Ultimate Netherlands Guide to Playing Tall AND Wide in EU4 1.37 

Double the Dutch, Double the fun! Spice up EU4 with Winds of Change play.europauniversalis.com/AlzaboHD This video is sponsored by Paradox Interactive.

Spices shall be delivered from Dutch to Dutch

Fun fact the city of Gelre is now part of Germany while the Dutch province (Gelderland) is named after that city and also it used to be part of the Spanish Netherlands

Buddy, just remember kokosnoten zijn geen specerijen

I bet Alzabo is tall and wide 😍

G E K O L O N I S E E R D

It's pretty neath that this video came out on the 5th. After all it's liberation day in The Netherlands, Oranje Zal Overwinnen and may the spices flow

Informative content!! Smooth, flowing voice! Added to my sleep playlist!

PSA but for Alzabo in particular, the "Fries" in Friesland is pronounced more like the English word "freeze". Please. 🇳🇱

What a video man. Not only one of the best guides but also incredibly funny 😂😂 Will definetly be trying this out myself!

Would love to see more content. I have watched everything you have made paradox related.

I really like your rhyming narrative

I'd really enjoy seeing more of this!

Just the tree I wanted to see and from one of the best youtubers no doubt. Nice video.

This video proves you really put work into your jokes and references, loved it. Echt waar jonge!

Maarten H. Tromp: "The Art of the Keel"

Awesome video!

Fries 🍟 land

On our Liberation Day, of all days. Gekoloniseerd indeed

I can not wait to play this new DLC. The Netherlands have always been my favorite nation to play.

Alzabo! I missed you!!! 😢😢😢

In the previous patch you would still get the restoration of union CB if you are a republic, if you have the orangist in power and has sufficient support for them (power scale) 18:00

Unfathomably based 🇳🇱

PLEASE CONTINUE PLAYING!!!

Yes!!! More Netherlands please!!!

You need to play more! The spice mist flow!

Alzabo's insistence on pronouncing Lubeck as "Lubbock" never gets old.

Very nice

The Dutch have always been one of my favorite nations to play as, I really need to do something like this myself some time soon since the DLC released!

Would love to see the follow up!

Hey you’re alive!

Definitively the best French prononciation among all EU4 content creators.

Wouldn't transfer Trade Power be better than Steer Trade. Steer trade would only make them steer trade towards yours main trade node but wouldn't increase your English Channel shared part.

Please make part 2 and part 3 and however long it may take you to reach the end date bro 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Silly idea but instead of going the traditional colonial route, there's a mission that gets you 25% permanent siege ability, so you could attempt to maximise that and just blitzkrieg, same for Hungary iirc

You kinda nailed the pronunciation of 'Liège'. Not bad for a non-native french speaker.

Nice video! In Dutch, Friesland is pronounced more like free-sland (and a v sound instead of an f), instead of french fries land, but other pronounciations were very nice :)

8:23 "The United Provinces" 'COUNTIES' if that was on purpose, well played

This is the true master of Europe right here, the united crowns of the Lowlands and the Isles of Ireland and England

Friesland starts off as a Peasants Republic, so they're my personal favourite, though I've done a run as both them and Holland before, both are fun!

More Netherlands please!

9:01 you could also try allying the emperor, the ai never demands imperial territory from its allies:)

1:08 Brabant: keigoeie uitspraak jonguh, great reference to the East German car 😎 and I guess the capital city of Friesland is Mayonnaise City 😋

The last dlc should include ,,transfer occupation from ally" mechanic. Dont change my mind.

16:37 surely Transfer Trade is better in this case? I thought Steer Trade just affected how they place their merchants (but they'd already be pushing trade your way, since you share your home node).

I shall pave the world in bicycle paths!

Don't stop now!

Please continue this campaign

more please

Wilhelmus van Nassaue Ben ik, van Duitschen bloed Den Vaderland getrouwe Blijf ik tot in den doet Een Prinse van Oranje Blijf ik, vrij, onverveerd Den koning van Hispanje Heb ik altijd geëerd Mijn schild ende betrouwen zijt Gij, o God mijn Heer, op U zo wil ik bouwen, Verlaat mij nimmermeer. Dat ik doch vroom mag blijven, uw dienaar t'aller stond, de tirannie verdrijven die mij mijn hart doorwondt.

Gelre is best, as a monarchy you can rm burgundy and austria day 1, to get the inheritance and to take land in hre

would be fun to see WC

A quick question that someone will hopefully be able to answer: How did you have enough naval range to take Capo Verde from the Portuguese? Did you have colonialism embraced along with the "Tales of Gold and Spice" mission complete? This is the only way I can think to have the necessary naval range without Colonial Ventures, Overseas Exploration, or diplo tech 9. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I was playing the ottomans in EUIV when this came out. I guess I have to restart my game and pick the dutch...

Any chance we will see a Ming guide? I am having trouble finding any, and it's one of the campaign i'm really struggling with for some reason.

More Netherlands, I want to see Company India!

I'm almost positive the Dutch Republic can PU other nations - I think the mission result depends on whether Statists or Orangists are in power for the Dutch Republic, and since it spawns in with the Statists in power, the mission shows claims. If you put the Orangists in power, you still are the Dutch Republic, but you get the PU and can enforce other PUs normally. Also, are we sure that only the monarchy can get the Seven Provinces? That would be a very odd move by Pdx, especially since the Seven Provinces was literally during republic-era Netherlands... Just thought I'd give a minor correction, great video!

