If you are the emperor as Brandenburg have annexed pomerania, teutonic order and livonian order before 1500 you are not going to have that many problems if you get strong allies, because you are going to have a force limit above 50. The biggest problem is going to be money and also suffering from institution tech cost penalties. Moving your capital is not a good idea in my opinion, because you can get a lot of development on Berlin through events making Berlin a very strong core. What you should do in my opinion is to just create a vassal that holds all of the Dutch land, which is going to useful to expand into the rest of the Dutch region and then you can just inegrate them a later date. However, the new events in the Poland update massively favours Poland to get the teutonic clay way ahead of you. I think Poland now gets an event called: "The Treaty of Thorne", which is essentially Danzig being released with 3 provinces and then Poland will defend them in a defensive war against the Teutons and Poland also I think gets an event to make the new and powerful Danzig, which by now will have about 4 to 5 provinces, a vassal. Also, Poland will almost always pick the PU with Lithuania if you play as Brandenburg. The biggest problem is Poland. If you want to form Prussia now, you are going to have to fight Poland no matter what and a really strong Poland at that.
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As for starting moves you don't need to build a spy network on Pomerania. At least in my games I would just restart until I got the fate of Neumark. Once you get that the new mission system gives free claims on all of pomerania once you have Neumark. *Edit* 4:17 You are too smart for me If you don't mind living dangerously. You can one war full annex them if you haven't taken much else apart from neumark. Don't start a new war and try to take all of the Prussian land or you will get a coalition and it will kill you. I've found allying Denmark or Muscovy at this point is beneficial in dealing with poland since you both want East prussia which in the latest update becomes a vassal of Poland "Danzig" 10 or 15 years into the game.
If you didn't know, while in a war with poland as an ally, they wont defend danzig. So as soon as they are realeased, no cb, vassalise them, and peace out teutons
I prefer the tutonic order to firm Prussia, but Brandenburg is also fun. Still a good guide if you never played Brandenburg before. Which guides are currently on your list?
3:27 I highly recommend this strategy. Exploiting Poland at the start to build up a powerbase works very well ! EDIT: This strategy is for Version 1.25. In the current Version the Danzig event wont allow you to get Danzig and Tuchel in the 2nd war against the Teutons. However, instead you will be able to vassalize them in the 2nd war now. Also influence ideas have been nerfed big time (One more reason for me to stay with 1.25 ;). Be always sure that you declare on the Teutons as soon the truce is gone, otherwise Poland will go for it. If the sale of Neumark event fires before you declared war on the Teutons just reject it. 1st war (Right after Poland did get their King): Take Neumark, give Kulm to Poland and humiliate the Teutons. They also like to ally Mecklenburg, if they do so, rival Mecklenburg aswell for more PP through humiliating. 2nd war: Take Stolp from Pomerania and if you want Kolberg and Stettin aswell, Saxony is a good ally for this as they like to rival Pomerania. 3rd war: Take Danzig and Tuchel from the Teutons with help from Poland again. Be sure to not promise them land and keep improving relations with them, because you will now take land they desire. Final war against the Teutons: Just vassalize them. You might be strong enough to take them on alone now but call in Poland anyways, because they would declare on the Teutons on their own otherwise and take german land. Doesnt matter if you break a promise for Poland, because they dont want you as Ally anymore. Dump them for Muscovy as new Ally, who will happily help you killing Poland afterwards. As you start inside the HRE, i recommend influence ideas first. That -20% AE helps alot and you ll integrate the Teutons and others for less dip points. Austria as Ally right from the start is crucial. A effective way to get rid of the HRE quite early is the League war. Become Protestant or Reformed asap, that will spawn one more center inside te HRE. At around 1560 there wont be many catholic nations left. Here comes the trick, join the catholic League now and make sure they win the League war. If everything went well, there will only be like 3 Nations left who can be electors. Leave the HRE, then attack an Elector or one of his allys, keep sitting on the capital and dont peace out, same for the Emperor who will join the war of course. Do the same with the remaining Electors and the HRE is history. I managed to do this in 1583, but i bet it can be done earlier :)
As soon as I finished the first war you mention, the Danzig event fired and causes ~50%, Danzig will be vassalized by Poland. Do you have any suggestion?
