If you release Ireland (or wait to conquer it) until after you hit Admin 7, they'll have exploration as one of their ideas and can colonize North America for you, which is a nice bonus when playing the Angevin route.
My man , you can beat shit ou of castile , and portugal at same time, spawn SPAIN(they already have explo) , then in 2-nd war vassalize portu , then beat shit out of castile again(2-3 times) (if he have PU over ARA , you take ARA as vassal with perk for splendor , that halfs cost of taking vassals) , and after that vassalise him , and give them all subsidize , TA-DA you have 3 colonizing vassals. (oh yes ,and beat shit out of denmark , and vassalize norway and sweden like you do it with ARA) so now with norway you have 4 colonizing vassals. Do you really need more?
Ireland takes so long to dev up it's economy to the point where it can really support colonies/exploration though. You really have to subsidize them if you want them to do it anytime soon early game.
What would negative aggressive expansion impact look like from the perspective of other nations? "Ah yes, the Angevins are pursuing their perfectly legitimate claims. Good on them!" (+X% opinion).
You can consistently win the Maine war with France as long as you can get 1 or 2 strong allies to promise land to, preferably Burgundy and Castile/Aragon. In that peace deal, you should easily be able to give enough land to Burgundy, which doesn't matter since you'll likely be going for the BI later anyways, and have enough AE reduction from the missions to PU France without being coalitioned. This allows you to PU France and still go down the British branch of the mission tree.
I think before switching to France and Forming Angevin, as England you should attack Castille and Aragon getting 15 provinces in Iberia so you can complete the "Kingdoms of Spain" mission and you can form Spain under a PU same as Ireland, even if Castille and Aragon still exist. This way you can get Spanish colonies easier and earlier. This can also apply for conquering 15 states in Italy which will then let you form Italy under a PU as well at the same time
micro optimization if you plan on releasing gascony ,wich i generlly think is the best approach, you can sell the monopoly on wine to the cleargy. Proably the only instance i´d ever take these.
I tried this strategy, it was really educational. It's a completely different way to play than I would usually go, and really forced me to be very disciplined with my play, and taught me a lot about the various mechanics, many of which i hadn't paid a lot of attention to before. You really have to plan with this strategy, you want to get the ball rolling well before age of reformation for the extra 20% AE age ability. I'd really like to see the follow up video where you form Rome btw.
I’m a huge fan of the gimmick of tag-switching while forming Great Britain/Angevins. My goal is to figure out how to make it work with forming Russia. The issue is that you’re stuck as Russia cuz you lose the English Parliament by switching culture.
Are these army templates very good? It seems like you don't fill up the combat width with infantry/cav (12/4 when 20 is the starting width and 15 later on) which would make the cannons take double damage. I've always seen guides say to take as much infantry as the combat width, but you seem to be doing well enough with your templates!
So, I tried this again, and accidentally ended up as HRE emperor, and now I'm not sure wtf to do. I just decided to go with it, but it's thrown my whole strat off. It's 1516, the age of disc is just about to end, and I've got prague and 4 reforms passed. Ottomans are cucked because Athen (!?) somehow ended up with constantinople, and I guaranteed them, so they were too afraid to declare for it. I've never done this well as HRE emp before, I feel like the dog that finally caught the car. I also made it a goal to try to get as much of the british tree done before going angevin, so I've got South Africa, a bunch of the mediterranean, most of Aragon, and Ireland has been colonizing for me a little. I'm thinking expansion for my third idea group? I'm a little lost tbh
I wonder whats up with the "Face the empire mission" , as it keeps switching the missions back to original nation. Like with Teutons in the other vid. Awesome playthrough though, its always nice to go burn half the europe in 30 years :D
There is only one process to get new missions, and branching missions use that process too. The 'face the empire' assumes you will still be France, but if you're not you will get the missions appropriate for your tag/culture.
why did you remove the state cores from ireland? sorry if you explained in the video i must have missed it, isnt it nice it gives you free state cores if you want to state it later?
Most likely for gov cap (gov cap isn’t as important in non-fully cored provinces) so you can exploit that to get more land cored and integrated in your Empire
spam improve relation with all countries near you. game does not tell you that if a nation has +50 opinion of you they dont join coalitions. if they already did join coalition, they would not attack you and will leave coalition soon. and if coalition war starts that you cant win, you can always give away one or two provinces from france to coalition and couple hundred ducats to end coalition war instead of trying to fight. and get the provinces back later.
@@spatrk6634 I think for them not to join they only need 0 relations. For them to leave they need 50. Also allying big nations always helps, I just allied austria portugal and a few other nations and it was enough for the coallition.
Very nice video with a nice aggressive strategy but I feel like you could go way faster if you didn’t return the cores to your vassals but simply gave them the land they have cores on (it gives less AE and costs less warscore to simply give the land they have cores on to your vassals because while returning their core you also cancel France’s core on the province so it costs wars ore and AE)
The way you play, deleting forts makes no sense to me. You create a bunch of hassle with no control over the AI carpet sieging you, miss out on free income from high devastation, and face longer rebel issues due to extended separation/autonomy reductions
I've been playing this game for 10 years and have far to many hours plowed into it. I don't mean to brag but i know most things in eu4. Today i learned that you get bonus modifiers for 10 years from your church power... thanks i guess😂
I love your videos. This is bad. All i play is England. This isbl not the way lol Some real 5head shit. GB tag can really stack diplo annex and better missions. You can still use the 100 years war cb until 1465. Even if you click abaondon the continent Ijs
