[EU4] Nation Spotlight: Austria - Marriage is Victory
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- čas přidán 9. 11. 2017
- In this video I show many of the little tricks Austria can take advantage of to gain power extremely quickly. I also detail an opening strategy that will get you on the right path.
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"All woman are queens!"
"If she breaths... SHES A HABSBURG"
*Royal Marriage Intensifies*
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Austria Strategy: Marry everything with a pulse
And Even those Without.
-Which leads to "War? War is for lesser nations" strategy. Just sit back and let your unions do all the fighting for you.
woof woof
"If it moves, marry it!"
And this is how people started marrying dogs and animals and inanimate objects and shit.
I am from Schwaz, the silver mine is still dominating town culture and history although closed for a long time now.
@hassan messaoudiIt's Most likely that the mine went dry
@@ahpjlm Just use some dip to dev it up
Hey ich bin auch aus Schwaz
Whilst this is obviously outmoded in some aspects, I still come back to it for the vibe. Reman's craftsmanship of this video is real ... 'comfy', if you get me. Informative, yet relaxed and slick, quality content.
comfy is the perfect description
I will never forget when I was playing as Prussia and Austria put a Hasburg on the Russian throne.
They got Spain and Russia in my Prussia game. First time I ever fought a mostly defensive war as a major nation. Thankfully AI sucks at uniting the HRE.
When I was running my last Austria campaign, I had Russia and Hungary as PU's before I even managed to vassalize the HRE. I wish I had that kind of luck more often.
I dont get why..but whenever i play this game i either end up having a neighbour with an austrian heir...or i get spammed with marriage...im actually Austrian by the way, can we still dl this? Please say yes i want to go to switzerland without having to cross a border..
In my current Austria game I got a free PU on both Hungary AND Castile, the inherited both of them in one go (10 diplo rep ftw) and revoked the privileges in the 1540s. Needless to say the game became ridiculously easy at that point, the only nation with more than 100k troops was Kebab (110k against my 400k+)
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"I dont savescum and stuff cause I think dealing with the situation not in your favour is more fun that way"
*cheekly looks into the free netherlands he got by slim*
Still waiting for that Nation Spotlight: The Ulmpire
deadmemepire
Ulm will never die!
ULMLIMITED POWER!!!
mamma mia italia too big nation
Ulm campaign is too easy where are the nerfs?
Reman just let you know dude.....your voice is 10/10
He sounded like he had a cold?
EDIT: The video is back up! czcams.com/video/TI0aU3PEir0/video.html
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As I'm sure many of you are aware, I made a video last week on How to Crush the Protestant Reformation that CZcams removed for "violating our policy on harmful or dangerous content". I appealed the takedown, but my appeal was rejected. I'm as confused as anyone as to why the video was removed considering there was nothing particularly violent in the video (this is EU4 after all), and neither the strike itself nor the appeal response I received clarified why the video was in violation. When you consider all the stuff CZcams lets through which isn't considered "harmful or dangerous"... the entire situation is pretty silly.
Hopefully this is just a case of CZcams's censorship algorithm being overzealous. Or maybe CZcams is staffed by a bunch of heretics. Who knows.
Regardless, I've received a bunch of comments from people saying they didn't get a chance to view the video. Rest assured, I plan on reuploading it in 3 months once the strike against my account expires. I'll leave the content of the video completely the same; the only thing I'll change is one word in the title that should hopefully ensure the video doesn't get flagged again.
I recommend uploading it on an alternative video hosting site and putting up a video on youtube with a link
+ImAllFact I am a Protestant and I don't give a damn, and any Protestant that does is crazy. If the idea of cursing the Reformation bothers you so much go do a world conquest as a Protestant country and destroy the Papal Religion.
Reman's Paradox you so sexy
CZcams is run by Martin Luther didn't you knew that?
Thank you for the explanation, I had been wondering what had happened to the video. Its a shame that it was taken down, I had been hoping to consult the video regularly during my next HRE run. As always, your content is fantastic.
While Austria is my favorite nation in EUIV, I never knew about the event that gives spain an Habsburg Heir.
