THIS is why ANBENNAR is the MOST POPULAR EU4 MOD... 

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Just a heads up, incase you play more of anbennar. Turning immortal/long-living kings or heirs into generals will kill them much faster since general lifespan is hardcoded into the game

laith was just exploring and found the capital of the dwarves. also there is that magical thing that coverts culture and religion its called "Purge" its in race tab

Every time your holds get sieged down (yes, even if they don't have a fort) you have to restore them. So it's best to have a fort in every hold

Laith: So yeah, I went bankrupt playing as the dwarves Not Laith: dw, the Hoardcurse is a difficult disaster Latih: What's the Hoardcurse?

A few notes on how the serpentspine works: Using holds: holds can only be used to their full potential if the province culture is dwarven, goblin or kobold and the race in question is either your primary species, or has been integrated (note: accepting a culture may not be enough to reach racial integration, check the majority pop, if it says oppressed, they're not useful), otherwise the hold will provide much less money and you won't be able to upgrade it (this was happening to about every hold you had, a good move would have been to use the racial menu to enact expulsion or purge of orcs, and possibly goblins) Fixing holds: holds are valuable because of their massive development and goods produced modifiers, modifiers which are completely negated if the hold is damaged or infested, holds will be damaged every time they're sieged down (be it by rebels or enemies), so make absolutely sure to put forts on them and protect them Upgrading holds: early on you can only upgrade the capital, starting at 40 development you can gain a new level every 10 dev, each level grants a massive dev cost reduction (making it possible to reach well over 100 dev by late game), non-capital holds can only develop passively through event until you select the decision to centralize hold operations (which requires tech 12 and 12k gold) Adventurer legacy: the admin efficiency penalty you take when reforming a hold is reduced for each government reform you took BEFORE forming the nation (you only got to tier 2 before refounding your nation, so got only a minimal reduction)

There's almost no way Laith accidentally saw the ancient dwarovar capital hold and was like "oh I'm gonna settle down there" lmfao

I see Laith playing Anbennar I click, simple as

I pretty much onlynplay Eu4 Anbennar now - Dwarves are my favorite nations! Only just started watching, but I certainly hope you start by rushing your nearby holds since you start near a lot of them c: - Good Luck!

I can see this mod going the route of that one Skyrim mod and becoming a whole game. Would be cool to see it made into something not limited by EU4s limitations

Races : You can expell or purge other races, which will convert gradually and for free the culture and religion of all the provinces of the said race to your race/culture/religion, all for a minor initial admin efficiency cost of 1 for expelling or 2 for purging wich is way faster but causes devastation and dev loss in provinces where purged pops are a majority, but it is worth it if you have a lot of provinces from another race, as when you play monsters and conquer humans (there are a lot of humans in anbennar). Alternatively, having a race being oppressed (=low acceptance) gives a discount to culture conversion, which also converts the race to yours but is slower and more expensive. You can instead improve racial tolerance until a race is "integrated", which will give bigger bonuses fo the province but takes a long time sice you can only increase it via events or by acceping their culture. You will still get "vanilla" maluses for unacepted culture if you improve it via events, which is not very profitable. The racial tolerance decision takes you to the menu where you decide to purge. Dwarven Holds: Fully restored holds gain development passively through time after reaching 40 dev, which is broken and they will be the backbone of your economy the hole game, most of your money will come from holds. Holds become ruined after being occupied, so build forts on every one of them. Ruined holds give massive maluses that can kill you early game, which is what happened to you after coring your province. You must accumulate a war chest of a few hundred or thousands ducats before conquering a hold as they will make you lose money for a while and they cost a lot to restore as well, in the early hame your only way to do that is to explore caverns of interest on the map. Cavern of interest are treasures that await to be found, you explore with your early conquistador from the mission (but beware of goblins natives). once you find one (visible on the trade map mode), migrate towards it. It is crucial to do as much of them as possible while staying an adventurer opm as it takes less time to explore, and you can migrate directly to them instead of slowly expanding. You must invest an initial amount of cash or mana to ensure the expedition is sucessfull and once it goes back, profit, if you didn't invest more than you gained of course, and only if it goes back. You can accumulate more than a thousand ducats and hundreds of each mana in 2 or 3 expeditions if you manage them well. There are monument in the mountains that are dungeons, you explore them, get the money, "upgrade" (or rather "explore") and repeat the prossec untill you clear them. their macanics are similar to the caverns of interests but with multiple layers, and the monument stays after being cleared. Other subterranean races can also dig holds (or "upgrade" them), but they are slower at it than dwarves. Goal as a dwarven adventurer/remnant : Kill the orcs that destroyed the empire during the greentide (check lore on the wiki). Kill the goblins that infested the caves since generations. Kill the harpies that pillage your homes for slaves. Kill the elves that invaded the southern kingdoms. Kill the ogres that ate your people and settle the flooded breadbasket of the empire. Reforge the glorious empire of old. (There are democratic, imperialist, and money-oriented dwarves to the south. "Liberate" the oppressed people of the Serpentspine with your FULLY FLEDGED MARBLE DWARF LIBERALISM !) I hope it helps you, I have more than 800 hours of playtime in anbennar alone so feel free to ask more, and please continue to do some videos on anbennar, just like vanilla eu4 it becomes more enjoyable the more you learn to play it. Edit: I just corrected some mistakes and added a few tips.

