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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Louis Napoléon's France wasn't neutral but aggressively pro-confederate. It was basically waiting for the UK to say it was ok, and Max von Habsburg's failing Second Mexican Empire even tried to sell Tamaulipas, Nuevo Léon, and Coahuila to the CSA for military aid at one point. Yeah, so basically that would also be a risk for sure is European intervention. Then again Russia was pro-Union; that could have made for an interesting counterfactual if the Crimean War was actually merely an extension of a US Civil War that escalated into a pre-World War.
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Raenir Salazar posted:Yeah, so basically that would also be a risk for sure is European intervention. This is a trilogy already. War breaks out between the Union and Great Britain in the summer of 1863 and Russia and France quickly become involved on opposing sides. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005CWJ7ZA?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_0&storeType=ebooks
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Charlz Guybon posted:This is a trilogy already. War breaks out between the Union and Great Britain in the summer of 1863 and Russia and France quickly become involved on opposing sides. Is it good?
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# ? Jun 9, 2021 02:41 |
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cant wait for this game. gonna play as mexico and strangle the demon cracker menace on its cradle
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# ? Jun 9, 2021 03:13 |
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mexico becomes the demon cracker nation if it wins
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VostokProgram posted:Is it good? For alternate history or in general? Because those are two different bars.
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# ? Jun 9, 2021 04:07 |
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I imagine the question is, "Is it fun?"
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Charlz Guybon posted:For alternate history or in general? Because those are two different bars. Raenir Salazar posted:I imagine the question is, "Is it fun?" Yeah. Is it enjoyable to read
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Raenir Salazar posted:I imagine the question is, "Is it fun?" I've only read the first two, but I enjoyed them. It sets up a reasonable situation for the war to start late enough that the Union will have a chance and the Russians will get involved right away.
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babypolis posted:cant wait for this game. gonna play as mexico and strangle the demon cracker menace on its cradle It's way too late to take out Britain at vicky start date
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really queer Christmas posted:It's way too late to take out Britain at vicky start date dealing with perfidious albion and its demonic gammon populace is more of a late game goal
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https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/1402626203232702471
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I'm seeing an armored train icon there 🚂🚂🚂
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choo choo mfers
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Agean90 posted:I'm seeing an armored train icon there 🚂🚂🚂 Yeah I just thought the same thing, that red icon looks awfully like it's got gun turrets on it. If Victoria 3 is going to let me play with armored trains it's instant game of the loving century material.
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# ? Jun 9, 2021 16:21 |
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Wiz, will trains be animated on the map like a psuedo-Railway Tycoon?
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# ? Jun 9, 2021 16:28 |
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tbqh if there is an icon that's enough confirmation victoria 3 has armored railroad batteries, send it to press
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# ? Jun 9, 2021 16:29 |
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Railway Gun Designer confirmed?
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# ? Jun 9, 2021 16:52 |
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I see all the numbers and slam the preorder button
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# ? Jun 9, 2021 17:07 |
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Wiz reveals that there is not gameplay, just randomly-generated numbers, pie charts, and 3D train models. I subscribe for all the DLC and have no regrets.
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# ? Jun 9, 2021 17:10 |
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reinstalled victoria 2 and still have no clue how this game works. i tried venezuela and spent thirty years watching a dozen capitalists build three barely profitable factories that employ 500 people between them
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StashAugustine posted:reinstalled victoria 2 and still have no clue how this game works. i tried venezuela and spent thirty years watching a dozen capitalists build three barely profitable factories that employ 500 people between them
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StashAugustine posted:reinstalled victoria 2 and still have no clue how this game works. i tried venezuela and spent thirty years watching a dozen capitalists build three barely profitable factories that employ 500 people between them here's the blueprint i followed for colombia, which should work similarly for venezuela 1. very low taxes and tariffs for a few years. spend those years promoting bureaucrats and clergy. they won't really promote if you tax them heavily because they won't be able to get their hands on luxury goods. nations that start with a higher rank can often just promote and tax heavily at the same time, but venezuela definitely can't. you want 4% clergy in each state so that your people start becoming literate at a reasonable rate 2. invade central america piece by piece as the FRCA dissolves for easy prestige and land 3. build some factories in each state and start promoting craftsmen. to be able to manually build factories at this stage of the game you probably need to put reactionaries in power by calling elections constantly and choosing options which make people more reactionary. try not to go overboard with this because you will want to actually pass reforms later. 4. grab some african territory for small bits of prestige and lots of resources. the area from benin to kongo is good for this purpose. 5. do whatever you want for the rest of the game in short, don't let your capitalists control your industrialization, and don't assume people will start working in factories without using your national focus to turn them into craftsmen.
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if victoria 3 is a train simulator game with diplomacy, I wouldn't be mad.
