Your Empire Thread - Victoria Ultimate mod for Victoria II: A House Divided

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Country: WessexHow many provinces did you start with?: I think 6.How many now?: about I think 40?History of my Wessexian Empire:1. After being released by England I declared war on Maya and Annexed them.2. Allied with Italy (They formed without the bottom of Italy in 1604 and that is sooooo cooolll)3. Declared war on France and won I took Normandie.4. Allied with Netherlands.5. Went bankrupt6. Jacobin rebels take over.7. Declared war on Mecklenburg and made them my puppet.8. Declared war on France and Ottomans took there side I lost.9. Allied with Brittany.10. Italy goes to war along with their allies Spain,Netherlands,Poland-Lithuania, and Bradenburg against France,England and Austria. France is weakend and their military score goes to 0. I see this as potential and justify a conquest against the now (21 greatest power) France. England, Brittany and Netherlands help me win the war and I annex FranceBEST MOD EVA

Awesome!

I created the Third Riech Empire and now rule most of Africa and soon I will own all of Europe. Thou I must say I havent started mass genocide and when ever I try to decrease my army I get massive revolts is this normal.

Started in 1604 and released Greece. Focused on clergy and industry and increased relations with various Empires. I finally decided to expand and annex Zulu then colonised S.Africa and Madagascar. Suddenly a miracle happened and Russia offered me an alliance.

I couldn't expand anywhere since the Ottomans were too strong and Venice was its ally. That was till the Ottoman Empire was dragged in a devestating war by Germany (suprised to see it form, same goes for SGF) and got like 80% of its troops killed by Poland, thus Wallachia found the opportunity to grab Dobrudja and asked me to join again OE, Germany, Portugal and Venice. I accepted and waitted for 1.5 year till Russia could join (they had a truce).

Till then I got some victories and occupied Portoguese Africa, even managed to sack Venice (literally sent troops there) and forced them to give me Crete and Corfu back. Then Italy formed out of the blue and became my friends (they must hate Venetians, lol). Then Russia joined and this is the result:

Romania didn't expand cause they were annexed and then liberated. I was hoping to grab Portoguese Africa or Sri Lanka and weaken the OE more but I couldn't due to infamy Oh well, I've still got 500+ years ahead of me

That war lasted for 3 years and all I got was 1 state... pfff

Started in 1604 as russia, took both finnish provinces from sweden, conquered pol-lit, took California from Spain and colonized most of north west america, took zulu and south africa, and then i took the chinese and the Koreans

I have now taken All of Quebec, Newfoundland half of korea and all of Sweden

Does anyone know if it is still possible to take over the UK in WW2

So, playing The Third Reich in WW2, how the hell do you get enough resources and cash to fund the Wehrmacht? My men are barely getting the supplies they need and my economy is in freefall from the getgo. Will annexing everything from France to Russia bolster my economy enough to support the German war machine?

PFCAlcatraz wrote: Does anyone know if it is still possible to take over the UK in WW2

I'd assume so. You might not get an auto annex like with Poland, Holland, etc but you always just rape them over and over till they're yours

EdikShepherd wrote: So, playing The Third Reich in WW2, how the hell do you get enough resources and cash to fund the Wehrmacht? My men are barely getting the supplies they need and my economy is in freefall from the getgo. Will annexing everything from France to Russia bolster my economy enough to support the German war machine?

PFCAlcatraz wrote: Does anyone know if it is still possible to take over the UK in WW2

I'd assume so. You might not get an auto annex like with Poland, Holland, etc but you always just rape them over and over till they're yours

That is one of the main balance issue we've had so far. The Wehrmacht is simply too modern and massive for the state of the economy and the output of resources at the start of WW2 to support. From what I've seen it does balance itself out after a while as you conquer away but of course it shouldn't happen at all. We've worked on it a bit in the last update but it wasn't nearly enough. The setting up of the modern economies will take some time but we'll get the balance right eventually.

As for the UK it should be conquer-able much like the rest of the allied nations.

Edited by: EdFellow

I took basically all of the UK land India, every thing and it wont allow me to. Also when I agreed to peace with them it went back though giving me the pop ups for taking the Dutch and other countries I conquered

EdFellow wrote: That is one of the main balance issue we've had so far. The Wehrmacht is simply too modern and massive for the state of the economy and the output of resources at the start of WW2 to support. From what I've seen it does balance itself out after a while as you conquer away but of course it shouldn't happen at all.

I sort of figured it would be kinda realistic this way. it certainly does explain Hitler's dash to grab Russia to supply his forces, and I feel inclined to do the same. So I wouldn't say this is at all taking away from my highly enjoyable experience with this mod

or you could just take the UK and France

Started as Sweden in the standard 1836 start date, to add my own little spice to history.

