In this AAR, I shall detail the tale of Scandinavia from the turn of the century, until the end. This has been one of the most enjoyable games of Victoria 2 I have played so far, with PDM. The Great War mod by Rylock is a really cool addition, and actually makes after 1900 worth playing. The reason I decided to start the AAR now is because I find taking screenshots tedious since whatever keys you press don’t work since I am running it on a mac using Boot Camp. Neither the mac or pc combinations work, and F12 doesn’t either.
I apologize in advance for this block of text, you can skip over it and just look at the maps if you want.
The year is 1890. Europe is set in entangling alliance blocks. Communism is sweeping through Europe, recently overtaking Germany. (The interesting thing about this rebellion was the rebels defeated the entire army at the capital, usually what I see happen is the army is fighting another battle or occupying territories, not actually bothering to fight the rebels.) The mighty Tsar was once deposed by pro-democracy supporters, and was merely a figurehead for many years, until he managed to wrest control back again, after the armed forces were discovered to be very lacking. Our country of Scandinavia has had many small wars, but two with Russia. The first we took advantage of an opportune timing, striking right after Germany had defeated them. We didn’t fight a single battle that war. Later, we decided to strike again, for southern Finland, having taken the northern part in our first war. Our 35 brigades defeated the entirety of the Russian army. They didn’t send all their troops at us, since a war with the Ottomans started, but it was still a great victory. I also took Korea and the region going north east from it. The total casualty numbers for the war have been estimated at about 30,000 of our troops and 150,000 of theirs. The North German Federation was founded in the 1860's, without a war with Austria. The war with France followed quickly, with France-Comte being taken also. Italy was formed by decision by me, they have been my stalwart ally ever since, now sitting comfortably in the 6th place right now. Our alliance, the Central Powers, is Scandinavia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. I am working on adding Austria-Hungary to my sphere, this is they have switched back and forth between AH and just austria twice.
First, a screenshot of the great powers. The British Empire flag is with Prussian Constitutionalism, if someone would be willing to tell me the history of the flag, I would be interested.
Now a map of Europe. The ugly blob in the middle is Bohemia-Moravia, liberated by Germany, then part was added by Patriot rebels. Bavaria broke away during the great communist uprising. The small white thing next to Germany is Belarus. France is in its maybe 4th rebellion, now a communist one. Before it had anarcho-liberal, and two jacobin ones, since it seems to do Major Emergency measures a lot.
Here's North Africa, American Africa is funny to see on a map. South Africa isn’t very colonized yet.
Our Korea, we also own Johore and Zulu.
South America, interesting things are Andes Republic, formed by a rebellion in Peru-Bolivia, and Guyana, which rebelled from France. Nothing interesting in North America, except Canada isn’t a sattelite, they used whatever event makes the country whose sphere you are in pressure the people that hold you. They are having a communist rebellion. Rio Grande broke off of Mexico.
I'm the number one producer of lumber.
My population and things. The budget is just because I just loaded the savegame.
I will post the first update soon. Oh, and I promise to finish this one, make sure I keep my word, that I will post updates until at least 1925, in my Czechoslovakia one, I posted only one, it was easily the most boring game of Victoria 2 I have ever had, sitting between two giant nations, neither of which will ally with you.
Tell me if there are any screens you think I should have in this intro that I don’t.
I apologize in advance for this block of text, you can skip over it and just look at the maps if you want.
The year is 1890. Europe is set in entangling alliance blocks. Communism is sweeping through Europe, recently overtaking Germany. (The interesting thing about this rebellion was the rebels defeated the entire army at the capital, usually what I see happen is the army is fighting another battle or occupying territories, not actually bothering to fight the rebels.) The mighty Tsar was once deposed by pro-democracy supporters, and was merely a figurehead for many years, until he managed to wrest control back again, after the armed forces were discovered to be very lacking. Our country of Scandinavia has had many small wars, but two with Russia. The first we took advantage of an opportune timing, striking right after Germany had defeated them. We didn’t fight a single battle that war. Later, we decided to strike again, for southern Finland, having taken the northern part in our first war. Our 35 brigades defeated the entirety of the Russian army. They didn’t send all their troops at us, since a war with the Ottomans started, but it was still a great victory. I also took Korea and the region going north east from it. The total casualty numbers for the war have been estimated at about 30,000 of our troops and 150,000 of theirs. The North German Federation was founded in the 1860's, without a war with Austria. The war with France followed quickly, with France-Comte being taken also. Italy was formed by decision by me, they have been my stalwart ally ever since, now sitting comfortably in the 6th place right now. Our alliance, the Central Powers, is Scandinavia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. I am working on adding Austria-Hungary to my sphere, this is they have switched back and forth between AH and just austria twice.
First, a screenshot of the great powers. The British Empire flag is with Prussian Constitutionalism, if someone would be willing to tell me the history of the flag, I would be interested.
Now a map of Europe. The ugly blob in the middle is Bohemia-Moravia, liberated by Germany, then part was added by Patriot rebels. Bavaria broke away during the great communist uprising. The small white thing next to Germany is Belarus. France is in its maybe 4th rebellion, now a communist one. Before it had anarcho-liberal, and two jacobin ones, since it seems to do Major Emergency measures a lot.
Here's North Africa, American Africa is funny to see on a map. South Africa isn’t very colonized yet.
Our Korea, we also own Johore and Zulu.
South America, interesting things are Andes Republic, formed by a rebellion in Peru-Bolivia, and Guyana, which rebelled from France. Nothing interesting in North America, except Canada isn’t a sattelite, they used whatever event makes the country whose sphere you are in pressure the people that hold you. They are having a communist rebellion. Rio Grande broke off of Mexico.
I'm the number one producer of lumber.
My population and things. The budget is just because I just loaded the savegame.
I will post the first update soon. Oh, and I promise to finish this one, make sure I keep my word, that I will post updates until at least 1925, in my Czechoslovakia one, I posted only one, it was easily the most boring game of Victoria 2 I have ever had, sitting between two giant nations, neither of which will ally with you.
Tell me if there are any screens you think I should have in this intro that I don’t.