In fact, I’d say Britain is a fairly tight play for such a powerful faction. But actually, if you remember the game’s use of colors for subjects, you’re not personally controlling all of this directly. At first glance, this intimidated me from playing them, as I felt dealing with such a massive empire would be like beginning on the deep end. Great Britain’s color is light red, and the map has a lot of it. No, Victoria 3 takes place in a world where Europe is still in the air after having jumped off the springboard, and is still taking advantage of its momentum. We have empires here, but they’re not yet those we know from Hearts of Iron 4, where the world was completely dominated by Europe. Now, Victoria 3 takes place in a world that, for the most part, is really starting to look like our own, spanning the years between 18, exactly 100 years. For now let’s put it simply a higher power ranking lends you more might and sovereignty on the world stage. This ranking is more than just bragging rights though, as it impacts various mechanics in several ways, and we’ll get to those in turn and order. If Great Qing really wants to be recognized however, it has to win a diplomatic play against a recognized major power or stronger. On the other hand, Great Qing, AKA China, has a relatively mighty prestige rank of 12, but remains an unrecognized major power, even though it is naturally much more powerful than Luxembourg. For example, Luxembourg has a prestige rank of only 69 (nice), and as such is insignificant, but it still is recognized. Major powers are actually more regional in nature, like Two Sicilies or Sweden, and even though they are recognized by the great powers, this recognition has more to do with culture, economics, technology levels, innovation and statehood than actual power. Great Powers are the mightiest nations in the world in terms of prestige, technology and the ability to project their army, navy and economic power to the world. Now there are obvious differences here, but some are not so obvious. All of these, except the very last type, are yours to play, mainly because decentralized powers are nations without any real state system at all. But we also have unrecognized major powers, unrecognized regional powers, unrecognized powers, and even decentralized powers. In Victoria 3, we have Great Powers, Major Powers, Minor Powers, and Insignificant Powers. This leads us to the very first game mechanic you should be aware of, namely the ranking of state power, which influences not only your strength on the world stage, but also your very ability to play them. However, certain countries, like some in South America, Oceania, and most of all in Africa, have no filled-in color. If you don’t like the sharing of color between overlord and vassal, you can toggle this feature before beginning your campaign.Įvery country has their own color as long as they are independent though, and for most of these, the color fills in each country. This means that Norway, in the case of Sweden, is a subject, as in a junior partner or a puppet. The same goes for Russia and Finland, or Great Britain and India. But in the case of Sweden, its color also shades in Norway. Normally, one name goes with one color, say Blue with France, as opposed to yellow for Spain. I myself have modded the Ottoman Empire to look red instead of green, which I personally think is a better fit.Įvery country has it’s own color on the map. This is a fantastic change because it also means that we can play the game with mods if we so wish, without sacrificing the ability to unlock achievements for our accomplishments. Most notably, as a first, Victoria 3 allows us to play without ironman mode or with a game state that differs from the normal, unmodded game, and still collect achievements. Before beginning a game, it’s also possible to change the rules of the game, meaning how aggressive the AI is towards the player and others, the nature of formable and releasable nations, and even how subjects appear depending on their overlord. You can even play a game where tutorials pop up every now and then to help you on your way, or play the classic sandbox game we all know and love. As a first, Victoria 3 even allows you to play the game with certain victory conditions in mind if you wish, declaring a final winner based on one’s economic power, hegemony of the world by force, or how egalitarian one’s society is. This means that you can play over 100 different nations all over, whether in good’ol Europe, the Americas, Asia, Oceania, or indeed, Africa. Victoria 3 is a grand strategy game that takes place in the 19th century, and not just in Europe, but the entire world.
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