Paradox Games!

[Napkiraly]

I've tried that. For some reason, I'm extremely good at bringing uncivilized nations into a civilized status, but once I'm there, I'm completely awful at the game. I can't industrialize at all (Can't manage POPs, really.), and I lose every military conflict I fight. And if I win, it's only because I outnumbered and outteched the enemy something like 3:1. So I suppose my weaknesses would be in combat and in industrializing.

Well I'll give you some quick tips, assuming your playing the most recent expansion of vic 2.

For the military, check your budget screen for supplies in the top right hand corner, 3rd and 4th slide it should be as high as you can afford. That was my problem for a bit and it irked me to no end. Also ensure you have a general in all your armies, even if it's not a very good one, if you scroll over an empty portrait you'll see what I mean. Also check your army makeup, cavalry isn't all that great and artillery has been changed to support, so you shouldn't have more than 4 units of artillery in your army (not including an engineer who gives a siege bonus) and maybe 2 units of cavalry for recon.

For industrialization, what you want is to go State capitalist to build your initial factories. To decide what to build where, click a province with a decent population and see what it produces in each of its regions-noting that each region has several provinces in it and its important to check each one. Build factories that use the products produced in your regions. Now you should keep in mind what you produce domestically as a whole, (which you find in your production screen) when building your factories as a single region is unlikely to have everything you need, but another might.

The way factories operate is that they'll seek the resources they need locally in the region first, then in your wider domestic market and finally in the world market. Each step is more expensive, obviously, so you want to keep the resources as domestic as possible to avoid having to compete with every other country in the world for the resources your factory needs.

This doesn't mean you should shy away from building factories that will rely on imported goods, only keep the expenses in mind. You' will have to build factories like that at some point, particularly if you lack one of the products for a factory but posses the other. Also pay attention to your top imported goods, if you produce Iron and coal but are importing a lot of steel there's a demand for a steel factory to meet in your nation.

Another thing to note is production bonuses, which you get from building the branch factories of a particular product.

For example, say you have a region that produces a lot of cotton. The logical thing to do there is build a fabric factory. After that, you'd want to build a regular clothes factory in the same region-it requires the cloth that your other factory produces and thus gets a bonus for being in the same region, maybe later you'd build a luxury clothes factory so it can get a bonus as the regular clothes it needs are produced in the region.

A final thing to note is that you shouldn't worry if the region you build a factory in doesn't have the resources, if the resources are produced in your nation elsewhere. For example the SE England province in the UK doesn't produce any cotton, but it can have a very successful fabric (and other such related) factory because a lot cotton is produced elsewhere in the British empire-it's shipped to the region and turned into fabric and then on. This is important to note with your colonies (which cannot build factories) and your home provinces. Sometimes a region that has ideal resources might be sparsely populated (ie: few workers) or just in a bad position, so you can put production elsewhere without suffering, provided you have the resources. Also keep in mind you need craftsmen and clerks to work in your factories (the former more than the later, but clerks are still important, especially for research) so you should encourage them along with Clerics to increase your literacy.

Hope that helps.

I'll also add on a bit.

If you can afford it, have tariffs set into negatives, as it decreases the cost of importing materials which is of course always a bonus. Also try to get literacy up (try to have 2% of the workforce clergy) then work on promoting craftsman, clerks, and capitalists. Try not to set taxes too high so that your pop can buy the goods you're producing.

[Den Svenska Riket]

I am absolutely terrible at combat in EUIII. I always make armies too small, in this case I was Japan, around 10,000 and then out of no where a Manchu or Ming army of 15-30k comes out of no where and obliterates it.

[Transoxthraxia]

Well I'll give you some quick tips, assuming your playing the most recent expansion of vic 2.

For the military, check your budget screen for supplies in the top right hand corner, 3rd and 4th slide it should be as high as you can afford. That was my problem for a bit and it irked me to no end. Also ensure you have a general in all your armies, even if it's not a very good one, if you scroll over an empty portrait you'll see what I mean. Also check your army makeup, cavalry isn't all that great and artillery has been changed to support, so you shouldn't have more than 4 units of artillery in your army (not including an engineer who gives a siege bonus) and maybe 2 units of cavalry for recon.

