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Has anyone else tried this game? It was released a couple of days ago. It's from the same people who made Europa Universalis 1-3 and Hearts of Iron 1-3.
The game takes place during the industrial revolution. You get to follow one nation state from around 1830 to around 1930. Unlike many strategy games it is not very centered around war. Most of the focus is on your states economic, political and diplomatic development during the industrial revolution. The game follows history closely but, depending on how powerful your state is, you can change history in many ways. You could play as Mexico and annex Texas before the US does. Later on you could aid the CSA in the American Civil war and later become the dominant power in the region.
I'm playing as Sweden at the moment. I started out with heavy research and development of new factories which gave me a good economy. I later fell under the influence sphere of Russia that was a dominant Greater Power in the region. Even though I was a big producer of iron I had to export most of it to Russia which crippled my economy. I managed to break free from Russias influence and become a Great Power of my own.
I immediately started trying to put Denmark under my influence but Austria had the same idea in mind. A short diplomatic battle between me and Austria ended with me winning since I was closer and had better relations with Denmark at the time. Once denmark was under my influence, using a special event, I founded the nation called Scandinavia that accepted all Scandinavian peoples as equal residents. Denmark soon offered to join my nation. Soon a war broke out against Prussia who didn't like my powerful nation growing in the north. Prussia had a navy far superior to mine which they used to block off Greenland and Iceland where they later landed troops to occupy. During the war I kept trying to improve my relations with Russia which finally made them agree to ally with me. With Russias help I soon ended the conflict only losing parts of southern denmark.
During all this time a coalition between Conservatives and Nationalists have been ruling my country but the Liberals are on the rise. As the king I have the power to override any election results but I haven't done so so far. I might do so in the future if a government supporting Laissez-faire capitalism came into power since I want to control the industrial development myself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_2
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They should get new ideas imo instead of making the same type of games in different ages. Dont get me wrong Ive wasted hours on HoI 2 and 3 but i think they should try found a new area to develop more new thinking games.
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I think I'll wait on buying this. I bought HoI 3 and it was a buggy unplayable hunk of junk.
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Yeah the game is a bit buggy and unbalanced. Far from unplayable though. I'm having a lot of fun in it at the moment.
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It's better than the travesty that was HoI 3 upon release in playability; however, I don't think they should stop doing these kinds of things, as historical sims are really their forte; that is, if they want to do other things, the companies they've partnered with or bought out could do it for them.
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This game is amazing, especially after the recent patch. Soooo many bugs were fixed, and it doesn't crash nearly as much now.
Fun game too, playing as Chile and I started expanding like mad when I got involved in a war with the United States of Central America and their ally, the USA. I managed to take almost all of Central America when the US landed 100 brigades right in Chile. Their military tech was miles ahead of mine so I had to give up my bottom region in Chile :[ Now we're best friends though, I have most of South America in my sphere of influence and I can finally start colonizing Patagonia.
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Well, I've been reading up on the AARs, it's crazy what you can do with a well-placed uncivilized minor, if you can play your cards right.
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bumping a very old thread!
I just got this game over the holidays and have been playing for a while, reminds me a lot of EU3
Any tips for a newbie ?!
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Started playing this game after playing a lot of EU 3& 4 and CK2. Victoria 2 is far superior to both imo was wondering if there are more people on TL who play this.
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I personally didn't like the different population types and so on in this game. Getting a massive rebellion of all your armed forces since you can't be bothered about the population kind of ruined it for me. :/ It went too far into realism over fun for me. Though perhaps I never gave it a fair chance.
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On February 26 2014 01:16 Yurie wrote: I personally didn't like the different population types and so on in this game. Getting a massive rebellion of all your armed forces since you can't be bothered about the population kind of ruined it for me. :/ It went too far into realism over fun for me. Though perhaps I never gave it a fair chance.
What, you'd rather have this?
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On February 26 2014 01:31 Caller wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2014 01:16 Yurie wrote: I personally didn't like the different population types and so on in this game. Getting a massive rebellion of all your armed forces since you can't be bothered about the population kind of ruined it for me. :/ It went too far into realism over fun for me. Though perhaps I never gave it a fair chance. What, you'd rather have this?
Rulers of Nations of nations looks like a fun game. Never played it though, so can't be sure, the image does show a good game.
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This isn't ruler of nations, this is War in the East, a game about Operation Barbarossa.
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I've started playing this game recently too. I really enjoy it and I think it might just be the most hardcore game ever. I'm trying to make a brazil game work but I keep loseing and its tons of fun.
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On February 26 2014 03:51 Sermokala wrote: I've started playing this game recently too. I really enjoy it and I think it might just be the most hardcore game ever. I'm trying to make a brazil game work but I keep loseing and its tons of fun. The paradox forums are always a great help to me and the wiki helps a lot as well. What problems are you running into?