@@kwboo199x9 The Danzig event is a new addition to the game which i have no experience with because i stayed with Version 1.25 for multiple reasons. Id try to vassalize the Teutons in the next war, keep the alliance with Poland for that if possible. Then ally Muscovy instead and get stronger (becoming emperor helps alot) until you re confident to beat Poland. If you re strong enough and both have Poland as rival, its even possible to ally the Ottomans, with them on your side Poland is doomed. But i guess there are updated Brandenburg guides, i think they can help you more.
@@kwboo199x9 If Danzig gets Marienburg, its 100% possible. In my experience the Teutons developed so much, that at the time my 3rd war against them ended vassalization with Marienburg costed around 100% warscore, sometimes more and sometimes less (I annexed Danzig and Tuchel in the 2nd war, you can skip that). So it should be possible to vassalize them even with Marienburg in the 2nd war, they wont ve developed as much at this point.
Court and Country is especially strong as Prussia, you can fire it at 50 absoulutism and your max absoulism should be around 90-100 (in the disaster) you can buff up to the cap for free. So you dont do it for the max cap later on but to go for 100 very fast.
I honestly find aristocratic ideas to be very beneficial to brandenburg/prussia early on ie 2nd idea group. The cavalry combat boost, the -10% mil tech cost and the boost to noble estates happiness is very useful early on. Combined with innovative ideas as my first idea group, the mil tech bonuses are quite significant.
I ended up being able to go in a wildly different direction in my current game. I allied a bunch of electors to get HRE support, and I Royal married and allied Austria so they wouldn’t demand unlawful territory while I ate Pomerania. I won emperorship the first opportunity, and since I was still allied to Austria, I gave them an electorate since one had disappeared. But then soon after, the Austrian ruler died again, and I got lucky and got a PU on them without contest. From there, everything was too easy. I’ve allied and subsequently betrayed Poland, Muscovy (now Russia), Hungary, and Sweden (won them independence so I could eat Denmark and Norway), and I’m pretty close to doing that with England as well.
You can also just call poland into the war after you know u can reach konigsberg before them. I also found trying to get bohemia in a pu in the interegnum is real helpful. Yeah it means putting off teutonic order and pomeranian conquests later but it's worth it as bohemia is really helpful. Hopefully you can force pu before 1450 when the prussian confederation event fires. Poland is the best ally after 1.27 it's rare they look weak early game.
nice guide overall, one thing: reformed should get a special mention, they can easily get +3 heretic tolerance with reformed, without taking humanist ideas, combined with the easy transit and the superb boni u get, it is just too good not to mention
I tried to form Prussia through TO instead of Brandenburg. Just a few month after I form Prussia, I become PU of Muscovy. Sadge life. I'll try this strategy next time.
Poland always will attack teutonic order at a bit more than the begining of the game, declare war on teutonic for neumark after poland declare war on them, wait the polish-teutonic war end so the teutonic will be very weak and you can easily win and vassaline them in less than 10 years in game(Sorry for my english)
I think you shouldve gone into more detail over vassalizing pomerania, because you cannot build a navy unless you own a sea neighboring tile, at least thats what i think.
I prefer Quality ideas 2nd or 3rd to get 50 infantry CA to the start of religious war because I hate to fight with mercs and I need my spacemarines as soon as possible. After activation of policy Innovation+Quality I can wipe out most of the armies Ottoman, France and other Polands.
I prefer to form prussia as bohemia , by culture shifting to saxon and then invading in two wars poland , the first one to bankrupt them and the second to take the two provinces requires to form prussia
Guide is simple and easy to understand, its quality, but I have one problem - allies do not want to help me with offensive wars. So how should I conquer others when all of them have stronger armies and are allied with people who will help them in defensive wars?
Where can I get enough administrative power to core the conquered countries. My administrative technologie is 3 levels lower than the level of my neighbours.
Vassalize countries instead of conquering the land especially in the hre. This serfs three purposes. 1. You save admin points since annex the vassel with Diplo points 2. You get less aggressive expansion 3. You don't get the demand for unlawful terretory
It can also be that you’re not embracing institutions, which give you a technology penalty. This can be remedied by developing your provinces or saving up for embracement as soon as it reaches your higher dev provinces.
@@gmgunnhildr2711 no that wasnt the problem. Lol this comment is 10 months old, I already learned a lot more about the game but thank you anyway. I think the best Solution is to increase absolutism as high as possible, to gain the admin efficiency, which reduces the coringcosts.
