EU4 1.32 France Guide - France Has NEVER BEEN THIS POWERFUL
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In this video titled EU4 1.32 France Guide - France Has NEVER BEEN THIS POWERFUL I make an EU4 Guide for France for Europa Universalis 4 1.32 Origins. With EU4 1.32 Origins releasing the meta and the starting moves for many nations on the map has changed, so of course new and up to date guides are needed. This EU4 France starting moves guide or EU4 France starting moves tutorial will ensure that you get a great start for yourself playing as the nation of France. This guide covers the opening moves, diplomacy, estates, alliances, subjects, missions, national ideas, defeating England, The Burgundian Succession and more! France is one of the best nations from blobbing, having a massive army, being extremely rich, forming The Roman Empire and more! After watching this EU4 France guide you will ensure a great start for yourself, and you will have an easy and fun campaign. The save file is available for all Tier 1 and above CZcams members in the save-games Discord channel.
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LUSATIA PLEASE!
Luristan, please!
@Il'yas Bersimbayev Already done many times.Use search for God's sake!
Please do Novgorod Republic. Not a lot of guide for them, especially fresh ones.
Pls do a guide for Mali!!! We are in origins patch and we had a guide for Mutapa and for Ethiopia but not for them. :( You are great, love you
Just an FYI for the 1.33 beta, the Surrender of Maine war now has a special CB that acts like a PU war for England but as a Reconquest for France.
Let's fucking go
The amount of AE you got as France for that war always seemed unfair
FYI?
@@omarguerini1110 For Your Information
(This is tied to the fact that you now can't take land with PU CBs)
@@toxin2396 didn't people just declare a reconquest war before the event fires
I don't know why, but France is the only nation that I always ally. I may start in Madagaskar, in Japan, or try to form Maya or Russia, nevertheless France somehow ends up as my ally.
me as well. After I conquer and convert all of Mainland Europe to Islam I always leave France be as a bastion of Catholics.
that's because you don't get into the "Chocolatine" vs "Pain au chocolat" restauration war - that's a special devastation for French cuisine 😎
They are the most stable country in Europe, they don't really expand much outside of the French region, but they are still the most powerful nation besides the Ortomans.
@@caferustwat Yeah, that's pretty much it. They almost always sufficiently powerful, but they don't really blob. Even if France goes colonial, their colonial holdings almost never obtrusive and don't really hinder player since they rarely pick expansion over exploration ideas.
As a french thanks you☺🇫🇷
You can pull in Scotland and Burgundy into the first war with England, put your whole army in Scotland before declaring, and easily 100% England. The only problem is you have to trust Burgundy and your vasal swarms to siege Portugal. But keep in mind whatever you give to Burgundy will become yours for free.
That thumbnail alone makes a fantastic case for EU to have a Western Roman Empire formable.
Just a tip in regards to giving land to burgundy… avoid it if possible. If burgundy gets to be a great power before the succession then they will have a significantly higher chance of remaining independent.
Just savescum EZ Clap
Declaring reconquest is ae-inefficient anyways, you're better off letting SoM happen, landing on England (If vh, ally brittany, castille and burg, they start with 5 heavies, ez naval supremacy) and taking all the trade centers on the british isles with the -33% ae from defensive war + pale and then taking your cores in the 2nd war. And since defensive you dont need to give your allies jack, although, if you give them all the occupations and let them all separate peace you're likely to have all your cores returned by your allies, burg taking a few provinces and England being a total of 100 warscore after the 1st war.
@@LarsOrly defensive wars get less ae ?!?!? I just learned that. I thought u got the same ae as conquest cbs.
@@LarsOrly Only AE inefficient if you plan on bumrushing Britain. You can easily let England wallow in self-pity until you inherit Burgundy, then diplo-vassalize Scotland and eat England with their permaclaims.
