The Most SATISFYING Comeback in History of EU4 Saving Your Ruined Campaigns 

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You should do a historical ruined campaign as the inca in 1531, where they have tech 3 and have to defend from spain

Imagine simultaneously fighting France, Castille, and Austria as a ruined Burgundy in the 1480s

HELL YEA ANOTHER EPISODE OF ZLEWIKK THE BUILDER

Lots of content creators out there showing you what to do in 1444, usually implying that if you don’t follow these key steps in the first 30 years you’re screwed … Love to see this reinforce that this game also rewards perseverance 🥳

Disciple: Can you fix this? Dr Zlewikk: Sure!

No matter how many saving your ruined campaigns I watch you manage to always amaze with the nation being fully fixed! Great video as always! Thank you for all the good work❤

Love the return of ruined campaign. Great video and it really showed just how outnumbered one can be and still win.

For easy mode: > Get France's subjects with mission. > Inherit subjects through event union with France (You could force this by disinheriting your heir, though only in older patches). > Cannot be annexed by the event as Burgundy if liberty desire is >50% (Probably, usually it's at 100% anyways if you did the Public Weal mission and rivaled France). > Either declare war yourself when truce is over (You can wait a bit if you wanna dodge AE, coalitions can't form against subjects), or the event may fire and give you a free truce-ignoring independence war.

i swear liege trying to take down burgundy with a coalition is hilarious

4:20 Another button I have never seen after 3k hours played. I have always set the attitude of each subject individually. Thank you again for showing me the error of my ways.

I realy like the Save the Ruined Campaigns video. And I was missing it. Thank you dear sir !

You know it's a great day when Zlewikk drops a new Ruined Campaign video

Finally some more ruined campaigns!! I’ve been missing them, they’re what made me fall in love your channel and made me a much better player!

Very nice comeback! You masterfully dodged all of the setbacks. I would've personally moved my capital to somewhere in the holland area because of the monuments that, when upgraded, gives local defensiveness in the area.

Love to see these, glad they are back!

Love to see saving your ruined campaigns/the ruined historical campaigns :) always fun to see someone fighting from the back.

I learn something new every time I watch you play this game and I have almost 1000 hours sunk into it, lol. Thanks for resurrecting this series. very enjoyable.

Keep these up, Zlewikk the builder gives me hope even when my campaign starts going off the rails. I hope someone uploads ottoman collapse or something soon. Keep it up!

My favorite Eu4 series by far, love to see it back and love to see the builder hat back too

i love this series! i've been waiting for new ones. please keep them coming!

Love to see the series return, the Player of this one seemed to have quite some ambitions releasing Leon props to them for that at least.

Great video, glad to see the return of Saving your ruined campaigns

Always a joy to watch these videos.

So glad this is back! Loved it!

Great job! It makes ppl (like me) thinking: do I even know how to play this game? 🤣

I like when you put emphasis on the battles. I think many players see the enemy has more troops than them and just give up with out trying.

Whenever I feel like I'm getting good at this game I watch Zlewikk pull off the crazy comeback and realize I'm still a big fish in a small pond lol. Amazing content love your vids.

Keep them coming!

My fav series of yours :)

Ruined Campaigns is my favorite series to watch.

Nice to see this series back

Damn that was a rough one! And the end result, such a powerhouse nation.

Yeaaah!!! Zlewikk saves the day again \o/

I love ruined campaigns! This is what I subed for.

Builder hat on, oh boy here we go saving again

Would love to see some later saves. There are a lot of late 1400s/early 1500s games but the answer to those is usually “restart and play better”. 1600s+ saves can get wild.

You did a great job! But one thing I am wondering: when the events of the inhertitance fires, isn't it best to pick France? You inherit all subjects for free and afterwards you can win the independence war with ease

Really nice job ! :)

I want to revisit some of my old ruined campaigns. I had one as Oman where I ended up with almost 90% autonomy in all of my provinces and had a 9-ducat income in 1480.

this was very cool please make more of this!!!

