Victoria II

[Squeak]

Squeak & Jubin and whoever the f**k plays EU3, you really need to add me to Steam and hit up some games.

I've had to restart my game more than ten times.

[Eagle]

Prefer Empire total war instead.

2 very different games.

[Oliver_Daniels]

Why do I have so much money as Germany? I get like 10k a day and have nothing to do with my 60 millions. Halp.

Oh and I also have 500 regiments and 20 million people. They don't want my money either.

[Jubin]

Why do I have so much money as Germany? I get like 10k a day and have nothing to do with my 60 millions. Halp.

Oh and I also have 500 regiments and 20 million people. They don't want my money either.

Ah the sarcasm. Also what year, pictures... theres plenty to do.

[JayL]

Been playing this game with a certain Argentine mushroom and I have to say it is a good game. Been competing with Chile on who's the South American leader.

[Jubin]

Been playing this game with a certain Argentine mushroom and I have to say it is a good game. Been competing with Chile on who's the South American leader.

Better get Chile pretty quick or they grow too strong, especially if you don't have a great big brother to help you.

[ElMartu]

Except USA is the third nation in the world and is pretty much Brazil's big brother.

But USA is getting boring, way too easy...

[Oliver_Daniels]

I'm playing the Age of Colonialism mod, formed Germany in the 1850s, it's 1875 now. I took Mesopotamia from the turks in 1862 and made them release Bulgaria, then spent the next 12 years dismantling the Austrian empire. Lots of new countries in Europe now, with Romania and Czechoslovakia being new secondary powers and quickly climbing up to great power status.

I get 25k a day and can mobilise 550 regiments with my strongest rival France being able to mobilise only 300. Life's good, but I still have WW1 to look forward to (at least I hope so, seeing as its instigator has been dismantled) so it's not going to get boring for a while.
My industrial score is 220 (The AoC mod cranks the industrial score down by quite a bit so no more Great Britain having 10k industrial score) and climbling extremely quickly with me having made the mesopotamian area into states with a combined populace of 3 million.

Current great powers, listed by ranking:

The United Kingdom
Germany
The United States of America
France
The Russian Empire
Mexico (they're the third most industrialised nation in the world with an industrial score of 150)
Japan (became a great power in the 1850s, fourth most industrialised nation but has literally no prestige, so they might lose their great power status)
Sardinia-Piedmont  (they just became a great power, I expect to see Italy in the 1880s)

Secondary powers, listed randomly from memory:

Belgium
Netherlands
Czehoslovakia
Romania
Tuscany
Sweden
Norway
Finland

Most of them (i.e. the scandinavian nations) only have that status due to a high prestige score.

[Jubin]

Man I was ruined by Victoria: revolution. From that I had the impression that Laissez-faire was pretty much a foundation of a good thriving economy till I did a game with United States of Central America, where I tested controlling he whole economy myself and there, without any expansion whatsoever by early 1900s I became a Great Power solely thanks to my industry. So yeah comes out capitalists are idiots.

[ElMartu]

Yeah, liberals are pretty much scum... Useless Explosive/Ammunition factories everywhere. The game sort of forces you to play with the mindset most European goverments had at that point.

Although as a strong nation, staying conservative usually won't do much harm. As UPCA though, yeah, being reactionary or socialist is pretty much a must.

[JayL]

Ahaha, what a fun game.

I chose Brazil and played it. Everything went well, had a nice progress in technology and education as well as income. Army was pretty big though I had no navy. Problem was that Craftsmen were taking long to grow. I had atleast 6 factories in each state and the craftsment count was only 60k.

Then a communist revolt started. My army could beat it but I decided to do nothing and see what'd turn out. And the outcome was beautiful. I got a boom of craftsmen and now my industries are making very nice income. Though it was funny because Ecuador and Colombia declared war on me as soon as the revolt was finished, but with help of Venezuela I kicked them out.

It's 1920 now and nor World War I neither Russian Revolution took place; Brazil was the first communist state in the world.

[Jubin]

Then a communist revolt started. My army could beat it but I decided to do nothing and see what'd turn out. And the outcome was beautiful. I got a boom of craftsmen and now my industries are making very nice income. Though it was funny because Ecuador and Colombia declared war on me as soon as the revolt was finished, but with help of Venezuela I kicked them out.

Oh how predictable of you

[JayL]

 

[Mario_Rinna]

[ElMartu]

man i wanna play multiplayer real bad