I don’t even know what to say, I’m so honoured to be mentioned in the video! Getting Atlantis to spawn was the most mind numbing activity I’ve ever done and to be called a “dedicated and obsessively masochistic” fan is a great way to start the new year As always a great video!
"and an enterprising Israeli player can use their profitable position to 'defend' their way into Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, and beyond." That's my new favorite Alzabo quote.
There's one nation I personally think you should've put in there. The Jalayirids are a Rebel Tag that will only spawn from seperatist rebels in a Mongol Cultured, Tengrii Baghdad. They're a hold over from EU3 where they would spawn much more often due to the fact the Mongol Ilkhanate ruled over Baghdad at the beginning of the game. I've seen screenshots before of non-ironman games spawning it, but they're from years ago. Idk if they're still in the game. Quite the unicorn nonetheless.
Sadly the last reference I can find from them being in EU4 is from 2015. Apparently it's always been very obscure and they were taken out quietly. I wonder why.
Happy new year 2020! I'm starting to run out of top 10 ideas for EU4 - what content would you guys like to see? Do you have any other ideas? Let me know! More guides coming this week!
There may not be enough to talk about to form a video, but how about a top 10 of the various daimyo available in Japan at the start date? Maybe the best opening strategies they have, or what their various long term strategies may be if you choose not to form Japan for its ideas? I'm pretty new to the game but it seems like some of the daimyo have better military ideas, some have good trade ideas, and one or two seemed to have exploration ideas. Could sprinkle in bonus daimyo that are formable but don't exist at 1444 as honorable mentions.
As a Vicky 2 HoD beta tester, the origins of Jan Mayen and the "bug" were less about it being a bug and more about Wiz wondering why 40k people were living on an island and it wasn't a separate nation. Thus, Jan Mayen and polar bears were created. It wasn't until a little later that we realized that nobody was assimilating. 15 bears (at most) was not enough to play a game except as a passive observer, so the Polar Bear Purchase was made, allowing us to spread the glorious bear pops as a Great Power.
I feel like pointing out that the "high american" tech group is actually absurdly powerful, as you mad it sound like they are pretty trash when talking about atlantis - if for all the wrong reasons: that being unit pips. High American techgroup nations are more or less guaranteed to also have the "High American" unit groups that you had (ISP somehow managed to get a norse HA nation without those, but oh well), which are some of the strongest in the early game, as they consistently have more than double the pips of anything comparable. Only nomadic cavalry can come close (though still lacking) to it in terms of raw power, meaning that you can steamroll enemies with your unit pips alone. There is a reason these units are usually not obtained other than having fantasy nations enabled or setting them in a nation creator, as they are a remnant of the Atzec Invasion CK2 event and should not be accessed by players at random due to their power spike. Hell, it's one of the reasons Arumbas "Idea's Guy" worked out the way it did.
heyas! I got a bit of detail for ya! Tripolandia is not a MLP refrence, it's actually from guliver's travels. The ruler name being a CK2 in joke. It's also why they have english culture.
The synthetics? They are awesome! Unfortunately I don't think you can get them without console commands though - Jan Mayen, although really really rare, can spawn naturally in RNW
@@AlzaboHD There is (or was?) an exploit which could be used to copy nations from savegames into an 1444 ironman start. It works with the synths, but you won't gain their instant coring modifier. And iirc pdx fixed that exploit anyway.
The first time i ever found jan mayen was when i was messing around in console and looked for commands, then i noticed the "bearhaslanded" command and used it and didnt realize what i had done until it was too late
Just want you to know I love your videos! Sometimes I just wanna watch a fun and (preferably) informative EU4 video and most are soooo loooong, but yours are actually digestible so thanks!
i have seen vinland so many times and never knew it was so rare. it comes up in almost every game i play except for those that i dont colonise or explore the new world
Could you make some videos about Heart of Iron ? More likely about the mods like Kaiserreich : i could easly imagine a top 10 of most powerful/interesting/suicidal nations in Kaiserreich or in Great War, but it also coud be about political options or event.
St. Josephs is a mystical kingdom like Atlantis. People in the middle ages believed in this nation which should be located in a dessert in Asia or Africa. They believed it is very rich and Christian. People like Marco Polo claimed to been there. Which probally were just lies. But it could have been remains of the Greeks in central Asia regarding earlier journeys or even the Ethopians.
With the nations that require being converted from CK2, the map looks like the standard 1444 map. Is there some way to spawn them in with commands or through some other backdoor method, or am I just looking at the map wrong?
Youre looking at the map right. To speed up the recording of the video I used this mod : steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=808088377 and console commands to spawn their cores. Without the mod it appears their tags dont appear in the latest patcg
you could cheat your map in ck2 like you want it. pick a late start date and just compare the 1444 map with your results ingame. i think i will create a savegame with all the nations to spawn, just for being prepared if i want to play them someday.
10:54 Atlantis is in reality Santorini Greece; a center (collapsed) volcano, surrounded by water, which is surrounded by land (formerly Thera before the volcano exploded), which is surrounded by water (the Agean), creating the "bullseye" pattern of land and water mentioned in the myth.
I played hashashin once and its super hard to play with them locked up between two superpowers. The only way i could survive and form persia was to play both against each other what was super funny. Templars and Israel looks like similar situation but with better ideas and religion for going on crusades.
I just got the secret denmark in my RNW MP with 2 friends, I was completly flipping the fuck out when seeing it as Norway discoverign the new world (we had lobby TI) my plan was to become a colony from the start so I took over that bad BOy and became a Zoronastrian Colony.
Wait what, how can you play random new world nations in ironman? the random new world is always blacked out so i have to make it visible then switch the tag (both with cheats!).
There is an option in the settings that allows you to see the RNW and select the nations in the 1444 starting date. I can check later and edit this comment to let you know which one - but it is possible! Hope this helps.
@@AlzaboHD It is "Terra incognita in lobby" must be off! in the "Custom setup" part of options... Wow such an out of place/weird name, no wonder i never found it!
I wonder if the name of jan mayen is a his dark materials reference. Jan Mayen is nearby svalbard and in HDM svalbard is inhabited by viking polar bears
