Oops! You're right. Ah well. I'll have to make sure I fix it on the next map I present. XD
Post Your Heart of Darkness Empire!
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This is my (fairly humble) Texas Republic (PDM):
First of all, we have my home turf (nothing special, except for the population):
Zoom so you can actually see my army:
Then we have the Colonial Empire:
Zoom on the Texan Congo:
Zoom on Texan Namibia:
The economy (The reason so many of my pops can't get all of their life needs is that they are craftsmen and clerks, and I can't expand my 8 factories fast enough to employ them):
Politics:
Population:
Industry:
Technology:
A little history:
IMO, you should really try a game as Texas if you haven't done one yet.
First of all, we have my home turf (nothing special, except for the population):
Zoom so you can actually see my army:
Zoom on the Texan Congo:
Zoom on Texan Namibia:
1836: Texas War of Independence; pretty self-explanatory. After I captured Santa Anna, the Mexicans refused to give up and I had to call in the US.
1840-1846: Lots and lots of uprisings, political turmoil, etc.
1847: Irish Famine results in 37% of the population being Irish
1860: Industrialisation starts (with a lot of bankrupt factories at first, because my people kept electing the (laissez faire) Whig Party)
1875: Conquest of Loango, beginning of my colonies in the Congo.
1900: Colonisation of Namibia
1905: Texas becomes a GP! (HOORAY!)
Around 1915: War! in which the Andes Republic (Bolivia and South Peru) and Texas go to war against Chile. Texan fleet (12 dreadnoughts, 6 submarines and 12 cruisers) battles against a Chilean fleet (77 non-specified, but outdated ships) in the Pacific ocean. After two sea battles, the entire Chilean fleet is wiped out at the cost of... not a single Texan ship. War results in a friendly democracy being installed in the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chile.
1932: Gabon is released (because of its only advantages being 100k people (the provinces in mainland Texas had an average of about 610k) and a level 6 port (I didn't need it, because I thought my fleet was big enough already)
1840-1846: Lots and lots of uprisings, political turmoil, etc.
1847: Irish Famine results in 37% of the population being Irish
1860: Industrialisation starts (with a lot of bankrupt factories at first, because my people kept electing the (laissez faire) Whig Party)
1875: Conquest of Loango, beginning of my colonies in the Congo.
1900: Colonisation of Namibia
1905: Texas becomes a GP! (HOORAY!)
Around 1915: War! in which the Andes Republic (Bolivia and South Peru) and Texas go to war against Chile. Texan fleet (12 dreadnoughts, 6 submarines and 12 cruisers) battles against a Chilean fleet (77 non-specified, but outdated ships) in the Pacific ocean. After two sea battles, the entire Chilean fleet is wiped out at the cost of... not a single Texan ship. War results in a friendly democracy being installed in the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chile.
1932: Gabon is released (because of its only advantages being 100k people (the provinces in mainland Texas had an average of about 610k) and a level 6 port (I didn't need it, because I thought my fleet was big enough already)
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If you're running that high of a budget surplus you should really low your tariffs < 0. The lower they get the better your factories perform (and so fewer subsidies) and the easier it is for pops to get their needs. Literally the only reason you should ever have tariffs above the minimum is because you can't afford it- you clearly can here.
I proudly present: Krakow
One wonders how Russia handles that african territory. Also africa turned into it's usual god awful mess of a HoD map (with everpresent random algeria, tunis and sokoto/ethiopia for no good reason)
Well, they DID have Matruh for like 60 years, to the point where 60% of the population is Russian. I only took it from them in our last war. I expect either patriots in the desert or through the Turkish Kingdom. (NOTE: I won't call them the Ottoman Empire because they're like number 42, hardly an empire.) As for the Dutch mess, they conquered Dongola and the rest of southern Egypt after I took my pieces. Then I took Dongola from them for the Rubber. That's why they have that disjointed bit.
And another Germany, iam sorry for this. 
But the first time i played it till the end and i think the result is very nice-
I dunno why but i cant make a screenshot from the ending screen, so ive made one from diplomatic. If you ask yourself what 100+ infamy means = around 330.
I started as Prussia and had a very hard and annoying beginning. I needed 4 wars do throw Austria down and create Greater Germany around 1960. The first war i humilate Austria, take Bohemia and free hungary. And it could be so easy if there were not france, attacking me one month before austria fall down do secondary power status and allowed me to sphere it. They wanted Elsaß back and also call their Ally russia into the war. So i ended up, make peace with austria and throw all i had vs france and hold only the line in the east vs russia.
The war vs France ended in another occupation of their territory but i had to wait till iam able to attack austria again.
