r/victoria2

Pregunta

So i bought vic 2 yesterday and I decided that I would play as the transvaal and Jesus christ im struggling. It's like 1907 in game and all I have been able to do is conquer the zulu people. England has me boxed in and oranja is allied with England so I can't do shit, I cannot get any coal or silk or fabric to build up my industry. My literacy is at 50% despite having researched all research rate techs but anti-rationalism and reforming education to the max.

Im stuck and I can field a max of 7 brigades which is kind of useless because all of my neighbors have 22k army strength.

How on earth do I escape this hell. Specifically how do i build up an army strong enough to challenge the great powers so i can get more resources to supply my industry

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Played as released India and quickly civilized by taking the Himalayas, Sindh, Kalat, makran, Punjab and Oman, and getting railways, a cement factory and a fabric factory in the capital. After that went to the liberal government for the laissez faire and free trade. But this doesn't do any good for the country as factories and railways were not built by the capitalists and unemployment is very high. Only they're opening factories and shutting them down now and again. This also increased the militancy of the people. Where did I go wrong?

Also, does it have any flavor?

They are my ally and want them to succeed. They win the war easily in a few months and make northern italy their puppet again. They are named Aragon-Italy, own Aragon, South Italy and the Papal States (all as cores) and repuppeted northern Italy. Then they get an event about losing and revert back to Aragon, capital goes back to Barcelona too. But they are still a GP and own everything the way I mentioned. Wtf?

I tried in 1836 and found it incredibly complicated to beat the ottomans

For context, I started this game a year ago, when I had zero knowledge of how to manage an economy, and a few days ago I picked the game again.

My industry was second to the UK, which had like a 900 industry score while I was at 300; then came the US, which overtook both of us like it was a cakewalk, and now it's 1900, and my industry score is 1066, and Russia is about to overtake me (their industry score is 1060 by the time I'm writing this).

I'm a constitutional monarchy and always choose the socialists as the ruling party because of the Planned Economy and Full Citizenship things. My factories fill up with workers all the time, and I make sure to expand them and create new ones. I have a shit ton of factories, and they all make good profits (genuinely the best factories I ever made in a Victoria 2 game). Then why am I falling behind? When I check the US, Russia, and UK's industry scores, they rise in a matter of days and do so pretty quickly, but mine are very slow to do so; it's like as soon as my factories finish expanding/building, the score rises a lot, then stagnates until the next wave of expanding/building factories, by then the other powers catch up.

At least the rest of the GPs are far from my industry score, but still, this is god damn Germany; what am I doing wrong?

I’ve been playing with GFM for a while, and though I do love the historical detail added to the mod, I’ve heard good things about Project Alice and thought I could give it a try. Are the two compatible in a smooth way or should I stick to just GFM.

I’ve played 2 full games as of writing this. One as Greece, where I basically fooled around and tried to figure out how the game works. I ended up a decent country at the end of the game and I even had Yemen as a colony. I also played Columbia and tried to figure out how the trade system works and I ended up falling to rebels because I mismanaged. Game ended with me being stackwiped by Brazil during WW1.

Anyhow, I’m wanting some advice :D

Playing as Japan rn in DoD and I’m focusing on building a textile industry. I made a mistake and helped my Nanjing puppet become westernized so they’re a great power now and I won’t be surprised if they declare on me soon for my concessions, so that means I’m losing my silk provinces. Champa is in my sphere of influence though, will that be enough to supply my silk needs? Also is a country being in your sphere of influence as efficient as having direct control over the province or would having it as a puppet or directly annexing it be best?

Just get a general discussion on trade going.

For a game with such a strong emphasis on economics and production the trade system is still mostly a mistery to me.

I've been playing the game on and off for more then a decade now and the only times I look at the market screen is to see what goods are on high demand so I can build factories accordingly.

I very rarely take the trade off automatic , only doing it sometimes for military goods as to build a stock pile so I can build armies/navies faster when the time comes or having a reserve for them the economy is on the down turn.

TL:Dr- What's the market, is it relevant place for the player to put his attention in? How does it work?

Just a question about how military score is calculated. I have never payed much attention to how the game scores the three different categories until recently. I started my first Prussia campaign and managed to form Germany. My prestige and industry scores tend to respond well to the obvious things like following events, decisions, wars, building/upgrading factories, and encouraging craftsmen. However, my military score is lagging behind. I am 2nd in prestige and industry but 5th/6th in military score even though my army and navy techs are better than others, I have 200 brigades in the 1870s, and an up to date navy with 120 ships. I have to be honest, I’ve only ever used one army composition while playing this game. 6 infantry, 2 cavalry, and 2 artillery. After seeing my lacking military score, I decided to branch out and switch my composition to 8 guards, 8 artillery, 2 hussars, and 2 engineers, thinking it would bolster my military score, but it did not. Keep in mind I have more brigades than anyone but Qing and UK, and better army tech than anyone. I am stuck. What can I do to improve my military score?