The Least Prussian Way to Form SUPER GERMANY - Victoria 3 1.3.6 Prussia Guide

Super Germany is a classic fun alternate history where the Austrian Kaiserreich chooses to join Prussia in forming a German state, rather than sticking on its own as happened historically. In Victoria 3, it used to be possible to form Super Germany in a matter of just a year or so, at least world record-wise, but now it's a bit tougher.
While more difficult, forming Super Germany in Victoria 3 is only difficult in that it is now more time consuming than it once was, but is nonetheless quite simple. In this guide, I'll explain how to form Super Germany by befriending Austria.
The first 10-15 years are about that, and afterwards, I go through what I did as Super Germany, although with a nation as powerful as this one, you can do whatever you want uncontested, so beyond the intro, the sky's the limit.
Hope you enjoy the guide!
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Timestamps:
The Schleswig-Holstein Question: 1:19
Repairing Relations: 6:35
Super German Colonization: 9:07
The Electric Revolution: 17:48
Music:
Praise the Lamb - Cult of the Lamb OST
Tropic of Capricorn - Risk of Rain OST
Fractured Shrines - Dead Cells OST
War of the Sundered - Endless Legend OST
The Rain Formerly Known as Purple - Risk of Rain OST

[@mr.f5616]

Most normal alt history scenario:

[@cmtg461]

Thank you I just pooped in my mouth😝

[@flyingspinners1]

Old farmer joe found an alien ufo in his wheat farm he then started a gambling business where the galaxy could bet on who would win wars on earth they then try to rig it alt history scenario

[@immotion665]

To solve Schleswig Holstein you can just alliance with Mecklenburg at game start and then invade overland, usually other countries don't join or denmark backs down

[@ellidominusser1138]

I do the same lol, infact I just did that today in TGR.

[@Tarkusarkusar]

That's true, yeah. I realized that later when in one test run, I accidentally allied with Lubeck and did something similar. At the same time, because navies make no sense, you can still just land on Denmark with 5 understaffed flotillas.

[@Themrine2013]

how the fuck do you get both states than?

[@luanandreas]

Russia instantly joins in my games

[@schiefer1103]

@@Themrine2013he said to ally Mecklenburg, not Schleswig or Holstein; Mecklenburg is not one of those states my man…

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

Seeing how this game is actually played instead of just people screaming at funny things is very refreshing

[@misiekfid]

ive had this exact problem with hoi4 gameplay, but there are some "normal" players like Taureor or SwinceBall, the latter even using a kinda documentary-like style

[@zacharysilver911]

I feel ISP is the perfect middle ground

[@szlonkobusjbusj3819]

No Elsass-Lothringen - Mission Failed

[@JDothan]

Just did a supergermany run, so fun. Was trying to get hegemon achievement without going over 25 infamy, but custom unions don’t count. Realized this and conquered the world

[@JDothan]

I’ll just thread my comments 12:40 - how does cheap grain create loyalists - you’re limiting your IP transfer unless you’ve got commercial AG. Better to build more profitable capitalist owned buildings and lower tax rate, loyalists will skyrocket

[@Tarkusarkusar]

Cheap grain makes pops able to spend less on grain, which frees up their wealth for other goods that will increase their standard of living. Alongside grain, clothes and furniture have a similar, and larger effect, but they take longer to build than farms. Farms also create farmers, who get pretty middling wages, and once you get commercial agriculture, you can tack on capitalists to all farms, which can make tons of investment pool income.

[@plastictauris7200]

I always love and appreciate how amazing these videos are and how much effort is put in I wish there were more Vic 3 creators like you❤

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Couldve gone for Elzas-Lotharingen, war reps and humiliation in the first war against France for extra historical bonus points instead of liberate Occitania.

[@arminiuscherusci4410]

de: Elsass-Lothringen ;)

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@arminiuscherusci4410 oh yeah i just used my native spelling, will remember that

[@gamesretweets9979]

Ah yes, the legendary Metternich% playthrough.

[@PugalshishOfficial]

Just for future video projects concerning the region, the "stein" in Holstein is pronounced like the "stein" in Einstein .

[@Tarkusarkusar]

Funnily enough, I do know that, since I've studied German, but the most common pronunciation in English is "steen," and I didn't want to sound strange to English speakers, lol. I should have just gone with the native German pronunciation though, in hindsight.

