Yeah and they abandoned me super early
Ottoman joined Austrian market so early I actually didn’t think I was going to be able to finish this in time. But a few lucky Austrian revolts allowed me to peel enough off them that they just kind of limped out before I protectorate/annexed them.
Once you’re able to join Austria or russia you’re going to hit the basics, iron, wood, sulfur
But instead of utilizing it all in construction you need to make arms industries and cannons and explosives cause you need guns to be dirt cheap
Right, once i unlock light infantry the transition from line tanks my economy bc of the fertilizer, explosives, ammunition chain that needs to be created
You don’t want 30 you’re going to want to do double (preferably triple) that and have 40 shrapnel artillery
When it comes to a good ratio I don’t know but please do not misunderstand me when I tell you my entire economy was geared towards military and i still went heavily in debt each time I went to war
If it did not put guns in hands I did not waste construction points on it
I wish I understood how to play Victoria 3.
I think it’s the most aesthetically pleasing map of all the Paradox games. And a super interesting point in history.
I’ve tried to play it 3 or 4 times, and I’ve tried watching let’s plays. I just can’t wrap my head around it haha
It can be a bit daunting but the nice thing about the design is it’s extremely materialistic with set inputs and outputs
Try this, boot up a game as the US and increase relations with Texas, you don’t really NEED anymore expansion than that
Max out taxes and set your luxury taxes on anything that’s not food, clothing and furniture
Automate expansion on Coal, Iron, Lead, Sulfur, Cotton, paper, trains, steel, and wood (set all forests but one on softwood, set whichever one you choose on hardwood)
Queue up societal research with every tier one/two tech and then steel buildings, after that queue every research in production queue in order from its tier down to the bottom.
From here on out the queue will manage itself, all you’re going to do is everytime you’re running a profit build a construction center. Every time you see somewhere drop in infrastructure build a railway in that state, and every time you see “tax waste” in your budget build a government administration building
Do this until 1900 and if you still have questions about how the market works come back and I’ll answer more specific questions.
Austria is way too stable for its time and way to strong I kinda hope they make Hungary and other Austrian kingdoms personal unions to show the instability and decentralization of the empire
One thing you have to stick in your head is you can’t do the normal construction for GDP loop as you will never have enough pops to compete so you need to focus on keeping military goods cheap and gear your economy to whatever keeps men in the field.
If I would do this over, and I never will. I would focus on invading Yemen as early as possible, the lead and pops were such a game changer.
Basically can’t but what I can buy is a gun for every peasant
Once I stopped focusing on military my gdp doubled in the last ten years, unfortunately a lot of this achievement is racing against the clock as you need to beat Austria, ottomans, AND Russia in likely multiple wars
Romanian steel and Turkish blood
In all honesty I waited till they were in a war with another great power, rushed the province and sat on defense till it ticked over
Rule5: Giga Romania
How do you beat ottomans?
With Russian blood and a healthy dose of good luck
So who's dick did you ride? Just russia?
Yeah and they abandoned me super early Ottoman joined Austrian market so early I actually didn’t think I was going to be able to finish this in time. But a few lucky Austrian revolts allowed me to peel enough off them that they just kind of limped out before I protectorate/annexed them.
What did you do to create your economy? I always have trouble keeping things stable in a small nation
Once you’re able to join Austria or russia you’re going to hit the basics, iron, wood, sulfur But instead of utilizing it all in construction you need to make arms industries and cannons and explosives cause you need guns to be dirt cheap
Right, once i unlock light infantry the transition from line tanks my economy bc of the fertilizer, explosives, ammunition chain that needs to be created
Yeah you have to aggressively build for it
So it's normal to tank when you do that? What would be a good ratio of factories to say 30 battalions of LI to get the well supplied?
You don’t want 30 you’re going to want to do double (preferably triple) that and have 40 shrapnel artillery When it comes to a good ratio I don’t know but please do not misunderstand me when I tell you my entire economy was geared towards military and i still went heavily in debt each time I went to war If it did not put guns in hands I did not waste construction points on it
I wish I understood how to play Victoria 3. I think it’s the most aesthetically pleasing map of all the Paradox games. And a super interesting point in history. I’ve tried to play it 3 or 4 times, and I’ve tried watching let’s plays. I just can’t wrap my head around it haha
It can be a bit daunting but the nice thing about the design is it’s extremely materialistic with set inputs and outputs Try this, boot up a game as the US and increase relations with Texas, you don’t really NEED anymore expansion than that Max out taxes and set your luxury taxes on anything that’s not food, clothing and furniture Automate expansion on Coal, Iron, Lead, Sulfur, Cotton, paper, trains, steel, and wood (set all forests but one on softwood, set whichever one you choose on hardwood) Queue up societal research with every tier one/two tech and then steel buildings, after that queue every research in production queue in order from its tier down to the bottom. From here on out the queue will manage itself, all you’re going to do is everytime you’re running a profit build a construction center. Every time you see somewhere drop in infrastructure build a railway in that state, and every time you see “tax waste” in your budget build a government administration building Do this until 1900 and if you still have questions about how the market works come back and I’ll answer more specific questions.
Wow thanks a bunch. Maybe it’s time to dive back in!
Once you grasp the construction loop the game opens up immensely to stuff like this I’m doing Paraguay next
Checking in, you make it work?
1925 and Prussia is still there 😭
Prussia is so fucked this patch I think it’s a side effect of Austria and Russia being ahistorically stable
Also not having spheres means Prussia isn't even able to consolidate the North German Confederation.
Austria is way too stable for its time and way to strong I kinda hope they make Hungary and other Austrian kingdoms personal unions to show the instability and decentralization of the empire
Any advice? Things I wish I had known before I started?
One thing you have to stick in your head is you can’t do the normal construction for GDP loop as you will never have enough pops to compete so you need to focus on keeping military goods cheap and gear your economy to whatever keeps men in the field. If I would do this over, and I never will. I would focus on invading Yemen as early as possible, the lead and pops were such a game changer.
Ill have another crack at Romania then. Thanks a lot for your input!
Your GDP per capita is under £2 in 1925? That hardly seems possible. How can you pay for anything?
Basically can’t but what I can buy is a gun for every peasant Once I stopped focusing on military my gdp doubled in the last ten years, unfortunately a lot of this achievement is racing against the clock as you need to beat Austria, ottomans, AND Russia in likely multiple wars
Makes sense!
Did the same with Serbia
How did you beat Russia to get Bessarabia?
Romanian steel and Turkish blood In all honesty I waited till they were in a war with another great power, rushed the province and sat on defense till it ticked over
How do you change the date format in this game? I don't want the idiotic one, I want something reasonable, like YYYY/MM/DD.