Militaristic FRANCE Is OVERPOWERED In VICTORIA 3

[@jimothytimothy8146]

Third

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

He was 5th

[@jaceksoko4403]

@@TobyYellsAtThings

[@Phoenix-fromash]

​@@TobyYellsAtThings😂😂😭😭

[@blockchiken]

One thing to mention, if you form Central Europe as France, you actually lose French as a primary culture... UNLESS You are a Republic (any of the 3) when you form it, at which point you can get a second hidden option to grant French as an additional primary culture at the cost of angering your German residents by 10%. This is for any nation that forms central europe as a republic, as is the only way to keep French as a primary culture when forming it.

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

I did not know this, that's actually super helpful to know.

[@dr_gamerhind]

lol accepting French angers the german

[@akittycat2448]

Now that I think about it, I’ve never seen Orléaniste France

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

And hopefully we never will

[@akittycat2448]

:

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

@@akittycat2448 lol

[@EdenTheUndeadprincess]

its actually pretty good as far as i know because they start out as indrustalist

[@Saltkoenigin]

​@@EdenTheUndeadprincessI was never able to get them even if I wanted to

[@joshchristian5998]

I love the idea of Europe just letting France go around bullying Spain and Prussia and Germany in the 1830s. I feel like Metternich would be thinking, "Huh this feels AWFUL FAMILIAR"

[@MrJmagenta]

I think I now realize how fanatically Napoleon became of his hatred of Russia. After 1:14:00 it totally makes sense now.

[@Tim666-o5n]

Russia always medling in european affairs.

[@heylolp9]

25:39 "Let's count that. 30! I can count that on one Hand" Dude what's up with your hand?

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

They're pretty cool.

[@Mu_Lambda_Theta]

Binary counting

[@heylolp9]

@@Mu_Lambda_Theta sh*t you're right 2^5 is 32

[@hobotookmyname]

If you have subjects of ANY kind, that own the provinces needed for Natural borders of France, on Create the Rhine Confederation decision you'll get those states free of infamy. Just make them protectorates through powerblock and spend infamy in getting into USA or smth

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

I did not know this, thanks!

[@Demonichalo-wd6pz]

i tired the start of the video with my own playthrough and Russia and Austria and great Britain all joined on Prussia side. also loving your videos keep up the great work

[@Phoenix-fromash]

France : award of getting jumped

[@LePLusCoolDesCools]

"Basically, our country is effing angry all the time !" So just everyday France you mean.

[@IanYMatiassss_j]

Feels illegal to be here this early

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

I won't tell anybody...

[@eragon4249]

I love Victoria 3 but it is the biggest headache to conquer new lands and to slowly incorporate subjects. A long while ago (several DLC's ago), I realized that france was the strongest country and I just straight up ignored infamy and played the entire game around 200 infamy. I conquered a lot but I was constantly on the defense from Cut Down to Size diplo plays by every country that was at least a major power.

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

If you time it right you can chain humiliation cb's against the great powers so they can never group up against you.

[@FirstnameLastname-qf2vm]

I enjoyed this. This was the first time I have watched one of these from the beginning to the end and hearing you slowly go insane was fun.

[@emiliawitch]

"Belgium" "Another Belgium"

[@lextromex3931]

54:01 It's a canon event. The Catalonian will rebel. No matter what 57:40 IDK what happened, maybe a country can only be so much leverage. For example per country only can be leveraged 1000 points (across multiple countries and blocs) or smt like that 1:14:01 He losing it. 1:17:07

[@emilianohermosilla3996]

“I’m the king of this planet!” Said Napoleon calmly

[@szadun]

When you jump in, make sure to let us know what lava tastes like.

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

Will do, gotta take one for science.

[@lightmarkal273]

Bro wanted to restore Napoleon's Legacy and ended up restoring Charlemagne's HRE

[@rodrigovelarde7855]

Top 10 times power lead the emperors to become crazy

[@rafardzrba]

Netherlands looking at Toby: 😄simp! Give me more money🤣

[@justaguyLV]

Damn is 😂🎉

[@singletaxjax307]

Hour and a half long Toby video? Its a good day.

