EU4 THE PERFECT EXPANSIONIST STRATEGY

This is the best strategy for playing a full expansion focused game. Best strat for world conquest. Best strat for one faith. Best strat for one culture. CMV.

[Munchausenification]

I tried the Dithmarschen start in ironman a couple of patches ago to do the exact same thing - stacking bonuses from missions. The 50 provinces requirement takes time for sure, but it is very much doable if you are a good player. So I didnt go for the France strat, just Dithmarschen - Sardinia-Piedmont - Austria - Croatia - Prussia - Germany - Roman Empire because why not. And also went back to Catholic. It is so many permanent modifiers its ridiculous and stupid fun as well.

[flimpeenflarmpoon]

5% is a big deal though cause everything is additive in EU4. Going from things costing 15% to 10% is 33% not 5%.

[badlieutenant]

Hi Radio Res,

Great video. I'm basically wrapping up a World Conquest using this exact same strategy. The main difference to you is I started as France as I felt they were the strongest candidate to conquer Europe ASAP. I also formed the Netherlands to PU Great Britain (and there's some nice mission bonuses like absolutism), as well as Austria and Two Sicilies.

After playing a near maximum Administrative Efficiency run, I can't imagine attempting to World Conquest any other way. It's just so powerful and so less painful to know that you need one war to annex everyone.

At this point in time I'm at 70% Admin Efficiency and I can annex about 1000 dev in one war. It's unbelievable. And in the case of coring, with the other modifiers I've stacked as well as Admin Efficiency, , annexing a vassal if I have to release one is extremely easy as well.

Anyway, amazing video mate, I hope others try this as well. It's the most powerful way to World Conquest imo.

[plebisMaximus]

With all this culture shifting, you already know you're going the whole game with 0/0/6 rulers.

[CharlieKellyEsq]

10:48 "you will only get to 85% admin efficiency instead of the cap at 90%, it's only 5% difference"
This is technically correct, but it's reductive math, meaning that it's not 5% more efficient, it's more like 35-40% more efficient. Instead of spending 6 admin to core a province it would be 4 admin with that extra 5% admin efficiency.

[TheMelnTeam]

One thing you should take a look at is late game theocracies. You can stack diplomatic, militarist, tier 8 reform, military hegemon etc and get 80% province war score cost reduction vs other religions, which stacks multiplicatively with admin efficiency and imperialism CB. Some nations can take that to the cap of 90%.

As Knights w/o other tricks, imperialism was giving me over 1200 development per 100% war score, enough to erase any remaining major (killed Ottomans early) or just get to 30-40% score then gut big nations down to a couple provinces/take all their forts while barely fighting. OE is obviously higher than admin efficiency stacking, but it's nothing scutage client state stuffing can't manage. You can still do S-P for its rewards (including annexation cost reduction) and form late game nation to complete 1 tag w/o too much trouble...subject annexation cost does *not* cap at -90%!

[Mountaineer]

The most important question I obviously have: "Is WC still possible?"

[civiever]

You could go for the malta great project to get extra war score cost reduction
also you could just start as austria go into Sardinia and then to prussia

[NeoMicy]

Couldnt you go Dithmarschen - Sadinia Piedmont- Austria - Prussia - Germany ?

[rippermcmakin]

Great to have you back Mr Res. Thanks for the standard sweaty eu4 video we miss. Happy New year mate!

[lorenzofalorni]

the trick with adm eff is the closer you get to 100% the stronger it gets, yeah duh obvious, but the difference between 0%->5% is miniscule compared to 85%->90% since it goes from 15% of total to 10% of total meaning the effective change is a -33% reduction in costs.
Elaborating:
0-5% is 5% discount
5-10% is 5.55...% difference
10-15% is 5.88...% difference
15-20% is 6.25% difference
so it increases as you climb up.
let's compare, if you don't have any ideas or monuments, only tech and absolutism it's going to be up to 60%, so 2/3 of the way to 90%
but getting alhambra for instance
60-65% is 8.33...% extra
if you're mughals and you have alhambra this time
60-75% is 25% extra devouring power
if you try to maximize your adm eff
60-90% it's a 50% difference.
also the difference between 5% and 90% is 18 fold, meaning you can eat 18x more land pretty much so...

[nevets]

Starting as poland and forming germany, that's cursed...

[Robert]

I mean. It's pretty easy to go Denmark into Prussia. From there you could just continue.

[RXJM]

Also you've got a fairly high chance of getting the Burgundian inheritance since you dismantle the empire, and if burgundy goes thiccc into the empire (and france) its gg for anyone else at 1500

[nanlin]

I am trying this with my newest campaign, it's now 1592 and I am ready to declare Genoa who killed Savoy early game. Just come back and revisit this video to see if I am on track.

[CharlieKellyEsq]

Where have you been Res? I miss you. I hope you aren't laying in a ditch somewhere

[Smainchoker]

Ah yes. Res voice, the one thing i was missing in my youtube videos ^^

[ALittleMessi]

I would get so bored that by the time I had the France PU I'd take a break and never come back, just like every other game

[thisishuhwow]

been there done that, dumped the run after forming germoney

[NothingSerious...]

Hey @Radio Res, wouldn't it be worth to get hungarian PU via polish mission before forming? It hungary has quite good military and in your case they were getting some AE.