The 10 Rarest Formable Nations in EU4
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- čas přidán 24. 06. 2024
- Formable nations in Europa Universalis form the foundation of all solid EU4 campaigns. In this video we will explore the rarest and most obscure successor states in EU4 that you might not see - even after thousands of hours of playing the game!
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Table of Contents:
Introduction 0:00
Libertatia #10 0:50
Greece #9 2:09
Lotharingia #8 3:19
Sardinia-Piedmont #7 4:25
Romania #6 5:25
Support the Channel? 6:37
Jerusalem #5 6:57
Lanfang #4 8:14
Kurland #3 9:13
Mongolian Empire #2 10:19
Sokoto #1 11:48
Honorable Mentions 13:10
Thank you for watching! 14:10
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Here's one for you: "Top 10 ways to get X-TREME in EU 4"
So show like, how to get the absolute highest manpower of any small nation like less than 5 provinces or even OPM (?), highest single province defensiveness stat, the best place to stack development in the world (and stack it to like 300 or something), highest discipline army, highest morale army, highest boat cap, etc etc.
I think that'd be neat. Keep up the good work!
I just started playing EU4 because of your videos and they are good for sleeping so yea
I actually have seen united Central America in a game before. What’s weirder? It had the Chinese tech group.
This is because it was formed by a native nation which became a horde and then stopped being one. Forming new world countries like USA or Mexico doesn't actually require you to have started as an old world country, but just that you're not of a new world tech group. Now, becoming a horde changes your tech group to nomadic and when you stop being a horde, your new tech group is decided by your religion, where the default is Chinese. It's very weird.
My first game I formed UCA from my only good colony. Didn't realise it was rare. And also it was Breton.
Yeah, a Native American probably became nomadic and then turned into a kingdom. Very normal
I had a frisian UCA
I’ve seen Ming doing a colonial war against Inca one time, random AI moments like that are fun.
Unrelated: I wish Montferrat had a unique mission tree to reclaim Byzantium.
but why
@@duck3497 they have the same dynasty as Byzantium
@@duck3497 They have the same dynasty and can form it after getting all ideas and getting the needed land
Someone is yet to play Missions Expanded...
@@rodmorg801 Is that a mod? I normally don't play with mods.
10:03 fun fact: IRL Kurland actually tried to colonize the caribbean island Tobago
And also the gambia
@@hh7426 they were actually really nice and liked in Gambia
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Fun fact: Kurland can be formed by a vassal.
Learned this from my Hussite Prussian republic playthrough
Everything about this is cursed
@@louieggg213 You'll think that until you find out Hussite can get a -1.0% army tradition lost.
That and Prussia has a special republic reform that incorporates both the "general becomes leader" and militarization mechanic.
It was legit the funnest and overpowered nation ever, Space Marines meets steroids
If anybody interested, start as the Teutonic order Since theocracies can become republics faster then monarchies or play the pirate republic of Rugan
Army tradition stayed at 100% with 0 lost each month.
And with Prussian republics only having a -20% absolutism, getting 100+% absolutism is possible unlike other republics
But this is actually historical
True - vassals can form Kurland, or Prussia for that matter, which can ruin an achievement run completely
(like the one where you have to have the livonian order as a vassal while playing the pope...)
Historicly Curland was a Vasall of Polish-Lithuanian Comonwealth and had very small colony in Africa.
Didn’t it also have a carribean island
@@grukmccrymyselftoosleep7098 Yes, they controlled the Trinidad for a while if I remember correctly.
@@grukmccrymyselftoosleep7098 they controlled Tobago south of caribean and St. Andrews Island in river in Africa.
Also started a small colony in the Americas
So does that mean by proxy Poland was a colonial nation?
Playing as Russia, I once had the Kalmyk event. I guess it's not a formable nation, strictly speaking, but it's a quite rare nation to see in any campaign
I've had them spawn in multiple runs, didn't realise they were this rare
I had them spawn during my "Choson One" achievement run at some point, because the giga-ottomans owned a Buddhist province in Central Asia.
