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Yes I did scream Scotland from my work cubicle. Luckily most people are Scottish here so it worked out, naturally sparking rebellion we overthrew our English boss. Victory at last.
I enjoy playing as scotland but I believe the mission tree is lacking and it kinda forces you to form uk. I would like to rp a bit and have a bit more flavour with my scottish bois.
I'm not sure how possible it still is cause I've personally never tried it but you could form Ireland first to get a couple more mission modifiers and stuff and then form the UK, or maybe even switch to Norwegian or a French culture instead and form those nations. It just takes a bit of work to do
@@ChrisVillagomez yeah but the irish mission tree is not that good either both are mostly focused around claim on england and a couple of colonial. Once you have conquered the british island you pretty much done.
I always like the idea of the recreation of Gallia Celtica with the idea of creating a PU over France as Scotland and Brittany but I can see that getting a bit... well, steep. lol
If you’re going to form England/UK, you can save massively on points by not coring English provinces except the few needed to form England, feeding the rest of England to your vassals, then forming England and annexing your vassals for free because as England, you already have cores on them.
nice clear guide, one kind of unnecessary trick not mentioned (unless i missed it) is that in that first war you can transfer occupation of english fort territories to your subject to save a few extra ducats 👍👍
I just tried recreating this six times. First two times Spain & England did not rival each other. Third and fourth time they did, but then England gave up Maine without a fight. Fifth time England & Spain did nor rival each other again and sixth time (one again) the English gave up Maine without a fight. I am not sure if I am being tortured by the RNG gods, but do prefer Guides where we do not have to rely on these kind of chances too much!
Alternate strat: take Ceuta in the early English war, open with Exploration/Expansion and dominate the colonial game by subjugating England, Norway then eventually France and the Iberians by getting them as vassals/PU over time.
I don't know if this is different in 1.36 but in my game I have tried over and over again, but I never manage to get a royal marriage (or alliance) with Castile dus to them having a -50 modifier for having too many diplomatic relations. That in turn makes it easy for Portugal to help out Engalnd and that will wreck my forces even if England has no manpower left after fighting France for a few years.
I don't recommend lowering autonomy in Ireland, since each Irish minor tag has its own rebels, and the provinces are low development anyway, so the additional money/manpower isn't really worth what you lose by fighting the rebels.
Hawk, it was quite a while since this guide. Can you do a different one with a different approach. England regularly changes dynasties early in the game, so a peaceful, diplomatic approach could get a Stuart on their throne, and ending up having England under a PU.
Red Hawk - huge fan but the likelihood that Castile and England are rivaled to each other and then ALSO when the Surrender of Maine fires that England and France go to war is extremely unlikely... lot's of fun though but it takes a LONG time to get this to all align.
I'm trying to follow the guide but a) either they have changed some stuff in 1.37 or i don't have access to some dlc (the parliament thing is not there for instance), b) England starts with a general with a +4 in shock which makes battles incredibly difficult since the AI seems to be rolling 9s a lot (like almost 50% of the time, and when it's not it rarely rolls below a 4). I've managed to conquer a lot of territory by save scumming but now I'm broke (still have a ton of loans and high inflation). Granted I'm very new to the game so for the time being I might go back to my Castile save, which seemed to go a lot more smoothly...
In the first war vs England its also a good move to quickly white peace one of their irish minor allies. This way ou can attack them soon so they will call in England which allows you to reset the long truce you ll have with England.
i remember a few years back i once tried to play scotland. i had france and even denmark agree to "help" me in my independence against england...... i ended up losing that war because neither france nor denmark and it´s subjects decided to try and land in england and england easily steamrolled my army on their own. i never touched scotland since. that was back when there were only like 5 dlc´s
Dude the war with France is easy peasy as long as you get 2 of the following possible allies: Castile, Burgundy, Aragon, Austria (requires some sucking up diplomatically for those favors). Bonus for Savoy for just a little more juice, doesn't count towards your required 2, but certainly helps (as long as they desire land from France that is).
Always remember to check in your diplomacy tab under desired provinces. You can click on other countries in that view to see what provinces they desire (right click, or youll set one of their provinces as your desired province). So long as any of the countries you ally have at least one province of France marked yellow or red, you can call them into your war when the event "surrender of maine" triggers by calling them in by promising land. You don't actually have to give them any land when you win and peace out. In fact strongly suggest only giving any land to any allies that you want to keep long term. Burgundy might be a good candidate because of Burgundian inheritance event. Any other allies that you don't need for anything but he war with France: just don't give them anything. Their trust in you will go way down and they'll break the alliance, but what do you care? Especially if you were eying up their land for yourself anyway.
had perfect set-up events in my run, then got to the first war with England and Castile was in debt and wouldn't help so I had to restart. Feels bad man
Did Mann flip through rebels in the middle of the war? I saw it came up as a claim/reconquest before the war, but then during the peace deal it was already yours. Regardless great video, very informative
Why would you get the loans early if you‘re not fighting England till years later? And shouldn‘t you take the Irish minors while England is stuck in their war?
