Creating An Economic Power As The Poorest Nation! | Victoria 3 | Rags To Riches - Australia | PT 1

We're back with some more Victoria 3. This time, Sean will take charge of Van Diemen's Land, the poorest country at game start.
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[@FlightofCrows]

Dunno if you already know this, but a couple of the states you can colonize in the pacific are only one tile big. So it doesn't matter that they have severe malaria, because the colonization is instant. Debatable whether those few extra pops are worth having to build ports for such small colonies, tho.

[@rowbot5555]

Good for rp though

[@gimmethegepgun]

None of the Pacific island states are only one tile. The smallest are Nauru, which is 2, and Kanak, which is 3. It's absolutely worth it to get them as someone in the British market, however, as it's one more place for immigrants to swarm to.

[@eduardoboehringer]

new caledonia is good bcs of the lead and lead bonus it gets

[@adamconner9302]

Fish is much more efficient than grain as a food source so it's always worth it to secure coastal lands, not even accounting for other considerations that favor their colonization

[@bernasilva2041]

😊

[@crazysanta8129]

This video appears on my recommendation, great video, will definitely watch the next eps

[@Blxz]

Tasmania is an OP start with regards to small starts. British market is huge and the single state with low pop lets you tap that massive market and run a huge quality of life number to pump that immigration desirability. Good run.

[@ManuuRondan]

awesome video! just grabbed this game and am completely struggling to get my economy up and running, this kind of long-format content is greatly appreciated albeit a little too fast sometimes hehe keep up the great work!

[@andrewnieves3417]

I'd love to see you try form Polynesia as United Tribes

[@gimmethegepgun]

You don't need to build a port. You're connected to the market via ports in mainland Australia, which you're connected to via strait. Emergency Relief and Promote National Values are basically pointless in your situation, so you might as well just keep the Authority to make your law enactment faster. Dedicated Police is also completely pointless for you at the beginning, you'd be better off going for one of the Colonial laws and hoping that you can get the Prestige outcome from Law Advancement so that you can get a Declared Interest and start setting up in Niger Delta, a single province of which has FAR more population than what you started with.

[@TheBlueScreeners]

Does the prestige outcome only fire on colonial laws? I tend to spam law changes to try and get the event that grants a permanent authority boost.

[@brandonzzz9924]

For countries this small, dedicated police is just a bonus at no real cost. With 100 starting bureaucracy, the 10 that institutions cost is trivial. it may not be optimal to get first, but it is certainly useful and efficient.

[@gimmethegepgun]

@@TheBlueScreeners No, it can happen on any law afaict. It's just that you can most rapidly take advantage of it if you get the colonial law first, since the declared interest will let you start colonizing Africa.

[@gimmethegepgun]

@@brandonzzz9924 It's not really any benefit at all since such a small country is basically impossible to get turmoil in. That bureaucracy could be used to make some trade routes instead to bring in some money.

[@TheRedBaronBird]

i dont know anything about victoria 3 but i still watch your video. its entertaining and i hope i learn something passively! Thank you for that :3

[@Arjen900]

i see the algoritm decided this video was worth my time, i am not dissapointed. Keep up the good work !

[@BiNumLi]

Selling groceries, a perishable product, all the way to Great Britain? In 1837 'Groceries' must be dry goods not perishables, surely. Not sure what the game is simulating when refridgeration isn't invented yet.

[@TheBlueScreeners]

I imagine its tons and tons of smoked kangaroo and koala jerky.

[@artemisaprita1947]

I was talking with my wife and we tuned into the "... and have our dad put them down" and I cannot tell you how hilarious - and disconcerting - it was lmao

[@HouseOfAlastrian]

Intelligentsia opposing Universal Suffrage is a weird thing to happen. It happened because their leader has the Authoritarian ideology. It's a bit like how Corn Laws used to be a ridiculously overpowered mechanic because it gave the Landowners a Market Liberal leader. Easy path out of Traditionalism, straight to Liessez Faire. I also remember an annoying occasion as Japan where the leader of the Samurai had an ideology that aligned them with the Liberal Party, who were the ruling party. Because I couldn't kick them out of government, it stalled the Meiji Restoration since you need to do that in order to do the 'Retire the Samurai' journal entry.

