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Hello everybody and welcome to Begirmi.
And oh my god, what in the heck am I doing to myself? Why am I playing Begirmi? I don't know. I think I might be insane. Okay, Begirmi is still top 10 difficulty. It might not be as hard or as impossible as Indian territory is.
Frankly, I think Indian territory is probably in the realm of god awful. But it might be harder than maybe like Frankfurt, Hohenzollern, Krakow. Yeah, it might be harder than them. Not by much, but you know, at least on par.
The reason why I say that is because Wadai does not lose battalions anymore.
They keep those 10 battalions for free forever, which means you have to actually beat Wadai in a straight-up dog fight as really, really awful, awful, awful Begirmi. You got two battalions to start off with, and that is a nightmare.
Which means the thing that you need to do first and foremost as Begirmi is you need to get your butt out there, and you need to start upgrading those lovely, lovely infantry. You got to get so many of those infantry out. I'm talking like, hmm, I would say maybe six, so you can come up to eight and then you maybe get a few of those hussars out. Uh, but before you can get the hussars out, you are going to need a millet farm. So, make sure you get the millet farm out. In fact, you should probably put that out first. And then once the millet farm is done, build off three more hussars so you have about 11 troops. That alone should probably, maybe be enough to take out what I. Uh, just make sure you find yourself a good general first. You kind of really badly need a defensive strategist or a tactful commander. You're going to have to cycle through them. Yeah, it's a pain in the butt to cycle through them now. You don't get a infinite amount of cycling anymore, but if that's what it takes, maybe reload if you have to. I know it's a pain in the pure posterior, but you got to get it done. You need tactful, you need defensive strategist. If you don't get them, if you don't cycle through your troops enough, you will get a couple years to be able to cycle through them. Just make sure to go in and you know, retire the commanders every now and then when you get the opportunity to. And then when it comes to your tech, >> [laughter] >> what tech? You don't have tech. You have three, no, you got four techs now. I think they gave you international trade.
Yeah, they did. You got four technologies now. Make sure you go for manufactories first or or what you could probably do instead is maybe go for military drill first and then go for line infantry. And then maybe get gunsmithing out and then you could go for manufactories, although you should probably get manufactories before gunsmithing.
Generally one or the other.
What you could probably do after that point is then maybe make the play for academia and then make the play for colonization, but wow, this is not going to go fast. You're not going to have a good time, okay?
This is Sans and he's telling you you're going to have a bad time. Get your promote social mobility out there. Get your encourage agriculture industry out there. And there is really not much else you can do at this point. You're literally just going to be building troops and that's about it.
It's not going to be fun. You can't even really change [music] any laws at this point. You could probably bring everybody in and maybe get lucky and pull off a law, but yeah. I wouldn't hold your breath. It'll take a little bit of time for you to be able to get 10 of farmers, so you know, get tucked in, get nice and cozy. This will not be easy.
By this point Wadai usually deletes their battalions. Same with Zulu down here and it looks like they fixed that.
I guess that was a bug. That must have been a bug. But yeah, yeah, we are we're in trouble. I'm going to actually have to lower my taxes just so my people don't revolt on me. That's going to hurt a little bit. What's going on with the lower strata? Did they not not go down?
No. Do I have to go down even further?
There we go. Now we're under four. Phew.
But again, monetarily we are boned. We are completely boned. We're going to have to attack Wadai with a a bit of a penalty right now. We're getting that mobilization up by attacking Futatoro before we go after Wadai. This time we're going to try to add maybe a little more troops to see if maybe we can get this to work. Maybe. I might wait the full 10 months though and the reason why I say that is I think we need the 10% from the armed forces here.
We need the 10%. This is brutal. Brutal brutal brutal brutal brutal. I am crying on the inside. That is how brutal this is, okay?
So, we're not losing that much money. We can probably survive even with like a minus 100. It's not the end of the universe here with this. It is bad, make no mistake, and it is painful, make no mistake, but it's not the end of the world here. Now, I'm going to wait until I don't know, about 1 week here.
1 week. There Here go. We're at 1 week.
Now, before you're done building, what we're going to do is we're going to start building, I guess, a tool mill, textile mill, paper mill, food industry.
There you go.
There we go. Now, we're not done with this. Now, we're not done with this.
What else can I do in the meantime? Oh, no, it's kind of hurting my Ooh, they're getting kind of pissy. I better do something about that.
Yeah, we can't really afford that, can we?
We can't really afford that now. Make sure you are on rapid advance. Make sure you are on defense.
We're almost there. 5 months to go, people. Yeah, we're taking a major hit here, but I I can't think of anything else to do.
In fact, I'm going to have to lower my tax all the way down because these guys are getting slammed.
These guys are getting slammed. This is a bit of a train wreck, but we're almost on military drill. Once we get military drill, we're going to get a 10% bonus.
So, I think we're at this point we can go after Vidai now. Let's annex them.
Let's get that started.
Hopefully, my timing isn't off. If it is, I guess it's a whatever, but I think I was kind of close enough. Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully.
Now, I might have to bring these gentlemen in now.
Uh once we're at about 50%, I'm going to move them into the front. Hopefully, they can hold the front.
Do I want to give them anything else at the moment? I don't think I do need to give them anything else at the moment. I just need you guys to hold the front.
That's all I need. I just want you to survive.
And yeah. Yeah.
Are we there yet? 3 weeks to go.
