I FIXED The HARDEST START in VICTORIA 3 | TEXAS | 

Nah ong 😭

Yep. The Texas state government even recognizes their dialect as a separate language. Fredericksburg, which is nicknamed German Texas, is a cool little western themed town

you can't add primary cultures

@@ujotowh1514 darn it would have been fun

​@@ujotowh1514Pretty sure you can

⁠@@ujotowh1514the only exception is turtle island which can stack primary cultures if greenland exists as a independent country

Fr, I assume it'll come at some point.

Can't you choose revoke claim as wargoal?

​@@nachtvosje4255 yup you can

Future DLC idea son

@@nachtvosje4255 look up Texas’s claimed borders. They went all the way into Wyoming

sounds like someone doesn't remember the alamo!!!

@@petralizzy7383 and Goliad

@@petralizzy7383At San Jacinto Houston used the retreating Texas government as bait to get Santa Ana by himself in a poor defensive position then attacked after the soldiers feel asleep leading to a decisive victory

Someone hasn't heard of the definition of a phuric victory​@@petralizzy7383

What history did you learn?

That's an interesting idea, I'll have to look into it to see if I can make a good video out of it.

Exactly, I always start as minor countries in every Paradox game. But I think they got harder to play in the recent patch. In the past you could establish a reliable relation with at least one great power, have a defensive pact or an alliance, trade agreement or customs union. My experience with the current patch is that Great Britain is friendly at first, then wants me to join the British Empire and when I refuse they turn hostile and cancel all treaties. This excludes GB, Austria, Russia and the Ottomans from the list of potential friends and only leaves trade leagues viable. Becasue in every game I had in this patch, the great power I was friends with always wanted me in their power bloc. Second thing is that big (mostly European) countries love to guarantee every little state around me, so expansion is much harder. And the last thing is that you can't abuse your alliance with a great power to get free stuff from them every time an African tribe rebels against them 😅 Although this change makes sense, it was ridiculous before.

I knew a lot of people wanted to play Texas, which is why I made this strat.

Hahaha that's funny well the community is still small on yt despite the game being out for 2 years As for vicky 3 modded there are only a handful of videos xD

Modded vic 3 videos just don't perform well on yt.

@@TobyYellsAtThings that is sad as some mods are really fun I think for some mods like cold war mod or new order there need to be a guy who fully explains the mod mby then videos like that will perform as in hoi4 they do sometimes

@@TobyYellsAtThings Depends on the mods no? I dont play with anything that alters gameplay, just QoL and maybe some extra events. Fully modded, sure, I see why the community would be tiny. The whole fun is relating to the actual countries and making them great again. That doesn't exist if you are playing some aliens with a Victoria 3 Engine, and there is Stellaris for that (which I also enjoy as of recently). I also like how you can save and get achievements w mods in Victoria, and I was a diehard Ironman EUIV & HoI IV player. If you wanna cheat to get an achievement with the no-save/no mod Paradox games, you still can, even in Ironman (just download a mod that literally lets you pick which achievements you get). But that isn't fun. So I love having the objectives Ironman goals provide (struggle to come up with my own goals), while playing with QoL mods or mods that simply fix broken gameplay to get there. Id say hardest achievement I have gotten in a PDX game is the one Kingdom of Jerusalem one from EUIV where you have to start as the Knights on Rhodes. Hardest I am aware of in any of their games tho is the HRE one in HOI4, where you start as Hungary or something, because its literally RNG to get the events you need for it, and you have to completely restart every time if you dont roll the right ones and you need MANY RNG events to have a chance. That said, Vicky is a lot less cheesy than HOI, which I like. Curbstomping Russia as Finland is fun and all stacking winter bonuses but it gets old after a while.

@@Saltkoenigin Hopefully Victoria 2 modders can add some modern day mods, since Victoria 2 is better for longer periods of time than HOI4, which is made to optimize the experience of one war

Blame paradox, they didn't make him good enough.

​@@TobyYellsAtThingsImagine if they made him as OP as real life. Bro captured the Mexican president and his army with some remnants of the Texas army, and forced him to sign a peace treaty.

I would never

That man is defined by his work.

When I go to jail I hope it's for Tax Fraud.

​@@TobyYellsAtThings"when"

​@@TobyYellsAtThingsbro has committed some other crimes he doesn't want anybody to know about 💀

What does this mean? Can you explain it more?

Trade routes can downsize to only level 1s, this would mean you can set up , for example, a bunch of luxury clothes trade routes and set a tariff on imports for that good. This means you don’t exactly spawn in money, but just steal money from ai, since they usually subsidise their own trade routes. Just make sure to not subsidise your own trade routes.

Was it "ThatGuyFromCollege" by chance?

Any Time!

The sheer disrespect for Hawaii here, smh

Thanks I had it commissioned. I wish I could draw this well.

@@TobyYellsAtThings don't worry you are probably really good at straight lines. Just don't take it to an art school

Eehhh, mostly fixed...

