In the first war to humiliate, you can also take the "show strengh" option in the peace deal. It takes all 100% warscore, but it counts as humiliate and also grants you 100 of each mana point. Which is much better than taking money and other stuff. It gives you tech advantage early on making you better at winning wars faster and more efficently.
....PLAYING EU4!!!!! PLAY MORE!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!! This is like the first time ive seen you play this game. Id join the pay group to see you play this more often. Seriously.
Potato eu4? I sleep Potato eu4 Anbennar? Well I probably don't, cause I'll be watching potato conquering the mountains as an undead immortal goblin wizard
Nice. It took you just as long to finish your first turn for EU4 as it does for Civilization. This is how grand strategies should be.🧐 Edit: It's like you didn't notice france was fighting against AUSTRIA, Portugal, AND Switzerland. Give france some slack. 🥺
TuadhMhumhain is essentially North Munster. Pronounced "Tu-ah Moon" (or close to it). I'm delighted to see a bit of EU4 here. My proudest steam achievement is still conquering all of Ireland and Britain as an Irish one-province minor Nation.
I've seen a bunch of my friends playing this recently and figured I'd see what the gameplay was like and boom, Potato drops this video. This couldn't have been more perfectly timed!
I am pretty sure that hunting privateers does not actually kill privateers, just reduce the privateer share of the trade node. What you really need to worry about is getting caught out in a war when England declares on you. That's when the ships hunting privateers will actually kill your ships. But they would do so whether your ships are pirates or not.
cool, historically accurate use of privateers. during wartime they would build-up their fast boats with a few cannons and shields and wage unconventional warfare deputized by their flag
Hi Potato! I don't know if you'll rrad this, but for the two main issues encountered on the video: - allies being bad is because the AI is playing checkers... When they see nobody they go in, but don't check for a time if a bigger army has come to them once they have started sieging. So if you plan on using allies, only do so in desperate times or to completely crush a weaker foe - Barraging may be costly but it radically speeds up your sieges. Also, as a rule of thumb 10 000 infantry is enough to assault a fort, with
You can click "allow attach" on an army to let your allies armies to move in lockstep with your own. Attaching ensures your entire stack arrives on the same day and allows you to make much better moves with your allies armies. Your allies won't always do it, but when they do it is very helpful. Also, Castille is very strong and usually a rival to England, unless they also rivaled France getting them on board would have probably have been possible.
To be honest with you, Potato, I love most of your content. Bout the only times I don’t is when I can tell you aren’t enjoying yourself. And I’m sure there are times you hide it better than others, but it’s the few times I could tell that I didn’t bother finishing the video or series or whatever. As long as you’re happy, passionate, and having fun it doesn’t matter what you are playing.
I really really enjoy the way potato narrates his videos where he's always giving a bit of explanation for different mechanics and why he's doing what he's doing. I have 150 hours in EU4 and I didn't know half this shit. How am I supposed to learn the crunchy stuff organically?
Organically in game? basically impossible. There are some tool tips once you know to look for. Some of the big modifiers--- army professionalism, prestige, stability, etc.--- tell you what they give you. To actually learn this stuff, you have to watch a let's play, a tutorial, or even just read the wiki.
I'm so surprised by this video, and being that i am a EU4 player as well as a Civ player, i'm very excited about it. I just hope Potato will play more EU4, cause i would love to see it!❤
Hello! Some tipps: You could've showed strength and gotten 100 man points in each category, still got the 30 power projection and ticked off the age objective of humiliating a rival. Your troops do replenish faster in your own territories but shift consolidating them means that empty regiments take 10 months to fully recover, while just letting a damaged troop sit on the fort while the other regiments replenish for 4 months in your territories would mean that you can start to siege faster. Nice video :)
I love pretty much everything you put out Potato. You do a really good job of talking through the reason for each step you take, so even if I'm not playing a particular game at the time, I imagine I'll be better when I do get around to picking it up. Keep up the good work dominating the strategy gaming world.