21 days to go. I think I got the timing down good. Good, good, good.
I got the timing down perfect. We got military drill. That's perfect for me.
Why? Cuz now I can go for professional army. And by going for professional army, we got the 10% bonus from our armed forces, which is a very, very big boon.
Now, here's what's going to happen, people. Here's what's going to happen.
We're going to be very patient, and we're going to sit back and wait for them to attack. The moment they attack these gentlemen right here, we're going to hit our rapid advance brew and get them in on the front immediately.
Whether or not it's going to work is a good question, but we're we're definitely going to try. We're definitely going to try. We're going to wait until about the 90% range.
Again.
Again. Yeah, I know. I know. It's crazy, but we're doing it.
All right. So, pause. We're at the 90% range. Now, move in. By the time they get there, if my timing isn't bad, we should be able to hit them while they are engaged in offensive fight here.
Will I be able to push them back is the question.
It looks like we are able to push them back quite nicely, in fact. Now, is the fight over?
It's pretty much over.
We're not going to be able to get that done in time, so we're going to station and pull back.
And by doing that, they might push us back a little bit, but not enough. And we just have to time it so that we hit them before they hit us again.
We might actually raise up and try to get my armor morale back cuz these guys got stomped, like badly stomped. It was bit of a slobberknocker. Not a good feeling. Not a good feeling. That's okay. That's okay. If this works, if my timing is correct, we should be fine.
I just got to get the right timing down.
Oh, no, my timing was off. Crap.
Are we going to be able to hit them in time?
No, we were not able to hit them in time.
My timing was off. Off, off, off. Dang it. Okay, station again. Let's try this again.
Okay.
Pull them off. Pull them off.
Okay, this time we're going to wait until about the halfway mark.
There we go. That Are we there yet? Yeah, we're pretty much there. Okay, let's try it now.
Let's hit them again.
No, I goofed it. Okay, Okay, try that again. Let's try that again. We're we're not trouble yet. We're not in trouble.
We're really trying here. We're really trying here.
The uh the difficulty of this is really high, guys. Okay, I'm trying. I'm doing my damndest.
Now, DID I GET NO, I SCREWED UP THE TIMING. Isn't my attacker bro in here?
Okay, it isn't. Good.
Will we be able to hit them before it's too late?
Did I really lose?
Really?
Oh my gosh. They didn't send all their troops in.
Oh, no.
Is this game over?
This might be game over.
I'm not kidding. This might actually be game over.
Actually, no, it isn't.
No, it isn't.
Can I push them in before they get their their organ- their morale back?
I might push them back before I LOST MY MORALE.
YES! [screaming] OH MY GOD, THAT WAS really really hard.
But, I did it.
So, even after all of that, we have to do the exact same thing with four new people.
>> [laughter] >> I'm trying not to cry here, but oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh, this is hell. This is absolute hell.
I I'm so scared. This is not fun.
>> [laughter] >> This is nightmarish.
I am crying.
I am legitimately crying. Okay.
Let's get you up in here, bro.
Oh, no, it's not going to work. Okay, station back.
Station back. Station back. We got to time it properly here.
Looks like we got the timing down. Okay, let's move you back in. Once more into the fray you go, buddy.
Can we get away with it like we did before?
That is the question.
Is it going to work?
Uh yeah, kind of. It's kind of working.
And we're winning the fight.
Yeah, we're winning defensively.
We are outnumbered like crazy and we're winning defensively. That is bonkers.
So this is the two fronts. Oh gosh. Okay, here's what I learned with the two fronts. Make darn sure that you take this state first. Always take Borneo Chad first if you get the two fronts. And I got the two fronts unfortunately, so make sure we get Borneo Chad.
Oh, looks like we actually hit the wrong one. OH MY GOD, AM I ACTUALLY winning now? We're over at 23% and we are pushing them down.
Holy crap, did I win this war?
I might have won this war.
I'm not kidding.
I'm not kidding. I actually won this war.
People.
Maybe I haven't.
The troops are on the wrong side.
Can I cycle them over before it's too late?
I would have to delete somebody and push them up and hope that they can push out.
Or I would have to leave like one troop as a defense troop. I'm going to leave one troop as a defense troop.
One troop as a defenser, okay?
You go here.
I need you to have my best guy here.
And then this guy right here.
I guess we'll use this goofball.
And you my goofy little friend go up here.
We actually have a bonus with only one troop here. That is crazy to me.
WAIT, DON'T ATTACK YET. NO. NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, DON'T don't no, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't attack yet. We're not ready. We're not ready. Don't attack yet.
Stop that. Stop it. Don't attack yet.
Okay.
Now that we got our troops here, I want you down here.
Is that going to be enough?
Uh, it might not be enough. I might have to keep you up on this front. I might have to wait for our damn morale to come back.
Our morale is in the donkey dick. Uh, we are kind of goofed.
So, crap.
>> [music] >> Okay. Okay. Well, can I merge you guys together now?
Oh.
Oh, what happened?
I got the wrong guys on on the wrong spot here. What?
How did that happen? Did Did he freaking die? He freaking died on me.
No, he didn't. He's right there. He's idle. Okay.
We are losing Why are you attacking? You should not be attacking.
I have nobody in attack mode. Why did you do that?
Now, we're going to lose up on that front up there.
Oh my gosh. Okay, attack down here before it's too late cuz I I can't do anything about that now. I have to hit them before it's over.