The fact that Laith screams every 5 seconds makes this already perfect. You could practically feel the pain. You also invited goblins and orcs into your realm? PREPOSTEROUS! THIS GOES IN THE BOOK!

Oh hell yeah! Only started playing anbennar for the first time last week, started a campaign as migratory goblins in the serpentspine and yeah, it's brutal if you don't make the right decisions at the start.

I love watching you play Anbennar, I've been playing that mod for a long long time and I'd love to see more episodes of that series since there's quite a few "interesting" events during Dwaven playthrough. Quick tip, that you can deepen your capital hold right now with decision but the rest of the holds dig automatically until you take decision to centralise holds.

That was awesome. Your confusion and panic in the start and your slow crawl to victory was truly awesome. I'd love to see more Abennar from you!

Anbennar dwarves are my favorite nations to play in EU4! It is fair to say they are a playing tall sort of group early on, but pretty quickly they can go nuts and go both wide and tall without needing to choose between the two. The balancing act is really about the over extension of resources used in growing and the horrible disasters that come up.

Hey Laith! Love this mod. I think the meta for adventurers is to spend 20-30 years just migrating and doing expeditions to stack up dwarven knowledge (rare permanent buffs). Then beeline a hold and start colonizing/deving

Ain’t it just great when an ad read gets interrupted by RU-vid ads. Love to see it.

Continue this and form the dwarven empire please, You'll likely have to deal with phoenix empire and the command/bhuvauri but it's very satisfying if you can pull it off. You can punch well above your weight by playing defensive and crushing stacks on your holds, and you'll get passive development over time. However you have to be careful that restored holds aren't sieged as they become ruined and have to be repaired with mana and money again.

100% agree anbennar is the best mod ever. I hope we'll see more anbennar content!

I really, really hope that if you come back to Anbennar you continue with this run. The disasters and events that takes place for the dwarves during the mid game (1600s ish) would be perfect for your style of content =)

Love that you're showcasing Anbennar! Hope to see more of this

hey laith, just a heads up if you continue this game - dont let your hold get seiged! if they do, they'll go from normal holds to destroyed holds. probably a good idea to built forts on them.

Would Love to see you play the Dwarves until their unique disasters trigger. Quite challenging if you don't know what's coming. Only spoiler I will say, is the rebellion/war disaster, there is a special peace option to regain all your lands back, as it's likely to be over 100% warscore for all the land to be returned.

I love watching Annbenar, really need more of this!

Laith if you plan on playing this mod more, please play Order of the Iron Sceptre > Esthíl > Black Demense just to take a look on the magic system of this mod. You can become an immortal Lich with undead armies. Coalitions WILL NOT FORM because you have more soldiers then them and the missions are amazing (for the most part)

FINALLY MORE ANBENNAR!

Love Anbennar. Glad you're playing. As someone who just broke 3000 hours in EU4, it really refreshes everything. I encourage everyone to try it. It's a mod where I launch the game and don't know who to play because they're ALL that fun. When I launch vanilla I don't know who to play cause it all seems boring now. So if you're anything like me download the mod!

