My communist Sweden is doing very well

Denmark has stayed fucked up this playthrough.

I don't want to inherit their fucked-up-ness.

They have had like 6 failed fascist revolutions and then they keep electing landlords to run the place.

It's very strange

That would probably be the destruction of the petite bourgeois as a class.

They went from like 20% clout to 8% and I was able to pass a lot of laws like workers protections and things of that nature

Victoria 3

I have zero colonies. I import oil from germany as it has a lot of it. And rubber I am pretty much always on short supply of but there is a communist country in Africa I get some from.

I don't really know why I am doing so well this time around. I am usually terrible at the game. lol

I don't feel like I had to engage in much imperialism other than my annexation of norway.

In all honesty sweden is fairly self sustaining. Plentiful natural resources as well as a fairly literate population starting out which really hastens the construction of industry and for labor movements to form

Ye. I bought the season pass when the game came out.

I don't know how well that investment strategy will work out.

You should probably just pirate the dlc. It's stupidly overpriced but it is a good dlc

I considered cheating many times this play through. It's a game that is a lot of rng. And the countries make downright a-historical decisions.

But if you stick with it... it stays the same. There needs to be a lot more added that was in viccy 2.

Very excited for the next update tho. Hope it fixes some problems I have with the game

It'd be pretty cool to plan a day and host one.

It would probably need to be split up into a few days tho. Those games last a long time

I was just thinking that.

Based on my launch experience (some of the patches and dlc change up the game a ton):

It’s not that hard to pick up once you figure out the UI. But also most of the game is fucking around with different inputs until you get the results you want e.g. building up enough infrastructure so you can set up paper mills so you can set up universities so you can expand the intelligentsia so you can start passing liberal laws, etc. In the late game everything becomes kinda automated and you end up just kinda sitting back and enjoying your little communist utopia.

The biggest points of friction were all the “gamey” elements they put on top of the simulation, which end up with weird results like France balkanizing into a million different states after the Paris Commune or World War 1 starting because Brazil declares war on Argentina. But I dunno how fun a pure simulation would be so idk

I bounced off of other paradox games pretty quickly but this one grabbed me immediately. Like others have said, it’s a materialism simulator where your internal politics actually matter and are directly affected by how you play. It’s also a lot of microing supply and demand of various resources with local and global economies interacting. It’s less plotting to assassinate a rival leader and more plotting to tank their economy by becoming the biggest exporter of steel. There are a lot of systems going on but for me it felt really intuitive just from a basic understanding of material drivers of politics and economics

I'd highly recommend pirating it to demo it.

It's not too hard, you look at what is in demand in the market and begin building buildings that supply those things, then you die of old age waiting for them to complete.