The third war vs austria was a mess, i had already loss to austrian army, a giant rebellion occur in my land. At the point i was beating the rebels, had already lost a quarter of my territory to them, france and russia again declared war. This time i had a very hard fight to overcome them both at same time. I was really on the edge of my possibilities but i manged it and was able to take again a piece from France.
In the eve of the fourth war vs austria i allied the USA and this time france was quiet and greater germany was created.
The next 45 Years i was fighting any european might (except GB, Spain or Greece(ally)) and expand whenever a CB was ready. I never had to mobilize my troops to win a fight.
At 1906 a crisis with greece went into my first war with GB, cause they supported the ottoman empire. Russia, spain and some other minor states jumped in for GB too. At this time i was allied with USA (no real intrest in USA, it was simply for fun). I wanted to see what happens and called them into the war and then send my already prepared 600.000 man army to the english main land. They fought well but had no chance. Also russia was an easy enemy. I grabbed a big part of the britisch colonies in afrika and a region in russia and was surprised by the easy and low cost of adding wargoals.
Also the 2nd great war in 1913 against GB and russia was easy won. I regret dont facing GB in great wars earlier to simply take more regions afterwards from russia.
A lot of wars i fought for trashy "dutch ....", "british ...", "french ..." areas, sometimes only one state to delete these ugly blobs in my beatiful africa or the caribeen islands.
After the 2nd great war something changed in the world. Wave after Wave rebels occur in nearly all countries for the next 15 years. In Germany i had only one minor rebellion by anarcho rebels.
Plenty of rebels appear in india and after some years britain went facistic, lost all his dominions and spheres. Also france changed from socialis, facist, communist, conservative, and everything else all 3 years. I really dunno what game mechanic lead to this but it nearly immidiatly stopped at 1929, my first rebellion started.
From that point on i got communist, facist, communist, anarcho-liberal, communist, facist, communist rebels... in only 5 years. Really want to know why. All social and political reforms were made. And while i get annoyed (never a real danger, only boring send Troop A to rebel B) the rest of the world regenerated. The last 20 years i fight vs russia i lost more soldiers to attrition and rebels then to normal troops. All i had to do was sending the army from one point to another.
But after 1930, countries i invaded really get combat ready armies. The pre last war vs spain faced me with a 240k stack. In the last year and war against russia, i had to fight a 500k stack in novgorod. It wasnt really a big deal, they were still losing much much more troops then me. But it was still nice, like a little present for the end of the game.
Additionally i watched something... weird, but alredy well kown. The problem with the coffee. I had sphered brazil for over 70 years in the game. I dunno when, but in all my region, that produce coffe, none of the farmers went to work. ZERO. Some regions had 135k unemployed farmer. Unfortunatly it was a former colony from netherlands, not able to build factories.
1928 the global coffee producion was 350, 300 from brazil, 50 from other countries and ZERO from me. Even i own several coffee regions. Global demand 250. In population screen was the information, coffee wasnt available. Even my citizen had the money for it.
1933 i unsphered brazil to test the result. One day after, the first people start to work and were still rising in 1935. Now the global production is 750, 420 from brazil, 120 from me. Global demand meets the support with 750. Strange.
2nd strange thing what happened was in Denmark. I forgot to make a screenshot but in Ylland were only living 7 people. That was around 1865. (NOT 7k... only 7!)
But the first time i played it till the end and i think the result is very nice-
I dunno why but i cant make a screenshot from the ending screen, so ive made one from diplomatic. If you ask yourself what 100+ infamy means = around 330.
I started as Prussia and had a very hard and annoying beginning. I needed 4 wars do throw Austria down and create Greater Germany around 1960. The first war i humilate Austria, take Bohemia and free hungary. And it could be so easy if there were not france, attacking me one month before austria fall down do secondary power status and allowed me to sphere it. They wanted Elsaß back and also call their Ally russia into the war. So i ended up, make peace with austria and throw all i had vs france and hold only the line in the east vs russia.
The war vs France ended in another occupation of their territory but i had to wait till iam able to attack austria again.
The third war vs austria was a mess, i had already loss to austrian army, a giant rebellion occur in my land. At the point i was beating the rebels, had already lost a quarter of my territory to them, france and russia again declared war. This time i had a very hard fight to overcome them both at same time. I was really on the edge of my possibilities but i manged it and was able to take again a piece from France.
In the eve of the fourth war vs austria i allied the USA and this time france was quiet and greater germany was created.
The next 45 Years i was fighting any european might (except GB, Spain or Greece(ally)) and expand whenever a CB was ready. I never had to mobilize my troops to win a fight.