If you take your cores + one or two provinces the -75% AE to cores from Reconquest CB way outweighs the benefit of a defensive war. I'd only ever recommend the defensive war strat if you're going for BBB or a newer player that needs the extra oomph from allies without promising land.
@@AnglosArentHuman idk, I personally like spending all my early european AE on monopolizing both genoa and the EC, vassalizing provence with excom and giving them genoa for naples cores etc. Other than that i usually nocb byz immediately to have the ottos dealt with pretty much immediately
I was just watching ludis France video
Everyone loves France it seems :D
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It's always been my favorite nation to play for some reason. I'm working up to doing my first wc and I want to do it as France!
Hype
@@kingofkni good luck man!
So it would seem
Someone here mentioned taking Irish claimed land for yourself and feeding it to your vassal after the war. But you can also grant them the claim (in vassal interaction menu) before the war if you want as well
Yup, I completely forgot about that.
Could i suggest Castile for the next guide, but with the expansion to the Netherlands region? harly see it, since most guides go either spain route or colonial/africa route :)
Don't you only get the Netherlands from Austria by event? You would have to hope Austria got Burgundy.
14:08 Minor recommendation, when you want to feed a vassal and you are the only one who has claims, take the provinces for yourself and you won't have to pay diplo cost for taking them.
At which point, while owning the provinces you can hand them to your vassal and keep the diplo points.
This guide seems outdated somewhat now. In the 1.33 beta, the ai for some reason is a lot more aggressive with viewing provinces of vital interest. Burgundy is now impossible to ally or marry at the start as a result even when not rivaled.
I’ll need to check if I’m on 1.33 because I was trying to start his strat for a France game for fun last night and I got a start where Burgundy didn’t rival me but they kept immediately wanting to break my alliance because of land.
The AI is a lot more aggressive now. As long as they aren’t rivalled you can improve relations with them before the Maine event fires. I then had both Burgundy and Castile become domineering towards me for some reason? But eventually they turned friendly again.
It is possible; as long as they don't rival you, you can improve and ally after the initial war with England. Doing a playthrough now, and did get the Burgundian Inheritance from a big Burgundy that I fed a bunch of provinces. It just takes a little longer, but once you beat up England (their rival) they're happy somehow.
If you improve relations with burgundy when theyre only hostile you can ally and royal marry them. I’m in a campaign rn and did that and i currently am next for their throne
Heads up, you don’t need Burgundy friendly straight away, as long as they aren’t rivalled you can improve relations and ally before the Maine event.
If the Maine event fires, you still have a few more months before you have to choose an option.
I’d recommend vassalizing Provence instead of Annexing - Their mission tree lets you turn Aix into a Center of Trade fairly easily, and is huge for your economy as it lets you dominate the Genoa trade node.
How about a "challenge": *Complete your vassal's mission trees!*
1. pick a starting nation (Aragon is a nice one, because it starts with several subjects / easily acquired subjects with large amounts of claims)
2. start conquering nations but you are NOT ALLOWED to take land yourself (except to immediately release a vassal)
3. use the mission tree of your vassals / PUs to expand and declare wars
4. you may only grow bigger by integrating vassals
Aragon has a subject already, but they can easily get Navarra as a subject (claims on France and into Canada), can do the no-CB on Byzantium (claims across the Ottomans), can get a crusader state (the Knights makes most sense because they are raiding coastlines and you dont want to be raided yourself) as a vassal through allying and giving them Malta ... with lots of claims on northern Africa and the Holy Land ... and finally there is obviously Castille and Portugal.
The point is to "swing from mission tree to mission tree" and try to conquer as much as possible.
Austria and Bohemia might be ok-ish too, but once they have their PUs it is kinda deadlocked, because their mission trees demand provinces which some other vassal of yours has.
The challenge is also to know when to integrate, because feeding too much to the vassal will make that a long term project ... and this is also why PUs are not optimal due to the 50year non-integration period.
