Here's one for you: "Top 10 ways to get X-TREME in EU 4" So show like, how to get the absolute highest manpower of any small nation like less than 5 provinces or even OPM (?), highest single province defensiveness stat, the best place to stack development in the world (and stack it to like 300 or something), highest discipline army, highest morale army, highest boat cap, etc etc. I think that'd be neat. Keep up the good work!
This is because it was formed by a native nation which became a horde and then stopped being one. Forming new world countries like USA or Mexico doesn't actually require you to have started as an old world country, but just that you're not of a new world tech group. Now, becoming a horde changes your tech group to nomadic and when you stop being a horde, your new tech group is decided by your religion, where the default is Chinese. It's very weird.
In my HRE campaigns (where i try to get as many nations as possible into the HRE) i always conquer a greek core, core it, make it an part of the HRE and then release it. I try to do this with Epirus, Byzantium, Cyprus, Achea and other greek nations, but until i get to conquer ottoman territory the cores are already gone most of the time. Same with france.
I think Etruria has a pretty good case for entry on this list; it requires some bizarre series of events including getting separatists on your own cultured Lombard land to create cores, which is pretty dang unlikely to happen just in terms of getting the right rebel types to trigger!
Rum is a pretty rare formable that I was quite surprised didn't make the list or the honorable mentions. Needing to remove the Ottomans and Byzantium and be Turkish primary culture can be a pretty tall order.
Playing Mamluks and being buddy buddy with some Europeans makes Rum pretty easy imo. Now the achievement for forming Rum as Karaman.....I been working on that one for a while.
I think that the Ilkahnate is rarer than the Mongol Empire since it is far easier to just form yuan or Golden Horde than it is to waste time fighting Timurids/ Persia/ Ottomans only to get a nerfed version of the other two
The only reason to see ilkhanate is to release ilkhanate as a vassal when you are the mongol empire. I did that, then realized ilkhanate was so powerful that I had just formed my new rival.
To hold the Ilkhanate, you'll need the ideas that give Liberty Desire From Subject's Development reduction, or big Liberty Desire reductions to hold on to them. If you have the monarch points for it, you can also develop them, which reduces their liberty desire temporarily and stacks up to 100% reduction. Making them a march also helps with their liberty desire.
I had lanfang form when i did my achievement run for Qing recently, Kurland is rare for me, sometimes see qing form too. Pretty sure i saw independent corsica with the Bonaparte dynasty as well that was cool Edit day later I just had libertatia form for the first time, ironic
I did an Alaska Run a couple months ago, super fun and underrated formable game in my opinion. I'd also love to see someone else have a go at forming it if you were up for that 👀
I just love tag switching for some reason. Every single MP game with my friends I either try to find the most obscure formable in the area I'm playing in and form without even mentioning it or do something ridiculous, like our last complete playthrough I played Aragon (ended up with PU on Castile and Portugal :D), conquered Tunis, reformed Tunis, conquered that bit of Africa between Tunis and Iberian Peninsula, formed Algiers, then when I was done annexing I formed Andalusia. Another great moment of note, I witnessed Austria lose a war and they were forced to release Styria as a vassal. Styria proceeded to get a bunch of allies, completely reconquer Austria, and form..... Austria, an Austria who was no longer part of the HRE.
I had libertatia form in my Palembang after vassalizing a nation on Madagascar and gifting them the rest of the island via conquest. it came out of them i thought because of over extension and was an annoyance to me having a new pirate republic raiding the costs i wanted to raid and taking me over my diplo slots since it was a vassal nation
you can actually form Jerusalem as Mamluks really easily in the first century of the game, vassalise Cyprus, give them land on the mainland, subsidise them so that they convert the province, take the province back, then send rebels and convert
@@Syrup__Maple also russia. aside from these the a.i. doesnt debt spiral (to such a ridicolous point they dont join wars, that is, they are still constantly in some amount of debt) anymore
I wouldn't say that sardinia-piedmont is rare. Its formed in almost every savoy game as a stepping stone to Italy. And forming Jerusalem is one of the most common challange playtroughs.
Where is Tripoli, Arabia, Silesia, Dalmatia, Nagpur? Also I happen to see mongol empire several times when mongol rebels revolt. They didn't had their unique gov type thought. Same thing with Greece. And Lanfang is pretty common too after Mingsplosion.
Was playing this last night with the boys and I got stuck with Greece. So I reformed the Byzantine Empire and took most of the Middle East and North Africa very fun
Honestly I wish you could form Rome earlier and have new missions and other such things from there. As it is, forming Rome is pretty boring because by the time you form it, you've gotten rid of most of the interesting countries you'd normally interact with, and without any sort of system of interacting with members (such as the HRE system or interacting with vassals in CK3) it just feels like isolation when you form Rome.
I don't think people the Ilkhanate very often? When going for the Mongol Empire people usually go through Yuan or the Golden Horde since those are much more straight-forward and the Ilkhanate requires you to be a horde with your capital in Persia, which is an awful region for a cavalry based nation to play in due to the amount of mountain and highland provinces.
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The Kingdom of Prussia is rare if not the Player forms it. The AI conquers Duchy Prussia normaly with Poland and if that not happen Denmark will. I have played EU4 for 2.2k hours and have only seen the Kingdom of Prussia founded by the AI only once. Maybe its not for that list cause its relatively easy founded by the Player but the AI have there Problems with it.
@@louieggg213 You'll think that until you find out Hussite can get a -1.0% army tradition lost. That and Prussia has a special republic reform that incorporates both the "general becomes leader" and militarization mechanic. It was legit the funnest and overpowered nation ever, Space Marines meets steroids
If anybody interested, start as the Teutonic order Since theocracies can become republics faster then monarchies or play the pirate republic of Rugan Army tradition stayed at 100% with 0 lost each month. And with Prussian republics only having a -20% absolutism, getting 100+% absolutism is possible unlike other republics
True - vassals can form Kurland, or Prussia for that matter, which can ruin an achievement run completely (like the one where you have to have the livonian order as a vassal while playing the pope...)
Playing as Russia, I once had the Kalmyk event. I guess it's not a formable nation, strictly speaking, but it's a quite rare nation to see in any campaign
Having Greece as vassal is quite easy, it gets cores, you just need to take one province and release for future reconquest CB. Liberatia is quite common too. Only Lan Fang is really rare.
I have an insane Zoroastrian Gujarat campaign going on right now. Two Sicilies AND Sardinia Piedmont formed. Two Sicilies is a REPUBLIC and Sardinia Piedmont is HRE Emperor with the Habsburg Dynasty. Meanwhile Lithuania and Austria ate Poland, Muscovy straight up lost to Kazan, and the Teutons formed Pomerania instead of Prussia. It's a bonkers campaign and I didn't even mention Scandinavia forming and going colonial or SLIGO getting the Burgundian Inheritance and becoming an HRE elector.
Two Sicilies is not that uncommon since they added the event where Aragon can choose to let Naples go. If they do, and Castille doesn't PU Aragon in the Iberian wedding, Naples tends to conquer Sicily relatively often.
My first Long Play of a game was as Silesia. Got independence from Bohemia and then, for whatever reason, decided to LARP as Czechoslovakia and make my country L O N G. My nation was like three-four provinces wide and MANY provinces long.
I fully expectet belgium to apear on this list as one on the requerments is that the netherlands neeed to exsist bunt once te netherlnads exsist they porbably hold all the core land on belgium
Off-Topic: I would like to pay respect and Rememberance to Atwix_x, the writer of the PU guide. He passed away the last week and was a true cornerstone to EU4 community. May his spirit rise to new grounds!