I enjoy watching all of your content, if you enjoy playing Europa Universalis 4 (a game I could probably never play or wrap my head around) then go for it. It seems for a while as if RU-vid stopped recommending your videos to me so I'm happy this appeared. For me, your videos are great for a sort of 'companionship in the background' (I don't know to explain this without making it sound rude?), maybe the way Boomers leave the TV on all day for the sense of company? Basically, I can work on my own thing, have your videos on the second monitor and pop in and watch as much or as little, it's just good having your voice there blethering away as you do. You're funny and your videos are relaxing entertainment. I like that your videos are longer form, I like that you are laid back and you play the sort of games that you do because it's a sort of nostalgia trip for the types of games I grew up playing and watching be played. In summary; play what you enjoy. Your content and personality stands on its own. I also watch your videos when I do my ironing because - look at me... I'm the Boomer now.
YES PLEASE! MORE EU4 (vic3 would be nice too). I love your style of content but civ ain't really my game so having alternate stuff to turn to is amazing.
Great video! I hope we get to see what's next for Ireland! Also I love how you explain more of the mechanics. A lot of EU4 videos I find are more for people who know the game and I do not. So thanks for that!
You only get more crownland from conquering if you have proportionally lower crownland than estate influence. There is basically an equilibrium for crownland for each of your estates based on that estate's influence. If the estate has more crownland than the influence warrants, then conquering territory loses crownland for that estate. This works the opposite way, too, where if your estate has high influence and low crownland the estate gains crownland from your conquered territory.
Wow. I’ve got like so many hrs in game and I didn’t know that. Always confused why some wars gained me crownland and some wars lost me crownland. Lol am dumb.
Oooh, nice to see a non-Civ video from you that didn't get buried by the algorithm. Your Endless Legend video and your Millenia videos usually got recommended to me 3-4 days late, or I manually discovered them by checking my subs directly.
Yes love EU4! AND your videos are the best so super happy! :) Would love a plathrough-tutioral via master - others are good but you explain things so well!
Yes i want to see more eu4. Want to learn how to play it and just waiting for some sale on it. And i learned a lot about civ 6 from you so i am happy to see u teach us new game
Some usefull information. To stackwipe an enemy army, it needs three conditions. 1) the enemy must reach 0 Morale; 2) you must have double the troops in the battle (fighting) than the enemy; 3) the enemy is not allowed to retreat (first 13 days of battle). For a Coalition to form 5 or more nations need the following conditions; 1) have 50 or more AE on you; 2) have a negative opinion of you (e.g. if they have 0 or more they can't join); 3) they can't have a truce with you; 4) 5 nations or more nations need to eligible. P.S. improve relations doesn't decrease the amount of AE you generate, but inceases the rate at which is decreases (base 2 per year tick, so 10% improve relations gives you 0.2 extra)
In one of my most memorable games. I was playing as France and I vassalized Meath and helped them take control of Ireland. From there it was easy to annoy England whenever they got on my case. Eventually all that was left of England was a small province in Africa's ivory coast and Meath and I were forever the best of friends.
If you do a "show of Strength" peace deal in a humiliation war it also counts as a humiliation in the age objective. And it gives you 100 of each mana points. Looking forward to seeing more videos if this!
I just got back in to Civ so I want to see more of that, but more potato is always a win! If you do a civ series, would you consider doing a Vietnam science game? I found them tough to play at first because you have to destroy most of your productive tiles in the early/mid game in order to place your districts
*pants* "please potato!" *Out of breath from running* "Please upload a new civ6 series..." *dies* And you see, thats how young james died. He waited and waited, for nothing. Maybe a new traveler will get to enjoy a future civ6 video. Or, maybe thats the end, for both this comment and civ6 content from potato...
Never been to this channel, but watch enough eu4 to be recommended its content. I'd personally suggest you play what you want to play and say damn the views/engagement. In the long run you will have more fun and not burn out trying to appease the ravenous hive mind that is the internet.
lol variety potato is wild. I’ve been playing CK3 for a while but finally bashed through to play a little EU4, still don’t like it much but it’s funny to see you play it.
I’d love to see more videos from you in eu4. The only thing is it’s impossible to read the text while watching on a phone. Idk how the other eu4 creators do it, but it is easier to see texts on their videos while watching on a phone.