Isn't Kalmyk common? i had it like every campaign lol
I’m playing as Romania and ended up owning the Pontic steppe, I have them as my vassal right now
It's not rare at all. It's an Almost every campaign spawn
3,6k hours? Didnt know Alzabo is still a beginner...
greece happens more often than youd think bc of rebels enforcing on a dead/dying genoa, venice or ottomans with no navy
Yeah, I almost always see Greece appear by 1821.
In my HRE campaigns (where i try to get as many nations as possible into the HRE) i always conquer a greek core, core it, make it an part of the HRE and then release it. I try to do this with Epirus, Byzantium, Cyprus, Achea and other greek nations, but until i get to conquer ottoman territory the cores are already gone most of the time. Same with france.
@Qalidurut greece cant be released until tech 20 tho
I just played a Mongol Empire game, and had Lanfang and Libertatia form on their own, and I had Greece as a vassal
What are the odds of all that
Probably 1 in a few million.
Having Greece as vassal is quite easy, it gets cores, you just need to take one province and release for future reconquest CB. Liberatia is quite common too. Only Lan Fang is really rare.
@@lsf698 Lanfang seems quite common in 1.31 to me. All it takes is for Ming to take the choice to release Wu and Yue, which happens quite often
I have an insane Zoroastrian Gujarat campaign going on right now. Two Sicilies AND Sardinia Piedmont formed. Two Sicilies is a REPUBLIC and Sardinia Piedmont is HRE Emperor with the Habsburg Dynasty. Meanwhile Lithuania and Austria ate Poland, Muscovy straight up lost to Kazan, and the Teutons formed Pomerania instead of Prussia.
It's a bonkers campaign and I didn't even mention Scandinavia forming and going colonial or SLIGO getting the Burgundian Inheritance and becoming an HRE elector.
Two sicilies actually gets an event where they can become a Neapolitan republic
Two Sicilies is not that uncommon since they added the event where Aragon can choose to let Naples go. If they do, and Castille doesn't PU Aragon in the Iberian wedding, Naples tends to conquer Sicily relatively often.
Europe when you play in Asia.
I think Silesia is also a rare one since it got fragmented
My first Long Play of a game was as Silesia. Got independence from Bohemia and then, for whatever reason, decided to LARP as Czechoslovakia and make my country L O N G. My nation was like three-four provinces wide and MANY provinces long.
I think Etruria has a pretty good case for entry on this list; it requires some bizarre series of events including getting separatists on your own cultured Lombard land to create cores, which is pretty dang unlikely to happen just in terms of getting the right rebel types to trigger!
Yeah but it's not a formable.
@@tetragrade Ah yes, right you are! An interesting nation, but not technically filling the requirements here :)
Rum is a pretty rare formable that I was quite surprised didn't make the list or the honorable mentions. Needing to remove the Ottomans and Byzantium and be Turkish primary culture can be a pretty tall order.
Playing Mamluks and being buddy buddy with some Europeans makes Rum pretty easy imo. Now the achievement for forming Rum as Karaman.....I been working on that one for a while.
There’s a ton of odd new formables in SEA now by mission tree. Shan is an oldie but more relevant now, but the one tag you probably will never see in game is Ramannadesa, since Pegu tends to get rekt by Ayutthaya in nearly every campaign.
@Richard de Bonn sea is probably top 2 since majapahit bro
maybe even top 1 tbh
@Richard de Bonn because some hate dealing with hre
@Richard de Bonn I haven't played in Europe for quite a while. It's just stale after trying most of the interesting nations.
I think it's just a name change, not a formable for the Pegu tag
I think that the Ilkahnate is rarer than the Mongol Empire since it is far easier to just form yuan or Golden Horde than it is to waste time fighting Timurids/ Persia/ Ottomans only to get a nerfed version of the other two
The only reason to see ilkhanate is to release ilkhanate as a vassal when you are the mongol empire. I did that, then realized ilkhanate was so powerful that I had just formed my new rival.
