Victoria 2

[Razgovory]

After making a Austria a puppet I got the Crown from the gutter event.  I had already taken Bohemia and Moravia along with Poland.  My goal now is to go communist and then spread revolution across the world.  I also tried a game as Turkey, and that is really tough.

[garbon]

Having fun with my first CoE game (really my first game with PDM). I like the various event chains/decisions that were created to flesh out important events - though really highlights a lot of weaknesses of vanilla Victoria 2 (and the inability to make these dynamic though crisis system tries).

Smacked Ottomans around during Greek Wars of Independence resulting in larger Greece and Wallachia + Moldavia falling under Russian influence.



Lucked out that only France supported Ottos during Crimean War which meant I was able to beat them again leading to a strong Romania in the Russian sphere.



Not pictured is how Greece pulled me into a war against the Ottos (shortly after) for their claims on Epirus. At the conclusion of that war, Ottoman regime had collapsed with a Turkish Liberal Democracy taking its place. Bulgaria was also made independent and added to Russian sphere.

[Razgovory]

You should seriously consider allying with France and taking big chunks out of Prussia.

[garbon]

France keeps hating on me with the various crises (for a long time I was spending energy trying to get them to like me). Prussia (now NGF) has been my ally from the start, though I wasn't a very good ally and it lost the Franco-Prussian war.

[Razgovory]

Even as the NGF it's probably the most powerful country in the game.  I'm currently playing as Turkey and trying to figure out a way to knock Germany out of first place.  Unfortunately the Soviets triggered a world war by assassinating some member of the Ottoman royal family.  So now pretty much every one is against Russia.  Except for Hungary.

[garbon]

Jacobin rebels seem a little absurd. The glorious Russian Empire fell to those dirty liberals and within short order we were just as open minded as the British. While the next election did see a conservative party elected, it seems rather odd that no one is upset that we moved from absolute monarchy to universal voting rights.

[Sheilbh]

So now pretty much every one is against Russia.  Except for Hungary.

Plus ca change.

[Razgovory]

I have revived the sick man of Europe!







Tough game, but ended with an Ottoman  democratic constitutional monarchy that dominated the globe.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

I see the Med has been renamed to "Screenshot Taken"...

[garbon]

I just had Finland become a great power. Err...

[garbon]

After weathering the storm of becoming a constitutional monarchy (had to fend off major Communist rebellion and much later a reactionary one), I've now expanded my influence through the Middle East and Africa. In the screenshot below - Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Persia, Palestine (revolted from Ottos quite a while back / oddly I have a decision to create Jewish Israel), Egypt, Hedjaz, Yemen, Nejd and Bahrain all in my sphere. Albania is bugged and in both the Italian and Russian spheres.



Reconstituted Ottoman Empire just recently revolted free from being my puppet (they always want to return to absolute monarchy so dislike that I impose constitutional monarchy on them). I plan to take them back just as soon as I finish off the several opportunistic rebellions taking place across Russia.

Scramble for Africa is also underway and I've taken much of the east and working around Oyo/Nigeria area. As soon as I shake my rebellions, plan to move on Ethiopia (troops already in place in my African holdings).



Oddities include NGF as major Communist state, thriving Empire of Mexico and the USA and CSA agreeing to go their separate ways (US has no cores on CSA lands).

[garbon]

Overtook France and Germany in the final years of the 19th century - coinciding with the Socialist Revolutionaries forming a majority government via election. Thankfully our populace was already literate enough and our industry strong enough that we were able to fund all their socialist policies.

In short order the SRs were voted out in favor of the Mensheviks. Under their guidance, Russia was able to overtake the UK as the world's greatest power by the time the Great War broke out (over NGF's desire to reclaim territories lost during the two Franco-Prussian Wars).



I caused a bit of havoc in Austria-Hungary by supporting right of Galcia-Lodomeria and Hungary to form independent states. I'm guessing it was some sort of PDM decision that then had Austria grant independence to Croatia.



