A Viewer CHALLENGED Me To Save Their America Disaster!
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- To submit your Europa Universalis 4 disaster save:
Email the save to quarbitgaming@gmail.com with the following parameters
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Any country and run is allowed, at any stage
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Current patch
The bigger the disaster, the better :)
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Ok now fix America irl :(
Americans voted a dead guy into office
There's no saving them
Gonna' cost too much Admin to stab up that one, chief... ;p
It's gonna be hard with the current leader being a 1/1/1, and the previous presidents since like the past century being no better than 3/2/3 or 2/3/3 lol.
@@luka188Biden is more like 0/0/0 because sometimes he struggles to even give a speech or after the speech he forgets the way he came in
@@whitegoose2017 Yeah I agree. Such a disaster. Unthinkable he was ever voted in, even considering how millions of votes came from beyond the grave.
Viewer:
"You can't win this war!"
Quarbit:
> surrenders immediately
> refuses to elaborate
> continues to play the campaign
Epionage-Inno-offensive combo can give you at least 50% seige ability, and have faster spynetwork which would give another 10%. Basically unlock blitzkrieg.
Add Devine to that, and Aristocratic for the siege pip
@@antorseax9492 and be extra cheeky ad ass horde
It’s really powerful, with it I’ve been able to siege most of the forts in big countries like the ottomans before they can get their armies in one place, the AI doesn’t know how to handle it.
Historical American gameplay
Ah yes, I remember when Pontiac rolled with TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND soldiers
@@easytiger6570 I remember when the Americans had a standing army equivalent to full mobilisation raised entirely in the north with no impacts on the north's industry
@@electricVGC Full mobilization is 15% of the population in the field.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 yes, of the whole country, but a lot more from just the north
I remember when they broke away in the 1500s
I wish they would rename “crownland” to “government land” or smth for republics
And god’s land for theocracies
And grazing lands for hordes
And People’s Land for peasant republics
and "land" for stateless society's
federal land
Since I don't foresee Mr Quibbit doing any native nations in the western US anytime soon, or Hawai'i, I'm gonna do one big geology post of the whole US, mostly just covering surface stuff. This is going to be way longer than even the Denmark/Greenland post so buckle up, it's gonna take a while. Like, it's longer than most papers I've written for uni. (Note written after I finished: it's over 2500 words long and it's so long that I've gotta put half of it in a reply to this comment instead of as one post.)
Because the US is so large, there's a lot to cover. And a lot of it is complex, like, *really* complex. In parts of the US (particularly the east), the land is really old so it's had a lot happen to it (though it's not as old as Greenland, Canada, southern Africa, western Australia and a couple other areas). In the west, the land is very geologically active so it's constantly changing and there's a lot going on. There's also a lot that we don't understand yet, so I'll only glance on that.
I'll start with the place in the modern US with the simplest geology: Hawaiʻi. Basically, a hot spot in the mantle underneath the Earth's crust melted a hole through the crust, through the Pacific plate, and erupted as a volcano out the top. It melted through fairly easily because the Pacific plate is oceanic, so it's fairly thin. The Pacific plate is also moving to the northwest while the hotspot remains roughly stationary, so if you look at Google Earth you can see a trail of seamounts-old volcanoes that have eroded down to below sea level-stretching all the way to the end of the Pacific plate. It's called the Hawaiʻi-Emperor Seamount Chain. You may notice that the northern half of the trail has a much more north-south orientation than the northwest-southeast southern half; that's because the Pacific plate used to move almost due north, but it changed direction to move more westward at some point. Anyways, the volcanoes in Hawai'i are formed from runny basalt lava, as is typical for oceanic hot spots (I'll explain why continental ones are slightly different later), and are typically categorised by gentle, non-explosive eruptions that produce fast-flowing lava and very little ash (though they do occasionally produce explosive ashy eruptions). As the plate moves over the hot spot, new volcanoes form underwater and slowly build their way towards the surface, and old volcanoes slowly stop erupting and then are gradually eroded down to and below sea level. Currently most of the activity in the Hawaiʻi hotspot is concentrated on the Big Island, particularly at Kīleaua volcano but also historically at Mauna Loa to a lesser degree, but there are a handful of small new volcanoes growing under the ocean to the south of the Big Island. I can't remember the names of a couple of them, but the most significant used to be called Lōʻihi (which means "long" in Hawaiʻan); it was named that because of its shape by scientists in the 1950s, who were unaware that the native Hawaiʻians already had a term for it. It was renamed to the Hawaiʻian name in 2021 and is now called Kamaʻehuakanaloa, which means "red child of the ocean".
