EU4 1.34 changes EVERYTHING about NORWAY!

Fun fact! Mikmaq is not the correct spelling or pronounciation of the tribe in that region of Canada, (also seen around new Brunswick and Maine which are both westerly to Nova Scotia) its spelt "Mi'kmaq", and is "Mi'gmaq" in english pronunciation

I was trying to play as TO and Sweden was spamming me with support independence, I had two of those notification up there constantly for a while. It was very annoying and I didn’t want them independentl, I seen they had pretender rebels so I asked them for mil access shipped my army over there and killed them. Eventually I had to dec on Denmark to stop them asking for support. It was incredibly annoying because each time I ignored the notification I lost opinion, I didn’t want them to hate me I just didn’t want them free and allied to Lithuania and Muscovy.

My game as Norway went VERY very differently.
I had to rage quit =)

I've been waiting for this since I started playing EU4!
PLEASE keep this one going!

Absolutely love Leif's introduction to EU4 1.34! As entertaining as it is informative.

I'm gonna release some dark ancient wisdom. Laith wanted to get better eco and with trade ideas. I would say right idea, but wrong group. In Laiths position meaning having a country that where navy can be extremely powerfull. Aside Espionage the 2 idea groups that gets flamed the most are Maritime and Naval. But people are sleeping on Maritime, because they look at it wrong. They see an idea group to up your naval military power. Which isn't needed in EU4, but they don't realize it is firstly and economic idea group and 2nd a military one. No joke best economic idea group when you have acces to a decent navy is Maritime Ideas.
Why because Navy tradition boosts your trade steering, which is very important for getting your trade node as big as possible. Naval Tradition is best gained by having light ships protect trade. Protecting trade alone will boosts your trade power in the node + extra trade steering from naval tradion. In order to gain +1 yearly naval tradion you need 50% of your naval forcelimit in lightships protecting trade. The first idea will let you gain double so 50% lightships protecting trade means you will gain 2 yearly naval tradition. If you can find 1 more (national idea's, policies) having it capped 100 all the time is quite easy.


some trivia, since this a section of the game a lot of players are uneducated on:

High naval tradition will result you having 3 star admirals. It's nice to have high pips but what's important. Again very different from army general pips, the movement pips is the most important one. It will increase the value when protecting trade. It will allow for bigger combat width which means more ships in the battle at the same.
A heavy costs 3 combat width, other ships 1. I suggest having some galley's in your fleet even if you want to go full heavy.

Ship cost reduction also reduces upgrade costs. Light ships and protecting trade also kinda works like fortifications and army tradition. If it's outdated you won't get as much out of it, meaning those numbers above only apply when your light ship is up to date. Ships in general don't update too often, and it is worth to at least upgrade these.

Is trade ideas useless then? No there are plenty countries that will have no or a few coastal provinces, if you can't fight for naval control or it is sus at best. Trade ideas will most likely be a better option. Trade ideas in general is focused on land trade, where maritime is best for sea trade. They are essentially both trade ideas just look at what is most important for you.

when are you continuing the Byzantine campaign to form Rome?

Good to see Paradox fixing all the flaws and missing features. Hoping they get around to fixing Lithuania and adding a branching path for Romuva revival or Hussite conversion

Lithuania is also in serious need of historical flavor in regards the sucession crisis and Švitrigaila claimant to the thrones of Poland and Lithuania (he's still very much alive in 1444)

laith complains about money
also laith refuses to go down the economy missions

Day 2 play bengal

Oh boy, I love gay se- i mean EU4!!

So Laith, buddy, fella, pal, how did you get an explorer without Exploration ideas?

How did he recruit conquistador with no new world quest idea

Working on "Almost Prussian Blue" as Livonia as my first 1.34 nation, but I will have to try Norway next, both your and Red Hawk's Norway video's really showed it off.

Was also going to mix in "For the Emperor!" and try to get some use out of 40k Marines, so colony shenanigans when not fighting in the northern HRE.

I've got another playthru idea you guys can have a go at... It involves playing as England, Scotland, and/or Ireland and trying to beat Queen Elizabeth's length of reign...
Diamond Star Achievement - Elizabeth II - 70 years +
Gold Star Achievement - Victoria - 63 years +
Silver Star Achievement - Henry III - 56 years +
Bronze Star Achievement - William of Scotland - 48 years +
Brass Star Achievement - Elizabeth I - 44 years +
Copper Star Achievement - Henry VIII - 38 years +
Stone Star Achievement - William The Conqueror - 20 years +

Correct pronounciation of Leif is actually much closer to the way you say your own name than to "leaf".

