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@SnapplyPie

2 жыл бұрын

Conquer Chile as Croatia to make the ultimate coastline hog

@horemhebthepharaoh8561

2 жыл бұрын

convert all Balkans provinces to croatian culture

@antimatterg

2 жыл бұрын

Conquer the entire Balkan coast.

@boot-4704

2 жыл бұрын

Make super Yugoslavia- Yugoslavia+Greece+Anatolia

@noice_xO

2 жыл бұрын

heisenburger??

You know how Croatia has denied Bosnia access to the sea? Why not do it to the entire Balkan peninsula? Maybe even Italy? Maybe the entire Mediterranean? (Mediterranean only if you want to suffer lol)

@goranpersson7726

2 жыл бұрын

pretty sure bosnia has access to the sea, it's a pretty small coast but still a coast. or I guess if you're talking about in eu4 they do deny bosnia a coast

@Podzhagitel

2 жыл бұрын

Mare Nostrum with Croatia 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

@darthrevan618

2 жыл бұрын

@@goranpersson7726 Bosnia has 30 kms of sea i belive

@bigpigeon2384

2 жыл бұрын

@@goranpersson7726 yeah they have a small coastal thingy in the middle of Croatia

@JohnSmith-kb4re

2 жыл бұрын

@@goranpersson7726 Damnit Croatia you had one job

"im in a siege race against the ottomans" a truly terrifying sentence to say

Player: picks an eccentric nation for fun AI: goes batshit insane

@rinzzler366

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like he plays with lucky nations off sometimes without knowing it, whenever weird shit like this happens.

This one was one of the wildest, but also enjoyable, A to Z episodes.

If you ever read this thank you very much! I know there are a lot of nation in season 3 but as I am Croatian I would really like that you play well Croatia, so here some advices: -You can fight the independence after the first month, you just need to ask Poland to support independence (it is not very difficult you take the +25 relation because of religion and if they are rival with hungary they will support you, if they are not rival take a diplomatic reputation guy). Very important that you do all this in first day befor Poland gets other allies. -You can ask also Lithuania but first wait for the Poland-Lithuania event and ask afterwards -During war: prepare spy network with serbia, search for allies -Peace out Austria as fast as possible -Peace deal: Take the gold mine in Nitra-region and a border with Serbia -Have a claim on Serbia go to war and take Kosovo if you manage to get two gold mines you are unstopable -Next war: Byzanthium if still exist or Venice (take city of Venice and Istria and make Venice you mane trade Node)

"Forts in the area" means you have to occupy at least one fort that's connected by land. (Idk if straights count) It's basically to prove that you can reach the area and there's not naval/military access blocking you.

@Tzbebfis

2 жыл бұрын

*straits

@CoWinkKeyDinkInc

2 жыл бұрын

Its to stop you from taking all the fort provinces in a war to make the next one easier, since at the time the AI would almost never build forts

@petemagnuson7357

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tzbebfis what gay brainrot does to a lad. thanks!

@TheLibermania

2 жыл бұрын

@@petemagnuson7357 Obviously the straits doesn't count, since Hawk could take stuff from Anatolia which is connected through a strait.

@petemagnuson7357

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheLibermania I think he'd cut otto in half at that point so that their Balkan and Anatolian land weren't connected

I have to say, this has probably been the best a-z yet

The Ottomans and Russia in Crimea? Sounds familiar

Fun fact: Crimean Khanate was seen as a sucessor to the Golden Horde. Moscow even sort of payed tribute to them.

@azh698

2 жыл бұрын

I thought they payed tribute to the Great Horde. They even have a border with them.

@perrypro1263

2 жыл бұрын

@@azh698 I think he meant Russia paid tribute to the Golden Horde, from where both the Great Horde and Crimea come from.

This must be my favorite A to Z episode thus far, but, for the sake of your own sanity, please press buttons with your mouse.

Probably some of the best EU4 content you've ever come out with. What a rollercoaster!

If they don't put this achievement into the game called like "Redhawk's Revanchist Revenge" it'll be a damn shame.

Great job. This is some of the most cursed border gore in a while. French Ruthenia and Balkans are a sight to behold.

"i'm already suffering over here" oh crimea river

Croatia has an achievement called Krabater where you form Croatia and place a cav unit in Stockholm... makes me wonder if as Croatia, you can form another nation, then reform Croatia, then place the cav unit to get the achievement. If you're just forming and reforming the same country, that's gotta be a waste of resources. Sounds like a bankruptcy incoming.

@steadyzz2371

2 жыл бұрын

The achievement is bugged because Croatia didnt exist before. You only need to play as Croatia and place a cav in Scotland. No forming required

@luctapia

2 жыл бұрын

you cant reform nations you've already played as if you want achievements sadly

Incredible game. The french poland, the genoa league with a random anatolian nation, everything was wild. I was on my toes until the end, well done !

Croatia has "Krabater" achievement, you can do it the hard way by conquering Stockholm as Croatia

That was really cool. I love the chaotic end map. Beautiful.