Started a campaign following this guide. I took 3 provinces and vassalized Pomerania right away. But then Poland got an event that formed Danzig out of three provinces of Teutonic Order, which they were allied to. Some of those provinces are required to form Prussia. Is there any way to avoid war with Poland after this happens?
The Danzig event was introduced in the new patch. I haven't played Brandenburg yet on 1.27, but I think you can rush to get Danzig, then release them as vassal. That should stop the event from firing. I will test it out and release an addendum to this guide. Thanks for pointing it out!
As long as you get the provinces before 1450 the event won't fire. If you can't, you can take all of Pomerania instead, then normally you can take Konigsberg with the permanent claims, so you can still form Prussia, and take the other provinces later on.
I was able to get konigsberg by allying Danzig the day they appear, then they should call you in but in order to get the province you need, you must take stolp from Pomerania to get it in your coring range.
Also when do you leave the hre as forming prussia I thought that always happened but when I reformed from teutonic order I didnt leave the hre, thank god. I waited 60 years so I could expand more into germany.
AVGVSTVS CAESAR so I checked the wiki, and it appears that the event in which you leave the HRE unless you’re an elector only triggers if you form Prussia with any other state besides TO, because it elevates your government rank to kingdom. For some odd reason only the Teutonic order is excluded from this.
I just ally Austria and sit with my armies 0% maintained until I can get 100 gold to buy newmark to get into debt early game. In my games it comes quickly, and since I'm not rivaling Pomerania they don't see me as a threat. I just diplo-vandalize them (Take only Stop to not get aggressive expansion) and automatically declare war on Teutons as they are probably in a war with Poland and Austria always joined my wars. Take allergy konigsberg, and you're set for forming Prussia. Do whatever u want after that it's no difference. ( Remember that Danzig event fires, you should be QUICKER than the event , so if the fate of neumark doesn't fire until around 1449, just screw it, that's why always build a spy network in Pomerania incase that happens, or restart.
Yeah the Danzig event is new the current patch. I will post an addendum on how to deal with it. Basically you need to take Danzig early and release them as vassal, this will stop the event.
Let me give you some advice dude, just try until you get ideal condition in the start which are 1. 'Treaty of koln' event which give you conquest cb on pomerania 2. pomerania doesnt have strong ally (denmark/poland , i can easily beat them with only 11 stacks even if he have 2 or 3 small nations ally Declare war on pomerania and vassalize, now u get conquest cb on prussia area from mission trees, by this time in my most bradenburg game teutonic order only have 1-3 province. I declare war on them then vassalize them. I usually start with ally austria n saxony then poland (in purpose to bring down bohemia). After i decimated bohemia i will dissolve my alliance with poland wait truce end then declare war and call to arms austria using reconquest cb from teutonic order. One or either way i always succed secure land from from czech and prussia area before 1500 in my most game..
I personally, wouldn't go for it. Castile or France is better for a new player. Brandenburg into Prussia can sometimes be pretty RNG/luck dependent. And of course, you're small.
not at all, the prussian confederation event only fires after 1450, meaning that if you can take danzing and konisberg before 1450, there is no problem
Always in the late game Bohemia fucks me over because they are stronger than fucking russia, and Mecklem burg ALWAYS for some reason allies Poland/Bohemia at the start so RIP me
All these insanely specific guides i extremely dislike. EU4 is a dynamic game with opportunities all over the place, you just need to see them and take your chances. I think guides should focus more on what is possible as a nation instead of giving you a step by step plan which fails when 1 thing doesn't go exactly as said in the guide (i just watch guides for entertainment and see how other people play, got 700 hours on the game myself).
This guide doesn't say you have to play it this way though? Anyone who wants to form prussia and/or germany has most likely played enough to know this.
You forgot to mention burgundy inheritance, that is one of the reasons why Brandenburg should take the emperorship before 1500
Good point
I found that Dutch unrest coupled with French ambitions can make it really tough to hold onto unless you're very strong early game
the strength of the Brandenburg army can handle this if that occur and should find ways to connect your land together
Tyler Nelson rival Austria and ally France and move your capital to amsterdam to solve ur problems
If you are the emperor as Brandenburg have annexed pomerania, teutonic order and livonian order before 1500 you are not going to have that many problems if you get strong allies, because you are going to have a force limit above 50. The biggest problem is going to be money and also suffering from institution tech cost penalties. Moving your capital is not a good idea in my opinion, because you can get a lot of development on Berlin through events making Berlin a very strong core. What you should do in my opinion is to just create a vassal that holds all of the Dutch land, which is going to useful to expand into the rest of the Dutch region and then you can just inegrate them a later date. However, the new events in the Poland update massively favours Poland to get the teutonic clay way ahead of you. I think Poland now gets an event called: "The Treaty of Thorne", which is essentially Danzig being released with 3 provinces and then Poland will defend them in a defensive war against the Teutons and Poland also I think gets an event to make the new and powerful Danzig, which by now will have about 4 to 5 provinces, a vassal. Also, Poland will almost always pick the PU with Lithuania if you play as Brandenburg. The biggest problem is Poland. If you want to form Prussia now, you are going to have to fight Poland no matter what and a really strong Poland at that.