11:13 not screaming, laughing out loud knowing that the serpentspine experience has barely begun :)

Laith the extreme amounts of pain is just the normal dwarf experience

I would love to see more of this, really cool!

I love Anbennar, I adore the dwarves… but my god the crises are absolutely devastating

You should look at your country modifiers when you play this mod to see the various buffs and debuffs you get depending on your race und starting position

Sometime in the future, you should check out the Frosthide tag to the east of the Serpentspine! They're ogres who can form a "devouring horde" that decolonizes large swaths of land and migrates into Escann

Laith really needs to conquer the Mire Maws.

Hello British Man. I see you still haven't played a fire emblem game. It's been nearly three months, 79 days in fact.

Loving the Anbennar vids. Honestly have a hard time playing Vanilla bc Anbennar is so content dense. A mile wide and a mile deep.

It is one of if not the best total conversion for any game I've played so far by a long shot and I enjoy it more than vanilla eu4 at this point to be honest. I'd love to see more anbennar from time to time.

19:51 This was the first time I PRAYED during a RU-vid video. The perils seen here are breathtakingly intense!

I love Anbennar, playing whenever theres a new update out is a standard practice

I also only recently started playing Anbennar. It's really good.

I got Domination dlc on release, played all of 2 or 3 games, at most for 50 years. Then I switched to Anbennar as soon as the bitbucket release came out that was relatively working for 1.35. I don't think I have played a game of base EU4 since.

This became a guide and a disaster save and then a playing tall guide at the same time

I love Anbennar I would watch you play so much more of this

Yesssss, pleae continue to do content on this mod

I must ask again play venail in annbenar they make colonizing infesting… and they get really fun…

I seriously want to see him stumble into the hoardcurse.

More anbennar!!!!! (Roadwarrior has a mega unique gameplay style you should play them next)

Your going to need to purge the orcs if you want to deepen your hold

I kinda hope some members of the anbennar team get to work on eu5 when it starts getting made

"what is this?? it coming towards me!" *shrek nation slowly but steadily approaching*

got 2000h in eu4. 1600 just in this mod :D Was fun to see someone strugling too at the beginning xD

Adventurers have a mechanic similar to Prussian militarism that gives big income, keeping it high is how you should balance your books early game as an adventurer

If you start as Rajnadhaga you can become an adventuring company in the East Serpentspine and then form the beer dwarves, who have a mission tree based entirely around beer

Blueshield is op because they can conquer the ancient capital right at the start, and you accidentally did just that LOL, nice

Oh this is one of those double Laithcore music videos! Turn the banger up DJ!

More of this please 👍

One of the best parts of Anbennar is that things like artificery, witch-kings, and late-game formables make playing the later parts of the game better.

THIS is my favourite start in Anbennar

I feel like this is a very set-your-own-pace type of game start

i love laith screaming about having 500 ducats in debt being fucked in stability and by events, meanwhile i take a look at my palythrough of the observatory dwarfs with the new religion that gave me the exact same event 98 times leaving me 90000 ducats in debt, GOOD GAME

6:40 - so this event is related to one of the primary dwarf lore dudes for the game, I can't recall the proper spelling off the top of my head tho

As the shrek ogre kingdom is coming at him with their siberian colonies, laith is screaming. Doesn't know about his goblin neighbours.

I need to try anbennar but I also need to stop trying to play as the darkscale kobolds because I am not good enough to do well as them *proceeds to plan out his next attempt anyway*

this mod is crazy I want more video

Dude, M.. has to be my favourite gamemode of all time!!!

YESSS MORE ANBENNAR!!!

Yay, finally! Endless content mod.

Anbennar series, a dream come true! Diggy diggy hole.

Hey Laith, would love to see you reform Carthage in Doge’s Shattered Europa mod :)

Oh you forgot to downgrade the EU4 to 1.34.5, that'll break the government screen and some events sadly.

Haraz Ordlhum has a new mission tree on the repo.

Another laith anbennar video? Based, Praise bramash! More anbennar please!

It's one of the best mods I've played. Haven't played normal eu4 for months, but yeah you didn't need to culture convert. Just purge the orcs and goblins and it will automatically flip it over time. Also I think you missed the hold deepening system which is a major aspect of dwarf gameplay.