Next to RNG in the game itself it is important to figure out the path of vassalisation and expansion before starting the game and that is harder because you have to "think around six corners ahead of time" and the nation you want to vassalise next has been eaten already or has become too strong for direct vassalisation.
A key part is also trying to find nations with as few "is not a subject nation" parts of the mission tree ... and for the crusader states this is two missions which you need to help them with for example and once they are past them it is plain sailing to the finish.
once the burgundian inheritance didn’t fire for some reason and i had to annex them as a normal PU… after i fed them the entirety of middle Francia and the low countries 😐 “The waiting is the hardest part.” - Tom Petty
Strange way to spell Belozero brother.
@@Adrien_Pecnosvar Its friendly banter, no one is mocking our birdieboy
Love it when Redhawk calls Leinster Lannister
Very nice guide! In my run, England actually took the option to give me Maine in the event before I could declare war, which was an interesting situation once I declared war and got the province without even needing to siege it!
As of now, burgundy takes some time to get friendly and ally and won't join on a war for maine. However if you you can get the surrender of maine to happen it'll be reconquest war for france and all your allies will defend you.
Yay, so glad you did another one of these! Also, could you do a Granada guide?
Thx Hawk, was planning to try a Big Blue Blob mixed with a Better than Napoleon run. You posted the video just in time, maybe you have some power to read your subs mind hahahaha. Keep up the good work and content, i never miss any of your videos.
I started a France game today and by 1481 I had the burgundian inheritance (got everything), no cb'd on Byzantium to get them as vassal and already beat the ottomans once, had PU over Milan and Naples, annexed all my starting subjects, made Brittany a new vassal. Oh, and I'm also the Holy Roman Emperor. Not even 40 years in and I'm unstoppable on all fronts. France is brutally powerful in 1.33.
Lol I thought I was tripping because I could’ve sworn that I watched your France guide just yesterday. I guess it’s now time to watch this one!
Great guide and it's even stronger since 1.33 by allying both Scotland and Castille at the start while having Burgundy not rivalling you.
I somehow went from kicking England out of France to carving England and Austria in three then being elected HREmperor at 1492.
Thanks a ton, Red Hawk
Hey man!
Love your guides and waiting for Beloozero. I tried to start by myself but it is really difficult nation. Wanna see your imagination.
Question: here you won't get Burgundy as their ruler has an heir, right? Or as claims are weak the event will fire?
Also worth to mention that once you have PU Burgundy you can get lowlands and it is better to move capital to lowlands then fight dutch rebels.
Also your audience may be would like to know the best techniques for mid game.. Like moving trade center to Antwerpen ang going colonial to Africa by rushing Ivory coast and Cape to secure steering from India and Malacca to the English Channel.
Keep in mind that if you want to to get a mission to PU Spain then you need to conquer Naples before. This may be tricky if it is under Spain.
And in the meantime you can fight the Ottomans to keep them not super big.
Anyway love your guides, great job, hope it helps much to new players.
Thanks.
Best, Max
Haven't you already done a guide for France?
Also, when Beloozero? ;P
if you play your game right, you will outgrow burgundy enough that they arent a valid rival after the first few wars. then you can ally them later without having to restart 50 times. it is useful to ally them in 1444 tho because if you call them into wars and feed them land thats just free land for you when you inherit them
In like 8/10 runs I had with France in the past I found out that: a) In the first war, Portuguese and English stacks tend to walk through Labourd to Armagnac, so I always stackwipe them by hiring the 10k mercs (grand company?) and one of the regular army stacks with the 4/4/1/3 general in charge by positioning nearby and waiting for the enemies to movement lock. Repeat till like 40k enemy troops are dead. b) I prefer fighting this first war alone. It might take 1 year to 2 years more to finish the war, but you can get all cores, Pale AND 800+ ducats from the English (and some from the Portuguese). This way I had over 1000 ducats before 1450s, so it sets you up for the next 100 years probably.