Oh my gosh. Did I just lose this war because of an attack that I had no control over?
Nope, I didn't lose. We're defending well enough. Good. Good. Good. Good.
Now, I need you to aim for up here. And the reason why is because then we can push through here and take this over.
So, if we can get hostile land, we're fine.
And I think we're going to get hostile land.
Yes, we are guaranteed to get hostile land now.
We actually won here.
Believe it or not, after all of this insanity, we actually won here. Did I accidentally build the damn food? Yes, I did. Oopsie.
Oopsie. Oopsie. Oopsie. Well, I got a little bit of infrastructure to play with, so it's not the end of the universe here, but my gosh, what a what a what a what a heck. What What the heck? WTF, mate. All I can say is WTF.
We got all of Borneo now. Look at that.
Look at that, Bagirmi.
Look at that.
Once more into the fray we go. We're going after Go Beer this time. Oh my god. And we have been at permanent war with Fuda Toro this whole time. Just for the sake of organization and mobilization, man. This is crazy.
The fact that that I even works is just kind of bonkers to me. But again, once more what we're doing again is we're defending with our sexy sexy tack full bro. And once the battle starts, we're going to move in with our lovely bigot here and hopefully hopefully we can swarm them down before it's too late.
We're going to go back into rapid advance here.
We're just going to wait nice and patiently for them to fill up and start the battle.
Um right about here. Right now. We'll take a little longer. We'll take a little longer here.
Okay, now it's started. Now we're going to move in.
And can we swarm them down before it's too late?
That's the question.
We're trying to swarm them down before they lose the battle.
And I did.
Kind of. Almost. Not quite. So we're going to have to pull back again. Once more into the fray we go. And they should be crazy enough to attack again. If they are, I will be in a good position.
I just need you to attack again, bro.
Station I can't even get you here, can I?
You're really far away. I don't like that. I don't like that at all. Can I get you to deploy back here? We'll just go back and forth if that's what it takes.
We're just going to go back and forth.
Don't care how it gets done. Do boom.
Are we going to hit them before it's too late?
One more. I need one more. Hit them.
Yeah, boy. We got Go Beer.
And that's how it's done, my friends.
Look at that. We're not the gear me anymore. We're big ear me.
Believe it or not, we can actually see Dar Fur already. I don't know how that happens, but yeah. Yeah, we can see Dar Fur, baby.
I'm confused, but I'll take it. Yeah. We can see Dar Fur. We have a level two with them, don't we? Yeah, we do. We got the now base in here. We got an automatic level two with the border. So, the Darfur penalty is gone. I'm sure Darfur can go for these guys year one now, which is really, really good for Darfur. It's also really, really good for me. You want to know why? Cuz we got to go for them right now. We have to get big and beefy. We got to do whatever it takes to get chunky. So, we're going to go for Darfur right now. We actually have way too many troops. We must have construction somewhere.
I can't afford it.
Get it out. Get it out. No construction allowed.
We still got construction. Where?
Where's the other construction? Get Get rid of it.
My gosh, I can't afford construction.
All we're doing is We're just We're just trying to survive, man.
That's all we're trying to do.
Now that we're at 100%, we are going to attack with this gentleman and only this gentleman. He's pretty much the only one that's full up on troops and everything else. He should be able to win. Even with dug in, they have so few troops that we're able to crush them. Yay! Oh, no, never mind. We gave up.
Damn, our morale is so bad we gave up.
That is very unfortunate.
Very, very unfortunate. That is kind of frustratingly unfortunate, but I have a plan. We're going to attack with this guy now.
Going to go into rapid advance here, try to get that out right away. And the reason why we rapid advanced them is because we are kind of hitting them when their morale is still buggered. So, as long as their morale is buggered, we should be able to Oh, no, no, damn.
They're getting a lot of lucky rolls here. That is actually kind of frustrating. Good. They got one bad roll and we won. Nope, we lost. We actually retreated.
Really?
Okay, we're going to defend again.
That's fine. We're going to beat them with numbers. We're going to cycle back over and attack with this guy. Before the retreat is over, we should be be to hit them again.
I guess no, we'll hit them again afterwards, but that's fine. The reason why I say that is because eventually their morale is going to be so bad Really? You got another bonus?
I'm getting frustrated at the Oh my god, they keep getting bonuses. This is ridiculous.
What kind of leader do you have?
You must have a god tier leader.
You No, you don't. You don't have a god tier leader, although it is mountainous, isn't it?
It counts as mountainous, so that's probably why. They get a nice bonus for mountainous.
Hm.
Damn, that is unfortunate for me, but I won the battle anyways. We got it. We got it. It's over. It's over. They will not be able to recover from this due to morale. So, eventually we will swarm them down, and that'll be it for Darfur.
Good. Good. Good. Good. What a nightmare, though. Holy moly. That was ruthless.
Again, we're doing the exact same thing to the other countries that we did before.
The only difference is we're going to do it with two units instead of one.
Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully this works.
Whether or not it will, holy crap, I can't answer that question. All I know is I've got nothing else. I got nothing else. I am I'm broke. I'm I'm I'm giga broke.
We are in death mode.
Oh, crud.
Oh, crap, we got a uprising to deal with as well. This is not good.
This is really not good. I'm going to have to get rid of it without dying, and I got the abolitionists being really pissy as well. Thankfully, we're not giga broke. On the downside, though, we might run out of guns before it's too late, so I'm going to have to fake out again. We're going to have to go back and forth here. Like, this is nightmarish.