For industrialization, what you want is to go State capitalist to build your initial factories. To decide what to build where, click a province with a decent population and see what it produces in each of its regions-noting that each region has several provinces in it and its important to check each one. Build factories that use the products produced in your regions. Now you should keep in mind what you produce domestically as a whole, (which you find in your production screen) when building your factories as a single region is unlikely to have everything you need, but another might.

The way factories operate is that they'll seek the resources they need locally in the region first, then in your wider domestic market and finally in the world market. Each step is more expensive, obviously, so you want to keep the resources as domestic as possible to avoid having to compete with every other country in the world for the resources your factory needs.

This doesn't mean you should shy away from building factories that will rely on imported goods, only keep the expenses in mind. You' will have to build factories like that at some point, particularly if you lack one of the products for a factory but posses the other. Also pay attention to your top imported goods, if you produce Iron and coal but are importing a lot of steel there's a demand for a steel factory to meet in your nation.

Another thing to note is production bonuses, which you get from building the branch factories of a particular product.

For example, say you have a region that produces a lot of cotton. The logical thing to do there is build a fabric factory. After that, you'd want to build a regular clothes factory in the same region-it requires the cloth that your other factory produces and thus gets a bonus for being in the same region, maybe later you'd build a luxury clothes factory so it can get a bonus as the regular clothes it needs are produced in the region.

A final thing to note is that you shouldn't worry if the region you build a factory in doesn't have the resources, if the resources are produced in your nation elsewhere. For example the SE England province in the UK doesn't produce any cotton, but it can have a very successful fabric (and other such related) factory because a lot cotton is produced elsewhere in the British empire-it's shipped to the region and turned into fabric and then on. This is important to note with your colonies (which cannot build factories) and your home provinces. Sometimes a region that has ideal resources might be sparsely populated (ie: few workers) or just in a bad position, so you can put production elsewhere without suffering, provided you have the resources. Also keep in mind you need craftsmen and clerks to work in your factories (the former more than the later, but clerks are still important, especially for research) so you should encourage them along with Clerics to increase your literacy.

Hope that helps.

I'll also add on a bit.

If you can afford it, have tariffs set into negatives, as it decreases the cost of importing materials which is of course always a bonus. Also try to get literacy up (try to have 2% of the workforce clergy) then work on promoting craftsman, clerks, and capitalists. Try not to set taxes too high so that your pop can buy the goods you're producing.

Also, thank you everyone for the tips! I'll be sure to employ them when I next play the game!

[Napkiraly]

I'll also add on a bit.

If you can afford it, have tariffs set into negatives, as it decreases the cost of importing materials which is of course always a bonus. Also try to get literacy up (try to have 2% of the workforce clergy) then work on promoting craftsman, clerks, and capitalists. Try not to set taxes too high so that your pop can buy the goods you're producing.

Also, thank you everyone for the tips! I'll be sure to employ them when I next play the game!

Mhm, no problem. Oh, and try getting resource-rich countries into your SoI. For instance, if playing as the British Empire try to get as much of the Arabian peninsula and Venezuela into your SoI as oil becomes important later on. Conquering a few might also help if you can afford to do so.

[Emilio Aguinaldo]

We should get a HOD 3.03 nationstates MP.

[Transoxthraxia]

Also, thank you everyone for the tips! I'll be sure to employ them when I next play the game!

Mhm, no problem. Oh, and try getting resource-rich countries into your SoI. For instance, if playing as the British Empire try to get as much of the Arabian peninsula and Venezuela into your SoI as oil becomes important later on. Conquering a few might also help if you can afford to do so.

I was also not aware that SoI did that. I thought it was just for allies and canals and the such.

Also, does anybody have a working Lux Invicta for CK2 2.04?

[Emilio Aguinaldo]

Mhm, no problem. Oh, and try getting resource-rich countries into your SoI. For instance, if playing as the British Empire try to get as much of the Arabian peninsula and Venezuela into your SoI as oil becomes important later on. Conquering a few might also help if you can afford to do so.

I was also not aware that SoI did that. I thought it was just for allies and canals and the such.

Also, does anybody have a working Lux Invicta for CK2 2.04?

No, but I have historical immersion project.