Well this caused a war in real life maybe you didnt played as them?
A small tip not included in the video is that you should not integrate Bohemia as you won't become an elector. If but you outright inherit the bohemian lands upon your ruler's death you also inherit the bohemian electorate elevating Austria to a Kingdom.
Whats wrong with being a kingdom and being a elector?
nothing, he's describing a way to become kingdom rank as the austrian emperor.
Any tips on easier ways to make sure that when your ruler dies you will inherit them? I've never inherited a country under a personal union and I was wondering if there are any special tips and tricks.
its to do with diplo rep and size, so you basically just want to stack dip rep
Thanks Veritas!
Reman, for Bohemia, you can change your message settings to tell you when countries get new rulers and set it to "Interesting", so that you know when they get that Habsburg
Bethany Bloomfield h0w faM
Bethany Bloomfield Didn't you see the pop-up? He's already done that, I think he just meant there's no actual event like there is with Hungary so you gotta pay attention to the pop-ups
Walht You go to the menu in-game and press the "Message Settings" button. There, you should click the "Dynastic" tab at the top of the settings page, and then the "Interesting" button on the left of the page. Then look for "when countries get a new monarch" or something of the sort, and change the notification setting to a window appearing, rather than it just floating through the notifications box at the bottom right of the screen.
Hope this helps!
Io thanks yous
"Oh, what's new that hasn't been discussed by every other Paradox CZcamsr about Austria..."
*watches video*
"I shall never doubt again."
TL;DR the strategy is using the "We can't War everyone, so we're going to marry everyone of importance" policy
Sulphurous guy bloke :))
Sulphurous "OH BALLS WHAT HAPPENED TO MY EMPIRE"
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Just completed Austria World Conquest and One Faith yesterday : ) A.E.I.O.U ! (austriae est imperare orbi universo ! )
A.E.I.O.U & Taxes
I'm really loving you nation specific videos! I'd love to see more, keep up the good work!
I literally asked for this not 3 days ago and you deliver! I feel so special
11:32 oh god are you trying to get your video taken down again lol.
dont get it, what is this a reference to?
he just got one of his videos taken down titled "how to crush the protestant reformation"
What? Really? That's asinine.
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Love it how much content you're putting out lately, thanks =) it's very entertaining
please make more these are so intresting and i extremely enjoy watching this series. keep up the good work man.
Thank you so much for this video , been wanting to do a proper ( post 1550's drag) Austria run for awhile now, this gave me the kick to do so 👍👍
This was an entertaining educational and overall great video. Thank you for the content!
Damn, thank you for this video, I have a really exciting Austria game going on and this is exactly what I needed. Muchas gracias.
Never comment on videos but I love this channel and it’s helped me so much with eu4 multiplayer’s (especially absolutism)
I just finished playing Poland. Of course game started out how most games do, ally Austria and Lithuania then get a PU over Lithuania. I was working my towards a PU over Bohemia who had preferred me over Austria, plus this was all still before 1500. As I was slowly getting close to the PU, Austria forced their throne and got a PU on them instead. They also got a PU on Hungary and me and him were still allied. Eventually, around 1510, their ruler died without a heir and a person from my house was put on as ruler but without a PU. Soon their ruler died, but had a heir that wasn't old enough to take the throne. By this point I had already dissolved our alliance and it had just finished the truce. I claimed their throne and declared war on them, bringing in Muscovy and France on my side while he brought in Spain and Sweden. This turned into a very large war that would change the fate of Europe forever. It would last ten years, but me into near debt and almost my economy collapsed and pretty much every country that participated was devastated and nothing was left untouched. In the end though I finally force a PU over Austria and got their PU's over Bohemia and Hungary. After improving relations with all three I was unstoppable and after a war with the Ottomans I released Byzantium and I vassalized them. After annexing them all at around the late 1700's I had complete control over Germany, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans. Most of Italy was also under my control and just as the 1800's rolled in I got a PU over Russia, My dynasty dominated Europe and the New World, with the only challenger to my power being Britain. Sadly 1821 happened and we'll never find out who would have won.
