Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:

also i meant congress of vienna idk why i said westphalia which was similar but two centuries too early

Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:

romaniacs?

DrSunshine posted:

TwoQuestions posted:

Both CK3 and HOI4 have mods with entirely fictitious start/end dates, I see no reason why Victoria 3 would be limited where other games aren't. There's at least a few fantasy CK3 mods that use entirely different date systems, but I'm pretty sure they still use the Gregorian calendar, but I could be wrong.

DaysBefore posted:

Anne Comnena's book is pretty funny because a lot of it is just her talking about how much she loving hates Western Europeans.

Lady Radia posted:

oh god the byzaboo chat has leaked into the thread

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

The guy who made the Way of Kings mod seems to think it's not possible to use an entirely different calendar system.

I think there's a little bit that can be done to change up the way the date is presented, but you can't do stuff like make years that are 500 days long or anything.

Ms Adequate posted:

I wrote my Master's Thesis on Byzantium.

The Byzaboo is posting from inside the thread.

Ms Adequate posted:

I wrote my Master's Thesis on Byzantium.

The Byzaboo is posting from inside the thread.

Popoto posted:

how much do people fight about calling them Romans in the inner circles?

Eiba posted:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the people we now know as Greeks still call themselves Romans, basically until they needed foreign backing for their independence and found the British much more sympathetic to the idea of ancient Greeks than medieval Byzantines?

If ever there was a time period for weird Byzantine fantasies, I think the Victorian era makes sense, considering Greek nationalist ambitions.

Eiba posted:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the people we now know as Greeks still call themselves Romans, basically until they needed foreign backing for their independence and found the British much more sympathetic to the idea of ancient Greeks than medieval Byzantines?

If ever there was a time period for weird Byzantine fantasies, I think the Victorian era makes sense, considering Greek nationalist ambitions.

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On 8 October 1912, during the First Balkan War, Lemnos became part of Greece. The Greek navy under Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis took it over without any casualties from the occupying Turkish Ottoman garrison, who were returned to Anatolia. Peter Charanis, born on the island in 1908 and later a professor of Byzantine history at Rutgers University recounts when the island was liberated and Greek soldiers were sent to the villages and stationed themselves in the public squares. Some of the children ran to see what Greek soldiers looked like. ‘‘What are you looking at?’’ one of them asked. ‘‘At Hellenes,’’ the children replied. ‘‘Are you not Hellenes yourselves?’’ a soldier retorted. ‘‘No, we are Romans." the children replied, which might seem odd at a first glance, but indicates that in parts of Greece the locals self-identified as a continuation of the Eastern, Greek-speaking part of the Roman Empire (Ρωμιοί).[24]

ThaumPenguin posted:

https://twitter.com/PDXVictoria/status/1519317179916865536

The Cheshire Cat posted:

From the sound of it, I think it's automatic. Choosing which generals to assign to a front is meant to be the way the player influences the combat, the individual general is then picked randomly from those (I'm not sure if there will be some weighting here for things like making generals with skills relevant to say, the terrain type or whatever, more likely to be chosen).

Party In My Diapee posted:

Will your war strategy impact your success in a war or is it just a matter of assigning generals and hoping you have a bigger population and better tech? In vic 2 you could lead obscure nations to success against European great powers if lucky and clever with your units. I hope i still have a chance of winning as the Sikh Empire against Great Britain for example.

Not complaining, just wondering how it will work.

Hellioning posted:

I mean there isn't really any tactics or strategy to deal with. All you really do is pick what generals you want, pick what production methods you want your soldiers to use, and assign each general soldiers, a border, and then attack/defend/reserve. Your primary job in a war is logistics.

Gort posted:

I could see some kind of "oversupply" where you dump extra weapons, ammunition and horses into your army in order to boost their effectiveness.

But you won't see Hearts of Iron 4-style "I leave a hole in my lines, allow the enemy to advance into it, then cut them off and encircle them" stuff, and that's a good thing. War isn't really the focus of this game, economics and diplomacy are.