Vic2 Speedrun - Form Greater Germany IGT (Former) World Record EXPLAINED

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After more than half a year since the last one, I'm finally back with another high-effort video production, this time with even more effort! In this video I'm attempting to explain the strategy used in my Greater Germany world record (at the time) speedrun, in as much detail as possible without crossing the line into insanity (I'm not sure if I succeeded in that). As always, this video assumes you're already familiar with the basic mechanics of Vic2, but I do try to explain all the more advanced stuff :)
Btw, I misspelled the reddit user who came up with the alternate strategy: It should be u/RoyLiuzya, not u/RoyLiuza.
Full unedited video of the run: • (Old) Vic2 Speedrun (I...
Abridged RTA version of this category (and previous IGT record): • (Old) Vic2 Speedrun (R...
Vic2 speedrunning leaderboards: www.speedrun.com/vic2
Vic2 speedrunning discord: / discord
General Paradox speedrunning discord: / discord
Paradox speedrunning subreddit: / paradoxspeedruns
I also have a twitch channel nowadays: / xarxos1
Credits for images used that I didn't make myself (and that aren't stock photos):
0:12 : This is the thumbnail from Shenryyr's video "How To Form Super Germany Quickly And Easily As Prussia In Victoria 2" - • How To Form Super Germ...
0:30 : Bismarck meme taken from this r/HistoryMemes post by u/ApolloSpice: / otto_von_bismarck
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:32 Rules and objectives
1:31 Territory to acquire
2:08 How to annex Austria
3:53 How to boost a secondary power
5:00 How to sphere Austria
5:52 Adding war goals through jingoism
7:19 Fighting France without wasting jingoism
10:25 How to acquire Austria's spherelings
12:03 Diplomatic influencing strats
12:56 Forming NGF before Germany
13:58 Forming Greater Germany
15:05 Alternate strategy
15:48 Outro

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@Swagorath 3 года назад

great work, i dont understand anything

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Thank you! I don't imagine it will be very easy to follow if you're not already familiar with Vic2, but maybe you can enjoy the pretty visuals :)

@salvadorhenriquez4091 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 i loved it, even if i don't have the game

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

@@salvadorhenriquez4091 That's cool! :)

@salvadorhenriquez4091 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 yeah, i want to buy it tho, i only need a good computer to run it

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

@@salvadorhenriquez4091 Nice, I hope you can make that happen then! :)

@jakethegreatestofalltime 3 года назад

This guy: forms super germany in 3 years Me who formed super germany in 5 hours:

@Wm7forthewin 3 года назад

hmmm

@webber9707 3 года назад

5 hours in gamee: *Idk like 30 years?*

@phaze7843 3 года назад

@@webber9707 that's the joke

@randomgreekmathematician3159 3 года назад

Remember, never compare yourself to the others

@certaindeath7776 3 года назад

i bet he needed more then 5 hours

@thatoneguy-wr3px 3 года назад

You may not like it, but this is what peak Realpolitik look like

@adenosine2electricboogaloo647 2 года назад

I do like it

@SuperLusername 2 года назад

POV you're Bismarck:

@1900OP 2 года назад

This is what would've happened but Bismark wanted a german state for the german people.

@theexam7394 3 года назад

My first time playing as Prussia was already absolute hell when I declared war on France for Al-Lor while Russia was allied with France, and you're saying that the speedrun consists of literally fighting 3 great powers at the same time?! Brilliant job on winning that! I learned a thing or two from this video as well, thanks!

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Thank you very much! Well of course it's gonna be difficult to fight wars on multiple fronts when you're still new to the game, we've all been there! With practice and learning some useful tricks it will start to get easier :)

@Antiteshmis 2 года назад

Russia splits its stacks + you get huge bonus damage when you have a longer front line , enough arti and some cav on the attack. Just select a few provinces to attack on and you can stack wipe easily with very few casualties.

@djcustoms6637 Год назад

Yeah same I was doing so good had a large empire but I neglected diplomacy. Before I knew it all my neighbours hated me and every war was like 3 world powers vs me, Netherlands and occasionally Italy. Needless to say my empire was neutered

@michaellinde794 3 года назад

For some reason I never thought to stop influencing once they discredit me, this could have saved so much pain with Saxony.

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Yeah it's usually not worth it to keep going once you get discredited, since that will just encourage the other GP to keep influencing too and eventually expel/ban you. It's better to shift your influence between several different countries if you can.

