How is your Victoria Game going?

[Antilogic]

Dude, the way you talk, it's like what he did isn't a massive achievement!

World power as the Aegean islands? Why don't you try it?

My standards have been pretty high since the EU3 world conquest by the Ryukyu Islands. Also, if the challenge was just "be a great power" and not "do a world conquest" then I wouldn't object.

 

[civ_king]

My standards have been pretty high since the EU3 world conquest by the Ryukyu Islands. Also, if the challenge was just "be a great power" and not "do a world conquest" then I wouldn't object.

It is physically impossible in AHD because you must fabricate CBs to declare war.

 

[Antilogic]

It is physically impossible in AHD because you must fabricate CBs to declare war.

What about if we count sphering and you have a communist government that can "spread the revolution" to force others to adopt a communist government and be sphered?

Still would have the other 7 majors, though.

 

[Optical]

Disarmament by the UK and USA just when I need my soldiers:

ah, so that's what going over the infamy cap does.

O, by the way, reviving this thread because I got V2/AHD a few days ago. Probably going to need some gameplay tips, because from experience so far, I am not very good at this game to say the least.

 

[uat2d]

Disarmament by the UK and USA just when I need my soldiers:

ah, so that's what going over the infamy cap does.

O, by the way, reviving this thread because I got V2/AHD a few days ago. Probably going to need some gameplay tips, because from experience so far, I am not very good at this game to say the least.

Which country are you playing as?

 

[Optical]

It was Brazil. I abandoned that game, though, and am now doing slightly better as Two Sicilies (great power #7, and have added Tunis and Sardinia to my territory). Probably the biggest problem I've got is that I don't know how to non-militarily influence other countries.

 

[GamezRule]

Diplomacy tab and the three step sliders.

 

[Optical]

Thanks, that should help!

 

[Antilogic]

Want to get back into this game when I have the chance. What do people think of the most recent patch and AHD? Anything on the horizon, like another expansion?

 

[madviking]

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...tch-expansion-or-just-something-for-this-game

 

[Antilogic]

It's like they were reading my mind. Guess I should check their forums more often.

Sounds pretty ambiguous at the moment, we might know in January.

 

[uat2d]

It was Brazil. I abandoned that game, though, and am now doing slightly better as Two Sicilies (great power #7, and have added Tunis and Sardinia to my territory). Probably the biggest problem I've got is that I don't know how to non-militarily influence other countries.

You shouldn't have added Sardinia to your territory, you should instead focus on getting Sardinia-Piedmont on your sphere so that you can form Italy - that way is much less infamy intensive, much easier and gets you cores everywhere once you are able to sphere every other Italian country.

 

[madviking]

Forming Italy as Two Sicilies is a major pita. You have to dislodge spheres from both France and Austria which can take years upon years.

 

[Antilogic]

Now, stealing a state from S-P or another Italian minor that gives more borders and thus a sphere-ing bonus? That gives you a leg-up on the opposition.

The sphere-route is tough for both S-P and Sicily, I think Sicily might have a manpower advantage but your population is less educated so you tech slower. Easier to get into France's good graces with S-P, although I hate ceding territory.

 

[madviking]

Now, stealing a state from S-P or another Italian minor that gives more borders and thus a sphere-ing bonus? That gives you a leg-up on the opposition.

The sphere-route is tough for both S-P and Sicily, I think Sicily might have a manpower advantage but your population is less educated so you tech slower. Easier to get into France's good graces with S-P, although I hate ceding territory.

I suppose more borders = more better, especially if that territory is Emilia-Romagna (iron). But it's still utterly impossible to sphere those Italian minors. Fighting and winning the war versus Austria isn't a walk in the park either; for some reason, their armies can overpower yours and factor in the fighting in the Alps.

 

[Optical]

Italy was fairly easy. Modena succumbed to Garibaldi's redshirts early on and as a great power (#7 at the time) I got offered the chance to form Italy. Hey presto, everything up to Savoy is mine!

Um... on a probably unrelated note, how do I deal with an economic crash?

 

[GamezRule]

That depends a lot on what your policies were leading up to the crash. What were your tariffs at?

 

[Optical]

Well, they were at 0... then I started losing gold... then all the sliders were at 0, so tariffs had to go up... so I'm at 0 spending on anything, tariffs at 100% and I'm still losing cash.

Yes, it's bad.

 

[madviking]

Tariffs kill your industry, brah.

 

[Antilogic]

I suppose more borders = more better, especially if that territory is Emilia-Romagna (iron). But it's still utterly impossible to sphere those Italian minors. Fighting and winning the war versus Austria isn't a walk in the park either; for some reason, their armies can overpower yours and factor in the fighting in the Alps.

It's best to snipe those provinces if the Austrians are at war with Prussia or Russia, or some other major power. Even the Ottomans can provide a decent enough distraction. I think they have changed Cavour's Diplomacy from the release, so depending on your version it may be harder or easier to get the French involved. I haven't played in a long time so I don't know how it works now.

I think Austria used to focus on Military techs, which put the Italian player at a huge disadvantage because they usually have to pull a prestige tech or two, maybe some commerce-type techs to get up to GP status.

With the ability to get a sphering bonus from investments and common borders, it's getting possible to pull away Italian minors from the majors if you work at it (the +influence techs help too). S-P is harder to pull off because it has a border bonus with both France and Austria, that's probably the worst one for Sicily to pull off.

Well, they were at 0... then I started losing gold... then all the sliders were at 0, so tariffs had to go up... so I'm at 0 spending on anything, tariffs at 100% and I'm still losing cash.

Yes, it's bad.

Tariffs kill your industry, brah.

Tariffs are completely counter-intuitive in this game; protectionism never works to build up a local industry, it always bankrupts them. It's because there are no local markets modeled, everything goes through the world market, and there are no transportation costs associated with purchases.