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

I command that every day be a good for you

[@xander22777]

Dude was sounding like he was going insane by the end of the video

[@alteregojmd9748]

The countries you release that become disinterested... They get disinterested because you have no sea access or direct borders with them. Same thing with Westphalia in your Austria run.

[@lordowencat4231]

this takes the strategy "the best defense is a good offense" to another level. george washington would be proud

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

Well all American's are descendants of the Big G himself. I do my ancestors proud!

[@AKStriker98]

Way to get Toby away from the terrible lava! Hurray!! ….already subbed Oh dear

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

It bubbles

[@AKStriker98]

@@TobyYellsAtThingsif it means anything while you’re bubbling away…. I’m currently doing everything I can to help 😂

[@azathot_369]

Love Toby’s joker arc

[@atrubetskoy]

I am playing this strat now, thank you for the idea. One thing I don't like in this game is that there is no way to know about mechanics such as absorbing states in the the Rhine confederation unless you see someone do it or randomly stumble upon it. Like starting up a game as a nation and you have no indication of what cool things you can do and how they work and could just end up slowly gobbling up little bits here and there constantly struggling against infamy, which is not fun. Also in my run Italy formed (under Austria's Power Block without Venice and Lombardy who stayed Austrian) and just gobbled up my puppet Sardinia Piedmont, without any notification or choice to act on my end. I feel like France would have something to say about that and would move some troops into Italy against Austria. Sucks that they forgot to allow the player to react to these things

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

Yeah it's a problem with paradox games as a whole, I'm fortunate enough to do this as a job and spend thousands of hours playing this game to know all the little stuff, along with commenters telling me knew things I didn't know about. One of my earliest criticisms of this game though was a lack of tooltips explaining what things do, I understand why they don't take the time to do it as they need to keep adding new features to keep people entertained, but it still hurts new players getting into the game.

[@atrubetskoy]

@ indeed! Although at least EU and HOI have mission trees for nations that give you context and direction! It’s a shame that new engine games (CK3 and V3) don’t have their versions of those, I hope that’s not a direction they will continue in

[@Shemer23]

1:17:06 This is the moment Toby became Napoleon

[@Itstotallynotjai]

If you look of Vic3 speedrunning, then you can own all of Britain in 1937

[@ziopera91]

should have called the power bloc "The Continental System"

[@randienz1196]

1:12:35 isn't this just the 1-5 napoleonic wars?

[@KieranDix0n]

External trade power block principle is great for getting influence

[@juicebox6581]

I challenge you to form central Europe, as the east indies

[@I-w-prawdy-zacem]

Poor Prussia. In new update the AI of Prussia is just stupid, so you don't need do make balkans of them, cuz AI still doesn't build any barracks:(

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

Prussia needs a buff imo

[@I-w-prawdy-zacem]

@@TobyYellsAtThings Hopefully in the next update they will cuz one of the strongest land armies in 20th, but in Vicky 3 its just pathetic. I saw in my Krakow game how Prussia lost to Bavarians alone.

[@blockchiken]

They actually start with a half decent army, but most nations after losing a civil war, the new power that takes over never builds up a new military to replace it, and often downsizes to account for bankruptcy taken on during the war. That's what happened in this vid. With that said, they do need to follow through on their front-line rework that allows Prussia to walk through Mecklenburg to S/H. As it stands now they have to naval invade to finish the S/H question and both Prussia and Austria combined start with less than half of Denmark's starting fleet.

[@remipoujoulat7759]

​@@TobyYellsAtThingsIt's like bullying a rich disabled kid... Feels bad...😅

[@I-w-prawdy-zacem]

@@blockchiken They do start with good army, but as I said that at least in my games Prussia AI just doesn't buid any new barracks. Also for S/H they could change how "violate sovergnity" works and to change AI acceptance and usage of it. Hopefully after few years VIc3 war system will be better.

[@fabianauer1986]

TBH i want a historic mode for VIC 3 i just hate that only because 1 power does not like you in one run it completly destroys it.