Perfect episode - not too long but included beautifull recovery

I could watch Zlewikk fixing ruined campaigns all day.

my fav eu4 content on youtube

And when everything seemed to be under control... the Burgundy-Liege war happened ;P

This was fun. I missed these.

You are correct we were missing ruined campaigns!

Choice of the people, ruined campaigns make me so happy knowing that you can bring a game like THIS around

I love your content Zlewikk !

Jesus that was so good. You're a true god man.

Favorite campaign series

Wow, it was so much fun!

I don't know if you've ever played it, but a really challenging historical ruined campaign scenario is playing as the Song Dynasty in the Extended Timeline mod right when they were getting invaded by the Mongols. You start at war with them, only control South China, and have to survive--somehow--with the Mandate of Heaven. The Mongols have twice your troops, control a ton of Asia (it's right when Genghis Khan died so they were almost in Hungary by that point), you have no allies, and your fort line is nonexistent with a ton of grasslands against steppe hordes... I tried it and it feels impossible. It would be awesome to see you try it on this channel.

Love these

just watching these too know the little tricks to do big things in games.

My favorite series

this was a blast. Wonder how much you'd have to wait for 51% warscore vs. the coalition to get something out of it (even though the war leader was small, so probably not worth it)

The best series is back!

glad to see the builder hat back

Love every saving disaster!

You could choose the easy path by going be PU by France and then declare independance war but guess when you save a ruined campaign you do "save it".

great Video!

i love ruined campaigns!!!!!!!!! ‼‼‼‼‼‼

That was an amazing save!

Damn... wp dude !

I swear Zlewikk just NEVER loses a battle its so impressive

Zwelikk the builder to the rescue

Nice content. Keep up

Impressive!

*country in ruin, disolyal vassals* proceeds to start golden era

Love this series! Makes me want to ruin my current campaign to see you fix it :)

Keep making more

thats a big brain gamer

Amazing video

I always forget that Burgundy has actually a nice map colour

Finally a ruined campaign episode where the nation doesn't looks ruined on purpose

There should be someone who can fix real countries like this also.

Why the og player fed all those gascon and tolouse cores to Foix is beyond me. Lots of AE for no reason. Anyways. Love this series!

Such a cool video

I'm curious on your reasoning to not take one of the personal unions so you inherit. France is super weak at that point, so picking them would be an ez pz independence war later, and you inherit all your subjects for free. Do you get other bonuses for choosing to remain independent Burgundy?

I have no idea what you were doing but enjoyed it nonetheless.

The dreaded Burgundy-Liege war...

It‘s truely a ruined campaign if Liege is attacking Burgundy 😂

HELL YEAAAAAAAAAAAH, LETS PUMP UP THOSE NUMBERS GUYS, WE GOTTA HAVE MORE OF THESE

Wow, Zlewikk, you look great in that hat!!

I'm just playing my burgundy campaign for the 2 achivements and might have gone really fast having to juggle a coalition but I have almost whole England half iberian and I'm the emperor having a 1 province France as subject with byzantine as well... But now I can't move becouse of a coalition.... Improve relationships for 100 years probably 😂

GG on todays draft challenge :3

Finally!

awesome

Commenting for engagement numbers, I always loved the ruined campaigns ❤

Nice vid

Ruined campaigns are back!!! *queue crab rave*

Big like big like

Love seeing the series back again but i think you should have just gone under a PU of France to inherit all your subjects

holy shit that situation with castille, coalition, austria, and france war was so fucking doomed. i would have alt f4 LOOOL

Nice

Its funny that, even though Castille declared the war, Portugal paid Zlewik a hell of a sum while Castille white peaced out

0:00 How do you know? Did you build spy network on us? How dare you!

what are the 3 strongest special units in the game?

Hehehe in Burgundy disaster save... Liege wars you!