I want to que up some interesting games for Victoria III, and I'm sure other people would like ideas as well.
Some fun I've had:
Venezuela, reuniting Gran Columbia without bloodshed
Columbia District, racing the US to California
Mountain Republic, playing both sides of the Egypt - Ottoman feud as an Islamic Republic trading hub in the Caucasus (Released from Russia)
Sindh, working with the Sikh Empire to undermine East India Company
Siam, starting an isolationist Monarchy but there is significant potential to be a major power in the east
Oman, with a choice between dominating trade in the Persian Gulf or focusing on Zanzibar during a succession crisis
Aside from the in-game-recommended starts of course; what interesting places have you found?
This is off prompt because I don't have the game.
I played HOI4 for about 15 minutes and was far too overwhelmed. Haven't played since. I also have CK3 and it's one of my most played games. Love it.
Where does Victoria 3 fall on that spectrum? I have not played any Victoria games. I watched a review but it was hard to get a sense. I probably need to watch a let's play or something.
Victoria 3 for me so far has been staring at the building screen. It's far more of a economy management game than a war game. There is definitely not as much character based stuff as in CK3, but there are occasional events and traits for faction and army leaders do affect several things, but you wont get some naked lunatic deciding to marry his horse. The warfare is very simple surface level, but the general system is a bit confusing at first. Also the game in its current state has a slightly unhelpful UI, tooltips not giving tips, hidden stats, decisions buried under tabs, the profit calculation being straight up wrong, etc.
What I'm trying to say is that it's not as complex surface level like EU4 or HoI4 and I recommend trying a couple of games as New South Wales in Australia (tutorial island, featuring gold rushes, colonization, immigration, a big market to support you, few to no enemies) or the USA (massive resources, a bit of warfare, some diplomacy with the UK and Colombia, politicking to get rid of slavery, very straight forward after the potential civil war.) and see how it works out.
you wont get some naked lunatic deciding to marry his horse
:bawllin-sad:
I'm the exact opposite, lol. I immediately fell in love with HoI4, but 50 hours into CK3 and I still can't secure a useful alliance or avoid falling into a death spiral when my current ruler dies.
Well overall it's going to be more similar to CKIII by nature of it being a newer release with the contemporary design philosophy, although the focus of the game is very different. Whereas CKIII is almost an RPG in the way it revolves around the cast of characters that is your court and dynasty Victoria is about managing production chains and politics; so in this way it is closer to HoI than CK though still very different as HoI is almost entirely war focused and war is a sideshow in Victoria.
IDK each of the games are their own beast.
After 1 week, Bolivia can puppet Peru, and 10 years later can annex it, really gives the feeling of building from small to medium power