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StashAugustine posted:reinstalled victoria 2 and still have no clue how this game works. i tried venezuela and spent thirty years watching a dozen capitalists build three barely profitable factories that employ 500 people between them Honestly Venezuela is a pretty terrible country to try to start with, even if you know what you're doing. Victoria 2 has a certain critical mass of pops you need to really get a country off the ground and if you don't have enough people you are going to struggle to do anything and just have to sit there and watch as your one infantry unit slowly dies of attrition because you don't even have enough soldier pops in any one place to sustain a single unit. If you're aiming to form Gran Columbia, Columbia is a much better start; it can pretty easily roll over both Venezuela and Ecuador at the same time and then it's essentially just about rushing the prestige techs to hit the requirement to take the decision. There's a reason a lot of people suggest starting with Brazil, they have a high population and a lot of territory which is just a much easier base to build off of than a smaller country.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Honestly Venezuela is a pretty terrible country to try to start with, even if you know what you're doing. Victoria 2 has a certain critical mass of pops you need to really get a country off the ground and if you don't have enough people you are going to struggle to do anything and just have to sit there and watch as your one infantry unit slowly dies of attrition because you don't even have enough soldier pops in any one place to sustain a single unit. If you're aiming to form Gran Columbia, Columbia is a much better start; it can pretty easily roll over both Venezuela and Ecuador at the same time and then it's essentially just about rushing the prestige techs to hit the requirement to take the decision. Seriously. Low-pop countries end up not able to support a single regiment. Also your economy will simply not work.
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Cool thanks. I managed to get up to the 1890s with good research and a decent economy, but yeah i have no soldiers at all, don't have a huge industrial base, and my house is a three-way mess where no one actually wants to pass reforms. Might try again as Colombia then, though they seem to get instantly attacked by Brazil. When should you go for prestige techs over trying to get your economy off the ground, and what factories are good for Colombia?
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So someone mentioned spamming elections for reforms earlier, this is something I've been wondering about for a bit now. When I get election events, I want to steer my population towards socialist/liberal policies if I want to get reforms right? Or am I wrong and I want to select the option that encourages reactionaries/conservatives, but increases militancy/consciousness in socialists/liberals? E: Have a bonus question, does the ruling party matter in getting reforms at all? Can I just stick to reactionary government form so I can keep state capitalism while trying for them? MuffinsAndPie fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Jun 9, 2021 |
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MuffinsAndPie posted:So someone mentioned spamming elections for reforms earlier, this is something I've been wondering about for a bit now. When I get election events, I want to steer my population towards socialist/liberal policies if I want to get reforms right? Or am I wrong and I want to select the option that encourages reactionaries/conservatives, but increases militancy/consciousness in socialists/liberals? This is a very opaque part of V2 but my understanding is elections don't affect the Upper House.
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MuffinsAndPie posted:So someone mentioned spamming elections for reforms earlier, this is something I've been wondering about for a bit now. When I get election events, I want to steer my population towards socialist/liberal policies if I want to get reforms right? Or am I wrong and I want to select the option that encourages reactionaries/conservatives, but increases militancy/consciousness in socialists/liberals? AFAIK, if you want to pass as many reforms as possible then you should be raising consciousness at every possible point. Specific issues are mainly a wedge to get specific parties elected. Militancy is useful to pass occasional reforms, but you need consciousness for your population to have any desire for reform at all. Ruling party doesn't matter for reforms, you can stick to reactionary for that. Swapping parties is a decently useful tool for driving up militancy too.
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# ? Jun 9, 2021 21:48 |
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reading v2 posting makes me glad that one of the major things that they are going for this time is truly supporting a tall playstyle the older design really kneecapped a lot of regions in the world by making plenty of resources not available to them when they have in immense abundance (like iron in Brazil or coal in Colombia), not to mention pop growth/immigration difficulties if you are outside the better "life quality" zones (what a horrible mechanic lmao)
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# ? Jun 9, 2021 21:55 |
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it'll be nice to have railroads that are actually drivers of economic activity themselves and not just a collection of modifiers
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# ? Jun 9, 2021 22:10 |
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Put real time trains on the map. They be zooming around at 6hr per step.
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# ? Jun 9, 2021 22:21 |
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Playing tiny countries is a pretty bad move for learning any Paradox game. Tiny countries need specific, railroaded strategies that you can't deviate from. They're bad for learning. Play a big country that can actually absorb a mistake here or there. One of the good things about Paradox games is that they usually make running a big country similarly complex to running a small one.
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# ? Jun 9, 2021 22:28 |
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USA is probably the best country to learn vicky 2
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# ? Jun 9, 2021 22:38 |
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Gort posted:Playing tiny countries is a pretty bad move for learning any Paradox game. Tiny countries need specific, railroaded strategies that you can't deviate from. They're bad for learning. CK being the main exception
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# ? Jun 9, 2021 22:40 |
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To be clear I've played Vic2 a few times before, it's just been a while and I've never really been great at it
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# ? Jun 9, 2021 22:48 |
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StashAugustine posted:To be clear I've played Vic2 a few times before, it's just been a while and I've never really been great at it Play the UK so you can actually win some things
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UK kinda sucks to learn cause your poo poo is way too spread out at the start. USA has to easy wars and two oceans that let you gently caress around to your hearts content while you learn
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