And there is me forming prussia as bohemia
Lol i done it as teutonic
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Your video's are simple the best and very informational.
I have no clue why your channel is so small, you should have much more followers. I love your content, it's the best
Thank you for all
Best greetings from Germany
Cheers
As for starting moves you don't need to build a spy network on Pomerania. At least in my games I would just restart until I got the fate of Neumark. Once you get that the new mission system gives free claims on all of pomerania once you have Neumark.
*Edit* 4:17 You are too smart for me
If you don't mind living dangerously. You can one war full annex them if you haven't taken much else apart from neumark. Don't start a new war and try to take all of the Prussian land or you will get a coalition and it will kill you. I've found allying Denmark or Muscovy at this point is beneficial in dealing with poland since you both want East prussia which in the latest update becomes a vassal of Poland "Danzig" 10 or 15 years into the game.
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If you didn't know, while in a war with poland as an ally, they wont defend danzig. So as soon as they are realeased, no cb, vassalise them, and peace out teutons
I prefer the tutonic order to firm Prussia, but Brandenburg is also fun. Still a good guide if you never played Brandenburg before. Which guides are currently on your list?
Next one is an achievement guide. Then I'm thinking of doing a bigger nation, maybe England, France or Poland.
@@RadioRes I would think Poland is the most interesting, but all are good
@Julio Argentino Roca tall prussia is more enjoyable prussia.
They are both fun and different enough from eachother so that it doesnt feel like the same game 2x
I'd prefer to start as Poland to form Prussia.
3:27 I highly recommend this strategy. Exploiting Poland at the start to build up a powerbase works very well !
EDIT: This strategy is for Version 1.25. In the current Version the Danzig event wont allow you to get Danzig and Tuchel in the 2nd war against the Teutons. However, instead you will be able to vassalize them in the 2nd war now. Also influence ideas have been nerfed big time (One more reason for me to stay with 1.25 ;).
Be always sure that you declare on the Teutons as soon the truce is gone, otherwise Poland will go for it. If the sale of Neumark event fires before you declared war on the Teutons just reject it.
1st war (Right after Poland did get their King): Take Neumark, give Kulm to Poland and humiliate the Teutons. They also like to ally Mecklenburg, if they do so, rival Mecklenburg aswell for more PP through humiliating.
2nd war: Take Stolp from Pomerania and if you want Kolberg and Stettin aswell, Saxony is a good ally for this as they like to rival Pomerania.
3rd war: Take Danzig and Tuchel from the Teutons with help from Poland again. Be sure to not promise them land and keep improving relations with them, because you will now take land they desire.
Final war against the Teutons: Just vassalize them. You might be strong enough to take them on alone now but call in Poland anyways, because they would declare on the Teutons on their own otherwise and take german land.
Doesnt matter if you break a promise for Poland, because they dont want you as Ally anymore. Dump them for Muscovy as new Ally, who will happily help you killing Poland afterwards.
As you start inside the HRE, i recommend influence ideas first. That -20% AE helps alot and you ll integrate the Teutons and others for less dip points. Austria as Ally right from the start is crucial.
A effective way to get rid of the HRE quite early is the League war. Become Protestant or Reformed asap, that will spawn one more center inside te HRE. At around 1560 there wont be many catholic nations left.
Here comes the trick, join the catholic League now and make sure they win the League war.
If everything went well, there will only be like 3 Nations left who can be electors. Leave the HRE, then attack an Elector or one of his allys, keep sitting on the capital and dont peace out, same for the Emperor who will join the war of course. Do the same with the remaining Electors and the HRE is history. I managed to do this in 1583, but i bet it can be done earlier :)
As soon as I finished the first war you mention, the Danzig event fired and causes ~50%, Danzig will be vassalized by Poland. Do you have any suggestion?