[@torrent6181]

FYI when you conquer new territory you can use the government decree “reset production methods to national standards” to set all the new territory to whatever your other buildings were already set to

[@juanmendez3290]

I'm a bit peeved you never got alsace lorraine in order to have all german states but great campaign nonetheless

[@VV-xe4ym]

This is the second time I've watched a KZbinr refer to Elsass Lothringen as "Alsace Lorraine" during a German campaign lol

[@robert9016]

No larping.

[@rbxless]

Bruh why does the country you're playing matter as long as you say it in French or German it's fine

[@VV-xe4ym]

@@rbxless Merde

[@gaberobison680]

Damn your visual mods rock

[@loplop2629]

Is there an un-edited version of this video? I would really help in the improvement of my games and to study the ground winning strategies

[@tomasavendanozacarias5205]

5:07 quick question, i was under similar circumstances in one of my games and the option to unification leadership wargoal with austria wasnt an option, how did you get the "german national identity" event before holstein gets its independence?

[@LuziFearon]

I always declare a puppet war against Denmark and co-main the liberation of Schlesvig and Holstein and that solves the journal entry for me

[@zgoodt]

I wish to see you playing Egypt.

[@JDothan]

10:27 how did you lose your claim on A-L, that should have been a “return state” not conquer state play, and cost less

[@Tarkusarkusar]

I'm not sure that you get a claim on Alsace Lorraine anymore as Germany, since you would normally instead do the "unification play" button to get it, as it targets France to take it, and that button is 0 infamy. I never hit that button because I'd have had to wait until pan-nationalism for it

[@PetitGaleyyy]

​@Tarkusarkusar you do get it if you wait pannationalism to form germany, it triggers an event that gives huge amount of loyalist and claim on Alsace Lorraine

[@TauromOG]

I more or less followed your steps, formed the North German Federation, and even tho I got relations with Austria up to 80 they won't support me. Also tried to force them to join a war on my side with an obligation, but it didn't work, heck, I'm even allied with them. Don't know what did I messed up, or if you just can't do it that way anymore, is there anything else I could try without going to war with them? Or is it restart my only option now?

[@JDothan]

4:19 not true, you don’t have to liberate anything. Transfer subject works even better.

[@Oogway1337]

Just did a Supergermany Run starting as Austria, its insanely Fun :) Stopped at 500 Infamy though...

[@TheSuperappelflap]

I too, would welcome our super German overlords

[@dingus6317]

Holy Roman

[@SebastianRoczz]

for some reason on my game i just never became a unification canadate and nor did austria do you know why that might have been?

[@SebastianRoczz]

obviously i have nationalism bc i unlocked the ngf journal but I didn't become canadate

[@Bruh-ff2tw]

Wait. So did they change the way the NGF works?

[@larsprophitius2968]

Can you make another autarky guide. The one from the qing is a bit outdated.

[@bohij3030]

the strangest part of this video is russia siding with the netherlands in every game ive played, the great powers use the dutch as a punching bag as france, britain (my rival) was privy to join on my side just because they hated the dutch that much

[@SUPREMEdiver33]

Feedback did this

[@DeathEatsCurry]

You might say Germany had some sort of Connection with Austria..

[@user-Erimej]

You forgot Alsace-Lorraine!

[@izul4223]

how do you get your african standaard of living so high? i just end up building to much farms and getting hundres of thousands of unemployed per state

[@ayushagrawal4149]

update for 1.5+ please!?!?!?

[@iseeyou5061]

The less Prussia way to form Germany is by forming it with Austria. :v

[@cmtg461]

No forming by Italy

[@SirBalageG]

Is it possible?

[@yets0]

​@@SirBalageGyea

[@Tarkusarkusar]

Nah, that would be "not a Prussian way" to form Germany, since it has nothing to do with Prussia. The LEAST Prussian way is through befriending their ultimate rival KEKW

[@Redribbon_iv]

Try TGR

[@edgyguy7084]

Oh! And lets not forgett that right at the start of the game u can both, as Austria or Prussia, form an alliance with Russia for an obligation. U then only have to make sure that no revolution happens, bcause then u are no great power anymore for the time the war happens with lets Russia to most likely use the obligation to pull u into their customs union. If u are in their CU u cant return to be a GP which lets Austria be the ONLY unification candidate for the time being. So wait with the Schleswig-Holstein war, bcause until thats done they cant form Germany.

