EU4 1.32 Venice Guide - THIS Is HOW To Become THE RICHEST NATION

hi everyone and welcome to today's video where we're going to be doing a guide for venice for u4 1.32 origins so venice is a nation located primarily in italy with some positions in the balkans and in the aegean islands as well we do start off with a subject noxus and we do start off guaranteeing albania and the knights but we are outside of the hre now venice even though it's such a rich and such a powerful nation it's not often taken into consideration with the most popular nations to form italy with such as milan florence or even naples but make no mistake by using this guide you will become the richest and most powerful nation in the world in no time and you will be dominating trade all throughout the mediterranean and before we begin if you enjoyed this video don't hesitate to leave a like it really helps out a lot and if you want to see more guides or more eo4 videos in general definitely hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on anything let's take a look at what we need to do as venice now venice starts off with a unique government form the venetian government which is basically a glorified merchant republic it gives us plus one merchants minus 0.1 yearly corruption and minus 50 max absolutism of course this is because we're a republic we also start off with a very powerful monument the dogest palace and at tier 2 it gives us plus 0.5 yearly prestige plus 0.25 republican tradition yearly and plus 20 reform progress growth it's super powerful we're gonna be at high republican tradition all the time and we're gonna be blazing through these reforms over here of course our unique government firm also prevents us from having estates we don't have any estates but we do have factions the aristocrats here they take away trade power but give us morale of armies and sailors they're pretty good and you're going to want to keep them in power while you're at war the traders here they take away tax but give us straight power and naval maintenance discounts they're not very good you're not going to be picking them very often and then we have the guilds which give us a construction discount plus 10 goods produced super powerful and minus 10 national manpower you're gonna wanna put these guys in charge when you're at peace for now at the start keep the aristocrats in power so the first thing when you start up your venice game is you're gonna wanna check whether austria and genoa are friendly with you it's about 50 50 to be honest and in my case we can see that austria is actually friendly with me and they would ally me right off the bat but even if they wouldn't ally you right off the bat if they're neutral or friendly by improving relations a bit you can ally them in two or three months and in my case genoa is also friendly which is awesome those are two pretty good allies we want to get so there we go i will send austria an alliance offer immediately if you can't you should start improving relations with them and we are also gonna start spying on byzantium that's what we're gonna do with our first two diplomats and we're also gonna start improving relations with our subject noxus now it's time for some rivals i recommend rivaling byzantium the ottomans and whoever austria has rivaled as well let's see in my case the rival france provence and the ottomans now unfortunately i can't rival any of those guys so i'll just rival serbia or someone like that it's no big deal next we're gonna get these seven light ships tell them to go home during war and tell them to protect trade and raguza and since we don't have burgers we can't take burger loans but we are gonna be taking regular loans i recommend taking four and with those four loans we're gonna start construction on ten galleys and there we go i'm building them all over these provinces here now it's time for some advisors as well get whichever level one admin advisor you want preferably an inflation reduction guy i don't have one so i'm gonna get this tax guy get a diplo rep improve relations or spy network level one diplo advisor i have a diplo web guy and get whichever level one mill advisor you can preferably a morale of armies fort defense or a disciplined guy i have a morale of armies guy and for your naval doctrine you can select either of these three they're all excellent for venice we're a naval power already and you can even swap around between them later in the game the button is hidden so not a lot of people know it but it's right here so like naval doctrine and i recommend taking free oarsmen at the start although you could swap out the merchant navy later on and now we're also gonna take our main army down to this province and once that army arrives there we're gonna take that army down there as well now you should wait for your spy network on byzantium to reach 20 and in the meantime you should be improving relations with austria to ally them with genoa to ally them and even castile and poland those are four alliances we're gonna try and get although just two of them are enough so ally at least two or all four of poland austria genoa and castile during this point you can turn off your forts to save some money at this point you can cancel your guarantee over the knights leave the one for albania though and as we can see i've allied austria in general i'm improving with poland to ally them as well it's definitely possible and i'm gonna start currying favors with austria as well this is what