[@TheBlueScreeners]

The politics system in Vicky leaves a lot to be desired. Agitators fixed some of issues, but IMO there's still a long way to go before I'd give the system a thumbs up.

[@wujekbolek]

Great video looking forward to the next episode

[@nick2open]

Best playthrough of V3!

[@jackf8477]

Van Diemans Land. Pronounced "Van DEEman's Land".

[@VonUthred]

I live in Australia, we call it van demon's land

[@TheBlueScreeners]

Apologies, but I recorded the series before learning the pronunciation.

[@TheBusbyBabes]

I dont know if you already did it. Literally the first vid i ever saw of you but maybe do a unite africa as an african nation save and keep europe out. I fail miserably everytime i try so would be cool 😄

[@Jayde2002]

OMG I’m from Tasmania it’s so cool you can play as them as playable nation in the game

[@oliver._.5245]

Nice video :D

[@Yvonmukluk]

You know Kaurna, while having a much higher GDP, might actually be even more of a challenge than Van Diemen's land, given it has virtually no technology at game start, although it does have surprisingly good laws (Serfdom aside).

[@dragoneer121]

Van Diemens Land makes a good tutorial island

[@andrefasching1332]

thats some very conservative growth you are pulling off here. Whenever i play i usually look to be around -+0 or try to stay comfortably in the red. Depending on how effective your growth is you sometines can even go into debt without worriing at all as your economic output grows faster than your debt, thus you can run a deficit near indefinitely and pay the accumulated debt of the last decade off in a few months as soon as it feels like the right time to do so

[@adamconner9302]

This is true for great powers, but the further you are from being a great power the higher interest rates become. Running a deficit as anything less than a major power is going to see interest outpace growth and can over time stagnate/collapse your economy. As a GP though, take it to the limit lol.

[@andrefasching1332]

@@adamconner9302 oh yeah, totaly forgot about that. Its like 22% interest if i remember correctly?

[@adamconner9302]

@@andrefasching1332 The base value is 20%, which is more than enough to quickly crash an economy if not respected. GPs get a 50% reduction to this and MPs a 25% reduction. It gets progressively worse from there, going up to +100% interest for an unrecognized power. Of course the break points are different depending on the specific circumstances of a playthrough, but from my experience it's when you switch over to Laissez-Faire and get that extra 25% reduction that interest just becomes a number. At that point a GP will have about a 3-4% rate depending on tech and can absolutely sit at max debt and dramatically outpace the interest in GDP gains.

[@pohorex6834]

Especially as GBs son, you can pretty comfortably go in the red and GB will take your debt once for an obligation, then you need to balance it somewhat better. The biggest issue at the start of the game is the cultural exclusion, get rid of that to get way more immigration to further industrialization

[@andrefasching1332]

@@adamconner9302 yeah smth like that. I really should start playing more unrecognized powers. Im really just waiting for any interesting flavor mod to release as minors dont have much to offer rn beside a harder challenge

[@creevey82]

Not to be 'that guy', but Diemen is pronounced 'Demon'.

[@TheBlueScreeners]

Good to know, unfortunately I pre-recorded this series so we'll be stuck with the bad pronunciation.

[@carlosfuentes9506]

I also enjoy rags to riches and found Cuba to be so fun and actually OP

[@carlosfuentes9506]

If you try Cuba, here are some tips. Low population is one of the biggest problems. Stay as Spain’s puppet as long as you can for those migrants (~1865 works). Setting up a colony in Africa can get you sulfur, but that convoy route is difficult to defend during war. If you develop too quickly, you’ll have a lot of investment waste, run out of pops, and potentially go bankrupt. Don’t go for charity hospitals at the start; research public healthcare.

[@rj4416]

how did you break from spain and around what year?

