EU4 1.34 France Guide - DOMINATE THE WORLD in 40 Years 

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It’s gotten to the point where my coworkers keep asking me about your videos since I watch you all the time at lunch. Keep up the amazing videos!

France was how I learned EU4 years ago. I tried Muscovy and got screwed over by Denmark, tried Poland and my expansion stagnated and I fell way behind on tech. France was the first one I played all the way to 1820 and it taught me a lot of the basics and important things as a new player then

Your videos really have gotten me back into EU4, played so much when conquest of paradise came out but dropped it. Your videos have just been so entertaining and well done.

I remember I played a game as Aragon in 1.32 where by the time 1500 came around nobody had Exploration or Expansion yet. I got my PU over Castile super early, used the mission tree to enforce my PU over Portugal really early as well and while fighting England in that war got them destroyed, as did France who fought the Hundred Years war the the same time. France dipped out first and since I had control over much of the French holdings, France had England release lots of countries in the Isles, and then I did the same such that England was beset by Wales, North Umberland, Cornwall, Mann and Meath. They ended up taking Religious and Maritime ideas. France ended up taking Offensive and Economic, I think Portugal went Humanist and Naval while Castile went Religious and Defensive or something like that. It was a weird game though, for sure. I wonder how long it would have taken for Colonialism to spawn and who would have spawned it if I didn't take Exploration when I formed Spain.

Yes Yes Yes! I was literally hoping for this one yesterday! Thanks Red Hawk!

hey there Red Hawk, i really enjoy your content. its comprehensive, easy to follow and really makes a difference to the way i play these games.

Awesome France guide. This looks incredible. Thanks for posting.

Love it! Great way to start an afternoon. Thanks!

Not gonna lie, I don't even play like any of the nations that you make these guides for. It's just really satisfying to watch people blob lol

Only thing I'd do differently is release Provence, so that you can beg for cores back instead of fighting the pope. (This method also removed their cores, so it stops them from *ever* wanting them again. Which, you're france, you want the pope to love you 100% of the time)

Couldn't be timed better! I am about to get a DLC or two soon and then do a France and Pope run (getting emperor maybe). Thank you.

Love the quick switch of the British Isles to Great Britain and Ireland

Really like your videos Maybe a guide for Poland/Lithuania with the dlc ?

If you can ally Burgundy and they havent done it on their own i highly recommend to feed them the provencial lands in Lorraine and land from Savoy. You re using their AE and then you ll get the inheritance. Its free real estate. Restarting until they re not your rival but Austrias helps. Improving relations while fighting England always turns Burgundy into friendly if they re not your rival.

I love these long guides.

great guide for beginners but i'd add a few things to the guide, i'm no expert but i did a 1.34 france WC in normal ironman mode: - DO NOT ally poland and if you can do anything to weaken them short of war do it. this is because later in the game you get a mission that lets you VASSALIZE them. not PU, VASSALIZE. feel free to crash your game until they refuse the union with lithuania. if they grow strong they'll have way too much dev to ever be loyal - imo you should restart until burgundy is friendly to you, burgundian inheritance is 150% worth it as you get half of the lowlands instantly cored and integrated later when mary of burgundy dies. this'll greatly accelerate your HRE mission tree - if aragon keeps the PU over naples and spain forms don't feel bad because all that land is as good as yours thanks to missions. you get claims on all of naples through the mission and later a restoration of union cb on spain. so if you start out allied to spain make sure to break your alliance at some point - if you feel comfortable with the game i'd say no-cb byzantium but that's a bit advanced - it's better to build a foothold in ireland asap AND revoke your guarantee with scotland, this is because if you have some forts in ireland you can trap the army on the isle as long as you control the strait crossing. i'd say let england annex scotland as you build your power base in ireland -> take a scottish province when you invade england -> release scotland as a vassal, you get reconquest CB with way less AE. can do the same with northumberland. every game is different but if you can cripple the ottomans early on (and you should be able to if you no-cb byz) north africa can wait - try to go for diplo ideas first so you can get elected as emperor of the HRE, though you might have to just dismantle it. but most of my game i was over my diplo limit by 2 or 3 because i had so many vassals. diplo (edit: influence) ideas reduce diplo annexation cost by 25% i think and there's an admin policy that requires diplo and admin ideas done that further reduces diplo annex cost by 20%. there's no reason not to take it. + if austria expands a ton cut them down to size and make them release a bunch of states, don't be scared of going to war as your troops are amazing bonus points: - feel free to declare on a weak HRE minor just so you can be at war with austria to cut them down to size. styria and tirol can be released, if you're really lucky you might be able to diplo-vassalize styria which is huge lol. but my advice is don't worry about europe too much, focus on building your power base early on by no-CBing byz and smashing ottos before mil tech 5. you get claims on some of india through missions too, 100% worth it to get expansion to colonize the cape of africa for colonial range into the moluccas and malaysia. the reason you shouldn't worry about europe too much is that you can focus on it when you go revolutionarly in the early 1700s you get crazy rev zeal which gives you insane admin efficiency and you can very quickly annex client states with huge dev, i diploannexed a client state with germany's modern borders in what 7 years?