At 1906 a crisis with greece went into my first war with GB, cause they supported the ottoman empire. Russia, spain and some other minor states jumped in for GB too. At this time i was allied with USA (no real intrest in USA, it was simply for fun). I wanted to see what happens and called them into the war and then send my already prepared 600.000 man army to the english main land. They fought well but had no chance. Also russia was an easy enemy. I grabbed a big part of the britisch colonies in afrika and a region in russia and was surprised by the easy and low cost of adding wargoals.
Also the 2nd great war in 1913 against GB and russia was easy won. I regret dont facing GB in great wars earlier to simply take more regions afterwards from russia.
A lot of wars i fought for trashy "dutch ....", "british ...", "french ..." areas, sometimes only one state to delete these ugly blobs in my beatiful africa or the caribeen islands.
After the 2nd great war something changed in the world. Wave after Wave rebels occur in nearly all countries for the next 15 years. In Germany i had only one minor rebellion by anarcho rebels.
Plenty of rebels appear in india and after some years britain went facistic, lost all his dominions and spheres. Also france changed from socialis, facist, communist, conservative, and everything else all 3 years. I really dunno what game mechanic lead to this but it nearly immidiatly stopped at 1929, my first rebellion started.
From that point on i got communist, facist, communist, anarcho-liberal, communist, facist, communist rebels... in only 5 years. Really want to know why. All social and political reforms were made. And while i get annoyed (never a real danger, only boring send Troop A to rebel B) the rest of the world regenerated. The last 20 years i fight vs russia i lost more soldiers to attrition and rebels then to normal troops. All i had to do was sending the army from one point to another.
But after 1930, countries i invaded really get combat ready armies. The pre last war vs spain faced me with a 240k stack. In the last year and war against russia, i had to fight a 500k stack in novgorod. It wasnt really a big deal, they were still losing much much more troops then me. But it was still nice, like a little present for the end of the game.
Additionally i watched something... weird, but alredy well kown. The problem with the coffee. I had sphered brazil for over 70 years in the game. I dunno when, but in all my region, that produce coffe, none of the farmers went to work. ZERO. Some regions had 135k unemployed farmer. Unfortunatly it was a former colony from netherlands, not able to build factories.
1928 the global coffee producion was 350, 300 from brazil, 50 from other countries and ZERO from me. Even i own several coffee regions. Global demand 250. In population screen was the information, coffee wasnt available. Even my citizen had the money for it.
1933 i unsphered brazil to test the result. One day after, the first people start to work and were still rising in 1935. Now the global production is 750, 420 from brazil, 120 from me. Global demand meets the support with 750. Strange.
2nd strange thing what happened was in Denmark. I forgot to make a screenshot but in Ylland were only living 7 people. That was around 1865. (NOT 7k... only 7!)
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It is never an usual HoD mess without Watermelonstralia.
Those weirdness. I had once my entire goddamn cavalry production halted in PDM/CoE (can't remember) and Sokoto/Dahomey just would not produce any. I had the demand, I had the producing region, but they stayed unemployed. Sometimes I just don't even know.
Now, I was digging through my Concert of Europe folders and I decided to post those screenshots before I delete them. South American Empires.
Portugal-Brazil, 1895
I had several GBs of Screenshots of this one, but mainly:
Germany was the first Proletariat Dictatorship, then they had a smashing success of a conference with the USSR, then another then another, they just need to get a room. Spain was Communist at one point and Russia had Canada all the way to Alberta, that is why that USA abomination is there.
Britain lost to sepoys but I lost to sepoys too, and France lost to Sepoys. Everyone lost to Sepoys. Sepoys lost to sepoys. That Purple thingy is India, indeed, it cannot flipping move due to revolts.
Dem Balkans, Syria and Iraq.
Andes Republic, 1935
At the start of the game, Peruvians make a lot of money. But they can only use so much money to buy things and the government is not very efficient in taxing them. So they get this surplus money and invest on the bank, because they care about their future. Then, other countries go and take money from Peruvian national bank. And NO FLAPPING SOUL pays back. No one. Everyone bankrupts/doesn't care. And, yes, I did put tariffs all the way to the roof and taxed 100%. I did not get that mad because I'm aware that money in the bank is basically destroyed since the interest doesn't work but damn.
It's like the Bank of Peru had a basket full of cash and a big sign FREE MONEY.
Also, I recall a very hard start with no soldiers and no immigration. Around 1900s I started receiving people by the 5 digits, though. It's the reason why I didn't dar fight Brazil, and in the end they managed to be sphered by France anyway. Eh well.
