With the €5 pack on sale I decided to jump on the Victoria bandwagon after playing it on and off at friends for a few times the past year. For whatever reason, whenever I try a campaign in this game I get absolutely destroyed by liberal rebels & friends before 1845 :wacko:
I just don't get it anymore. Atm I'm playing Sweden facing +- 135 partisan regiments facing off against my 0 regiment army (that was deleted by the 60 pan scandinavian rebels that came before them). Right now I can do nothing but sit by idly as my country is being occupied by an insane Norwegian rebel army that about 7x the amount of regiments i could possibly field at this point in the game. I haven't even been playing for more than two hours. What am I doing wrong?
This was current strategy:
1. Started off with massive red numbers so cranked taxes to 100% for poor, 90% for middle, 50% for rich.
2. 100% in education, all the rest had to be cut to stay around +2 income, meaning my army is next to useless at 0% funding
3. Waited until my economy stabilised while NF'ing a crisis in Finland and researched cultural techs to ride the inventions to Great Power Status
4. Got destroyed by rebels
That's it. Where did I go wrong? If the guides are right I need to play more passively until industrialising around 1860, so the earlygame is mostly about securing a good base for future industries. But none of that matters if I can't even survive the liberal revolutions - any ideas?
I just don't get it anymore. Atm I'm playing Sweden facing +- 135 partisan regiments facing off against my 0 regiment army (that was deleted by the 60 pan scandinavian rebels that came before them). Right now I can do nothing but sit by idly as my country is being occupied by an insane Norwegian rebel army that about 7x the amount of regiments i could possibly field at this point in the game. I haven't even been playing for more than two hours. What am I doing wrong?
This was current strategy:
1. Started off with massive red numbers so cranked taxes to 100% for poor, 90% for middle, 50% for rich.
2. 100% in education, all the rest had to be cut to stay around +2 income, meaning my army is next to useless at 0% funding
3. Waited until my economy stabilised while NF'ing a crisis in Finland and researched cultural techs to ride the inventions to Great Power Status
4. Got destroyed by rebels
That's it. Where did I go wrong? If the guides are right I need to play more passively until industrialising around 1860, so the earlygame is mostly about securing a good base for future industries. But none of that matters if I can't even survive the liberal revolutions - any ideas?