@@kwboo199x9 The Danzig event is a new addition to the game which i have no experience with because i stayed with Version 1.25 for multiple reasons.
Id try to vassalize the Teutons in the next war, keep the alliance with Poland for that if possible. Then ally Muscovy instead and get stronger (becoming emperor helps alot) until you re confident to beat Poland. If you re strong enough and both have Poland as rival, its even possible to ally the Ottomans, with them on your side Poland is doomed.
But i guess there are updated Brandenburg guides, i think they can help you more.
@@feanorn8409 is it possible to vassalize TO? But I will try it in my next run. Thanks for the solution
@@kwboo199x9 If Danzig gets Marienburg, its 100% possible.
In my experience the Teutons developed so much, that at the time my 3rd war against them ended vassalization with Marienburg costed around 100% warscore, sometimes more and sometimes less (I annexed Danzig and Tuchel in the 2nd war, you can skip that).
So it should be possible to vassalize them even with Marienburg in the 2nd war, they wont ve developed as much at this point.
Great video, I'm going for Germany achievement at the moment!
5:41 Russia rivaled me and the Ottomans gave me an offer i couldn’t refuse
I would suggest the conquest of Silesia with Poland at the beginning of the game to keep Bohemia weak.
btw border gore
Court and Country is especially strong as Prussia, you can fire it at 50 absoulutism and your max absoulism should be around 90-100 (in the disaster) you can buff up to the cap for free. So you dont do it for the max cap later on but to go for 100 very fast.
Amazing piece of work!
I honestly find aristocratic ideas to be very beneficial to brandenburg/prussia early on ie 2nd idea group. The cavalry combat boost, the -10% mil tech cost and the boost to noble estates happiness is very useful early on. Combined with innovative ideas as my first idea group, the mil tech bonuses are quite significant.
6:25, great time to go expansion, Maratime and exploration.
I ended up being able to go in a wildly different direction in my current game. I allied a bunch of electors to get HRE support, and I Royal married and allied Austria so they wouldn’t demand unlawful territory while I ate Pomerania. I won emperorship the first opportunity, and since I was still allied to Austria, I gave them an electorate since one had disappeared. But then soon after, the Austrian ruler died again, and I got lucky and got a PU on them without contest. From there, everything was too easy. I’ve allied and subsequently betrayed Poland, Muscovy (now Russia), Hungary, and Sweden (won them independence so I could eat Denmark and Norway), and I’m pretty close to doing that with England as well.
Please create new tutorial about Brandenburg.
@@Amlaeuxrai The problem is the danzig event
@@Amlaeuxrai as Bradenburg or as the teutons
You can also just call poland into the war after you know u can reach konigsberg before them. I also found trying to get bohemia in a pu in the interegnum is real helpful. Yeah it means putting off teutonic order and pomeranian conquests later but it's worth it as bohemia is really helpful. Hopefully you can force pu before 1450 when the prussian confederation event fires. Poland is the best ally after 1.27 it's rare they look weak early game.
nice guide overall, one thing: reformed should get a special mention, they can easily get +3 heretic tolerance with reformed, without taking humanist ideas, combined with the easy transit and the superb boni u get, it is just too good not to mention
tfw i get marriage policies pay off on denmark
Aca Peric its like they changen dynasty everynhalf century in my campaigns..
I formed prussia as the teutonic order
This is really good - thank you :)
With Poland update, Danzing just left from TO and became vassal of Poland and took all off TO and LO land... Jeez, gl me
Yup guide is outdated. In most games nowadays you have to battle poland eventually unless danzig and königsberg is somehow released from their grip.
Joker Levin I was lucky and Poland didnt take Königsberg :)
I tried to form Prussia through TO instead of Brandenburg. Just a few month after I form Prussia, I become PU of Muscovy. Sadge life. I'll try this strategy next time.
Poland always will attack teutonic order at a bit more than the begining of the game, declare war on teutonic for neumark after poland declare war on them, wait the polish-teutonic war end so the teutonic will be very weak and you can easily win and vassaline them in less than 10 years in game(Sorry for my english)
I think you shouldve gone into more detail over vassalizing pomerania, because you cannot build a navy unless you own a sea neighboring tile, at least thats what i think.
just take a province and still vassalize them
I prefer Quality ideas 2nd or 3rd to get 50 infantry CA to the start of religious war because I hate to fight with mercs and I need my spacemarines as soon as possible. After activation of policy Innovation+Quality I can wipe out most of the armies Ottoman, France and other Polands.
