Play as a colony

[Neslepaks]

I had an idea today, but I'm probably not the first to think of this: If you start a game as Belgium, invade say China, Korea, Sokoto, Egypt or whatever floats your boat, get some good populous provinces and then release Flanders and Wallonia. When you do this your capitol will move to said colony and you will be a technologically advanced nation in the middle of helpless uncivs (Asia) or uncollonized territory (Africa). The beauty of this is that you can industrialize these otherwise populous but unproductive areas. Almost like civilizing Chine but not as much micromanagement.

So my question is: Has anyone of you tried this? And if so what results did you get? Other thoughts on this tactic?

 

[Orm]

In Revolutions it would be an excercise in futility unless you have a full citizenship party you can get into office. For regular Vicky it may be fun.

 

[Neslepaks]

In Revolutions it would be an excercise in futility unless you have a full citizenship party you can get into office. For regular Vicky it may be fun.

Belgium, in Revolutions, has the Radical Party (A-L, LF, FT, SE?, FC, PM) avaliable from the start so that won't be a problem.

 

[unmerged(56690)]

I've tried actually. It's not so great as you might imagine. The lack of national pops handicaps you so much it's just not fun anymore. You can't get leadership and thus officers because you don't have enough national pops to promote. You are paying full price for education and crimefighting, but the nonnational pops only work half as hard, so there is no point in industrialization. The one advantage is you can turn your entire miniscule national population into clerks and get crazy tech research.

 

[Neslepaks]

I've tried actually. It's not so great as you might imagine. The lack of national pops handicaps you so much it's just not fun anymore. You can't get leadership and thus officers because you don't have enough national pops to promote. You are paying full price for education and crimefighting, but the nonnational pops only work half as hard, so there is no point in industrialization. The one advantage is you can turn your entire miniscule national population into clerks and get crazy tech research.

Didn't think of the leadership problem, that might spoil a lot of the fun. And what happens to research if you have no national pops whatsoever? As Belgium you have French culture so it might be possible to buy some french colonies with migrated nationals in them though.

On the industrialization note: I think that you are so far ahead in tech compared to your neighbours that you'll be a local powerhouse anyway, maybe not on par with the GPs but you could still make China your *****.