EU4 A to Z - Becoming The PLAYING TALL SPICE MASTER As Holland 

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As Holstein you should control Panama and Suez since you would then hold all 3 buildable canals in the game (which you wont do, keeping the world hostage forever)

I love how the brazillian provinces that the red hawk colonized were actually a Dutch colony for some time as well with its capital as Mauritsstad now known as Recife.

I'm betting the intro hint is the Empire picking "integrate Burgundy's junior partners" into the empire... which I have NEVER seen the AI take, EVER...

3:34 JESSE WE NEED TO COLONIZE

"You tell me Firesland just happend to get annexed like that? No, he orchestrated it, Red Hawk!" -The HRE emperor probably

I usually just province hop to avoid losing so many ships and troops. Like, in your situation, I would've gone to the colony in West Africa first, wait for repairs, hop to South Africa, wait again, hop to the island you colonized, wait if necessary, and then get to the provinces in Indonesia. Takes longer, but you'd have to wait to make more troops and ships anyway if you go straight there.

As someone living in the province of Noord Holland, I can tell you, despite all those colonies, they don’t use spices here

Laith fell off + L + Ratio + Zlewikks better

AYO. HAVE WE GOT AN ISSUE HERE? ARE YOU SURE YOU HAVE THE FACILITIES FOR THIS, BIG MAN?

What if you did an entire campaign, only using the "Suggest Demands" button in the peace screen? Not for A-Z just a general idea.

I realized I've played too much of this game when I started cringing every time red hawk referred to market share as the amount of spices he was producing 😂. For people who don't know market share is how much trade power you have in places that produce that good (e.g. spices) multiplied by the amount of that good in the node (e.g. if a trade node has 3 goods produced of spices locally and you have 50% trade power there, then you have a market share of 1.5 goods produced, which is then divided by total goods produced to get the percentage shown in the ledger)

"What kind of chicanery is this?" That's an automatic upvote from me.

RedHawk, Malacca has higher trade dominance (they do actually produce less than you because you are the production leader) than you because they're funneling more of the trade value from spices into the Malacca trade node. If you set up your merchants to steer the trade from Malacca towards the English Channel, your trade dominance would go up while Malacca's would go down because you're moving the trade value of spices away from them. Also, you don't need a merchant in the South Africa node a lot of times as trade power in West Africa will either draw it on naturally, or another country will put a merchant to steer it out of the node without you having to do it yourself.

Smash the like button just for that colony name

I looked forward to this so much (I live in holland irl)!

as Holstein, own every single trade center in Lubeck and the Baltic nodes

Is this a G E K O L O N I S E E R D moment?

the netherlands are amongst the most interesting nations to play alongside burgundy and aragon

the trade will be as efficient as erling is

As Holstein you should own enough livestock to get the associated bonus since we all know the most known cow in the world is the Holstein cow.

In the future you should try rushing for that glass province, if it’s 15 dev with renaissance and decent prestige, you get Faceting which is a huuuuge buff

12:48 red hawk a super max enjoyer confirmed?

Since Holstein has both of it's provinces in the HRE at the start date, even though it's technically not a part of it, as Holstein become the HRE emperor.

The excessive horses makes you wonder if there is some forgotten American tribe that starts with them; makes you think, doesn't it?

Nice name for the flagship, man! :-D

"I wouldn't do that myself I'd just stand there" my kinda guy

I have watched every one of your A to Z videos thus far. I just caught up with some of your earlier ones. 1. I question the priorities of my life. 2. Amazing job keeping the series going! Seriously, good stuff. 3. The difference between your earliest runs compared to these latest one are night and day! Omg I was yelling at the screen at times, it was painful watching you lose so often (especially when it was because of a certain pesky hotkey...or hotC :P ) 4. You have improved both as a player and as a caster, I feel like you're so much more confident and competent now compared to before. And even when you lose now, you still keep a good attitude and keep it interesting. Thanks for all the videos.

Red Hawk has the most beautiful EU4 RU-vidr moustache

Anytime I hear "my main goal" I INSTANTLY think of that guy and it caught me so off guard when I said "is to blow up" in my head and heard it on my screen at the same time 😂

Love "Dutch Courage." You fight better because your flagship is carrying a crapload of gin.

The best country in eu4. By the end of 1500s I had both Americas entirely all the coast of Africa and every colonizible province in the world, as well as whole britannia and Norway. I was economic hegemon at the start of 1600 and also swapped to Anglican (that rocketed me in the space)

Seeing your face for that second was very unexpected lol

Should have also taken Artresië, Kales en Picardië as they were also kinda Dutch/Flemish at this time

love the attempt at pronouncing 's hertogenbosch; gave me a good chuckle edit: not to bad though; it's just a pretty dang silly name for a city / province :D

The spice must flow!

As a dutch speaking belgian, its kinda tough to hear the way he pronounces these provinces

naming the flagship as max verstappen made me smile as a fellow f1 and verstappen fan

When he gets to Malacca, conquer The Netherlands 👀

You say streamer luck I get mp luck. As Naples I became emperor and got an austria pu when I was stalemated with Genoa.

it's been a while since I watched any eu4 content, you improved alot dude, goodjob

Nice job. Loved the asides - perfectly placed!

"What kind of chicanery is this?" then added Chuck, calmly: "I am not crazy!"

An unexpected F1 reference but a welcome one

Hertogenbosch, one of the most important forts in the history of Europe, not a fort cuz Eu4 moment

the video made me want to try holland so i got france AND castile to support my independence and declared war right after i got castile as an ally, burgundians got smashed but my ruler was so bad (2/0/2) that i failed to keep up in tech, crap legitimacy, crap prestige, crap events -> just dropped it. i'll probably try again and reroll until i get a good ruler

Isn't market share (the thing that Malaca had more than you) information about how much they make from trading spices? Like you produced more than them but they had bigger trade influence in trade node so they get more money from your goods?