I prefer to form prussia as bohemia , by culture shifting to saxon and then invading in two wars poland , the first one to bankrupt them and the second to take the two provinces requires to form prussia
"Mecklenburg is a good target cause they usually have small allies."
First attempt they allied Lithuania. Yeesh! RNG strikes again!
JayBird did lithuania not get PU’ed?
Guide is simple and easy to understand, its quality, but I have one problem - allies do not want to help me with offensive wars. So how should I conquer others when all of them have stronger armies and are allied with people who will help them in defensive wars?
150% dIsCiPliNe
Agressive expansion moved to espionage ideas so is it worth to take espionage instead of influence?
There will allways someone build a coalition against you, you definatly need good allies
God no, diplomatic is king now. Especially for counties without empire standing. Improve relations 24/7 and it will negate lots of the damage
No. Espionage is still trash
THis is cursed. 12:06 Ming is still alive in 1812
for some reason pomerania allied scotland, I won by spamming loans and mercenaries just barely though.
Hey thanks for this video!
Awesome vids, hope to see a bYz guide up some time.
Omg Oscar from the Office !!!!
How did Pomerania form at the start?
Prusia puede evitar que Italia salga del Sacro Imperio?
yazd or semien next
Where can I get enough administrative power to core the conquered countries. My administrative technologie is 3 levels lower than the level of my neighbours.
Vassalize countries instead of conquering the land especially in the hre. This serfs three purposes.
1. You save admin points since annex the vassel with Diplo points
2. You get less aggressive expansion
3. You don't get the demand for unlawful terretory
It can also be that you’re not embracing institutions, which give you a technology penalty. This can be remedied by developing your provinces or saving up for embracement as soon as it reaches your higher dev provinces.
@@gmgunnhildr2711 no that wasnt the problem. Lol this comment is 10 months old, I already learned a lot more about the game but thank you anyway. I think the best Solution is to increase absolutism as high as possible, to gain the admin efficiency, which reduces the coringcosts.
Started a campaign following this guide. I took 3 provinces and vassalized Pomerania right away. But then Poland got an event that formed Danzig out of three provinces of Teutonic Order, which they were allied to. Some of those provinces are required to form Prussia. Is there any way to avoid war with Poland after this happens?
Happen to me aswell, very unlikely that you can avoid, I just went and expanded to lubeck for money
The Danzig event was introduced in the new patch. I haven't played Brandenburg yet on 1.27, but I think you can rush to get Danzig, then release them as vassal. That should stop the event from firing. I will test it out and release an addendum to this guide. Thanks for pointing it out!
As long as you get the provinces before 1450 the event won't fire. If you can't, you can take all of Pomerania instead, then normally you can take Konigsberg with the permanent claims, so you can still form Prussia, and take the other provinces later on.
I was able to get konigsberg by allying Danzig the day they appear, then they should call you in but in order to get the province you need, you must take stolp from Pomerania to get it in your coring range.
Also siege konigsberg before Poland or Danzig get to it, you will probably need to peace out separately because I doubt Danzig will give you it
Also when do you leave the hre as forming prussia I thought that always happened but when I reformed from teutonic order I didnt leave the hre, thank god. I waited 60 years so I could expand more into germany.
You won’t leave the HRE if you are an elector.
@@gmgunnhildr2711 I wasnt either
AVGVSTVS CAESAR so I checked the wiki, and it appears that the event in which you leave the HRE unless you’re an elector only triggers if you form Prussia with any other state besides TO, because it elevates your government rank to kingdom. For some odd reason only the Teutonic order is excluded from this.
@@gmgunnhildr2711 some of these mechanics are so tedious thanks tho, that game ended up going fine btw
AVGVSTVS CAESAR cool
I love your accent it
It sounds so smooth and soft
did you say that meclenburg have small allies. not in my game they allied poland and lithuania
I just ally Austria and sit with my armies 0% maintained until I can get 100 gold to buy newmark to get into debt early game. In my games it comes quickly, and since I'm not rivaling Pomerania they don't see me as a threat. I just diplo-vandalize them (Take only Stop to not get aggressive expansion) and automatically declare war on Teutons as they are probably in a war with Poland and Austria always joined my wars. Take allergy konigsberg, and you're set for forming Prussia. Do whatever u want after that it's no difference. ( Remember that Danzig event fires, you should be QUICKER than the event , so if the fate of neumark doesn't fire until around 1449, just screw it, that's why always build a spy network in Pomerania incase that happens, or restart.