my three diplomats are doing right now by this point even if you couldn't ally austria right at the start you should have been able to do it by now in previous runs i allied them in january and not right at the start once both of your armies have arrived in this province you can merge them and take one cavalry regiment and destroy it and you should also build three more infantry regiments and hire the free company right there as well alternatively if you can't ally someone else outside of these two guys and these two guys are the easiest genuine austria you should start improving relations with austria we are gonna try and enter the hre if it's going too slow for you you can also tell this diplomat in vienna to establish communities and you can also hire an improved relations advisor if you have him i do have a level 2 guy but he's kind of too expensive for me and by may 1st 1446 this is the date i get most often in my trial runs you should have completed all your galleys and put them in the agnc and your armies should be here the reason it's may first is because may has 31 days and it's a long month which means we can just walk straight through athens to snipe the fort in maria which byzantium usually mothballs now in my case they haven't mothballed it but they do do it more often than not so make sure to declare on the first of the month so you can snipe it but once we have a claim on byzantium and our boats are built we are ready to declare of course first we are gonna hire a general for our main stack and we are gonna hire an admiral for our fleet so it's time to declare on biz just peace out their allies as soon as you can if you can co-belligere in someone like serbia for example you may be able to take the gold mine in kosovo but that might prevent us from entering the hre because we will be too big so we'll try and do that in the second war or in the war versus the ottomans and just declare byzantium for the conquest of corinth venice has elections as every other republic but we also have a lottery as them too basically you can pick one guy from the guilds from the traders or the aristocrats and lose republican tradition for each of them or let the lottery decide and not lose any republican tradition in my case all of these guys are pretty much the same one guy has seven another guy has eight and another guy has ten monarch points but they're each divided up really uh in a not so good way so i am in fact gonna let the lottery decide they're pretty much all the same and i got the 406 guy now one thing i will tell you is that it is important to get relations with austria up to 190 before you finish the war with byzantium because when we get them even if we annex them or vassalize them we'll still be too big to enter the hre and as we can see right now we need a hundred and ninety in my case it's a hundred and seventy nine but i will screwfully insult an austrian rival such as savoy for example there we go and i've gotten a bit more relations with austria now we can join the hre even though we're at war make sure to do this while you're in the war with byzantium not after now ideally you would want to finish your war before the ottomans declare on byzantium now i know the old strategy is for a lot of these byzantium wars vassalize biz when the ottomans declare so you can call in all your allies defensively i don't think that's a very good strategy anymore i much prefer to wait for them to declare on someone in anatolia so if you didn't manage to finish off byzantium before the ottomans declared on them like in my case you're just gonna fully annex them it's that simple we're gonna take all of their provinces including athens and all their money if you manage to beat them before the ottomans declared on them then you can just vassalize them regularly to keep around their fleet as well but if it's for you like as for me just full annex them boom and that's our war with biz done but now we're simply gonna be releasing them as soon as the war is over boom there we go and they popped out with athens as well and that's what your first war should look like either way even if you do vassalize them and not release them make sure to take athens you don't want to get two subjects and if you don't want to core the province just give it to biz so that's our first word done now that we've vassalized or annexed and released byzantium and once we've entered the hre we can also find some other allies like poland for example and maybe even castile let's check i will have to improve with them but i think i can ally them now it's time to wait for the ottomans to declare on some of these five or six nations over here and we can station our troops in constantinople you should start currying favors with austria genoa poland whichever nations you can and at this point i do recommend building some more ships if you don't have the money feel free to take a loan we're gonna be swimming in ducats later and it's not a problem that we're losing money now so build three heavy ships now that you're at peace you can bump the guilds once or twice to put them in power once we declare on the ottomans we'll put the aristocrats back in power and because we're just blazing through reforms as venice for your tier 2 government reform i recommend taking political dynasties or republicanism i do think political dynasties is slightly better so i do recommend that don't take authoritarianism when you get this awesome admiral from the mission expand the arsenal