Seems like a waste not to pick infrastructure as a colonial nation rather than economic for the eventual +1 colony dev policy. Further more you had plenty of opportunity to colonize much earlier since you planned to take provinces from Norway and could have taken some from Portugal as well to give you the necessary range.
I managed to get England to that little thin strip like near the end of the video but then France (my ally) invaded and annexed all of the rest. I definitely won't be strong enough to fight France. My other allies are Castile (who owns Aragon, Naples and a shittonne in North Africa) and Sweden and France basically has everything in the France region. Any tips?
Pirate Scotland can easily be made if you feed The Isles 3 provinces, including Perth, and then release them and privateer the North Sea a bunch. Be a pirate with the guarantee under France. :) Ever wanted to control Great Britain, but as a Pirate Republic?
In my most recent run I formed the Empire of Greater Scotland by PU'ing Burgundy and then whittling down France. Scottish ideas may not be super busted, but that +20% manpower and +25% force limit let you do some pretty nutty things very early on, like maintaining a 100k force in the 1500s.
Nah the England start is not harder. If you are COMPLETE noob it is, but as you of course know you can very easily just give away maine and avoid the war entirely. Rebels are not hard to deal with and I believe they even made the mission that gives claims on Ireland easier to complete either by reducing the amount of required force-limit percentage or increasing England's starting manpower. You used to have to exploit dev to get enough manpower for it and that no longer is the case as of Domination I believe.
Considering how much Hawk likes to make fun of people for misusing merchants in late game in his “rate your campaign” series, his handling of his merchants in this early game vid is… not great! No excuse not to still be in Sevilla and Champagne as soon as you’ve locked down those alliances!
its easy but its not easier than England come on. Like the fact alone that you have to keep restarting until you get favorable circrumstances means that england is easier becaus they dont have to do that.
Eh, Scotland is only easier and more fun than England if you have no clue how to deal with the nasty events for England for the first 70 years of the game (the starting ruler being 0/0/0 with villains law, the surrender of mane event, the war of the roses and finally the reformation event chain 40 years later). But you also miss out on 5/5/5 Henry the 8th, the random events which give massive amounts of mana, the free positive stability, having a parliament which gives massive bonuses for every debate for only a minor negative cost. Overall I find Scotland to be a rather safe vanilla avoidance tactic. England is simply stronger and overall a better choice in the longrun if you plan to form Great Britain anyway. Easiest way to deal with surrender of Mane if you don't plan on retaking France is to simply give it to them and move on, take the stability hit (you'll get back to 0 once the war of the roses concludes), but before that out the gate make sure you have the debate to give 5 crownland, then take land to immediately start with 40% crownland to remove the villain law. Then to deal with 0/0/0 ruler give out privileges to get +1 in every category. Then hire the good cheap advisers, give wine and wool to clergy then use the money to upgrade your diplo and admin advisers to +2 then focus military and boon you've overcome your bad 0/0/0 rulers mana ratio. Hire Free Company and max out your military and how you have enough troops to hand the war of the roses. Simple.
@@GlizzyGoblin757 If you're going GB, then that very first war with France over Maine isn't worth it. If you go through with that, you get an angsty subject that you can't tame for the next couple decades and a ton of AE (and you have to wait 50 years before you can START to integrate). Instead, you can release Gascony and sell Maine to either Brittany or Provence (the latter is better because it causes France to turn on them and declare on them, which you can maybe subjugate them after you fight France and feed back the cores. Curry favors with Castille and/or Aragon, as well as Austria, then declare on France with those and you WILL mop the floor with France. This is something you can do in the first decade or so. In the few runs I've done this, I typically have pretty much every province (minus the champagne area because of AE hit) by admin tech 10.
😭😭bruv just finished this weekend a scotland run, and only now i have a guide to make it good ?🤣🤣 damn now that i finished the video, noticed i should've payd more attention to england ideas, since later i only stole colonies from denmark, france and spain, and could had england kick start that :(
How did the Isle of Mann come under your ownership during the war before the peace deal? Rebels or an event? Edit. I guess France returned it on the peace deal