Oh, yes, I remember the pain of having no money and my industry failing because the US would sphere me. Augh. I did love when they collapsed and spouted the FSA and New England.
La Plata, 1936
This is one true South Atlantic Empire.
Britain fell to Sepoys, France grabbed half of India, then France got dismantled. It was glorious.
I don't remember if Germany is fascist, but France surely is.
I even bought me a cozy port in the south of China, with, like, 10k fishermen.
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Hey, the UK is actually reasonably difficult to manage decently. You can sit there and do nothing and win, but achieving anything is a pain in the arse. If you're struggling, try America or Sweden (Sweden has less war but American wars are pretty easy). Both can be isolationist and do fine
I usually do ok as UK, but us is fun because you fight two was and sit at the number 4 spot the rest of the game. Intervene only when you want, or don't, and jump a spot when someone gets destroyed in a Great War
I maybe tried once the UK, but stopped after 10 years. Playing the number ONE from the start is a bit odd and controlling a such separated empire is more annoying then fun. I always prefer strong land forces and ignore long time the naval warfare. I could have much more points and territory in my germany game, but i really dislike tiny blobs and disturbing borders in my country.
It is just tedious. You have an immense amount of potential assuming you're fine with swapping NF around India to get 4% clergy, spamming naval bases for the essential points, spamming any new type of boat, ferrying millions of men from around the world to the UK and just generally doing a lot of things much more suited to a computer. If the AI in Victoria 2 was up to the level of EU4 then the UK would be a complete powerhouse in the hands of the AI.
But alas, that will have to wait for Victoria 3 (hey, we got FO4, I can dream)
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What happens when you get really lucky as Sokoto?
Hello Pan-African self-determined global power.
Could anyone explain to me though, how the Dutch managed to conquer part of inland Africa? They have no sea-connected provinces, they just appeared in the Sahara.
Hello Pan-African self-determined global power.
Could anyone explain to me though, how the Dutch managed to conquer part of inland Africa? They have no sea-connected provinces, they just appeared in the Sahara.
Those are Dutch dominions, released from Dutch colonised provinces. They can release a dominion and then continue to colonise, it is a way of allowing further colonisation by freeing up points. You can see how their name stretches across multiple coloured countries indicating they are the overlord.
Yes but to release dominions you have to have colonised them first and to colonise Africa you need to start with a port province yes? That's my quandry, they just appeared in the middle of the continent.
This is my (fairly humble) Texas Republic (PDM):
First of all, we have my home turf (nothing special, except for the population):
Then we have the Colonial Empire:
Zoom so you can actually see my army:
The economy (The reason so many of my pops can't get all of their life needs is that they are craftsmen and clerks, and I can't expand my 8 factories fast enough to employ them):
Zoom on the Texan Congo:
Zoom on Texan Namibia:
Politics:
Population:
Industry:
Technology:
A little history:
IMO, you should really try a game as Texas if you haven't done one yet.1836: Texas War of Independence; pretty self-explanatory. After I captured Santa Anna, the Mexicans refused to give up and I had to call in the US.
1840-1846: Lots and lots of uprisings, political turmoil, etc.
1847: Irish Famine results in 37% of the population being Irish
1860: Industrialisation starts (with a lot of bankrupt factories at first, because my people kept electing the (laissez faire) Whig Party)
1875: Conquest of Loango, beginning of my colonies in the Congo.
1900: Colonisation of Namibia
1905: Texas becomes a GP! (HOORAY!)
Around 1915: War! in which the Andes Republic (Bolivia and South Peru) and Texas go to war against Chile. Texan fleet (12 dreadnoughts, 6 submarines and 12 cruisers) battles against a Chilean fleet (77 non-specified, but outdated ships) in the Pacific ocean. After two sea battles, the entire Chilean fleet is wiped out at the cost of... not a single Texan ship. War results in a friendly democracy being installed in the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chile.
1932: Gabon is released (because of its only advantages being 100k people (the provinces in mainland Texas had an average of about 610k) and a level 6 port (I didn't need it, because I thought my fleet was big enough already)
Wow, i am a bit late, but how could you get so high population in.. 1 state? If they are all immigrants, why they have Texan culture?
America & Oceania get turbo-assimilation. Basically, any culture without a core there will get converted to the culture of the ruler. And yep, immigration I guess. Though he has some colonial land.
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Makes me sad to see in most of these playthroughs Canada never seems to gain all of its historical territory by the end thanks to a rather annoying blue blob(Yes I'm looking at you America). Think I'll go play a Canada playthrough to off set all the bad outcomes we seem to have in this thread(well at least the last few pages anyway )
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Northern America only deserves one country on it... and its V2 colour is green.
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