This start is BROKEN in EU4! 

I find it really cool that you ended the war 2 days before it ended irl. You finished September 1st, 1783, the war ended the 3rd irl.

Washington should have top tier maneuver, as he regularly was able to withdraw the continental army from its frequent defeats.

So, the American Revolutionary War is really interesting from the perspective of British strategy. As you mentioned, they didn't commit as many troops as they reasonably could, but they did commit a LOT of money. Like A LOT of money. Mainly because they were worried (and were almost correct) that a full committal of their forces to America would result in the French fully entering the war on the Americans' side, leaving the home islands very exposed to the French.

You should do a video playing as Jerusalem during the 3rd crusade. I tried and I couldn’t do it, and it would be interesting to see it be done

“Shout out to Benedict Arnold” - Laith, 4th of July, 2023 ‘Benedict Arnold’ a name synonymous with ‘traitor’…

« London » is renamed to « Domaine Français » (French Domain) when France takes a mission, Laith :) this mission also makes the Tower of London give more max absolutism effect

George Washington according to some other history channels I've watched was great at leading people and big picture strategies, but pretty bad at fair up-front engagements, Benedict Arnold was also known for being a great on-the-field general. That is probably why they have such stats.

I feel both attacked, and begrudgingly agreeing with nearly every sentence... This is the content I signed up for.

Ah yes the famous quote by George Washington: "Cowabunga."

The reason Star Spangled Banner and O' Canada start with O' is since they were both originally poems. A technique for writing poems in the 1800s, when the poems were written, was to begin with the word "O' " to display a pure, unadulterated emotion. In the case of Star Spangled Banner and O' Canada, the emotion is one of amazement and pride in the land that's being written about.

21:15 the US literally signed a treaty of friendship, with I think Morocco, explicitly stating it was not founded on Christianity.

BTW, the poem that became the American anthem was originally a poem celebrating a victory over the Barbary pirates. It dunks on Laith's heritage TWICE.

Funny thing, Benedict Arnold despite eventually betraying the revolution was one of the more effective generals against the British.

EU4's start dates after the first 2 are really cursed.

1:05 Laith really picked the man, the myth, the traitor Benedict Arnold as his general

12:27 "Media Offline" flashes for one frame. One question: why..? (if anyone reading this wants to see the actual frame in detail, you can use , to go back one frame and . to go forward, which is how I found and read the frame after I noticed something flash on screen)

37:50 Florry did a campaign as Ulm for a world conquest, but the catch is he had to stay as an OPM until 1600. It was to prove that you can WC as anyone as long as you're decently set up in 1600.

Laith try playing Coptic spain it sounds like a funny idea

Can you do an Iceland with Norse religion into USA guide? that could be so much fun

>British man plays America during the revolutionary war. >Immediately fires Washington Damn, Washington can't stay in any British-run army even in a video game, can he?

george washington's got low stats cause he really wasn't an especially good military commander. What he WAS great at was recognizing people that are more skilled than him and at motivating the soldiers, which is why he became the leader of the revolution and the country. In terms of actual combat skill he wasn't anything special

This is super interesting as a American, Laith viewing "cowabunga" as a AMERICAN saying versus a Cali saying is wild. As a note there is like 4 Major splits with the US. East and West and North and South. And each area thinks the others are weird af

I love how youtube thinks he's playing EU1

To be fair in the war of 1812 Britain did do something similar in going hardcore, kicking our ass and burning down the capital 😂

Windsor is a suburbish of Detroit right over the border, just a bit west of London (not the English one)

SOYUUUUUUUZZ NERRRUMSHIMYYY… I’ll stop before I’m killed…

YESSS a US game where it isn't just how to trick the achievement! An actual game where you play I've never been able to find a video of that

"Do you not have issues at home!?" The true early American experience.

Laith went full mask off for this video

38:01 My first ever run in EU4 was a Castile world conquest in the year 3051 lol

I can’t wait for the day that the UK graduates from being the U.S.’s sidekick.

Chewyshoot put out a pretty cool mod that makes this start better and overhauls the USA

You know what would be a fun challenge? Highest overextension that you can fully core without losing any land to the rebels.

American more number one than every other number one added up. More number one in every other way.

anyone know what the deal is with the Media Offline thing for one frame was at 12:27?

Now i want to see laith playing with other nations in their independence day

i think the level 8 fort in florida is supposed to represent castillo de san marcos famous for being near impervious to cannons

As a Canadian I feel like we caught some strays in this video.

Washington wasn't a particularly good general. Throughout the Revolutionary War, he only won three battles: Trenton, Princeton, and Yorktown. He was just very good at avoiding outright defeats (also, that Yorktown victory was kind of important, since it led to the British surrender).