[@carlosfuentes9506]

@@rj4416 Earliest I broke away was 1856ish. But I found that was too soon when I ran out of pops. 1865 to 1870 worked best for me. You only need to defend against the naval invasions to break away, which is very doable with 15 army units and a decent general, even if Spain is allied with a Great Power (although in that case you’ll need a 10 unit navy so you don’t get naval invaded by both at the same time). I usually annex Puerto Rico from Spain in the same war.

[@carlosfuentes9506]

@@rj4416I just saw that with the new update on Aug 28 subjects will no longer remain in their overlord’s market during independence wars, so make sure you’re ready with guns and cannons

[@dalton6108]

I’m really curious about Australia’s upbringing. I love history, but I never looked into Australia. All I know is after the independence war with America Britain focused their colonial efforts on Australia and other colonies. Going as far as sending prisoners to help populate.

[@BigBoiTurboslav]

There wasn't much of a colonial effort in Australia. Australia was a penal colony first and foremost. I think the British called it no man's land and just left the land up for grabs.

[@nathannate5982]

Nice!

[@nuggie5522]

Diemens land is pronounced more like Demons land instead of Die-mens land

[@pedrokiihl856]

that's ominous

[@clubardi]

@@pedrokiihl856 i mean there's a reason why there's an animal called Tasmanian Devil

[@nggames1439]

Play a little slower so we can process what you are doing. I love these videos ❤

[@dragonhat255]

Hey, i live here!

[@winzyl9546]

Im sorry

[@jkutyna]

Does anyone have any kind of clue as to what happened in this video? Nothing really explained and simply half an hour of clicking all over the place at the speed of light.

[@momer5454]

looking for the next episode! Great vid

[@gabrielelder7301]

10k to 150k damn that's growth

[@oskaredwardes1182]

IT'S PRONOUNCED VAN DEMONS LAND.... not trying to be rude, just Australian.

[@McFearsome2]

I can definitely see why you kept pronouncing it that way as the first 3 letters *are* "die", but "Van Diemens Land" is pronounced as "demon"... "Van Demons Land".

[@0786RICARDO]

Does this come anywhere close to anno 1800 quality?

[@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock]

It's van Deemans land. Not van Diamonds land.

[@Matthew-lh6nl]

You say it like vandemons land I don’t mean any hate I’m just from Australia

[@mybumbrash]

Its pronounced 'Van Deamons land'

[@jeremykothe2847]

It's pronounced Van Demon

[@Calvvn]

Zero to hero

[@eragon4249]

Ive played united tribes and that was really fun. But if you want a real fun challenge play Sikkim

[@asgarmolla1980]

I am you r 1000 sud

[@SuperGeomike]

What version are you playing on?

[@TheBlueScreeners]

This was recorded on 1.3.6.

[@melcombrowne5208]

so cringe that nsw starts with QLD and Victoria already colonised. especially considering they're both seperate colonies from nsw. Cant you invade the indigenous territory in SA

[@dalerowell75]

Except Victoria and Queensland weren't separate from NSW until 1851

[@windradyne8724]

Even today the federation is carried upon the back of the New South Welshman.

[@melcombrowne5208]

@@windradyne8724 what?

[@dylanshuter7868]

Please god, Pronounce is as Van Deamons land, and OZtralia. NOT Damons land or Auostralia

[@norymmk1352]

set AI aggression to high if you havent

[@TheBlueScreeners]

I think I'll turn it on for all of my future series. This one an the next are already recorded so we're stuck with peaceful AI.

[@priersackh]

Poorest nation? Lol try Surakarta or Yogyakarta then talk again 😂

[@itscalledred7125]

Bro this is not hard try playing Norway😭

[@Leverquin]

its sad how much they hype the game and game is like. meh

[@winzyl9546]

Its a paradox game, you'll pay extra later for the complete game.

[@chaoticsequencer]

Better to get out of the British territories when you escape. A nice trip across the Pacific to Chile perhaps? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macquarie_Harbour_Penal_Station#Escapes.