I'm not kidding. This is brutal.
I am in a lot of trouble here.
Can I win defensively? That is the question.
It looks like I am. It looks like I'm actually winning defensively.
Holy moly.
Holy Oh, no, we're losing on with this guy. Crud. I need another defender.
I don't have any other defenders. I have no freaking mountain mode here either.
Can I cycle for a defender somehow?
We have woodland combat. That should be able to help me though.
Yeah, we should have ambushes.
So, we're winning one defense, losing one defense.
What can I do here?
What can I do here? What are they even taking? They're taking border one on house land.
So, damn.
What's going on with their money?
They have a lot of gold reserves.
They're not going to go broke in this war.
I'm in a lot of trouble.
I am in so much trouble here.
I think my best shot here is hoping that this guy can defend properly before this guy fails out. I need a better defender on this guy. That's my number one problem here.
I have no good defenders for him.
There is no good defenders here.
I am in a lot of trouble. Okay, uh let's make another army and try doing some general cycling. Can I even general cycle here?
Oh, you got to have battalions to general cycle. Dang it.
Dang it. Okay, um I'll use you for general cycling. How about that?
Oh, WE GOT A DEFENSIVE STRATEGIST. OH MY GOD, did that just save me?
That might have just saved me. I'm not kidding. That might save the run.
I'm not kidding.
I'm not kidding. Okay, I got to pull this guy off. I can't even pull this guy off.
Why can't I pull this guy off? Can I merge him with another unit at least? If I pull him over here, can I merge him with that one?
That would be lovely. I got to get him out of here.
Transfer you to the zero here and transfer just get out. Go go go. Get out of here. I want I don't want you defending.
You are not here to defend. You're here to fight.
You're here to be my attacker, bro.
And we're at 8% now. Can I station him yet?
There are no valid alternatives for stationing act. Okay, well then I'm going to have to play it like this.
This is brutal.
This is brutal.
Oh.
And are we losing this one?
We have all this defense, but we have no troops.
Holy crap.
Well, can I hit them before it's too late?
Nope, I cannot hit them before it's too late. Can I station them over here at least in preparation for the next second attack? Cuz they are going to attack again. I know for a fact they are.
So, once they get the other attack going, boom.
Get them in there.
Once the other attack starts, can we hit them in time?
It looks like we are.
Oh. Oh. Oh.
I think we got them.
People.
People, I think we got them.
We got a big Oh my god. Did we actually turn things around? Look at their troop numbers.
Oh, they're screwed.
I won. Guys, I beat Sakalava.
People. People, take a look at those numbers.
We got them.
We got them by the short hairs, okay?
We got them.
Maybe.
We're still kind of losing a little bit, but we're able to push them.
We actually beat Sakalava with Bagirmi.
And we didn't go giga broke doing it.
We're not We're not giga broke.
We won. We got their cap. 89% one more hits.
One more Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Don't you lose now.
Please tell me we're at 100. We are at 100 on Hausaland.
And we have two slave revolts. What?
Wait.
What?
Huh?
Um Okay. Uh >> [laughter] >> Let's pass peasant proprietorship and maybe I'll survive.
Is that going to be enough?
Oh my god, it saved me.
Oh, what a heart attack. I was about to start crying there.
I mean, the fact that I beat Sokoto land and Oh, though Oh my gosh. And it's not even pissing off the pro-slavery guys. So, this is working.
Holy molly.
Holy molly. Look at this, people. We won.
We freaking won.
Well, I guess nothing is impossible.
Nothing. Nothing at all. Nothing's impossible at all. Oh, we got a coup.
Wonderful. It's minus seven. Who cares about it? We're just going to ignore it.
Should I fake out to make out? Let's fake out to make out. Put it at like uh 50/50 here. Try to make it last as long as humanly possible.
Boom.
Now, pause. Take a look at this Begirmi people.
Take a look at this Begirmi.
Isn't she lovely? Isn't she gorgeous?
Isn't she wonderful?
Lovely lovely lovely lovely lovely lovely Begirmi, but there's just one tiny problem.
>> [laughter] >> I'm broke.
I am beyond broke. I am ultra mega broke.
And look at all the radicals we have.
This is horrible.
Now that we got the timing down on Benin, we should be able to arrive there just in time for the battle to start and we did. Are we on speedster? No, we don't have the speedster on these guys.
Whatever. Just get it done. Looks It's we're winning the battle anyways. Just hit them before they can uh really do anything about it. Good. Good good good.
Now they have barely any troops to defend with and we're going to do a lot of damage to them. We win the battle already.
That's it. They lose.
And I'm actually solvent now. I'm getting my money back. I'm not dying, people. Yay!
Survival is always fun.
Hey, 15% is better than 0%. Let's try it. Whatever.
I actually got the 50% gut shot if you can believe it.
Okay. Well, dang, it's not India, but it's still good money. Okay? This is why I keep telling people, Spain is a good secondary if you can't get India.
I am going to build lovely, lovely banana plantations in Cuba. And that's a decent amount of money.
That's a decent amount of money. If France attacks me and they make me into a protectorate, I get the French market. That is actually helpful to me, believe it or not. So, I'm kind of hoping that France actually does attack me.
It will It will suck in in the long term, but in the short term, it'll actually make me really, really, really, really, really, really strong.