I never really played the diplo game in that way, sounds like a really cool idea to get a strong grip on Europe. Thank you!
Very instructive as always. Great job
nice stuff, I've always find it difficult to play as Austria. This can really help
Your voice coupled with that music has serious hypnotising effects.
Thank you for your awesome tutorials!
Great video, very informative! Please do the "Unite HRE" video, cause I always struggle doing so
After 1.23, Austria becomes a little bit harder in the beginning. Still this is pretty great guide since I almost do the exact same thing at start as you do Reman even after the patch. Just to inform new players. After 1.23 you start with 16 K troops and 13 K manpower which is big nerf. Venice kind of becomes a little bit harder, especially if they ally Savoy or someone else with average strength or if they ally big power. Also dealing with Hungary becomes little bit harder since priority is Bohemia, and Hungary tends to ally big powers like Aragon so it is harder to deal with them after war with Bohemia and Venice. After 1.23, best thing that can happen to you early on is Burgundian inheritance, if that event appears early in the game, which can happen since they are probably going to have war with France early on. But that is highly luck based. So, after 1.23, you're going to have a little bit slower start in the beginning and getting PU over both Hungary and Bohemia is not going to be easy.
I'll try an Austria game right now. Thank you Reman!
I just finished this very campaign today, your guide is my AAR lol, tho rng never gave me burgundy, i did get 1001 done. Great guide, well explained
The new Austria strategy with the Emperor update is "lol, just vassal swarm everything!"
Reman I love your videos, welcome back!
Great video the contingency portion was especially informative and helpful for players like me who are just bad at the game.
absolutely great video!
Provinces needed to prevent shadow event 6:08
Cheers!
I'm sure HRE video will be great as always and can't wait to see it. How long is your idea wait list?
Great video like always man
Hey Reman, just recently subscribed to your channel and I'm loving your content, specially the "In depth" and "spotlight" videos :). Since this video aproached diplo relations and royal marriages could you do a video about PU, inheritance, etc.? I really don't get how inheritance happens, to me just seems that it happens by luck. Last time it happened, I inherited Bosnia as Byzantium but I don't recall sharing a dynasty... Please enlight us! :D
Thanks to your recommendations I "revoked the Privilegia" by 1560s
*absolutley disgusting borders*
Hatr the GOD welcome to the HRE
Just as beautiful as the Habsburger themselves
I just love this channel.
Great video, tempted to do an Austrian WC now!
You could stream EU4 if you wanted too... I'd watch it :). Either way, great video as usual and I look forward to the next one!
Awesome video, thank you!
Thank you so much, got both Hungary and Bohemia under PU!
You should do an in-depth gudie to proper army compositions, would really enjoy that!
Hi Reman ! Very nice video. Just one little thing about the very early game, you shouldn't marry Castille / Poland / Burgundy and other before you claim Bohemia's Throne because if you do they will have a -50 Relation with you for claiming the throne of someone else.
Has Austria been nerfed I loaded up my game and suddenly noticed that the number of troops has significantly decreased in the start game
nightlox yep their starting manpower and troops are way lower than use to be
yep, some nations like burgundy start over force limit now.
Might just be me, but has anyone not been able to get poland allied in the early game no matter how hard they try.
Edit. just hire a + diplo rep advisor to get the allaince
it's because of the nerf before austria started so powerfull that they would automaticly accept it's not the case anymore
@Anti-Federalist 1776 I don't understand why you told me that, it has nothing to do with what I said.
I mean it's not a problem if you want to discuss about you think you should start as austria, but I have not clue why you did say that to me in particular.
Habsburg Austria: trading genetics for diplomacy
Keep up the great videos man
Literally just finished my Mali playthrough and was choosing between Austria and prussia...
Bavaria. They're basically Austria without all the events (Makes it feel more fair to me) and some extra military ideas. My favorite nation in EU4.
Steamed Hams Bavaria also gets most of the electors' votes at the start of the game
You can start as Austria, culture switch to Saxon or Prussian and form Prussia.
or start as the ottomans culture switch to ming and then to finland
Yeah don't think those are formable tags. I'd suggest Manchu or Yuan and Scandinavia instead.
