Those states seek first and foremost to survive. The world consists of states which are not restrained by any meaningful laws (at least against aggressive warfare). We need to start by reviewing the situation as it stood in EU4 (or EU3), not only because that provides a set of baseline expectations most Victoria players ( II or III) will have but because it also generally reflects the conditions present at the start of any given VickyII game. You won’t see this anymore, since I think everyone also plays with the second expansion, Heart of Darkness. Subscribe! The loading screen for A House Divided, the first expansion to the game. And if you want updates whenever a new post appears, you can click below for email updates or follow me on twitter ( for updates as to new posts as well as my occasional ancient history, foreign policy or military history musings. We have spent all of our last post building factories so we can churn out a lot of things which go ‘boom’ so let’s go ahead and set some of them off! Or – perhaps – not.īut first, as always, if you like what you are reading here, please share it if you really like it, you can support me on Patreon. As we’ll see, Victoria II has its share of war, but perhaps the most interesting part of its treatment of war is how it – perhaps alone in the Paradox catalog – has a set of emergent mechanics which openly question the efficacy of war in achieving aims, either for individuals or for the state. Consequently, in all of Paradox’s titles, war is a central activity (although perhaps less central in Victoria II than in any of their titles, but then the fact that war consumes 2/5ths of the tech tree should tell you ‘less central’ does not mean ‘not central.’). It is also an expected convention of the genre in that it is a theme that players expect from strategy games. The military-diplomatic game is the most consistent element in Paradox’s titles and the one set of mechanics that appears in all of them. This week, we’re going to turn to how Victoria II treats war and peace. That pop-centric design is going to matter this week as well, precisely because of the way it reorients the player to think about people instead of merely thinking about states when assessing the value of various actions.
We also discussed how Victoria II is unique in the Paradox catalog for being a game centered on ‘pops’ – that is on population – more completely simulated and more necessary to the player than other games. Last week, we looked at how Victoria II handles its central, defining theme, the industrial revolution, and the mechanics it employed.
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This is the second part of a three part series ( I) examining the historical assumptions of Paradox Interactive’s 19th and early 20th century grand strategy game, Victoria II.
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