EU4 A to Z - This Start Is IMPOSSIBLE

no no no no no no no hi everyone and welcome to today's video where we're going to be continuing the adazi challenge the challenge where we play evernation u4 in 1444 with unique national ideas and alphabetical order and this week ladies and gentlemen i'm happy to say that we're back with our first nation in the very short season season d the nation of the homemade home is located in the west africa region the second nation that we've ever played over here after bannon in season b and it is the most difficult starting nation in west africa we're a one province minor nation only three devs so we literally can't be any poorer we start off with this one two two guy here he's horrible we're fetishes and our national ideas kind of suck the only good things we have going for us is the advisor discount and fort defense bonus along with the manpower and discipline these other national ideas they're not that good so overall definitely one of the most difficult starting positions in all of africa i would say but what do we do as the homemade well the homemade does have a unique achievement called where the heart is where we basically need to kick out every non-fetishist nation out of the west africa region before the year 1500. now i'm gonna be honest that is a super super hard achievement definitely one of the top 10 hardest achievements in eu4 in my opinion and i just don't think it would work really well for an a to z video since i would need to change my playstyle dramatically for me to be able to get that achievement and the video would probably be super super long because of the slow nature of playing so why not today as a home a do our own version of the where the heart is achievement where we'll need to conquer every province in west africa and convert every province to a fetishist as well to put our own little spin on the achievement and not be limited by the time limit of completing it before 1500. honestly i still think it's gonna be super super difficult it's super hard playing in west africa and starting as the weakest nation here is also gonna be a problem but hey it's season d baby you know what it is 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 youtube videos in general definitely hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on anything let's jump in as the homemade alright alright here we are as the homie let's take a look at our starting situation we got a couple of ducats we got a couple of thousand troops three diplomats two merchants we are a kingdom is that right yeah we are a kingdom so we're definitely gonna be taking martial society i love it i love it our first limit is six do we start off with a horse we do so let's tell that horse to go uh i don't know go somewhere and let's get three more guys right here our starting ruler is horrible dude i am willing to take the stab loss so let's give him milk command actually not a bad general at all and let's take a look if we can ally any nations here just the other fetishes guys just the other fetishes guys alright i'm actually pretty good with that so let's ally bannon right here the rival to oyo and nupe and we're also ally zazao right here later do we have any unique missions of course we don't of course we don't so uh let me actually start off by doing some estate stuff i probably should have done that before getting allies but no big deal we also have a free merchant this one guy collects and timbuktu and the other guy can transfer from katsina to timbuktu for now so let me get my estates in order now i did take embrace a singular cult here which increases the strength of the cult and reduces loss of stab when the monarch dies which is awesome but we can only choose one cult right so let's go for the land attrition cult right here it is going to be important to save up manpower so let's go with rouge right here all right all right estate stuff done i think everything is in order there so let's get a few rivals basically the nations that have rivaled us like dagbon and oyo i guess not bannon because we linked up with them of course and i am gonna start spying on dagbon right here and oyo as well and i think that's that for now man are we making any money we are actually making money at the start which is pretty good so uh yeah we have that going for us so we're gonna fight one of these guys right here in order to break out of our little one province and then go on to conquer the small guys and uh defend the big guys oh boy what have i got myself into man another annoying thing uh that we have going for us here in west africa is we don't even have feudalism that's right we don't have feudalism now it's already spreading in mali song and canon bornu and uh some of these guys do get events to speed it up like that but unfortunately man we're gonna have to force spawn it right here in a savannah province with plus 15 local dev cost and then we're gonna have to spawn the renaissance and then we're gonna have to spawn colonialism and we're gonna have to spawn all of them but on the bright side we do have three possible gold mines that we can acquire right here so that's gonna be good for us right i did just ally zaza and they're also i like to bannon as well and uh we got