of course you're going to want to put him in charge of the main battle fleet and put the one we already recruited in charge of the light ships when the renaissance spawns if you're lucky enough you may have spawned it yourself in my case monferrat spawned it oh well and i was just able to ally castille as well this is what your ideal diplomatic situation should look like but the most important out of any of these guys is austria yes we are quite a bit over our relations limit but we'll be fixing it soon don't worry when you do finish building those three light ships you will want to merge them with your main fleet which should be stationed in constantinople while you're waiting around for the ottomans to declare on someone in anatolia you can start spying on some of your tiny neighbors over here such as trent mantua ferrara or bologna and maybe even fight them before we fight the ottomans i'm gonna start spying on bologna by the way i didn't declare an aragon i'm just helping out my ally castile and you can even start spying on some of these small guys right here such as serbia bosnia and herzegovina i'm gonna start spying on bosnia and because i am still waiting around for the ottomans to clear on someone here i will be popping off a quick war versus bologna you can try and do this as well if the opportunity arises if not we're just gonna be fighting these guys later and no need to worry about it by the way i did forget to say but you should cancel your guarantee over albania after you're done with the war with biz for your tier 3 government reform you should take consolidation of power if you plan on staying a republic for the remainder of your game but if you plan to switch to a monarchy around 1600 which i do recommend you should take consolidate power and the doge and as soon as the ottomans declare war on someone in anatolia in my case they did declare on trebezon whose allied to georgia i had to end my little war with bologna there but no worries it is time to declare on them on our own terms like i said your main army should be constantinople if you have a free company keep it down here but it doesn't really matter and it is time to declare on the ottomans a reconquest for gallipoli for example and call in anyone you can in my case i can only call in austria but it's really no big deal because you do only need austria the worst allies that you can have is pretty much akuyunu and tunis and crimea as a march in my case they do have a quinlan tunis which is pretty bad but luckily they don't have crimea the best case is they validate someone small like these guys it does happen so as soon as they're fighting in anatolia it's time to declare of course you're gonna move your main army straight to gallipoli pop out your fleet in the sea of marmara and once your army is here i do recommend bombarding gallipoli you should bombard all their coastal forts such as salonik gallipoli coachella and sougla and just try and full siege the balkans for your first idea group as venice i do recommend taking quality ideas this will help buff our army but also our navy massively so quality ideas for your first idea group by this point austria may also have hungary and even bohemia in your case which is great unfortunately they don't in my case now even if the ottomans managed to peace out whoever they were fighting in anatolia as long as you're blockading this straight here and as long as you control these two provinces they won't be able to cross of course they could always find mill access to go around but in my case they haven't even done that because georgia obviously won't give them male access so right now we're focusing on sieging down the balkans and once you get around 50 to 60 world score versus the ottomans it is time to peace them out of course you could 100 them if you want to but why drag out this war any longer so here's what i recommend taking in this first war i recommend giving byzantium all their cores back except for the ottoman's capital of a dyrnae easy war score in sieging later so why not save it for later i also recommend taking a province or two to release bulgaria from such as any of these provinces over here i'm going to give them this one and if the ottomans also have the gold mine in kosovo like in my case you should take that too if not you're just gonna fight serbia for it but if the ottomans don't have this maybe you can do something like this perhaps but in my case i am gonna be taking kosovo and that's enough for the first war versus the ottomans i'm also gonna take 80 ducats from them and there we go that's our second war done the ottomans they're not a problem anymore time to chill from expanding over here and wait for our shoes with the ottomans to expire and instead we can go focus on italy for a little bit by the way i'm not fighting burgundy i'm just helping out austria in the classic burgundy versus liage war when the shadow kingdom event fires of course if you have entered the hre by allying austria you should stay in the empire if you're still allied to austria however if you entered the hre but your alliance with austria was somehow broken it is time to leave because you will get penalties if you stay in it and if you're not allied to austria so because i am i will stay in the empire and like i said during this time we will be focusing on italy i'll be declaring my second war versus bologna because i had to end the one earlier since they seem like the easiest target to fight right now when