@somedude8468 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 quick question, how do you got nationalisim and imperialisim before 1850? because you need it to form germany right?

@thefightrr2460 3 года назад

@@somedude8468 only with the mod HFM and HPM

@annurissimo1082 3 года назад

@@somedude8468 You dont.

@thaimapping 2 года назад

@@somedude8468 it’s only for mod hpm and hfm

@vallraffs 2 года назад

I like that this strategy makes some sense even within the narrative of the game, and isn't just exploiting game mechanics. Allying with the Netherlands and fighting Belgium to both gain desired territories from France and to lower the international standing of Austria. Very cool

@jeffjefferson5095 3 года назад

I love the 60 infamy you had at the end. How didn’t the entire world declare a containment on you? Edit: ‘in’ to ‘on’

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

I'm not too sure, I was a bit surprised myself actually! Tbf though, I had a truce with the UK, France and Austria, and I was allied to Spain, so the only GP's that were likely to declare on me would've been Russia and the Ottomans, but I suppose they may have been distracted by other wars or something.

@nakaimoore6548 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 you can declare a containment war even with a truce

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

@@nakaimoore6548 That's correct, but the AI never breaks truces under any circumstances so you're always safe if you have a truce with the AI.

@plusxz821 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 Oh, good to know

@cravingtuna1561 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 I've had the AI break truces by declaring wars for core provinces but I don't have the HOD dlc so maybe it's just me playing an older version of the game.

@deutschamerikaner 2 года назад

*Casual 58 infamy* Now those are some real German hours

@ThekaiserXD 3 года назад

Only 6 mins in and already this has been a great vid. Was randomly recommded it by YT and what a great find. Concise but informative about one of my fav grand strat games. Subbed :)

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

I'm glad you found it and that you enjoyed it! :D

@caioaugusto3138 3 года назад

It was called "The concert of Europe" for a very good reason lol. I'm impressed with the diplomatic depth you can have in vicky

@alexzero3736 2 года назад

Y...like only one great power as ally at the time.

@purpledevilr7463 3 года назад

Bismarck would be jealous.

@alexanderbryant9821 3 года назад

This is a fantastically made Video! Came here from your Reddit post and definitely didn't regret it:)! Your stragegy and presentation is really nice. Especially the way you visualised everything:) It must have been a lot of work and the end result speaks for itself. Really really good job!

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Thank you so much! I tried to put a lot of work into the visualizations but I wasn't sure how clear everything would be in the end, so I'm happy that you think it turned out good! :D

@hrach1384 3 года назад

I actually really love your editing and the way you explain

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Thank you very much :)

@cadenmarshall7360 3 года назад

Wow, what a great video! Good job finishing in three years. I enjoyed watching your strategies :)

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it! :)

@simonsalaev2520 3 года назад

Good job man. Great video and congrats on your speedrun!

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Thank you very much! :)

@TheBreadPirate 3 года назад

Fascinating! I love that the speedrun depends on the end date instead of IRL time.

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

The leaderboards actually have separate subcategories for in-game time and real time, so it's possible to do speedruns with both timing methods! I also have a real time Greater Germany speedrun on my channel.

@TheBreadPirate 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 Woah, that's cool!

@ThekaiserXD 3 года назад

11:40 The entire European ruling class 1840s: WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN! I did not know about this quirk, will use it in my later playthroughs :)

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

It's very useful if/when you don't care too much about infamy and want to conquer as much as possible!

@ThekaiserXD 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 I read your other reply about how long it takes to make a video. If this is your standard then I'm happy to wait :)

@mastrorick Год назад

I love your explanation videos 🧡 I can always use something sneaky you teach me on my runs

@xarxos5274 Год назад

Thank you, I'm glad you like them! :)

@danielhouston7550 3 года назад

Saw a post about Victoria 2 speedruns, was pleasantly surprised when I found such an in-depth video after searching your name

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

I'm glad you liked it! :)

@jharnett44 3 года назад

This vidéo is very well put together

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Thank you, I tried my best :)

@Moonninja420 3 года назад

Very well done. I've done many ties at doing this with my earliest being 1850s.

@angelopueyygarcia43 3 года назад

3 years absolutely insane o_0

@sowietdoge6259 3 года назад

Very interesting and complicated. Trying this would destroy my brain, so props to you for doing this!

