EU4 A to Z - Can I RULE THE WORLD With ONLY ONE CITY

today's video is brought to you by squarespace why yes i do have 30 nations in a coalition against me let's just declare on the coalition let's declare the coalition hi everyone and welcome to today's video where we're going to be continuing the a to z challenge the challenge where we play every nation in u4 in 1444 with unique national ideas in alphabetical order and this week ladies and gentlemen we're back with the final nation in the very short season of season d the nation of dortmund dortmund is a free city located in the holy roman empire we start off with uh whatever patricia means he's a random guy obviously we're a republic since we're a free city we're catholic and dortmund ideas are actually pretty good i like them quite a lot we got plus 10 production efficiency and merc maintenance discounts plus five percent discipline as an ambition for defense and garrison size merchants diplo rep provincial trade power reform progress growth that's pretty cool yearly prestige construction costs construction time so dortmund's ideas are focused on playing tall-ish and defensively and maybe even becoming the holy roman emperor i mean look at that flag we got a black bird on a yellow background dude come on but what do we do as dortmund well we have played a couple of free cities in a to z already but we haven't ever done the classic free city challenge man to try and become the most powerful nation that we can while not conquering anything that's right ladies and gentlemen for today's challenge as dortmund in a to z i'm gonna attempt to become a great power while not conquering any land directly myself and remaining of free city all throughout the game i think it's going to be very tough very cursed and it's going to be another classic hre game 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 challenges like this or more u4 videos in general definitely hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on anything let's jump in as dortmund alright here we are as dortmund like i said we are a free city dev discount trade efficiency max absolutely some burger influence i sure love me some burgers we did spawn with this 342 guy here david buchner he's a burger master how nice so obviously here man we're gonna have to vassalize a bunch of nations around us get claims bordering claims so we can spy on other nations vassalize them grow them and hopefully none of them will become rebellious and beat us up like i said no expanding outside of dortmund luckily it is a pretty nice province it produces cloth we got a center of trade and it's uh woods could be farmlands but it is what it is so uh let me start off by doing some estate stuff first all right estate stuff done do we have any unique missions actually we do ah but they're the default uh westphalian missions right we're not gonna be forming westphalia by the way so uh let's see can we rival someone why not rival the guys that have rivaled us which is achen cleaves and uh berg now can we link up with someone let me try and get a diploma guy luckily i do have one and uh let's see who can we ally not a lot of fellers not a lot of fellers what can we do with austria i am going to improve with austria here and ally cone for now and then i'm going to start spying on poo maybe moonser moonstreet can be our first vassal or maybe berg we'll see what we can do now out of my rivals cleves here still hasn't allied anyone so uh i'm thinking we pop off a quick show strength or a humiliation war on them so yeah man let me give my ruler milk a man here and uh i think we can go for it do they start with like morale or something like that nah they don't i can get a i will get this guy actually just until i beat up their army so let's uh declare on cleaves here with humiliate man and uh let's go beat them up easy stack wipe easy a hundred points in each category now i'm thinking here do i go for many subjects which are small or a few subjects which are large vassals do calculate their combined strength so uh this could be tricky here boys and that's an easy dub right there man let's sue for peace show strength that's what's up nice oh my god we didn't even rearrange our armies dude a lot like dude i almost forgot to get rid of the horseman all right i've carried 10 favors with my boy colin here and i can also take this mission which is awesome and i think we can get a move on with our first war right here which is gonna be with moonstr hopefully we'll be able to vassalize them without too much aggressive expansion because they are uh three provinces big so uh let's get it man and it's already time for our tier two governor forum of course we're not gonna be strengthening noble privileges because uh we don't have uh you know nobles and we're republic and last time i went with political dynasties but this time i think i'm gonna go with uh republicanism now look what happened here man colon got pissed out and they lost these two provinces to mooster uh yeah okay so they gave one back because austria probably asked for it but this war is pretty much done let's see what we can do here man obviously i wanted to vassalize munster and you know them having four provinces is better instead of them having three provinces but um let's see if we can do this right here how much ae is this 42ae if i make them a vassal with three provinces