And if I snowball correctly, I could turn it into a gigantic victory.
But uh we're losing money again and I am capped out here.
I am completely capped out here.
Why am I so capped out? Oh my god, the cost of construction. I only have two Oh, I got three construction now, don't I?
I must have built a third one. Where's the third one?
There should only be two Oh my god, there is a third one in Nigeria. I didn't build that.
I think it was the slave guys who built that and yeah, they gave it to me for some reason. Thanks a lot, guys. I really didn't want that.
That was a bit of a waste of money and I kind of need the money right now, so please stop doing that. Please don't do that anymore.
No more of that, okay? Hey, we're going to get capital fleet out of the way.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. That's what I like to see.
Yeah, so there's not much else I can do at this point, now is there?
We're not balanced, but we're close. We are no longer in pain, is what I'm going to say. The pain has started to subside.
It is finally starting to look up. It only took us 19 years in game to get to this point. Oh boy.
Oh boy. Still can't get interventionism though.
Still can't seem to swap it out. Why?
Cuz nobody loves me. Why does everybody hate me? Probably because of my infamy.
Wonderful.
Truly, truly wonderful.
Even with the help of the Dutch East Indies, even though I got really trashy troops. Yeah, we're just outnumbering them somehow.
Although they actually have more troops than me, but nope, I got double their numbers. I just killed so many and their morale is so bad.
Or it was. They kind of caught back up.
Hmm.
That's really unfortunate for me.
Are we still able to win on an attack mode? Yes, we are actually. Even though you got this guy here and he Oh, he's a offensive planner. He's not really a defender. That's good. Good. I hope you don't have any good defenders cuz uh I'm kind of relying on you not having a good defender.
Uh if you get a good defender, I'm in trouble and I don't want to be in trouble.
Especially not right now.
But we are doing some damage, so maybe we can win this after all.
Yeah, we pushed them back. So, whether or not we get Ashanti is another story.
It looks like we're going to get it just from numbers alone.
Again, they have 1/3 of our numbers, so they might be in a lot of trouble here.
There you go. There you go. Ashanti is toast. We're already at the 16% range. I should have taken the land from the Dutch, but I didn't.
Oh well.
I didn't think they would actually join the war and I wasn't thinking about it, so too late.
I just got hit here with they want to make us a protectorate, but you want to know what?
I would rather be the British protectorate, but Spanish would be a heck of a lot easier to break free from when the time comes. And it prevents anybody else from protectorating me, so it's going to be no Russia, no France, no Britain. Hmm.
You know it's not a bad idea. I think I might accept it. They're not that strong. So, I'm going to accept it. I get their market now, which is beyond huge. Like it's not normal huge. This is giga huge. This might be one of the best things that could have happened to me.
I'm not kidding. This might actually be one of the best things that could happen to me.
Because I now have access to their markets, yeah, yeah, we we can uh we can build a lot more bananas as a result. And I'm willing to bet it's going to be worth a lot more money now.
Same with coffee, same with all the other stuff here.
Uh Cuba, I doubt is fully modernized, so I bet you I'm going to make more money off of my stuff than they are.
It's not great, but it's definitely something. Hopefully they have more wood built. Uh no, they're not very good on wood. That's unfortunate. I'm going to have to work on that.
I don't believe it.
I actually got interventionism. That was a 20% gunshot.
Look at that. I told you. I told you getting interventionism is all I needed to balance the books. Now I can go for per capita, that will help me even more.
Because we're actually kind of modernized. There's just one tiny, tiny bit of a problem.
Uh how in the heck am I going to get it?
>> [laughter] >> Oh, no.
Now that we got secret police, we're going to let the coup win. How can I make the coup win?
I know how to make the coup win.
EVERYBODY IN THE POOL.
>> [laughter] >> OH, THAT coup is guaranteed to win now.
That coup is 155% going to pop off. And while it's popping off, is there anything I can take that would help? Probably slavery banned.
Let's try to get it done without a freaking uprising happening.
I don't know if it's going to happen immediately, but we're definitely going to see if we can get this to pop.
There's just one problem.
It might just be the intelligency in the slave revolt here.
So, we'll see. We'll see if we can get this to pop. Boom.
Boom, boom, boom. Informant? No, no, no, no, no. We don't want to do that. We want to boost them up. I want that coup to happen. Let the coup happen. Oh, we got a naval invasion.
Womp, womp, womp. Station over here and save my life against the Dutch.
Cuz I don't want to die.
Dying is not fun.
What are they even Oh, they want Benin again. They always want Benin. Why are they like this?
Why are you like this game? Just why?
Why? Why do you do this?
Why? Why?
All right. I need more construction. We are making too much money.
Literally, Oyo was owned by France. They are no longer owned by France. Yeah, it's time to die, Oyo. Yeah, I I can't let you live.
You are worth way too much. I got to take you down. I got to take you down.
And nobody's going to help you.
By what it looks like, I think nobody at all is going to help. Although, maybe Russia will.
The problem is, I don't have a direct border with Russia, and with the current patch with Great Wave the way that it is, I don't think anybody's going to be sending anything down here to deal with that. So, we're just going to pretend that nothing is happening, huh? Oh, did I just hit 100% here by accident?
Oh, dear, I did.
Is it going to pop? It did. That's fine.
That's fine. We need to kill that anyways. That's fine. That's fine. We're going to have to pull in Spain to help us though.