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Thank you! When I started working out the strategy I hadn't anticipated it would become this complex, but it kinda just grew in complexity over time :)

@sowietdoge6259 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 How long did it take you to establish this solid strategy? A few weeks or months of playing Prussia? And how often do you restart due to poor RNG? This seems prone to a LOT of misfortune, as you’ve expressed in the video.

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

@@sowietdoge6259 Well, I've done a lot of Greater Germany runs over the years, even if most of them weren't necessarily speedruns, so that gave me a pretty solid foundation to build upon once I actually started speedrunning. But for this particular attempt, I'd say I probably spent a couple of weeks overall working out all the kinks of the strategy (you can check out my RTA run which is also on my channel if you want to see roughly where I started from strategywise). But of course I didn't play every single day during those weeks. As for restarts, I'd say that once I had al the details figured out, RNG on its own wasn't a huge issue really, as it's possible to adapt to most of the random variance without losing time, but the one major RNG aspect is how fast I gained Jingoism which is what prevented me from getting a sub-1839 time here. Fortunately, with the alternate Java strategy that I mentioned near the end, even that RNG aspect should be done away with to make it even more consistent! But even disregarding RNG, there are of course a lot of intricate things you need to keep in mind so it's quite easy to mess up. But the more you repeat the run, the more consistent you'll become, so by the time I got this attempt finished I rarely did any run-killing mistakes I'd say :)

@sowietdoge6259 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 That's really cool. Thanks for sharing!

@baconboss359 3 года назад

As the holder of the form germany unrestricted world record, I will use this on my next run

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Oh hey! Will you be making a glorious return to Vic2 speedrunning perhaps? :)

@baronbrummbar8691 3 года назад

mh i might join in i formed supergermany faster (but without luxembourg or schleswig)

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

@@baronbrummbar8691 You're very welcome to! For the category on speedrun.com you do need Schleswig and Luxembourg though :)

@baronbrummbar8691 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 is ther a cathogerie for hypergermany (luxembourgish supergermany) ???

@baronbrummbar8691 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 and is it legit to form supergermany as Austria for this run?

@Segovaxzz 3 года назад

WOW amazing strategy, I love it!! One more subscriber :)

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Thank you, glad to have you! :)

@BryanBeast13 2 года назад

Okay, the pausing the game and setting all the war goals is a pro gamer move i haven't thought about.

@BryanBeast13 2 года назад

The influence strat!! Wow 😳

@xarxos5274 2 года назад

@@BryanBeast13 Haha I'm glad I can enlighten you! :D

@angryduck121 3 года назад

Amazing, this is art

@ComradeHellas 3 года назад

Ingenious my man

@svenkaasik9868 3 года назад

I love that i found your channel coz I will start my own channel with videos soon and now i know vic 2 speedruns exist so I can do them.

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Sounds good, I'd be interesting in seeing what you come up with! :)

@svenkaasik9868 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 my only problem is editing and my mic is not that good but still your channel is really good I think and happy I found it

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

@@svenkaasik9868 That's fine, you can always do speedruns without editing or a mic if you want, at least when you start out, then you can improve your content over time. That's how I did it anyway :)

@svenkaasik9868 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 ok thank you

@svenkaasik9868 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 you inspired me enough so i did my first speedrun recorded, the USA thing wr time and will upload it tomorrow on my channel RandomMapboy I just need to fix some things like adding a speedrun timer. Thank you so much anyways

@Aschraffff 3 года назад

this gave me a headache. Nicely done!

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Then I have done my job lol. Thanks!

@Archduck 3 года назад

Impressive and informative for the entire duration, nice high-effort video.

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Thank you! :)

@dalsosegno 3 года назад

beautiful work, my head now hurts but i have subbed

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Then my work here is done lol.

@doomslayerobama 3 года назад

I played Victoria 2 three times as Central America. Completely confused on what I should do lol. Also, sick vid m8!

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

I don't think Central America is the best starter country for a new player, as they're kinda limited in what they're able to do at the start. I'd recommend going as a slightly larger country so you have some stuff to work with! Thanks though!

@natethegrate2783 3 года назад

I think best beginner nation is Sweden or chile

@plusxz821 3 года назад

@@natethegrate2783 Best starter japan,it teaches you to civilize, be a world power, get in a sphere of influence, make your own sphere,be colonial, defeat russia, maybe annex korea, naval invade,etc

@bendkok 3 года назад

Great video. Maybe I should try this once, it does look kinda fun.