a little triple alliance going here between uh the three of us these guys have also linked up with some of them but i don't think that'll be a problem assemble a warband i will i think i am also going to try and link up with some of the bigger guys right here uh sungai and timbuktu what ally us so i think i am going to try and link with timbuktu here now improve with timbuktu to the max here and i still can't ally them let's see if it'll be possible if i scornfully insult a rival of theirs there we go and yes now we can ally timbuktu so that's awesome we got a big ally as well and right now i'm just screwing favors with my boys right here so we can declare on these guys right here all right favors have been curry with bannon and zaza and i did also hire the free company and i attached it to my main army so it's time to declare a first war here man i am gonna declare an oil right here co-belligerent dagbon and co-belligerent wagadugu which are these two nations right here and hopefully i'll be able to take everything all of their provinces so let's declare for whatever right here colin bannon and zaza hopefully bannon won't occupy provinces right here and neither will zaza actually i will declare for moshi right here so zazo transfers it to me and uh let's get it baby first war time easy though easy dude i took out burger loans at the start they were one duck at loans i took five ducats jesus alright so this war is done actually a super easy war we full occupied everything the problem is waka dooku here also got declared on by bonomon and bai kong and uh yatenga and janae too apparently jesus now since we can't take provinces from them due to this being occupied by kung i'm wondering if we should actually vassalize them but then we'll be dragged into wars versus these four guys right here now obviously bannon and zaza and tibuktu would automatically help out but what could we do then maybe take these provinces from bonomon and kong get a gold mine and then feed it jenae and yatenga to wagadugu i think this is gonna be very nice i just hope it doesn't backfire so in that case i am gonna wait around a little bit until these guys accept being my vassal actually i just realized i can do it in the main piece deal so of course we're fighting oyo but we're also fighting dagbon right here so i am gonna full annex dagbon i'm gonna full annex oyo as well only 2180 easy bruh and i'm also gonna make waga dugu my vassal and take all of their money and boom there we go just like that we've been called into three defensive wars but now i can call in bannon once again and zazou and timbuk2 too and let me just set these provinces right here as provinces of interest but i can't i can't do that alright let's go knock out bonomon first and that's it i've already beaten up bonomon boom there we go we can full annex them awesome and there we go we've beaten up yatenga as well i am gonna give all of it to my subject wagadugu perfect and that was just kong and jenae left and if you're thinking wow this is a great start to the where the heart is achievement you might actually get it uh no everyone in fighting is a fetishist nation we don't really care about that fetishes nations can exist we just need muslim nations to not exist no wait were these provinces owned at the start are these always uncolonized or is it just looking weird to me because molly shrunk what happened here now zazo and timbuktu did get peaced out but it's cool we just need to take jenny right here and we're done and i'm actually just gonna take money transfer trade power and war apps from generate here since they do have some high def provinces especially their capital generated here it also has a monument the great musk of jenae is that actually any good uh it's only for muslim nations so we don't care i mean of course it's a mosque what was i thinking but now we can also peace out kong and acquire our first gold mine in lobby right here yes ah nice expansion at the start man but now we do need to chill for a couple years before everyone gets angry at us and waka doo is disloyal here still so let me just play get them once and we're all gucci baby let's score these up and uh go back home and relax a bit it's gonna be rebels galore pretty soon so i do need to prepare for that we can also get some new rivals which i will do uh and let's see i will rival nupe and jenae as well and uh fada and gurma alright so songai has already actually gotten feudalism and they do get it from their missions or an event or something like that so i don't think we'll really need a deaf feudalism right here man i can actually link up with some guy there we go so let's remarry them and i can ally them now too awesome man so uh yeah we might get it through spread uh through friendly provinces or whatever it is looking good baby and it's 1456 and we have already gotten our tier 2 government reform as you all know we don't have strength and noble privileges we're a tribal nation but we have something that's even better baby that's right martial society now what about our tier 1 reform right here tribal despotism is actually really good minus 10 ccr treble monarchy is ah it doesn't matter to do much for us right here in west africa state the society of course we don't