.

  • @Munchausenification
    @Munchausenification Рік тому +19

    I think not considering Sortition government reform is a mistake. it is on par with the others now that every candidate gets +1 to all categories

    • @nofoxgiven6561
      @nofoxgiven6561 Рік тому

      Isn’t it only +1 to a single random stat?

    • @Munchausenification
      @Munchausenification Рік тому +2

      @@nofoxgiven6561 it was, but now its +1 to all stats. Most of them are old so you get to switch often, meaning you get quite balanced monarch points over time.

  • @3komma141592653
    @3komma141592653 Рік тому +15

    I still don't like it that they made Switzerland the country that is hiring mercs when in reality men from Switzerland were the ones who were hired in other countries. There were at least some battles where mercenaries from Switzerland were on both sides of foreign armies. The way it is implemented is simply wrong. Still a fun way to play, it is fairly overpowered right now. Good time for the Switzerlake achievement.

    • @jacobschmidt8441
      @jacobschmidt8441 Рік тому +2

      Disagree. You could easily take advantage of the condottieri bonuses if you wanted but players decide to always go an alt history path.
      Its like complaining about Byzantium players beating the ottomans when they were the losers.

    • @3komma141592653
      @3komma141592653 Рік тому +15

      @@jacobschmidt8441 But Switzerland does have a lot of merc bonus in their ideas. Switzerland was poor, they never hired mercs. It is not what the player makes out of it, it is simply a wrong preset.

  • @lukaswilhelm9290
    @lukaswilhelm9290 Рік тому +23

    Switzerland during early EU4 dates is very strong like this is the same country that defeat Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy in his wars to united Burgundy into one nation state and we know what consequences of that by looking at centuries of wars between Germans and French.

    • @НилИванов-ж1ц
      @НилИванов-ж1ц Рік тому +5

      The duke''s name was Charles! Charles of Ghent, later Emperor Charles V was named after him, his great grandfather.

    • @adamyang3264
      @adamyang3264 Рік тому

      u mean charles, phillip the bold died in 1404

    • @lukaswilhelm9290
      @lukaswilhelm9290 Рік тому

      @@НилИванов-ж1ц yeah I mix them up sorry.

    • @lukaswilhelm9290
      @lukaswilhelm9290 Рік тому

      @@adamyang3264 fix it

  • @maelos61
    @maelos61 Рік тому +17

    "And by the time colonialism spawns, your game should look a little like this" **Shows Swedish France** God, please, no.

  • @anxiousseal556
    @anxiousseal556 Рік тому

    Finally a guide I've been waiting for thanks Red Hawk!

  • @illmaster
    @illmaster Рік тому +5

    I read somewhere that sadly Merc discipline modifier works like combat ability instead of discipline. So it is a glorified Infantry combat ability.

    • @sneediumminer
      @sneediumminer Рік тому +4

      yeah its really not great
      140% merc disc is worse than prussian national ideas

  • @andyduke6119
    @andyduke6119 Рік тому +2

    Once I really started blobbing, I had issues getting enough mercenary companies to keep adequate numbers of troops for my army.

    • @ruffusgoodman4137
      @ruffusgoodman4137 Рік тому

      Yeah, I transitioned my army to in-house once I was too big to play with merc toys.
      This militarizing mercs weren't in my game, I believe this is a Lions of the North or later DLC mechanic?

  • @Viperwarfare
    @Viperwarfare Рік тому +2

    As a swiss myself, I approve of this video!
    Denn jetzt ghört s Video dr Schwiizer Eidgenossenschaft!
    But in all seriousness, great video!

    • @ruffusgoodman4137
      @ruffusgoodman4137 Рік тому

      "Because this is time to listen to the video of Swiss Confederation"? (I googled it)
      When I was a kid, my school had a Nations Fair once. My group got Switzerland. My mom helped me run the research and once we got in contact with Swiss Consulate in my city, we were golden (this was before the Internet was a thing). It was the sweetest most endearing treatment we've ever had from pretty much strangers which best case scenario were acquainted to our native language (portuguese, we're from Brazil) and we knew 0 english back then. The material was in english so I had help from my aunt, that is proficient, to translate a little and get a hold of it.
      Swiss to this day is a dear memory from my childhood, the fair was a great success and we landed a great score from that schoolwork. My childhood crush was in my group and we presented our work that afternoon together that day to all families that visited the fair.