[@nicedraeger2794]

"napoleon's legacy" *cries in /gsg/*

[@Kael-Bael]

I think he might have gone insane by the end guys

[@Gremph]

Your videos are good

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

Thank you.

[@Purdé2749]

divide and conquer no one does it better than the blue blob

[@BrodyN-fu4dr]

btw if you kept the confederation of the rhine they could have integrated Netherlands and you wouldn’t have to decrease autonomy on the Dutch.

[@Obeseus1]

I shall now use this video to conquer Europe

[@SuperExplosivegames]

25:40 Toby you should really see a doctor about that hand thing...

[@Monkeytheforth]

bro made ww1 start and end early 🗿

[@tolga555]

90min video and I loved it❤

[@Persia_will_rise_again]

I DEMAND PERSIA

[@StarSpangledIdiot]

Brotha you turned into Russia at the end 😭

[@Demeriolis]

There’s nothing we can do

[@pPianomMan2332]

I don’t understand any of this but I like it ❤

[@nekochan6187]

As Pole, because Poland got lebarated, I can only rate this video as exceptional, faboulus even

[@yvnpetry]

excited for the vid! polly the first comment from Romania

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

I can confirm this was true

[@carltheninja1]

Man sounds like Keith Gill

[@peste1463]

You have some girthy hands if you can count to 30

[@a_normal_dudeyeah1168]

as a spaniard i can confirm i cried

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

good

[@a_normal_dudeyeah1168]

@@TobyYellsAtThings When u playing vic 3 with me baby

[@aaronfire359]

I thought I was late…only 10 minutes after upload 😎

[@tylereroni]

Persia play-through soon?

[@thekey1175]

Yea who would want Victoria 3 to be similar in any way with Victoria 2. As the devs put it it was a very peaceful time

[@gggo1789]

That feeling when you love both the aspect and historical era of the game, but you're struggling to learn how to play because of the STUPID AMOUNT OF MECHANICS

[@bomx-w2q]

lets get him out of the lava map

[@combatscape2000]

i really like this video, thanks toby

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

no problem

[@wilbert_august_99]

do i need a dlc to form a sovereign empire power bloc I dont have that option as France

[@Antowan]

Looks like it's lava time ⏲️

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

But what if I'm allergic?

[@Antowan]

@TobyYellsAtThings fair point. I've been subbed for a while so you already have my vote.

[@refatkam246]

Toby, how do i become recognized? Never have i ever been able to turn a unrecognized country to recognized and i have always suffered from the debuffs

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

I go through a way to get recognized pretty early in my most recent Egypt video.

[@8_8_Purpura_Committatus_0_5]

Well the memes won't tell you that but France was actually pretty strong for majority of it's existance. Not so much in timeline of the game but for example in XVI Century, In XVII century in XVIII century and later on Napolenic epoch. It is not surprising that strong state won when you turn it towards it's military. And victoria III was rather dissapointing title.

[@lindomarto]

Nice video, sub

[@Lolt-jj5kz]

Vive l'empereur!

[@clony3094]

25:38 You have 60 fingers????

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

My lawyer has advised me that I should answer "No"

[@extinctiongod2980]

how do you get the striped occupation overlay, is it a mod? if so whats it called please

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

It's a default feature. It's in the settings for the game.

[@extinctiongod2980]

​@@TobyYellsAtThings thanks, guess i didnt look hard enough

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

To be fair, it's hard to find something if you don't know where to look for it at

[@fidoruh]

get your lava trunks on jkjk

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

there are no stores down here to buy any...

[@xx_kiiire_xx310]

Never got here before 13 hours ago before, odd.

[@Julian-fl8oy]

Why can i only form trade power blocks and no s.e.?

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

you have to be a monarchy to form a Sovereign empire

[@Julian-fl8oy]

@@TobyYellsAtThings ohh thx i will try it tomorrow again thx

[@St0rmM4ster]

How do you get this button form Central Europe, I did all jornals and i don't have any ?

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

It should be in the cultures tab under nation formations.

[@St0rmM4ster]

@@TobyYellsAtThings I know, for Germany I have it but as u for France I don't have (

[@No-yp2vo]

why didnt you construct anything the entire run?