Next, I'm going to the eastern US to cover some of the different layers of history its rocks have been through. I've just realised how long this post really is going to be, so I'm going to (try to) make this as brief as I can.
Much of the eastern US has extensive sedimentary sequences, some of it over 2 billion years old, some of it heavily metamorphised, some of it being ancient oceanic crust. In places the layers have been dramatically folded, which you can actually see from space (or Google Earth)-the most dramatic place to see it is in the Pennsylvanian part of the Appalachians, but you can see it in other states as well. The Appalachians were created in the same orogeny (mountain-building tectonic collision) that created the Atlas Mountains of northwest Africa and the Caledonian Mountains of Scotland-together, they all were once part of the Central Pangaean Mountains. Their formation 400+ million years ago led to the formation of Pangaea about 330 million years ago. There's also a few old volcanoes scattered across the eastern US which some people think is an old continental hot spot chain stretching from Arkansas to the east and that that hot spot is also responsible for creating Bermuda. There's a few holes in the theory though, including that there's a big gap along the "chain" from the American coastline all the way to Bermuda itself, so I personally think that at least some aspects of it are BS; there was almost certainly a hotspot chain though, which explains the existence of diamonds in Arkansas. The Adirondack Mountains of New York are also kinda weird and we don't fully understand what's going on there, but our best bet is that over the last ≈10 or so million years, they've been pushed up by a hot spot; they're separate from the Appalachians. Maybe there'll be volcanic eruptions there someday, I don't know.
Florida's geology is a bit separate from the rest of the eastern US. It has a deep base of igneous and sedimentary rocks like most of the rest of the eastern US, but none of that is exposed. It's overlain by more than 6 kilometres (more than 20,000 feet) of carbonates (limestones and dolomites, sedimentary rocks that form from shells and corals and algae and stuff like that) and sand from when sea level has risen and fallen. It's only more interesting than the geology of Denmark (see my comment in the last video about how Denmark's geology is boring as all hell) because those carbonates mean it's a karst landscape-limestone caves can form. Fun fact about Floridian geology: the state gemstone of Florida is called moonstone, which is a pretty variety of a mineral called potassium feldspar. Feldspar is a volcanic mineral and doesn't occur naturally in Florida, so you wouldn't be able to find any actually in Florida.
The rest of the US's geology is in a comment in the reply to this post. :)
Moving a little west to the Midwest, the geology there both past and present is dominated by the existence of the Mississippi Embayment and the Mid-Continental Rift System. Basically, there were a series of supercontinents before Pangaea, including one called Rodinia, which formed about a billion years ago. While Rodinia was forming, part of what's now North America started to split apart in three directions, and volcanic material erupted in the middle of the splits. It's comparable to what's currently happening in the Afar Depression in East Africa. However, the rifts ultimately failed, and the failed rift arms are called aulacogens ("ah-lah-coh-jens"); the depression left by the Mid-Continental Rift System (as it's now called) is now occupied by Lake Superior, and it is the deepest healed aulacogen in the world (every deeper aulacogen eventually formed into an ocean). The Lake Superior depression is quite large, though my depression is larger. When Rodinia broke up about 600-700 million years ago, North America also began to break up again, creating a completely new set of rifts. As there's not an ocean in the Midwest, it's pretty obvious that these rifts also failed and became aulacogens. One of them in what's now the Mississippi River Valley still constitutes a structural weakness in the continent, and so strain is focused along it so that it acts as a faultline to release pressure. It's now called the New Madrid Seismic Zone, and in the early 1810s it was responsible for a series of devastating earthquakes that were felt as far away as New England. There's also a mountain range called the Ouachita Mountains in Oklahoma and Arkansas, which used to stretch all the way to the Appalachians; it was formed at the same time, when Africa and South America collided with North America during the formation of Pangaea. Nowadays there's a big flat valley in between them, though, where the Mississippi now flows. It's thought that the hotspot that I mentioned earlier, the one that some people think created Bermuda, moved under those mountains and caused them to uplift, and then they eroded away really quickly because they were weakened and it left the flat valley, which later got filled by a shallow sea. Marine and river sediments slowly filled it up to give us the Mississippi Valley we have today.
Now to the complicated bit: the western half of the US. There's tons of local stuff that's really cool and weird but I'm going to try to skip over most of that to cover the big juicy stuff.
