Forming The STRONGEST Nation in Victoria 3 

Link to the first part of this epic campaign - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-040AYnnY2wc.html

Ludi just casually ignoring the placeholder building icons.

25:04 that's actually historically accurate, earlier russia actually wanted this area because they can trade in Atlantic sea without toll

Would love to hear your thoughts on the state and future of Vicky 3. I'm not sure what the best approach to fixing flavour would be. Mission Trees make other nations feel flat and missing core features and take a long time to add for every nation. Something like Stellaris with ALOT more events and chained events that also link to pop groups and politics would be really welcome.

A video of ludi a day keeps the sadness away.

I guess you could say you formed gerMONEY.

I think if Germany was far more influential there is a decent chance that the German people in the US would not have completely abandoned speaking German.

Won every battle and occupied the war goal but still lost. Truly a Vietnam moment

16:40 - Had germany won WW1 the lingua franca would have been german. It was the secons most used language in the Scientific world, after latin, it was also spoken by a lot of people in and outside of europe (german immigrants in the US and eastern germans in Russia). Your argument with Hollywood being a big influence of english being the lingua franca is valid, the germans had their own Hollywood, called Babelsberg.

10:35 vacuum CLEANING

I always would like another video, and I love Ludi’s explanation of things

24:37 Kaiserreich moment

i think in regards to the "europe speaking english" question it differs heavily on where in europe and the way the wars would alter in the scenario of a greater german solution to the german question. before the 2nd world war for example, in the netherlands there was hardly any english spoken compared to the relatively well understood german. this changed radically due to cultural distain from the occupation and increased economic dependance on marchall help and the way globalization unraffled with an anglo-american hegemon. in the case that a greater germany would be a bigger power and played a more dominant role in economics durring this time i could see english never surpassing german on the mainland of europe as a dominant language

love the references to the guy who started world party 2 in 1939

22:00 Ludi, if you want cheese, here's the spiciest, stinkiest, most glorious cheese known to Vicky 3: build your power plants only in Dalmatia, Ontario, or New York, as much as you can and encourage migration to those states as much as you can to build your power plants even higher. Your Oil and Coal shortages will thank me later.

I still have no idea, why Imperial Germany somehow gets the German Republican flag in Vicky 3. It was already horrible that it happened as a Constitutional Monarchy in Vic2, but they did that idiocy again (Austria gets the correct one, if they form it...).

Answering the question at 17:00. The largest second language in Europe (and the world for that matter) is English because of British and American Commerce Culture and Soft Power follows religions and business. Had the Germans not lost WW1, I am of no doubts that German would be the most spoken language in Europe. They dominated the economy of Europe, and if they pulled in just the German parts of the Austrian Empire they would have been even stronger.

seeing Super Germany without the two Dane provinces in the north makes me chuckle. They're never in my CU but always become part of SG

4:15 actually arts and especially literary arts and multiple polithical and philosophical theories are also known for being originated in germany

18:40 if you really loose due to looses that fast (10 weeks) you need to have at least lost 250% of your total army, if we assume that the 527 printed on commander>generals tab is all your conscript + regular that mean you lost more than 1.3M men in the war which for 1868 forcing a white peace for isnt unbalanced plus at 20:13 we can see that you actually had 1042 regiments implying more than 2.6M losses (more than the UK in WW1)

Nothing is better than Ludi's Victoria 3 videos.

The world : ah yes the Macarons a wonderful French food.. The Italians: but we invented them, we mass produce and export .... but most importantly we love them. The world: pizza; take it or leave it

The biggest problem Victoria 3 suffers from is the AI's inability to develop its resources. The game could also use some kinda of sphere of influence mechanic to better highlight were the AIs interest actually lies, so you can know where you can really bully without France deciding to ruin your day unless they specifically want to ruin you day.

27:40 The autonomous investment will do its best to keep up with infrastructure problems but the player does have a tendency to outstrip its capabilities, especially if you go absolute ham on the construction sectors way beyond the investment pool's capacity to continuously use the full capacity you're handing to it like you have been. This is true on basically any economic system law, but especially on ones which give the player a higher fraction of the construction, make sure you queue up at least some railroads before you queue up all the new factories in states or the market access problems may begin to pile up.

17:11 it's a very difficult question. German was for a long time one of the contentors for the World language and lost on influence during the world wars. With greater Germany beeing formed it isn't unlikely the US would become dominantly German. Without loosing the war it also would be the possibility that Hollywood don't get such much influence and the back in the time strong German film industry would become the main source of culture in the world. But all things considered nobody could say what would happened if greater germany formed.

He just unlocked vacuum cleaning lol

I've found that proportional taxation is actually worse than graduated taxation as you start to dip below medium taxes, at least in terms of the amount of money your nation personally gets anyway.

@LudietHistoria I don't have significant constructive criticism for Victoria 3, because I don't even know what developers can do for the game potentially, but the biggest issue I've had with the game *by far* is that no matter the country I start as, by 1900 I'm over-powered and can easily start or have already started a "World Conquest" via puppets and then "annexing" them later. The AI's behavior is just "meh" and it doesn't really react to the player in any way other than generic "I'm mad because of high Aggressive Expansion." Also, I loved the Eddie Izzard reference! "No flag, no country!"