NGF stopped being Communist but CSA now carries the torch under the name "The People's Confederacy".

[Lettow77]

Huey Long is smiling from above. :3

[garbon]

And apparently this happened but I was too busy traveling to notice - but now can catch up on while continuing to suffer from jet lag.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/victoria-2-3-04-beta-patch-merry-christmas.898844/

As some of you might have noticed there have been rumors of a new patch for Victoria 2 (the best paradox game). This started during summer when I was bored and reading forums but I only managed to get a few things done before vacation was over, then recently Wiz and Groogy got super pumped about spending their Christmas vacation on fixing stuff in victoria and things started up again (we even guilt-tripped Sideburnout into make some event images). So Merry Christmas everyone!

Here is the complete patchlog:

• Right-clicking a country on the map when no units are selected now opens diplomacy with that country.


• AI Great Powers in Europe now care about crises on other continents.
• Fixed a bug where forming nations could completely mess up diplomatic relations and satellites.
• AI Great Powers in America now care about crises in the other American continent.
• Effects of Machine Tools, Tractors, Nitroglycerin, Distribution Channels & Electricity inventions are now country wide instead of being spread through province event spam.
• Election events are now country-wide, and occur less often (about twice per election).
• Added Borderless Windowed mode.
• Fixed map crash when you start Victoria 2 for the first time.
• Will now show proper unit information if you hover over the unit icon.
• Fixed units getting stuck if you embark them on ships.
• Increased the cooldown between crises to 5 years.
• AI no longer believes the Age of Sail ended in 1936.
• AI will no longer delete closed factories while at war.
• It is now possible for non-host players in multiplayer to see how the AI would respond to diplomatic offers.
• Call Ally will now get a clear yes/no answer from allies, instead of random chance.
• Right-clicking 'go to diplomacy' will no longer be interpeted by the game as a desperate desire to crash to desktop.
• No longer possible to load an infinite amount of troops onto a single ship if they happen to board at the same time.
• You now only get the bankruptcy notification/CB if the amount owed to you is a significant sum.
• Can now set decisions to be ignored, ignored decisions will not light up the 'decision can be taken' icon in main interface.
• 'Sign the Geneva Convention' decision now has larger benefits and slower badboy decay as a downside instead of reducing max military spending.
• 'National Banking Act' decision is now actually worth taking.
• has_national_minority and political_movement triggers now have the correct localisations.
• Added split in half (shortcut 's') in unit view. This will split the selected unit into two as balanced units as it can, then select only the more powerful of the two.
• Added World Wars, the next level after Great Wars. a GW can become a WW after mass politics (1905) is researched and the winning side gains 50% warscore. After this all wargoals have their cost cut to 30% allowing you to really dismantle stuff at the end of the game.
• Fascist Siam now called Thailand
• Removed factory output changes depending on difficulty level. Non standard difficulty levels should now be safe to play without risking economic issues.
• A lot less wickedness will now be stamped out in the USA (moral crusader event now fires on country level and not every week).
• Jacobins now make democracies of prussian constitutionalism.
  
• Airplane-only armies no longer completely murder the strongest offensive armies when attacked. Discipline (org dmg reduction) is reduced a lot making them better mixed where they can support from the back line as they wont be able to hold provinces well. Also reduced defense a bit.
• Crisis with attacker backer and no defender backer now resolves automatically in favor of attacker rather than fizzling.
• Lone defender backer now gets some prestige for being gutsy and stepping up even if no attackers.
• Added historical military leaders to many nations.
• The Polar Bear Purchase will now turn all pops in iceland, greenland & jan mayen into polar bears.
• Added some jaw-dropping polar bear artwork.

[jimmy olsen]

The Polar Bear Purchase will now turn all pops in iceland, greenland & jan mayen into polar bears.
Added some jaw-dropping polar bear artwork.