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Feel free to do so! If you want to record a video of it then maybe consider submitting it to the leaderboard as well :)

@Umamaahoe 3 года назад

This is one of paradox’s only grand strategy I haven’t played and i might have to try it after watching this it looks pretty cool. Need to give eu4 a break anyway haha

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

I can recommend it, it's arguably even more confusing to get into than the other Paradox games, but it's quite fun once you do :)

@LudwigFalkenhain 3 года назад

Sick af!!

@elyisusking3603 2 года назад

Xarxos: you should make sure that Austria and Belgium stays out of Great Power Bavaria: **Laughs in Great Power Status**

@xarxos5274 2 года назад

Not when you're boosting the Netherlands simultaneously :)

@apolloforabetterfuture4814 2 года назад

Incredible

@Jishy2415 3 года назад

great video

@babassoonist557 3 года назад

Damn three years, you really ground this one out

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Yeah I spent some time on it! Although recently I managed to do it in less than 3 years as well :)

@thesoupmills1426 3 года назад

Well I tried it and 5 years into game my pops had 15 militancy but I was able to pull it of by 1946 so great video

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

That's rough, militancy can be a hassle for sure!

@eternalasquith 2 года назад

Good comprehensive guide

@xarxos5274 2 года назад

Thank you! Although I didn't actually intend this to be a guide per se, just an explanation for those curious of how I did it. If I had actually intended for it to be a useful guide I would've gone into more detail in a few places! But of course, if people still find use for it as a guide, that's all well and good! :)

@lucasmalpica6029 2 года назад

Amigo, no entendí casi nada, pero aún así aprendí muy buenos consejos para poder formar la gran Alemania de manera rápida. :D

@abagofbobbish 3 года назад

Diplo points, infamy, and jingoism are broken mechanics they need to makeover in Vicky 3

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

I agree they're not the most well-designed mechanics.

@dennispashin4393 3 года назад

Add influence to that list, most annoying thing to manage in the whole game.

@pogromcafoliarzy7494 3 года назад

We just need Vic 3

@copeseethemald8510 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 speaking of infamy why didnt you metion it

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

@@copeseethemald8510 Because it didn't become relevant in this run. I actually had strats for dealing with containment wars if they had fired, but for whatever reason they didn't.

@faridconde6591 3 года назад

Very nice indeed, and clever. But, unless you are willing to, this is but a curiosity guide, for you WILL fight a lot of Coallition wars against everybody, I really hope that infamy mechanic gets fixed in V3.

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Thank you! This was indeed only meant as a speedrun and not as a more long-term Greater Germany guide, although if you get lucky like I did where no one declared a containment war before I formed Germany, then you can always release German minors to reduce your infamy below the limit again.

@mcnaughe 3 года назад

Regular Germany is the overbite. Super Germany is the underbite.

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Haha yeah that's not an inaccurate description :D

@MyUsersDark 3 года назад

I love hoe this was posted on February 11th, and he also formed Germany on February 11th Btw great video. I personally don't play this game, but your way of presenting it made me more or less understand what you tried to do. :)

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Wait, wtf, you're right, I did post this on February 11th! Haha I honestly didn't even think about that, it's a complete coincidence that the dates happened to line up! That's amazing xD Thank you! I wasn't sure how much sense this video would make to someone who doesn't play Vic2, but it's cool if you could somewhat follow along :)

@jevinliu4658 3 года назад

Let's just declare war on three majors at the same time because **yes**

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Of course! :D

@garotogaivota14 2 года назад

gorgeous strategy and even more execution. Otto Von Bismark himself would cry seeing this. Back in 2017 in a HD I lost the following year, I had a save where I did it in 9 years, now I know it is possible even sooner

@xarxos5274 2 года назад

Thank you! 9 years isn't bad, not sure how fast people had managed this challenge back in 2017!

@marcl7215 3 года назад

I had a save where it just happend. And I was like: why am I a thicc boi now?

@cordoba9502 3 года назад

Man wtf, I don't think I could pull this off even if I were to use every cheat available to man

@LedosKell 3 года назад

I've been playing the game for the better part of a decade and I was not aware of that jingoism game mechanic quirk. I feel really dumb.