To answer your question on why we elected an english person, it's because everyone that could be elected was born a british subject. Martin Van Buren, the 8th president elected in 1836, was the first American president because he was born after the 4th of July 1776 :D

37:50 I once was doing a very casual Mughals campaign where I decided to do a WC very late into the game, I was in about 1700s and I basically only had India and Persia and parts of SEA. I kept playing it casual and the final province I cored in my WC was literally on January 1821.

While it hurts my American Soul to say, Washington wasn't that great of a strategist or tactician. He was excellent at maneuvering troops and pulled a draw from defeat multiple times. What he was good at was listing to and taking on the counsel of others, and the brilliance of his generals such as Nathanael Greene and Lafayette played a massive role in the eventual triumph of the Continental Army.

As an American, this video did make me feel very Cowabunga...dude.

this is the only youtube video where the us pays off their debt

its like your friend's birthday you insult them after

Sorry, pretty much all American sayings are just old British sayings that the Brits gave up using when we started using them. The ones that aren't are all movie references from the 1920s onward.

Its surprising how basic the mission tree is.

12:27 Media Offline? I expected some subliminal message bout what Netherlands done to US

laith.. dont click the minor inconvenience pop up button.. if ur over extended & u click it, another one will pop up quicker.. if u leave it on the screen u will get fewer unrest bonuses until coring is done

Did anyone catch the irony at 18:55? For non-Americans, Benedict Arnold is notorious for being a traitor during the American Revolution lol

Seething Euroid, love to see it

Moose factory is in fact a real place

Let me too wish everyone a great 4th of July by celebrating the name of the great hero Benedict Arnold! :D

"I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world" - George Washington after being offered to be made King of America.

„Happy 4th of July everyone! But late EU4 is cursed ngl.

One time I played america and was determined to take all of the British colonies in North america. The war slogged on and took until 1803 when I finally won

Dude, look up benedict Arnold... IRL he defected to the british and fought the americans. Really funny that he is a hero in your playthrough, I heard his name and I immediately was like "wait wut".

You should convert this savefile into victoria (2)! This'd be really interesting

There is an incredible way TONS of money as this start. See you paid off your debt, but what If I told you there was a way to take on Infinite debt? Well you see, there is an amazing event around 1800 where Alexander Hamilton asks to set up the National Bank. One option gives you like 1000 ducats (which Laith probably immediately took), but the other option drops your loan interest rate by 2.00%. That combined with economic ideas, parliament, policies gets you down to 1.00% Interest Rate Loans. ONE PERCENT. Which yes means less loan interest expenses, but the game also recalculates the total amount of loans you can take out by an absurd amount. I took out 1000's of ducats of loans immediately and built manufactories in every single high value province I could. Then I used all my diplo points for the rest of the game on developing provinces. This both increased income, but also the loan totals. So pretty soon I was able to take out 10k ducats in loans, then build more, then 20k, then more, then 30k and so on. By the end of the game I had taken out 200k ducats in loans, had manufactories in every province and all other buildings I could build, and I had the largest income in the world by like triple the 2nd place, like 1000's of ducats a month. I used that immense wealth to fight off the british, spanish, natives, and colonize every province I could all at once because I so much money. I had the largest army in the world as well. It was an incredible game. Also, the Americans get the most absurd generals in the world. If Laith had just kept rerolling generals at the beginning, he would have gotten a 6 6 easy and just destroyed the British right away.

Very accurate with usa debt today

I thought Kosciuszko would have better pips

Yo ok so the fact the French have a core on the pass is really cool because that's in manatoba one of the two provinces of Canada to have French as an official language. They probably have a core because of the Matis who were descendents of French fur traders and native Americans.

As an American myself, it can be difficult to find grand things to say sometimes. However, at the period, "the American Experiment" was revolutionary. The first major Republic in the world since antiquity.

You basically did a war of 1812 parts 1 and 2 about 30 years early.

40K to 100K? That sounds pretty evenly matched to me!

The thing about George Washington is that generally speaking he was an okay general in terms of tactics and actually quite good in terms of strategy. The reality is his skills in generalship were not enough to compensate for the fact that his army, on average, was quite bad. Had he been given a reasonably competent professional European army (let's not get greedy), he most likely would've defeated Howe some time between the Battle of New York and the historical Battle of Trenton. He would not have won New York most likely, however, because the terrain favored the British. Garrisoning the various islands that made up New York City would've led to the British surrounding and cutting off each detachment with their navy, giving them the luxury of defeating each in detail, professional army or no professional army. This almost exactly happened historically had it not been for that foggy night that allowed Washington to sneak his army out of the trap. The smarter play would've been to position this new professional army on favorable ground outside New York City and wait for Howe to come to him. He most likely had political reasons to fight for New York. But with a professional army he would've found it much easier to reconstitute his army once across in New Jersey and would've been able to fight Howe on much more reasonable terms.

to be fair Battle Hymn of the Republic IS better than Star Spangled Banner

Laith will do literally anything with sailors 40:30

Adam Norfolk is just American Edgar Suffolk?