With a max verstappen flagships, he'll be only able to win battles if the FIA hands it to them

As Holstein you should form Scandinavia as the true revenge on Denmark for Hemmingstedt

14:39 Crimson Pigeon playing favorites

> Names the flagship "Max Verstappen" > Doesn't give it +1 Fleet movement speed smh

As Holstein, "form" Denmark and own all of Scandinavia and become an Elector of the HRE

Edgy haircut + love the moustache, new favourite streamer.

Wow, I didn’t know if people powerful enough supported your independence your AI overlord could decide to just release you

As Holstein, become the production leader in cows. Secondary goal, have Cornwall as a vassal and feed them Somerset (Cheddar) Tertiary goal have Parma as a vassal.

7:25 you know what it is *war noise*

Holland taking Friesland and taking all their milk and gas is what being Holland is all about 😄

Marines are really good! You should use them more, naval invasions are so much easier, especially when invading Denmark

Im a simple man. I see Haaland in a red hawk vid, i give like and subscribe.

elite season 3 episode 5 of Better Call Saul reference 3:35

Based Max Verstappen Flagship

It can't be a coincidence that i just finished breaking bad and ur dynasty name is von heisenberg it just cant be!! Great vid as always

Zeg makker, kokosnoten zijn geen specerijen …

15:35 You're not producing 2%, you're controlling 2% of the trade, that's a HUGE difference

Just in time

I’ve done a couple holland games since lions of the north and I notice almost every time if I get Castile and England to support burgundy knows they’ll lose and the air abandons the union, overall enjoying the smarter ai to do this but I miss the easy lowlands provinces in the independence war 😭😭

Sick colony bro

JESSE! WE GOTTA HARVEST THE SPICES, JESSE!

Idk if this is true, but according to the Wiki page, if you form the Netherlands there is a chance that smaller Dutch provinces will secede to join, but I don't know if that is true, I have never seen it mentioned outside the wiki

As Trebizond, restore Byzantium. It has to be done

You know he's got a huge monitor when you watch the vid till 5:10

production and market share (trading bonus) are 2 different things right?

Bro lol. What A fucking...riff raff sighting. My simulation is borked big time

Also, Holland (now Netherlands) in Brazil's Northeast is canon! Although you got there 2 centuries earlier than supposed to... Also Also... kkkkkk I had a crack every time you said Salvador da Bahia, so funny

you named your flagship max verstappen and you didn't take fleet movement speed +1 ?????

That Chet clip tho

nice lil kekw intro moment 😁

Did you ever started a new game with a random nation? What did you get? Me the most recent random nation I got was Jawnpur.

Just saying the WORD "Holland" just made a few million Dutch people prepare to correct someone about something on instinct

Man cool mustache 15:06

I don't understand why people don't use marines. You make like 4-6 of them and use them to secure landings and straits. Also makes sieging random islands less annoying. Unless you're playing Denmark->Scandinavia you should never intentionally use them in combat.

as Holstein, the most northern HRE member, annex Florence, the most southern HRE member (IIRC)

Max Verstappen 👑

Just subscribed

Not colonizing Cape..... Kaapstad, Dutch historically.... it's the best colony until suez canal opens

So I googled Holstein and... you should become a great power while developing only livestock privinces and exploiting everything else.

How many actually understood the intro😂 Genius

When the renaissance spawns why do you dev up capital to 30?

6:00 - Isn't there an option where you can mark your alliances to never call you to an offensive war?

East Frisia is a diplo powerhouse in all my games in this area. Usually Allied England and Denmark who are rivaled. Why do these big nations ally these tiny guys when it’s AI but never when I’m playing as those same tiny guys.

Man, so angry, the camera got turned on.

Do you use a graphics mod?

jesse, we need to colonize jesse

Does this man use mods for UI? Also does he have all the expansions? I only have the base game so I"m trying to figure out what I'm missing.

Alternative Clickbait Title: Krakowe got released?! GONE WRONG (You won't be able to guess WHERE!)

17:56 my city!! heheheh

Did the flagship blow up Italy tho?

I'm getting annoying with this, but here it is again: For Germiyan in releasables you should do nothing and improve realtions with Mamuluks and hope they will support your independence, they didn't want to in my first run, but in second they did, probably because they were bordering the Ottomans. If you royal marry the ottomans go restart. Once you get Mamuluks to support your independence you should either wait for them to fight someone in the balkans or declare immediately because they will placate your rulers to get you under 50 liberty desire. You may want to make a backup save for war just so you don't have to do a full restart if Mamuluk ai trolls you, also if Ottomans ally Tunis you should probably restart or go all in with mercs to try to hold out until Mamuluks deal with Tunis(although you'll probably go bankrupt this way). Once you win the war you should take Gelibolu, Constantinople, whatever you can in north Anatolia and war reparations and stay as far away from Mamuluks as long possible because you are still not strong enough to fight them and you won't need any allies because you'll still be surrounded by the Ottomans. After that you'll probably fight theodoro, crimea, georgia or circassia depending on their allies and then probably even more weakened Ottomans if Austria got Hungary and declared on them, otherwise you wait until Mamuluks declares on the Ottomans and if the Ottomans declare on you then mercs and debt it is, after that second war you should start looking for allies to prevent Mamuluks and Austria from declaring on you and the rest is up to you. Hope this helps and good luck.

I also enjoy boating in se Asia

15:05 bruh ive never seen your face but damn son