Je Maintiendrai, meaning I will maintain, is a direct connection of the dutch royal family with the then sovereign principality of Orange in what is now southern France. in 1544, the last male of the house of Chalon, holders of the title, died without conceiving any biological heir. So just before his death, he appointed his nephew on his father side, Willem of Nassau-Dillenburg, as heir, the first prince who could call himself prince of Orange-Nassau. Originally the motto was Je maintiendrai Chalon, later it changed to Je maintiendrai Nassau, dropping Nassau later. its fun little tidbits like these that explain the French and German roots of the Dutch royal family history imo

Along with Denmark it would be wise to improve and RM Austria (or if the HREmperor happens to change, RM them instead) and immediately ally as soon as the independence war is over. The constant unlawful territory opinion hit will ensure the earlygame coalition's formation which while manageable can be annoying for experienced players and scary for newer ones. Emperor alliance takes care of that. If Austria allies Burgundy before the independence war imho it's best to simply restart.

woo! euiv!!!!

With such a seductive voice in the background i simply cant concentrate

I always play as Gelre, but I will accept Holland for the video purposes 😊

more!!

The music 👯‍♂

Yes, keep play netherlands

Welkom in de polder

Part 2 when?!?!?!?!?

"random ruler" is quite wrong it's based on a date you declare independence

Link to background music at the beginning of video please?

About the T1 reform and the Rest. of union CB: In previous patches it was changed, such that when if you were a republic and statists were in power, you got claims, and if monarchists were in power (or you were a monarchy), you got a union CB. At 0 power, the republic defaults to statists, afaik. Is it possible that you didn't check the mission behaviour with monarchists in power? Or did they really make this change. (More generally, it is not true that republics cannot enforce unions. Only the junior partner of a union has to be a monarchy, but the senior partner can be anything, even a theocracy! Getting the CB is the hard part as a non-monarchy, but mission trees can provide that)

With the dutch naval doctrine, the estate privilege and a range advisor you can reach Greenland if you take exploration first. Imo there is so much ae in the lowlands that you can greed the new world and block other catholic colonizers while waiting for coalitions to clear up, and imo infrastructure ideas first don’t do much early just because there really isnt that much to build yet.

For the algorithm!

part 2 pls

Just checking... in the past the Dutch Republic could get the PU if the orangists were in power. Is that no longer the case?

I have 2300 hours when i learned that there is snaching colony button

banger

Moar!

WE TAKING INDONESIA WITH THIS ONE

Lubbock? That's near Ft. Worth right? Well then you should keep playing and reunite Texas with Lubbock.

Gelre rhymes with Tell Ray

based geef me meer

BREDA❤❤❤

the biggest decision as netherlands is to choose colonies or development. since i choose the latter, i go aristocratic first, then economic, infrastructure, plutocratic (go for dutch republic, after getting plutocratic, which can be taken as either second, third or fourth idea) and then manually going for stadholder monarchy (first goverment reform) and you get oranje dynasty. then take defensive as your fifth idea, get the seven provinces and voila, you can develop a nation that is capable of just stealing other nation's colonies (which is what i do, with the bonus being the since as netherlands most colonial nations around you don't fight each other because ai is stacking against you, you usually have england, france, portugal and castile/spain building an armada of colonies, colonizing the entire americas by 1600s, which you can now just take (and also spend 93.34% of your money on hiring mercs to put down space rebels since their numbers can't come from earth)). choose to get +1 adm policies, and choose all 4 adm policies (2x for money, gov cap and autonomy debuff which helps if you expand beyond low countries, and dev in primary culture from def policy) final note from me is that while you are a republic, restart until england becomes anglican, so you can convert. so now you get a bunch of income because of economic ideas from policies, dev policy from def ideas, dev from aristocratic, plutocratic and infrastructure ideas, dev from anglican which is more than from protestant, but with high religious unity you get enough money from anglican interactions. the only downside from anglican is that you can't have consorts so no extra dev points from divorces (though if you remain a feudal goverment, you can do that, it's just not gonna feel right from rp perspective).

If you manage to ally the HRE emperor you generally dont get the demand to return unlawful empire territory, making the process of conquering all low country provinces a lot less annoying.

Why take a province in Ireland if you PU england and integrate via decision?

I don't think that you know what "Steer trade" does...

Part 2?

Continue it

My Flemish self hearing Flanders as a part of the Netherlands: excuse me??? Not since 1830 good sir

I lose my PU on England the second elections are held and a new leader is voted in every 5 years

Lobeck. Hehe. It's Ü! ;)

Couldn’t you technically start as Burgundy, have vassals own almost the entirety of France, kill your duke and trigger the BH event, fall under France and instantly conquer it, then form The Netherlands and do the Mission Tree?

Does burgundy get the missions if forming Netherlands

Does anyone know how late 1.37 releases i cant find it anywhere

How did you get the 50% Fort Defense?

Hup Holland!

Why would you pillage don’t you struggle with ae?

Lets keep thos going the dutch need there spices...not to use offcours just te sell

Dutch Republics can PU other nations.

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