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On February 26 2014 03:57 RvB wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2014 03:51 Sermokala wrote: I've started playing this game recently too. I really enjoy it and I think it might just be the most hardcore game ever. I'm trying to make a brazil game work but I keep loseing and its tons of fun. The paradox forums are always a great help to me and the wiki helps a lot as well. What problems are you running into? To become strong as brazil you need to expand quickly into chile and peru for the industrial goods they have while not running afoul of the great powers with too much infamy. Brazil starts out with no coal iron or sulfur so for decent industry they need to take these things. you also start with piss poor literacy and I don't want to industrialize too fast and not have the techs needed while not doing it too slow and miss the benefits that industrialization gives.
I also want to hit GP status in time for a last few decades push for glory when I get the rubber bonus's.
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On February 26 2014 01:16 Yurie wrote: I personally didn't like the different population types and so on in this game. Getting a massive rebellion of all your armed forces since you can't be bothered about the population kind of ruined it for me. :/ It went too far into realism over fun for me. Though perhaps I never gave it a fair chance.
the best thing of vic2 are the pops.
migration/growth/promote is the soul of the game.
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On February 26 2014 04:19 Sermokala wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2014 03:57 RvB wrote:On February 26 2014 03:51 Sermokala wrote: I've started playing this game recently too. I really enjoy it and I think it might just be the most hardcore game ever. I'm trying to make a brazil game work but I keep loseing and its tons of fun. The paradox forums are always a great help to me and the wiki helps a lot as well. What problems are you running into? To become strong as brazil you need to expand quickly into chile and peru for the industrial goods they have while not running afoul of the great powers with too much infamy. Brazil starts out with no coal iron or sulfur so for decent industry they need to take these things. you also start with piss poor literacy and I don't want to industrialize too fast and not have the techs needed while not doing it too slow and miss the benefits that industrialization gives. I also want to hit GP status in time for a last few decades push for glory when I get the rubber bonus's. Thw prestige techs are always nice to got into GP status. To industrialize fast either state capitalism or planned economy is what I use since you can build factories really fast and build them based on the resources in your country and profitability.
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On February 26 2014 05:06 RvB wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2014 04:19 Sermokala wrote:On February 26 2014 03:57 RvB wrote:On February 26 2014 03:51 Sermokala wrote: I've started playing this game recently too. I really enjoy it and I think it might just be the most hardcore game ever. I'm trying to make a brazil game work but I keep loseing and its tons of fun. The paradox forums are always a great help to me and the wiki helps a lot as well. What problems are you running into? To become strong as brazil you need to expand quickly into chile and peru for the industrial goods they have while not running afoul of the great powers with too much infamy. Brazil starts out with no coal iron or sulfur so for decent industry they need to take these things. you also start with piss poor literacy and I don't want to industrialize too fast and not have the techs needed while not doing it too slow and miss the benefits that industrialization gives. I also want to hit GP status in time for a last few decades push for glory when I get the rubber bonus's. Thw prestige techs are always nice to got into GP status. To industrialize fast either state capitalism or planned economy is what I use since you can build factories really fast and build them based on the resources in your country and profitability. Yeah I've been doing some experimenting with different tech paths like that. Presteige and railroads seem like the best paths for me to take.
I was attempting to do a gamy strat of massive land grab into auto acepting a containment peace deal to get my infamy down fast. this killed my economy time after time as it murdered my presteige and took a huge chunk of my income away every time.
Making Brazil work is going to be a work of art and will be beautiful when I finish. getting a nice industrial score as well as reforms to both start up the economy and get a ton of immigrants for the war machine gearing into a powerful late game nation with a powerhouse car and airplane industry. maybe even get into the africa game.
Beacuse then I'm going to make america my bitch and tear it apart.
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Okay, I dunno if anyone still plays this game here, but I'm getting really into it. I'm playing as prussia and wanted to form germany and all that. Trying to avoid too much of a colonial empire as I'd probably just mess it all up. To the point though: I'm getting trashed by rebels and tension. Does anyone know what to do about that? Got three rebel waves and a flash point thingy in Holstein and got all kinds of fucked up by Austria, Russia and France with the rebels doing the brunt of the damage really.
I think it has to do with my militiancy or whatever it's called being like 7. How do you manage that throughout the game? What exactly does consciousness do? Does that provoke rebels as well?
When it comes to factories. Does it matter what you build where? Basically I got loads of unemployed workers and clerks and just built shit that seemed to be around resource-wise. I suppose it's some kind of input-output system?
How do raw resources work? I'm importing like cloth and coal, even though loads of my provinces seem to produce it. Do you refine it somehow?
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