once again 42ae if i make them a vessel with four provinces well there's no downside to this is there i'm also gonna take all their money and uh that's that we have acquired our first subject ladies and gentlemen the nation of munster of course they hate us quite a lot but uh hopefully we can fix this by improving relations a bit and uh stuff like that our next target probably berg but it is gonna be slow because this was quite a lot of ae and also the problem with feeding vassals here is austria is gonna ask for provinces back and they are gonna return provinces to them so you know if we wanna take like three provinces in a war with someone and feed them to our vessels we gotta pay attention to the fact that we'll end up with two because they'll give back one the renaissance did spawn earlier and i do have tech 4 in all categories let's activate encourage dev here in our capital state of northwest falia and i'll start bumping dortmund up a little bit so like i said the goal is to become a great power by the time we can become a great power the minimum would be like 300 and something yeah so uh painful man really painful tier three govern form time while we're shilling let's go with uh what do we go with here frequent elections time to embrace the renaissance for a docket and time to tack up in admin and unlock our first idea group which is gonna be influence of course that's gonna be influenced okay i think enough time has passed it's time to acquire our second vessel which is going to be the nation of berg so let's go ahead and declare them call in two of my boys and i'm once again gonna do something with cleaves this time i'm gonna humiliate them so let's declare a conquest for berg right here and uh let's get it baby oh new mission was this trust we're the allies i will take that and this war is done as well let's see what's the damage if we make berg our vassal and only 29a not bad actually let's also take all their money and there we go now we got two boys let's hope both of them aren't disloyal both of them are disloyal huh pain let me take uh well i'm just gonna take it i'm not annexing them but i am gonna take him but we can give the nobility strong dutchies now which is awesome and that did make monster loyal so yeah let me improve with a bird here man but there we go man two boys what's our uh dev right now 61 alrighty then pluto credit coup no but yeah man now with this newly acquired cash from piecing out all the berg allies i did just build a marketplace now i'm building a church as well i'm going to build a 4-2 yeah looking good our first limit is now 12 that has increased and uh now i think we can go for some horses man we can actually get some stronger allies now i think i am gonna link up with the pope and brandenburg here yeah let's get with the pope and let's get with brandenburg too sweet buildings are so cheap dude look at this man wow of course if i could get these guys even more loyal i tell them to divert trade to your foregover form time let's go with uh provincial governments uh i am gonna end my alliance with colon and there we go we can get our first stage ability now we're taking up here quite fast or maybe not it is already 1468. whoops where has the time gone so i am going to get transfer subject and claims bordering claims and maybe we could snake our way up to saxony make them give us the ringgia maybe we could do something like that you know and we can spy all around these guys around us we won't have to rely just on our subjects claims i think these guys are loyal enough now to make them divert trade yeah and that just gave me a duck at 35 i was making 1.4 before that and we can also take uh what can we take ah right industry supremacy dude this is an awesome event man i i don't know if i've ever seen it but look at this man we pay a hundred diplo points and until the rest of the game we gain minus one national unrest plus five percent global trade plus ten percent national manpower and plus twenty five percent land force limit man wow wow wow what do we have to lose these events man i love them now lubeck why would i join a trade league man sure all of these guys would defend me but no one's gonna attack me no and just like that we're done with influence that was quick all right let's get a move on and by the way look at the size of our army now man uh i'm going to learn saxony here and i'm going to try and steal thoringia so let's declare for leipzig calling these boys and uh let's get it who else am i fighting okay they're all over here let me go for uh i don't know magdeburg first these are the claims i've gotten so far by the way and it's time to peace out saxony as well ladies and gentlemen of course we are gonna be stealing thoringia for half cost right here boom there we go only 30 ae easy baby war reps cash let's make them end their rivalry or two and boom just like that we've uh acquired our third subject yeah that's right and they're not even disloyal oh my god i love it looking good baby looking good i wonder what our next target is gonna be maybe we should try and vassalize some electors here so we can uh you know influence the elections even though we can't be the emperor oh yeah i might go for cone or trier next well maybe not trier that i like to austria or honestly i might even go for jesse here because you know our realm it is sort of disconnected right here