conquering stuff in italy you mainly want to focus on the venice trade note first and on the genoa trade note later of course that doesn't mean you shouldn't declare on milan if you have the opportunity to do so but these provinces here are slightly more important than these ones right here at least for now and of course when you fight nations over here in italy you will be full annexing most of them with the exception of course of big nations don't try and full annex florence but you can totally full annex like trent mantua bologna ferrara nations like that and aggressive expansion here should be non-existent because we've been focusing on byzantium and the armas the whole time and by now most italian nations should have left the hre anyway in my case only me as venice and siena here stayed in the empire so these other guys here won't be as mad and now i'll be full annexing bologna i did forget to mention that if you did take provinces over here somewhere from the ottomans basically a province which we can release bulgaria from you should be doing that and there we go i'll just pop bulgaria out of here thanks to these bulgarian separatists i was reminded if you do manage to get the gold mine of kosovo from serbia or the ottomans it doesn't matter one of those two nations will have it and if you fought the ottomans like i did you'll have it from them otherwise you're just gonna fight serbia for it it's pretty simple to get it it's already going to be in your state since we owned this province here at the start which is in the same state as that one and of course you are going to want to dev it up to 10 production and lower the autonomy as much as possible now that we've taken care of bologna i will be continuing my conquests versus the nation of ferrara once again you're attacking whichever nation is weakest in these surroundings right here ferrara is pretty nice it's an estuary so there's more trade power it also produces salt that's pretty good and modena sure it's not a bad province either so let's declare on them i will call on genoa for your tier 4 government reform if you took consolidate power in the doge for governing capacity you should take union of states for global trade power if you took consolidation of power for max absolutism then you should take administrative divisions so as this one paired with this one and this one paired with this one don't take provincial governments since i took consolidate power in the doge i am gonna be taking unit of states and now that my war with ferrara is done i will be full annexing them as well and taking all their money you can follow annex ferrara in origins you used to not be able to and you had to vassalize them and pretty much at any moment that you have more than 190 relations with your subject naxos you should annex them ideally you should have done it way earlier than me i just didn't have enough relations with them once you've fought one to three nations over in italy it's time to disperse your aggressive expansion a bit and focus a little bit on the balkan guys that are left such as albania raguza persegovina in bosnia serbia and maybe even empress i'm going to be declaring on epress in my case and i'm going to knock out raguza too since well it's a nice province and we do want to take it and now that i've beaten up both of these nations that i'm fighting over here i will give emperors fully to byzantium even though they don't have a core encephalonia and i'll take raguza for myself by the time you fought two or three wars in italy and the balkans your truce with the ottomans should be up and once it is up it will be time for your second war versus the ottomans where you'll give back byzantium some final course such as a dna you're gonna feed bulgaria if you took a province to release them and you might even take provinces for yourself by this point you will be a lot more powerful than the first war you'll have more allies the atoms will be weaker and it's overall just an easier war so just declare another reconquest on them i'm gonna declare for a dna and i'm gonna call in austrian genoa and once you completely obliterate the ottomans in the second war here's what you're gonna be taking from them obviously you're gonna be giving your vassals all their course back such as this one for byzantium and all of these right here for bulgaria i'm also gonna take war ups from them and maybe some province like this which is actually our core and they'll be left with this land right here which might go back to serbia from separatists and these two tiny provinces right here which they also may lose to albania or something like that of course we're going to be taking all of this later as well and that's your second war with the ottomans done at this point there's no need to expand bulgaria or byzantium even further and you can start improving relations with them to start annexing some of them once you've grown byzantium and bulgaria to their maximum size or basically beaten up the ottomans for the second time you can totally break your alliance with genoa we don't need them anymore and we actually want their land for your first stage ability it's not a bad idea to take venetian trade for that trade power but it's really only limited to the age of discovery so why not take aggressive expansion impact and maximize all that conquest it's pretty much up to you whether you take this one or this one i'm gonna take justify wars once you wrap up your second war with the ottomans it is