GREECE Is A SECRET SLEEPING GIANT In VICTORIA 3

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In This video I found out that Greece has some of the best Journal entries in all of Victoria 3, and those can be used to unite Byzantium.

[@emt2185]

I haven't forgotten anyone have I? Cyprus in the corner saying 'help' like

[@lexi1031]

And Pontus, and Crete.

[@LaFonteCheVi]

One of the best parts of V3 is when everything kind just falls into place like this video. Super satisfying.

[@SereglothIV]

And one of the worst is when everything kind of just falls... apart xD

[@soquality9405]

I need to stop playing on ironman with this game. Feels like no matter what I do some great power joins against me on a diplo play and wipes out all my gains. Idk why the game can't just tell you who is going to join like every other pdx game

[@SereglothIV]

@@soquality9405 I never play ironman in Vic3, there's really no point since you can earn achievements in non-ironman.

[@soquality9405]

@@SereglothIV true I'm just used to it since I always played eu4 and hoi4 ironman. You could still get screwed but you could recover it and it's less often

[@adamperdue3178]

@@soquality9405 It's a lot better now, though there's a bit of RNG since countries can be swayed even with negative values (normally anything less than -40 means they're in sway range)

[@zklebertw]

Waiting for the continuation. Every youtuber ends the when byzantium is formed. No, no, no! We DEMAND that you conquer all the eastern Roman provinces and make the Byzantine people the richest! (please)

[@-BlackMamba-]

i demand for him to get Byzantium and then go and create the MACEDONIAN EMPIRE *-*

[@Datboi8989]

Dude this is BY FAR the most entertaining Vic 3 channel out there. Your channel has helped me find a love for the game and i could binge these videos for days. Get this man to 10, no 100K!

[@mralimurray]

Shhhh don’t let him know or he will go all main stream and add annoying adverts

[@Rpg_enthusiast]

Indeed, this is my first video I've seen of his and he has a nice vibe

[@lememz]

@@mralimurray kid named sponsorblock:

[@hopeundertheblacksun]

You should check out chumm too he's a nice bloke

[@fly8641]

I'd love to see you try out Rimworld! It's an open world make your own story type of game, with a very very very large modding community. Most KZbinrs that make videos on the game make "challenge" videos, like "survive 100 days in a desert", etc.

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

there's a really high chance I try it out at some point. I plan to start mixing in videos of other games into my channel and that's likely one I'll play at some point.

[@Saltkoenigin]

Oh Greece The nation I wanted to play when I fix my PC 😂

[@lexi1031]

lol

[@crazyhercules9442]

The glory of Rome will always be remembered. It doesn’t matter if you’re Greek or Roman, Christian or Pagan. We all bleed the same. And we are all the successors of the old empire🦅

[@dingus6317]

Cyprus and Crete are rightful Greek clay!!!

[@antorseax9492]

Albania being necessary but not Crete is dumb.

[@zig8085]

@@antorseax9492 real

[@maximilianrobespierre8365]

@@antorseax9492 I know right?

[@pedropalotes7638]

No, they arent, they are venetian clay 😎

[@eduardomelo151]

@@antorseax9492 Yes, Crete is about as important as Athens

[@LordBonds]

to think only 3 weeks ago this guy had around 9,500 subs crazy. it's now 16.9k I think he accomplished his goal with the "shadow government" 😄

[@frozenspirit7106]

All I gotta say, I just recently did a Byzantium game. You had a MUCH better game than I did. My military was good and strong, my economy was really nice and got up to 20m GDP, and I even started colonizing Southern Africa. However, the Ottoman Empire made friends with literally everyone barring France then eventually becoming a subject to Britain. I was pulling my hair out trying to build the Byzantine Empire properly

[@g0dsf3ar71]

Funny how this random youtuber with 16k subs understands how taxes affect the economy better than most of our politicians.

[@gpkitchawan3140]

Love what your doing man. All the big PDX games have their KZbinrs, but you have a ton of potential to hit a great market. I'm a big EU4 man looking to get back into vicky3 and I love your content.

