Be a Huge Cossacks Nation that can RAZE PROVINCES and has an UNBEATABLE ARMY in only 6 YEARS!  

What I really like about paradox is there's 5 gov reforms that allows you to raize a provinces (horde, mongol horde, holy horde, sich rada and a pirate one) and each and every one of them have a description that raizing would give you horde unity

I just finished a zaporzhie->poland game where i had 130 cca and only cossack cav and winged hussar regiments. Most fun ive had in a long time.

Pls do several more videos with this nation. Actually I would like you to make edited EU4 series, where you play your OP nations ;:)

This is amazing. Forming Poland for the Hussar regiments and Cav Combat seems like a natural progression since you don't lose Sich Rada, but what Tag Switching can you do after that that still wouldn't lose you your ability to raid? The only thing that this version miss out on that I always see people playing Sich Rada do is taking Aristocratic ideas for extra Cavalry Combat Ability, but I feel like it might even be suboptimal because of diminishing returns at that point.

I feel like this nation could be a good starting point for a one culture one tag run since you get the itinerant capital and razing

it would be funny to imagine this actually happening in real life: “QUICK! WE NEED TO GIVE OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY TO THE COSSACKS! NOW!!!!!!!”

theres a few more things to this: you can declare war and take livonia / teutonic order while you wait for the disaster, by being at war you do also pause the diaster so its +0 per month, if you were to time it right you could probably get 50 provinces from the start by taking as much land as fast as possible before triggering the disaster. My run ended up triggering in 1457 which might be a bit late but also i would like to add that your government reforms also carry over

Very cool strategy, thank you for sharing! I would love to see what you could do with this nation so please continue playing!

Absolute king strat! Nice! Thank you for sharing!

Please continue! I just found this channel, its so cool!

I did this back before horde ideas was available for sich rada, which meant conquering zaporozhie from Lithuania as Crimea, then releasing them so I could reform as a horde and then move on to sich rada. It's so much easier now!

Crazy insane nation! Wtf dude haha (I imagine you’ll form Poland from here for god tier cav)

oh another fun way of doing this. Now I've seen 4 ways so far: your way, Poland slowly feeding provinces to them while integrating them, a horde suicidal attack into Lithuania and then just wrecking lithuania and release and play.

Doing this with poland would also be an idea, because you can decline the Jagiellonian union and get a 6/6/6 ruler that will allow you to rush tech 5 ASAP for a free idea group. You can also grab tech 4 super quick and grab a bunch of provinces everywhere. The problem is that poland has such high noble crownland share and you can't reduce it, so your revolter state might not be as big.

Disasters spawning new nations make such cool campaigns. Wish there was a disaster like them that would let you release and play as a nation since the button and independence war feels way more cheesy. i'd love to see where you would take this country!

Another amazing and entertaining video. Cossack Horde Galore

Would really love to see how you are going to break the game even further with this nation :) Reform into Ruthenia keeping Sich Rada? Orthodox Mongols? Cossack hussars? I know you have something interesting in mind! BTW -10 years of separatism in capital is also a very nice bonus if you intent not to keep your capital in Smolensk.

Yay!!! my favorite breakaway state gets noticed

Just wrapping up a sich rada playthough*, so the video is very much on time. I guess the only advantage Zaporozhie has is the ability to pick up Aristocratic ideas before clicking the decision to become Sich Rada government, adding yet another cavalry bonus source to the mix. Otherwise this start is very much a superior option, a very cool showcase! Would have been useful to have known a couple of weeks ago XD --- *Lithuania -> Zaporozhie -> Ruthenia -> Poland -> Lithuanian-Polish-Commonwealth (Military Hegemon) (Poland has better ideas for pure military, but LPC has governing capacity and tech discount over PLC's slightly higher cavalry combat ability - then again, culture shifting was a bit of a pain)

I think in this and also zaparozhies case you NEED to form poland for ideas/missions and winged hussars which will further buff your cav even more. but even though zaparozhie is harder/weaker start it is still I think the better start for stronger MILITARY (not economically because you start with 3 provinces that are extremely low dev and plus you have to break free and build army from 0) cuz you have access to aristocratic idea (ari->infl->horde->flex->quality +poland ideas for 150%+ cav combat ability) which with influence policy literally makes your army invincible. One of the many things I learned from my 4k+ hours is that if you can stack modifiers stack them as much as you can. I have played many OP Mil focus nations but noone of them could possibly 1v4 russia + otto + emperor bohemia + austria-hungary on VH difficulty. P.S I know it is possible to win unwinnable wars even as 10X smaller nation on VH but I am not florryworry and in that 1v4 case i was just brute forcing and just winning every single combat battles agains 20X bigger armies.

To note, since the Sich Rada gov reform allows you to bypass the requirements for having access to the Cossacks estate, it allows you to actually change out of the Eastern tech group or Christian religion group while still having access to the estate. Now, to be clear, this is very niche, but it's still worth noting!

