QING are the RICHEST and BIGGEST nation in VICTORIA 3 

Apparently the reason France's GDP gets so high every game is because their one province in India counts as a treaty port, which gives them tariff free access to the British market

I like how casually laith mentions getting people randomly climbing over his fence

I think Laith is playing this as therapy after the "shocking" last video

Debug mode used to not even be a mod in Paradox titles. It used to be accessible at all times via the tilde key (except for when Iron Man Mode was enabled). I think Imperator: Rome was the first game to hide it behind a launch option.

It’s pretty funny how you could finish a historical Qing run in eu4 and be THE dominant power in the world, and then 15 years later in Vicky you are a just a terrible place with a terrible army

Hey Laith, we Tunisians are still waiting for the Tunisia video! I already tried them. it's 1895 and I'm the 9th economy and 17 SoL. At first I declared an independence war against the Ottomans with the help of the austrians, who later used their obligation to make me a part of their market (also the ottomans backed down). then I became a protectorate of France who has the biggest economy. I'm now building barracks to declare an independence war against them, their infamy is +50 so I'll probably have an easy time swaying other major powers. Edit: corrected some mistakes

i was seriously waiting for laith to make a "in the grand scheme of qings" joke

Laith's video's are perfect to end the day with 👌🏻

If the entirety of the British army mobilized against u and sent their troops to ur land, why don’t u just naval invade the British with just a battalion and take their undefended land, by the time the ai sends troops back home u should control most of England

My favorite part of the video was when the aditor whispered "it's morbin time" then made the whole screen black and made the sound dissapear.

Don't listen to the haters, Laith. You're not a common tool; you're an extremely expensive, industrial grade tool.

Why did the screen go back for 5 seconds at 5:02

I have no desire to play this game but this man playing it is the most entertaining thing I’ve ever seen, he’s so excited about LITERALLY EVERYTHING and it’s amazing

Laith just discovered the Military Industrial Complex lol 33:49

Having gone through a lot of pain as Qing its funny to see laith make a lot of the same mistakes I did lol

Advice for people playing Qing. Dead is just a number. You have more than enough to make up for that. Second: it is a good idea to modernize your army first and ally with Russia to divert the British from declaring war on you. The you can proceed to NOT being relie on the British market or other market that need shipping for raw materials. Third: take over Burma whenever you free, why? Because that will allow you to open 2 more front which the British have to split their troops to face you making it easier than to fight during the Victorian era on the fucking Himalayan mountain. A feat no one attempted but Laith. Fourth: due to how the AI and war system being bad in Victoria 3 the AI will NEVER naval invade you when it can transfer troops to a front and fight you. What does that mean? It mean you can intentionally spare some army while a part of it hold back the British since you have such a large army after mobilizing. You can just tie the British down in India and naval invade them unopposed. I did it TWICE. So despite the naval disparities how the war system work is I can just naval invade anyone despite having all my ports blockade. The British still patrol the water around it Island but the AI is dumb so there just holes. You can repeatedly naval invade multiple places to try and probe the hole. First time i land in Ireland and attack into Scotland. The British surrender and recognize me. Second time they guard Ireland but I managed to invade Cornwall. The War system is not bad it’s horrific. Me with 15 ships manage to naval invade British twice is just funny.

I for one really enjoy Vic3 and enjoy the videos a lot - I would love to see what the most cursed government you could make would be, I feel like there’s some insane stuff you could make with the right amount of political micromanagement

Qing is really great, reaching a billion (or 2) in GDP is ridicilously fast. You should avoid fighting the Brits early on, it's a lost cause anyways with the tech you start with. The excessive workforce and abundant resources can catapult you to no.1 Great Power rather quickly, just don't forget to max out your innovativness gain (just like with all nations) at the start, as Qing starts with 0 universities. The problem I'm having is with them is the Heavenly Kingdom event chain. I just don't get it. Even if people are well of and not radicalized the event still appears in provinces. I had a run where I somehow managed to get 150 million loyalists in a few months by canceling and restarting to abolish the monarchy, but even then with literally haft the nation being loyal, provinces still got the event, but it never fired. It still sucked tho, bc it never want away either, it was just lingering there, so I couldn't progress on with the Fragile Unity. If it fires, it's not much better neither, I made the mistake in my other run when it fired that I haven't built all my arms and munition industry in the one safe province (Bejing), so obviously the HK got all the arms... and the Russians on their side. I probably should look at game code/wiki (I dunno how VicIII wiki is going) to comprehend it.

I like that bit at the end, while I understand the complaints, I absolutely love this game and can't wait to see what pdx does with it

Hi Laith I´m not living in Gansu but I used to live in Sichuan which is the province just down under. The climate in Gansu is actually relatively similar to Tunisia with both being arid. Anyway, glad to see a great Qing video :)

That moment when Britain started the international drugs trade for tea

It may be fun to make West, South and East Slavia and potentially all of Slavia in a ck3 multiplayer game.

Try to make the best economy/nation (maybe even socialist) possible but in a one state country

33:42 Laith discovers the military industrial complex.