Loved the Eddie Izzard reference at 30:15

Pax Germanica finally achieved boiz!

Glad to see Überdeutschalnd is a thing you can form in Vic3!

those arts academies are still gonna reject the works of a certain painter🗿

I would like to hear your opinion on vic3, I never played vic2, I bought vic3 with over 5k hours in hoi4, eu4 and ck2, hated imperator rome, I saw vic3 as a visually stunning game that is extremly bad optimized in the late game, has the worst/most buggy combat mechanics of all their games relying 100% on AI and RNG leading to way too much frustration, but I have over 500 hours in vic3 and I liked it, but I completely stopped playing because theres absolutely no replayability other than forcing yourself to do achievements, every nation is exactly the same, the AI doesnt help by not ever building oil fields or other resources to export so you HAVE to basically do world conquest and ANNEXATION in the late game, you have absolutely 0 control over your puppets. The lack of formable nations like the HRE for fun or releasables like actual countries for example Macedonia just show how bland and rushed the game is. Also im from Brasil, WHY THE FUCK THE USA GET THE OPTION TO BUILD THE STATUE OF LIBERTY BUT BRASIL DOESNT GET THE CHRIST REDEEMER, THEY WERE BOTH GIFTED BY FRANCE AT THE SAME TIME. It just comes to show that they missed the mark a LOT in this game, I really hope they improve it BEFORE spamming it with dlcs, because I am absolutely not buying any DLCs in order to fix the base game. Theres so much they could do with flavor, real life events, or like adding player ability to customize a general or country leader, customize flags and names of non historical places like "super communist germany". Just please dont paylock big updates that will for example fix the late game lag or the AI never ever building oil fields behind DLCS.

I agree with your friend. If Super Germany had formed, then then it is much more likely that the US would have been influenced by it. In our timeline, there was a proposal for German as a secondary language in US Schooling, due to the large populations. Hell, it was considered a problem in WWI, since a third of all newspapers were in German. It's only after WWI that we see a decline in German influence in the US. If Super Germany had formed, it would potentially have more influence, allowing it to ally with the US as a counter to the UK. So, even supposing that Hollywood still exists in the US, it _could_ be a German speaking one. Alternatively, the Super Germany could have less influence, as political dissidents from Benelux, Denmark, Hungary, and the Balkans flee German authority to the US.

The real reason everyone speaks English is because of it's importance in Air, Sea, and business. Not because of Hollywood :p

14:25- if there will will like you said, people will convince themselves that they don't really need that huge state, that many clerks and parties will have no tools to convince people to vote for them. Now they took our money in taxes but they stand proudly in front of cameras talking that they gave us some social programs. What they didnn't tell is that they took in taxes fe. 10 dollars, but they gave only 5 in those social programs, cause clerks need to be paid, some need to be embezzle and some people will get those social programs for bribes. Some man said, that if there was a social program for lacking of small finger, most people will cut it of to get it...

Yes, I think not having enough art academies might result in some.... unlikely results...

Ludi, play as Siam and make them a great power next!

I love victoria 3 videos. please more like this

All that overflow money tho🤤 gdp could be 3x bigger if that money goes to construction

Really like your videos, particularly your EU4 videos are very useful for a noob like me. About the conversation you had with your "friend" about the use of German if Austria and Germany had united in the 18 or 19th century I have to agree. In fact German was one the leading scientific language until WW1, and German was widely spoken throughout Europe until WW1 and was used as lingua franca by many. We could even argue that just without a WW1 the German language would have significant more weight in europe.

Asking ludi to unify indonesia in vicky3

Truly the smoothest of endings to a video.

About the early mega-Germany question: I reckon it boils down to what kind of state Germany would have been, would as many germans emigrate to the US or would they have stayed in Europe? A monarchist Germany going to war would still have lost millions of people to emigration, but a Germany that was not as bellicose might have meant a longer-term german influence in the US. A mega-Germany would have no friends in Europe due to fear of total german hegemony, would they have been able to push through that or work with it? Interesting stuff to consider

Aw yay!!! A new bedeoloniculum!!!! I’m so happy!!! They are gonna love being shnappeldoop!!! Love you Lubi!!!!!

13:00 *LUDI OH MY GOD WHY WOULD YOU TAKE THE PRESTIGE OVER THE PERMANENT +25% MIGRATION ATTRACTION?!* Even if you don't expect to get a ton of mass migration events, the extra migration attraction will make your pops migrate around your country faster which will make things more stable internally.

In regards to German or english in europe, even if all of the germans united I think we'd still be speaking english because of the impact that the english colonies had all around the world, that's what really made it so global

To be honest, when I first played Vic3 I was confused why everyone wanted to suffer in my country by enacting Universal Suffrage lol.

HOLY LEBENSRAUM

You could've abolished the consumption taxes to increase the SOL even higher.

Remember that the USA had a lot of german speakers, maybe a lack of wwi and a huge german powerhose could've impacted them as well.