12:35 4/6/6
And he got rid of it by putting his king on their throne. RIP
Normal stuff for lucky nation AI´s...
Marriage is Victory. And Victory is Life!
I had no idea Austria had so much going for it.. well looks like I’m taking another look at this
Noah Weaver austria is truly op... Easiest country to wc with since you can revoke before 1600 pretty easily if you know what you're going, and easily pu bohemia, hungary and spain while inheriting burgandy.
Love your videos there so helpful 😀
5:13 a SPARTAAA!!!! moment from brave 1k bohemian unit.
The pen truly is mightier than the sword.
Austria is one of the most fun nations to play with. The only nation for the third path eu4. You don't have to colonize or conquer all the time, it's really refreshing.
Edit: Important info, keep your prestige high. Your prestige needs to be higher than bohemians or you can't claim their throne even if your dynasty rules.
Also a good trick is allying people outside the empire and getting your opinion of them quite high so that they join the empire, you can do this Aquilia and to Urbino and you can give florence papal provinces and improve relations to get them into the empire
Great video as always Reman. Do you think you could do a step by step PERFECT (Castille PU, full Burgundian Inheritance etc) France guide like this one?
With your advice i managed to get Bohemia with PU (hardest one i got) by claiming throne, then Hungary (with the help of poland) through Restoration of union. Since i am still new to this, i forgot to give some promised land to poland, and they broke the alliance. Later in the game, by pure luck i got Lithuania too without any war.
by 1520's i got Muscovy by claiming throne. in 1540's, after i revoked privilegia I also managed to Claim Castilian throne which came with Aragon as bonus.
I got an entire josh peck video as a youtube ad
Your guides are amazing man, are you planning to come back and do the admin and diplo idea groups guides at any point?
Hey reman, great video. I was wondering if you have any thoughts on this strategy I've been trying to employ as Austria:
-normal stuff with bohemia and hungary
-rival venice, kebab and france
-ally and RM poland and Burgundy
-make sure provence has rivaled and is rivaled by the pope
Hopefully the bohemia war will be available really quickly so that can be over, but I like to take the opportunity to get the excommunication war on provence-lorraine that is almost inevitable if the pope hates them, then force france out for annul treaties with provence and some money, vassalise provence, which auto-unions lorraine, and brings you into a defensive war vs all provence's other enemies (usually savoy, the pope, brittany and other combinations of those few) then either vassalise brittany or urbino (AE wont allow much more) depending on whether you want to rein in northern italy or have a base for war with england.
Obviously this has the benefits of getting rid of some of the -Imperial Authority modifiers for occupied imperial territory for lorraine and makes austria have insane vassal swarm /BUT/ it takes a while to integrate all those vassals and costs a lot even with influence ideas, plus with PU on bohemia and hungary it fills your diplo slots, meaning you have to aggressively turn down any electors who wanna be your best buddies.
Didn't they change it from needing Rome to needing Abruzzi for the Shadow Kingdom?
That was a mistake, and I believed they changed it back to Rome.
You never needed Abruzzi (afaik). I believe however, before 1.20, you didn't need Rome, either.