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

It's not very obvious unless you specifically look into it, so don't feel bad about it :)

@senorspaghett6129 3 года назад

I dont even play Vic2 but this was really interesting

@zord1352 3 года назад

GR8 job! That Jingoism trick was new stuff for me, good to learn sti today. But pls, if anyone make germany ike this, release the german minors both before forming NGF and GER to reduce infamy, so you can sti have a good game :D

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Yeah if you wanna keep playing a full game after this then releasing minors would be a good idea, although you can always release them after forming Germany too since you can reintegrate them over time :)

@zord1352 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 how can you reintegrate more over conquer them? If you release a nation you lose your cores.

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

@@zord1352 You do lose your cores, yes, but you don't need cores to reintegrate them. If you're a cultural union nation, which Germany is, then you can integrate any minor nation who is part of your culture group as long as they're part of your sphere and you're both at peace. You just have to wait for a certain event to fire. And if you have researched Nationalism and Imperialism you can regain your cores fairly quickly through events as well!

@zord1352 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 thx the tipp! Never used it yet. I'll definitely give it a try!

@bom3757 3 года назад

Epic

@arentak2773 2 года назад

Today I did it in april 1841 and thought "That's pretty good", so I searched "Greater Germany" on reddit, found this, and now I have to try again :)

@xarxos5274 2 года назад

April 1841 is very good for sure! But by all means, try again and see if you can get it even better! :)

@daundredemars5028 3 года назад

Could you do one where you take over switzerland and neuchatel as well? Or is that impossible

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

It wouldn't be impossible by any means, but it would waste some time since you'd first have to conquer one of their states normally and then you can annex their capital state via your core there. Since Switzerland isn't part of the Germanic culture group you can't integrate them the way you can do with the German minors, and since you only have a core on their capital state but not the other one you can't conquer them in one go either.

@marinmilevoj4829 3 года назад

What editing software did you use to make this video? I'm specifically asking about the graphical visualization like at 10:49 and 12:19

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

I used Openshot. It's a free open source software and it has worked well enough so far, but I don't necessarily think it's very good compared to more professional software; I've only used it because it's free. I did use it for all the visualizations in my video (or rather the animations; the images themselves were mostly made with Paint.net), but I don't think it's actually very well suited for that either. It was quite cumbersome to get the animations to work!

@joaovilaca1436 2 года назад

This video is great. I sometimes comeback to it just for pleasure.

@xarxos5274 2 года назад

Oh, thank you very much, I'm very happy you like it that much! :D

@lordedmundblackadder9321 3 года назад

can't you use "make puppet" cb on Austria, and that counts as the same thing as a sphere? I know it works for forming Gran Columbia.

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

I'm afraid not, I've actually tested that. It works for Gran Colombia because it has special conditions that allows puppets to count, but the same does not apply for Germany (nor for most other formables either).

@Nutral1234 2 года назад

Are you doing a video on the Java strategy?

@xarxos5274 2 года назад

I'm not sure. I had some ideas for strategies to form Greater Germany in 1837 by incorporating the Java strat, among other things. I never managed to pull it off though, but if I ever do I might consider making a video explaining that.

@Sce68 2 года назад

you can also add national focus to support reactionaries and tho jingoism

@xarxos5274 2 года назад

I don't think that helps though? Pops that support jingoism are more likely to support reactionaries, but I don't think it works the other way around.

@_extrathicc 3 года назад

I didn't know doing it before 1840 was even possible.

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Yeah I wasn't sure if it was possible either, before I started seriously looking into it. But now I actually think it might be possible to do it as early as 1837, though it would be tricky!

@Tian2zi4huang2di4 2 года назад

A tutorial created for use by the German Army in the 1860s - 70s, colorized and restored.

@hasanyigitsar6264 3 года назад

this was a very nice video! but i'm curious, why isn't switzerland part of it?

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Thank you! Switzerland isn't part of the Germanic culture group in Vic2, so they can't be integrated into Germany the way the others can and Germany also doesn't have cores on Switzerland. Prussia *does* have one random core on one of Switzerland's provinces, but that's just for some obscure historical reason so it makes more sense to leave that out.

@hasanyigitsar6264 3 года назад

oh, that's interesting

@saribey3375 3 года назад

You can call it gamey but I suggest spamming hold election button and pick jingoism boost in events to raise your jingoism

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

I considered doing that actually, but I found it to be far too inconsistent. First of all, it takes a while before you can pass the reforms needed to hold elections in the first place, but even when you can it seems to be roughly equally likely that you'll end up reducing your jingoism rather than raising it, since any election event that doesn't raise jingoism will instead raise other things, which will indirectly reduce jingoism.