time to continue your expansion elsewhere in italy or in the balkans in my case i'm gonna be declaring on bosnia right here basically fight whoever is weakest over here or over here and you're pretty much gonna be phil annexing anyone over here or tiny guys over here since i fought bosnia let's see right here all right that's not bad at all we can totally full annex them at this point we're pretty much focusing on the venice ragusa and constantinople trade notes stuff outside of that we'll focus on later of course you should take stuff in general if you can but don't focus too much on stuff here or over here and like i said i will be full annexing bosnia for your tier 5 government reform you should take the presidential system and now that i've dealt with some of these guys i'm going to continue my conquest in italy this time declaring on mantua right here i'm going to call on castile since they do have a bunch of allies keep an eye on aggressive expansion even though we're dispersing it between three different religions and lots of different cultures it can still get pretty high in the balkans and in italy for your second idea group as venice you should take trade ideas the stuff we get from trade leans into perfectly what what we're trying to do as venice and with our national ideas as well so trade for your second idea group and of course i am going to be full annexing man 2 over here as well you should start annexing byzantium immediately once you have above 190 relations with them and if austria happens to lose the emperorship in the holy roman empire or if you've dealt with the provinces or nations that are still in the hre for example like in my case when i conquer trent and siena that's when i'm gonna leave the hre but since austria has stopped being emperor i'm getting some pretty severe penalties along with the submission to the emperor modifier in which case i'll leave the hre now so leave the hre if your alliance with austria is broken if they're not emperor anymore or once you're done fighting nations that are in the hre you should be able to upgrade to a kingdom when you leave of course if you never entered you should have upgraded a long time ago and by around the 1490s basically by the time you need to fight your third war with the ottomans your realm should look a little something like this basically we start off as venice fought byzantium with a cb vassalized them or conquered all their provinces and released them and then waited for the right opportunity for us to declare on the ottomans while they were busy in anatolia with the help of our allies most likely austria or genoa or poland or something like that and in that first word with the ottomans you should have given byzantium all their course back with the exception of a dna you should have also taken one promise to release bulgaria from and if the ottomans had kosovo you should have taken that as well otherwise you would have taken it from serbia once we were done with that we continued our expansion in the balkans versus some smaller nations over here and in italy versus smaller nations in the north mainly focusing on the venice and raguza trade notes and then we fought our second war with the ottomans where we gave byzantium their last quarterback gave bulgaria all of their course back and maybe took something else for ourselves as well after a second war with the ottomans we continued to do what we were doing in between those two wars once again expansion into the balkans in the ragusa trade note and expansion in italy in the venice train node and by now we are pretty much a superpower we are on the great powers list tons of dev we are making tons of money as we can see 15 ducats a month right now army's up drilling forts activated i do have two loans but i only took them in order to build buildings so it's not really a problem as you guys can see we're making 15 ducats a month by this point you should also have a very powerful navy of course you do start off with one i have 10 light ships here protecting trade in venice and i have my main battle fleet four heavies 20 galleys and 15 transports to help move around armies and this is the main battle fleet this is the trade fleet of course later on in the game you are going to be building lots more trade fleets to protect trade and all of these coastal trade nodes right here genoa venice raguza valencia even sevilla constantinople and aleppo and even the ones in africa safi tunis and alexandria you're gonna want to protect trade in all of these and farm that cash like i said earlier you want the aristocrats in power when you're at war and the kills that power when you're at peace let me just bump them up there we go they're in power we're gonna get construction costs and goods produced very nice now we're making even more money 16.8 buckets a month even though we're making so much income from gold inflation is going down since it's not that big of a part of our economy and we're looking super super strong during all this time you should have been building buildings as well i've built market places and all the blue provinces over here as you can see i've even been building them in my subjects since of course we're gonna inherit those lands later and basically have built buildings in all the center of trade and estuary provinces i've also been building production buildings in all the high value trade good provinces such as we can see right here salt cloth paper glass iron copper and provinces like that