FAQ/addendums: Here are other ways in which you can find me. Twitch: twitch.tv/lambdaxx -- I'm more active here Discord: discord.gg/vNutF5Q 1) Can this record be broken? Definitely. One easy way to break it is to take my save file and savescum some of the final sieges. I think that shaves a few months or so with minimal effort. But other than that, I declared a war on average every ~35 days after my revoke in 1456. Keep in mind EU4 only allows you to declare one war per month. So aside from better alliance RNG, which in this context, means "have AIs ally each other more," I was almost at full theoretical throttle. Sure, I could have declared wars inefficiently; for example, I declared multiple wars on Ming just for money, when perhaps I could have optimized my economy better and declared wars that actually led to province gain. But anyway, I think the biggest improvement can be found in the revoke timing. The nature of the v3 revoke requires me to conquer Christian European provinces 5 years prior to the revoke, so even if I miraculous conquer Poland in 1444, the revoke will still be 1449 at the earliest. At one point I tried rerouting to get a better revoke timing, and I felt I can optimize by 2 more years max, implying that I conquer all the needed Christian provinces in 1449. But I was too late into the run to want to retry, since I was satisfied with just breaking the 1490 barrier. I didn't expect this run to be this fast. 2) Can I do a WC from this point? Yeah, and it's actually not that bad. I'm still a horde, and because I had full cores on most of my old world land at the time of exploding to rebels, I still have my cores, so it's mostly reconquesting the world, and with millions of manpower,100k ducats, and 90%+ siege ability, that's not that hard. If I were playing for a second WC though, I would have played the final years much more differently. In some sense, I played extremely sloppily towards the end because I didn't care at all about the state of my country. 3) Why are you able to diplo annex mongolia at the start? Mongolia, unlike most other vassals at game start, are considered to have been vassalized by Oirat a long time ago in the history files. Honestly, I think it's laziness on Paradox's part to not revisit other starting vassals and adjust the histories appropriately.
imagine living in this timeline and witnessing some steppe people come to your home, proclaim to be a dozen different random nations, conquering the world and then falling apart like they were never there all in 28 years
@@Amldihir Remnants of alexander's empire and greek influence lived quite long even in some of the farthest reaches. Certainly those on and around the Mediterranean knew who the greeks were and didn't suddenly forget about them lol.
@@lebosshog i know, in terms of cultural and scienctific legacy you are correct. My point mostly about political situation - once there big empire, and shortly after lot of different realms. We are comparing map game to reality, of course many things doesn't represented as they were
Fascinating run! I like to think that the lore for this WC is that some Oirats rode around the world, dressing up as different cultures and telling everyone they were in charge, and everyone was so bewildered that they just sort of went with it.
@ProstyProtos71 Tool Assisted Speedruns. it means using some kind of cheats, or third party software to make precise movement sets and get a faster speedrun time
Congratulations sir! I remember stumbling upon the original playlist like 8 months ago, and realizing that I most certainly wanted to know how you did it but did not have near enough patience to watch the entire run haha. What an achievement! Thank you for creating this video, this is exactly what I was waiting for.
OMG, I've been playing EU4 since it release, and have never seen anything like this. Sir, you are a special kind of freak in the best possible way. Congrats!
this is insane. you people are a pure different breed of human, and have my full respect. well done sir, definitely deserved the like, subscribe + comment for the algorithm.
This is the greatest EUIV video I have ever seen. It beats Minghals, any exploit vids and even longer Jake campaigns. I'm extremely tempted to download your save and try and play through the game as one of your successor nations
It's beautiful and honestly who knew one could make a grand strategy game into a work of 🎨🎭 art. It's a brilliant demonstration knowledge, reasoning, logic, creativity, and in some ways poetic. The rise of a nomadic horde to take on the sedentary world, in a generation, to see the world rise against the horde, only to remind the horde that these conquerors are just that only in one place for a short time. Thus, like a classical play, the world returns to the dialectic and status-quo. The run is a slog in our real world, but like the rising and setting of the sun in game. For all the grand strategies played, this play through is inspiring and an impressive use of talent and skill, not just from you, but from a troop of talented enthusiasts and experts. Sublime in so many ways.
The moment I saw the bi-yearly pulse event dates, I started to think about- you could know every nation's dates, and when the ai makes the decision to take an option, and which option is more likely. And now I ponder what omniscience really means.
An insane run by an allegedly not insane person! Kudos for making this video so good :) How many savefiles did you create throughout the whole run? A couple hundred?
@@lambdaxx1 I meant like copies of the savefile. If I'm playing in ironman I make copies at different points in time to revert back to, mostly for savescumming reasons too.
Hey, great work mister! I gotta admit, I'm a traditionalist at heart, so I can't give up on my HRE vassal swarm. It's so much *fun* to declare a war on the far side of Asia, knowing that eventually Ulm and Trier will march across Siberia to pitch in...