[@ÄßÜRM]

13:34 THE RURAL FOLK ARN'T BEING RACIST?!?! 😯

[@hopeundertheblacksun]

Cursed timeline

[@BigMacAnFries]

Seeing the improvements in the editing and video style make my brain happy, keep it up bb

[@mango3638]

You sound so much like TheGrimKleaper. Great video

[@Vangxim]

fr

[@Pyromaniaclord]

Great run, I just subscribed! Any possibility of doing an episode 2 to finish out the timeline and restore the full borders?

[@oram9640]

i challenge you to form byzantium as cyprus in vic 3. i did it once like a year ago, cyprus as a state reached 100 mill gdp and the nation as a whole was at 500 mill and i was number 2 in the world.

[@oram9640]

now that I think about it you could do it with ionian islands

[@emuannihilator5774]

I really like your style, it's great energy, long format which I can chuck on and enjoy for a long time with no overediting or being some mind-boggling meta strategy. Certainly I think mixing in some other games (be they PDX or not) would fit your style just as well I think.

[@Beorthere]

I am convinced that the Greeks still have the secret to Greek fire, and just never cared to share it with the class.

[@aristodimosstathis9739]

GREECE MENTIONED RAAAAAHHHHH

[@RealTexanMan]

Very entertaining creator, keep up the great vids!

[@connor1186]

Just found you, glad to have found a freedom version of spiffing brit.

[@miixels]

congrats to 10k subs

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

Thank you.

[@avyay9818]

I love how attica was just consistently the only state doing ok (or anything) in this run at the beginning, you're basically cosplaying modern greece and athens.

[@dominator1914]

There’s also a really great mod that expands upon Greece making it feel awesome to play.

[@Gpasxouale]

This channel literally gold.

[@TheColombianSpartan]

20:55 My man trying to rizz up Egypt

[@vincentwhite938]

16:10 are in the iron age again

[@floflo1645]

In my playthrough the Ottomans always get destroyed by Egypt and/or Russia. They can sometime get French help to counter Egypt but that is it.

[@512TheWolf512]

i see your views counter steadily grows. good for you!

[@the_dragon_king_5374]

when you get too rich, it's time to buy copious amounts of noodle soup!

[@axelgidius3324]

Great vid other than that Russia during my first war with the ottomans asked me to join their power bloc and i obviously refused and it broke our defensive pact

[@Ofieeczkaa]

Hey, i have idea for new vid, I played as a France and discovered that it is possible to form HRE playing it. At the start you can't but after conquering the rhine and belgium with french ambitions (im not sure how its named in english) you get event where on of the options is gainig 3 new dominant cultures. One of those cultures is walonian wich gives you an option to form HRE

[@amirloosen2517]

Paradox should include you in the upcomming achievement

[@SovietJew67]

Love this! Keep it up!

[@mwvidz324]

isn't going for macedoania early a mistake? Since you can get a claim for it later. Go for either cyprys or albania. Albania can be a bread basket for the rest of the run.

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

Yeah it is, I messed up in the video.

[@Alpatrixx]

if anyone here likes modding id recommend the Greece, Byzantium, & the Balkans Flavor with this its very cool

[@alienmozart9902]

How were you able to move your troops across your subjects to that landlocked state at 7:42? I really have trouble finding fronts on landlocked states.

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

there's a bug in game where you can move troops across any state if they are already in the state.

[@aggelosmessinis5942]

loved the video by just seeing the title

[@HB-rd5wu]

Awesome video brother 👏🏻 please make a vid for Bulgaria

[@StalwartTirith]

I wish there was more flavor and stuff to forming them. As it stands it basically is just a color change and... that's pretty much it lol

[@pixelelf21]

subscribe cta was actually too good, you defs earned it

[@Zsinj3]

Sick man of Europe in full force here lol

[@jimtalbott9535]

Can you do anything like Pontus or the Empire of Trebizond?