you already know the high value trade goods sure you could build some churches too apparently byzantium has built some or the ottomans i built a couple over in italy and yeah we're looking good on that by now you should have a pretty powerful army as well mine is consisted of 20 infantry four cavalry and four cannons right now let's see the combat with and in fact it's 24 so i do need to bump it up a little bit there we go 22 4 4 should be good for about now ideally seven cannons so you can fight level two fourths nicely and that is what your situation should look like after this point you're pretty much gonna continue to do the same things we've been doing so far finishing off the ottomans in the third war by taking all their provinces in the balkans and in anatolia focusing on the constantinople trey note and then you're gonna finish off the rest of these provinces here in the raguza train note and fight the italians in order to form italy you're most likely gonna be fighting these guys up here leaving the pope for last and you're probably not going to be touching naples yet if they're a junior partner of castile or aragon in my case they're actually not but they are allied to poland which will make it pretty difficult to fight them either way so you're probably going to take care of these guys right here then take roman stuff to form italy and then you're gonna push along the south of italy and in these islands right here and later on in the valencia trade note and you should be dominating trade in the mediterranean in no time and after that it's just a classic italy game for our first idea group we took quality ideas because we needed to buff up our army but our navy as well it really does mesh well with our national ideas that are pretty boat focused we are a very strong naval power as venice and you will remain a very strong naval power as italy as well for your second idea group you should take trade of course we already did that placing merchants all around these trade notes pushing trade to venice in the early to mid game and then moving our main trade note to genoa in the mid to late game because genoa it is a nicer end note than venice you can still funnel all of this stuff from over here into genoa no need to take it to venice so that's your main trade node for later on and of course you're gonna be building all those buildings over here too bumping up all of these centers of trade you can only have as many level three centers of trade as you have merchants so for example i have three merchants i can have three level three centers of trade with trade ideas we gain three more merchants so that's six centers of trade and you'll be getting merchants from policies as well and stuff like that so lots of level three centers of trade to go around for your third idea group you should take another mil idea group i recommend going with offensive or quantity for your third idea group and for your fourth idea group it really is up to you depending on how much you expand if you don't plan on expanding too much you should take economic for your fourth idea group however if you do plan to blob out a lot you should take one of religious admin or humanist because you are gonna need to deal with some religious that won't be accepted by you but of course this is partially mitigated by the fact that you will be trade companying stuff in aleppo tunis and safi in those three trade notes so make them trade companies aleppo tunis and safi you can state up everything else such as alexandria contentenoporaguza and everything else over here that of course is catholic and you won't have too many difficulties converting the orthodox provinces once the protestant reformation comes around and you get all those missionary buffs so there might not be a need for religious or humanist but it really is up to you in my run after quality and trade i would take quantity and economic or offensive and economic but like i said it's really up to you after that it really doesn't matter it just depends on your goals for your tier 6 government reform i recommend taking devolution of powers for your tier 7 government reform you can take either one they each give us a plus one possible policy in admin or diplo you're going to be judging this based on the idea groups you take for tier 8 you should take citizenry for tier 9 you should take bureaucratic apparatus for minimum autonomy and territories that's going to help out with the trade companies or you should take appointment by committee and for tier 10 if you plan on staying a republic the whole game you should take strengthening executive powers or if you plan on flipping to a monarchy which i do recommend when the age of absolutism starts you should take c's executive power and become a monarchy and after this point you're gonna continue to annex your vassals you can release other vassals like syria down here too and ones in southern france like gascony and toulouse and continue to blob out all around the mediterranean and like i said bar on the 1490s your game should look a little something like this if you're not that confident in your abilities or if you're not sure if your game is gonna go like mine this save file is available to all youtube members in the save games discord channel and you can continue playing on as venice from this date forward let me know in 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Length: 28min 35sec (1715 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 03 2022