yeah yeah alright second idea group time now uh if i had that thing uh disabled where you can't pick two ideas from the same group one after the other i probably go with diplo but i don't play with that option on so what do we go with here man for our second idea group honestly pluto might not be a bad idea here because it does have a very nice policy with influence for plus 100 vassal force limit contribution and minus 10 liberty desire and subjects and we also get some nice stuff like morale and merc stuff along with some money-making things and it's pretty good for republic so yeah let's go with pluto here slowly but surely we are climbing on the great powers list 88 out of uh well 264 for now oh my god this is gonna be painful man all right we're good on ae here man uh what's going on here right right austrian bohemian unification we're sure buddy but yeah we can continue along with our conquest man let's connect our lands like i planned and declare on the nation of jesse right here colin brandenburg and lunenburg and uh let's get it man i'm still considering whether to feed some of my boys or just get new subjects here five governor from time man we're blazing through these what's this municipal self-defense manpower and a land force limit all right all right i like that and what's this ooh diplo rep and austria likes me in diplo relations man these would both help us out a lot i honestly don't know what to go with here let me think honestly man i think that imperial diplomacy would help us out more so let's go with that and this is done let's make jesse our subject as well nice is anyone disloyal now yeah the guys i'm making their word trade but uh yeah we should be good here man obviously we're going to go for diplo for tech 10 but that's still a long ways away wait why am i in another war now uh oh these guys declared on jesse all right maybe we can get something going here huh all right this war is done we've beaten these guys up now i am gonna peace out brunswick here and give hanover over to berg take money and war apps as well hopefully austria doesn't ask for it back but even if they do i won't care too much and something else i'm gonna do is i'm also gonna make mine's my vessel will this trigger a coalition uh not really there we go five subjects the dumbest thing about staying small is we never get big loans so i need to take out like five loans to build one building dude but luckily we're doing good man 36 to have four buildings not too bad of course because we're bigger technically we can get bigger allies i did just ally denmark and now i can also link with austria nice but yeah right now we gotta chill a bit because he is way too high i'm just helping out brandenburg beat up some uh peeps up here well i just helped out brandenburg in another war versus uh magdeburg and they decided to give these two provinces the thuringia from saxony because saxony was an ally uh ew well thank you brandenburg thanks for nothing yeah i already got the third merchant uh improving relations in lubeck i'm gonna tell the other two guys to do the same thing where's the other one saxony of vienna well maybe i can put him in the ryland right instead of vienna yeah and i'll tell him to establish communities yeah man a is going down pretty quickly and i wonder did i try and steal landers brabont and holland from burgundy i got a cb on them i did manage to spy up to luxembourg and uh you know we're still in the age of discovery charles here is pretty old so hopefully he doesn't die while this is going on but let's try and steal these guys let's see the damage wait bra bond wait a minute ah they don't have bra bond okay so just flanders and holland huh all right i mean let's see what's up this is revenge for all the burgundy liage wars i got you buddy don't worry to your six gover form time we can take one more diplomat which is something i really need or we can get minus 15 step cost give me the diplomat baby give me give me give me and we've also wrapped up influence in pluto which means they can take uh this right here ah i love it hey the protestant information spawned then home funnily enough i think i am gonna be going protestant because i've only managed to get one papal thingy uh in these like 50 years even though i'm allied to the pope so being catholic even though it is more useful to us if we could get more people influence uh yeah i'm just not gonna be staying catholic man i gotta go protestant here all right so the war with burgundy is pretty much done calling in all of these guys was definitely overkill but uh let's see what we can do here man so here's the peace deal treaties right here's the make them vassals and this is the half cost one okay so if we make a flanders of oh that's 36 ae man and it's 32 just for holland wait no it's 43 just for holland right yeah that's pretty insane what if we take both of them oh man 75 look at this coalition dude lots of nations would join actually wait a december let me wait for a month oh and that coalition shrunk by like one or two guys not bad at all you know what even though this is super risque i'm gonna take waraps as well handle their money and landers and holland uh this is fine it's fine no because i am such a chat i am gonna link with wait serbia okay yeah i'm gonna ally hungary and poland there's no way this coalition declares so we're good well yes i do have 