Quality&Economic forever.
Economic? Why would you play into the system of the Bourgeois comrade?
@@cdw2468 because of +5% dicipline and production efficiency means better workers and better workers means more free workers
wonderful guide res. Did you get the strategy off the eu4 wiki?
is influence still a good choice since the AE expansion was moved to espionage...?
Yes it is, if you are playing a blobbing vassal game. The influence admin policy is back, which means decreased vassal integration costs again.
i cant do it :/ i got really close but danzig appears out of nowhere and i can no longer take land and go to war with poland, so i got angry and quit
Yeah the Danzig event is new the current patch. I will post an addendum on how to deal with it. Basically you need to take Danzig early and release them as vassal, this will stop the event.
Let me give you some advice dude, just try until you get ideal condition in the start which are
1. 'Treaty of koln' event which give you conquest cb on pomerania
2. pomerania doesnt have strong ally (denmark/poland , i can easily beat them with only 11 stacks even if he have 2 or 3 small nations ally
Declare war on pomerania and vassalize, now u get conquest cb on prussia area from mission trees, by this time in my most bradenburg game teutonic order only have 1-3 province. I declare war on them then vassalize them. I usually start with ally austria n saxony then poland (in purpose to bring down bohemia). After i decimated bohemia i will dissolve my alliance with poland wait truce end then declare war and call to arms austria using reconquest cb from teutonic order. One or either way i always succed secure land from from czech and prussia area before 1500 in my most game..
Well I fought Pomeranian and east Friesland and lost no stack wipes and lost a 15k Vs 12k on max morale so I don't know what I did wrong
@@permabulk6253 no I had no org :) because maintandance was like half way realised that after comment but did t change
How to play tall as a horde.
you can also go what late game? i didnt understand that :( 11:20
T4r4g0n revolutionary
9:46 Wettin's Prussia?
Would you recommend trying to play prussia as a goal for your first game of eu4?
I personally, wouldn't go for it. Castile or France is better for a new player. Brandenburg into Prussia can sometimes be pretty RNG/luck dependent. And of course, you're small.
1st campaign? I would say try Bahamanis, odd choice but you'll see how fun it is when you play.
I think you spelt Brandenburg wrong in the title
Thanks! Fixed.
@@RadioRes No problem. Btw when are you doing the Poland let's play?
Please do a updated guide
Its on the list (a long list of things to do...)
Why? I'm in 1.28.3 and I'm following his guide, it is 1650 and I'm still fine.
C’mon how can restarting be part of a strategy haha.. adapt and think of something else!
WTf this fucking cheese. Now the fucking war just snowballs and i fight against 20k stacks because all of north Germany is in the war for pommerania
make a tutorial on India. I hope i'm not wrong but you sound Indian. If you are make a tutorial on India and tell us some history :D
IM a nerd to
outdated... poland allways make danzig and takes those provinces within a few years.
yeah the prussian confederation i think ruins this tutorial sadly.
not at all, the prussian confederation event only fires after 1450, meaning that if you can take danzing and konisberg before 1450, there is no problem
@@Lucas-po6mn Yes, but for a new/not very good player like me, it's rather difficult.
@@EnderMan314-USA Now that's changed, wolgast has replaced pomerania, so take stolp and expand into Danzig
Always in the late game Bohemia fucks me over because they are stronger than fucking russia, and Mecklem burg ALWAYS for some reason allies Poland/Bohemia at the start so RIP me
tackle bohemia with an ally or two. Saxony always desires their provinces so they will help you out. Austria might help as well.
Thanks I will try that
All these insanely specific guides i extremely dislike. EU4 is a dynamic game with opportunities all over the place, you just need to see them and take your chances. I think guides should focus more on what is possible as a nation instead of giving you a step by step plan which fails when 1 thing doesn't go exactly as said in the guide (i just watch guides for entertainment and see how other people play, got 700 hours on the game myself).
This guide doesn't say you have to play it this way though? Anyone who wants to form prussia and/or germany has most likely played enough to know this.
you need danzig OR königsberg
no, you need danzig or stolp and königsberg is a must
pretty sure Königsberg is a must. But I don't play Prussia anymore too boring.