EU4 Estates Guide For Beginners

An EU4 Estates Guide that explains in depth how to handle your estates. This is what Competitive EU4 Players use in their games and what the current EU4 Estates Meta is

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[Bundeskenzler]

Who needs social life when someone has the possibility to play a complex version of paint. 😛

[xpnqmfy]

>pro Player
>exploit this mechanic of selling 10% of land with only 0, 19% land
truly a eu4 player

[Comrade-Corvid]

This is an outstanding guide for one of the mechanics new players seem to have the hardest time figuring out. It's not a difficult or complex mechanic to learn, but it's definitely overwhelming at first glance. Linking this to anyone who asks me how to estate.

[petersilvestrov]

Ludi, keep up the tempo, it's amazing seeing such a quality content every two days!

[DaeLh]

In my humble 5k hours opinion Supremecy over the crown is the most important privilage after Mana. It will grant you higher equilibrion from all estates and also higher frequence of diets making it easier to boost loyalty.

[ordogannicus]

In my opinon cycling the 3 mercantilism burgher privilage makes more sense than the prestige one, but it's your choice afterall.

[gunner]

thank you sm bro I kept clicking random things and wondering why I was losing so much money, total life saver

[ryszardmaciek]

11:30 the crownland you gain actually depends on how much influence each estate's got (at least that's what eu4 wiki states)

[volbound]

As a newbie, once you figure out that you can get mana from estates and how to do it (as well as the indebted to Burgher loans), the game gets very easy on Single Player. I saw a noticeable downgrade in difficulty once I figured the Estates out. I usually win wars and I am typically ahead in the tech race against the AI now. It has made the game easy.

[sillyboy]

I agree with this all in every situation, apart from for the timurids, they cannot have the +100% development debuff otherwise your vassals will all rebel. Once you annex 2or3 of your vassals you then give away your crown land as they will not have the liberty desire anymore

[alatamore]

Thank you for this video! I appreciate your explanation around the monopolies. I noticed immediately when you stopped recommending them and always wondered why. I still really like to use them, as I love merchantalism and the opinion increase with no influence increase. Often I use them early on to keep opinion up to allow seizure of crown lands every 5 years exactly. Once I have CL very high, I drop them.

[francogf]

I agree with everything except the Initial Crownland strategy that you always do. I´ve always felt it too gamey and not really realistic from the point of running a nation. How much property in Lands was a big way of measuring the power of a monarch in its kingdom, at least I feel. and If you literally give away all of your possessions for temporal ducats to the estates, then the estates naturally should feel stronger than you. Thats why selling crown lands should increase influence, not loyalty, since the estates get more powerful, not more loyal. After all they have more lands, more tax revenue, more serfs from where to pull soldiers from. Why should they follow the orders of a so called king that owns pretty much nothing? I would replace the Estate Stuatory event that really does not solve the issue at hand since its so easy to negate the penalties from low crownlands, and straight up make having less than 10% of crownlands a trigger for a disaster, like a civil war or some such. Relinquishing all of your material power should not be a easy debuff to bear for 15 years.

[kapitanlojcus]

Great explanation Lu🅱️i, it genuinely inspired me to play eu4 again and play a more professional play 👍

[mathewwinn]

Whoa, never heard him pronounce ‘absolutism’ correctly haha! Love the vids, Ludi! Couldn’t play this game without your guides.

[KevinCurry]

Wow, maybe one of your best guide videos ever! I'll definitely be watching this whenever i need reference for estates. Thanks

[CShop]

Thanks, Ludi for a nice guide! I got like 400-500 hours logged and finally moving out of NUB status by doing the big brain play with Crownland early to get a bucket of ducats!

[whitefox]

this dont work anymore if u do the beginning steps u can not sale of titles its greyed out

[Tvillian]

I have been playing this game for years and it wasn't until I started watching your videos I realized, I had no idea what I was doing. Much appreciated bro

[rippermcmakin]

Aka the opening moves guide for every new play through in 1.31

[SoldierGeneral]

If I'm not mistaken the lower influence an estate has the more land you get to crownland when conquering land. So if you know you are doing early conquest, e.g. cores, might be good to hold off on increasing influence estates until afterward. Luckily +1 mana point ones don't increase influence. Based on the video though respective ownership of estates of country originally owning the land also matters.