I played France recently and I found that when I got the Burgundian Inheritance, I could easily exchange favors for returned cores. I was able to slowly eat away at Burgundy while also currying favors with them. It also made diplo annexing them a lot cheaper
Don’t you just inherit all their land when the duchess of burgundy dies ?
Another point 28:15 you should return welsh cores using the return core function, this should be lower ae and is definitely lower diplo
Not always though, in my last few playthroughs I noticed that I get less AE and warscore when taking a province for the one holding a core directly instead of using the return core function. I almost never watch the diplo cost though, so I can't remember if that's much higher this way.
Bro this is the fifth time I'm watching this, keep the great work ❤️
I’d love to see a Beloozero guide next (:
In your previous guide, I stopped trying to get Ceuta because it was always causing friction with Castille for Morocco lands. Yes, I'm not such a good player 'cause I couldn't get to beat them 😆
I allied them instead and managed to PU Prussia in the long run...
Looking forward to see if you still advise the same!
France is my wc achievement country, and it was always the most powerful to me due to starting geography and base to army quality ratio
would be cool to see a timeline timelapse at the end of these guide videos, would be a cool thing to end with
Scotland guide?
Thanks for this guide btw❤
Wait, Red Hawk and Ludi does video about the same nation in the same day?!?!
It a surprise, but a welcome one.
Just a lil thing to add, you can give meath your irish claims throught the subject interaction screen so you dont waste any diplo
I like watching your videos :)
i really like releasing fez and making them a march... that annying fort in fez will be an absolute nightmare for whoever you are fighting
In the war against England, you can force the release of Wales and vassalize them diplomaticaly => 0 AE
I always no cb byz after I build a few ships while I’m still fighting England and Portugal (ask Naples for fleet basing so you don’t get naval attrition) then reconquest their cores and expand through Anatolia, eventually making Constantinople my TC and all land in the area TC.Then expand all the way into India. While I’m doing this I follow the mission tree in Europe and wait until Spain forms and they PU Portugal. I own the colonizers as PU, England is dead and I get super rich from India. Once most of the world is colonized I integrate Spain and Portugal and form Rome for -20% CC
Much like in previous guide if Provance gets excommunicated you should declare war on them and full annex them but without giving Burgundy any land. Then just release Provance as a vassal and they should have 100 dev in their provinces required to finish a mission that gives them claims/restoration of union on Naples, free italian land :D.
I'm pretty sure you can't use a vassal's restoration of union. And despite that France can have the claim on Naples by the mission tree AND a random event. Really not a good idea to lose your claims on Provence's territory by releasing them.
If the conditions are right, you could pu Provence for the cores on Naples
What is the chances of Burgundy being friendly with you? Is it like a similar chance of Qara being neutral or friendly when you start as Ardabil?
about "100 year wars" now
recently it got rework... now its restoration of union for England and reconquest war for france. So you can take back all your cores if england attempt it thus you don't need to rush anymore unless you think english will give you maine.
Becoming HRE Emperor would make for an interesting France campaign.
I made restart hundreds times and Burgundy never ally with me
If you’re looking on updating guides you did for previous nations would you mind looking at England too? I’ve been trying your old guide to it; however, nowadays your old strategies don’t work. For example, legitimatizing a random heir doesn’t stop the war of the roses anymore. If you could, it would be great and much obliged.
Does burgundy always remain hostile even if they are not rivalled on the latest patch? Thanks
At the start you want to take the inflation reduction guy and trade efficiency guy, so that you can triger the radical reforms event.
Would you suggesta reload if you start the game with Burgundy rivalled?
its really overwhelming for me with all the quick wars, number of vassal stuff and i dont really get when u have room to construct buildings, i tend to get a lot of loans in wars, even without hiring almost any mercs
The Red Hawk can you explain how muscovy in eu4 aways like alot form Russia and is superpowerfull id like to see a video on that in near future
I'd really like to see a Hungary guide
We stan France
You almost nailed the pronunciation of "Liège" but there is still work to do on "L'état, c'est moi". The "è" in "Liège" and the "est" in "c'est" are basically the same sound.
