1337 History of Italy & Political Map 

Tired of waiting for eu5? Me too. Until it's out you could watch my Timurids highlight though ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Hdn8SlkZI0Y.html

Paradox : putting tens or hundreds of nations in a single region. Every player : "there can be only one !"

4:15 as a Pisan, I was really close to unsubscribing - first mixing us up with the Senese and the calling us a FLORENTINE CITY was a real one-two punch.

I think Venice just has to be represented as a separate Island even if it has to be drawn out of proportion

The third pope Ludi referenced should be Alexander V. which was indeed elected by the council of Pisa in the early 15th century. (1409, to be exact.)

Ludi, just a clarification about Verona. It was Cangrande I della Scala who expanded the power of Verona. He conquered Treviso and Vicenza, and finally conquered the rival of the Veronese, Padua. His power not only made him the leader of the Ghibellines and the right hand man of the emperor in Northern Italy, but he was also the patron of Dante Alighieri. His descendants would be the ones to destroy his work.

Ludi is probably the most youtuber ive watched in my life. Bcs of the length of the videos and the almost daily uploads, the watch time i have with ludi is probably higher than the rest combined lol. I watch him in x2 speed tho. Ludi you are way funnier in that speed lol

Please make Venice an island it's one of its greatest strengths

on the subject of romansh, I actually grew up with a swiss girl who spoke it as her first language, it’s by far one of the most interesting languages I’ve ever heard, like a smattering of germanic and italian

Just curious but could u make a vid of 10 important country/rulers of 1337? Like as in an vid with an small explanation of the situation and ruler of said nations? Would love to know more about this time period.

It's already cringe for Monza to have a province in real life, now they have it in EU5 too, nah fuck that

As an Italian, aside from 2 and 5, the numbers are nearly the same as Italian.

Provençal and alpine are actually 2 distinct languages Alpine, or "Vivaro-alpin" in french, is a North occitan language while provençal is a south-occitan language and very distinct (due to late-roman and italian influences) culture so that's accurate

Wait, what? They certainly have to secure separate island for the Venetians. It's an unbelievably stupid idea to make one location of it with no strait

I hope they add some flavor for Cola di Rienzo and Giangaleazzo Visconti, arguably some of the most recognizable political leaders of the 14th century. They should also add the Albornoz campaign, which led the Pope to conquer the Marches and secure his Italian domain.

You know a history buff knows what hes talking about when he has rings under his eyes

They gave us Andorra, so i had hopes for San Marino. Alas.

18:20 I had the honor to play a round of valorant with a romansh speaker that first spoke in german but then switched to it. After that some of my friends from switzerland explained that it is an official language in switzerland and yea. I DID KNOW IT LUDI

It's so cool to see italy finally getting the proper love it always deserved, as medieval times were at the end of their life and approaching the renaissance, italy was a country full of interesting places, histories and personalities. I always felt that Italy in EU4 was always kinda forgotten even tho it was originally at the center of the map. Yes they did update a few of its regions, but it was a really scarce update with no real flavour in it. This looks like a really good step forward in the very right direction.

They could make a feature called Special Locations that are basically just a bubble that appear once you're close enough to a location you couldn't otherwise click due to its size. It can have a code block that checks if there's a friendly fleet off its coast that would stop any armies trying to move into it.

It would be nice to add the Walser community between the Alps. Maybe creating some events such as the seasonal work for european cities. Their skills in stone carving and stone working were greatly appreciated by nobles because they're kinda rare

Btw I would like see the event that spawn silk in Como as in EU4 as it was one of the leading producers in the western world for some time. Also something about Volta too, he has been so important to the discovery of electricity that he would deserve it

My personal and extremely niche gripe with the map is regarding the kingdom of Naples: It was (formally, due to the Normans) a vassal of the papal states. It didn't act like one but they still had obligations to them (mainly military, and they also paid a tribute called "Chinea" to them. For reference: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinea ). That resulted in the city of Benevento as well as Pontecorvo being enclaves of the papal states INSIDE the kingdom of Naples (information available in both cities' Wikipedia articles: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontecorvo ; en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevento ) Other than that I hope the Duchy of Sora will get an event chain to gain autonomy and become a vassal under the kingdom of Naples (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Sora) Likewise the principality of Taranto should be modelled as a feudal state of Naples, not an integral part of it (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Taranto)

