The political lesson from Victoria II playing the US
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I never got a war.
I was making alternating random event choices and decisions made in right time helped a lot too .
Oh and I went full democratic on those associations, underground rails and everything.
But jacobines were a huge pain in the rear.
I was making alternating random event choices and decisions made in right time helped a lot too .
Oh and I went full democratic on those associations, underground rails and everything.
But jacobines were a huge pain in the rear.
Same here. I got Cuba early on and increased the Slave States with New Mexico as well, so no War of Northern Aggression for me.
The effing Jacobins popped up out of nowhere (really: I had zero revolt risk according to the map) every few months by the late game though, and in their wake I even got Manhattanite nationalists...
Having to keep two armies bouncing around the north while at the same time trying to beat Mexico out of California & Utah was not fun.
I did have some Jacobins revolting, but the revolt was nowhere near that big.
It was like a three states somewhere in 1850 during my third war with Mexico. Two states raised 2 brigades and the other just one. Easy to clean up. Good to see larger revolts are possible.
It was like a three states somewhere in 1850 during my third war with Mexico. Two states raised 2 brigades and the other just one. Easy to clean up. Good to see larger revolts are possible.
:rofl: I totally lost this !!!
It's early 1848 and :
The north is taking it's independance !
NIce
Would be cool to see the north, the south and maybe central america acting in the WWI or WWII. I played the demo too, quite hard and I never played a Vicky before, so til now I'm really overstrained with all the stuff, especially with the trading and working system. But I'm still extremely excited for friday, it's gonna be a long long night and a long long day after that 
Did anyone beat me to this?
I haven't seen anyone post yet saying that they peacefully abolished slavery. Well, it's possible and it can be done in the demo's time frame. Pretty damn close thing though. In January and Febuary of 1848, it ended up being a race between me being able to pass emancipation and the succession event firing, which I won only by the good graces of the RNG.
Am I the first? Do I get an internet cookie?
I haven't seen anyone post yet saying that they peacefully abolished slavery. Well, it's possible and it can be done in the demo's time frame. Pretty damn close thing though. In January and Febuary of 1848, it ended up being a race between me being able to pass emancipation and the succession event firing, which I won only by the good graces of the RNG.
Am I the first? Do I get an internet cookie?
:rofl: I totally lost this !!!
It's early 1848 and :
The north is taking it's independance !
And I just had my first event informing me that Confederate nationalists began their own revolts and I'm out of troops... I don't even have enough troops to fight the Yankee revolters AND the Yankee Secessionists ...
So in the end having the war between the north and the south might be easier than trying to avoid it
Really Vicky II is definitely a great political simulation. There are things to add that's for sure but it clearly seems this game will be a "hit", far more than Vicky I so I think we can hope for more things in the future.
Just an example (but that's something a silple patch can't change I think as it would need new political tools) : just before the entire State of New York fell to the Commune of New York City, the political affiliations were with 30% of the voters voting for "Southern Democrats" !!! In NY State !!!
Wow, they've allowed for New Yotk as a country? What's it's flag?
Sorry. I think it's in this thread somewhere: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=490721
Here:
In my game, I just outlawed slavery. No ACW yet, and I think I avoided it completely.
It is the "commune of New York", maybe not exactly this name (I don't remember, and as we are not allowed to save in the demo...), but it's the commune of new york.
NIce
Well the US can be realy divided !!! So it can totally turn this way (especially if you decide to side with the South)
As for Friday night, I have to fill up my beer reserves :rofl:
Nope I did not do it... My mistake was to always forbid anti slavery activism, which rose consciousness a lot...
In Vicky I, high counsciousness was not a problem as long as militancy was low. it seems it is much more complicated now, and I won't do that anymore
It's fictional. It's from 'The Difference Engine', an excellent steampunk alt-history novel by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, mentioned in passing in one sentence or something.It sounds historical so you're right
I guess someone at Paradox loves the book and used the name to represent a possible breakaway for revolters there, inspired by the New York Draft Riots of 1863 and other riots of the era.
It's not historical, it's fiction. From the novel The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce SterlingIt sounds historical so you're right
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