So, uh, Napoleon died in 1821, so my maths was slightly off. I can only beg for forgiveness. And also ask you to subscribe so you can fact check me in future.
@@eggscapeplan6051 because it's closer to when Victoria takes power and it's also the year of the texas-mexico war so it's basically just important dates
I found the best way for naval landing is to simply naval invade with as much different armies as possible, because with every next battle there will be less enemy. Features of this war system👌
No, the armies are tied to regions, thus if you invade the region of the Baltic, you will fight against the Russian army in the baltic, but if you invade siberia for example, you would fight only against a couple of troops. and the reason he was actually losing is because he was invading with too many troops in comparison to how much he allocated his navy with, so if you use 25 galleys to invade with 50 troops, you will have a minus -50 on every attack and defense during the naval invasion.
@@unsrescyldas9745 WIth naval invasions you can actually have the enemy run out of numbers due to being able to send multiple invasions at the same location.
@@FernandoSV it worked in Normandy because it was poorly defended and because the Germans were busy trying to survive against the Soviets D-day was a daring operation that faced a lot of problems whilst doing it, but it miraculously worked
@@ShantanuSuchil Thas kinda unnecessary because the game is anti-human wave, meaning even if you send in only 30 battalions against a region with a hundred, 9 times out of ten, it will be a battle between something like 27 battalions vs 32, like you can storm Petersberg as the Ottoman Empire in the 1870s with only 100 skirmish battalions against 500 russian stacks (I did that while they also had China, who was for some reasonly fully modernised, with Mobile artillery and line Infantry) , cuz the game is kinda retarded so the battles will never be large even though the battles are in plains.
Kinda irritating that France is so strong in Vic3. Riven by social strife, wealth inequality & corruption. In this game's timespan, historically the unstable constitutional monarchy was taken over by a republic overthrown by an emperor that saw his nation rinsed in a war with Prussia. That never seems to happen, & as a result France always dominates. Game is too dang placcid. Edit: That said, always a joy watching Laith; wish the game would throw him some historical curveballs.
Not to worry, just wait for the "total rebalance because we've messed up the power dynamics in Europe" DLC, for the small small price of $29.99 plus your soul
@@johnroach9026 the flavor might be locked behind the dlc but not the fixes to the mechanics that make France broken rn as they have stated in their vision for the game that they want all features to interact with other features and to do so they aren’t gonna lock non region specific mechanics behind dlc
France has been dominating Europe for centuries. And is the hegemonic power between 1648 to 1815 in Europe. It actually makes perfect sense. France historically is a giant since the dark and middle ages.
I love how Laith is using "Patrice", thinking he's just a random generated general with good offencive stats, when actualy this guy historicaly became president of France !
Dang this game really needs more organized coalitions. The fact that France was able to puppet spain with only Russia putting up an immediate military resistance, when irl the war of Spanish succession was much more difficult and brought in multiple Great powers at the fear of France gaining Spain.
Personally I’ve found the strongest strat is to transfer subject over the British Raj day 1. Also makes you a pariah, but what is Europe going to do about it, and that gives you copious Opium and other agricultural things letting you pump up industry in the Metropole with reckless abandon as soon as you can integrate them.
"Makes you a pariah, but what is Europe going to do about it" is a certified Napolemoment. It's not incorrect as far as the game goes, but it sure sounds funny given the time period, don't it.
There was a fix that stopped treaty ports from working if the owner of the land is of an equal or higher level than the treaty port owner That means France cannot get access to the British market because the UK and France are both great powers
@@VincentWillemvanGogh3406 No because it's by Power Rank (Great Power, Major Power, Minor Power, Insignificant Power) not by the actual number. A Great Power with treaty ports will not get any benefit from them (other than owning that bit of land) if the market the port would get access to is run by another Great Power.
Yeah France is really op in Vic3, their techlead + position + ease of colonization policy means they will just snowball insanely quickly. By comparison Ming (*qing obviously) has the stronger starting-base but grows really slowly due to bad politics and tech. Given the short timeframe i think the high momentum of france (or britain) likely beats any other nation(s) until 1936.
I did a Qing game where I just puppeted South-East Asia. Trying to balance infamy and such. Then Heavenly Kingdom dropped and it dumped my infamy into the 100';s and I was like...Fuck it. You become my puppet, and you and you and you! So I puppeted everything between Korea and Iran. All that allowed my market to grow + improving military and at one point only the French and British could defeat me on the ground. Unless I raided all their convoys and their armies had a perpetual 0% morale. It was fun. But also a bit annoying since Russia and Britain backed off so many times when I just wanted more land from the Russians and puppets from the British. Game lasted till 1946 I think.