Started out reconquering Finland along with Karelia from Russia, and when they later declared war to retake these areas, I conquered Estonia from them. Then, my focus was to establish Scandinavia, so I annexed Denmark which was relatively easy even though they were helped by the British who declared war to "contain" me, even though they really didn't send a lot of soldiers at all, and what masses they did send were all split up so I could take them on one-by-one.

Formed Scandinavia, took Holstein-Gottorp and Lübeck, as well as Heligoland from the UK (they weren't too happy about that), and shortly after I was suddenly a Great Power. Somehow the Danes had a few colonies in Africa and the Caribbean, so I inherited them when I created Scandinavia and right now I'm the leading Great Power. I've only used a miiiinor amount of cheats, honest!
Allowed myself to do that since I saw this more as a test run than anything else, but then I got into it haha.

I actually secured a very lengthy alliance with the Ottoman Empire as well as Prussia, the latter of which lasted until they reunified Germany and they didn't want to stay in an alliance since I had cores belonging to them. But we're still on good terms. Speaking of which, pretty much all the other Great Powers hate me lol. Save for the USA. And my allies in the Ottoman Empire of course. Russia keeps making alliances with the other great powers and then attacks me to regain Karelia, always failing while their allies seem to send as few troops as possible.

Damn, that's a wall of text so far though. I'll get off here.

Edit: Screenshot (not my actual resolution, I tried cropping the original image but it's still too wide for the forum lol)

Update: The year is 1878 and Scandinavia remains the world's top Great Power. Although that's more due to prestige than anything else. However, we are second only to China in terms of Military Power, but the gap between us and numbers 3, 4 and 5 are rather slim, with the United Kingdom and Germany close behind us.
When I started the game up today I was determined to somehow regain my alliance with Germany, who had historically been my most useful and powerful allies so far. No matter what I tried I couldn't get them to accept my proposal, however, so naturally, I went ahead and fixed it manually. How? Oh, I just made some custom events to remove their cores from my territory (Schleswig-Holstein), did the same with Great Britain for Heligoland and since then my relations with the two countries have only improved. Shortly after I used the events I again entered a military alliance with Germany and the two countries have prospered since and I even decided to get into the colonization business after the appropriate tech was acquired. I now have a rather sizeable African colony around Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Congo and surrounding areas. Took Sokoto out of the USA's sphere of influence and into mine in a war because of their proximity to my colony and also grabbed a colonial territory from Spain. Sadly the alliance with the Ottomans ended in a crisis regarding the liberation of Ukraine, where they decided to support the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth instead of Ukraine. Oh, well. They were mostly useful to me in wars with the Russian Empire, which have mostly died out by now and they've become real pushovers, as well as a secondary power.

Edited by: Alphafax

Alphafax wrote: Started as Sweden in the standard 1836 start date, to add my own little spice to history.

Started out reconquering Finland along with Karelia from Russia, and when they later declared war to retake these areas, I conquered Estonia from them. Then, my focus was to establish Scandinavia, so I annexed Denmark which was relatively easy even though they were helped by the British who declared war to "contain" me, even though they really didn't send a lot of soldiers at all, and what masses they did send were all split up so I could take them on one-by-one.

Formed Scandinavia, took Holstein-Gottorp and Lübeck, as well as Heligoland from the UK (they weren't too happy about that), and shortly after I was suddenly a Great Power. Somehow the Danes had a few colonies in Africa and the Caribbean, so I inherited them when I created Scandinavia and right now I'm the leading Great Power. I've only used a miiiinor amount of cheats, honest!
Allowed myself to do that since I saw this more as a test run than anything else, but then I got into it haha.

I actually secured a very lengthy alliance with the Ottoman Empire as well as Prussia, the latter of which lasted until they reunified Germany and they didn't want to stay in an alliance since I had cores belonging to them. But we're still on good terms. Speaking of which, pretty much all the other Great Powers hate me lol. Save for the USA. And my allies in the Ottoman Empire of course. Russia keeps making alliances with the other great powers and then attacks me to regain Karelia, always failing while their allies seem to send as few troops as possible.

Damn, that's a wall of text so far though. I'll get off here.

Edit: Screenshot (not my actual resolution, I tried cropping the original image but it's still too wide for the forum lol)

Is that an AI Poland-Lithuania? p.s. about cheating I cheat way too much

Edited by: Xx_WWIman_xX

Xx_WWIman_xX wrote:

Alphafax wrote: Started as Sweden in the standard 1836 start date, to add my own little spice to history.

Started out reconquering Finland along with Karelia from Russia, and when they later declared war to retake these areas, I conquered Estonia from them. Then, my focus was to establish Scandinavia, so I annexed Denmark which was relatively easy even though they were helped by the British who declared war to "contain" me, even though they really didn't send a lot of soldiers at all, and what masses they did send were all split up so I could take them on one-by-one.