[Viet Rouge]

We should get a HOD 3.03 nationstates MP.

But i only have Darkest Hour and Victoria 2

[Napkiraly]

Mhm, no problem. Oh, and try getting resource-rich countries into your SoI. For instance, if playing as the British Empire try to get as much of the Arabian peninsula and Venezuela into your SoI as oil becomes important later on. Conquering a few might also help if you can afford to do so.

I was also not aware that SoI did that. I thought it was just for allies and canals and the such.

Also, does anybody have a working Lux Invicta for CK2 2.04?

Your factories get first buy on their resources and they generally tend to buy from you. All of which is very useful for your economy.

[Mostrov]

I was also not aware that SoI did that. I thought it was just for allies and canals and the such.

Also, does anybody have a working Lux Invicta for CK2 2.04?

Your factories get first buy on their resources and they generally tend to buy from you. All of which is very useful for your economy.

Which by and large is irrelevant for a nation such as Great Britain, assuming there are no countries in the world that are in any spheres, because the primary determinant of being able to purchase goods is rank. So the are too reasons to sphere someone from an economic perspective if you are the number one power, preventing other powers from gaining the precedent in buying or to make sure they get events which change the RGO's which if I recall are also determined by whether you are in a sphere or not, so for instance Arabia and Persia.

[Ceannairceach]

Ye gods. The Holy Roman Empire just formed in 880. I wish the game lasted longer than another five years, because that'd of been great to watch.

[Napkiraly]

Your factories get first buy on their resources and they generally tend to buy from you. All of which is very useful for your economy.

Which by and large is irrelevant for a nation such as Great Britain, assuming there are no countries in the world that are in any spheres, because the primary determinant of being able to purchase goods is rank. So the are too reasons to sphere someone from an economic perspective if you are the number one power, preventing other powers from gaining the precedent in buying or to make sure they get events which change the RGO's which if I recall are also determined by whether you are in a sphere or not, so for instance Arabia and Persia.

So long as they are in no spheres. Which is really only the case early on.

For instance, America has a pretty good strangle hold on Central and South America in my current play through. France has Spain, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands on her SoI list. Also probably going to get Cambodia, Laos, and what remains of Dai Nam soon.

Always important to improve your position, no matter how small that improvement is.

Plus you get the satisfaction of having them in your SoI

[Valentir]

Wow, I was playing as Tywin in CK2 AGOT earlier and Cersei plotted to kill Tyrion, and SUCCEEDED! Now Cersei is my HEIR!!! This is horrible indeed.

[Lunas Legion]

Wow, I was playing as Tywin in CK2 AGOT earlier and Cersei plotted to kill Tyrion, and SUCCEEDED! Now Cersei is my HEIR!!! This is horrible indeed.

Remove Cersei. Is Kevan still alive?

[Ballycolumbia]

I am absolutely terrible at combat in EUIII. I always make armies too small, in this case I was Japan, around 10,000 and then out of no where a Manchu or Ming army of 15-30k comes out of no where and obliterates it.

Use terrain and morale to your advantage. When they get cocky and assault a fort, attack them after they run out of morale. Good leaders can help alot too (Make sure your army tradition is high for the best value/advantage)

When you reach a tech level where you can get better units, use them to your advantage, as soon as possible. Raid weaker tech neighbours before they gain the same units.

[The Jonathanian States]

Wow, I was playing as Tywin in CK2 AGOT earlier and Cersei plotted to kill Tyrion, and SUCCEEDED! Now Cersei is my HEIR!!! This is horrible indeed.

Remove Cersei. Is Kevan still alive?

Remove Cersei. You are the worst Cersei. You are the Cersei stink.
I don't quite remember how this goes......
EDIT:

Though sadly until shortly before the end of Dance with Dragons she is not properly removed.
Though I think that both Rhaegar's Son or Daenarys would remove her should they win the Iron Throne.

[Lunas Legion]

Remove Cersei. Is Kevan still alive?

Remove Cersei. You are the worst Cersei. You are the Cersei stink.
I don't quite remember how this goes......
EDIT:

Though sadly until shortly before the end of Dance with Dragons she is not properly removed.
Though I think that both Rhaegar's Son or Daenarys would remove her should they win the Iron Throne.

