Well, looks like an alliance with the new Italian Republic could occur. If that happens, Republics vs. Monarchies Great War?
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So the Liberal tide finally comes back to Estonia. Mind you, in purely historical terms it’s not the worst thing at this stage. There’s little Victoria loves more than sweeping socialist majorities before the end of the 19th century, which always seems a shade far fetched to me (even if I don’t necessarily complain).
Do you plan to keep pushing to get the Conservatives in, or will you ride out the vagaries of the games election engine from now on?
Well, looks like an alliance with the new Italian Republic could occur. If that happens, Republics vs. Monarchies Great War?
Well there's one great power to succumb to revolution, and to anarcho-liberals no less. It surely won't be the last. Victoria 2 does love its revolutions.
Well, to be fair, so did our world's Europe in the 1800s.
On the other hand, those tended to fail pretty badly, most of the time (even in France, I don't think more than half the attempted revolutions actually worked out). In Victoria, I get the idea that it works quite often, if we only count the big rebellions and not "one brigade of anarcho-liberals revolted in Eastern Cameroon".
In my current play through, I was pretty disappointed to see a lot of unsuccessful revolutions. Continental Europe was annoyingly stable until the 1890s when, as usual, the first Great War broke out way ahead of schedule. That said, playing as the U.K. with a somewhat.. wilful disregard for political good sense, I experienced a ton of fairly major rebellions. Pretty much one every five years. Only one was successful, and the rest I managed to deal with before they took the capital.
I think my issue with the mechanic is that it’s a bit too cut and dry. There’s pretty much zero flavour to what’s going on, and just having to send the troops in or fire off a couple of reforms every few years gets tiring very quickly. Particularly when, as you say, nearly every revolt includes the one logistical nightmare of pacifying some out the way province in the colonies.
I think in general I’d just like to see more depth to the political RP aspect of Vicky, sort of like how you get a little bit of an insight into things with HoI nowadays. A pipe dream in all likelihood, but we can dream nonetheless!
Maybe when we get our mythical Victoria 3, that will be a focus!
I do agree that I would have liked some more depth regarding those things... I find that in V2, more than the EU4 or CK2 legs, I'm playing the game much further ahead and posting years or even decades behind so that I can write some context and continuity into my posts that otherwise wouldn't really be provided by the game.
Liberals back into power. Hopefully they don't wreck the economy this time.
ancap arabia is cursed and must be obliterated
Also, I'd like going forward some discussion of what's going on in Asia, particularly since this is a world much less dominated by Europe.
It looks like you've finally transitioned into the second phase of Vicky 2 where your industry has been built up enough to actually function under laissez-faire. Second place is pretty good, considering just how far that Germany is. Hopefully you will be able to catch them, or at least beat them in military score.
Also, that China's military score.