I play strategy, sure, butgrandstrategy has always been a bit beyond me.
I’m trying to learn new languages, though, so it’s not an unwelcome challenge.
And to that I say: kinda.
“That one runs on Pops, doesn’t it?”
It’s both maxi and mini.
Even further and you’re free to see the roads, trees, cities and towns.
It was going fine until the game set me the target of increasing Sweden’s GDP by 1.5 million.
I could only get up to about 800k or so.
I had a quick squiz through Google off my own bat, but I was burning daylight.
So I thought, “Fuck it, let’s take over Denmark.”
War is a risky move in Victoria 3, because it can be expensive and demoralising.
Surprisingly, however, I won my war very quickly.
It was just something that happened while I continued running Sweden.
Not having actions queued up is anathema to the game.
Plus, sometimes you just want to welly a ball off in a random direction and see what happens.
Instead, I started thinking in countries, in the way Portal trains you to think in portals.
I imported loads more wheat and invested in intensive farming methods in the more stable north of the country.
As soon as my peace treaty with Denmark timed out, I took over the Northern chunk of Denmark.
Everything’s coming up Sweden!
I started researching pasteurisation and mechanised farming.
What I did do one day was leave the game running on its own.
On the one hand, this is a very good endorsement of Victoria 3’s Pops system.
it’s possible for you to’t fail because the ship would keep going without you.
I came away extremely impressed by it all.
On the other hand, it did make all my achievements with Sweden seem pretty hollow.
It’s a blow to realise the game doesn’t really need you around.
It’s more fun if you are, though.
