[EU4] Three Mountains Timelapse and Q&A

In this video I show the timelapse for my Ryukyu 3 Mountains One Tag with no exploits.

[hotdogfingerz]

Dude I can barely succeed as Portugal, and here I see this micronation conquering the world.

[lifedecoded]

And for my 3 mountains run, the mountains I shall choose are:
Mount Fuji
Mount Fairfield
Mount Fuck it I'll just use console

[DingoDjango]

I lost it when "Ryukyuan Africa" started getting bigger and bigger.

[skellumfh]

Having succeeded in a Mandate of Heaven Ryukyu-WC I have a few observations to contribute:

1) You are absolutely right concerning absolutism making the game easier. I had to use my Golden Era during the Court and country Disaster to get a +20 max absolutism from "local power crushed" but it was worth it.

2) While Confucianism (which i went for to become Emperor of China) is decent enough for your nation (Tolerance +5 everywhere and -0.5 global unrest on top) i wouldn't recommend it as a WC religion since the religions you harmonized with dont translate to CNs or Client states making it necessary to police them (Client States somewhat counter this with their ideas but it's still a bit flimsy). Given enough time they will harmonize eventually but were talking about 80-100 years since AI starts harmonizing only after reaching 100% harmony.
If I wanted to stay in the Eastern religion group I would propably go Shinto for the morale boost) if I had to do it again.

3) Becoming Emperor of China is a double edged sword. On one side you get -20% core costs with the decree and the celestial reform and easier admin score on your rulers saving you a ton of admin (and important to note CCR also reduces core time which admin eff. does not making you stay at high overextension shorter). As a bonus, at 100 mandate (which is easy enough to reach) you get -2.5 global unrest.
You do have two significant downsides however:

- You must be in the eastern religion group, excluding you from most of the game's best religion (i tried Confucianism, see 2) )

- With the elimination of Legitimacy and the fixed government type your max absolutism goes down. I had the "Court and Country" disaster fire on purpose to increase max absolutism but since you can only get the best outcome at 65 absolutism or more i had to burn my golden age just to satisfy this demand since default i only have 65 (base) + 5 (govt rank) + 5 (religious unity) +5 (great power) -20 (modifier for the disaster) = 60 max absolutism, going up to 65 during a golden age. Since the best resolution of the disaster gives you +20 max absolutism for the rest of the game and you can still conquer while the golden age is going on (i turned it on a month before end and then "Harsher Treatmented" some rebels and after i feel its worth using the golden age at this point.

4) At the end I had way more time than I had imagined. Seing that 1700 I "only" had 12k development (and looking at the map seeing so many places still to conquer) I feared the worst and micromanaged the shit out of everything, leading to me getting the achievement in 1780 (onetag at 1785)

Great video and thanks for your well reasoned analysis. Will you try out "MEIOU & Taxes 2.0"?

[mackycabangon]

What I learned from ryukyu:

-Dont split your armies too far
-Make small 10 or 20 stacks to kill rebels
-Always ally Ming if you are near Ming
-Make sure you dont get too powerful to make sure Ming dont rival you

[MrCubFan]

1:22 Persia forms
3:04 Spain forms
3:40 PLC forms
3:50 Russia forms
5:00 Mingsplosion

[aDudebro]

Doing the Lord's work right here.

[TheRuraQ]

Lol 14 ppl got triggered when he said having shitload of hours doesnt make you good player xD

[smoothkid]

Your content is top notch. Do you have a patreon, or have you considered it? It might be incentive to devote more time to the content we all crave, and also help pay you for your (fantastic) efforts. Just thoughts.

As far as EU4 goes, I would LOVE a rev target vid. I would love a video on client states bc I'm just not all that familiar with them. Also, HRE is always interesting, no matter which HRE power you're playing.... maybe do some strats on HRE nations such as Brandenburg, Bohemia, Milan, or Austria?

One more question. I have CK2 but haven't touched it yet. There are SO many awesome looking Paradox games. Which would you suggest I try next?

[Parto]

Great videos - helps a lot to better understand the game. Made me try France world conquest and realize how monotonous it can get xD

So far you have become my favourite EU4/Paradox youtuber, you deserve more subscribers.

[Mitchsmith]

Great video as always!

I have about 1500 hours in EU4 and my one big set back is Mercs
I never know when or how to efficiently use mercs, especially with institutions costing so much and the cost mercs being increased dramatically in the latest patch.

I find myself always taking Quantity early on (1st or 2nd idea group) so i only need to use mercs in rare situations. I feel this is really inefficient.

I would love it if you would cover this is a military guide video. I love your videos.
Keep up the good work!

[RGARnator]

Question: How do you place your light ships most efficiently, for a medium or large empire? And no, this was not answered in the trade videos. I don't think they will pay back their cost if you put all of them in one node, and the tooltip you hover over is misleading or outright lying about how much they will earn you.

[MrBreaknet]

This is truly mesmerizing. Thanks a lot for your dedication to this game.

[infintittie]

"THEpedroTHE THETHE asked" lol

[Luka-khxo]

I just want to say I love your videos. Keep them coming they are sincerely appreciated and

[MudderKuzz]

Thanx for the inspiration. Just finished my Ryukyu WC which was actually my first WC. What a pain but now that it is done it feels sooo good :-)
Your videos sure helped

[skykid]

I'm a simple man. I see a Reman video, I drop whatever I'm doing and click it

[Okuni_]

do the mandatory Byzantium restoration

[kmesh]

Hey, really love your videos, especially "An in-depth Guide to"! Can you do in-depth guide Tax and Production (basically, overall economy aka "where ducats come from")? Your explanations are the best so far on youtube.

[erikdk]

8:29 How was The Commonwealth able to conquer so much of Russia so fast?