She'll be removed eventually. Or she'll go completely insane after Tommen and Myrcella die. I wonder what she'll do when she hears about Darkstar.

[The Jonathanian States]

Remove Cersei. You are the worst Cersei. You are the Cersei stink.
I don't quite remember how this goes......
EDIT:

Though sadly until shortly before the end of Dance with Dragons she is not properly removed.
Though I think that both Rhaegar's Son or Daenarys would remove her should they win the Iron Throne.

She'll be removed eventually. Or she'll go completely insane after Tommen and Myrcella die. I wonder what she'll do when she hears about Darkstar.

Cersei has been removed power, due to having been taken into captivity (and then having been humiliated) by the High Septon, who is guarded by the Warriors of the Faiths, whom she allowed him to create.
That is to say, she'll do nothing, because she won't be able to.
Also, Myrcella lost an ear, though is alive, and Tommen is safe, guarded by four men of the Kingsguard, one of which seems to be a kind of Frankenstein monster of Qyburn.

EDIT:
I think this might be threadjacking, kinda. Is there a proper GoT/ASoFaI thread?

[Bojikami]

We should get a HOD 3.03 nationstates MP.

Yes. Yes we should though I don't have HOD.

[The Jonathanian States]

Having now finally finished a Dance with Dragons I'm about to install the GoT mod for CK2.
Is there anything important I know?
Any major mechanics changed?
Any recommendations for a first game?

[Valentir]

Wow, I was playing as Tywin in CK2 AGOT earlier and Cersei plotted to kill Tyrion, and SUCCEEDED! Now Cersei is my HEIR!!! This is horrible indeed.

Remove Cersei. Is Kevan still alive?

Sadly no. He died in single combat against Robb Stark. He died an epic death, maiming Robb, but he died nonetheless. And while although I do kinda hate Cersei, I have some sympathy for her. I think she has Tywin's narrow minded vision. However she does have pretty good intrigue (17). Okay diplomacy (14), and somewhat poor martial, learning, and stewardship. (4), (6), and (8) respectively.

[The Jonathanian States]

Remove Cersei. Is Kevan still alive?

Sadly no. He died in single combat against Robb Stark. He died an epic death, maiming Robb, but he died nonetheless. And while although I do kinda hate Cersei, I have some sympathy for her. I think she has Tywin's narrow minded vision. However she does have pretty good intrigue (17). Okay diplomacy (14), and somewhat poor martial, learning, and stewardship. (4), (6), and (8) respectively.

I expected her to have less diplomacy.....
Also, seeing as you are playing the mod:

... I'm about to install the GoT mod for CK2.
Is there anything important I know?
Any major mechanics changed?...

[Den Svenska Riket]

I am absolutely terrible at combat in EUIII. I always make armies too small, in this case I was Japan, around 10,000 and then out of no where a Manchu or Ming army of 15-30k comes out of no where and obliterates it.

Use terrain and morale to your advantage. When they get cocky and assault a fort, attack them after they run out of morale. Good leaders can help alot too (Make sure your army tradition is high for the best value/advantage)

When you reach a tech level where you can get better units, use them to your advantage, as soon as possible. Raid weaker tech neighbours before they gain the same units.

Thanks, I might either try again as Japan or just cave and buy EU IV although a sale can't be too far away

[The Jonathanian States]

Use terrain and morale to your advantage. When they get cocky and assault a fort, attack them after they run out of morale. Good leaders can help alot too (Make sure your army tradition is high for the best value/advantage)

When you reach a tech level where you can get better units, use them to your advantage, as soon as possible. Raid weaker tech neighbours before they gain the same units.

Thanks, I might either try again as Japan or just cave and buy EU IV although a sale can't be too far away

If you buy it now, it'll obviously be on sale tomorrow *nods*

[Den Svenska Riket]

Thanks, I might either try again as Japan or just cave and buy EU IV although a sale can't be too far away

If you buy it now, it'll obviously be on sale tomorrow *nods*

This is sadly usually the case

EDIT: I just remembered that that DID happen to me, in a sense. I received an email from Steam that EU IV was on sale 3/31 - 4/1. I checked Steam the next day and I was a few hours late because the sale ended at 10:00 AM.