@ibosh1836 3 месяца назад

Well. It took me like 60 years to form super Germany as Austria

@FredBGC 3 года назад

One thing you didn't bring up wrt jingoism is that you can gain it by election events, especially while at war. Would spamming election be a viable strategy to somewhat speed-up jingoism regain rate?

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Elections can be a way to gain jingoism, but the issue is that 1) It's quite unreliable, and you can easily end up losing jingoism if you don't get the luck you need with the election events, and 2) As Prussia you have to pass some political reforms before you can even hold elections, so it would be difficult to make use of it this early in the game anyway.

@XIXCentury 3 года назад

subbed

@j.c-6424 3 года назад

I remember using Greater Germany for the 1st time. Damn rebels

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and rebels.

@vitorleite3095 3 года назад

Is it possible to form Super Brazil(unite South América) before 1900?

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Yes, that would certainly be possible!

@your-mom-irl 2 года назад

byootiful groBgermania

@Elsneakakaze 3 года назад

does it produce a stronger germany in the long term to wait a few years before absorbing the german minors, seeing as how they all have their own national focuses?

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

I'm not sure tbh. It might depend on how well the AI uses its national focuses. But as minors they also don't have access to as many resources, so that might hamper their development too, while if they get absorbed into Germany there's a better chance that their people will get their needs fulfilled and such. So I could imagine there are both advantages and disadvantages for them to be independent.

@Elsneakakaze 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 thats a good point, i often forget how resource starved lesser countries are, i was thinking that the literacy rate would be alot higher on average if you absorbed them later but i guess is none of them can even fund their education it probably doesn't matter what national focuses they have

@Haider-Ali92 3 года назад

woooooooooooooooooooooow

@FrancisTha1st 3 года назад

Is it not possible to use national focus to support reactionaries, whose war policy is jingoism?

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

You can do that, but it wouldn't have an impact on your pops' support of jingoism itself. The correlation is the opposite: If your pops support jingoism, then they will be more likely to support a reactionary party, but whether they support a reactionary party or not doesn't impact their support of jingoism.

@Sheir01 3 года назад

I dont play the game but i still watched the whole video

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Well done! :)

@guilhermefaleiros4892 3 года назад

I have a question for this run: is it worth to disband all your infantry units to recruit artillery, and them fill them up with mobilized? Or does it take too much time? Also how dont you get bankrupt?

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

It would take too much time, yeah. You need to start fighting wars almost immediately so you need to have plenty of infantry at the ready. Also, it would be expensive and likely difficult to keep all that artillery supplied since there isn't much industry going around yet at that time. The reason I don't go bankrupt is because... well, Prussia is rich, so with max taxes and tariffs you make loads of cash. And again, when your entire army isn't artillery it makes it a bit cheaper too.

@guilhermefaleiros4892 3 года назад

Yo thanks man, i'll try this run once i finish my (failed) panjab

@guilhermefaleiros4892 3 года назад

Man, I did it by 22 june 1843. Austria got prestige out of nowhere so I had to wait for them to bankrupt. Other than taht, your strat worked perfecly!

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

@@guilhermefaleiros4892 Ah, they probably got a random event or something, that's really annoying! But nice that it worked otherwise :)

@itbaytar6728 3 года назад

R E A L P O L I T I K

@HorangiPowah 2 года назад

I'm pretty sure that the Greater Germany doesn't include all of Austrian Empire since in the real life concept of it only the Archduchy of Austria is a part of Greater Germany that is in the Habsburg realm since the Archduchy is the German speaking part of the Empire and the other parts are mostly made of other ethnicities such as Hungarians, Italians, Slovaks, Czechs, Romanians and many more. Great job on doing the challenge though.

@xarxos5274 2 года назад

For real life you're probably correct on that, I was just basing this on the convention within the Vic2 community. Thanks though!

@alexh2947 3 года назад

As far as I know you can rapidly increase jingoism by constantly holding elections and selecting the jingoism policy on the war policy election thingy. But this likely doesn't apply to prussia since I'm not sure if it can have elections.

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

As you say, Prussia can't hold elections at the start so you'd have to pass some reforms first, which might take a while. But even if you could, I find elections to be a bit too unreliable. If you get lucky you can increase jingoism quite quickly, but most election events that don't increase jingoism will in fact indirectly decrease it instead, so it's really a bit of a gamble.

@austinpowersfasjer 3 года назад

Nice casual 58 infamy

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Infamy is just a number after all!