Ngl Qing in vic3 is much easier to play than vic2 but it also means that you can run the most powerful nation cus of pop but you can also get immigration just from the jobs you are offering it can be insane and i think same as vic2 will be banned in mp

Viewer from Gansu here. Would love to work in your arms industry.

"Even man, woman, and child must fight." - Laith probably

I find being aggressive is great for qing. I usually puppet burma and japan as soon as possible, that makes you quite a bit more powerful, when you also puppet siam and the neighbors you will have so many troops that nothing is an issue anymore. Plus, you add them to your market and you provide plenty of resources for them to industrialize so you will raise all of asia with you. I wouldn't care about taking their territory since you have no need for more population, land or soldiers, you have plenty and would do better with just getting their tribute and investing it in your own lands whilst leaving them to whatever it is they do.

There's that province Shanxi that can handle all your coal and iron need.

Laith, your audience does not like watch you play games. Your audience likes watching you suffer. If you will made yourself suffer in Victoria 3, you will have the views. :D

If you click on the logging camps in that menu there is a drop down where you can individually see each building and assign either hardwood or softwood production, same with the other buildings in the building tab

France becoming an insanely rich consumer economy that can beat the Brits, Russians, Americans, Germans, etc. all just by taxing imports in the 1800s is hilarious.

I haven't finished the video yet, but i think your ideas about how to develope Qing in the early game is correct, you just need to reform your government to isolationism and agrarianism, then you massively built up your government administration buildings, you will then see that your income start sky rocking like nut. From my hours of Qing experience start industralize this old dynasty right away feels rather lackluster. Although it's good to start spending money on industry early on, you'll find your self spending more and more and way more money than you initially thought, it also doesn't help that you usually need to raise taxes on the people inorder to industralize, which hearts the economy in one way or another.

Man I was on a historical run to go from Qing --> republic of China --> military dictatorship --> Communist China. Except I accidentally clicked the wrong choice for an earth quake incident and got extra -3M per month in expenses and totally ruined my game lmao.

Really enjoy the Vicky 3 content, keep it coming. I am doing a Ethopia run, it has a really fun start, where you have an event to get a god-like military leader/ruler, and africa can provide you with everything you need. The only hurdle for greatness is an extreemly powerfull landowner party that will reject anything. I really recommend it as a playthrough.

12:22 i feel ya man. People would always make jokes about me whenever my arts teacher in elementary school would mention clay. 10 years later and every so often I'll have someone make a joke about my name, and all I can say is "yup, heard that one before". It's funny tho imo

You should try playing Afghanistan and hold off the great powers

This is the type of game I will absolutely get sucked into for weeks lol. All of the menus and micro buttons are perfect for me lol.

Turns out Laith is actually a Gaelic name as well, so I hereby declare that you are an honourary Scot.

Those trade deals for 10 units of goods when you're missing several hundred are sure gonna help...

1:50 Am I the only one who found that everybody seems to be lacking clothes? Like you can build an ungodly amount of textile-mills throughout the early to mid-game and they will always turn a profit.

I like laiths music useally its the exact opposite of the cluster fuck on screen

What's happening in Laith's neighbourhood when people casually climb over his fence.

So I had a game recently where Great Britain didn't start the opium war after I banned opium. I then said we take thoes lol.

one of my complaints with the game is the fact that they call the united kingdom great britain despite the act of union taking plce in 1801

Russian autocracy wants to install presidential republic. That's new ;-).

Be slightly down with a resource is good. This makes the farms/mines/industries profitables. Avoid only to go up 20/25% in the price balace.

the fact that the british pronounce lathe the same as laith is the most suprizing things i have heard

why is your lighting in this video so *yellow*?

hey laithe did you know they put you in the game????

the thing is China is so big that your internal market probably self-sufficient all the way to late game where you need rare resources like rubber and oil only then you kind of relucantly expand in south-east asia... and most your money problems can be fixed by improving taxation in your provinces and some of those provinces alone in size equal to major european powers. You just need to survive the first ten years of the game before industrialization kicks in and after that you'll be able to fight the entire world by yourself

12:50 sometimes I can’t tell if Laith is playing a character or needs to see a shrink

basically everything in my China game integer overflowed

To stamp out monarchism you have to abolish the monarchy and autocracy and then have a republic for awhile and then an event will fire

Macau isn't actually a Treaty Port in the same way Hong Kong is. It was granted to the Portuguese centuries before any other countries got ports. In fact, the Qing never actually really controlled Macau

Vic 3 is amazing! I cant wait for the growth

What was with the blackout between 5:02 - 5:07 ? Did Laith say something he needed to edit out?