THANKS FOR THIS AMAZING VIDEO :) xcdddsadadasd

i love how neither you nor hawk realised it's heavies or lights for the mission

Balkan Bros rebirth 26 when?

Looking forward to the Venice play through showing their new national ideas

lithiunia?

have you done the conquer the world achievement as ryukyu? seems like kinda tough start? the reason i mention it is cos im playing as golden horde and own most of russia, east europe, middle east etc and i found them quite plucky in invading me during my war against ming... seeing their little 4k stack wandering around taking a few of my eastern provinces was kinda cute...

Try Lübeck and Gotland!

exploration is useful cos it allows you to build conquistadors and if u are warring some 5 tribes and only one is on the coast and the others are in unexplored lands ur basically screwed for getting warscore... also... exploring the world helps you build many colonies in many locations quicker... even if u go exploration just for a short period just getting the first 2 u can get rid of it later and get another idea.. so i still generally go for it first before expansion.. unless im not planning on going to the new world etc

does the less manpower thing only happen if youve bought the dlc or is it affecting us without it? cos i dont have it and am playing great horde/golden horde and ive got no manpower problems whatsoever.. been permanently warring & took quantity ideas, trade & humanist & have permanent 240k manpower reserves in 1560ish

What happened to the other feller on this channel

Hey laith,
Been messing about with Norway and the biggest issue for them is their economy (I find). It is really hard to get ducats rolling in. Yes, you can mothball forts, mothball your heavies, turn off army maintenance but then you are losing army tradition and professionalism, as well as impairing rebels, but even with all that the revenue stream is seriously poor. I tried not granting the mana privileges and that helped a bit as I had a good run with rulers so I could afford not to take them.
In my run today I chose to take chunks of Sweden rather than PUing them and that helped a bit although rebels were an issue.
The one thing I botched on both runs was trying to dev up the provinces to 8 before I had unlocked the Bhurger mountain dev privilege. That was a serious 'oopsie' as I discovered after I unlocked it and found all the bonuses for mountain dev!

I propose another Discord plays video, Communist Parliamentary Japan

Each player is a Daimyo and only gets 1 province and every province must be the same dev and every daimyo must have the same army size. Any increase in either development or army size must be approved by a majority of the parliament. Anyone who breaks this rule must contribute to the capital for a dev violation or provide a general to the emperor for a military violation, or commit seppuku for declaring an illegal war.

Each state in Japan elects one of its daimyo to be in the parliament for their area. They will also act as governor for the area and commander for their state in war. The other daimyo of his state must attach to his army and the prime minister of Japan will direct them all. Have a channel just for Parliament and the Prime minister.

Have Laith be Ashikaga and be a permanent MP as the Emperor so he can enact the prime minister’s justice. The emperor has to follow the wishes of the prime minister if he is not prime minister himself. Every 10 years each state elects an MP, who then immediately elect a prime minister from the new Parliament. You cannot vote for yourself. The MP’s must inform the prime minister and the emperor about troublesome daimyos so they can enact justice. After 3 violations the emperor DOW’s on the daimyo and they are annexed by their respective MP

Bribery for votes is of course allowed

Day 41 of asking him to play Georgia

Laith, did you know you can become Norse from a chain of events?

But can you colonise as Galicia Volhynia?

Go Shirvan if u can )

I enjoyed Norway.

People spam the right arrow key at the start of the video

I'll wait for Karelia gameplay

Hang on, although your living in norway in game, you live in UK Irl, so whats this funny Z in coloniser ?

Fucker ik for sure he's not going to do part 2

Well i just finished the achievement to become the Mongolian empire as the Teutonic order so i think Norway will be next for me after this lol

honestly after the Teutonic horde i cant wait to see what other people do because that it op and i am not that gd at the game and i managed this in 200 years and was slapping down 100K ottomen stacks with 40 k horses taking basically no damage

Love the vid, but did you not see Red Hawks easy Norway breakaway vid?

Can someone tell me the name of the background song?

Livonian Order -> Livonia and getting the Prussian Militarisation mechanics would be a fun video, but might need to be a 2-parter for Protestantism?

Would like too see a colonial empire tutorial from you one of these days.

How is manpower harder to come by in this patch?

Lubec

Arg…never not once have I inherited burgundy without alt f4 one time at least…..I liked watching it happen unexpectedly. I’d bet He had forgotten burgundy was an ally