Formed Scandinavia, took Holstein-Gottorp and Lübeck, as well as Heligoland from the UK (they weren't too happy about that), and shortly after I was suddenly a Great Power. Somehow the Danes had a few colonies in Africa and the Caribbean, so I inherited them when I created Scandinavia and right now I'm the leading Great Power. I've only used a miiiinor amount of cheats, honest!
Allowed myself to do that since I saw this more as a test run than anything else, but then I got into it haha.

I actually secured a very lengthy alliance with the Ottoman Empire as well as Prussia, the latter of which lasted until they reunified Germany and they didn't want to stay in an alliance since I had cores belonging to them. But we're still on good terms. Speaking of which, pretty much all the other Great Powers hate me lol. Save for the USA. And my allies in the Ottoman Empire of course. Russia keeps making alliances with the other great powers and then attacks me to regain Karelia, always failing while their allies seem to send as few troops as possible.

Damn, that's a wall of text so far though. I'll get off here.

Edit: Screenshot (not my actual resolution, I tried cropping the original image but it's still too wide for the forum lol)

Is that an AI Poland-Lithuania? p.s. about cheating I cheat way too much

Yeeeaaah, about that.

I got a bit tired of the Russian aggression, and felt sorry for the Poles and Lithuanians who, just a hundred or so years before my playthrough had been a relatively powerful country, even rivaling the glorious Swedish Empire! (no bias here )

So in that same war where I took Estonia from them I actually managed to also squeeze in acquiring Latvia and having them release the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Needless to say, it was a lengthy and very one-sided war given the outcome.

As Greece I started in Cold War and it is now 1964. Only got Thrace back with SU aid. Haven't expanded any more due to Turkey being allied to the Yugos. My economy sucks though, well my war industry at least. I can either be independent and have a large income but no rubber = no war industry or get shpered by the Soviet Union, get access to rubber but have an unstoppable deflict. So yeah, rubber is killing me. Anyone else got the same problem or is it me still suck at Victoria 2

Such a bummer I made the nuke factory but don't have nukes

ADD: It turns out it was my nuke factory ruining me. Odd.

EdikShepherd wrote: So, playing The Third Reich in WW2, how the hell do you get enough resources and cash to fund the Wehrmacht? My men are barely getting the supplies they need and my economy is in freefall from the getgo. Will annexing everything from France to Russia bolster my economy enough to support the German war machine?

PFCAlcatraz wrote: Does anyone know if it is still possible to take over the UK in WW2

I'd assume so. You might not get an auto annex like with Poland, Holland, etc but you always just rape them over and over till they're yours

You can annex the UK in the WW2 scenario, or you can make them peace out by using your OP military force, or Make this Edward guy king (:

Here is my Greek empire
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My economics were really bad at the beginning but after i annexed Albania and "Macedonia" i started going better, Serbia was next and then Bulgary, Romania was my ally but i never called them, i already was big and 9th, my next goal was go get Hungary, Kosovo and Croatia helped...i annexed Hungary and Kosovo xD, long wait time till infamy go down again...:// but a lot of money and industry came up during this time, so i annexed Croatia next, Switzerland -->Venice-->Slovakia---> and Czech last...(i might forget some country) i am 6th great power
Prntscr.com (a better picture)
I lost Albania during the big war versus Hungary Kosovo and Croatia(the only war that i called Romania and they really helped)
Beside Albania the only big rebellion was from Austria with about 144k in Vienna and 80k in every other state but i was at peace and i could handle it

My Victoria Ultimate empire? Well...

Seems like the Russian Revolution struck earlier than expected.

EDIT: I figured a little backstory might help you understand the situation.
Game started in 1604, started by taking Estonia from Sweden, followed by Southern and then Northern Finland. Then colonized the east all the way to the coastline, followed by a bit of a 100 years stagnation as the AI started building a few hundred factories. Obtained some ottoman territories to the south, got Poland-Lithuania to cede Ukraine and Belarus. Got a few European countries in my sphere of influence, including Denmark, Sweden, Venice, Ukraine, Belarus, Crimea, France, England(For a short while), Scotland, and the northern Chinese countries. After i finally reached the 19th century after a century or two of no tech progress, i colonized more parts of Russia and moved on to North America. And then suddenly, a few hundred thousand communists rose up in rebellion, and I managed to get my western armies together and storm the 100k strong army that is attacking Moscow, so now my 145k army is now occupying Moscow. So yeah, another hundred thousand rose up shortly afterwards. Currently mobilizing.

Here is a pic of Russian North America:

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Edited by: FireSentinel