Can I pull in Spain to help? Yes, I did.
Okay, good. Good. Good. Good. Uh we actually did want to kill the absolutists. We wouldn't get presidential republic anyways without absolutists movement being popped. So, I'm actually happy about this. I know it looks like I goofed up. I did goof up actually, but I can turn this into a positive because don't forget we have direct fronts. We should theoretically be able to get Spain to help us on this one.
And it wasn't big enough to really be a big threat. That's part of the reason why I was ignoring it.
I don't I don't really find it that threatening. It's uh I'm going to be able to beat it by myself, but again, I should have Spain on side and just, you know, having Spain on side will make it easier to kill them off. This should definitely help me weaken the landowners, which is something I've been having a very difficult time doing thus far. So, yeah.
Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, this is probably a good thing.
When they have zero morale and I'm losing, that doesn't make it that That hurts my feelings a little bit. And I'm actually losing up here.
Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh.
This is wacky.
Uh who is who? Okay, I am winning here and I'm winning down here, but I'm actually losing a couple over here. Is it because I don't have enough leaders here?
Well, they only have two leaders, too.
Or they only have one leader as well.
How are they able to push me back like this? I don't get it. It's wild.
I am doing some damage to them, but for some reason they're pushing me back.
I don't get it.
Look at the percentages I have and I'm losing.
This game is weird. Okay, now we're pushing them back. Good. And Oyo's almost dead and once Oyo's dead, I should be able to push back over here or maybe over here. Which one's the capital? Okay, Wadai is the capital. I guess we'll go for Wadai, then. There goes Oyo now. No, no, no, no, no. We don't care about this one down here. We want Wadai. Just get your butt up there, take out Wadai. Okay?
Bit by bit, we're going to push them down. 77% should be easy peasy lemon squeezy, especially now that we got two major troop groups here. Yeah, it shouldn't be a problem. Once we get Wadai, this lovely little uprising is over.
We have a slight chance to get presidential republic. Maybe I should put the church back in. I think I killed my stall by making them happy by pulling them in. And by kicking them out again, I kind of made them a little upset.
Oopsie. Maybe I should have kept them in. I wasn't really paying attention. I was too worried about the uprisings. And damn. And oh, I love the front system.
Don't you guys love the front system?
Isn't it wonderful?
Yeah. I can't really do anything about that.
There's nothing I can do about that. I'm going to have to wait and for them to push me out, and then I'm going to push back against them again.
That's the only way it's going to work.
But uh we got the capital, so this uprising is over anyways. I don't even need to hold the front here. Although I am going to put somebody here just so I don't get swarmed down. It looks like they're trying to do the swarm tactics on me. I can't allow that, my friends.
That cannot be allowed. Oh, there it goes. We win, people. Done and dusted.
Hey, 69. Let's go 69. Yeah. We got the 69er. Yeah, boy.
What kind of money am I making for proportional here?
What kind of money is the differential?
About 19,000 is not bad. 19,000 is not bad, especially when I'm losing this much money. But hey, we're over a thousand. I did it, people.
I told you I would do a thousand by 1900, and yet here we are. Now I got to fix my gov ads.
That's going to be a bit of a problem.
Uh when it comes to losing money, yeah, it's a little painful, but that's okay. We can always pause if we need to.
I can always try to lean on the investment pool to do, you know, their fair share. They're not doing a very good job at their fair share though. I'm a little disappointed at them. I wish they would kind of pick up a little bit of the slack here. I'm doing all the work. Why are you like this game?
Catch up. Get on my level. You're not doing a good job.
Hello there, Pakistan. I was not expecting to see you today.
But I'm kind of glad to see you.
A little.
Why? Because uh Yeah. Yeah.
They actually declined. Are you kidding me? Why would you decline that? That's a great deal. You're crazy.
You're crazy. Okay, fine. Take 2,000 if you're going to be like that. Please, give it to me. Pakistan, do it. Let's go. We got Pakistan. I don't know how Pakistan formed all the way over there, but I don't really care.
You want to know why I don't care? Look at this money. Look at this money that we're getting now.
Okay? We are balancing our budgets like champions now.
This is uh this is champion level budget balancing that we're doing now.
I'm going crazy. Look at the money, man.
Look at that money. I got to unpause first. Okay, unpause that. Boom, just like that. We got a million to play with. Yeah, we're going to lose uh about 250,000 every tick here. That's fine.
We're pausing quite carefully. We're not taking on too too many radicals all at once here. It is a bit of a nuisance, but hey, we're going to balance out once those bananas farms are done. I'm telling you, the bananas are going to save me. Just watch. Look at them bananas.
Mm, that's good eating. That's good bananas.
Do you like bananas and rice? Cuz that's all we got in this country. Bananas and rice. It's very nice.
Literally, nobody's going to help Spain at all.
It's me, United States. Oh, I thought I had Austria on side.
I guess Austria is not going to help me anymore. Hey Austria, what's going on, brother?
Brother, what's going on? Okay, okay, Austria does not want to help me anymore. Why?
Why don't you want to help me anymore, brother?
Should I go for a defense pact with Austria just to guarantee that they help me? Let's try it. Let's try. I'm going to get uh There we go. There we go. 25-year defense pact with Austria. This might actually be able to work now. Okay.
Okay. So, they're not going to support me, but that's fine. That's fine. United States helping me here.