NO WAY, I WAS WAITING FOR THAT VIDEO

Best EU4 guides by far.

Decided to follow this guide and I got to PU castille immediately after the first war Life sure is sweet sometimes

I don't even know how this game works and the videos are still very entertaining

In that first war with Morocco I'd recommend calling in Castile so that they have the same truce and don't take any land on there own while you wait out your truce.

Imo, if you have naples, its worth taking all of the Pope's Italian holdings. This prevents them from ever being a meaningful temporal power and makes them way, way less likely to have annoying alliances.

Maybe you should do a reconquista with Granada guide after the last time or maybe a belozero guide!

Your videos are super useful. Could you do a guide for granada?

A Ming guide would be interesting

Is the Free policies modifier from the tier 9 gov reform just let you have -1 mana point instead of 2 ?, because I've take the reform and still have 3 policies. It's the "possible policies" modifier who give 4 instead of 3 and not the "Free policies" one if I'm not mistaken

I dont know if its still the case but in earlier patches it was cheaper to Return cores via the Return cores option and not via clicking on them on the map. @RedHawk :)

I was mad that I didn’t get the Naples or Milan event but 10 min later I got Castile as a PU so I can’t complain

What about doing a religions guide? So you can explain what they do and how to use them

Please do a Brandenburg-Prussia guide. I have been waiting for it.

Please make a Delhi guide! I can't seem to get them started. Or maybe a Ming guide, Mandate of Heaven is confusing for me.

I went exactly like you did but got even better because I got pu over burgundy too lol

Can you do Orleans next? There's a sweet Joan of Arc government type you can make

Collect in bordeaux as well, give alencon to orlean too.

In your opinion what is the best nation for world conquest? I would like to make my first attempt. Thank you!

Theres a line everyone here is already familiar with "first we are gonna go to our estates and summon the diet, pick which one is best for you".

I'd recommend allying Scotland and promising land so that in the first war England and Portugal send all their troops there rather than trying to stop you. Plus build seven heavy ships and engage the English navy once you've peaced out Portugal, make sure to not fight England while bordering their coast and you should sink enough ships so that they don't attack you when crossing the channel

2:33 problem I have with this is mid to late game absolutism. How do I get Nobility influence low enough if they are immune to Sieze Land?

*looks at province autonomy “AND THAT ONES STILL GREEN!!!”

I enjoyed how you released the only blue-colored Irish nation to use as your irish conquest-feeder.

im watching this instead of doing my 20 page min. essay +rep

"Don't pay too much attention..." I'm enjoying that reform as long as it lasts.

As for Alencon, you can just give the province to Orleans vassal and the event won't pop up

While watching this I got the burgundian inheritance in 1451 easily the earliest i've seen not even joking mere seconds after I wrote this castle got the iberian wedding

I think you should keep the forts for few years to lower devastation

I tried to follow your guide but RNG said no, 1458 and brittany get burgandy somehow and I don't know that I should steal burgandy or do 2nd english war first.

Do you use a graphical mod? The map looks a lot more defined.

I'm always terrified of fighting the pope, even though they'd be easily beaten it's the ramifications I'm worried about. They can be a huge pain in the butt with excommunications. I have found that warning the pope will prevent them from declaring on Provence. Then you can guarantee the pope if you don't want to ally them for the relations boost after warning them. I don't know if you can warn them then ally them and it will still prevent them from declaring.

Make an Aragon World Conquest guide!

24:17 *Good appetite!*

There is a mission where you get a PU casus belli on Castile, why on earth would you try to conquer them or wait to get an heir on their throne?

As soon as i take Ceuta my troops get stuck because they need a transport ship to get back across and the Portugese and English Navies keep destroying my ships before they can get there. Any help would be appreciated I am new to the game

Please make a guide on Dai Viet. I always struggle to get them going.