That expedition was the luckiest one I have ever seen in my life dear god

how do you fix the transparent ui glitch for the government tab? I have the same problem.

tip for expeditions: organizations is very important, at least 150 for anything, I usually go 200 for max danger, max length expeditions.

Yeah, the Gray Orcs/Grombar actually have an awesome campaign that lets you turn them into a highly organized half-orc/half-human kingdom.

More Anbennar Please!!!

dwarves accepting orcs instead of purging them, that is cursed

I love this man so much

btw laith you can deepen your holds via decision

I believe adventurer companies rely heavily on their government mechanic to make money. I forget what its called but its like the prussian government mechanic and increases your base tax

I didn't know you could do alhmdir

Is this kod compatible with Domination? If not how can i down the version to 1.34?

More Anbennar!!!!!

Well its definetly showcasing the mod and mostly series of decision you shouldnt take but its definetly fun to watch.😅 I ll put down some basics for those who want to play dwarven adventurer: 1 take your time to settle and take more provinces...you wanna finish some adventures before you do that cuz they are much faster done as opm and they also give you ancient knowledge which you can and should turn into gov progress, you should time it so that you settle around the time you hit tech 6 2 if you only take one province from gobs or orcs you can purge the province via decision unless you have 3 or more provinces - this can be usefull depening on what you aim for. 3 people are suggesting you take represion native policy, imo thats a mistake cuz its really costly to wipe those natives (huge pops cost over hundred mil power...) and since youll have uprisings anyway you can aswell go for coexistence and can actually use those natives 4. If you are adventurer and have decent prestige, if your heir dies you are almost guaranteed to get choice of poweful mage heir..take it and dont worry about his stats. What you are aiming for is getting powerful mage heir modifier and if you actually form kingdom without your ruler dying you ll get new heir but that mage guarantee will stay 5 dont make your ruler general unless you really want him to die, dwarfs over 100 age get event to raise their stats or get 50 monarch power if you already have 6 and those are surprisingly frequent. Also they tend to live to around 190 so you are pretty much guaranteed to have max stats at some point. 6 i highly recomend taking infrastructure ideas and promoting that ogre culture near amhildr - digging is long process but with enough modifiers stacked you can deepen your hold in like 4 yrs instead of 15 or even more... 7 purging is a way to go..you dont have to purge goblins (tho i suggest you do) but you definetly dont want orcish culture in your holds..and its waaaay cheaper and faster to wipe them instead of converting religion and culture aftetwards.. 8 magic is awesome and you should aim to get at least transmutation and divination are busted and evocation army boost is guarantee stackwipe at the early dates. Especially if your ruler is young should you always get transmutation first. Homunculus advisors and perma stat increase every 5 years is the way to jack up your monarch points 9 adventures are generated randomly at the start, but their dificulty only sets when you complete colony... and same goes for migrating into that province, it might be worth it to migrate away and return later... adventure morale and organisation are based of your arm morale and discipline and organisation is the most important as it afects almost everything on said adventure, even time it takes and outcomes of some choices

I wish its easier to get rulers with magic skills from scratchs, spent hundreds if years and multiple ruler to get decent magic only to get shit on constantly despite bonuses on getting a good heir with magic skill trait

O poor lathe the hoard curse is going to murder you + the serpents rot and the gobo invasion oof.

Finally, playing the best mod

Next Mod, Meiou, EU4 in complex and with dynamic trade and industry.

Laith's especially good at role-playing as dwarves because he is not overly tall himself, according to reliable sources...

FINALLY! I literally böught EU4 after seeing Anbenar videös. And I prömptly restöred the Dwarven Empire =)

bro din t ge the memo that he needs to purge orcs as dwarf

Optimal would be restoring the glory of Castanor but dwarfs are also okay

Anbennar veterans when someone plays dwarves: Oh you poor poor fool. . . . LET ME GRAB POPCORN

Please please please please play more Anbennar

Somebody has probably said it already but it looks like you're not running on the right game version - you should set it to 1.34.5 to ensure you don't get weird stuff (like being able to assign a Pasha!)

Bruh playing in the serpentspine is one of the hardest things to do in this mod (Mostly) It's easier to restore the Byzantines then it is to play in the Serpentspine.

Should've played as the Jadd