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@@Theplaymaker57 true man i heard you were playing along with the challenges hope you can participate again next time maybe then parabellum is better organized with management
Technically Teutons can form Germany before Admin Tech 20. You just have to forgoe getting claims over all of Germany. Go HRE diplomacy path, dismantle the HRE, complete the mission that would form the HRE and you get Germany instead.
I remember doing this exact run once. Ended up forming Germany 300 years early. It was fun until Germany was formed. After that, I was just too strong.
Thank you, I figured as much, and I'm happy to see this perfect response! Competition can be tough, and even top athletes frequently have such... responses, shall we say :). That's a whole skill in and of its own, and clearly, you've grown already. Excited to see you play along in the challenges, and with your mindset I expect you'll learn a lot from reflecting on it. And let's also point this out: your approach may have been suboptimal but you pulled out a crazy strat, got close and that made the match exciting! Two players starting as Ming doing the same thing would've been a lot less interesting. I expect next season you'll have a broader base to work with, but will still have plenty of crazy strats to employ, and it's always going to be a spectacle whether you get it done! Shoutout to Cara for being a champ in more than one way!
I can really recommend about playing in the India and China region, speed5 had a goal of conquering as many provinces in China region and the winner had a really good strat that redhawk now uses in his releasable challenge. And india is just really fun to expand quickly and after you have played a hindu nation and a mulim sultanate once you get the idea on how to play there and can expand from there. Same with east, west and north Africa just play 2 nations with 2 different goals or starting situations and you get the idea on how to maximize in the region. For west africa I can really recommend a Mali campaign, very fun mission tree with rough disasters. and if you want a hard goal with great title: "me and the Dahomey's" get as many subjects as Dahomey within 1 hour.
was on the live and saw your frustration and completely agreed with you. I’m very glad to see how this video turned out, its very self reflecting, understanding and more than anything im glad to see you try to take on parabellum next time
Completely natural to feel salty in a defeat, everyone does it. You'll come back in force in future seasons for sure. Practicing the challenges alongside the tournament is really interesting idea though - would be quite cool to see if maybe other PDX RU-vidrs want to get involved too. I suppose you could go through the challenges from the previous tournaments too.
Web Weaver is strong, you get up to -30% AE on a nation with high spy network, which stacks on your -90% hard capped nation AE modi. So in your case, it is better than a ruler with -10%AE, because you are on the hard cap.
I really like this video compared to the prior one. I love your take here, the fact you congratulated your opponent, the fact you recognized your weaknesses. I’m really glad you made this new video. You make great content, I’m excited to keep watching you!
Hey, I like your new approach here! Now I'm getting Rocky IV vibes, and hearing a voice wailing in the background "I'm not asking for another chance, I just wanna know why..." You put on a good show, sir, keep up the good work! As to how to prep for S2, I'd say go check out some of the challenges from Speed 5, they're pretty representative of the kind of things we'll see in the future.
Hey playmaker, I saw your previous video and i understood ur frustrations but was also hoping you would make a video kinda like this one. Glad to see this man, you are one of my favourite youtubers and I look forward to continuing to watch you improve!
12:00 turns out there have been 12 popes that reigned only 33 days or less. prussia is arguably the worst path you can chose if you dismenlte the HRE take the HRE path that way you can form germany at any tech. basically it swaps out all missions for generic conquer 20 provices northern germany the probelm is you dont get any claims this is usually not that big of a deal. since you fight so many minor naiton its pretty ez to just claim 1 state and have claims on everything they own that way. so not incresed cost for already having claims on them. but that obviously requiers boring dimplomat control.
Yeah but that either delays your dismantle, or moves your mission path decision waaay early (which would make the -10% AE mode expire too soon), neither of which are good options.
You can get a ton of challenge ideas by going back to old speed5 videos and watching the first few minutes just to get the challenge. Added benefit of being able to compare how you did to the actual players, just like you're doing with Para Bellum. A few challenges I remember off the top of my head: -Maximize the sum of trade value in the Venice and Genoa trade nodes. You don't have enough time to blob out and just conquer the entirety of every trade node, so you have to really understand how to maximize trade using fewer provinces. -Dismantle the HRE, starting as a country with as little dev as possible. There *is* a 3-dev country in Europe. Can you dismantle quickly as an Irish minor?
There is diplomatic path in teutonic order for HRE thingy , and if you disassemble HRE after choosing this path you can form germany after forming prussia with last mission of this path , if you have enough land in german region , i think this path is funny. 1515-1525 Germany? Funny
There's a pulse event that periodically gives -20% aggressive expansion. It was moved to trigger by Espionage ideas rather than Innovative (iirc). It lets you go much harder on stacking AE reduction without needing to mess around with holding on to Innovative waiting for the pulse event, in addition to just periodically triggering if you're already using Espionage to stack AE reduction.
Hey, glad to hear you’re looking forward to things! A couple country recommendations to play in different areas: India has a lot of really cool tags, and because of the Muslim/Hindu split you can expand very quickly. Bahmanis is a great tag to expand in all directions as Shia, while something like Mewar might lend to a Prussian skillset with its military focus. Trying to form Andalusia as someone like Tunis could be a fun challenge for you; not explicitly difficult for long term EU4 players but would give experience in the region. They just updated hordes in the latest patch, and the Great Horde mission tree is fantastic for scaling; your playstyle of going debt heavy will likely lean well into the horde “always war” style. Just a couple recs, love the videos and keep up man!
Definitely learn to play a horde. It's sickening. And good on you for taking some of the critical comments from the previous Parabellum video to heart.
