Russia: From Peasants to Bolsheviks - Let's Play

rorlegion · Sep 8, 2014

Welcome to my first Let's Play. I'll be playing as Russia and using v1.7 of the Divide By Zero ("DBZ") mod with a few of my own changes which are explained throughout the episodes.

I'll avoid gamey tactics and won't collect more than 25 infamy unless there's some role-playing related reason.
Russia will be played somewhat as it progressed historically, albeit more aggressively and with faster industrialization.
Episodes will last roughly 30 minutes or three in-game years, whichever takes less time.
I'll try and put out two episodes per week.
I am collecting the autosaves so that I can publish statistics like GDP, pop growth, war casualties, and more, like for what I do in my American AAR.

Link to the Playlist.

Episode One: Introduction
Episode Two: The Austro-Russo War
Episode Three: The Russian Economy (due the week of September 14th-20th)

DKM · Sep 8, 2014

subbed

Jacobi-99 · Sep 8, 2014

Subbed

metalinvader665 · Sep 8, 2014

I liked your USA AAR so I guess I'll finally watch a Paradox game LP though I've never been much of an LP fan. It is nice seeing someone else's playstyle.

Questions:
Are you going to go communist and create the Soviet Union?
Is the life need reduction for artisans part of DBZ or that in your custom files? If so, can I borrow them:ninja:?

rorlegion · Sep 8, 2014

Thanks for checking it out! I'm going to try and guide Russia to communism, probably around 1900 if not sooner. Here are the changes I made to the event_modifiers.txt, found in the "common" folder of the mod:

the_rights_of_man = {
tax_efficiency = 0.05
middle_everyday_needs = -0.1
middle_life_needs = -0.05
prestige = 0.02
core_pop_consciousness_modifier = 0.04
icon = 13
}

political_ideology = {
prestige = 0.03
core_pop_consciousness_modifier = 0.05
icon = 13
}

of_state_n_government = {
tax_efficiency = -0.5
prestige = 0.04
core_pop_consciousness_modifier = 0.06
icon = 13
}

dreams_of_empire = {
poor_life_needs = 0.05
middle_life_needs = 0.05
rich_life_needs = 0.05
tax_efficiency = -0.1
prestige = 0.06
core_pop_consciousness_modifier = 0.07
icon = 13
}

the_means_of_production = {
poor_everyday_needs = 0.05
middle_everyday_needs = 0.05
rich_everyday_needs = 0.05
poor_life_needs = 0.1
middle_life_needs = 0.1
rich_life_needs = 0.1
tax_efficiency = -0.15
prestige = 0.08
core_pop_consciousness_modifier = 0.08
global_pop_militancy_modifier = 0.01
icon = 13
}

the_flaws_of_democracy = {
poor_everyday_needs = 0.1
middle_everyday_needs = 0.1
rich_everyday_needs = 0.1
poor_life_needs = 0.15
middle_life_needs = 0.15
rich_life_needs = 0.15
poor_luxury_needs = 0.05
middle_luxury_needs = 0.05
rich_luxury_needs = 0.05
tax_efficiency = -0.2
prestige = 0.1
core_pop_consciousness_modifier = 0.10
global_pop_militancy_modifier = 0.02
icon = 13
}

I'd just open up the file, ctrl+f "rights_of" and replace the whole thing. It makes sense that consumer demand increases as time goes on and pops get more money, so that's why I made these changes.

Zorro · Sep 9, 2014

I'm in

rorlegion · Sep 9, 2014

Episode One: Introduction
Setting Up to Strike Austria
1836-1839

Click Image for Larger Map

[video=youtube;ae8S3QOPH9I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae8S3QOPH9I[/video]

99KingHigh · Sep 9, 2014

You must do some sort of tutorial for your images.

Jacobi-99 · Sep 11, 2014

Loved the first 2 episodes

Zorro · Sep 12, 2014

Finished with Ep 1, a bold move attacking so early. I usually hang around as Russia for awhile until I can improve the economy. Even if the Ottomans don't join in, you'll still be in very good shape I think.

On a gameplay note that is a good idea using provinces with only enough POPs for one brigade for artillery. I'm going to have to use that

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rorlegion · Sep 12, 2014

Episode Two: The Austro-Russo War
Galacia and Lodomira Annexed; Austrian Economy Wrecked
1839-1841

No larger map this time - accidentally deleted the large image.

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[video=youtube;3G0QI4OzKGU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G0QI4OzKGU&feature=youtu.be[/video]

Note: I will add casualties statistics sometime this weekend.

Comments:

99KingHigh said:
You must do some sort of tutorial for your images.

haha, that would take a while as I have no background in graphic design and don't know how to explain what I'm doing. It took A LOT of trial and error over the years since I have no training. I did learn how to do the maps from a Vicky2 forum post. I'll try and dig it up and post it sometime - I think it's in the Vicky2 Screenshots thread.

Jacobi-99 said:
Loved the first 2 episodes

Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for checking it out

Zorro said:
Finished with Ep 1, a bold move attacking so early. I usually hang around as Russia for awhile until I can improve the economy. Even if the Ottomans don't join in, you'll still be in very good shape I think.

On a gameplay note that is a good idea using provinces with only enough POPs for one brigade for artillery. I'm going to have to use that .

I've never attacked Austria that early before. I did it for a couple of reasons - one, to get people interested (by having a war so early) and two, I view infamy/bad boy somewhat as a "use it or lose it" currency - meaning, if I have 0 infamy, I'm missing out. Very poor analogy, but I hope you get what I'm saying. That one brigade-artillery technique saves SO much time reorganizing depleted units. Thanks for checking it out!

Edit 10/26/2014: I had put this Let's Play on hold, and I fully intended to start doing episodes again. Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted all the saves and the "modified" mod of DBZ I was using in an effort to clean up hard drive space. I was thinking that all I should save were the files for my other AAR and completely forgot about the files related to this one. So my other (American) AAR is still going, but this one is declared dead, unfortunately.

Zorro · Sep 14, 2014

A solid win over Austria. Surprised you pushed the wargoals. Any plans to tear Moldavia away from the Ottomans?

Really looking forward to the next episode. I have a lot to learn about how to set up an economy and grow it.

Warlord Skorr · Sep 15, 2014

rorlegion said:
I've never attacked Austria that early before. I did it for a couple of reasons - one, to get people interested (by having a war so early) and two, I view infamy/bad boy somewhat as a "use it or lose it" currency - meaning, if I have 0 infamy, I'm missing out.

I first heard it as "Don't ever have zero Infamy; you're wasting the world's forgiveness!"

I'll have to keep that artillery trick in mind when I get back to Victoria 2.

DKM · Nov 16, 2014

Is this dead or is real life interfering?

Reqinald · Nov 17, 2014

He edited in his last post:

Edit 10/26/2014: I had put this Let's Play on hold, and I fully intended to start doing episodes again. Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted all the saves and the "modified" mod of DBZ I was using in an effort to clean up hard drive space. I was thinking that all I should save were the files for my other AAR and completely forgot about the files related to this one. So my other (American) AAR is still going, but this one is declared dead, unfortunately."

Zorro · Nov 26, 2014

That is a shame I really liked this one.

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