[@xendrr5574]

it's so funny that Greece doesn't have academia technology at the start of the campaign 1:35

[@bobbysmyth873]

You need to do an irish video and reunite all the celtic lands in a gaelic empire (British isles, gaul, galicia, brittany and much more of europe)

[@djinko7739]

Every time I played greece russia start with an obligation on me and force me to join his boys band his power bloc.

[@Basil_o_brouzos]

Okay why didn’t we actually do that?

[@Yacovo]

Thanks for the video

[@crispykeykey5587]

Bread is good

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

I ate 5 bread today

[@Blablatomatos]

@@TobyYellsAtThings rookie, I ate 6 bread today, get mogged+bozo+ration

[@sundowner9726]

@@Blablatomatos pffft, I eated 7 bread today.

[@Blablatomatos]

@@sundowner9726 the day hasnt ended yet

[@sundowner9726]

@@Blablatomatos Is this a challenge?

[@Fireburnin21]

100 prestige for olympics? I really want to know what the dev who put that in was thinking. 20 max Imo

[@bagrbagrovsky]

You have great videos but could you sometime do second epizode of this?? Please

[@lucasnadamas9317]

Sleeping giant you can have a third of ottoman land by 1860s lmao

[@tommygunmitvierm724]

Isnt switching taxes this often a bad move because it creates more radicals? If you just keep high taxes you only decrease the SoL once but this way you make it go back up and as soon as you have higher taxes you lower it again creating more radicals.

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

Technically yes but the amount of radicals it creates is super small so I don't really worry about it.

[@BazookaLuca]

32:00 That was actually correct in German however pronouncing it Metternick sounds a lot better in English(imo)

[@Slimebot3000]

This was 3 weeks ago and hes now at 16k subs

[@JosefZeethuven]

Yo fyi stock exchange is the best technology in the game so you should always research it first.

[@Astropeleki]

Please don't stop at just forming Byzantium

[@jimtalbott9535]

10:13 - “Quite frankly evil”? Meh. IRL, Thrace was 50% Greek, by population.

[@fethier4601]

I hear xenoblade chronicles 2 music I subscribe simple as that.

[@nathan9903]

i never really liked civ and never tried vic. i'll give it a go i like the map style

[@hakimimastor6777]

9/10 of my greece run, somehow brits guarantee ottoman independence ? Like the fishhhh?!

[@michalmisiak3701]

now thats a better way to get me to sub

[@MrShoulder]

this was good except for the lack of cyprus and crete

[@electricVGC]

My favourite thing is when you make a million fake trades

[@muse5722]

"Sleeping giant" *Needs the Ottoman Empire's most developed lands to become good*

[@ponyboy562]

I hope the shadow government leaves him alone 😭 But also how do I join them 👀

[@Jedibob5]

To be fair, I haven't really watched much V3 content on YT up to this point, but is the complete neglect of construction industries in the early-game a common strategy? I think you only went above the base 10 construction after the second Ottoman war, and those may have been from captured construction sectors. I had been playing under the assumption that construction and industrialization was the absolute top priority early on. Do you just import all of your government and military goods? Not sure how you manage to sustain that on such a low debt cap with both mercantilism and low taxes.

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

Honestly I'm not the person to ask about meta strategies. That would be more generalist's sphere. I honestly don't know what the meta is for that, in my head I didn't bother because the first 10 construction is free, and I could use that money instead to keep my pops happy/birthrate higher. I think it differs between playing large and small nations, because in my experience your population is a bigger stopping block then buildings are for small nations. idk if that's the meta way to do it, but it seems to work for me. If you try playing a single state nation and not expanding militarily the whole game you'll kinda see what I mean by this. But uh yeah, tbh no idea. when I play these I know I'm not playing to end game because it's just for a video, so as long as I get the video purpose done, I don't super care if it's the most efficient way possible.