I don’t think Austria is guaranteed to defend the lowlands if you deny the demand, I’ve been in a similar spot and I said no and nothing happened,I was very confused

Did anyones vassals fight each other? Toulouse popped up as one of my vassals after Foix and Orlean took out Armagnac lol

France indeed is in the location of France

4:45 How did you get this screen? I've been playing for 12 hours and never seen it before and don't know how to get to it

Next video make a Teutonic Order guide, please!

Hmmm.. An alternative strategy I've done 10 times as France is to get like 25 000 men in Scotland (ally him + mil access) and keep only +-5k on the continent. Declare war while calling scotland in with promise of land. That will mean 40K troops in northern england and will fix all their armies there. During this time, ask all your vassal to attach your 5K, siege England on the mainland, beat the portugese back and after that just go siege him. A white peace with portugal is not a bad thing. You can attack him again later for Ceuta. Oh, and of course during all of this you will be able to siege all of England... Take all your cores + Pale + some money. After the war, if England ally any irish minor, attack this ally, separate peace england for 700 ducats to reset truce and *VOILÀ* .

England allies austria and I get instantly excommunicated the second i declare war

What should I do if Burgundy remains independent?

I just played as Augsburg, united Swabia, got a Brandenburg Vassal and a Prussia PU (didn't quite understood that since I was a theocracy) and went straight through Bohemia to Poland, which was dead because of a coalition and the Ottomans. Whatever, since France had a PU over Muscovy like since the beginning, they declared war and now I'm doomed :) France = OP

I've just started France campaign again and it is quite impossible to obtain a scenario where Burgundy doesn't rival France... Moreover they end up bursting up and joining the HRE afterwards. Normally I wouldn't care much as it's always nice to add some extra difficulty, but this is massively ahistorical. Any tips/suggestions ?

In my game Burgundy always go to Austria and there is no event nor cb to get the pu

What graphics mods you use?

Could you maybe add chapters? I kinda have a problem to find the time to watch your vids in one go. It would also be easier for referencing stuff.

So I am playing Oda and can form japan just fine. I know most games are different but I usually form japan somewhere in the mid to late 1470's. My question is should ming be my first war after unification of Japan?

for your next video can you make a portugal guide plz?

what mods are you using besides gmi

How is the best way to deal with the Dutch revolt? I find it so annoying

Byzantium somehow got even harder can you please do another byzantium start and go more in-depth

i know spain play is food on france midgame, makes colonial game a breeze with spain and portugal as colonizing subjects

A guide for Orleans perhaps🤔

England looks HORRIFIC!!! I approve

what ideas are best for france?

Why do I keep watching these even tho I don't have a gaming PC?

WOOOOOOOO

Has the game gotten a lot more flavor since Leviathan? That was a pretty broken patch. 1.31.6 is like ez mode. Im still running two achievement campaigns but I've been too tired from my job to want to hop into it the way I like. But it seems like the game is pretty good. Origins was cool, Lions of the North is great as well?

A guide on some nation to use the new HRE interaction: Invite to HRE. A guide on the Pope.

>Finish England War, 1450 >Austria gets the Burgundian Inheritance, despite me managing to royal marry + ally Burgundy >Imperial disaster happens, Austria integrates Burgundy I love this game

The jump cutrs in this video make it really hard to follow for someone who has never played before. Im currently stuck trying to improve relations with own subject cdountries

Only work if you have dlc, nice.

why no expand infrastructure before deving D:

france is located in the reagon of france my man really said that 💀💀💀

gg

Livonian order guide?

Why do you say that, if you aren't allied to Burgundy, don't attack them?

I somehow got elected at the HRE, Naples got burgundy, fat Bohemia, rare Karelia, and mega sus.

what’s the best way to deal with the dutch revolt?

Austria guide

New England guide!

instead of taking land in the magreb, i like to no cb byz becouse it lets me kill of the ottomans easy early game instead of dealing with a massive otto later. also i get most of the magreb for free when i pu spain anyway.

Why do you seperate peace portugal in the first war? if you dont, you are at like 85% warscore. With that you can take every province in France, Dublin and the on Africa from Portugal.

I SAWED THIS ENGLAND IN HALF!

Great Video, however they are made for peopel with DLCs, because I have alot of stuff I can't do simply because I havent bought those... Still thx for teaching basics

Actually, i dont think you want to feed all of Lorraine and province to burgundy. Last time i gave them all 4 provinces, they immediately made a rival of me, even when we had been friendly all game. I think it might unluck a mission o theirs, giving them more claims on you.

anyone else notice the 3k black flag troops in southern Portugal?

Imo France should get - ccr

PDX make a DLC without buffing France challenge *impossible*