like it sacred kingdom i wonder which nation has this uh tier 1 govern form at the start it's meh and feudal tribe is just a regular stuff so yeah tribal despotism is the best one and there we go i just scored up these provinces right here so let me turn kong into a state and uh encourage development and now we can dev lobby up to 10 production i have been saving my points boom boom boom there we go let's dab it in admin and dip because i do want to save mill for uh you know taking up and stuff i mean i guess we can use one and there we go baby our first gold mine is up to 10. now i just need to wait for the month to take over and we can lower autonomy as well boom nice we're making five ducks a month from gold easy now we can get some advisors too let's actually get this uh spiderweb guy right here and i don't have an inflation reduction guys so i'll go with the production efficiency guy yeah now i do need to get new rivals but the only nations i can rival are nations i'm already allied to and i don't want to lose them just right now so i will eat the power projection penalty it's no big deal we can also bump up our army here a bit so uh let me get two horses actually our air sucks too dude no my prestige and you know bannon and zaza are allied to fat on guruma right here or they guarantee them or whatever so i think with me being elected timbuktu and songa right here man i actually can't ditch these small guys we will need to expand into them as well bannon does have a nice monument here which i do want to take so sorry um starring boys timbuktu wants the knowledge share i will accept thank you how does congo have feudalism too i guess they have a similar mission to songai where they can spawn it too that's pretty awesome i actually haven't played congo or sungai since uh you know origins dropped but i do know they're super fun nations alright it's time to continue with our wars man let's declare on farah and gruma right here since uh zaza won't defend them even though they're allied so let's just declare for uh whatever wait did i claim that province i think i no i guess i didn't all right there we go let's declare for groomer right there i'll call in should i even call in sungai i mean yeah let's make the war easier why not and then ah but like that zaza will join so yeah i won't call in sungai and uh let's get it actually i think that if i let a couple of days pass just like that and now colin sungai now zaza won't join right i think uh someone dm me that on this chord or something let's try it and just as we started this where we've also uh spawned feudalism so now we can embrace it ah nice text i love it i love it i love it are we the most technologically advanced nation in west africa uh no that's uh that's timbuktu and both of these boys have been beaten up so let me separate these banner right here can we phil annex them yes yes we can alright that's awesome uh let me get their money as well boom bannon is gone play crab rave and we also have the walls of bannon prestige from land battles plus fifty percent nice i like that and we can also peace out fada and guruma right here of course i will be full annexing them and boom just like that we've wiped out two more nations once again we're no closer to achieving the achievement because the muslim nations they still exist so yeah man looking good i think nupe is my next target and see this is the point where we get locked in man if we want to declare molly well they're allied to my allies as well so uh we're not strong enough to do that jenae right here they're a lie to these guys now this could be doable but we're still gonna have to fight big guys and i can't do it without song and timbuktu same situation with nupe man look at their alliances sure they're like the smaller guys but i still can't do it by myself now we do need to start spawning the renaissance luckily i did manage to get the province of ijebu from bannon which is pretty much the best province in this region right here to spawn the renaissance in maybe a part from jenny right here which is a center of trade and produces cloth so that's pretty cheap at the start too actually it does have pretty high def so ijebu might be the best and uh i wonder if we should use mill points here at all man i think i'm gonna go with dip and admin maybe but i am gonna bump it up a couple of times oh no no i didn't notice it didn't have feudalism yet bro oh my god i just wasted so many points on that and we didn't even bump up the renaissance you know what forget about this man we're just gonna do it in our uh capital of may right here it's 59 if i activate encourage development again it's 54 so there's no point in that and i do think it's time to kick off our next war so let me declare a new be right here since all of my boys will join let's go for their capital and i think i'll just be white piecing their ally since i can't reach two of them anyway peace out katsina but i am getting a bit uh rubble bombed over here and this war has done as well peaced out all of their allies so let's just full annex nupe perfect i think i'll also start annexing wagadugu right here uh can i give the nobility that where is it where is it yeah the nobility integration policy there it is so let's annex