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EU5: Game-Breaking Exploit by Releasing Slaves: Step-by-Step Guide
This video shows how to exploit the slavery system in EU5 by strategically freeing slaves to dramatically increase your nation's population and economic power. The trick is to release a large number of slaves in a high-control province, leading to unprecedented economic and military growth.
1. 🎮 EU5's Enhanced Slavery System and Its Breaking Potential
- ✅ EU5 builds on EU4's slavery system, where slaves are represented as real populations.
- ✅ You can obtain slaves through coastal raids or slave plantations.
- ⚠️ Strategically freeing certain slaves can be one of the most powerful things you can do in EU5.
00:00 - 00:32
1. 🎮 EU5's Enhanced Slavery System and Its Breaking Potential
- ✅ EU5 builds on EU4's slavery system, where slaves are represented as real populations.
- ✅ You can obtain slaves through coastal raids or slave plantations.
- ⚠️ Strategically freeing certain slaves can be one of the most powerful things you can do in EU5.
00:33 - 02:21
2. 🗺️ Identifying the Target: Slaves in the Delhi Sultanate
- ✅ The video focuses on the Delhi Sultanate in India, which has a large slave population (more than half of its population).
- ✅ The goal is to free these slaves to exploit population growth.
- ✅ The player will use Vijayanagar to carry out this strategy.
02:22 - 05:53
3. ⚙️ Preparation: Accepting Morathi Culture to Free Slaves
- ✅ Initially, Vijayanagar does not accept the Morathi culture, which is the culture of most of the target slaves.
- ✅ The player creates a vassal (thieftdom) and cedes provinces to it to increase the percentage of Morathi population in their nation above 1%.
- ✅ After reaching 1%, the Morathi culture is tolerated, which allows it to be promoted.
- ✅ The player appoints cabinet ministers to increase control in the capital and assimilate the population to the Morathi culture.
- ✅ Once the Morathi population reaches 2.5%, it becomes an accepted culture.
05:54 - 06:53
4. ⚔️ Preparing for War: Optimizing for the Initial Conflict Against Delhi
- ✅ The player prepares for war against Delhi, which has a large number of troops.
- ✅ The player aims to optimize their nation to win the initial war against Delhi.
- ✅ The player requests additional levies from parliament to prepare for war.
06:54 - 13:10
5. 🛡️ War Against Delhi: Freeing Slaves Through Victory
- ✅ The player declares war on Delhi, taking advantage of the disloyalty of its subjects.
- ✅ The player hires mercenaries to reinforce their army.
- ✅ The player focuses on capturing key forts and defeating Delhi's armies in battles.
- ✅ The player wins the war and demands that Delhi release all of Vijayanagar's slaves.
- ✅ The player also adds other cultures to the accepted culture.
13:11 - 16:27
6. 💥 The Result: Population Explosion and Economic Dominance
- ✅ After freeing the slaves, Vijayanagar's population increases dramatically.
- ✅ Southern Delhi is practically depopulated.
- ✅ Most of the freed slaves move to Devadurga, leading to a huge peasant population.
- ✅ The player can build a large number of economic buildings in Devadurga, leading to an economic boom.
- ✅ Vijayanagar becomes one of the great powers due to the increase in population and control over it.
- ✅ The player can build more than 100 tailor guilds, leading to enormous production efficiency.
16:28 - 16:51
7. 👑 Dominance Secured: From Great Power to Empire
- ✅ Freeing slaves is a broken strategy that allows players to dominate the game.
- ✅ The player becomes the number two great power and will soon become number one once they reach the empire rank.