I thinkyou loose the PU CB when the pretenders enforce their demands or If a neigbour of Milan enforce Gouverment change. BTW Did you RM them because you can get a luckPU over them? I had more luck this way to get Milan Into a Pu xD
Could you do an Oirat Guide? I would love to see that as I want to start a WC as Mongols :)
whats the mods you added ? they look great
It's good to have more then 100 absolutism as you lose some absolutism if you lose legitimacy, if you are at exactly 100 you will lose your current absolutism
I keep re starting my game and even when me and burgundy aren’t enemies or rivals burgundy ALWAYS has a -2000 modifier to accept alliance with me. Did something change??
Does anyone know how to fix the “provinces of interest” or whatever it’s called? I have the option to do so in my game but it won’t let me select anything. It just acts like I’m not clicking them…
Another FYI for the 1.33 beta you can not do estates they way you do them now, beacuse you can not sell crownland unless you own 10% of land
do they fix funny exploits?
@@arthurs.6334 like what ones?
Honestly the burgundian inheritance is a broken pain nowadays. Either you help them in their wars and they become too strong to want to become your junior partner or you avoid helping them and they lose all their subjects after a stupid war they cant win.
If you accept the royal marriage from burgundy when philippe is still alive it doesnt matter but yes, it is important to send a request once Charles takes the throne since Charles ascension triggers the event to start.
Marriage doesn't matter if you're france or hre emperor
Should be careful when feeding Burgundy tho, if I'm not mistaken, they would never accept a PU in the event if they are a great power, so feed them cautiously
I don't understand one thing. When i start a party with France, Burgundy can not rival me but still have bad relations with me cause of their province of Interest in my territory. How can you get them as ally in the first month?
I feel like getting burgundy to be friendly is like shiny hunting Pokémon it’s been two days and I can’t get it still
Among Us reference at 18:30 under High Atlas
I have had a lot of difficulty with this, I played 4 times and only once did I get the burgundian succession, I don't know if paradox lowered the chance of the event happening, but it was really annoying and made me waste tons of time.
Me too. Supposedly it's a 95% chance there will be no heir but he always gets one.
What expansion did you run during this play through ?
Man I love it when you say, for the tier 2 government reform, take strength noble privileges
I have a question, hawk, in the beginning of the video you develop an specific province (poitiers), why do you developed in production once before sell titles and seize land? and what is the reason to develop that specific province?
It's all just min-maxing things you can do to start your game a little bit stronger. The province he points out is simply the cheapest to develop. It also doesn't matter what mana points you develop with. Diplomatic points are good to develop with because they increase trade power and trade value.
You develop a province to have crownland slightly over 0% and sell titles (-10% crownland for money)
Should've transferred claims to Meath for the wars in Ireland to reduce their coring costs.
Imagine playing France when beautiful Burgundy is right there
Burgundy is discount France
@@Sava.S Chads play burgundy virgins play france
Playing Burgundy is a waste of time. You will do exactly the same game but you have to conquer France first.
Dif Dauf I mean you don’t have to spend time integrating s crap ton of vassals. You get free netherlands. Not to mention I prefer burgundy’s ideas, and lotharingias ideas are even better.
@@Bruh-ff2tw You lost all
credibility when you said that burgundy's ideas were better. You probably don't know the game and you like Burgundy, good for you.
Do you use all the dlc’s or just origin?
I when playing as France i will restart when Burgundy was not loyal, next i build 4 infantry regiments and send all of my army to Scotland wich i have already allied then i declare war on Englang (with Burgundy and Scotland) I and Scotland defeat England on British ilands and Burgundy with my vazals destroy continental England and Portugal
Did everything as mentioned, but Burgundy chooses to become a subject of Austria every single time. I've reloaded a save prior to the succession event at lest 20 times, and the result is always the same: Burgundy goes to Austria.