wagaduku as well and i just sent in my alliance with zazow too and it is time for a tier three governor form now i don't remember these lip service or religious society yeah let's go with this one for sure nice and i did just dev up the renaissance as well and we can immediately embrace it which is awesome finally admin deck 4 in 1479 dude we're so behind on attack it's not even funny but uh hey finally we can start building some buildings and i have also just finished annexing wagga dugu which is awesome let's uh state these two up or no i'll state them later actually yeah we're good and we can actually already start converting provinces to fetishist and i will start converting this obviously i'm gonna open up with religious ideas i know it's an admin idea group it's not very wise to open up with an admin idea group yada yada yada but for the purposes of time i will open up with religious once we get admin tech 5. whose with zaza just ran out and unfortunately i could only claim one province so far but no big deal baby we'll declare on them right away because they don't have any allies boom there we go the diplomat is back and let's get it just got another missionary through an event and just like that zaza was done boom boom boom boom boom boom easy all right now the only three nations i could declare on are jenny molly and kano since i'm allied to sungai kano a highlight to these guys so that's out of the question jenny or i like to just hire so actually that could be pretty good and molly they're still i like the timbuktu and songai so it looks like jenna is next up on the chopping blog and let's not waste any more time man let's just declare engineer right here i am going to call in song guys so they can help out with ire easy let's get it finally i just said admin deck 5. i am already focusing on admin by the way i have been for a while obviously we're opening up with religious like i said earlier what do we go with for our age ability here now this isn't that needed a isn't actually really high at all what's our capital in oh it's in a savannah and all of this is savannah well i know what i'm gonna be taking adaptive combat terrain and this war is done too bye bye jenny they do have some really really expensive provinces right here such as this one 18 dev this one's nine this one's nine actually all of their provinces are decent and it says that a coalition will form will it nah it's just molly baby nice ah my goldmine and lobby depleted at some point i didn't notice this now to fight mali obviously we'd have to fight timbuktu and sungai because they're allied and guaranteed by them but i wonder can i make sungai uh break their alliance with molly of course i can of course i can and can i make tim buck to reduce their opinion of molly of course i can and now what happens huh denmark 2 would still defend them but hey when does something like that ever stop me so let's declare for a segu right here and uh yeah that's what's up obviously molly's been in a you know state like this ever since the game starts you know they start off with a really horrible disaster chain and stuff like that they literally have only 4k troops 2k men per dude they've lost a bunch of words already to joel off and massina it seems like yeah all right i'm gonna make these guys end their alliance with uh joloff and molly here all right bro let's end molly suffering i literally beat up like 50 rebel stacks that popped out while we were fighting them so let's see can we fullness these guys oh we can we can well give me all your money too wait no no no no no no how much ae was that let's see it doesn't say it oh oh it does say it ah we should be good here i hope we have become one of the great powers they shall tremble before our whatever that pop-up says let's take a look nice man almost as powerful as england what's bohemia doing up here they got a big subject half of subjects development so their subjects have like 520 death but yeah man with that we acquired two more gold mines one right here and one right here they're already at six and six respectively so it won't be that expensive to get them up to ten you know i think uh parishes nations should be able to use muslim monuments if they have the islam cult that's a pretty good idea paradox write that down hey the first call to arms by an ally looks like sungai is fighting these guys sure i'll help hey i just discovered the sea hello castile uh just dealing with separatist galore over here we got a few more stacks to wipe out before i move on with my conquest obviously joloff massena and cano are next hey i got big boy loans now and to be honest we haven't really been taking loans at all this game man so let's go with indebted to the burgers right here for only the second time since the start where we got five one duckett loans that's right nice missionary strength i like that's expensive that's very expensive either way uh yeah man let's get to building some buildings and yeah i almost forgot that i need the state man ding right here and let's encourage dev and let's dive beret and bambook up to 10 boom boom there we go boom there we go and you know what baby it's time for me against the world let's rival songai oh i can already see the mam looks hello