Regarding Genoa and Venice, the serie of wars they fought was ultimatelly won by the Genoese, not the Venicians. Both republics accumulated huge debts during the war and the peace of Turin in 1381 resulted in Cyprus being handed over to Genoa (or rather, Venice renouncing their claims on the island in favour of Genoa) , and a series of islands in Asia Minor and the Dodecanese being handed over to Genoa. Also, Venician merchants were barred from trading in the black sea. Moreover, Venice lost nearly all of its territory on the Italian mainland, surrendering Conegliano and Treviso to Austria, and was forced to pay tribute to the Hungarians. Ultimatelly, the peace sanctioned the monopoly of Genoese trade in the Black Sea, which remained so until after the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. The Venetians largely abandoned trade with Cyprus, and the hegemony of the Genoese over the island continued until their defeat and expulsion by the King of Cyprus in 1464. This peace and its aftermath marked a low point in Venice's medieval history, but its neighbours' problems enabled the republic to make a rapid and sustained recovery which led to the progressive overturning of the settlement established at Turin. The lord of Padua acquired Treviso from Austria in 1382, but less than a decade later Venice was able to recover it, as Padua came under heavy attack from Milan. Hungary continued to receive the Venetian tribute only until 1397

You should visit Bergamo some time! it's a location i think you'll love as a large part of the the old fortified city is in tact and in use

True everyone was at war, and in this period the kingdom of Naples was on the verge of unificate the entirity of the peninsula under Ladislao I Durazzo D'angio (1377-1414). I hope that the developers can create an opportune path for every regional power (milan, Verona, Venice, Pisa, Genoa, Naples, Savoy) to unificate throught diplomacy (not only wars) lo stivale.

10:26 the war of the league of cognac was way later in 1526-1530. This particular war you mentioned was called after the lega antiscaligera (anti-Scaliger leauge)

Regarding places like Gibralatar or Venice. Make it small, but make the SEA around it slightly coloured and selectable as if it was a land province (while looking like a coloured sea).

7:10 is highly debatable, you should have pushed the subject more cause is very interesting. The war was mostly naval and culminated after almost 2 centuries of rivalry. The genoese navy went undefeated for the most part and heavily retaliated on the venetians for any losses. The venetians were unable to make any sortee into the Tirrenean see, despite bigger numbers in terms of navy, the genoese decided to launch an invasion of venice proper and started doing so by razing and occupying venetian holds in the Adriatic Sea, venetians were powerless and mustered a big fleet to face the genoese approaching venice itself, they got destroyed and lost most of their navy, either captured or destroyed by the genoese, Genoa suffered light casualties. In the meantime in the city of Genoa itself noble families, which were always rivals to each other, started fighting over spoils of war, trade hotspots and whatever, it litterally came down to in-street fighting beetween families, support for the war effort was barely none, "La Superba" , the sin of pride in the end doomed the prideful city. The genoese navy landed in venetian mainland and wrecked havoc, venetian army was once again defeated, but still lack of support from the homeland was getting desperate for the genoese sailors and soldiers. Venice saw right through that and organized once again their fleet to attack the genoese one, now stuck in Chioggia(a town south of Venice), which would give the name to the war "Guerra di Chioggia". Once again the venetian navy was defeated tho, the genoese managed to repel the encirclement attempt and sunk many venetian ships. Then both parties came to peace, venice was unable to defeat Genoa on the sea and had a standing genoese army in the mainland, Genoa didnt have the internal unity to pursue the war anymore, and they convened a peace in Milan mediated by the Duke if i remember correctly. Genoa won every most battles but didnt win the war, venice didnt win either but they came out on top cause this conflict would prompt them to expand into the mainland. Genoa would go on a period of decadence and would never go back to being a naval and trade power of that level, facing a new "renaissance" in the 1500s with their banking. This war happened a bit later than the startdate, at which time Genoa was one of the biggest cities in europe, before the black plague

Italy looks to be the best place for the first.. 10 runs.

The usage of South and North Bavarian means their are gonna be decisions or events to diverse cultures and maybe to hybridise cultures- something like Anglois randomly spawning in pops in high development provinces after England controls the kingdom of France is possible.

Dude every video gets me so hyped for EU5.

Look how happy he is in the miniature

The new map should have Venice as a separate province from the mainland, and Benevento inside Neapolitan lands.