I miss that they got rid of feudatories

hi laith feeling shitty rn so thank you sm for posting consistently and giving me a 45 minute video i can relax to while feeling not great :(

“And in the qing that’s a lot of mothers” killed me 😂😂😂

You can fairly easily beat Russia in a war at the beginning of the game

I Found Siam In The Game

Hey Laith, You actually import like 10 units of the resource, in tab amount You can see how much is avalible, tip for future

Video idea vic3 as the country of central america it is a really hard countey with all your states wanting to secede

An easy recognition: Built construction then university to maximise RP. some paper/iron mine/wood/admin building and weapon factory (put artillery in priorities). Research at the begining : only military and get infantrey line and mobile artillery, upgrade only active bataillon not the garnison (import the need). Try to pass professional army law. Recognition coup against usa, they often capitulate befor the war (30/50 bataillon against 475+) . If they go to war, just wait, they will attempt some naval invasion that you can easily destroy. built you economy (wood/paper/admin building/iron/tools). You can becoming a gp in 1839/40 like that. For the opium war: save befor make a choice for the first event. Confront england if they don't react you can ban opium and wait 5 years. If they reac, increase relation with russia and got a defence pact with them, then ban opium for 5 years.

It's funny because it is almost like the Russo-Japanese war with the inclusion of China.

I’ve noticed this about France as well. They just get super strong for some weird reason. And their gdp just becomes insane .

23:00 Laith, in your situation it would have been way more productive to build up grain farms and cattle ranches as you can set the cattle ranches to Intensive Grazing which produces fertilizer but requires a small amount of grain, while the industrial grain farms are way more productive which will supply your ranches as well as an export industry. You're China with literal thousands and thousands of arable land per state. Go ham with the grain and livestock.

Do you guys ever think Laith might’ve moved cause he wanted fresh new bins to burn?

"Stop lathing yourself", *researches lathe* "Stop lathing yourself", *researches lathe* "Stop lathing yourself", *researches lathe* "Stop lathing yourself", *researches lathe*

There is a small country called Croatia in Austria, I challenge you to play as Croatia, become independet, destroy Austria, drive ottomans back, have full control over old yugoslavia territories, try to also be in top 10 powers at the end of the challenge. Thanks for everything you do :D Have a good day.

played as Prussia and formed German get my gbp up to 120 million and find my neighbors France has 300 million gbp then I can no longer defeat them once more

12 min, 3th Pub. Seriously, I can't. I'm trying to use RU-vid with adds for your money... But it's a spam.

Vicky 3 got modded fast because it leaked early and the modders built upon the leak. xD

Is nobody gonna comment how at 5:03 there was just a blank black space with music that lasted until 5:08 ?

I've always heard lathe be pronounced like "bathe", and not like "lace with a lisp".

Lathe: Can I get rid of Qing Tonsk Me: Do you mean by mass genocide?

Pleeeease use a different kevin mcleod song, man The trumpet trill makes my eye twitch

This game looks fun and I really enjoy watching you play it.

Why is British Raj still called 'British' Raj if the Qing is in power?

I prefer livestock ranches for fertilizer early game as it gives you meat as well

This is the worst qing run i've ever seen.

I heard there was an Eskimo called Qing... he made everyone jump for joy...

37:40 tactical genius by laith invading through Tibet 500 iq funny haha

Accurate Russian-China relations...

Laith you can make fertilizer with livestock ranches

I wonder if all of states will be incorporated at the end of the video.

You should do a Sikh empire play through and retake India

Why don't you sort in the market view, it pisses me off lol

Love the bit a little after 28m where he essentially translates Malthus into game mechanics.

Hmm yes lore of momentum of great Qing resurgence 100

This explains the Communist Party...

29:20 I did a game as France and I can tell you that it's *really easy* to do well with them. Just build everything, build up institutions (especially Guaranteed Liberties - Home Affairs), and your GDP will just sail away. It's 1904 in my game and my GDP is 1.3 billion, GDP/C of 15, highest average Standard of Living in the entire world (22, followed by Wallachia at 21.6 and Germany at 21.4) and I have a huge swathe of Africa (which I have not actually built like anything in) to make my name look big. In particular, be friendly with Prussia as they don't need Alsace-Lorraine to form Germany, at least for now. French people need Wine like nobody's business and German people need Liquor like nobody's business. Instant trade market there where you build up your wheat farms so they produce Wine, import or export the Grain at your preference (although you should protect it at first and force the price down so your people can climb the standard of living ladder high enough to want Groceries over grain and then really start exporting the grain), protect the wine, build up a massive food industry which also makes liquor, protect the Groceries and export the Liquor to Germany. Your money problems will dissolve. I will put this massive word of caution out there: you will very likely have to acquire oil production yourself (Trucial Coast (modern United Arab Emirates), which is owned by the Trucial states and Oman) as even though the AI could bankroll themselves off of my oil demand, very little oil production is actually occurring outside of my borders.

Play as Tibet and shatter china

Play as the Sikh empire and take back all of India

In my playthrough as Qing I never banned Opium, just became the leading producer and Britain couldn't do shit to me xD

is this the grand edition or is it the normal edition of the game

43:11 American economy achieved.

Having to customise every single factory production to balance different outputs is so counter-intuitive as you get new techs, but have to keep old ones,,. completely strips the enjoyment away from playing big nations...and that jumping menu when cancelling production... This type of user unfriendliness is far worse than the combat system imho

Qing is too strong in the current version. AI Qing can beat AI Russia after 30-40 years in the game. The opium addiction is too easy to remove, should be more of a challenge