Lee TF At one point you needed Abruzzi and not Rome, had to do with the way states are set up, I believe the game wanted you to own the state that Abruzzi was in, but not the one with Rome, they then changed that to the individual provinces that the pope holds instead of the states
When they first coded the event they used states and Rome was in Central Italy and Abruzzi wasn't, in 1.20 they rebalanced the states and took Rome out of Central Italy and put Abruzzi in but forgot to change the event code. It was considered a bug and was fixed in 1.21
Matthew Roy Yeah that sounds about right
Great guide, I'm doing this on my current playthrough. Got Bohemia, got Hungary, prevented Shadow Kingdom and got Castile (I have no idea if I got him through the event or just by luck, I did have marriage but he wasn't Spain since Iberian wedding never triggered, and I got no event notification, just that "the King of Castile wrote in his will that you should inherit the rule of Castile, France claims he was not in a sound state of mind so he declares a succession war"). No Burgundian inheritance though, also moron Poland didn't take the Lithuanian PU so Commonwealth will probably not form, gotta try to fish for the PUs on both of them the old fashioned way
Now it's 1500 and reformation will start any moment, I should be able to deal with it easily since I'm so obscenely powerful, second imperial reform is passed and the third will be soon. Ought to be an easy ride from here on out unless I mess up badly
Reformation hit, but it's acting strange, only two Protestant centers spawned and only one Reformed (and that was in Salzburg, a *bishopery*, so it didn't convert and just converted itself back to Catholicism, lol). Pope declared the counter-reformation so.I suppose that means no new centers will spawn? I am playing in patch 24 since I don't like the changes in 25, apparently there have been some issues with the reformation in this patch
1540, abdicated my 80-year-old king (heir was 57 and I couldn't risk him dying, would've been GG). Inherited Bohemia, Hungary AND Castile! (I swear I didn't savescum or anything) Well, that's ~40-50 non-HRE provinces to be added for IA, time to Proclaim Ebkaisertum in 1540, and cue to Revoke Privilegia in the 1550s. This playthrough turned out to be the biggest luckfest of all times
1548 Revoke the Privilegia. Went to war with Deus Vult CB and failed miserably, the Show Superiority war goal really hurts when the vassals keep suiciding into their stacks. Got a couple of provinces, though, after wrecking almost their entire country. Poland's king died and his heir was von Habsburg, so I ended the alliance (should've done that a lot earlier lol) and while he did get an heir before the truce ended he lost it after a few years (does the AI even disinherit? Or maybe he died) and I claimed throne and attacked, Poland PU under me now, and a royal marriage with every Christian nation outside the HRE except the Scandinavians. Leading a massive vassal army is easy and funny, but lags like hell lol
Loved your video!! If you get the shadow event you can still form the holy roman empire?
I've tried this 15 times now in iron man on normal difficulty, it's virtually impossible to do this. Poland isn't able to be royal marriaged or allied by you no matter what in the early game, you won't be able to defeat Bohemia or its allies with the first claim throne cassus belli because of your manpower, and burgundy always has too many diplomatic relations to royal marriage them (only 1/15 tries was I able to do this, and it was for some crazy reason i can't remember)
Leviathan yea the Austria nerf made this start hard to pull off. A bohemia PU is hard to swing and Poland in my experience has never wanted an alliance. The smaller army and manpower made reining in Italy virtually impossible since AE and other wars for PU made it hard to grab.
Italy ia harder yes, but grabbing bohemia and hungary isnt hard. Ally bavaria and brandenburg and promise them land. Dont give them crap though. Your combined 35 to 40k (you should build more troops btw) should be enough.
In my brandenburg game (which i was just playing) i got poland to beat them. 40k + my 10k
So 40k is more than enough especially since i ddnt use my armies at all
Lol, i made it First Try, Stop to cry and stop to lie in the Internet
With me, I couldn't get Poland, Burgundy, or Castile. I settled for Aragon and Brandenburg. Still got Bohemia in the PU though and working on Hungary. Also, due to Aragon owning Naples, the Shadow Kingdom was EASY to deal with.
With the new mission tree the bohemian pu is very easy and if you sink points into either influence or diplo ideas electing a polish hapsburg king is super easy. The only problem is they then tend to try and claim your kingdom anytime you don't have an heir
In my best Austria game I got France under a personal union.Also got a PU over the Commonwealth,Sweden who owned all of Scandinavia,England and Portugal with all of Brazil and South America and almost half of Africa.I was really suprised how i did so well as i didn't even plan half of it.
You should do a Venice Nation Spotlight. Dear lord how I love taking the Suez.
Thank you for the insightful spotlight! Can you make a similar one for Prussia, if someone is striving to play the historical way of uniting Germany?
Moron
Great video
Something interesting happened in my recent Austria game... I tried the opening strategy as described here; Burgundy rivalled me, so I couldn't do anything with them, but everything else was fine. Now, Bohemia did NOT get a von Habsburg ruler after the interregnum so I thought "alright, I'll have to wait until 1500, no problem". In the meantime, I fought one war with Venice, the event with Hungary happened, fought and PU'd them and just then, as I prepared to attack Venice once again, I got a message that Bohemia had a civil war now. It mentioned nothing else. So I checked them; they suddenly DID have a von Habsburg ruler; completely without an heir; even though their had one of their own dynasty just 10 years or so earlier! And yes, I could and did claim their throne right away.