To hold the Ilkhanate, you'll need the ideas that give Liberty Desire From Subject's Development reduction, or big Liberty Desire reductions to hold on to them. If you have the monarch points for it, you can also develop them, which reduces their liberty desire temporarily and stacks up to 100% reduction. Making them a march also helps with their liberty desire.
@@efulmer8675 Yes, in the end I managed to keep them and they were a great march. But their liberty desire was frightening at first.
Love your content! Gets me excited to start new campaigns. I've learned so much from your vids. Love the little alliterations too, makes me giggle every time. More EU4!
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Or something, IDK.
Fun-ish facts about kurland: it is formable even if youre vassas because it a vassal of the PLC and it historically tried and almost succeeded in getting a colony in the new world but the swedes attacked and ruined everything.
Take a shot everytime Alzabo says polity - double shot when it's part of an alliteration.
i always loved your EU4 videos, by far my favourite channel for EU4 guides etc. Please keep them coming
I can’t remember exactly how it went but in my Ethiopia campaign I had given away Madagascar to one of my vassals and somehow Libertatia had formed. I ended up vassalizing Lib instead and gave all of my prior land to them since I thought it was cool. I remember after building the Suez I tried to move my trade towards the Mediterranean but my income would die when I did it meanwhile Libertatia was giving me like 350 ducats a month but their economy was dying so I subsidized them for 200 a month. With that money they came in and annihilated the British fleet for me when I was expanding into India. Super quirky nation makes I wish I knew more about EU4 I’ve only been playing for about 4 months now but since some of my buddies got CK3 we’ve been doing multiplayers instead. I’m counting the days for EU5 it’s amazing to me that Paradox games have avoided me this long
I love your EU4 videos, even though I barely ever play it, it looks like so much fun if you get the mechanics down, I bet it's fun to make content with too. CK2 is really awesome too.
These videos rock man make me want to play the game. Thanks and keep em coming
It made my day when I got notified when you uploaded eu content!! Thks bud keep it up!
Yes! Please continue these EU4 top 10!!
They're so entertaining!
Hi from Latvia here. Surprisingly good pronunciation on Courland stuff. :D
one time, while I was minding my own business, plying England, I glanced over o the eastern Mediterranean and saw the nation of Greece: a one province minor on the island of Cyprus. I still have no idea how that happened (I checked the time lapse feature and only saw it turn from mamluk sand yellow to greek navy blue in an instant)
Sounds like it must've been Cyprus losing its core after being conquered by the Mamluks for long enough, and having retained Greek culture would've got Greek separatists!
Damn fine content, fantastic puns and EU4 humor, thank you very much good sir!!
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Finally dude, been waiting so long for this
I've enjoyed your videos for a long time. While I enjoy the EU content, any game guide with your voice is something i'd listen to :D
Didn’t know Kurland had the potential to colonize, sounds like an interesting play-through.
This is based on Courland's own attempts at colonization. During the mid-17th century, Kurland tried to establish colonies in Africa and even in the Caribbean. It tried three times to settle the island of Tobago and succeeded the third time, but the colonization effort was too expensive, forcing Courland to sell it to the Dutch.
Cool to see ya back on EU4, man. Here's a comment for the algorithm :)
Great video!
FINALLY I've been waiting for more eu4 videos
"Lanfang's updated 9 dash national ideas" cracked me up 🤣
I've seen Kurland form a few times without my intervention and I once did a Riga to Kurland to Prussia game
Take a shot every time Alzabo says "polity"
Watching Alzabo videos I have heard the word polity more than I have in my entire life.
Love your content!
Funny thing. I was playing a mega campaign and I had the Republic of Central America form. Not sure if the convert makes it more likely for it to form, but it is what it is.
It can be formed by any nation not in a New World tech group (North American, Mesoamerican, South American, or Andean) whose capital is in Colonial Mexico and that owns the required provinces in Guatemala, Honduras, and the Yucatán Peninsula. UCA still gives you claims on all of Mexico, but it is inferior to Mexico due to its lack of unique national ideas.