  • @recklesspotato8657
    @recklesspotato8657 Рік тому +3

    Nice video as usual, Im just curious why you dont get Sorition as a T3 gov. reform since it gives an additional +1+1+1 to your random choice. I find it usually as VERY valuable in my runs.
    Cheers!

    • @ruffusgoodman4137
      @ruffusgoodman4137 Рік тому

      Maybe Sortition combined with ruler as a general, but you lose control on what specialty the new ruler will get, isn't it?

    • @GlizzyGoblin757
      @GlizzyGoblin757 11 місяців тому

      reelect to get a 6/6/6 instead, republican tradition isnt hard to gain

    • @ruffusgoodman4137
      @ruffusgoodman4137 10 місяців тому

      @@GlizzyGoblin757 That's what I always do.
      Consolidation of powers + Noble families (I guess, the one that allow reelection and election from the family) does wonders.
      Too bad you got a limit for reelection

  • @maelos61
    @maelos61 Рік тому +1

    Dropped the ball a couple of times on the edits haha. Noticed two parts where hawk says something that's slightly wrong, stops and then repeats, which I assume gets cut normally.

  • @CheekyHaggis
    @CheekyHaggis Рік тому

    Going Reformed is SUPER powerful in Switzerland, and fun! Milleanist gov reform is also broken af, stacking enforce religion modifiers.

  • @Batista77387
    @Batista77387 Рік тому +4

    6:38 btw switzerland is not fully protestant historically its like 50% catholic and 50% reformed (different evangelical like calvinism) there even was a civil war called Sonderbundskrieg because of religion and other reasons.

    • @sagittariusa9012
      @sagittariusa9012 Рік тому +1

      I don't know how exactly the Catholic/Protestant ratio was in Switzerland but today there are more Catholics than Protestants. And as far as I know that was always the case in Switzerland.

    • @telcharthegreatsmithofthef7585
      @telcharthegreatsmithofthef7585 Рік тому +1

      ​@@sagittariusa9012today it's pretty even, historically there were more catholics.
      the historic conflict is between the reformed wealthy cities and the catholic countryside

    • @sagittariusa9012
      @sagittariusa9012 Рік тому

      @@telcharthegreatsmithofthef7585 37% catholic and 25% reformed isn't "pretty even"

    • @telcharthegreatsmithofthef7585
      @telcharthegreatsmithofthef7585 Рік тому

      @@sagittariusa9012 Counting the various reformed and protestant denominations together, it's about 30%, with a little under 37% catholic, the difference is not huge.

    • @sagittariusa9012
      @sagittariusa9012 Рік тому

      @@telcharthegreatsmithofthef7585 The official states reformed is 24.4% and rest christian (mostly orthodox) is 6%. You can't add those together!

  • @MundaneThingsBackwards
    @MundaneThingsBackwards Рік тому +7

    It's no coincidence that the guys you wanted to fight are allied in the beginning, Red. It's highly recommended that you hold off on setting rivals until you're about to go to war. Patience my man. I see you do this almost every game. lol

  • @davidmax99
    @davidmax99 Рік тому +2

    Isn't there an event to inherit the three leagues if you get like 150-200 opinion with them?
    Edit: I checked the wiki instead of being lazy and while it is 120 months mtth, it might still be worth, also it's 100 opinion not 150-200.

  • @Grokhnar
    @Grokhnar Рік тому +1

    Switzerland in EU IV: Awesome
    Switzerland in HoI IV: Who?