*Me as a North African*: "Just show me a map" Ludi: History session time!

Nice. Now let's see, if there's any depth to those nations or they play just the same only with a different flag.

I want to play Urbino with Federico da Montefeltro! This guy is clearly à 6-6-6.

Ludi, my friend, you keep saying that Frederick III of Sicily was the king of Aragon but that's simply not true. In 1337 the king of Aragon and chief of the house of Barcelona is Peter IV the Ceremonious, also called the knife guy (check it), a very important monarch. The sicilians were subsidiary monarchs like the mallorcans.

I hope they will also focus on Asia and other continents like this so that we can see more accurate maps in other continents.

Why does seeing duchy of Verona , reminds me of Romeo and Juliet where Duke of Verona had to stop the street fights between families also I’m keen to play in Italy, all of them look fun plus where’s San Marino and Forli?

12:53 wtf paradox, why did u change grosseto's name to grosetto

Ludi i have some questions for you How did ur English become so good? What did you work before becoming a youtuber? I think a pilot? But you also seem to have an education in history so idk And did u live in another place other than romania and japan? Can you pleaaase do a Q&A video? Love you from Tunisia

I wasn't expecting Ludi speaking Roman to us

It s probably colser to romamian but is really close to italy too, only cinque is different

There is a town near me called Guelph. We pronounce is G-well-ff (hard G like Grape). No idea if it is related to this Guelph. I am in Canada, Ontario.

17:20 (romanian here) I actually made a project for school about our language and that might be what nowadays we have a branch of the romanian language known as istro-romanian, from what I researched it could be that some romanian merchants set up there and grew and mixed with the locals. Nowadays there are maybe few thousand left in modern day Croatia. And yes, it sound extremly alike romanian :)

0:00 Haven’t even watched the video yet. I saw the number of nations in the thumbnail and had to say “Nice”. 😎

Doesn’t subbing to Ludi mean reforming the Roman Empire

18:23 already knew that, and has been subscribed long ago. instructions unclear, so I formed roman empire

Hybrid/emergent culture would be interesting. Colonization of the Americas would be very applicable. Consider the clumsiness of "American" popping up in English or Scottish colonies but no one else has that.

I: Came home a little drunk, Ludi: Made video with slow zoom. Helicopters:tw tw tw tw tw tw

How much of the content do you think will be missing or comming with later DLC’s. I really want to play more local/regional powers but I fear that it will not be as much content for such nations

are they actually going to have a setting in EU5 where mouse camera panning can be turned off? probably the only reason i didnt play more than 5 hours of EU4 Crusader King master race btw

I hope that there are events to gain the papal accounts once banking takes over. It huge for the bank of Florence's influence and growth. I'd love it even more if they tied it into the trade nodes so that people could fight over trade in certain powerful areas.

I hope to see more info on the Alpine Region.

The third pope elected during the Western Squism was Benedict XIII, that was from Aragon

I bet that cultures will be dynamic in EU5, given that Austrian certainly should be a culture by the end date.

Venice could just have a huge defence bonus in that province. Like stronger than a top level fort.

I think the dark spots around land should be inverted so that the deep sea is more dark

2 small fun facts: That Rice provinces in northern Italy are the biggest Rice producing areas of europe and in fact Italy is the biggest Rice exporter of the continent. That Lead province on the Tuscan cast seems to be near where "Piombino" a Port town is located. "Piombino" literally means "Little Lead" (Piombo being the italian word for Lead). Then 1 small criticism, the Trentino area being full German with some ladin minorities is not accurate at all. Welschtirol should be majority Romance speaking (a gradient between Lombard and Venetian, cause that's what the Trento dialect is like) while Bozen/Bolzano should be Majority Ladin cause german settlers migrated e masse there only in the 15th century. So the biggest improvement they could make whould be to move up the Language border between Germans and Italians at least North of Bolzano(probably should be set near the Brenner pass as the northern Val Venosta was majority romansh)

beautiful maps are nice and all, I really hope paradox can have decent gameplay ready on launch

18:20 I already knew bc im Swiss lol. Grüezi wohl Ludi :))

Alpine is not, per se, a distinct culture. It was mostly an offshoot of both provençal and arpitan.

Merkury is smaller than Brasil (confirmed) so Italians can conquer Tunis and trade Mercury with portugals. Then portgals will place Mercury in Brasil.