I think the most interesting part of this entire campaign was that Scotland beat England

@youssofm.69yearsago40

2 жыл бұрын

Because of France

Nice one RH, always thought you could do it, loved the old style bankruptcy, internal conflicts and accidental wars. Maybe you should do it every campaign

you have the same exact upload schedule as drew drunil which i find hilarious

@FarmerSlayerFromTheEdoPeriod

2 жыл бұрын

Paint brush man.

Love the series as always

As croatians are known for their war crimes conquer Geneva and rename it to genevan’t so they can legally commit them. Also as a secondary goal culture convert all Serbian provinces so the war crime is completed

@kremmydaki2377

2 жыл бұрын

@Verujem no, Greek

@kremmydaki2377

2 жыл бұрын

@Morer R search what the Turks did

@slavenrasic2173

2 жыл бұрын

@@kremmydaki2377 Sine, umjesto da se pravis Grk po internetu, odi u Crkvu ili psihijatru da ti daju malo svete vode ili tableta da se smiris

As Croatia, try colonizing Argentina and, more importantly, Chile. A large part of their populations have Croatian ancestry (especially Chile which currently even has a Croatian president). Also because Chile is just one big coastline which denies BOlivia sea access... just like Croatia denies BOsnia sea access.

@nezahuall

2 жыл бұрын

Doesn't Bosnia have a tiny bit of coastline?

@dakedakinson64

2 жыл бұрын

Also never ask Argentinian why his Croat grandfather or grandpa emigrated there.

@toni9279

2 жыл бұрын

@@dakedakinson64 The Croats migrated to South America back in the 19th century. Same time when they also migrated to the US and Canada where there's at least 1.5 million people of Croatian heritage.

@dakedakinson64

2 жыл бұрын

@@toni9279 I was referring to these emigrating around the end of ww2, all of them were fascists.

These videos are what motivates me to keep going in a run where Ming with their 70k troops declare on my Ayutthaya with 30k. Because bankruptcy is no reason to quit.

@jonaskullman3597

2 жыл бұрын

You should have kept paying tribute ;)

Because of the Krabater achievement, instead of just having a horse in Stockholm, you should own all of Scandinavia as Croatia

This is so cursed, I love it. I suppose at the end, it didn't matter how much land you lost as long as you were still able to defeat and vassalize the Ottomans.

Best A-Z episode to date!

Good forts could have helped immensely here. Flatland forts makes such a difference for hordes, no more bad fights, no more enemies sieging down the homeland in no time, just good times all around. Oh, and I don't think the AI understands the horde flatland bonus so they take stupid fights all the time. Eastward expansion also gives trade companies which gives tons of merchants. I know you don't like minmaxing, at least not in this series, but man forts are just so damned fantastic

@kesorangutan6170

2 жыл бұрын

He could've built a fort in Abkhazia(province between black sea and Caucasus mountain range) and in Gazikumukh area. It would block ottoman armies. Placing navy in Marmara sea would also block ottoman navy. Still great game though :D

@bronzedisease

2 жыл бұрын

very good advice. Horde is unique that flat land forts are good. Mountains forts are also good -2 roll sometimes more than compensate your loss from shock damage. In my ilkhanate game I took defensive idea and it worked pretty well. Of course defensive is a bad pick for horde usually but it's fun to mess around sometimes

@WlatPziupp

2 жыл бұрын

@@bronzedisease Mountains are... fine. More of a last resort though. Usually there's some place flat to fort up. Of course if it was between hills and mountains the latter is the obvious choice even as a horde. Though going against the obvious choices can be a lot of fun

@bronzedisease

2 жыл бұрын

@@WlatPziupp yeah -2 rolls is a massive advantage even if you have to eat the 25% shock damage debuff. The debuff doesnt matter as much late game as at least half of your damage will come from cannons. you can also use a specific infantry only stack to fight in those terrain. Their damage profile is more balanced unlike cav focusing on shock.

the way the return core or give a province control to a vassal works is cool, you get to chose between lower war cost but higher AE impact per province or low AE but higher war score

@youssofm.69yearsago40

2 жыл бұрын

Also diplo points

These wars with Ottomans were insane. Hats off to you, sir! And you did not surrender, when Russia declared. Just wow!

What a wild ride this game was... you really oughta work on that "Hold C to your death" thing you have going on. XD

Great run!

this is some really epic episode

This is one of the best A-Z episodes

very solid video, love crimea/hordes generally

Ideas for your Croatia run: 1. A croatian man became president of Chile recently, so maybe you could form Croatian Chile 2. Croatia is know for it's coast, so maybe you should go and grab all the coastline of the mediterranean, including all the islans (keep only the inland provinces you get at the start. 3. If the first and second one seem to hard, long or boring, try simply reforming Austria-Hungary WW1 borders (bonus points if you are the emperor at the time)

LOL, fun times - great video :-D

This run? Bordergore and unicorns! How in the hell in a game AI just pops up Morea, Corfu, Padua, Eretna, Zaphorote, Montenegro and Syria at the same sime!

Great success !

This mans commitment is inhuman. Respect

Insane EP

Red's tendency for accidental war: Crippling Handicap or 5D Chess Strat?