@@ShantanuSuchil infamy is only a problem if you can't contain the big powers I did a prussia play where there were always starting wars with me, they would loose something in every fight :D my GDP was like 2B by the end of it, poor russia lost so much territory :D
I did my first Qing run. Currently #2 GP with 1.2B gdp. The biggest theme is PAPER and Government Administration. Crazy with the new unrealized tax feature you start off with a million in taxes so far out of reach. Took me until 1880s just to get the entire population taxed 100%. The fun part with China is never having to switch to efficiency methods. Throw bodies at everything and still have dozens of millions of peasants.
Laith, if you don't get new storage devices for the sake of the editor, i'm going to comment on every EU4 youtubers vid to culture convert England to French
Helpful tip if your army size is bigger than your navy you get a massive lack of naval support penalty! you could have gotten those landings against the russians easily at the start !!
Good diction of Louis Philippe d'Orlean Occitan is pronounced like Ocsitan or Oxitan, "ci" is pronnounced "si" and the first c pronounced like a casual c Île de France was well said Orlean was ok Patrice was nice Aquitaine you have to pronounced the "ne" sound at the end, the rest of the word was good Auvergne was nice, you pronounced rhone with a non-french r ps: napoleon died in 23 but I forgive you
@@efulmer8675 Yeah I know but I'm not at ease with the phonetical alphabet, just type it on google translate in french and make it pronounced by the software, I've checked the pronounciation is good. When you see a "gne" in french it will almost always be said like that (there's some exception like gnome but I do not have a lot of those in memory)
What is really funny is that Patrice de McMahon was actually a French general, he fought the Crimean War and notably took Sebastopol. Later, despite beeing monarchist, he was elected President and notoriously failed to reenact a king in France. Charles Achille Bazaine was also an actual general, he was defeated by the Prussians in 1870. Funny to notice the amount of little details
Not quite related to the video, but in the new patch I was playing Egypt -> Arabia, and I was fighting Nejd. Russia supported them, and in a stalemate where we shared no border, instead of just getting a white peace I managed to take war reps from. Anyone else found that the AI gives extra stuff in what would have been a white peace scenario in the old patch (the patch this video was made in).
Glad to see you're doing better health wise again, last video got me a bit worried there ^^' Thank you for this nice video, it's quiet interesting to see how easy it is to pull of a "WC" as France, even more so considering that you didn't need to politically progress the country at all, which is quiet fun! I know I have said that already before (and I'm sorry for bothering you with it, but it's quiet interesting to me), how about a feudal monarchist US/Theocratic US? Could be neat. If that's too boring, how about turning the Qing to either the PRC or ROC (You may choose which one could be more interesting). Have a nice day/night, looking forward to your next video! :D
Have you considered doing a Japan run and forming an ideal Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere? I'm not sure about the exact goals but the (other) colonial powers should be out of the region, you in charge and everyone happy and prosperous. Also I think your editor wants to remind you that you should fragment and not clean up your storage space and certainly under no circumstances get more.
I think he has done a Japanese game fairly recently. The issue with Vic 3 is that once your behind it takes such a long time to get ahead. Not only that but large nations have little in the way of issues to deal with. So Ming more than likely will just modernize and then dominate Asia and the Pacific.
as a content creator, you should really look into get a nas, never really have to worry about storage if you get 16tb+ and it allows the computer to a bit faster as it no longer has to do search inquiries to a full storage device
Editor (MeatOven), convince him to buy a NAS. Maybe go with QNAP. If something happens to his computer at least he wont lose the data on it. If he ever upgrades his PC it'll still be going strong.
Form of government is describing who exactly runs the government. A monarchy generally means that the monarch runs the day-to-day of the government while the legislature (if any) debates the state of the country's laws and policies. The French Empire technically exists as long as you remain a monarchy (which isn't hard as you start as one and it can be difficult to change government form) but you're probably looking for an Autocratic Monarchy where the monarch is supposed to hold all the power. Generally speaking it's very difficult in Victoria 3 to restrict voting rights like that and doubly so if you're also embarking on a quest to improve your people's standard of living as in the process you'll be creating a lot of pops who will not like the idea of losing the power they get from voting.
