Picking the BEST Starting Technologies in Victoria 3

In today's episode of General Advanced Mechanics Explained, we will focus on starting technologies in Victoria 3.
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[@artemiyabramov3680]

Holly Moly, his transition into soccer commentator is nearly complete GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!

[@DairukaSutain]

I do love me a good rousing game of Soccer/Football. I'll try to include the "GOALLLLL" yell into one of my future videos.

[@hellokittygaming42069]

Pleasantly surprised to see a vic3 channel that has pretty good editing, presentation and substance in their videos! Usually you only get one of these 3 with vic3 channels. I will watch your carrer with great interest!

[@DairukaSutain]

My Career? Making me sound like a 2k hooper. Excuse me while I crank my height waaaaaay up in custom character.

[@Mr.LongPlay]

I’m liking this, anything that helps me finally play an actual game of Vic 3 is good

[@DairukaSutain]

Glad you're enjoying it! The game is pretty good, and despite it's initial rocky launch, it's worth playing today.

[@KieranDix0n]

Great video! I love to see new vic 3 creators making high quality content. I just thought I would add a few thoughts to this: -Empiricism is a great tech but you should look to complete the 'Establish a University' journal entry before researching it as it gives you a good amount of free research progress. -7:10 I think urban planning used to give you access to road maintenance but it's actually centralisation now. -Colonisation should fall into the niche starts tech priority for its usefulness in African country starts (plus -10% infamy against unrecognised powers is really nice)

[@DairukaSutain]

Did I goof on Urban Planning? Oopsie. Thanks for the words of confidence, and the input! I might actually be doing a future mechanics video on Colonization later on, and you're right, that infamy bonus is nice. Question is, is it worth replacing the value of other techs for? It may be great for 4th or 5th tech after you finish up Stock Exchange and Empiricism. I just don't think it's one you'd want to beeline for. I think every African country has the ability to expand simply by declaring war on it's neighbour, so Colonization is secondary to growth for them. Even Tahiti doesn't really like Colonization since the Oceania islands are pretty scuffed. Maybe the Victoria Lake countries are different, I haven't had a chance to play them yet. Only time I can think "I must colonize NOW" is when playing Transvaal or Oranje for North Cape Colony. Even then they already start with Colonization, and can get Frontier Colonization as their first law. Finally... Waiting for Establish a University isn't exactly ideal. I'd rather just beeline for Empiricism for that Literacy bonus immediately. 20% Literacy is too darn important. You want it IMMEDIATELY.

[@KieranDix0n]

​@@DairukaSutain I recently did an Ankole run (one of the Victorian Lake countries) and found that rushing colonisation was the best way to go to get to the coast before GB took everything. I later did go back for academia for qualifications, then democracy to spawn the liberal movement for my corn laws agitator, then stock exchange to get free trade. I'm still unsure whether waiting for the uni event is actually worth it if I'm honest, it just feels bad to waste 3.5k free tech research on either medical degrees or empiricism, especially considering that equates to 70 weeks of base 50 inno/week research. Anyways, I appreciate the speedy response and hope this helps boost this vid in the alogrithm ;)

[@DairukaSutain]

@@KieranDix0n Yeah, I was thinking that playing as one of the Victoria Lake nations would be the only way Colonization would ever be first pick. Acholi would probably be the easiest, since you could colonize up to Eithiopia, and then conquer your way to the shorelines.

[@billiammenzies3550]

Very nicely done and useful, much appreciated.

[@DairukaSutain]

Appreciate the kind words. Thanks!

[@G69zLmL]

This could have a soccer game in the bottom half and it would probably fit

[@DairukaSutain]

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[@youngchad901]

wooo a new vic3 youtuber

[@DairukaSutain]

Wooo, a new Vic 3 viewer!

[@theonegamer8782]

Very useful for when I will buy Vitoria 3

[@DairukaSutain]

Glad to hear it. Hopefully it'll put you on the fast track to dominating the world!

[@Anton43218]

Any tips for playing wallachia(landlocked, a poor vassal with access to only the austrian market, less than 15% literacy and quickly lacking infrastructure even with decrees)?

[@DairukaSutain]

Haven't had a chance to play it yet, but I'd probably focus on conquering the immediate small-nation neighbours, while modernizing by abusing the beefy Austrian market, and draw in as much population from them as you can. If you aren't a Puppet, maybe find a way to instigate a war against the Ottomans and lure Austria in. Otherwise, wait until Prussia takes shots at Austria, and join Prussia to declare independence and take a state or two. Preferably ones closer to the coast.

[@Anton43218]

@@DairukaSutain to note is that you are in the ottoman market. All powers near you own your homeland states. All powers adjacent to you are somewhat hostile except russia for some reason.

[@Anton43218]

@@DairukaSutain also, what about the laws?

[@DairukaSutain]

I haven't had a chance to play through it yet, so I can't give any good advice. Yet. I'll put it on the obscenely long list. If it turns out to be a hard enough start, it might get priority.

[@Anton43218]

Why would homesteading be better than rented land?

[@DairukaSutain]

Homesteading gives quite a bit of power to the Rural Folk/Clergy, while Tenant Farmers gives more power to the Landowners. Economically, Homesteading gives less overall Investment Pool, but the trade off is that it weakens the most irritating interest group, the Landowners. The Standard of Living for Homesteading skyrockets. Mostly because the homesteading "Peasants" typically become "Farmers" qualifications, which not only gives them more opportunities to get other more important qualifications later on, but they themselves typically have a much higher SOL than Peasants baseline. Commercialized Agriculture is a bit of a worthless law for 90% of the countries out there. Unless you plan to abuse Rice Fields and their Secondary production, I wouldn't even bother with agriculture. I usually set and forget on Homesteading most games.

[@IngloriousJosh]

I know this isn't exactly the focus of your video, but how does a Great Qing player hold off a GB player who declares on them day one? I understand the importance of Line Infantry, just not how to survive til you get it. In my singleplayer campaigns, even when I conscript and make my armies as huge as command limit will allow, it doesn't seem to do anything but increase their casualties taken, and GB seems to win every battle

[@DairukaSutain]

Finding a few leaders with "Tactful" and having them defend against naval invasions with 200+ men on every shoreline is your best bet against day one invasions from Great Britain. (They can actually win these fights frequently) If they make landfall, and you still haven't got access to large amounts of Cannon Artillery through trade routes, or Dragoons/Line Infantry through tech, I'm afraid massing up with Tactful to delay them is your only bet. You 'will' need better technology to win if they can make a front. Until then, it's a game of stalling against good great power players. Hopefully you can make some friends to fight with you before day 1 invasions hit. Other cheese tactics can involve breaking your fleets into 1 unit fleets, and dropping 1 unit irregular infantry on shorelines they've already taken and aren't actively defending, screwing up their gains and forcing weird fronts. If you get the Line Infantry tech, you'll get access to Dragoons who can do this even better.

[@Anton43218]

8:41 nah your voice doesn't bother me although it sounds very hard like you're playing a character

[@DairukaSutain]

Obviously I am. However, it's a character I 100% enjoy, and would prefer to be at all times. At the same time, my previous career had me using this voice rather regularly, so it comes naturally to me.

[@Anton43218]

@DairukaSutain so you retired from terrorizing the dinklebergs?

[@ValkyrieSirena]

What should I research first as Japan?

[@DairukaSutain]

I haven't played Japan in FOREVER, but from what I remember - Romanticism. You want Agrarianism ASAP for Japan.

[@TheStefanOyx]

dude nobody wants to listen to you yell all video...

[@DairukaSutain]

Fair enough. I'll try to equalize it better next time.