How is your Victoria Game going?

[GoodGame]

Continuing.....


In 1873, after another few rounds of national anarchist rebellions, three nations seceded! First Manhattan, then New England, then three months later, the CSA. This led to the "A House Divided" event with the Union abolishing slavery and beginning a war against the CSA. The CSA was getting beat up but another wave of anarchism struck, requiring a white peace be struck between the USA and the CSA.

Spoiler :

Much police action is needed now to heal the USA.

 

[Crezth]

I see a lot of provinces just begging to have order restored to them.

 

[uat2d]

That USA looks awful.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

whats your government type?

 

[Antilogic]

whats your government type?

Check the politics tab at the top of the screen.

 

[ZeletDude]

I love Vicky's flags .... aaah

 

[Kyriakos]

Anyone got any tips for that? Apart from taking a load of loans and strategically defaulting

From the few aar's i read on the country in vic2 it seems most people try to get a sizable colonial empire running before going to war with the ottomans.

 

[Maniacal]

I know this may be difficult, but don't go bankrupt. Also there is already a thread for questions.

 

[sophie]

You know there is a Victoria 2 thread for questions like this, right?

 

[Kyriakos]

Someone else plays Victoria II? News to me

I guess a mod could unite the threads...

 

[Gustave5436]

My strategy was to do this horrifically gamey invasion of Egypt, manually setting my stockpile settings so I would keep some org while maintaining a budget surplus. The AI disbands its entire navy and most of its army if you wait a month or so before attacking, which is key as they start out way more powerful than you. After that I was fairly wealthy and used soldier focus in the tropical wood provinces to raise an army, but when I wanted to attack the Ottomans, they were allied to France and Prussia, so I lost interest in the save. This was 1.4 though, the expansion may have changed some stuff to make that less viable. A more reliable strategy someone did in an AAR was to start out with easier targets, like Madagascar and Johore; takes a bit longer to get to the same power level as if you take Egypt right off the bat, but relies less on exploitative tactics.

 

[potatokiosk]

Someone help me out here. I tried playing a game of Victoria II as Prussia. Austria declared war on Denmark, so I decided I would do the same. I sent in my troops and had managed to capture two of the Danish provinces, and one of Holstein's provinces, and Austria had Holstein's other province when Austria signed a "white peace" with Denmark. This transferred two of Denmark's provinces, the ones I had captured, to Austria, while Holstein was unaffected and remained Denmark's puppet even though both I and Austria had declared war with the stated intention of freeing Holstein. After Austria made peace, I discovered I was also at peace. I had signed an alliance with Austria at some point before the war, but my war with Denmark and Austria's war were listed as separate wars. Very confusing and frustrating. What happened?

 

[GamezRule]

Pic needed to be resized due to uploading issues. This is Europe in my USA game. I'm playing APD 3.1.5 and I'm proud of the AI for not failing miserably in Europe.

Spoiler :

 

[Bowsling]

Do me a favour and invade the Balkans.

 

[ZeletDude]

Indeed, make the Balkans prettier , if that is even possible

 

[SouthernKing]

That Algeria needs to be burned.

 

[ZeletDude]

Ugh I didn't even see that... Stupid French can't even conquer Algeria, I bet they sphered it

France and Prussia expanded a bit in Europe, come on Prussia take A-L and form GERMANY!

I'm gonna go play APD now...

 

[GamezRule]

The Balkans are steadily collapsing on their own, and surprisingly are essentially going down the OTL path. The Algeria thing is a problem in APD as a whole, as there is no way that France can take it in one war, but they've fought it several times and the next time they should annex it. Prussia has all the NGF cores in their sphere but I'm not familiar with German unification in APD as I've never done it, so they may need to sphere Denmark or else just make them release S-H. This is the first time I've ever seen Austria take Krakow, though.

 

[ZeletDude]

They need Schleswig-Holstein to form The NGF (or as you said, Sphere Denmark, iirc). And Austria conquering Krakow happens all the time in APD

 

[MoreEpicThanYou]

I own AHD, but I've never been able to dive into it as easily as EU3 and CK2... are there any good tutorials out there?