Uh we got Austria helping me. All I need to do is hold the line. I don't think Spain has any direct lines with me anyways. So, they're going to have to do naval invasions. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to do independence here. Again. Uh I think independence I just have to hold my land and I'll eventually get a win.
I just don't have to take anything else from Spain. So, here we go, people.
We're doing it and we're going to be doing it well. Oh, and they're not even going to help me out.
Oh my god. Germany's helping them.
Why?
The game lied to me. I scrolled down and Germany was in the red and now Germany is on their side. Probably cuz they hate the United States.
That is very unfortunate.
That is very, very unfortunate. Oh my god.
The game lied to me.
Why would you lie to me?
That doesn't make sense.
I feel lied to. I feel cheated.
I mean, they're not joining, but I still feel lied to.
Why would you do that to me, game?
That's so mean.
Oh well. Oh well.
Again, I just have to maintain control of all of my states and that's it. I should have no problem with that. Uh Spain's navy is freaking pathetic. I think they only had 50. Yeah, they only have 44. They're not going to be able to actually make landfall on me. It's just not going to happen. And they don't have any direct land. So, because they don't have Spain or sorry, France on side, yeah, they can't even win. They're not going to win here. I got them. I got them by the short hairs. I just have to wait them out. I'm going to automatically win this one. Is that Uluru? Is that New South What is this?
Oh my god, look at what they done to my boy.
Look at what they've done to Australia.
Look at what they've DONE TO MY BOY.
LOOK AT WHAT THEY'VE DONE to him.
Okay, so we have a United States Ottomans. And look at what happened to the remainder of the Ottomans.
Welcome to the uh to the Ottoman nightmare.
That is crazy.
How does that even happen? I don't EVEN KNOW.
WOW, GAME. You do some wacky stuff in this patch. I'm telling you. That is crazy. That is absolutely bonkers. I don't know how that happened, but I'm glad it did cuz that is hilarious to look at. I feel bad for my Ottoman viewers, though, my Turkey friends, but dude, you got to admit that is pretty freaking cool.
>> [laughter] >> That is awesome. The AI did that.
The AI did I didn't have anything to do with that. Okay?
You are no longer the sick man of Europe. You are now the completely burned man of Europe. You are the ashes of Europe.
You're just They burned you down. That's all there is to it. They burned you down. It's over. You're not coming back, Turkey. Sorry, guys. I love you, but you're not coming back.
Damn. There we go, people. We are going to do some damage. I might have to attack East Africa just so I can reach the rest of this crap, so I don't have to naval invade it, but we will have to naval invade Marina Kingdom, and then we can get all of lovely, lovely, lovely Africa under our purview.
People? People? Nobody's helping Senegal.
Not a single person is going to help Senegal.
That is hilarious.
>> [laughter] >> I love it. All right, I guess we're going to go for East Africa the moment this war starts, and we're going to do some clean up wars now.
Like I'm not even kidding. We're going to need some major, major, crazy, crazy clean up wars. We are going to go bonker, bonker, bonkers if we can. I don't know if we can, but we're going to try.
People, a miracle is happening right now.
Army exile IS WORKING IN MY FAVOR.
It's not against me. It's working for me.
You see, I used to believe that the AI they automatically got bonuses towards their supply to prevent them from hitting this point, and yet, take a look here.
Take a look at that. Look at that.
My goodness.
At this moment, both of these fronts right here are bugged.
I have to open up a front on East Africa right here and hope that it doesn't break.
I don't have a lot of time left. I have to take Zulu still.
We are at 82%. We are so close to winning, but we're out of time, and all of the fronts are bugged.
Like every one of my fronts, except for this one, is bugged.
This is just bonkers.
I'm I'm feeling a little insulted right now that the game is like this.
I hate the front system so much some days, and right now is one of those days.
>> [sighs] >> Thankfully, we have enough boats to be able to do proper naval invasions, and we got landing parties, so that's definitely helping me out immensely, but again, we have less than a year left. I hope I go under by taking Zulu. If I go under 0% by taking Zulu, we will win.
If we don't, we have to hit here now. We cannot wait around. We have to hit it now. Boats get up there. Don't waste any time. Just do it. Just freaking do it.
Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. I need you to do it. At this point, I just need it. I might Maybe if I open up a front with Bemba, would that work? I don't even know at this point.
This game is so buggy, I don't even know if it would work.
I could probably let them intentionally win and then push them back after the fact, and that might fix the front.
What a pain in the butt though to have to do that.
But, yeah, I'm not building any more.
I'm not doing anything else except fighting here. I just I got to win this war. We have very little time left. I am at 88% here.
I have everything of theirs that I need.
I just need to finish up East Africa here, and we win.
I should be winning already. I don't know why I have to have 100% to go under 0% here. Like, the amount of crap that I've done already, the amount of casualties that they have compared to me, they should they should I I should win. This is just ridiculous.
This is ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
Oh, well, we're making landfall here barely.
But, uh whatever it takes, people.
Whatever it freaking takes. We're trying. That's all I can say is we're trying. Now, I just have to make landfall here.
And after I make landfall here, we're going to make landfall right here with Mozambique using one of these guys.
And maybe we can fix this goofy front system before we run out of time. And if that works, hopefully we can win.
But, we're out of time.
This is it. This is all I have left.
I have nothing left.
I love how the front system bugs out.
Oh, and I don't even have a proper front. Oh, no.