During the time of Pangaea, there was only one continent, and there was only one ocean. Much as the continent was called Pangaea "all Earth", the ocean was called Panthalassa "all ocean". It covered 70% of the world, and it consisted of three major oceanic plates, none of which exist anymore. The only one relevant to this discussion is the Farallon plate, which made up the northeastern part of Panthalassa. During the breakup of Pangaea about 190 million years ago, the triple junction between the three plates destabilised, and they began to move apart; the Pacific plate began to form in the middle, where they had once joined. The Farallon plate began to subduct (move under) the Americas (oceanic plates are denser than continental plates so when they meet, the oceanic plate sinks into the mantle; this is how big earthquakes like in Japan or Indonesia happen, and it also generates volcanoes with sticky lava). I don't know much about the next 90 million years or about the effects on South America so I'll focus on North America. Anyways, at the time, the west coast of the US was in what's now Utah. As the Farallon Plate moved into North America, about 100 million years ago it started to bend up the western edge of North America to start building what's now the Rocky Mountains. As a consequence of the bending, the eastern side of the Rockies began to sink, and eventually flooded with seawater to create a long, thin inland sea that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean, splitting North America into two landmasses. This is called the Western Interior Seaway and it is the reason why you can now find ancient marine fossils in northern Texas and the Dakotas and whatnot. Anyways, as the Rockies got higher, the Western Interior Seaway gradually rose above sea level and the Rockies eventually ended up being like the modern Himalayas. There were some weird things going on with the Farallon subduction. For one, it kept carrying chunks of other continents and island arcs to the west coast, and then those chunks got scraped off and accreted to North America, extending it further to the west to be as wide as it is now. For two, it was subducting at a strangely low angle, which pushed the Rockies way higher than it otherwise would have and caused subduction volcanism way further east than is normal for subduction zones. When the western side of the plate finished subducting about 40 million years ago, a few weird things happened. First, the remaining parts of the plate west of the subduction zone split into a few pieces which are still subducting today (the Juan de Fuca, Nazca and Cocos plates, and a few smaller ones). Second, the subducted plate just pulled away from the continental plate and sank, causing the raised plateau that formed most of the western US to rapidly (geologically speaking, it took millions of years) collapse. This collapsed plateau began thinning, rising and spreading, which creates the weird "basin and range" geology you can see in the western US on Google Earth, with tons of parallel mountains and valleys all through, like, Utah and Nevada. Third, the new contact between North America and the Pacific plate became the San Andreas Fault that California now has (subduction still happens with the Juan de Fuca plate north of Mendocino all the way to Vancouver Island, and that area can still have magnitude 9+ earthquakes).
Another thing you can see from Google Earth is that it looks almost like part of the Rockies in southern Idaho has been scraped out. That's the Snake River Plain. It's believed the way that that formed is because of a continental hot spot, which I said I'd talk about before. This one in particular is the Yellowstone hot spot. While oceanic hot spots have runny basalt lava, continental hot spots like Yellowstone can incorporate minerals from the continental crust, which make the magma stickier and FAR more explosive. The Yellowstone hot spot basically blasted its way through the Rocky Mountains, leaving a flat valley in its path. The way Yellowstone hot spot volcanoes work is they have a short period of runny basaltic activity, a long period of explosive activity, and then a short but intense period of basaltic activity where the basalt basically fills in all of the features in the landscape to level it out. The current Yellowstone volcano is still in the explosive period, but I think it might be reaching the end; its magma chamber is >95% crystallised/solidified, and at the moment it's incapable of eruption and it would take a very long time for it to prepare for another eruption. (You really don't need to be worried about it.)
The last thing to talk about is the ice age! Ice sheets covered most of North America, and carved out a lot of its landscapes. When they melted, they left a handful of huge lakes. One of these shrunk and ended up becoming the Great Lakes. One in western North America called Glacial Lake Missoula was dammed by an ice wall, which collapsed and let loose a catastrophic flood which destroyed everything in its path, stripping the land of the soil down to bedrock in places. This area is now called the Channeled Scablands, and it's a really cool and dramatic landscape that everyone should look up photos of (or go to if you can). Like Europe, North America is still rebounding from the weight of the ice during the ice age.
Well, this ended up being WAY longer than I expected. I'm willing to bet it's longer than all the other comments on the video combined. If you've read through the whole thing, congratulations, I'm impressed. I'm going to get something to eat.
no bibliography, not cited in Chicago style, disregarding this whole thing. try it again.