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

Mainly because it's boring to go over. It's not unique to the run, and most players can run the economy on their own well enough.

[@pozsonyiartur4240]

Hey i wanted to do this myself but i had a few problems can someone plz help me? 1: I didn't have the divided monarchists 2: I couldnt create a sorvergein empire power block only a trade league

[@pozsonyiartur4240]

Toby plz I need to know😭😭😭🙏🙏

[@fabianauer1986]

You probably lack the DLC

[@pozsonyiartur4240]

@@fabianauer1986 Yeah I figured since the but man the DLC is 25 DOLLARS I aint paying that much. But still thanks for your help

[@Monkeytheforth]

i think bro is gonna jump in the lava its the 29th today and he has 22.6k subs xd

[@Gamer-is6ew]

1:07:51 👋👋🇷🇺🚀🌎💥💥💥💥💥

[@panose6542]

I think forming the confederation of the rhine while belgium is your protectorate will auto annex belgium PS, really annoys me that you didn't ever do the conquest of algeria

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

But conquering people is bad, I couldn't possibly do that to Algeria.

[@mr.ocelotguy8995]

oh man prussia didnt become a minor

[@Persian_storm_game]

Would you play with persia Pls❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Markommm-rp1lm]

Wow I've never been this early to anything

[@goodluckordie]

Is this a mobile game?

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

It used to be

[@LonelyMan-i2n]

Two words: More Videos.

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

I'm trying, school has caused a few issues to arise but they should be worked out soon.

[@pamps_alone]

DO YOUR GENERALS NEED TROOP LIMIT TO BRING MORE UNITS TO A BATTLE TOO????? IF that's true I am going to SCREAM 1000 hours in this game and I still don't understand the jank that is the military system in this game smh

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

The higher rank a general is the more troops they can bring into battles.

[@pamps_alone]

@@TobyYellsAtThings my life is a lie, this changes everything

[@HearthenRealms]

I AM THE VIEW!

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

Not Yet.

[@Tyler_durden2.78]

Sigma😮

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

Erm what the...

[@NaJeSiv]

Does Toby just blindy follow a guide, without really knowing the game? It's like everything is ignored and everything is followed completely step-by-step, like it was a guide clearly made from another person. 80% of the game is completely ignored while these steps is followed carefully.

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

Good Question! So the way I go about making videos is built more for the casual player and being entertaining, rather than playing the game as well as I possibly can. I try to start all my videos with a cool guide that uses a cool mechanic people can use themselves to start runs. Like in this video it's the fact you can buff France's offense to +65% from the get go. The Japan video I made a while back is a strategy to take Manchuria from China, Egypt is how to get recognized quickly, so on and so on. The truth of the matter is if you just play meta for every video, then every video will be too similar and not many people will want to keep watching. Once the early game strategy is over I move onto a more genuine/entertaining attempt at completing the goal of the video, in this case, forming central Europe as France. I do cut out the vast majority of the smaller details because the general audience no longer find them interesting to talk about, I believe this video alone had over 4 hours removed from the raw footage. I do develop every single guide on this channel myself, I usually take about a day or 2 to develop them. They are purposefully designed to eliminate as much rng as possible so people with not as much skill can pull them off in game without having to spend countless hours in game obtaining the skills to do so. Hope this helps!

[@cactusnecktie]

Taking on to say that just a little bit of economic play would have made the conquering a lot easier. Those early game offense buffs are nice. But, once everyone else got skirmish infantry, your French space Marines were not such space Marines anymore. You have the literacy, you could Chuck down 50 universities and maintain the tech advantage throughout the whole game.

[@TobyYellsAtThings]

@@cactusnecktie this is actually a really solid point. Universities are super worth it and to be completely honest I usually just forget to build them. I will give you this though, the strat would have been way better if I remembered to build universities.

[@raihanrusli2720]

​@@TobyYellsAtThingsit would be fun to see you unable to capture a capital because another country block you to get there

[@punnyjokeright4382]

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[@JackRutz]

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[@ItsDooby]

i think its funnier not to subscribe

[@jimothytimothy8146]

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