Let's play Victoria 2 TGC Ottoman Empire - part 1

[@Alfapiomega]

One thing that I wanted to mention in the video but didn’t, as it could spiral into an entire ten minute tangent, is why Victoria 2 and not Victoria 3. Simply put, Victoria 2 with TGN is better than Victoria 3. That is not to say that Victoria 3 is a bad game, it is on the start of its path and as the time will go on, it will eventually become much, much better than Victoria 2 (or so I hope). But we are not yet there and won’t be in the near future. The game has taken a different path than Victoria 2 and at this point is much blander with less of a grand strategy feel, which is fine because it had much less time than the Victoria 2 with the mods had and I also support Paradox in experimenting with new mechanics and ideas. I am also happy if you enjoy it and I will enjoy it as well, eventually, the same way as I switched from CK2 to CK3, EUIII to EUIV or HoI2 to HOI4 - but we are not there yet.

[@tomettomek6241]

In ww1 you should defend libia

[@azirus]

Almost anything is better than Vicky 3, sadly.

[@francescopapa3511]

Excited for this new journey, good luck Alfa and let's gooooo 🎉

[@JuanBautistaDumasOvejero]

Like and good intro.👍👍 This will be interesting.🤙

[@Alfapiomega]

I hope so. Recorded 3 more episodes yesterday and we were already involved in 5 wars in 7 episodes 😄

[@azirus]

Good to see Vicky 2 after a long while. Make the Ottomans great again.

[@Alfapiomega]

MOGA!

[@azirus]

@@Alfapiomega it offered me translation to English and of course I tried it and it got translated to "Hope!", fitting. :D

[@Alfapiomega]

I should start one of those merchants stores and have red shirts with MOGA on them just for the lulz.

[@meldalm]

Sweet, jsem rád že někdo pořád jede ViC2, hru kterou paradox nezničil 50 (mnohdy zbytečnéma) DLC.

[@Alfapiomega]

Jako ja to na druhou stranu beru. Pokud bude Paradox na hre makat, DLC jsou celkem mala cena za to. Spis mne stve, ze posledni dobou je spousta DLC naprosto k nicemu - focus trees nebo mise, eventy atd. - to vse by melo byt update zadarmo a DLC by mely prinaset nové mechaniky.

[@meldalm]

@@Alfapiomega Krásný příklad je EU IV, tam je 74 DLC, teď je otázka které fakt udělají něco pro mechaniky a člověk je reálně využije (neřknu-li všimne si jich) během hraní a kolik je jich jenom na oko. Ony ani ty DLC do Vic2 nebyly žádné terno, ale bylo jich jenom pár. Pro stellaris dlouho dělali víc modeři než samotný paradox dtto HOI4.

[@Alfapiomega]

Pokud člověk přijde k té hře po letech, ma smysl ji koupit bud v nějaké obří slevě jako mega pack a nebo si zaplatit season pass. Upřímně když si člověk vezme, ze ho celá hra stojí 250 eur a season pass je 7 euro za měsíc, vyplati se si to na par mesicu platit. Stejne člověk za par let prejde na dalsi hru v serii. Jinak o modech nema smysl diskutovat, já jinak než s modama nehraju. Ale než byt kriticky - Paradox dělá pro modery mega už jen tím, že jsou ty hry na modding dělané. To je celkem samo o sobě unikat a zaslouží si za to pochvalu.

[@wojownikmaryi1910]

vic2, finally :)

[@kahvar8227]

wow, you have looked into Ottoman history a lot.

[@Alfapiomega]

Not exactly. History has always been my hobby and I studied it on university for five years. The Ottomans always fascinated me so most of this is basic knowledge for me :) You are right though that I learn a lot from other let's plays, like the Singapore one in HoI4 or Brittany campaign in EUIV 🙂

[@kahvar8227]

How is it important what culture the soldiers belong to when it comes to the military and how do cultural assimilation and immigration work in this game?

[@Alfapiomega]

The culture of the soldiers plays a huge role because they can join an uprising against you if their people revolt. So it is important to recruit either a diverse portfolio of soldiers or to focus on your core culture(s). Cultural assimilation is continuous and has a lot of modifiers (laws and technology, events etc.). It's based on individual pops and comes into play together with promotion so you just need to know it is happening, the exact mechanism / percentages fluctuate a lot. The immigration is based on laws and cultures/unemployment and wealth of each population strata. To simplify it, the worse the population is off and the harsher the laws, the higher amount of them will emigrate. The targets for emigration are almost always the new world countries like USA, Canad and Latin America due to bonuses and liberal policies they have, but the rich countries (Germany/UK) can have quite a lot of it as well. I will probably look into this next time I record (episode 10 and onwards).

[@Tom-pt5wm]

what difficulty are you playing on?

[@Alfapiomega]

Very hard, as always.

[@Tom-pt5wm]

@@Alfapiomega 👏🏻👏🏻