One of the wildest I’ve seen

Use enter button to clear pop ups it won't declare or anything on the side tab screen. Seen you and others do this I figured that out a month or two ago 👍

You know what Timuridas was doing? Preventing Russia from atacking you xD

Do a Coptic, Crimean Culture Croatia, and conquer Canada

This was an insane game.

damn every time i log into youtube i see a Red Hawk video right when its uploaded

What an emotional rollercoaster

TBH, one reason I love these A-Z challenges is because they come closest to reproducing how history actually works. Some crazy dictator decides to bite off more than they can chew. From great success they suddenly come crashing down in failure. Player games don't normally see these extremes because AIs and players are both too logical. But you Red Hawk don't fucking care and I love it.

This has to be one of the most crazy A to Z

this a wild one for sure

I love this series man, watched every one of them! Love that there’s no silliness bring on series D! Currently on holiday in Croatia looking forward to that one too!

The under the hood buffs for the ottomans are just insane. No other nation in the game could lose half its territory and still field 80 thousand men

17:24 thats a new saying to remember :P

I know we're far away from S but when we get there my one and only suggestion is a Reverse Switzerlake. Instead of only land provinces you may only take provinces that border a sea tile.

Russia declaring on Crimea. Where have I seen this before?

When you go back to your A-Z roots but succeed in accomplishing your goal despite it all, now that is real ability

My current game has AI mamluks in control of Constantinople and an almost dead Russia. Very happy to see that the changes they made actually effected major tag survivability.

My Favorite Activity in EU4 chipping Ottoblob away. 😂

I have played Crimea more than any other nation, I love their start position- so many options! Playing Byzantium at the time of this comment... I have Spain and Austria (which annexed Hungary) in a PU in 1560 and it's way too easy- one of the craziest games I've played!

This is my absolute favorite in season C, insane game :D

Of course, Russia doing shenanigans with Crimea, as they do

So anyway. There's this thing called pixelplace, which is basically a painting and anybody can place pixels on it. There are multiple paintings, but everybody just plays on the modern borders one. There's also this grey color that is very similar to the border division color. So a person consistently comes multiple times a day, makes a light blue independent Crimea with some additional Russian territory in it, then leaves. Everyday. They have been doing it for God knows how long.

I know I’m late but I just wanted to point out there was a fort on Corfu lol, hence the “forts in the area” thing.

What a ride.

For Croatia there are three things: 1. Conquer Sweden 2. Convert every Balkan province to Croatian 3. Own every sea province in the Mediterranean

Your the best dude

this was a really fun watch, but damn that's some alt history ish in this episode lol, feels like a bunch of oligarchs in your game heard about what happened here and took eternal vengeance upon their historical overlords

As Croatia own directly all of Italy and Balkans, set up trade company in Egypt and build Suez canal

Well, i was shocked when seen a french rutenia and zaporozhie. Uncommon ai move😂😂

RED HAWK A-Z LESS GOOOOO

Very nice

Crimea seems like one of those nations where no CBing byz would be pretty critical.

I’ll be excited when you do Dai viet in season D

As Croatia follow in the footsteps of Mirko Cro Cop and find success in Japan.

Hi , I'm sure you already show this, but what is the shortcut to fast siege like you did at 19:40 . I did know how to fast split for siege but I don't know how you can spawn click without selecting a new stack manually. Great video as always :D

Hawk, next time you leave a siege, leave at least 1k troops in the province to maintain progress. You lost it when you went to attack the Ottomans in Constantinople.

Wow very nice

As Croatia made the Krabater Achivment. And conquer Stockholm.

As Croatia, you should make modern borders, than colonize Chile and form it to create two long nations in one episode

I'm super happy you found the "return core" button. Now you just need to find that debase currency button and stop taking loans only ;)

As Croatia you should close the triangle, form a circle with other nations inside your embrace

Okay SO Croatia has a dumb achievement where you have to station a cavalry unit in Stockholm. This is because when Sweden had their military reforms they adopted the use of Croat Cavalry to fight the Commonwealth and the HRE. In game it was harder when Croatia didn't exist in 1444 but it's super easy because you just ask everyone for mil access SOOOOO how about you do a fun version of that achievement and actually *conquer* Stockholm? It's quite far from you at the start, you're going to have to get independent from Hungary, etc... could lead to some silly shenanigans.

This is a certified A to Z moment 24:38

Crimea seems like a fun nation to play! - A new EU4 player

I have tried so many times to form the Golden Horde, maybe even the Mongol Empire as Crimea.

Good way to avoid accidental wars: don’t use keyboard shortcuts.

Epic

4:52 "I never knew Crimea was so easy" Putin, 2012

Hindu Khmer run, get all the monument bonuses possible. Very hard start, but super fun later

I have been so busy with work and just realized I missed the humble bundle. Forever stuck with the base game :(

I have never hit C to close a menu. seems like that's the right idea.

I know that you never play into late game but I’d really appreciate a guide that focuses on absolutism!

I feel your pain XD

Neat

Now this video itself makes season C the best of all seasons. And, as Croatia, become the Emperor of the HRE

@toni9279

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, that's too easy. I already did it many times.

I saw a reverse commonwealth once and it was called the lituanian polish commonwealth, its hard to look at.