[@hugo5149]

is this game any good now

[@xModerax]

I like to day one all 3 polish states from Russia since they are not incorp and only cost around 50 infamy. That way I got many many new soliders to fight the unification wars for me

[@hadiomidi4829]

I have a big question How did your budget went from -200k to +80k in one cut? Only reasonable explanation is very high taxation and incorporation of austria

[@brownehawk7744]

Its from building, If you are exploding your economy you have to go through large swings like that. When all the construction sites are active and building you have to pay for all the materials and manpower. So you could easily go from pulling in 100k+ to suddenly being -100K and draining your reserves or having to borrow credit.

[@dingus6317]

@@brownehawk7744 It also depends on what and how you're building and your supply chain. If you are using steel-framed buildings and your price of iron is extremely high, then your buildings will be empty and inefficient. By building iron mines you would strengthen the entire chain and could flip the economy.

[@Tarkusarkusar]

Depends when in the video you're talking about. I might have been building government bureaucracy or barracks and other government buildings which the investment pool can't cover, or I may have raised taxes. It also could have been that there was a brief shortage of construction goods for whatever reason

[@Phoenix-wh2bn]

I don't know how to feel about a German liberating india

[@pepijnvantuyll9620]

I didn’t conquer Alsace not a real run

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

I mean colonisation did increase the standard of liveing in africa IRL, colonisation is why the african population went from less than half that of europe before the berlin conference to more than twice the european population by the world wars with barely any european settlement and the net loss of population in the congo. the standard of liveing increase just caused a massive population boom everywhere except the poorly/brutally run congo.

[@zachnar0125]

DLC needed?

[@GregMcNeish]

As a fellow Canadian, a free Metis is definitely based.

[@edgyguy7084]

Nah... You can also just fight fight the danish to open there market an close before you cant make demands anymore just add conquer both Schleswig-Holsteins. BOTH will join the war if you declare a war on the Danish but only one can be conquered if u declare on Schleswig or Holstein.

[@sebastiangowacki7634]

Welp It Suck You Did't Take Alsace

[@thelemonofgaming6303]

Welp it sucks you didn't take Alsace-Lorraine* Not every word needed to have a capital letter at the start. You didn't put an S at the end of "Suck". You didn't put the T in "Did't" Between the second D and the Apostrophe. You forgot to add "-Lorraine" To "Alsace".

[@janeq4867]

him casually destroying the russian empire in 20 pieces>>

[@tobiaschristensen5843]

Ror Music is based

[@Rakonax]

ei is an ay sound in german

[@hirocheeto7795]

No, it's a long "I" sound. The other way around, "ie," likewise makes a long "E" sound.

[@Rakonax]

@@hirocheeto7795 that's BS i am german and every times somone says steeeen instead of stein my ears bleed

[@WaKaSaWaKaSa]

Imagine trying to tell a german how their language sounds 😂😂😂😂

[@hirocheeto7795]

@@WaKaSaWaKaSa I have learned German from several different teachers, spoken to Germans, and heard many Germans speak. Not a single one of them say "ei" like "ay." Unless he speaks in a dialect, he is either mistaken about his own language or lying.

[@WaKaSaWaKaSa]

@@hirocheeto7795 it is hard to convey sounds via written word. But the word "stein" tskes its hard "st" from the English stop however simultaneously making a sh sound before the t as im shoe. The "ein" part sounds like the "-ine" in fine again rather short and hard. Never will you hear a german call stein sth like an elongatet "een" sound. Because ei in an of itself actually has a sound similar to the english aye if it is spoken very brusk. And tho i do not doubt your lessons you should listen to native speakers (i am a german native speaker) on the matter regardless. They simply know better

[@Sandaele]

it would be cool if u to end these videos by realeasing every nation you conquered

[@therearenoshortcuts9868]

gross deutchland... vs uber deutchland?

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

Here when 2.9k views

[@peterfoy]

Improve your editing skills, add better music that doesn't ruin the video