What was your beginner-country?

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What was the first country you played in Victoria?



For me it was Argentina on normal, right to hell.


Changed to very easy but when i think i'm doing good Peru declares war and Brazil joins.
Outnumbered 10:3 and attacked from both directions i was fortunate that the game crashed.


Now playing UK but still don't get what industry ranking is based on.


Maybe i need the tutorial, though I hate it and don't needed it for EUII or HoI

 

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first country i played was switzerland.... for about 30 mins. then i played belgium which was alot more fun and interesting.

im glad i played 1.00. all that extra money sure made it easier. i feel sorry for newbies with the current patch.

 

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USA for me! You can see my signature to see what happened as USA

 

[cymruwarrior]

Switzerland - economics 101
A very straight foreward country to play, good resource base, sensible starting factories (no negative profit super low efficiency import intensive crap that alot of the other countries get) - steel, lumber and fabric, with excellent opportunities for starting, plus the game begins with a bunch of 100k POPs, which then split, and continue to do so on a regular basis, so labour shortages are not too much of a problem plus your POPs are large and this productive.
No need to worry about an army either really. A simple game, turn Switzerland in to a stinking rich (per capita) cash cow, though admitably not the most exciting country to play.

 

[Darkrenown]

Sweden.

 

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Prussia

 

[Memnon]

Prussia.

 

[OriginalRafiki]

USA; figured it would be both fairly straight-forward and interesting.

Rafiki

 

[Tai-Pan]

Belgium for an hour. Than the 1861 scenario Italy. That was alot of fun, but i didnt know how to make an army and only had like 2 divsions for 30 or so years. Still managed to crush the papal states with them. HEHE.

 

[oddible]

First country is hard to remember - immediate cataclysmic economic failure. Second and maybe third the same way. Fourth was Brazil and was slow but learned some basics and got some minimal expansion by force going. Then came Sardinia-Piedmont and now I'm hooked.

 

[Johnny Canuck]

Way back in the tester days, I would try out Argentina every once in a while, but usually it was (& still is) the UK - I guess I'm a glutton for punishment!

 

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Way back in the tester days, I would try out Argentina every once in a while, but usually it was (& still is) the UK - I guess I'm a glutton for punishment!

I've tried to play as the UK several times but I always quit. They don't have enough national POPs

 

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I use china as my first play just because I am Chinese.

 

[Eric Lasalle]

Argentina on normal, too.
Then Switzerland.

 

[unmerged(23487)]

Brazil.

 

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Denmark

 

[Raph]

Sweden, which I think is a very good starter nation.

 

[Executor]

Prussia, on normal. My first two games were very short, about an hour each. By the third game, I had gotten the hang of it (raising tariffs, cutting army spending, only paying for crime-fighting at the end of the month, etc).

 

[Nightcap]

My first proper game, as in trying to actually achieve something, was with Sweden. However, prior to that I had run the game once or twice as a random country to get used to the interface, find out where everything was and see what clicking stuff did. I have no idea what country I used for that probably France or Spain.

 

[Rya]

First three games:
1. Prussia, didn't know what to do, lost in 1866 against Austria and quit
2. Prussia, prepared this time, kicked Austrian butt (and French and Russian butt) going for historical unification
3. Prussia, more aggressive (dow Austria in 1836 after moving all my divisions into Austria), conquering Germany by 1847, bashing Austria, France, Russia, Belgium, Netherlands after that.