14:20 actually in the real world if you lower taxes as percentage people will make more money, hide less tax and pay more to the state in total. It's like selling something, you lower the price, that brings you more clients and therefore more money in the end. Ireland for example understands this. Lower taxes = more money in the budget. (The technical term is Laffer curve.)

Lubi at it again

I like your art academy jokes 😁 Greetings from Poland 😂 🇵🇱

I was waiting for weeks for a new vic 3 video from u lmao

We conscrupted a skytrooper.

wild feedback spotted

oh schnapps I love your style

Just because you have more art academies doesn't mean that they lower their standards enough for a certain mustache man.

Yes, please make a video on your thoughts on Victoria 3.

I'm guessing that you lost much more than the French despite winning due to attrition from overstacking? Although honestly the way the front system works rn kinda makes avoiding that impossible since the entire balkans is just one front for the Russians, and so is all of North china.

Love you Ludi :-)

Ludi makes the world his little shnapledoop and forms the Shnapledoop Global Empire when?

I want to hear you blasting Vic3; and I love the game as long as I love eu4/stellaris/ck3/imperator too. XD

Behtuh patch looking nice 😏

Is there a reason for keeping consumption taxes if you don't need the money? I'm just curious, I normally cancel them first to shift authority to edicts and political shenanigans.

well yes we mainly speak english because of hollywood. but if austria would have united with germany a certain austrian artist probably never would have become leader of germany and considering that germany was for movies before ww2 what hollywood is for movies now we probably would now be talking about berlin as the big movie city and not la with hollywood

i agree about the combat system. the rebalancing needs a rebalancing.

As a German-Canadian, I get tired of world war two jokes... except the bit about art academies. Please, ensure NO ONE is turned away from the art academies in Austria. For all of our sakes. ;)

id love to hear your opinion. i think they should add more events and stuff for the big happenings of the time like the civil war. the flavour is really lacking atm even tho the game is still a lot of fun imo but compared to something like hoi 4 or eu4 its way too few

German would be really the major language in europe. The most scientific publication was in german on this time, without the ww1 and ww2 german would be the language for the scientist.

You know how we say crazy in Croatian? Ludi 😂😂😊

When you open protectorate menu its still LAGS as fuc

People who like other games complaining that vc 3 is not like that game are missing the point. It has a lot of potential to be its own thing, only needs a little development. The concept is great and there's no paralell

16:27 i want to read the event and editor just removed it

are you going to continue this? would love to see a world conquest

Instead of making a video about your opinion towards Vic3 i think what would help vic3 most would be a video on what players want. You have great influence and Paradox might listen Don't try to be too negativ. Just say say this is what we want.

They haben to learn our peaceful german ways.... by FORCE!

Please do make the video about the state of Vicky 3.

I would love to hear your opinion.

Wenn Franz der Kaiser die Deutschen Staaten vereint hätte lel That is this starting point of ur continuation of the Germany campaign

"those german borders remid me of the gold ol days"👴

Lore of Forming The STRONGEST Nation in Victoria 3 Patch 1.2 momentum 100

Part 3 please !!.

Part 3 pleas

Ludi, do you have any idea why central america keeps desintengrating after you conquer them, meaning you have to conquer them again. Is there any way to avoid this to happen?

Are the frontlines still a clusterf*ck?

2 ideas on how to fix vic3: make eu4 go to 1936 or just copy it's war system over. I was a big fan of the idea of little player intervention before release, but after losing won wars again and again because they won 1 battle and occupy 1 cm of my lands after a front line split, I've completely given up. The truth is, with eu4 being such a superior game after all this time, it will forever be compared and it'll lose out or they start making drastic changes. And 1.2 looks again good on paper, but it makes the game way less fun than previously if you actually play it

Hell all I know is I have yet to buy it since it doesn't seem like it's ironed out nearly as much as it should be. I do enjoy the focus of trying to bring up a game that didn't get a lot of love in its last iteration but I just think they made a lot of odd choices about how they approached things. I would really want a lot of overhauls and patches before they try thinking about dlc because Paradox tends to jump the gun at times.

Can you do video on Serbia ?

Because it feels strange to have european nation with a name big all over the continent, i searched for extra formable nations. Like Roman empire for Italy, sadly nobody made a more historical "Paneuropa" as formable nation, only European Union or European Empire... Ps. The only way for Romania, to get a free visa for moving around is removing Austria.

So sad you didn’t annex Holstein

Part 3 Please

How did you get the black-red-gold tricolor? I always get the black-white-red tricolor as germany...

What a Crazy and entertaining video :) ThUmBs Up

Many of the core features which the community is criticizing take a disproportionate amount of time to polish, with a lot of it depending on testing and community feedback. If they don't fully flesh out the core mechanics of the game, any added flavor will just go to waste. A pile of poop is still a pile of poop, no matter how much perfume you spray at it.

I am gonna be honest and people may hate me for saying it but...I liked Imperator Rome more when it released than Victoria 3.

Ludi bro, id love to hear you speak romanian a little in one of your videos. I'm starting to get convinced schnappledoop is a real romanian phrase.

GROSSGERMANIUMS!

You're awesome