No, but keep in mind this campaign would have been stable had I cored my provinces and killed all rebels. It's tedious but not at all impossible to kill all rebels with 100k ducats and however million manpower I had. So really, just add 6 months to this run while actually stomping all rebels.
Dude, you are insane. I mean not even this run in particular wich is clearly a masterpiece. I mean your work. Every video you make about the EU4 meta speaks with so much passion its breathtaking to see you analysing it in the most deepth possible. You're like a fu**in Magnus Carlson of EU4! Sadly i stumbled across your channel a little late, facing you didn't upload much in the last weeks wich seems not normal for you. Well at least i have some of your older videos to watch. Would love if you stay active though but thank you for this feeling you give us watching your videos.
I don't have words to express how impressed I am with this achievement. Here I am struggling a simple, normal WC with Spain or OE by 1750 and you do it by 1472. It does seem I don't try to color outside the lines often enough (always keeping OE below 100, except if I give stuff to vassals, etc) and not tagswitch/stack modifiers enough. Would you do videos/Reddit guides/whatevs on more basic stuff like how to properly stack important modifiers and how to go on achieving them, what tagswitches are useful, etc? Or is that not challenging/fun? I already found your video on Absolutism which is a massive help :)
I'm generally not at all interested in speed runs or "not playing the game" or hyper agressive plays (and don't even get me started on save scumming, what a waste of time in your life) but I have to admit that this was very informative and interesting. :) Kept me seated throughout the whole thing. The amount of planning that went into this is also impressive. Edit: 33:10 Beautiful :'D (Also I thought One Tag meant never changing your tag but I stand corrected I guess. Then One Tag is not nearly as difficult as I thought, for a normal run) Also I really enjoyed the music. A lot of edits went into this post 😂 Long video And the ending, also so beautiful :'D
Hey Lambda, during the video you mention the theory of optimally fighting wars, as someone who is looking at improving specifically that aspect of gameplay I would be very interested in seeing a video on just that topic!
It took me several days but I finally finished this video. I'm going to have to watch it again to note all the details though. Insanely good job with the run but also the video.
@@lambdaxx1 I still, from time to time, keep watching specific parts for informations I am interested in, especially wars micro - although I am more a multi player, I always want to optimize every move. btw: I wish to watch all parts without restarts xD
the is something so funny about imagining all these vassals in the world, chinese, indian, mongol, slav etc. etc. all accepting to be incorporated into the Holy Roman superstate.
How stable was your country before you formed the HRE and just had hundreds of HRE vassals everywhere? If you were not speedrunning the game would it make for a stable run to have just stayed that way and play "Tall"? Do you also have a save at that time (just out of curiosity).
A good video to listen while i do my own challange. I'm not that good nor that ambitious but i want to form Timurid as Transoxiana before 1458 Edit: best attempt sadly still at 1465
So i just managed my first WC as Austria/HRE after 1.5k hours of gametime (half of that was 5 years ago, the other half in the last 6 months). Was really proud of how i all of Asia, Africa and new world between 1620 and 1720. Now i see this shit. Come on you cant flex on the entire community this hard. Every month i dont anney atleast 14 provinces i will feel like a failure
1. Can you explain more tag switching and reasons for particular tags 2 Did you use "limited country forming: no"? 3. Are tributaries the most effective way for map sharing?
1. Which tags are you curious about? The really important ones are Bavaria and Timurids for the CCR missions. 2. I did not mess with that setting. I don't think that option was not available in 1.31, and it is not achievement compatible anyway, so I would not do that, at least without explicitly stating it. 3. Yes! This is IMO the biggest strategical aspect that I think is lacking from other current horde players, so I want to emphasize the importance of this strategy.
What do you think would be the optimal time in the current patch? Also, how fast can a WC be optimized without all the savescumming and thet HRE-TCing strat?