I got my first world conquest with Austria. It was pretty easy and actually pretty fun just because you can take out countries like France and Russia with a lucky royal marriage.
My preferred strat is adding princes so that one can revoke before the reformation. It's more luck based though as you need the burgundian inheritance very early to get access to the british isles (just ireland is 8 new princes - scotland 2, 3 minor nations that can be added from England). So I usually start with NO-CB byzantium to cripple the Ottomans and add new balkan/greek princes. Scandinavia has a lot of cheap low development land to add.
Just FYI, as of 1.25 Austria starts with fairly low manpower. If you call Diet and Grant Generalship THEN raise additional levies on your nobility estate you can get ~11k more manpower. You don't have enough Ducats at first, but if you ask for cash from the Burghers you will.
Hey raman can you do a video on how you do your troop compositions
Western countries generally a 40/20/40 ratio for infantry / cav / arty. Anything within that general ratio is pretty solid, assuming you don't have particular ratios or special units.
Three infantry for every one cavalry for western countries, but most hordes can just go all cavalry, especially if they're Tengri. If they're Sunni, push the cav rate to 7 cav to 3 inf until you get the cavalry armies age bonus.
I usually just use the StarNaN setup for late game, 40/0/40.
Early game I usually go for ??/4/?? because that fits with the flanking range, unless you want to spend money on very costly horsies and have them on the front line taking casualties. Later when the flanking range expands to 150% you then expand the flanking cavalry to ??/6/??, until you of course can afford the 40/0/40 stacks because there's no flanking armies that can't be flanked, and no need for cav on frontlines under most circumstances.
Joakim I like the way you think...
Joakim Østergaard That actually sounds smart. I am actually fairly noobish at the game, so I will ask you a question regarding flanking. Can cavalry flank from the back row?
As you're probably aware, Austria lost a big portion of their starting army and manpower in the last patch. Do you have any plans do make an updated version of this video that addresses those changes? I get that the long-term goals probably won't change (claim Bohemia & Hungary, prevent Shadow Kingdom etc), but I find the road there to be much tougher now. In particular the first war against Bohemia looks hard to win without allies (which, sadly, is going to be Poland) or a significant amount of loans/mercenaries, and even Venice and their trade league offers stiffer resistance.
Yeah, those manpower and starting army really hurt. After I watched this, I try and then found out that after re-roll most of my game not change at all (opinions, rivals etc.) and ally with Poland become less possible also I cannot 1v1 against Bohemia even with his little allies. That made me really need Poland to PU Hungary and suffer too much in wars with Venice.
Venice is looking no-go, or at least my attempt to invade had them gather 50k troops thanks to their Trade League.
I have just played Austria, everything is harder now than it is in this video, but it is doable, sadly i just got the shadow kingdom event before i could get Rome, and btw, i actually had rome, but released it, cause of the negativ of holding it, and i was missing Romagna, who Ferrara owned, Ferrara was allied to France, Aragon and Savoy. Spain is my ally, but i was unlucky that it did not choose to PU Aragon and Naples :/ Well i fought the war the war against Ferrara, France, Aragon, Savoy and Naples, Spain joined on my side, but it was quickly crushed, i have Bohemia, think they had 16k troops, i have Hungary, but odly enough they don't build up and army, the bastards had only 2k troops, and 25k manpower, thanks for the help buddy... Well i won the war, cause of higher morale than the enemy, i was in a Golden age, cause i managed to Humiliate a Rival and i had increased manpower through quantity ideas, so i won every battle. But im kicking myself in the leg now for releasing Rome, or i would have had reigned in the italian states, i thought i would have enough time to take Romagna and then take Rome again.
But now im gonna have to restart, and hopefully everything works out, maybe Spain will take that damn union with Aragon this time.