I still think Sicily is going to be the most fun it will probably be the Byzantium of this game and have a crazy path like making a Latin Carthage or something

Aaa, the famous Slavland and the mighty city of Slavko!

What is that culture which is dark green under sicily in malta? did they actually make Maltese a culture?

17:08 Is similar to portuguese too execept for 5 Um, dois, três, quatro e cinco

The two games I am excited for is College Football 25 (the real ones know) and EU5 after Ludi has been talking it up.

I wouldnt mind a larger venice island, just for representation. Ive been there so I know how tiny it is in reality!

Thanks for answering my question in video

Hybrid cultures are one of the best parts in CK3, so it should be in EU5.

The trade and Production in this game looks so complicated, more basic goods then vic 2 or 3, more complex production lines then vic 2 or 3. I'm not sure how easy it will be to produce things around the world, I guess that's part of the point, but saltpeter looks very rare, as does lead, but it needs to be available enough to supply all of Europe very quickly as that becomes the main way of warfare. similarly, are we getting dynamically produced goods that change over time? if you control a silk producing province, can you spread silk production to other locations or is that locked? same with woods and forests, can you over produce lumber and change the terrain type and change the goods produced? this did historically happen in Europe, which is why the new world, most importantly the north east of America was so valuable, Timber.

The EU5 maps looks a lot like Imperator Rome's map

Great video as always Ludi. Also a random question, ¿What book would you recommend to start reading about the Roman Republic/Empire? Anyone can answer this question btw

Why is Elba not a separate territory, so that it can be handed to Napoleon after his loss?

I'm not very familiar with this region but I think the separation between Alpine and Provençal culture is pretty accurate

Uniting Italy as Naples is gonna be so easy now

Everything about this game looks amazing.

You speak so well latin good pronunce.

Have you done a video on the British Isles yet?

I think anything like hybrid cultures should not be controlled by the player but happen if there is a lot of intermixing where cultures have equal status in a country... If a large portion of the pops have same religion, have 20+% of pops in more than x locations or something then it should happen.

I follow a few Romanian political leaders on Twitter and Instagram (Maia Sandu is an angel) and whenever I hear them speaking Romanian I often think, to my untrained ear anyway, it sounds a lot like Italian.

I cannot wait to play eu5

Venice absolutely should be represented by an Island, it’s just too important and part of their identity and success. If you can just occupy Venice by occupying Veneto then Venice will be too weak

When Constantinople was conquered by the Ottomans on May 29, 1453, it marked the final collapse of the Byzantine Empire. But even before that date, many Greek scholars had left their Byzantine homeland and lived in Europe, mainly in Italy. The question is more what influence Byzantines had on the development of the Renaissance/Humanism in Italy and whether this would have been possible without the Byzantine refugees at all. But as far as I can see, the game is actually pretty good.😛 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3uzjb2IOSC4.html

Ah yes the gilfs... 😏

Maybe Paradox can correct the name of Grosetto Location in Tuscany, it's name is Grosseto

holy moly they are cooking i wonder how much of the content they gonna release.There is no way the gonna have the entire world covered with the same detail we got a sneak peak of for europe. Do u think they gonna focus on europe and go dor dlcs for the rest of the world?

I have never heard of "Alpine" as a distinct ethno-linguistical group like Savoy or Provence can be. The modern region is in the department of Hautes-Alpes which historically was closer politically and linguistically to the Lyon-Grenoble-Savoy region than the mediterrannean coast, but it wasn't Savoy proper. Someone at pdx Tinto must have felt "fuck this, not everyone in the french Alps is a Savoyard" and they added the Alpine culture. I don't really mind but I do find this tiny chauvinism funny.

12:39 why does it say "Grosetto", when actually is "Grosseto"? Paradox, learn italian, please

Really good video, anyway Signoria has the accent on the first I (Sígnoria). Thanks for all the info on eu5!

I cannot wai for my pc to explode

Hmm, no glass as an exported good for the italians?

The thumbnail is nice ;)

I imagine by alpine they want to talk about the dialect of occitan and that's why they separate it from arpitan

Nice

Ludi, how many hours do you have on EU4? I have over 3000 now.

i did know, from saying, swicherland is like bass 4 tongue and nothing common

I have yet to see Copper as a trade good. Does that mean we won't have copper anymore?