    • @mrcazzovic7960
      @mrcazzovic7960 День тому

      True but
      Switzerland in ww2: u cant enter my airspace
      Allied and Axis: what u gonna do bout it
      Also Switzerland: shooting down both sides plains i gonna do

  • @Sirvalian
    @Sirvalian Рік тому

    Burgundy seems to go with Sweden pretty often now. The devs are Swedish after all.

  • @peem.p_r3037
    @peem.p_r3037 Рік тому +2

    👏👏👏

  • @VivBrodock
    @VivBrodock 9 місяців тому

    Man a lot of his early issues could have been solved if he knew about the Three Leagues vassilization event at 100 relations

  • @Вехумет
    @Вехумет Рік тому

    Why declare on Three Leagues when you can ally them, get relations above +100 and inherit them via event in a couple of years for 0 AE

  • @Draugtaur
    @Draugtaur Рік тому +1

    is it just me, or does poland pu anhalt weirdly often?
    i don't remember anything like this in their mission tree, is it an event?

    • @MrBattlecharge
      @MrBattlecharge Рік тому +1

      The original Anhalt ruler starts at an old age with no heir, I believe they are age 67 at game start. They die really quickly really often. Poland likes to ally nations in North Eastern Germany, often Stettin, Wolgast, Saxony, Mecklenburg and yes, Anhalt. So the times where they do ally Anhalt puts them at increased odds of getting a PU over them.

  • @raidendavis8794
    @raidendavis8794 Рік тому

    great video

  • @saitharys809
    @saitharys809 Рік тому +3

    The constant mispronounciation of Bregenz quite grows on you

  • @teddys5775
    @teddys5775 Рік тому

    Laughs in mercenary Prussia

  • @Podzhagitel
    @Podzhagitel Рік тому +1

    Outer Heaven… it’s real…

  • @owenfink
    @owenfink Рік тому

    I'm unsure why you're starting with 98 admin points, I'm starting with 84...
    Edit: Looks like it scales with your starting ruler, which is random.

    • @ExperiencePlayers
      @ExperiencePlayers Рік тому

      It doesn't matter whether you have 14 points more or less

    • @owenfink
      @owenfink Рік тому

      @@ExperiencePlayers It seems like it does if you're going for the early war with the three leagues, since you need the cores for the cb before they get allies. I did try for the scripted event, but 10 years is a long time to wait.

  • @Deathacker1
    @Deathacker1 Рік тому +2

    yes my nation is rising

  • @ruffusgoodman4137
    @ruffusgoodman4137 Рік тому

    One more thing, I think I stumble upon a glitch, I'm not sure if the game is supposed to work like that...
    One of the rep gov reforms is "Consolidation of Power" which gives you -50% rep trad loss at reelections.
    I got that going with "Political Dynasties" that gives +1 random candidate bonus. Thing is... For some random reason, I got TWO reelections instead of one.
    Not only that, each reelection my ruler would get +1 in each attribute, adm, diplo and mil. I don't know how, but at the cost of rep trad, I kept rulers going that would have at least one attribute 6, other 3 or 4 at the end of their terms (all candidates in reps starts as 4/1/1, 4 being their expertise if bureaucrat, military or diplomat)
    Once I got the "Military Principle" going, the game was done. I was pouring monarch mana all over the country, I had such excess of monarch points and no reason at all to not reelect whomever got the ruling chair. Seriously, beyond broken. Win war? Rep trad = 100 again. Reelection? Your ruler is 6/6/5 now.
    I'm pretty sure something wrong was going on, but since this game is usually broken AGAINST the player (AI map hack for example), I wasn't ashamed at all of exploiting this one.

  • @enumi-rp2dc
    @enumi-rp2dc Рік тому

    Switzerland more like Switzerlake

  • @sordidduck
    @sordidduck Рік тому

    Europa Expanded Switzerland is even more fun

  • @eXistenZ15
    @eXistenZ15 Рік тому

    afghanistan or timurid guide pls

  • @drainerded3475
    @drainerded3475 Рік тому +1

    YES SWITZERLAND SHALL RULE ALL OF EUROPE

  • @torturetools9104
    @torturetools9104 Рік тому

    Someone just pulled a ludi