@someguycalledcerberus9805 3 года назад

- So is this with HFM, PoD or PDM? - No mods. - Yes I get that, but is it with HFM, PoD or PDM?

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

I think some people are so used to playing with those mods that they forget that they're not the base game :D

@turkiyett0928 2 года назад

9 years my record probably now I see this video

@xarxos5274 2 года назад

That's not bad either! :)

@turkiyett0928 2 года назад

If you play with Luxemburg etc. you can conquest French and then unite Germany probably but it's so hard

@xarxos5274 2 года назад

Indeed, that would be the theoretically strongest Germany. Quite a bit tougher than normal though!

@princekyros 3 года назад

Isn't Maastricht also a core for a german OPM? Or is that HFM?

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

It might be in HFM. It's not in vanilla anyway!

@simplypepe1732 2 года назад

I felt like an idiot watching this, I only have 19 hours and I can never get past forming NGF. Either France and Russia kick my ass when I try to take Alsace Lorraine or I can't get influence on Baden which has somehow fallen under France's sphere.

@xarxos5274 2 года назад

Don't worry, if you only have 19 hours it's not so strange that you're struggling, this is a very complex game and it takes a long time to get into it! For reference, I have about 1700 hours :)

@simplypepe1732 2 года назад

@@xarxos5274 Thank you, for the first time I was able to form Germany and become the #1 Great Power today thanks to this guide!

@xarxos5274 2 года назад

@@simplypepe1732 Oh wow, congratz! This stuff is rather advanced I'd say, so good job if you managed to pull it off despite being relatively new to the game! :D

@mcming3338 3 года назад

Would this be possible to do on HPM as well?

@brandonlyon730 3 года назад

Unless they changed it recently I believe you can’t do it without the “Nationalism and imperialism” tech in HPM, and that’s not available until 1850.

@natethegrate2783 3 года назад

I’m pretty sure hpm prevents you from annexing Austria, at least it did for me

@nearen1 3 года назад

The god himself revealed his magic! My PB is early 1840 so imma try and beat you

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

Haha well :D I very much welcome you to try! If you wanna make a video recording as well and submit to the leaderboards then that'd be even better :)

@nearen1 3 года назад

@@xarxos5274 Will try! Currently on potato PC so maybe when I get a better one

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

@@nearen1 I see! Well, whenever you've got the means to do it, it's always nice to get more runners! :)

@archenepnf 3 года назад

Are you vviling to make a luxembourg=>super germany=>super germany+france? Since Luxembourg gets french as accepted culture.

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

It's not something I have planned. Several people have asked about it though and it is an interesting concept just because how OP you would be, so maybe I can try it out some day. Probably not anytime soon though :)

@xModerax 3 года назад

I was so proud about my 7 year run 😂😂😂

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

7 years is definitely not bad though, that's better than what most people have accomplished! :)

@vedsingh2108 2 года назад

Bismarck after doing a line :

@crono2366 3 года назад

HHHHNNNNNGGG GROSSGERMANIUUUUUUUUUUMMSSSS

@datfluteboi7906 3 года назад

What is that map paint called at 2:03

@xarxos5274 3 года назад

It's a map I made myself with Paint.net based on a mapshot from the game.

@frumpty3103 2 года назад

You can actually add more jingoism by holding elections

@eduardolujano9658 Год назад

se puede anexar cracovia a la con la NGF?

@xarxos5274 Год назад

No, Cracovia no pertenece a el grupo cultural de aleman, despues no es posible le anexar en esta manera.

@maxwalker1159 3 года назад

Based

@AlwaysRM_ 2 года назад

I didn't even know there could refuse lol

@xarxos5274 2 года назад

It's a very low chance, like 1 in 25 or something I think!

@olejnik5165 2 года назад

CAn we get a save to download? I want to play as this behemoth lol

@xarxos5274 2 года назад

I've got various save files here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mgC9IkYDpUSnaz4W96f5Y0TgJtxQTTLE I think this save is included here, or a faster one :)

@olejnik5165 2 года назад

@@xarxos5274 Thank u!

@corwinusm.7875 2 года назад

I have tried that idea but lol in my game Netherland has an aliance with Hannover and didn`t attack Belgium :c

@xarxos5274 2 года назад

Alliance with Hannover? You mean after Hannover becomes independent after 1838? The war with Belgium can be a bit inconsistent, but if you restart enough times they should declare on them eventually!