Shameful, Toby, you're supposed to name every child Captain Texas

The funny thing is my first ever game of Victoria 3 I played as Cuba because I figured it's a small island nation and it wasn't until 1890 that I remembered that I was a colony of Spain. By this time I had banned slavery instituted many other liberal reforms and managed to turn Cuba into like the fifth highest GPD per capita state with high education. I was in utter ignorance not realizing that I was the nuclear-powered economic engine that propelled the Spanish Empire into a powerful but unchanging monarchy until I panned the camera over to Europe and realized they were using all the stuff I had produced to become an absolute menace. I didn't realize I was profiting from their war conquests and new resources all the while my superior technology was able to secure everything for them but opium.

Finally, historically accurate Byzantine rp, down to the new emperor having absolutely no idea how to launch a battle

I am hands down the worst Victoria 3 player since 1.8. I've been beating my head against the wall trying to makes sense of it since I played it a bunch at launch but got bored and went on to other things and wanted to come back. I tried playing as Spain and managed to death spiral the Spanish economy. When I posted this to the form the first reply was "How?".

War is mugging by nation states.

Paradox has games I love the idea of but generally hate to play more than I enjoy, but those chunks of enjoyment, that glint of insight into what they were going for. Also they really effing suck at tutorials. I mean they really freaking suck. They were excited about Vicky 3's tutorial being their best and it's awful.

"'The general that I was not having a homosexual relationship with because I am straight died in that battle' lemon cake" saImonthegreatestfish

They acted like the real Greeks of Rome

I'm so sleepy...

Diddyzentine Empire

Real Rome hours

Wait, so this is the beginning of the Mega Campaign? Is it gonna be solo or other players will also continue on?

​​this is peak, I'd love to see something like that again now that they know a bit what they are doing

Never knew lemon pastry was into Vicky 3

Plz something like this again

This is going to be so great

25:11 big fella

Well it's no surprise considering paradox is s swedish company and those guys are practically brainwashed by com manifesto since childhood

So that's why you made me install Viccy 3 before I could join the lobby!

this is going to be so damn painful to watch. I cant wait for the 7 over domain limit and not building men at arms

marx was an economist.

Lemon Cake is a vic3 man? I tought his videos were only abt eu4

I'm kinda like a role playing power gamer, who wants to make decisions that would kinda make sense from a real life historical point of view. As most if not all rulers if given the opportunity would've probably gone for large ambitious campaigns of conquest or reformation. Something to make their mark in history. I also love to hybridise with strong cultures, something I justify as my very learned character has learned about this culture and feels it could be very strong to hybridise with it.

I don't want to use a lot of mods as I want to be able get achievements.

I was playing Baldwin a little while ago, beat Saladin, found an extra fertile wife who got pregnant, but then she and the baby died in childbirth, and Saladin came back.

As an addendum to plagues, measles does have a small chance to blind you on its own, no treatment outcome

Please consider making a review of your experience with Manor Lords. We need dissenting (but still constructive) voices about that game.

Being such in-depth add-on to language mechanics shouldn't it as a whole be a new tab in culture tab, since they are 'inherently' connected. So it has it's own map mode, easier UI, etc. Just another idea.

34:35 it would also give more use to de jure changing mechanics with legends if the title being shifted gave changes to vassal management rather then just making succession more simple.

really enjoyed smithy in this

Starts at 6:28

3:53 bro really chose a 0 diplomacy chancellor 💀

Could you link the other creators in the description?

This is nit picky but i would like to see fiefs utilized for fuedal rulers. Like a stationary manor/estate historical its how knights managed to afford their armaments

Victoria 3 it's a first woke game from Paradox. And not last

Trade is not "bloat", wtf is wrong with you?

Unfortunately I liked an aspect that they are doing a lot less. I liked the asynchronous gameplay mechanics. I liked playing as a tribe and then building up to be a merchant republic empire. I liked despoiling entire civilizations as horse lords. Feudalism was about stability and building up over time. Paradox are generally moving away from specific mechanics for specific countries although I bounced off CK3 before they added a lot of extra flavour and mechanics. Maybe it would be good enough now but Im waiting for a good Khan, Merchant or Theocracy gameplay to exist.

I just wanted to say that I loved your CK3 story playthroughs this year, especially after Roads to Power came out. I can’t wait to see what you do next. Also, a minor suggestion. Maybe it could be interesting to do more “sequels” to these videos, especially if you make use of the Choose A New Destiny feature. Like after the Bactrian game if you started out as an Adventurer in the same save and made your way to a different realm to create a new kingdom and culture/religion.

For me Landless really needs some flavour and nerfing. As a languages guy surely you must also find it quite strange that your Irish adventurer who's found himself in Tibet and speaks not a lick of anything beyond his native Gaelic is somehow being entrusted by a King to transport his ward across the realm... I just wish language and culture had more impact on interactions between characters. Me not speaking Arabic doesn't make dislike people from Oman -5pts, it means I literally could not understand someone if I encountered them.

I have close to 2000 hrs in CK3, honestly it’s doodoo. They have focused so much energy into straight up novel mechanics that get stale after a while and have absolutely no flavor. They need to focus on the whole point of the game, crusades. Revamp the Catholics, add the college of cardinals, and revamp the Islamic side as well.

For me, I really never cared about the addition of China\Siberia to the map. In fact I believe it would be a huge waste of time for the devs. I really really liked the off map empire system they added in Jade Dragon. Redo that, but maybe with some different stuff so it doesn’t feel like a carbon copy of a CK2 dlc, and leave china as an off map maga power.

tbh if paradox ever releases a dlc with just the top ck2 content like societies, bloodlines and glitterhoof it would sell like water.

When I play a Celtic character I have to name all the cities to Celtic, When I am doing a Greek Empire of India, Persia and Africa I make all the titles Greek, when I play as the Sorbs I customise German titles to be Slavic, I love me some flavor

Tip for history gamer, life is life. ANYTHING COULD HAVE HAPPENED.

Im the Balance Gamer

@34:18 That's modular governments. They seem to be going the opposite way in CK3 I don't have a formed opinion, as I like both cases.

They should add more mechanics and flavour

5:40 that's me lol. I love roleplaying and spending a long time writing cultures/religions/lore etc. But I think the best thing with roleplaying is increasing the difficulty when so many things are easy to exploit in this game. For exemple, the whole eugenics things is funny but makes 0 sense roleplay wise and makes the game too easy. Same for dynastic/religion/culture traits and even personallity traits, if you minmaxx it the IA has ZERO chance to beat you. I think there should be more penalties for not playing RP : if you're an emperor and marry a peasant everybody should hate you for it. There should be more events relating to your character that cause stress if you refuse to do it, like lustful characters should automatically seduce courters and you should have to deal with the aftereffects.

Hence why CK2 will always be better then CK3

I think you forgot about one catagory of player the silly in which they just want to have stupid things happen like it could fall more minmaxxy but it could be like I wanna try and make the most inbred world possible by trying to get your dynasty on random titles and marry them cause it’s funny