Oh, no.
I think I lost because of the front system.
I'm not kidding. I think I actually lost because of the front system.
I don't think I can win now.
We're at 94%. I don't think we can win.
Oh, are we actually taking a Oh my god, we might be at 100%. Maybe I did fix it with that naval invasion.
Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh, please let me out. 100% 100% 100% Please, please, please, please, please.
Did we get all of the Galati? I think we did.
Did we get Galati? No, it's still naval invading. So, we did not get all of Galati yet. Hurry up. Hurry up, please, please, please. I hope that's what it is. I hope it's just Galati.
Keep crushing them. Keep taking it.
What are we at? What are we at? Galati is at 37% here. Hurry up and hit them.
We don't have time. We have no time.
Zero time left. There is nothing left except Galati.
Okay. The naval invasion's on its way.
It's at 100%. We should be able to get Galati at this point.
Is that going to put me at 100? I think that will. I think that will.
I think that will. Just you you got to hit them a couple times. Looks like we're hitting them here. Good, good, good. Keep it up. Keep it up. Keep going. Keep going. Don't lose though.
Don't freaking lose. Whatever you do, don't freaking lose.
Come on.
30 75. Okay, one more hit One more hit.
I need one more hit. And will that put me at 100?
I need one more hit. Okay, we got it.
We're at 100%. Okay.
Please tell me it's a quick tick.
Okay, South Africa broke free. Whatever.
Whatever. Can I get them to quit if I just take everything?
I'm going to pause for a second here and see what I can get.
I might have to give up a few of my stuff here. I might not be able to get everything. But, I did win the war.
I did win the war.
Uh I could give up Zulu. No, I I can't give up Zulu. I can give up something. I guess I can hold on to it for a bit, get a slightly higher tick and maybe that'll work. Like what are they at?
What are they at? What are they at? It's uh I don't think I have enough time.
I I might have to give something up.
What am I going to have to give up?
I have to give something up.
I guess uh no, I'm not giving up South Africa. It would have to be Zulu or something.
I would have to give up Zulu.
That's the only one that's worth giving.
Maybe Zanzibar I could give up.
I could win if I give up Zanzibar. Okay, that's going to be my last chance call.
Uh I'd rather give up Zu- Oh, okay.
Okay.
Can I win without giving up Zulu? That's the question. We're at minus 74.
We're almost out of time. I'm going to do it as a last ditch effort here. Like this is literally all going into the video. I'm not even kidding. Everything here has just been so freaking intense.
It's all going in the video. Uh we are seconds away from this over. Yeah, we got a lot of revolutions. I'm going to count all of the revolutions as my land.
I don't care at this point, okay people?
This is all my land.
Yeah, I broke free. I don't care. It's It's It's just the revolution system being buggy, okay people?
But uh yeah, this is going to be I'm going to put all of Africa into the thumbnail. I'm going to have the land up here as French instead of the Yemeni colors. And there you go. We won. We actually beat Britain.
We actually beat Britain. We took all of this land. Look at that. It's horrifying to look at because of all the bugginess.
And we can't even fill this up with the uh the diplo plays going on cuz we're still fighting East Africa, and we can't even see East Africa.
We can't even invade East Africa. We might as just white peace out on them.
Yeah, let's just uh accept white peace here. Get rid of this uh yeah, we can't even attack them. Yeah, the front system is so buggy. We can't even attack them.
But that is it, friends.
We are done.
We actually won an impossible war. Like that was a freaking impossible war.
And look at that, we actually won.
I can't really clean anything up. We only have a month left in the run anyways. So, I guess I'll use this time to do the outro. Thank you for watching guys. I really do mean it. Every single one of you guys is a king for doing so.
Uh, I hope it was exciting at the very least even if it didn't end up as perfect as I wanted it to. I'm still going to put all of Africa in the thumbnail. I'll just put a bunch of blotches here so that people know that oh well you didn't get all of Africa even though we definitely definitely tried.
Yeah. Yeah. Hmm.
I do have a lot of protectorates here though. We got everything except for East Africa and South Africa. I think South Africa broke free on me. Yeah, they did. Everybody else here is pretty much Oh, I guess no not Congo. So, I have to put one here on Congo. I have to put one here on South Africa. I'll have to put one here on Gaza and East Africa and Bemba. I didn't get Bemba and I didn't get this land here. Oh, and well they just broke free with Congo. Nice.
It's still mine though. Nope, it's not mine. I guess I'll have to put Congo in then as I'm not going to put Congo in.
It just broke free at the last second.
Don't care.
But uh yeah.
Yeah. There you go guys. That's the run.
What a heck of a run it was.
This was bonkers. 400 million I didn't even build in the last 5 years.
Crazy. Absolutely crazy.
But seriously guys, thank you for watching. Like I mean it.
Thank you for watching. That is actually pretty beautiful.
That is a beautiful beginning. If I had more time in the game or if I didn't mess up so much, that would have been pretty pretty.
Oh, I can't even select a country. What the heck?
It's not letting me pick. I guess that's it then. Uh, I found another bug guys.
Uh, yeah. If you go to uh go to select a country, you can't.
I can't even pick. I can't pick anything.
So, I can't even show you anything now.
That's it though. So, thank you for watching guys. Make sure to give your loved ones an extra hug tonight if you haven't already because they might not be here tomorrow.
Otherwise, once more, thank you for watching and hail Hydra Cat.
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