[@Pokeeko]

I play Greece kinda often and being honest, at the start, you are lacking so much and are so small that is easier to go all in in military stuff like using the first months to build a navy and go around bulliying ppl weaker than you and taking their stuff, instead of building it lol, so using the free 10 construction sectors is enough imo, after the second war with the ottomans you have more states and population that is worth to start building up, another tip is to go for south africa asap, if they have some gold already discovered you will make a big bank out of nowhere, also using the Peru trick is nice as vassals in this patch pay a good bank to you and it cost like 6 infamy for all peru, land that you can use yourself later on, other than that, use Russia to attack china 1 or 2 times to take their money,, or use your own navy that you should be making big to attack Formosa and get easy money, this only work in the first 10 years probably

[@Jedibob5]

@@Pokeeko Do you have to worry about getting into a debt hole on mil goods early? I'm assuming you have to import everything, and importing usually sucks with the tariffs from mercantilism. Thinking about it, I guess I could suck up to AUS or RUS enough to get a trade agreement (or maybe even just join their bloc) and bypass tariffs that way. I might try that next time.

[@Pokeeko]

@@Jedibob5 if you join their bloc is annoying to get out and also you dont share market because they dont have market unification so you wont get anything, getting trade agreements is super easy and can be done in the first days, the main point is that any industrialization that you do in the start is insignificant and non relevant compared to direct conquest, just build boats at the start, go bully ppl and once you win vs the ottomans twice you can start industrializing you homelands, as tips that i can tell you, get an alliance with russia, is kinda simple and more with the lobbies you get at the start, use Russia in the first 10 years to get money and beijing if you want from china, go for south africa, and small nations like brunei, and if possible focus on getting nationalism early without going too ahead of time, so focus on society techs

[@Pokeeko]

@@Jedibob5 oh sorry i also didnt answer your question, you dont have to worry about money if you go for south africa gold, also gold from china, once china gold runs out you should be in a good position, you could even get war reps twice from china depending how long it takes to get your alliance with russia

[@velvet6923]

every nation is a sleeping giant because you sleep most of the time while you wait for things to finish after having pressed one or two buttons once in a while and every nation is too easy which is also why you can fins videos like this too basically every nation in the game XD

[@jamestuc80]

loving your vidoes but I do find the background music annoying to try listening to you talk over it

[@frzv12]

Day 1 asking for anarchist sokoto gameplay

[@emib6599]

Disappointed that the Roman Empire isn't a formable.

[@stevensmith688]

“The rural folk aren’t being racist?” 😂

[@zakx66]

Solid!

[@Mr_Cheemsss]

The average greek nationalist are heaving an absolute wonderful day when this banger dropped

[@savethebeez]

What are the chances of their being a Greek-Russian Friendship Committee? Hasn't happened once for me.

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

In my experience is was maybe a 1 in every 4 runs thing.

[@savethebeez]

@@TobyYellsAtThings Gotcha

[@panosbaratheon6385]

i subscribed

[@yangkai4205]

2:03 OH FUCK

[@MichaelKing015]

KEK

[@charlesiphone5765]

its a roman empire, but ye

[@davidwilder92]

Thankful the shadow government isn't coming for me 🙏😮‍💨

[@Astram2k24]

Greece not wanting debt????

[@John-li6sk]

Ur such a good girl

[@ujotowh1514]

bruh ?

[@tynks_cool421]

where did the facecam go??

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

I can make videos faster without

[@StupidityIncarnate]

What is that map mod I want that

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

It's a theme you can get form one of the dlc's.

[@StupidityIncarnate]

@@TobyYellsAtThings every day I get happier that I bought the deluxe edition

[@fakelife.]

lol

[@Clevelandlantis]

My dude you are auto expanding way too early

[@muratdagdelen8163]

Dude, it is uncool

[@JohnPGarrett]

Truthfully, I find the Byzantium formable in Vic3 kinda tacky. I'd much more prefer a 'Hellas' or Megali formable not tied to Roman Larp. Still a freak video though.

[@djofullinn6426]

Подписался бро, прикольные видосы. Почему не на английском, потому что нахуй надо

[@O-hv6tr]

What did the English language do to you

[@ujotowh1514]

​@@O-hv6trmost educated ruzzian

[@ujotowh1514]

PUPPET THE OTTOMANS AND FORM!!!! i literally scrum...sowwy

[@blabla-ee6ux]

congrats to 10k subs