mam looks do i need the gov cap let me see here i don't really need the golf cap let's go for more ccr here it's time to continue our conquest boys let's declare on jewel off right here i wonder what their province worth score cost is it's 93 so we can take them in one war so let's take a look for fukta jalan right here can we kobe legend masina of course we can and it's time for uh massena to stop existing and we have also crushed the mighty nation of jolof let's see if we can full annex them already or will i need to beat up their armies oh would you look at that goodbye joloff it was nice knowing yeah no it wasn't i didn't really know you at all we were like you know just acquaintances i i've just seen you around sometimes don't listen let's not make it any more awkward than it needs to be i'll just i'll just leave and before i declare the war with jolof i actually did manage to ally yao right here they may help out with some of these guys now i do need to make the clergy more loyal than influential so i can take away one privilege and give them the missionary strength privileges right now that's the most important thing missionary strength and by completing the privilege which requires me to have less than one percent over extension once i query everything up i think i will be able to take away a privilege and actually i can't but i think by selling titles yes i can so let's uh let's take away clerical advisory council from them and let's give them enforced unity of faith and yeah i can just seize again all right let's get a move on and fight timbuktu ah song i just declared on them two men just as i was getting ready all right no big deal let's just declare four whatever for that and we'll try and take as much as we can here yeah and strong guy peaced out which means i'll peace out too and i am going to ask yao here to break ah i can't second idea group time i was pushing towards admin x7 because we already got what we wanted the missionary strength right here and we need to go with an idea group that will give us even more missionary strength i'm thinking go with aristo here it does give us machinery strength uh diplo also gives it to us but we're kind of using diplo for conquest so yeah let's go with aristo and let's make yao break their alliance with they're at war all right yao ended there were now can we make them break an alliance yes of course we can perfect so let's declare on sungai immediately boom there we go uh let's declare for whatever i don't know timbuktu there we go nice we're fighting these guys too so let's go wipe them out first all right so war with song is pretty much done but i can't full annex them so uh yeah that's that for now dude lucky this guy's a zealot that's what i'm talking about all right uh let's declare on camera right here for keno sure they're all at the song but listen i don't care anymore let's wipe out sungai for the final time and then move on these guys we gotta barrage some forts and let's fall annexed sungai boom soon guys no more i can finally core this up thank you kano for fighting my rebels i just remembered those missionary strength advisors and there he is and the war with kano is done as well let's see can we actually fully annex them and we can yes i love it i love it i love it nice man it's just ayur and canon born who left their opm's and then it's gonna be yao and now wait a minute oh i have to fight alodia oh they don't have any allies and they're already fetishist okay that's lucky or shoes with yao is until 1527 so not bad at all now portugal is here and the the craziest thing they're actually protestant i really want to take a look at europe dude if portugal is protestant man maybe it's spawned over here i don't know but we're good since they won't convert anything and like i said at the start we only need the ones that are already owned let me convert another province and declare on the nation of ire and wipe them out as well easy man even once you get the ball rolling with some of these west africa nations especially as one with such weak national ideas as we have as dahomey right here i still don't really feel that powerful man it's definitely the lack of national ideas and missions and i don't know other unique stuff that'll make me feel powerful i could easily get a crush by portugal here man i'm 778. they're ten yeah but yeah that's that oh now ashanti is popping out i mean they shouldn't count right since they didn't exist at the start just like the portuguese province and this one right here yeah i think so unfortunately man yao is too big for us to annex them in one word we might have to shoes break them here but yeah either way my shoes with them is up all right so i'm gonna do something like this with y'all just so we can reach alodia right here and then we're gonna have to take these three provinces but hey what are you gonna do sometimes things do be like that and let me start spying on elodia here which now i can see and uh they're like to ethiopia you know what bro let's just declare nalodia man this is gonna be easy who cares that we're fighting all of these guys right we just need a couple of provinces up to here and yeah man all i had to do was occupy their capital right here beat up a few ethiopian armies