30 nations in a coalition against me so what i think it was all worth it because now we have almost 200 dev pretty much all right i was gonna flip protestant ah that's gonna make us lose so much prestige dude but oh well let's do it there we go we're protestant instantly wait i was the second nation to convert why didn't i get a center there's only two i should have gotten one right why didn't i get one the tax meta is real boys what can i say man you know man it feels so nice not having fought a single rebel stack for like uh 60 years man i think i should have tried stealing norway and sweden from denmark earlier but man look at denmark what's going on over here okay okay lubeck just left the coalition which means other guys will start leaving it and we can continue with what we were doing earlier well shout out to brandenburg once again because they just gave hoya to berg you're not making things better man hey austria just asked france for the lowlands because they got burgundy and a high note and luxembourg popped out awesome man thank you for obliging friends they were too scared of austria and uh well whoever they're allied to wait oh okay i'm still alive i forgot i'm an opm dude i got like 200 dev total lubeck is still asking me to join this damn trade league still waiting for the coalition to disband before we make our next moves boys uh yeah and i am gonna take admin and mill right here and we can take our third idea group which is of course gonna be dip i am gonna start focusing on dip now as well we can get new units what is it it's this and this and we can take uh probably like two of these yeah there we go nice tier seven governor form time these don't really matter since we're not gonna be using them let's just go for this okay the coalition is finally gone man that took a while let's get ready to fight all right i'm gonna be declaring on coal here finally enough there i like to england but i don't really care dude i'm stronger than england let's get it baby oh my god they picked the stupidest option ask the free cities for help in that uh hanseatic league incident i'm not interested in doing a renewed league oh i just realized my army quality is horrible obviously go away all right this here is done i'm not gonna make call my vassal instead i'm gonna give this this and this their total provinces among three of my subjects hopefully they don't give anything back to austria and listen man uh you know how the dev gets you know multiplied or something based on the institution you have now our best attempt at getting on the great powers list is gonna be to embrace the printing press before some of these guys right here so we can end up on top of them in the great powers list even though we technically won't have more depth than them uh that is gonna count since it did count in a previous challenge i did like this where i needed to get on the great powers list now boys i think we can all agree here that aggressive expansion in the hre is too high and it is slowing us down too much so here's what i've done obviously these are the seven electors in the hre and i sort of have good relations with most of them since brandenburg was my ally and i've also allied saxony and trier and mainz is a subject that means we need to control the capitals of bohemia the platinum trier and austria to dismantle the hre if i declare on trio right here there i like to both austria and the palette in it so by fighting trier we're gonna have the opportunity to dismantle the hre which is exactly what i'm gonna do so let's get it baby let's dismantle the holy roman empire alright we already have trier and heidelberg which is awesome so that means we just need to get prague and vienna denmark is in prague i'm almost in vienna looking good i can call in someone new to trent apparently come help out trent but wait will we still be a free city if the holy roman empire doesn't exist imperial free city maybe we'll just swap to one of these huh i mean the challenge would still be valid i think since i'm not gonna expand outside of dortmund we will lose some nice modifiers though i don't know we'll see it yes and there we go man we got prague and vienna as well let's dismantle the hre boom there we go uh the hre is no more i guess yeah it's done am i still a free city i am let's wait for the month to tick maybe i'll stop being one yes dortmund no longer a free city of the empire unfortunate now i'm an oligarchy uh yeah should we swap the noble elite i mean it is slightly better so yeah i will but yeah the challenge should still be valid man i'm i'm not expanding outside of my initial province i can take uh what can i take presidential system or parliamentarianism yeah let's go presidential i'm gonna make austria uh release bohemia and there we go the war is done i'm just gonna feed this to mines much less ae and yeah i'm gonna continue with conquest right away let's fight bra bond here and take whatever i'm probably gonna full annex them if i'm being honest yeah that's what's up baby all right so i've split brabant between flanders and holland and full annexing them will be 75 ae another coalition question mark of course not of course not ah we're looking so strong all of our lanes are connected we do have a few stragglers here and between us we might have to deal with those guys huh let me uh set those as promises of interest you know