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Title: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Tore on October 10, 2014, 09:44:27 pm
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:^)
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Kafein on October 10, 2014, 10:35:29 pm
how did you even
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: IR_Kuoin on October 10, 2014, 10:37:18 pm
>not playing as jewland
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Tore on October 10, 2014, 11:18:21 pm
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:^)
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: AntiBlitz on October 10, 2014, 11:25:38 pm
didnt take long lol
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Tore on October 10, 2014, 11:35:17 pm
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fug
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Kafein on October 11, 2014, 02:31:16 am
When I tried to run for Africa with Sicily, France overtook me so fast I didn't even manage to secure half the continent.
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Tore on November 26, 2014, 08:04:18 pm
pls respond
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Lt_Anders on November 26, 2014, 09:19:39 pm
What's better, EU4 or Vict 2? I love EU4 myself, and tried a Vict2 tutorial and couldn't understand it.
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Tore on November 26, 2014, 09:49:44 pm
Quote from: Lt_Anders on November 26, 2014, 09:19:39 pm
What's better, EU4 or Vict 2? I love EU4 myself, and tried a Vict2 tutorial and couldn't understand it.

vic2

just watch youtube lets plays, the ingame tutorial sucks
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Lt_Anders on November 26, 2014, 11:53:52 pm
hmm.

Vic 2 seems far less about war and far more diplo, though eu4 has some diplo.
My favorite games go like this: EU4>Ck2>HoI3>Vict2(couldn't play very much due to tutorial/demo but didn't really like it)

I might have to give it a try, it being 5 bucks and all right now...
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: [ptx] on November 27, 2014, 12:04:53 am
That's not true at all. Victoria has more indepth war mechanics than EU, almost akin to HoI. It has somewhat more rigid nation borders, requiring multiple wars to expand even slightly. Has always felt a lot more "serious" than EU games to me.
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Kafein on November 27, 2014, 09:16:31 am
Quote from: [ptx] on November 27, 2014, 12:04:53 am
That's not true at all. Victoria has more indepth war mechanics than EU, almost akin to HoI. It has somewhat more rigid nation borders, requiring multiple wars to expand even slightly. Has always felt a lot more "serious" than EU games to me.

Victoria is set in times with much more stable political power and borders. This is reflected in the mechanics and also due to the shorter timeframe you cannot deviate too much from historical accuracy.

At the same time this makes the game less fun for me because diplomacy very quickly locks up and you spend most of your game twiddling your thumbs, just like a real 19th century country. Build up nationalism like a pressure cooker, then it explodes in a fabulous world war. Many variables are out of your control and at the end of the game the winners tend to be the same old usual suspects, over and over again.
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: [ptx] on November 27, 2014, 05:10:24 pm
Except when you colonize half of Africa and then raise huge colonial armies from the locals and bring them back to Europe to curbstomp those hated neighbours of yours.
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Kafein on November 27, 2014, 10:46:26 pm
Quote from: [ptx] on November 27, 2014, 05:10:24 pm
Except when you colonize half of Africa and then raise huge colonial armies from the locals and bring them back to Europe to curbstomp those hated neighbours of yours.

Yeah except if you start small you will never have a lot of focus points. France has like 7 and will always colonize Africa faster than you, or at least get a good chunk of it.
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: [ptx] on November 27, 2014, 10:51:07 pm
Favorite game was with Prussia, colonized Africa, formed German Empire and curbstomped pretty much every other major power in Europe, including killing ~1mil Russian troops in a single battle :D
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Kafein on November 27, 2014, 11:04:45 pm
Quote from: [ptx] on November 27, 2014, 10:51:07 pm
Favorite game was with Prussia, colonized Africa, formed German Empire and curbstomped pretty much every other major power in Europe, including killing ~1mil Russian troops in a single battle :D

I feel Prussia is one of the most interesting countries to play as in Vic and that makes a lot of sense historically.
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Artyem on November 28, 2014, 11:14:19 am
Can we make this the Vic 2 / HoI 3 thread?  I'll start:

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That was from one of our co-op games about a year ago, I was TURK3Y, Larry was the Soviet Union and Relit was Communist China.  We all joined up with the Comintern, and started aggressively expanding.  As I recall, this was our first game with TFH enabled, and the UK is acting world police in that DLC.  So, I declared war on Afghanistan and after a day we ended up in WW3, fighting a massive war against the allies all across the middle east and Africa.

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This is from our current game, only Larry and I this time.  He's the SU again, showing off how OP they are.  But the star of the screenshot is the Japanese uprising in Soviet occupied Germany.

fuck Japan,

Victoria 2:

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Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Andswaru on November 28, 2014, 02:11:48 pm
You playing HoI3 with any mods?
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Artyem on November 28, 2014, 08:23:19 pm
Nothing official, we edit the savegame file occasionally just to mix things up.  End date is set to 1966 as well.
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Tore on November 29, 2014, 07:53:44 pm
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r8
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Tore on November 30, 2014, 12:01:43 pm
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Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Artyem on November 30, 2014, 07:18:54 pm
Well done, I got so close to doing the Arab Union and then the UK came and shit all over me.
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Tore on December 04, 2014, 08:24:55 pm
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☺
Title: Re: Victoria 2 Thread
Post by: Zanze on December 09, 2014, 08:54:13 pm
83 infamy? Is infamy not as bad as it is in the Europa games?