and theirs and uh that's all we need that's all we need simple quick maps thank you elodia no no no no no no no these provinces have religious zeal dude oh my god let's see when it runs out all right all right 15 43 that's not that oh no 1556 dude what about that one muslim province what's it called manga oh they're all pretty close i guess i don't know and yeah man i've converted pretty much everything i can convert except the provinces that i own that have zeal so let's take a look at these this one the zeal expires 1543. we got 15.57 all right that's uh horrible 1556 1555 was this 1543 44 and 42 and then it's just these three provinces that i need to conquer from yeah like i said at the start we don't need ashanti and these two but uh should i wait for the zeal to expire i don't know it's kind of painful waiting for 11 years although my truce with you is until 1544 so i guess i can wait four years to fight yao i don't want to choose break them since then my stability will lower which means i'll have less missionary strength but then again i don't need to convert anything so should i just break these guys ah i'll wait four years final gov reform time we're not gonna become a monarchy or a republic or a theocracy or a horde we're staying travel baby let's form an advanced tribe you know the zeal on some of these is going away i wonder if that tooltip is wrong didn't this manga one say it was gonna go like in 1556 or am i wrong i've already converted like two of them listen i make this joke when we played as bannon so let me make it now let's say ciao yeah uh al zabo would be proud there we go let's get even more missionary strength and i just bombed and assaulted and that's done too boom but yeah let's be real here boys ain't nobody got time to wait for these three zeals to expire which are in 1555 56 and 57 so let's just wrap it up right there but yeah there you go man we started off as the homie in this province right here a one province minor nation the weakest out of any nation in west africa and this is what we look like right now of course our goal for this campaign was to do a slightly altered version of the where the heart is achievement where we needed to not only conquer but also convert every non-fetishist province in the sort of greater western africa region consisting of the sahel niger and guinea regions of course that wasn't owned or colonized at the start that's why we don't care about ashanti or these two or this one or this one right here and we have managed to own and convert every single province that we needed to of course except for these three because i'm not waiting for that zl i can't i gotta edit this video you guys want to watch it don't you i have lost my mind slightly i apologize for that but yeah man overall a super fun campaign we got off to a nice start right here conquering a bunch of nations and then vassalizing another nation up here so we could conquer a bunch more nations and after that we sort of got locked in between the bigger powers but with some careful alliances and with some careful war declarations we were successful and we did manage to come out on top of course the three gold mines that we conquered helped us out a lot a lobby right here depleted twice i had to build it up this one's now at nine but listen who cares the campaign is over overall super super strong nation everything stated oop except for that i can't say that yet but almost everything stated autonomy lowered rebels are about to be fought we're making like 25 ducats a month which is super super strong we went with religious of course in order to be able to convert everything right here and i just took aristotle because i wanted a policy for missionary strength we didn't really need it after all and overall a super super nice campaign and i'm glad that we finally returned to west africa over here in season d but yeah man i hope you all enjoyed this first episode in season d a very short season there's only a few nations in season d and it's gonna be the same in season e and f so overall super super short seasons we're gonna wrap up both d and e this month i think so uh yeah man stay tuned for some super fun nations like denmark england and nations like that but ladies and gentlemen boys and girls i'm happy to say that this campaign as the homemade in a to z has been a success unless you're thinking hawk you should have converted these in that case it's a failure but hey who am i to judge and that has been the homemade in a to z let me know in the comments below what i should do with this nation next week if you want to watch me do stuff like this live you can follow me on twitch.tv slash the red hawk live and if you want to catch up on stuff from over there you can subscribe to the second channel link is in the description 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 e4 videos in general definitely hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on anything and you can become a member today and join the discord the link is in the description thank you so much for watching and i'll see you next time with another eu4 video

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Length: 28min 25sec (1705 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 01 2022