@@Podzhagitel I would never cite in Chicago style.
Oh my god you have too much time
@@hotman_pt_ actually I have far too little but I waste way too much
Anyone else see Portugal's 6 siege general at 8:21?
Honestly that whole Revanchism thing completely changed the game for me, it means losing a war isn’t the end of the run!
I have never seen a 6 siege general in my entire playtime
Its beautiful
well uh, that was anti-climatic with the whole "you probably can't even save this" even tho this player seemed to have a very good save that was easily savable compared to others I've seen
I mean shit economy, 100% overextension, a lot of rebels, same tech as natvies and a huge coalition seems kinda daunting
@@bigdharmanfan813 I've had worse economy, 200% overextension, really big coalition (HRE), and the usual 20 war exhaustion to help with rebels (I gave up and pretended to have never touched it)
You see, the secret is actually trying to save it, and then realizing that it leads to bankruptcy. Then you go back and decide that it's not worth it. A great player could win that war, but a better player would know it's not worth fighting
interesting to go religious as americ, at first i wasn't sure since you get no wrong religion penalty as the us & some other colonial formables, but the cb is p good before tech 21 and true faith bonus is always handy so
You get +5 tolerance to heretics but nothing for religious unity or heathens
"if you can hear some dude hammering in the background" - getting over it music is playing
Quarbit, i thought you were playing EU4, not showing us an alternate yet similar timeline of the USA
Nah irl US has like a maxed out economy but all the income is going towards military and corruption
Acc its military , social secuirty and health care
I've been trying to give you a disaster save but I actually just formed Rome.
USA with Religious Ideas is somewhat cursed, since it doesn't get any wrong religion penalty. CB is pretty good but not that good
America gets +5 heretics tolerance. They lose their default colonial ideas, which is what you're referring to.
what's the mod you're using with the colored image events?
The Great Exhibition (says in the description)
@@DognutJoe oh thx! did not bother to look there i guess :)
USA 💪💪💪🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🦅🦅🦅1776
I must ask: how much of a problem is the version difference? I have an "old" save from 1.34.2. Everything else pretty much fits, even if it isn't *exactly* disasterous
I usually play USA with extended timeline and I always spawn in New Providence and make them a March. They become a naval power and if you give them/upgrade Tortuga they do very well.
America and "loan free". This fucking game can show u some real impossible things
Wait, Quarbit is Canadian? Awesome
von Steuben be like
my god not 13 loans man, the end of the world
baaaaaaaanger
So I don’t know how viable the following is for 1.34, because they made it so you can’t just annex whole swathes of tribal land at once.
But my method to play as the US would be to start as England (technically, Castile or France are viable). Get exploration ideas and push towards 7 or 9 diplo tech. Expansion might be worth speeding up colonization, but I usually regret it later. Move your capital to St. Helena then to Eastern North America. You get to form America this way without being a colonial subject, you get to make use of your 30k army and total trade power in the English Channel. In the process of forming America, you have much better resources to conquer both north and South America. When you form the US you lose all possessions outside of the colonial regions; you do keep Australia, NZ, and the Americas. England will now form as a separate country with no army, you could truce break them and enforce a pu.
But using this strategy you could easily get 2000 dev by 1570’s. The tech advantage makes it super easy to acquire dev in this region. If you form Alaska before the United States you can use it’s better national ideas. No further ccr here as it’s not really worth rebel converting to become inti, hypothetically Nahuatl or totemist for discipline. Catholic pu’s might still be preferable.
A player better than me might tag switch for admin efficiency permanent modifiers to get good coring cost, but I doubt it is worth the time and lost possessions when you form the United States.
I think this is a great path if you pull off Norse religion Scandinavia, since it cannot be the hre anyway.
"Alright, congratulations, we are now free of loans."
*Immediately takes 5 loans*
2nd comment
The only thing you forgot to do was spy on europeans for more tech discount
Thank you for video, great content!
How did you manage to declare war on "New Portugal" without the Portuguese themselves joining the war?
countries with their capital in the new world can fight colonial nations without intervention
@@Quarbit Ohhh. Interesting, thank you.
can i get that save to my friend?
you made it to 50k subs
I noticed
@@Quarbit congrats
thanks
"Saved"
cancel the coring next time :[
which coring did I not cancel?
uwu
reh-vonch-ism