There goes my weekend lol 😂

And to make your cav even more op you can switch your tier 1 reform to Noble Elite which enables you to take Aristocratic ideas and then switch back to sich rada. And obviously form poland Winged hussars go brr

Hello, since somebody might be wondering about Marathas and Rajputs, who can also break free -Random ideas -No unique government reform Thus, same as Dhimmi breakaway

Oh so this explains that weird tag that popped out of Lithuania in my last Byzantium, Persia? game, i don’t even remember xD but a random tag appeared before client states were possible in that campaign and I was like WTF

Would love to see some gameplay of that nation from you

Hi, I really enjoyed your video and I'm interested in playing as a cossack revolter! I have a couple of questions though: 1. Is there any reaon to play as Lithuania specifically? Would Muscovy work just as fine? It would be easier to form Russia as a cossack revolter from Muscovy I think. Muscovy also starts with steppe land (kasimov), and you can easily expand into Novgorod to grab more provinces for the cossack revolter as muscovy. 2. Is there any reason to go for the cossack revolt immediately at game start? If you wait until admin tech 5, could you grab a free idea set? Also, if you expand a lot and take 100 provinces (for example), wouldn't it make you a lot bigger when you spawn your cossacks? 3. Related to the 2nd question, if you trigger the cossack breakaway event while you have a bunch of recently conquered uncored land, and you inherit that uncored land, do you get free cores there? In that case you could go massively in debt and expand everywhere to grab a bunch of provinces, then trigger the disaster to grab as mang provinces for your cossacks as possible?

Why not get Cossak influence to 100%, and then sell land? edit: Why not conquer as much as you can so that your revolter tag can be even larger? You don't need to worry about debt, ae, or coring the land. You could truce break Poland twice and fully annex them, then start the disaster and the cossack will have free cores on all of that land.

Cossack government interaction is a little broken, they gave you way too many army than you can hold, now that Cossack army are special units they are in fact super expensive

It is noteworthy that you pronounce "Zaporizhia" correctly, yet pronounce "Sich" the wrong way) I think this will be the plan for my next campaign, thanks.

Too Bad, it doesn't work anymore in 1.36. Raise cossacks Host only raise 5% of max army force limit😢

Fun fact about if you play non-iron man mode: If there is an event requiring you click a button to get the effects, but you switch to a new tag before clicking any of the event's decision. Then the new tag will get the benifits of that decision instead of the tag that originally triggered it. So I wonder if it's possible to combine the 1st mission of the muscovite mission tree (the one that let's you choose between permanent claims vs CCR and regular claims) with the cossack break away nation. Basically click the mission right before the month tick for Cossack nation event fires, then choose between the mission event's options after switching to the cossack nation.

It's weird that you don't get janissaries estate as janissary breakaway nation but you do as Cossacks

Btw the province of Volodymyr could be at 9 too if we exploit it

ch in Sich is spelled like in "check"

Form Poland for the cav bonuses, convert to tengri if you can lol

So I gave this a go, but instead went to tech 5 (so i could grab aristocratic ideas) and its truly broken.

Hi, great video. But I have one problem: I did everything as you showed, but "Raise Cossack host" just give me cossacks Infantry, but not give cossacks Knights. I try several times - always only infantry

There's Zaporozhye that starts with it but god it's an RNG pain to get going that campaign a lot can go wrong

...you can get 99% of Lithuanias land as Zaporozhie via some weird cheese. Basically just build 40 units as lithuania, put 1 unit in every province, give all land to zap and only keep your capital, then attack them with a no cb 4 times and full annex before the coalition kills you. If you now release Zaporozhie and play as them, they own 99% of Liths land and the coalition will force release you from lithuania. "The playmaker" covers this trick on his channel.

Janissars reading like yanissars, not the J

I'm confused as to why you released Zaparozhie.

If you integrated you would get more provinces! If I am not mistaken integrating vassals will give your powerful estates more crownland

And you have all provinces to form plc before tec 10

you can form Russia and the sich rada is still available in the tier 1 gov reform, casual horde russia indeed

WC!!!!

Would forming Poland be the goal from there, for their Winged Hussars and Cavalry ideas?

for some reason its was not popular nation since releaze more then a year ago

do you keep or can switch back to this gov. reform after new tag? if yes its pretty op

Couldnt you conquer a lot as lithuania before the disaster fires and go overextended and get a lot of ae then you fire the disaster and oe and ae are removed?

Question; if you play as the released nation. What are your means of expanding having no claims and no proper cb?

Your voice sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger😂Are you Austrian?

For those cossack decisions what dlc do i need cause i don't have those (i have cossacks dlc)

i saw the video twice, first when it came out and now as im testing it. Can you please elaborate and enlighten the people how broken this one button is in there goverment mechanic? Raise Cossack Host is the militeristic goverment interaction that gives you an full standing army of cossack regiments easily going over there forcelimit at 100% Moral with no cost whatsoever, no recruitmentcost, no manpowercost and instantely recruted. this button is even clickable while at war. a rebelbomb the enemy will lose and that is not a rebelarmy but your own then. i played till 1550 and i expanded like crazy, allways consollidated my armies before battle and never needed to recuite a single unite... thats even worth going for the cossack brakeawaystate in a multiplayer campain for this and it should get banned afterwards.

This is crazy lmao

Saddly it was quite nerfed in king of kings dlc

Is there a way you can release this nation while having Aristocratic ideas, or do you still have to release the subject then take the idea, then form the Sich Rada?

Can you tag switch to the country of Ruthenia? Will you keep the government type

It's a little sad, that you don't have randomised ideas.

@8:35 You say save the game, but that does not work in Iron man no?

Should i stay orthodox or try hussite?

I mean, it's strong, but unless you form poland or russia early, I don't really see it as worth it, since not having a mission tree makes the game boring.

Why razing provinces is strong?

Bro this is sich

:)