The original plan was to wait for USA to wreck Mexico's military and invade while they were weak. It requires some pretty good timing to pull off and a little bit of luck because sometimes the AI will hard target the player in wars.

You'd also have to push in super fast as to not let Mexico regain their Military power. It's kinda the same thing I did to Brazil in my Piratini video.

@@TobyYellsAtThings gotcha gotcha. Thanks for the reply! One more question if you have the time. This is less about “meta” but just curious. Did you ever try try becoming a subject of USA (not annex into) and try keeping Liberty desire high, and kinda ride the bike of America’s military to expand? Then eventually declare independence?

LMAO

Looks like it. My guess would be that Texas going its own way made the political situation get unstable faster (no war with Mexico to rally people around) and the more tense situation lead to the Missouri compromise failing and the North seceding in protest. Note that this is how I would explain it from what I know of the period, not based on my understanding of how the game models these things (I haven't started playing it, yet).

@@benjaminmiddaugh2729 i checked game wiki and apparently if souther farmers in charge during the event "slavery debate" then north seceeds

@@gladys2563 So they're simulating the idea that the Missouri compromise would have been impossible if the South thought they had all the leverage and the North would have left over the failure. I'm not entirely sure that's the way things would have actually gone under those circumstances (the South's main national concern was their economic base and their political base was a means to maintaining that, so if they thought their power and economic base was secure they probably would still have been open to something like the Missouri compromise anyway), it's not a completely implausible option. In terms of non-Vic 3 alternate history, I'm not sure even my original comment would have been accurate, at least in terms of the timeline. Without a war with Mexico, president Polk's whole agenda (adding Texas to the United States) becomes difficult, especially if Texas itself decides to go its own way (not historically likely, as the whole Texas revolution was basically Southern Americans annoyed at Mexico's slavery ban, but we're discussing the scenario from the video, so I'll grant it in this case). There would still have been room for expansion (I'd expect an even faster betrayal and conquest of the remaining Native American nations), and a clash with Mexico would probably have still come to pass at some point (maybe after the civil war instead of before it?). As such, the debate over slavery becomes a bit more challenging to predict. The South always looked at it from the perspective of economic power and saw the Northern approach to abolitionism as an attempt to decapitate the South's power base by destroying their economy. Meanwhile, the North was increasingly divided between those who saw abolitionism as a moral crusade and those who saw it as the greatest threat to the country's political stability (and the crusaders often weren't doing a good job of softening either of their opponent's impressions). The main problem was that neither side could seem to imagine how to get the South a different economic system without forcing the issue. So I'm kind of stuck between two historical forces. The forces that led to the Civil War were still be present while those that forced the Missouri compromise mostly would be absent, apart from their constituent parts, which could still reconfigure in roughly the same way. The idea I'm coming around to is that the slavery debate might well have been a bit more delayed under these circumstances, since not having Texas or California (which is another can of worms that could have gone multiple ways) would have defused a lot of the immediate political tension. The expansion into new territories was what drove a lot of the debate at the national politics level in the 1840s, but I'm not sure how much the lack of the territorial gains from Mexico would alter that, so it's hard to say. One last thing. I'm almost certain that the North would not have seceded with the goal of being their own independent country. I'm not sure exactly what form it would take, but the North were (mostly) strongly Whig, and the Whigs were the party of big central government. The argument would have almost certainly been along the lines of rebellion in the name of reforming the entire national system to be better for the entire country long-term, instead of going off to be left alone. Also, the growing abolitionism of the North would never have allowed the North to just leave the South alone about that, even if they separated. This has been a fun mental exercise, but I've run out of steam and everything else would be further rambling.

I have tried so many times to make Indian territory work... still no breakthrough

@@TobyYellsAtThings Yeah I feared that

That's a Video I've kinda been working on. Not sure if I want to do planned out videos or just go for it.

Zelda music slaps.

That soundtrack is the Day theme from World 1 of Sonic Unleashed

I'll take that as a compliment.

Yes

I put the micro management back into it.

No everything I have is vanilla. It could possibly be one of the themes but I haven't modded anything.

Never mind, it was just in the military screen lmao

I relate way to hard to this comment.

Honestly no reason tbh. Just didn't because no rember.

Not yet

👀

July 17th 1922

It did, I think the 1.7.3 patch specifically slowed the game down just a bit. I need to keep my recording under or around 2 hours for my editor's sake.

Gerudo valley from - The legend of Zelda ocarina of time.

You made that country up.

RU-vid analytics reasons. Also I want to feel more professional.

@@TobyYellsAtThings OK Toby best of luck bro by the way I like your videos

Honestly Playing in Uganda can be fun, Especially Acholi. They have a ton of homeland cultures down there that let them colonize fast.

@@TobyYellsAtThings but it's neigh impossible to get tech or industry in time

Thank you?

Honestly that's probably the play for a long play of this.

Nope it's me, I didn't like my old PFP so I paid someone to draw me one.

@@TobyYellsAtThings Yeah I figured it out, but I hesitated at first. I'm anticipating a flood of AI generated content being vomited over the site soon so I'm on my toes.