Since i switch from Epic Games to Steam the Burgundy Inherritance never happend except once were they choose to stay independent
You're awesome
Thanks lmao
Also, is there a way that you can prevent Scotland from being eaten by England? Theyre a great distraction that keeps the English armies away from your intiila reconquests on the contient but in the end they just end up turning england into great Britain well before 1600
I need Red Hawk in my games to keep me from doing stupid stuff. Like converting to protestant as Spain in my first playthrough.
isn't this game about alternative history??
not related to this but i played as austria for 20 years(so 1464) and got burgundian inheritance and the event where i inherit them
Read through the comments and was surprised noone suggested taking Granada purely for the 5% admin efficiency. The earlier you can get that, the better in my opinion. 5% warscore cost, ae, CCR etc. Definitely nothing to be sneered at. As well as No-CB byz is still a good strat to prevent ottoman supremacy, as them and austria are the only real rivals in a france run.
Im pretty sure the Fun Police saw this video and made it so no matter what burgundy is always hostile to france,
I don't know why but i restarted 100 of times but Burgundy sometimes rival and not willing to ally me and sometimes Burgundy is not rival but still not willing to ally in 1.33 Version.
Quick question guys, does this guide still work for EUIV 1.33? I had to restart the game more than ten times and each time Burgundy rivals me, so it's impossible to make an ally out of it... knowing that it's an essential condition to follow this guide... Thanks in advance! (I may not have been lucky haha).
I’m not sure if you still expect answer, but yesterday I started new game as France and indeed I had to make new game like 10 times. Just remember not to unpause, because in my lucky save I could ally them but after one day ingame if was impossible because they got -100 or so for relations out of nowhere
Guys I need a answer NOW, I am playing France, I got Succession war for Austria. How would this affect BI???
I- I declared the reconquest war while you were on the screen then you flipped to say but first we are gonna set our rivals
I don't know why each time I play France I never take Pale and vassalize an irish nation instead. Which is very inefficient most of the time ^^'
1455 The pope excommunicated me France, all of europe is in a coalition and it feels even better that way! Going diplo!
Les 2 dates les plus intéressantes avec la France sont le départ de la ligue de Cambrai car la France peu dés la première guerre prendre la Catalogne, Bergame et Brescia (par contre faut se tenir tranquille un moment après) et en 1502 car Louis XII possède le royaume de Naples, que Milan est pris à 100% et qu'il est assez facile de faire la jonction entre l'Italie du nord et Ancône.
Honorable mention=no cb on great horde and expanding in central asia for big blue blob achivement xD
Dude I inherited burgundy and the low country in twenty years
I tried Play like u , but get luck and got free PU over castile in 1457, then marriage Arragon and claim their throne so another Pu + Milan Pu , vassalize epirus and attack aachen ( last byzantium province ) this lead me to annex epi and relased byz as vassal , scotland totally destroyed England and Burgundia not love me anymore and break our alience , so probably no Burgundia inhiariry for me :( but u cant have everything ;p nice vid btw.
Does this guide complete the BBB?
I actually like France a lot. They're powerful, but not so absurdly powerful that the game is a boring faceroll like most Ottoman games. The early game is active because you have plenty to do (beating England in wars, annexing vassals, wars of expansion, etc) none of which is easy enough to be an automatic win but is easy enough to the point where an inexperienced player can do it without too much trouble. Then you can take a wide variety of roles on the world stage - you can conquer Europe, go colonise, defend the faith, dismantle the Empire, etc. You're not pigeonholed into a specific niche like Portugal or the Ottomans (albeit both of those have strong niches, but nobody would seriously contend that Portugal isn't made for colonising and Ottos for conquest). It's a strong nation that has a wide variety of options, and that's pretty cool. Now if only I could actually get time to play through it properly...who knows, maybe with this guide, I will!
Can you make the revolutionary republic guide? It doesn't have to be France.