It should have sufficed that you added Rome to HRE then gave it back unless Pope removes it from HRE somehow. Anyway safest way to do that is to conquer Rome after you have everything else and return it after you've enacted the "Rein in Northern Italy." Further clarification: you don't need to OWN the provinces listed in the decision, they only need to be part of HRE. Reason they need to be conquered and cored is because adding them yourself is usually the only way to do it. I'm under impression that AI can join HRE but rarely, if ever, does it.
You only need to have taken the province i belive, and then click the: Rein in Northern Italy. When i took all of Rome's provinces, it had 3 at that time, Ferrara had taken Romagna, Ferrara is in the HRE, so i thought i only needed the 3 Provinces from Rome, including the Venetians ones and Urbino i had previously taken, and given back that one province to Milan. So i took Rome, but then saw i could not click the button, cause Ferrara had not added Romagna to the HRE, it owned the province, but did not add it. So i gave Rome back, figured i would have time enough, but i waited for an opening, which i never got, wasent too keen on faceing France, Aragorn, Naples, Savoy(who had grown), and Ferrara with only Spain joining and basicly Bohemia, Hungary did'nt rly have an army, not sure why subjects sometimes takes ages before they build up an army, even with manpower available. Well i took my chance and decleared war, but turned out to be a little to late to do both, i managed to get Romagna in time, but fell short of Rome which had allied quite a few, i was at war with them, but did not make it in time.
Hey, one question, will you please do a video on Kharabagh and how to restore Armenia? I really want to do that but fail every time miserably. Thank you! Your videos are the absolute best! Good luck!
On the thumbnail : marriage is victory
On first scene of video : war with Hungary
Austrian campaigns are some of the most fun
13:50 portugal can also get a hapsburg on the throne via event - had it happen to me when I was without an heir while playing portugal.
I don't know if something changed since this video was made but i start out with way fewer troops as Austria.
Also Bohemia gets quite a few allies. I tried a few times and they always seemed to ally Wallachia and Albania. I was finding it impossible to get up to the 80ish% warscore to force the union.
Tips?
Thank you for the guide, Austra really is in interesting place. As far as the Reformation goes, do you No CB and force convert nations? What if they are too big? How far can you go with aggression before it starts to hurt your standing in the HRE? Can anybody explain this to me?
And now it's the entire DLC devoted to Austria and its Unions.
my favourite game was austria into italy into hre, so much fun.
Also you should bring up transfer subject, you can take sweden or norway in a single war with denmark if you have the age unlock, and maybe aragon/naples/lithuania though I haven't tried that.
Austria is the most OP nation in game. Got 1100 development by 1544 without Burgundy succession, and by the time you start eating the HRE, you can leave and become an Empire so the Emperor bonus doesnt hit you so hard. 200k troops RN, easily can take the Balkans, Anatolia, the rest of Italy, and HRE before 1650.
Milan is the the second best option for spreading your dynasty early, after Bohemia. If you have consort regency you can declare on their heirless and old king. You need a border with them to declare government form war if they pick your candidate into the ambrosian republic. This is quite low probability of working tho
Just played a bit of Austria tonight. The Bohemian war was rough. Stupid ally Brandenburg decided to be friendly with Bohemia, good thing Milan was there to help and with enough loans and mercs, I pulled through.
It took longer than I thought it would, so I waited a couple years and went straight into getting Hungary, that one IS easier than the Bohemia war. Now its early 1460's and its time to take care of Italy. Aragon took a couple provinces from the Pope, but I got the alliance with Castile so not worried.
The PU CB event with Austria fired in 1450. So I was very lucky I guess ^^
When i was playing austria and using the strats in this vid everything was going unusually well for me and around 1470 i looked around the map to see what was happening and i dont know how this happened but the byzantine AI beat the Ottomans and they were allied to serbia only? wtf happened
Well I had this super lucky run with Austria where I had a PU on Bohemia, Hungary, Spain, Commonwealth, Russia, Byzantium, and the Ottomans (Yes, PU on Ottomans as Austria). Also the Burgundian Inheritance was mine. And to top it all off, REVOKE PRIVILEGIA!