Washington is a 2 2 6 because he was an excellent strategist but a poor field commander.

Attacks every native possible, wonders why he gets curb stomped.

Adam Norfolk, the lesser-known cousin of Edgar Suffolk

kowabunga!

Kowabonga it is

its funny you just did this playthru.. its almost like we have the same thoughts... i just started on the american independence date 2 days ago, but i played as released spanish nation (i forget the name) and formed CUBA asap.. i was expecting a fun but tough fight against America later, but Paradox has made it virtually impossible for America to win.. they got their asses kicked easily by England & 13 colonies (80k troops?) vs America (30k?) - You would think that paradox would add something to the game to make it more likely for America to win? like France being against england from the beginning (not historically accurate but it would help them survive maybe?) or give them some special troops that are amazing in defence? or more forts to slow englands advance? what this game doesnt take into account is historical things that gave America an advantage - like hit & run tactics (guerrilla warfare) - the fact that the local people will help the revolutionaries and maybe hinder the British... and the fact that Britain didnt actually want to have a long war killing tons of Americans and making them hate the British... the truth about the real history of the war, is they were hoping it would be a quick easy war.. Britain didnt send all their troops.. they could have won, but at the cost of removing troops from other places worldwide and at killing many more americans... having a colony that hated british rule even more... and eventually they would lose in the long term anyway.. and i think at that time America wasnt particularly profitable compared to asia etc. the fact that in this game tech and number of troops and discipline and moral are pretty much the only factors on whether a nation could win.. and cos the ai is dumb as hell.. you would think paradox would add something to hinder Britain in winning, like spawning in rebels constantly on british troops to weaken them?

YEAHHHHH COWABUNGA

Would’ve been a histrical usa if the second war was during 1812 lmao

COWABUNGA IT IS!!!!

who has heard of Imperial Democracy ?

Interesting that the Devs put so much effort into these start dates but then they don't have the colonies being allied with their mother countries (or England being Anglican). Yeah, it makes it easier to Manifest Destiny all of New Spain and Newfoundland as the US but it makes no sense, even by EU4's own rules (and actual history), that you shouldn't have to struggle to get any colonial land. On the other hand, annexing New Spain's ample gold mines is pretty awesome. I've never managed to make the Revolution work out, though. I just started after the war to skip the headache or, more likely, resorting to console commands (but you get Washington as your starting president that way). Also, wars make everyone broke. Frowny face emoji. Addendum: If you think America having a goal to take Quebec in their mission tree is odd, you'll really dislike most of Europe's trees. But, yeah, it's odd that Quebec is included in the mission to take Ohio. You'd think it would be a separate thing since those two areas are a bit different from a geopolitical goal standpoint. At least they bothered giving this late-game formable nation some of it's actual goals (even if they didn't ever manage to get some of them [like a lot of countries, actually]). They could have just went full generic and called it a day. Also, you can keep playing past 1821 if you're not in Ironman. Seems odd but I guess it's some kind of anti-cheating thing? Granted, I usually don't play to the end, but there it is.

Laith as an American your doing great

Also, to be fair to how many British sayings we have, America preserved much of that era's slang, and ways of speech as 'their identity' while Britain continued to evolve away from it.

It's not, "oh say can you see." It's "Jose can you see."

Cowabuuuuunga!

I can't decide between: Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? or People are people so Why should it be

We called the British the red coats

Some delicious British cope in this video. Hard to tell what I was watching LOL

The British ran out of money. So, yes, they send every man they could send. They were fighting the French, the Spanish, and the Dutch were sending aid. (That's the other three colonial powers.) The war lasted six years. That was a bare-knuckled fight.

I'm American and I also struggle to stop insulting the US

The American Mythology around the revolution is not to be messed with, even with facts. Mel Gibson does not help

Got out of debt, not a real U.S. campaign

funny you do this when there are a mod spotlight from paradox featuring a US mod made by Chewy

it was on this day laith learned what it truely means to be an american. hatred of the british.

38:08 that would be a slow-run.

You should do a video where you take control of the smallest Indian nation at the time of either the Mughal, Maratha or British conquests and try to unite all of India + all territory of the Mughals, Marathas or British. #ReverseRaj

As an American I say merica to your British face and remind you that you needed us to save you during ww1 and ww2. That being said you are my favorite brit laith keep making great content

You might of won against Britain with naval rotation

19:49 if you're trying to say Mi'kmaq It's pronounced Mig-maa or MiK-Maa Source: I live in Atlantic canada

RAHHHHH A BRIT BRINGING US SOME FREEDOM🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅

You get missions to take Canadian land because the US tried to "liberate" Canada both during the Revolution and during the War of 1812.