I found the GREATEST nation to PLAY TALL in EU4

I found the GREATEST nation to PLAY TALL in EU4

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Emperor Tier:
Lewis Wright
Matvei Novikov

King Tier:
Blenderman
Crilly
Flyerton99
Ghostwolf567
Henriki2305
iTzHuzzah
JdoW52
Sjalmi
Orginal
Redguard76
ShadowSinger

Duke Tier:
abayer
Aeryka
Arthur Pendragon
ColeZawesome
Cutaline
HoratioNullbuilt
Of The Dragon
Scorpius
Stormblind
Stuart Watson
Thomas Carmichael
Trever101
Zachary Older

Count Tier:
AssBreath
Bobby Bottle Service
Brandon Smith-Darby
danjamrod
Marius
Michael Scott
MisterODark
PrimitiveMorris
Red Star
Søren Ryge
ThatOneGuy

Baron Tier:
choppyrice
Garking
Hachi
Hunkulous
Morgan Jones
Prof_Toad
Professor toad
Tobias Lauge Borgstrøm
Trevor

[knpark]

0:32 The Hopae(호패) System was a pre-modern equivalent of a universal ID card system. It was meant to be handed out to all men regardless of class. Local and central governments could use this to *collect taxes and conscript soldiers.* It was crude and barely effective by today's standard, but it deserves an "At Least You Tried" cake.

Today's equivalent of the Hopae is made of plastic instead of wood. It doesn't state a person's class because it's not a thing anymore. Instead, a photo is printed on one side, and one of 10 fingerprints is printed on the other. It can be used to collect taxes, conscript soldiers, *and* ID voters.
Source: my wallet.

[theteamaker]

Korea is so good at playing tall, even the AI is doing it!
( AI Korea is the most annoying nation to invade according to my inner Qing player)

[FirasAlkadmani]

As koifish said "not tall not wide but big"

[Gamereal]

Oh Korea, I played it with Europa Expanded once where you can form a flavourful Korean China (if you have mandate and the land) and since I love playing tall its a perfect fit + the nice focuses you can use for them. Colonizing California as them is not mandatory, but very useful. 😄

Laith quotes of the day:
"Oh my King lives quite long, I'm proud of him...I should stop talking"
"War? We are not suited for something like that!"
"Thats gonna starve the Europeans, perfect"

[JavadHedayat-gsvn]

I played a Korea game once and the challenge was to become an empire rank without expanding a single province. Korea has 20 province at the start so each province ahoud have been 50 dev. I finished it until 1600. At that point there was no possible bulidings to be built. That was the tallest run I ever had.

[sevensevennine]

You can absolutely expand while playing tall. Hard to argue that irl Belgium was playing wide when they had overseas possessions

[kgapaneseschoolgirlb]

I enjoyed the little meme the editor added in. I feel like the editor’s personality should show more in future videos because it makes it quite entertaining! 😊

[Designer-Speech]

38:58 You can hear a bit of fear in Laith's voice. Burgundy AI is doing it again. Burgundy 🤝Great Britain.

[jamieward]

I once did the Victorian Three Achievement and decided to play tall on my own terms. I owned all of the Kongo, Great Lakes, Zanzibar and Cape trade nodes and nothing else. Then i had minimum 20 dev in everu province by the end. Loads above 30 and quite a few above forty.

[imaxinsertnounherex]

Bro the TV Ads for youtube are insane these days. I had like 5 minutes of unskipable ads at a time twice last time I tried to watch anything there.

[Lux__Veritatis]

Infrastructure ideas has "Expand Administration Cost -100%", you looked at "Expand Infrastructure" in the tab. Expand administration is a state interaction.

[Hyperion]

Always a great day to see some Korea gameplay as it is my favorite nation to play as in EU4.

[hangingjester]

Laith makes a joke about shunning Shun's offer
I actually find it funny realise it's 2am and let out a sigh of relief that I am not turning into my dad

[viceconsulimhotepienenobed]

In my opinion, the best tall nation is... Ming. Plenty low dev cost provinces, you just have to crush the northern hords early and then you chill untill 1821.

[foxdavion]

BTW Manchuria *will* attack you when the truce expires if you have no allies with only 14K troops. You kinda want them to because when you're inward focused you can not attack without a stability penalty. They usually are not able to call in allies and you can easily fend them off by letting them go for your fort then attack them on it, it will also give you time to build to force limit and then finish the force limit mission for the bonuses just for that war as you'll need the bonuses. Once you defeat them, humiliate them for the age bonus and take all their money. You don't really want to expand into Manchuria until you get the event in 1600 for the coring (in 90% of games they never invade the Ming, instead the Ming just implode and the Hordes just pick away at the borders until everyone gets locked into alliance webs). Instead you want to focus on building a fleet and going after Japan, which for some reason unifies very quickly now, usually by 1530, that is if you want to expand. Ming usually implodes around 1550, so your focus should shift to expansion after 1600 once you're super tall with two 30 stack armies. The reason I say this is because Korean military missions focus heavily on firepower and artillery, which you will have neither of until 1500 and won't have any *good* firepower and artillery until 1600; So save getting your 100% firepower 2 star general until then; By which point Ming usually would of shattered.

[thewalkingmeat]

So early the bots aren't even here

[jaredreilly]

I'd love to see more of this campaign if you'd be up to continuing it!

[griffinhunter]

the literati purge has screwed me every single korea game ive played

[Piratejoe]

Day 297 of asking for an Oranje Free State Playthrough of Vicky 3.

[Nitrousoxidification]

Ah yes, the Roman empire method of playing tall.

"I don't plan to conquer anything I don't have to.... unless I act in defence, then I will conquer everything."