How do you intend to play out your first game of Victoria 2?

[unmerged(203712)]

1. Starting with Sardinia-Piedmont is a good choice to get familiar with the new game system. Basically, Sardinia is a country with economic and military potential to become a GP. With a decent ranking, I can play with colonization, industrialization, as well as navy and army, and the great Unification of Italy, kicking the GPs out of Italy.

2. Madagascar is one of my favorite. It's happy to know that civilizing the uncivilized is now possible in Vic 2. So I'll try to civilize Madagascar before the Europeans start scrambling Africa, then industrialize the country, become a GP, make Africa an Africans' Africa. Hopefully it is possible.

For an added bonus play "Protector of Asia". Don't let those damn Europeans take a slice of your smaller Asian siblings. (Because once you are civilized you want to have them all to yourself!)

It will be quite a task to get your massive poorly equipped armies to keep marching into the artillery (and if you leave it too long, machine guns, tanks and gas!) of the European powers. But ultimately you have the manpower to do it

That was exactly what the Japanese said in the first half of the 20th century And I believe civilizing and industrializing a large unciv country like China or Japan will not be very difficult.

 

[Gihren Zabi]

I'll probably first learn how to play the game with a minor European power like Belgium, Sweden, or the Netherlands. Then I'd like to try playing as France. As both a major continental and colonial powerhouse it just seems to offer the most possibilities for a player. Although I have played Vicky1 a lot, I never really did much with France because managing its economy seemed like a massive nightmare. France started with industry, but it was horribly unbalanced (resource chains were way out of whack) and, from what I heard of Ricky, its capitalist POPs were notoriously lazy. I really hope France is an easier country to play as in Vicky2.

In addition to France, I'd also like to give other powers like the UK, USA, Austria, Sardinia, and Prussia a go. I'm only reluctant to try Prussia because from my previous Vicky experience, it just seems like inheriting all the German minors is a major pain in the ass because the AI was terrible at managing its provinces and built waaaay too many factories. I'd prefer to have done the industrial bit myself rather than inheriting a swath of redundant and unmanageable factories.

Personally, I try to be relatively peaceful and really only go to war to seize uncivs and create a favorable balance of power. Mass conquest just seems to ruin the whole point of the game. There's a good reason why nobody went out and conquered the world during this period.

 

[Nikephorus16]

Prussia is too scripted to start with. Give me a nice sandbox country like Belgium where I can get into industrialization with capitilists and begin colonization later

 

[unmerged(216003)]

I think I'll start with the Ottoman Empire. I'll try to stay out of European politics while expanding my sphere to the south and east - all the while industrializing, trying different techniques for pop management and generally learning the game... The Bear looming over us may give some trouble though...

edit: I'd like to be strong enough to sway the Great War to the side of my choosing - Not the sick man, the X factor! :rofl:

 

[Lauri]

Argentina, and I'll settle for becomming the greatest power in South America.. Industrialize and "europeeing" my nation

edit: why? Because I've never even touched Vicky 1!

 

[emperorcharlesV]

As my "tutorial" game I'll load up Belgium (just as I did in Vicky) and learn the ropes.

My first full-scale game will be as Spain. My first goal will be to industrialize and build a huge military(100k?) and a huge navy. This will probably put be into huge debt. I will borrow from the British, and then default on my debt. Hopefully this will draw us into war. But I will be ready...having secured alliances with USA and France. Then I will use my new war machine to take the British holdings in the Caribbean, South America, and Central America. I just need the USA and French to take some of the pressure of me.

Next, I will secure North Africa(not French North Africa though). I want to avoid war with the French, but if war comes, my armies might be large enough to take up defensive positions in the Pyrenees. This war could allow me take some French territories in the Americas. After, I will continue to expand my territories in the Americas, maybe puppeting some smaller American nations. But I will begin my buildup to war with the USA. To make the game more interesting, I will make sure that the Spanish-American War happens in 1898. I will rely on my navy to prepare a path for my amphibious forces to land on the population centers all across the East and West Coasts. Not wanting to get involved in a expensive war, I won't move inland, but try to sue for peace once I have Washington, Boston, New York, Charleston, and San Francisco under my control. I don't know what I would want from this war, I'll just have to wait and see.

Once I have reached my goals, I get in some entangling alliances just for fun and participate in some get in some Great Wars.

Politically, I just let the tide take me wherever it wants to go. If I become communist, then that could give me a reason to go to war in hope of a World Revolution.


EDIT: Oh and I forgot that I am going to annex Portugal as well.

 

[Tim O]

First country I'll play as Brazil. The goal, South American hegemony, though I'll move slower than the AAR. Got to make sure to spend just as much time on diplomacy and industrialization as on expansion. Still, by the end of the century I expect to have annexed Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia. Maybe a northern border on the Orinoco. Then kick the Europeans out of Guyana in the 20th century and grab a west coast port from Chile or Peru.

 

[King of Men]

A more interesting question is whether it will update to electricity in the final stages of industrialisation.

 

[Bob Ilyani]

A more interesting question is whether it will update to electricity in the final stages of industrialisation.

I cannot even explain the level of win that this is.

 

[Mozer]

Would like to try and save The Ottoman Empire, Atatürk style, by releasing all but Turkey as satellites. And then modernize as fast at possible.

 

[Garuda]

Well my first game with Vicky was as Japan and I think I'll repeat this with Vicky 2.

Japan is a slow starter as a nation which gives plenty of time to get used to everything before the pace picks up.

 

[Archimbaud]

I played Belgium for my first Vic game, but I will try a militaristic France this time as a first game, mainly opposing GB in India and Prussia/Austria in Europe. Then maybe Prussia for the second game. I'm not that fond of managing huge fleets.

For those that never played Victoria, Belgium is a good country to learn the bases of industrialisation without too much having to manage armies and wars.

 

[RELee]

Now that the avatars are out, it is a moral imperative that I conquer the world as the Fascist CSA.

 

[jordarkelf]

I must try to unite Italy under a fascist Papacy.

But my first game will be as Prussia.

 

[emperorcharlesV]

And I will conquer the world as a Communist USA, after crushing those Southern Fascists

EDIT: @jordarkelf, Paradox should give a medal or something for your contributions to their company. Maybe a cash reward or something. Is a game of theirs you don't own?

 

[jordarkelf]

EDIT: @jordarkelf, Paradox should give a medal or something for your contributions to their company. Maybe a cash reward or something. Is a game of theirs you don't own?

To my knowledge, only the Svea Rike series, but I do own the English translation of SRIII: Crown of the North. And I do not own everything from Gamersgate (yet)

 

[A_Dane]

I think ima start as Denmark. Somehow i'll become a world super power!
This ofcourse means that Sweden shall be incoporated into the empire, and provide all the soldiers!
(or alternatively, release Scotland and go Fascist. This avatar is simply awesome).

 

[zarinth]

Japan: The underdog of the civilized world

Who will play Japan on their first game?

 

[unmerged(60966)]

Who will play Japan on their first game?

Japan is more a 'third game' kind of country. Don't you think?
Britian is a 'fourth game' kind of country.

 

[unperson]

I will probably.

Japan was one of my favourite countries in Vicky1 and I'm also interested in it's history a lot too.