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Hey TheColombianSpartan I love your comment!
Your videos are awesome
Great video
What's funny is I have seen Sokoto form before. If I recall correctly in my first ever game as Portugal it formed. This was several years ago now, but I still have memories of seeing them in one of my early games.
Your voice is incredibly soothing
great video
I had lanfang form when i did my achievement run for Qing recently, Kurland is rare for me, sometimes see qing form too. Pretty sure i saw independent corsica with the Bonaparte dynasty as well that was cool
Edit day later
I just had libertatia form for the first time, ironic
I manage to summon it in my prussia game by "convincing" the livonian order to convert to protestantism.
One of the most fun eu4 games I have had was Burgundy into Lotharingia into HRE. Would recommend
As a big fan of Sardinia-Piedmont I’m very happy to see them make the list!
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Alzabo, the best EU4 content creator on the webernets!!
I've missed your EU4 videos
I wasn’t looking at my phone when I heard the sound for being declared war on as you clicked the subscription button and it scared the shit out of me. In the office.
Ah yes, new AlzaboHD video. Can't wait to hear the puns and the kickass voiceover
I did an Alaska Run a couple months ago, super fun and underrated formable game in my opinion. I'd also love to see someone else have a go at forming it if you were up for that 👀
Which nation did you start with to form Alaska ? I went for a Siberian tribe and it took quite the time lmao
@Sakyon I did it as one of the Japanese Minors
Lanfang almost always appear in my playthrough in South East Asia. Whether I play Majapahit, Ayyuthaya or small nations like Mataram or Bali. Sambas will always appear to take the "Invite Kongsi Merchants" (or something along that line which makes Lanfang appears if you own Areas in East Borneo while giving the Decision taker a bonus in Economics and Trade iirc) if they are cornered or when I try to colonize areas in Borneo, namely Katapang,
That impassible mountain province jutting out of Romania hurts my eyes. It’s unintentional border gore 🤮
They should divide Carpathian mountain by 2, same as saharan wasteland
It wasn't intended for the unrealistic forming of Romania.
Turn off colored wastelands. It makes most maps much better
I'm not a strategy gaming enthusiast I just love history and love watching borders grow so I play EU4 way too much
I have never seen or figured out how to form Ruthenia I thought and hoped it would be on this list so I might learn how to form it.
Open eu4wiki?..
I may not like Eu4 anymore but I always love a new Alzabo video
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Yeah, EU4 is pretty trash. Even after hundreds of hours i still prefer Crusader Kings
I remember the previous rarest video, so when I saw Lanfang it blew me sideways. This video explains alot...
Thank you daddy Alzabo
Played Lanfang not to long ago. Had to no cb Ming cause it just refused to collapse. It was actually easy and fun campaign
I had libertatia form in my Palembang after vassalizing a nation on Madagascar and gifting them the rest of the island via conquest. it came out of them i thought because of over extension and was an annoyance to me having a new pirate republic raiding the costs i wanted to raid and taking me over my diplo slots since it was a vassal nation
Libertatia actually popped up in the very first game I played, though they didn't survive very long. United Central America came up in my second game, founded by Frisians of the monastic order of Friesland, whose homelands in Europe were conquered by their neighbors shortly after they embarked for the new world
With the Leviathan DLC, I've seen Lanfang pop up randomly at least.. 6 out of 10 campaigns, so..
I actually got an AI Lotharinga in my most recent ironman game. I was playing as PLC and had Burgundy as my ally hoping for the inheritance, but the event didn't fire. (because they were a GP? Not sure) Right after the league wars I disbanded the HRE since there was only one elector, and that left Burgundy plenty of space to expand and take Aachen to form Lotharingia.
tnx, more EU4 plz
My man!
Actually saw a Romania in game once. Ottomans sat on their hands for a while to take Constantinople, got smacked by the mamlukes, and Wallachia ended up teaming up with poland and ate ottomans and hungary, then solo an independent Moldovia. Ottomans eventually got around to taking out the Roman Empire, but by that point the Mamlukes were on their third war win, and the green blob was very much not noting to make it.