So I went to the grocery store the other day, and honestly the weirdest shit happened. This guy came in dressed in some kinda chinese looking outfit (although when someone asked him about it, he angrily corrected them to "traditional garb of the oirats", whatever that means) and started moving really slowly around the store. Like, he would stand there meticulously calculating his next movement while muttering to himself, then take 1 step forward, then repeat. I think a few times he started writing equations on the floor between steps, but I couldn't see very well. At one point someone got kinda in his way and he got really pissed and said something that sounded like "1444", then left the store and came back to start from the beginning again. Anyway, I didn't think too much of it at first (assumed he was just some nutter) and carried on with my shopping. But then I saw him again later and he was wearing a turban and had somehow managed to get into a fight with this asian guy. He kept shouting "I need to capture the ming emperor" and trying to grab the guy, but the guy was a lot stronger than him and ended up just walking away. I guess he's done this kind of shit before because one of the store employees seemed to know his name and was like "Mr Lambda X, I have to ask you to leave," but the guy kept shouting how his name was actually supposed to be with two Xs, and something about calculus?? Idk, but it got kinda heated and he ran into the bathroom. Next he comes out dressed in one of those fucking Bavarian Oktoberfest costumes and runs up to this girl telling her he's going to "revoke her privilegia". She was obviously really uncomfortable but I guess she didn't want to make a scene cos she just kinda nodded along and left as soon as she could. I was pretty weirded out by this point so I just went to pay for my shopping, but he followed me to the tills and for literally no fucking reason he just punches this Romanian guy in the face, citing something about Uzbekistan?? Honestly I have no idea what he was talking about, this Romanian guy was just minding his own business stackenwipening people on his phone while waiting in the queue and this Lambda guy just attacked him. So obviously people are like “wtf”, and this one guy started calling the police, so the Lambda guy grabs me by the arm and tells me to “improve relations” with the guy calling the police?? I was really confused but he was obviously unstable, so I just went and stood awkwardly next to the guy calling the police and hoped it would all work out. Thankfully Lambda got distracted pretty quickly shouting at random shoppers about something called a “meta”. Finally I could hear police sirens on their way, but I guess Lambda heard them too, because I shit you not this guy pulls a fucking molotov cocktail out of his robe (he was dressed a tibetan monk at this point) and starts legit firebombing the place, shouting maniacally about how the store was “twotwotwo” (???) and something about razing efficiency. Honestly, I wasn’t paying much attention anymore, I was just trying to get out ASAP along with everyone else. Once everyone was out and the police were there, we’re obviously telling them all the shit this lunatic did, all the while he just stands there with the smuggest shit eating grin on his face I’ve ever seen. When we finish explaining the situation to the police, they just fucking shrug and say there’s nothing they can do because they “can’t see his capital”. I’m not even kidding, like wtf??? What does that even mean?? The guy was literally right there, just arrest him ffs. I swear to god I’m never going to that store again. Weirdest shit I ever saw.
Congrats! When I hear you started to challenge my 1495 WC, I thought you might end up pre 1490, maybe 1485. It's really amazing to see you made 1472 WC finally. You clearly demonstrated the spirit of Speedrun!! This video is as great as your game. It's really a joy to watch it. The overview strategy, the detail break down, those tips and even the bgm rhythm are perfect. Great work and Congrats again. - Terry Yuan, former WR keeper😋
The rebel bombing and return to an almost pristine 1444 map at the end was a thing of beauty. Equaled by the attention to detail and endurance, staying focused on one campaign for so long.
The return to almost-1444 is a thing of beauty indeed. The Oirats came, they saw, they conquered, they hung around for 20-something years, and then they left and everyone went back to normal. Time to do it all over again afterwards?
@@christophershell7564 Ooh, good point, I'm pretty sure that it ceases to exist when it's united, and you can't bring it back. So I guess that'd be the main difference
Both is true, but the video also made me realize again, how much I love casual playing. This guy is miles ahead, and I have no intention to try to fail in closing the gap. Still nice to see the record
What's important is that I had fun. Hopefully people less interested in excessive micromanagement and overdosing on EU4 also had fun seeing the summarized results.
@@lambdaxx1 yea everyone have their own enjoyment. I am piss of even when im trying invasion every planet with my armies in stellaris LOL its actually can be good if they add auto invade planets button to armies
Holy shit, that is so freaking impressive. It's just insane. You have accomplished probably *the* most impressive thing I had ever seen somebody doing in any of the PDX games. I can't wrap my head around the amount of knowledge of the game, strategy and sheer patience required for pulling off something like that. I hope you are doing ok, pal. Like, legit, I hope it didn't affect your mental and physical state as much as it could
@@nathanieltalcott8171 I hope you are joking. Because nope, it is not a possibility. Not even remotely. Its just that unlikely. I mean, have you seen the video? It took like a million years to do this with all the voodoo magic involved, how much it would take to accomplish something even close without savescumming, glitches and so on? Its either all of this bullshit, or Dream luck
Jesus Christ, the amount of effort you put into this is unbelievable. Thank Paradox for Leviathan patch and its many exploits. And Thank you for all your hard work!
I just watched all of this without moving a muscle and the time i looked how much left i saw it passed 30 freaking minutes and i couldnt even realize. Amazing work!
By the nine divines, this run is a *masterclass* in taking the tools a game gives you and using them to break the game in half and do things that should be impossible. I remember all the way back when Hordes were reworked, and someone conquered the world (I think even as Oirat? Been a while) in like the 1500s and I thought that was insanely impressive and a testament to both how powerful hordes had become and how good EU4 players were at bending the game to their whims. Now, that run seems like mere childs play compared to this; this is on the scale of those CivFanatics players who accumulated 1000000+ score in Civilization 4 by playing for hundreds of hours and thousands of turns. Watching and reading all these crazy world conquest runs kind of makes me want to try a "normal" WC run, where I just have to get the achievement before the game ends. However I'm missing half the DLC and haven't played seriously in a while (I kinda dropped off around when the new mission mechanics were introduced).
It's such a beautiful poetic ending. All the planning, hardwork and patience only to achieve the greatest goal for a few days. Its almost like a messiah fullfilling his prophecy and leaving the world, one last war, one last conquest to go. And it all vanishes.
