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Gaius Marius posted:Yeah I would personally try and avoid confronting the UK at gane start. You can beat them by virtue of the ai being braindead and then having people scattered all over the globe. But the opportunity cost is usually too high when you could be beating up uncivs or secondaries for equal or greater rewards. Also, yeah...I want to see John Brown's Appalachian Republic of Freedmen raiding plantations throughout the South.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Ok, legit question this time: while the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom be playable? The Taiping Tianguo is definitely an interesting alt-history proposition: could a more militant China better protect itself, or would it have simply led to China getting carved up even harder? it's probably the latter Of course, there's a lot of weirdness with the Taiping...
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Tomn posted:Among other things, fear of another colonial power (say, Russia) trying to take it over. Also, the British were absolutely rapacious and had ridiculously grandiose dreams like linking India up to the Med via continuous, British-controlled rail lines.
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Yeah, there were a ton of contradictory territorial promises: for example, this is why Italy lost its poo poo, because Serbia/Yugoslavia got territories the Entente powers had promised to it when they enticed Italy to their side. Sykes-Picot is another one: the British foreign service felt Sykes had been suckered(because he actually gave France what it wanted: Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine). They then planned on just reneging on it, and did in fact wind up keeping Palestine, but they had promised Prince Faisal he would be King of an Arabian kingdom centered on Syria, and the French flipped their poo poo when the Syrian parliament crowned him as Sultan, because they saw him as a British puppet. They chased Faisal away, but the British made him King of Iraq, black-bagging a popular local candidate and shipping him to Malta in the process. No one in Iraq really cared for Faisal. His lazy brother squatted in the Transjordan until the British gave him a kingdom, essentially. Also, the foreign service was super pro-Zionist, but the army was hugely anti-Semitic and constantly tried to stoke anti-Jewish sentiment in Palestine. The whole fiasco created a lot of distrust within the Anglo-French alliance.
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The Chad Jihad posted:harvested from the recovered waffleimages, I hope victoria 3 still allows for this
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karmicknight posted:Please don't convince the Russian Empire to not research basic medicine and chemistry. It's one of the most annoying parts of playing an unciv.
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That crazy bastard's doing it, he's abstracting the warfare! It's already beautiful and perfect and I love it.Baronjutter posted:I love this idea, will be such an interesting departure to not having to intensely micro-manage your exact troop movements in real time across the globe. I noticed though in previous dev diaries we got screen shots and examples, with this one we only got the vague and general ideology of the design. Would loved to have seen what these fronts and things actually look like and how they work.
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I pretty amped for it. In Victoria III, you never have to play hide-and-seek with some AI stack or keep track of dozens of stacks on multiple fronts, you just keep track of making sure you have the money and goods to supply your troops and who your generals are and hope you're not keeping some idiot moron around for political expediency when the poo poo hits the fan.
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Beefeater1980 posted:I feel awful for Wiz and the team and have no interest in playing the leaked version. Also from a crisis management perspective I thought that Wiz’s formal reply on behalf of paradox was really good. The rest of the topics are what you would expect, but also a halfway decent one about the fact the game doesn’t seem to represent (yet, at least) the Carlists in Spain( I say “halfway” because a few posters in there are way too into the idea of reconquering Spain’s former colonies as an absolutist monarch)
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Rynoto posted:I'd personally enjoy a scenario based on riling up the anti-slavery faction so much that John Brown's raid succeeds with far more support, starting the civil war by having a civil war inside the south going at the same time. Dude was hella ambitious, just a shame he sort of froze and got himself trapped.
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ilitarist posted:You need a very good reason not to start generate CB on Sokoto on day 1.
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Charlz Guybon posted:Well, he doesn't call it communism per say, but he does call it a command economy and it was used to redistribute food, shelter, and general resources amongst the population.
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Tuna-Fish posted:You are clearly missing some Engels. The ideal ratio between Friedrichs Engels and Karls Marx is 1:1. If you have too many Marx, they will either just starve to death due to lack of patronage, or else get stuck writing weird racist diatribes when they have no Engels to tell them off from pseudoscientific racist theories, so you don't want any more Marx than you have Engels. On the other hand, Engels without a Marx will mostly output bad poetry, so ideally you want the ratio to be 1:1.
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Lady Radia posted:i think the people who enjoy EU4 combat are wrong and so think vicky 3's combat will be fine. hoi4's front system is super broken and bad lol which is why the premier mods all turn off the warfare aspect, so hopefully that is only used as an example of what to avoid Why yes, I’m glad that Victoria 3 makes it so I don’t have to deal with that poo poo ever. Hell, it might even make the Brits worth allying!
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A Buttery Pastry posted:I feel like one aspect of that's being ignored is the timing. The way to make the Confederacy stronger relative to the US isn't to expand it far beyond any historical reason, it's having the war kick off when the south is relatively more powerful early on. I suppose you could also have the North be less committed to the territorial integrity of the US, though I am not sure how realistic that is. Beyond that, the strength of the CSA depends on questions such as the westward expansion of slavery, whether the USA annexes additional Mexican territory and/or gets into military adventures in the Caribbean vs. possible expansion in the north, and the status of bubble states like Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland. Though in the lattermost case it's impossible to imagine any Union administration not putting Maryland under martial law, because not doing so would basically require them to abandon Washington D.C. It would pretty much always be an underdog though.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:None of Paradox's old games were actually grognardy, they were just opaque and complicated. If you figure out how Vicky 1 and Vicky 2 truly work and try to optimize your strats you find yourself doing the same dumb stuff every playthrough. The world is simply not prepared for minor countries conquering Johore in 1836. I should mention I always played with mods that actually populated Africa.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:My understanding of poor laws in the UK in this period is that they were a reform to the already existing poor laws, which were designed to do exactly what you mention here. Of course the capitalists would be happy about such a reform, since it's all upsides from their perspective. I am not sure capitalists in a country which did not already have poor laws to reform in such a way would be as enthusiastic. I'm in a class on the History of Public Social Policy right now (though it's mostly US-focused, it drew its inspiration from English Poor Laws for obvious reasons). Poor houses were awful, squalid places and in the US they would take their children, because they literally thought poverty was sort of genetic! Social Darwinism! 
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Yeah, I'm definitely still wrapping my head around how best to deal with radicals. My last run with Brazil made me low-key hate the Rural Folk. They wound up getting a loving Autocrat leader, starting a very radical movement for Protectionism, and supported returning to Wealth Voting! loving temporarily embarrassed landowners!
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Anyone got Brazil advice? Their journal entries seem really intricate, especially the loving River of Coffee entry. How in hell do you even begin with that? I can't even manage to stay the lead producer of coffee!
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What if the USA was even more evil and drunk than OTL?
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Quixzlizx posted:This America was smart enough not to take Texas.
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Poil posted:But they cost so much they make my economy line go down down down. And it takes decades to build up the buildings to produce the construction goods for just one. And that's time where every single other good just gets more and more expensive. …and you’ll need more, especially if you have a lot of pops who need jobs.
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If you’re in South America, you’re basically going to have a ton of permanently-angry indigenous pops (big issue as Bolivia/Peru-Bolivia) who can’t get qualifications or a decent SoL because they’re discriminated against. Then you go straight from that to having more migrants than you can create jobs for! It’s perfectly fiiiiiine. But all in all, not very hard. Brazil has these issues less, but is instead cursed with Pedro Points(TM) and a bunch of fiddly JEs. Kurgarra Queen fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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Egpyt and the Ottomans seemingly always commit atrocities with their borders. Also Turkey has states with really weird shapes that become apparent if Egypt or another power snags even one.
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