Sadly they didn't live to long though, as Austra got a PU on Hungary and started eating into the Balkans, which included eating Romania.
How did you make this cool 3D camera movements on the map? :)
That bell sound scared me!
I'd be interested in more EU4, as I just got into it.
The AI formed Untied Central America in a campaign of mine a few months ago, I had no idea it was rare omg
Hey, how about the Ilkhanate? I've never seen someone forming this nation.
Because it is the rare type of formable that makes your country worse.
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Kurland is awesome fun to play, particularly if you get it early.
If we’re just talking about nations formed by the ai, I’ve found that Qing is really rare with or without Mandate of Heaven. Without it, Ming destroys the Manchu warlords before they get a chance to form it and with it, Ming almost never loses their mandate
Your best videos are on EU IV
That voice is just ... hypnotic.
just checked, my diplomat is improving relations for 1444 days and counting...
what happened to Etruria, which I learned about in your older video with the same theme... ?
of course more EU4 content, you're one of the classics.
Thanks
well in the mp community people know about sokoto since its guga buffed in mods and easier to fomr
I went Venice to Greece once in an eu4 game it was probably one of my most fun campaigns. The secret is to click the button under "New missions and ideas" to keep your better ones!
Did you check the EU4 scoring website? That might provide insight as to objective rarity.
I have seen the AI form Sardinia-Piedmont, and when later I fought them they were *FIERCE*
i just (2weeks ago i think)achieved the Mary of Lothariniga Achievement. it was a nightmare :D and my hate against the big blue blob grew constantly xD
I always like to see the bizzare things that are squished into this game.
The pun game is on point as always
I thought i'd get some ideas for a new playthrough but it turns out I've done all the nations on the list. EU5 when paradox :D ?
I somehow got Hadramut as a vassal (playing as the UK) after they got booted from the Middle East to Tawian.
Built them up for a bit then let them go and 20 years later I look back and they’ve taken over half of china
Weirdest game of EU4 I’ve ever played
This guy's thesaurus game is on point
I just love tag switching for some reason. Every single MP game with my friends I either try to find the most obscure formable in the area I'm playing in and form without even mentioning it or do something ridiculous, like our last complete playthrough I played Aragon (ended up with PU on Castile and Portugal :D), conquered Tunis, reformed Tunis, conquered that bit of Africa between Tunis and Iberian Peninsula, formed Algiers, then when I was done annexing I formed Andalusia.
Another great moment of note, I witnessed Austria lose a war and they were forced to release Styria as a vassal. Styria proceeded to get a bunch of allies, completely reconquer Austria, and form..... Austria, an Austria who was no longer part of the HRE.
Haven't played EU4 in months. Does the AI still debt spiral, causing them to never accept call to arms?
Yup
Yes. Mainly the Ottoman AI though
@@dokiiscute also russia. aside from these the a.i. doesnt debt spiral (to such a ridicolous point they dont join wars, that is, they are still constantly in some amount of debt) anymore
Not usually, only time I see big powers in debt is after a war, since the AI always has a shit ton of cannons. but they pay it off pretty quickly
Not really but they now release vassals bigger than them that they aren't able to reintegrate due to liberty desire. Way worse.
Sicily is the rarest one I've seen personally,
But Meissen is the rarest one ive ever seen mentioned; I wish to play it.
I have seen AIs create both Greece and Sardinia-Piedmont (the latter on several occasions but Greece only once).
I just gotta say, I REALLY appreciate all the puns
I've played over 6000 hours in EU4.
Rare nations I've seen, that this video missed, but are mentioned in some of your others: Sapmi, Darfur
Rare nation that's not mentioned here, in any other video you've done, and I've never ever seen: Egypt
I actually formed Sardinia Piedmont in a Savoy game. Didn't realize it was such a rarity. I guess it does require a lot of RNG because Sardinia starts under Aragon's control and you have little hope to get it as Savoy. I got lucky because Sardinia broke free from Aragon.