AFGHANISTAN IS THE GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES 

yes there is

yes!

Yes! I was hoping at the start you would go for the monument in Tbilisi, Narikala Fortress, but if Poland killed Muscovy it might not be worth it :(

Cool mechanic. IRL it would spawn huge rebellions and probably some palace coup :)

@@neutronshiva2498 Not really Islam spread like that in many places if I recall correctly, I might just be making facts up but who knows.

@@neutronshiva2498depends on the lead up I feel, tho honestly eu4 has long since passed complete realism as a focus

@@damnimbored25 Sort of. Sufis, missionaries, and merchants helped spread Islam along trade routes

Unlikely ​@@neutronshiva2498

Why? It seems pretty normal.

Kudos to the editor!

I still don't get why can't he just use the damn earphones

I mean it is kind of a part of the brand by now...

And also to avoid head dents

Then we can't make fun of his hair again... Lol

EMOTIONAL DAMAGE

Ramparts can’t be built in mountains anymore.

@@jessewest2700 nah, I played as Eranshahr yesterday and I had ramparts in some mountain provinces (for the mission tree mainly)

​@@jessewest2700 Yes you can?

@@jessewest2700 you playing with a balance mod on?

@@prestonjones1653 I guess I haven't tested it, but I was referencing something from a Dev Diary in March of 2023. Ramparts can now only be placed on terrain which is seen as “Flatland” in the game. This means it is only possible to build ramparts on farmlands, grasslands, steppes, savannahs, drylands, (coastal) deserts and coastlines. Note: we are aware that this change is a bit against the nature of what ramparts actually are. The reason behind this change is that mountains with ramparts can lead to oppressive situations where neither side wants to commit to an attack due to the threat which are -3 on rolls. Guess that’s what I get for not checking final patch notes. They must not have gone this direction.

Or he could go full masochism and do Dhenijanraj into Harimraj ;)

which kobolds? looking for a new run :D

@@Alvarvar anbennar is a fantasy overhaul for eu4 with different race like elves, goblins, dwarfs etc. It has different mechanics like magic added. Jaddari nation in particular was very fun last I played.

@@Alvarvar red green and blue scale kobolds in cannor by the gnomes. Red kobolds are probably the easiest of the three followed by blue, but that doesn't make them easy. Goldscale kobolds have a lovely tree but laith has played it already and everyone hates them less

I feel like kobolds, dwarfs and goblins already have enough representation on youtube. Whenever big youtubers play Anbennar, it's usually one of these races. Laith playing Jadd was the only exception I've seen. Why does nobody play in the actual empire of Anbenner, for example? 😅

Me too, brother. Me too 😂

Taxes are garbage income, Laith is correct here.

but...he took the taxes over the dev@@AlienFromBeyond

Persians (achamenid) Greeks (macedonian and bactrian) Greco-persians (seluecids) Indians (mauryan) Persians (parthians and sassanids) Hephthalites Perso-arabs (ummayads, abbasids, etc.) Turks (ghurids, ghaznavids, etc.) Turko-persian (khwarezmians) Mongols Uzbeks (timurids) Persians (safavids) Indo-Turko-persians (mughals)

Hey, they need something to be happy about in these times...

They beat England, Russia, and the USA. Stronger than any of those, and modern tech. Insane logic

Where are all these empires now? mhh

The mughals literaly started in Afghanistan since the people in Balkh were the only ones still loyal to the Timurids. There was no mughal conquest of Afghanistan. Also persians have traditionaly been one of the two dominant ethnicities in Afghanistan. Otherwise, yes it was sometimes conquered, but generaly only by massive concessions and much struggle. We don't know much about the Achaemenids but Bardiya, second son of Cyrus, was governor in Balkh. Alexander maried a noblewoman from Balkh and let her father govern the region. After that Afghanistan was never completely conquered by an outside force until the Ist century BC and even gained independence under a local greek dynasty centered on Balkh. Then Balkh came under the rule of Tocharians who set up their own kingdom there under unknown circumstances while the arsacids conquered Sistan in the south. The Arsacids let the Surens rule over Sistan as largely autonomous vassals (the arsacid general at Carrhae was a Suren). At the end of the century the Surens gained independence until the IIIrd century. The tocharians created an empire centered on Bagram which lasted until the IIIrd century. The Sassanids conquered the region but let it be ruled by an autonomous king which ruled from Balkh until the IVth century when the huns the Sassanids had settled there rebelled and took Balkh. Sistan was at first autonomous but lost its status in the IVth century. Several hunnic empires ruled the region until the IXth century. The Sassanids retook Balkh in the VIth century followed by the Arabs a century later but the huns at the time had their capital at Kabul and stayed independent, they were then overthrown by a hindu dynasty and the Kabul kingdom endured until the XIth century. Balkh was thus the center of a sometimes independent, sometimes autonomous state that took many forms but lasted from the IIIrd century BC to the VIth century AD and then relocated to Kabul, closer to India where the huns were waging war. The Kabul state lasted until the XIth century. A first muslim empire centered on Afghanistan was that of the Saffarids from the south which ruled shortly over most of Iran in the IXth century, then they ruled Sistan, making it into an autonomous state that lasted until the XVIth century. The Ghaznavids established themselves in southern Afganistan and created another empire that ruled most of Iran and northeast India and which put an end to the Kabul state. They were then overthrown by the Shansabani who conquered all of northern India but were defeated by the Khwarezmshahs. Most of Afghanistan was still under Shansabani rule when the mongols arrived, the Shansabani ruled the region as an autonomous vassal of the Ilkhans and gained independence in the XIVth century. Timur founded his empire in Balkh and overthrew the Shansabani, the Timurids would then rule the region until the XVIIIth century. Parts of western Afghanistan would be under Uzbek and then iranian rule, in the XVIIIth century pashtuns in these regions rebeled and briefly took over Iran before being defeated by Nader Shah. Nader Shah defeated the Timurids and took over the region by allying with the Durranis. At his death the Durrani became independent and thus modern Afghanistan was born. So a second long lasting state (that we can call Khurassani after the province) lasted from the Xth to the XVIIIth century mostly as an independent state but sometimes as an autonomous vassal. This is to say Afghanistan is indeed the "graveyard of empires" people who look at some maps to say the contrary are generaly not aware of the political realities in Iran where recognizing some sort of central power often didn't mean a complete loss of independence. In Afghanistan (and historicaly in other iranian mountain countries like Tabaristan, Kurdistan or Luristan) power is gained through negociation. A foreign power can earn safe passage and a cut on tax routes by negociating with mountain clans. Any attempt to exerce a more brutal form of power nearly always failed in the long run. Be it Alexander with Roxana, the Arsacids with the Surens, the Sassanids with the Kushanshahs, the mongols with the Shansabani or Nader Shah with the Durranis, an empire that wanted dominion over the Khyber pass always had to get the afghans to its side. The british, russians and americans thought they could exert power in Afghanistan through their own civilized method of shooting at anything with brown skin while discarding the decadent and barbarous oriental practice of talking with eachother and negociating. They lost.

Remember AI Lotharingia?

@@carltonleboss that was wild !

Al lotheringia was what made me sub

"F." You Mean *F*CKING LIE!*

Espionage also gives fort defense bonus policies.

@@sld1776 I think it is just fort defense no garrison size, but yes

He stole my heart first smh