what i'm tired of these coalitions man another one formed let's just declare on the coalition let's declare the coalition it's funny because it's well funny not looking too shabby so far this war is longer than it needs to be because britain is uh just so strong man they uh they're beating up our armies pretty easily i did get beat like twice by them so yeah although aside from that these small guys are obviously not a problem but yeah britain is the one holding things down of course i could already peace out but i want to humiliate them you know war is going well well actually we're at 100 huh i guess i've occupied them for quite long but it is time for tier viii government reform surprisingly let's go for citizenry and i'm gonna do something like this give these three provinces to my boys there we go more people are angry of course a new coalition is forming i i won't fight this one funnily enough i did manage to halley the ottomans just now and uh with that i think i'll actually break my lines with hungary so maybe they can get gobbled up and drop off this list man austria is not doing well since we uh made them release bohemia all right france left the coalition i'm gonna go consume brunswick oh no i have a truce with them no i'm not gonna do that whoo that was a that was a close one who do i not have a truce with let's see nassau apparently so let's declare on them and co belligerent wurzburg too war is done and this will be evenly divided up between my boys so let's do that we don't really care about a anymore boys let's be real boom there we go sweet the coalition has formed once again you know i might just start dabbing my subjects here uh so we can uh get even more you know dev yeah there we go boom let's bump all that up yes yes there we go even more dev um we should have gotten quite a lot from that huh or maybe not i don't know oh yeah we did like 22 dev there we go the printing press did spawn in let's see prague so this is our chance to get on top of the great powers list how quick is it spreading ah not that quick we're pretty close man pretty close bohemia's already embraced that so they are already on the great paris list with uh you know less dev than us and the printing press has appeared in dortmund and we can embrace it and with that we have become one of the great powers most impressive now our actual dev is 416. bohemia is on here because they've also embraced it and hungary is also something around here in fact i think i have even more depth than hungary regularly and we can actually go into the ledger and check that and yeah man hungary has 405 david so even if we didn't have this institution modifier over here bohemia actually wouldn't be on the list and i would be even without embracing the printing press i just can't be bothered to wait for hungary to embrace it as well so they can show up on that list but as you all saw me and my subjects we have 416 dev hungary has 405 here on that list and on this list we're officially in the great powers of the world but yeah there you go man we started off as the tiny one province minor nation of dortmund a free city and a hundred years later we're still the tiny one province major nation of dortmund the 59 dev in our capital and only province of dortmund right here a bunch of buildings built up i'm even going to start building a desktop manufacturer that's what's up we have a bunch of subjects seven to be exact burke flanders jesse holland minds mooster and thoringia some of them are now disloyal naughty naughty but i think we can fix that up right away well at least with uh most of them holland's always been feisty you know how it is and this is our realm right now ladies and gentlemen we started off strong man vassalizing a bunch of nations around us and after that at a certain point we stopped vassalizing nations and we started growing the nations that we already had as vassals but because aggressive expansion has been insane for the entirety of the game with a bunch of coalitions for me and we even fought when of course i decided to dismantle the hre and look what's left of the mighty former holy roman emperor ferdinand the second vaude habsburg here who rules over this three province austria poor poor austria but yeah man we dismantled the hre to lower ae a little bit not sure how much that worked probably not a lot because we've been conquering high def promises and now we got another massive coalition going against us but as you all know the goal was to get on the great powers list without actually conquering any land ourselves and we have done that ladies and gentlemen whether in a regular fashion or through the institution embraced and non-embraced fashion we are fifth or eighth on the great powers list whichever way you wanna look at it we're here baby and we're here to stay as this super tiny super strong and super fun little nation of dortmund of course we're not a free city anymore because we dismantle the hre but hey we still have only one province and we're super super powerful but ladies and gentlemen boys and girls i'm happy to say that this campaign as dortmund in the final nation of season d has been a success and that has been dortmund in a to z this video was brought to you by squarespace 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Length: 25min 43sec (1543 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 22 2022