This is the EASIEST "Very Hard" Achievement in EU4 

I actually don't know much about the non-volcanic geology of France, but I do know a little bit about the volcanic geology! Mainland France has a few volcanic fields (regions of volcanic activity) that are technically considered still active due to having had eruptions more recently than 50,000 years ago, like the Chaîne des Puys volcanic field in central France, which includes the Puy de Dôme volcano. These volcanoes formed in a rift system over a period of about 90,000 years, with the most recent eruption occurring a little over 6000 years ago. France was actually the country which experienced the deadliest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, but not in Continental France-it happened on Martinique, a French possession in the Caribbean. The volcano Mont Pelée began erupting unexpectedly on 23 April 1902, mainly just ash and steam, but it scared the populations of many smaller towns nearby into temporarily fleeing to the city of St Pierre, which was the cultural capital of the French Caribbean at the time. The eruptions grew more and more violent, before a brief lull, and then increased in intensity again. And suddenly, on the morning of 8 May 1902, a pyroclastic surge (basically a cloud of superheated gas and ash) emanated down from the volcano and straight into St Pierre. Around 30,000 people died in barely a few minutes, cooked or suffocated to death. There were only two* survivors in the direct path of the flow-a man in a poorly-ventilated prison cell and a man who lived near the edge of the valley. Both of them, and the handful of other survivors that were at the edge of the cloud, suffered severe burns. One of those two survivors in the main path narrowly avoided being killed by a subsequent pyroclastic flow only a few weeks later. *Some sources claim three survivors-a little girl named Havivra da Ifrile is said to have escaped by fleeing in a small rowboat to a small sea cave, where she suffered some burns and fell unconscious; she was found hours later drifting in the boat 3-4 km out to sea.

12:10 “we don’t have canons yet, but we do have canons on board, somehow” , canons had been around for a while, but you couldn’t use them in battle back pause they were way to heavy, and got stuck in the roads, let alone muddy battlefields. But hard wood on floaty ships, very manageable.

Should’ve played with 1% crownland constantly, having 100% autonomy on every single province.

I didn't freak out, but it sure caught me off guard!

I have no idea how far you got into this game without that France achievement. If there was a competition between the Mariana Trench and my jaw with my upper lip for the longest distance I would be winning.

I somehow managed this first try in August 1499. I was desperately making sure separatists didnt siege down the provinces i was coring and i think I cut it as close as I could

One of my first ever games I was playing France and inherited Scotland a couple years in. Didn’t know about BBB at the time and I had no idea how lucky I got, thought that was just a thing that happened

In one of my games France inherited all of savoy once and it was a big beefy one with half Milan, of course i was playing in italy...

ngl when i first found out you could cobeligerate to fight and annex 20 countries at the same time and annex them all at once i thought it was so good (for some reason i didnt like fabricating claims), then i found out about overextension and dealing with 500k rebels. maybe its not so strong after all.

My name, the english version of it, is John, and the big name means I'm winning because I play the game right and I'm only that big in mid game, and most stuff is stated

Might as well make a sequel of this for Better Than Napoleon and Napoleon's Ambition.

I got this achievement pretty easly by conquering random land around europe. I had Granada , slices of Hungary and greece and half of russia and scandinavia

the achivement became much easier as patches came out. more provinces got added to most of europe, especially ireland making the achivment pretty calm to achive.

I know this is probably too old at this point, but I really hope we can get a part 2 one day

I got that core achievement by revoking all of my cores on 11 November 1444

Started sweating when i heard John-

Dude I had this video on in the background and damn near shit myself when you said John

Am just gonna use the estate modifies and try to do this my way

I have a quarter of Quarbit's hours and a twentieth of the skill

Your effort to ally Austria as France was very funny :)

Liked to continue this very cursed France run

Yep did freak me out!

18:57 I guess Big Brother is watching, since my name is John.

Austria was the biggest European rival of France for like 3/4 of the time EU4 takes place in, so it would be natural for them to have a historical rival modifier

Ah, BBB. Inspiration from chewy shoot? Lol. Awesome vid!

Honestly this achievement is very easy, you can do it with pretty much any strategy

As a John I was a little taken aback at first

can confirm title, got it on accident playing france normally

The John comment really dug deep

I still cant believe quarbit only played France 5 years ago

quarbit: big blue blob is easy me *took me four thousand hours to get BBB : ok

I'd bet on basilious or if the bug isn't fixed forming Mongol empire before 1610

I think I never plated as France because I always thought they are to strong to begin with. I started to play eu4 this year

And I haven't played France game ever and I started playing back in 2017.

Omg I was laughing when you said "some people actually play like this" because I'm useless at the game and play like that..... And then you said my name!

Never stop using Yoink!

What idea to take?

I did freak out when you said John hahahaha

Harsh dude

Chewyshoot is looking at you 👀😂

4:27 LOTR reference xdd

I just realized i don't have Big Blue Blob either.....but i'm only 2.5k hours into the game so i'm good for another 2k hours i guess.

Note : this achivement becomes really easy if you annex wasteland provinces (land below 5 development) in Northern Europe or if you diverse your conquest by invading the orthodox or sunni countries of Europe. Snaking your way through Russia to the various European suni hordes can become really helpful!

Inheriting others nations I think high opinions are a factor I inherited a nation once.

whats the name of the mode that make ur events colorful?

damn can't believe i have been called out like that

69% warscore

Bro tried to ally Austria as France

this achievement got way easier over time.

This game should be continued as a disaster save.

they should increase the amount needed for this achievement by 50% or so but at this point they would have to rework a lot of other achievements too so it probably wont happen x)

I got Big Blue Blob on my first try (technically second because I restarted immediately once), and I'm definitely not that good at EU4. So It's not that hard of an achievement.

Challenge idea: You can only take land via getting PUs. And you can't play as Austria.

Ah yes, the Genghis Khan strategy

umm monferat is a vassal of savoy and gets annexxed by them all the time..

11:54 WHO’S in Paris!??!??!!!??

11:55 Who? Who's in Paris Quarbit?

speedrun sokoto? :)

im John and i freaked out lol

kid named John:

11:53 who is in paris?

It kind of would be interesting to see you continue this garbage France. Winning despite themselves. Haha

I have 900 hours(893) and i didn't play ironman (zero achiments) i don't even reload games just deal with RNG... Maybe i should start with playing ironman 😂

Taking Ceuta from Portugal in the first war helps with adding an avenue for expansion with less AE in the Maghreb

Big name does mean your winning

Never got any France achievement despite having 1000+ hours but that’s cuz I never played as France. It’s just so boring starting as a nation that’s the biggest in its region and is given a ton of buffs for historical accuracy, like France, Ottomans, and PLC. Not my cup of tea. Underdogs ftw!

11:52 …who was in Paris?🤨🤔

It's is "hard" now

Hello

You think thats bad I have 2000 hours and have never played as Protestant or Reformed

France invades Russia and realizes it's a huge place and most of it is garbage nobody wants? Talk about unrealistic! :P

Many VH achievements aren't really hard like basileus, khaaaan etc

fr*nce

As someone who played EU3 a lot, I often played in Europe because much of the rest of the world was neglected in features, unique events, etc. With EU4, I mostly play outside of Europe. I don't have the achievements for Castile, France, or Portugal and I have over 600 hours. But I do have achievements for nations like Kilwa, Madyas, and the Madagascar nations.

Just play a run as intentionally bad as possible trying to get as many achievements in the most scuffed way you can think of. I'd watch that.

Wow… Quarbit is such a Francophobe..