"We're lacking oil, but we're also the number one producer of oil." As an American, I wholeheartedly understand your pain.

@amon7039

Жыл бұрын

Don't worry, federal government will work to invade oil producing countries.

@Mr_Careo

Жыл бұрын

me 2 :/

@TVmantitan779

Жыл бұрын

USA: * gives oil to people and trades for oil *

@maarten1115

8 ай бұрын

​@@TVmantitan779 You don't give it, you trade with Mexico and Canada whenever either of you three have a local oil source that the other doesn't.

@prestonjones1653

8 ай бұрын

Single biggest producer and net exporter, but only by a razor-thin margin.

Oil: Exists at 22:00 Laith: Doesn't notice until 33:00

Playing as a city state looks pretty fun!

@rileywilsonepicarcher9995

Жыл бұрын

Oh man, huge fan MDB, imagine seeing you here! I forgot you play paradox games. Between that and the Pokémon challenges it seems you’re something of a glutton for punishment. Anyways, hope you’re feeling better man!

@MahDryBread

Жыл бұрын

@@rileywilsonepicarcher9995 I'm on the mend, thank you!

@zero_gravity5861

Жыл бұрын

didn’t even know that you were into pdx games-love your challenges; get well soon

@MahDryBread

Жыл бұрын

@@zero_gravity5861 I've got like, hundreds of paradox videos on my channel

@user-zg4bk6rv1q

9 ай бұрын

It's fun until you want to become bigger and AI trolls you, so don't play ironman unless you want to suffer pain or savescum

Kraków in vic3 as well? That's even more than i asked for!

@nicnsugar

Жыл бұрын

Why wouldn't it be?

@ToothpikcOriginal

Жыл бұрын

I'm still out here asking for a Galicia Volhynia playthrough :/

@obamacare_grucha

11 ай бұрын

​@@ToothpikcOriginalbro same

where is the guy that kept asking for krakow?

@-Teca-

Жыл бұрын

AeroMexico???

@ludicrous5765

Жыл бұрын

ViveLeRoi

@aleks4256

Жыл бұрын

He had a heart attack 15 seconds into watching this video

@yellowsloth9545

Жыл бұрын

Just below you

@mrcheeseyt10.04

Жыл бұрын

ViveLeRoi

There is a journal entry unique to Poland, Krakow & polish-ruled Galicia-Lodomeria: which is the ability to create extra radicalised people inside the non-polish controlled homelands. The only requirement is either: A) must be independent. Or B) enact right of assembly or protected speech

I used to live in Bielsko-Biala, that little village just west of Krakow. Cool to see it in the game.

Kraków become new Byzantium

@idontlikerome2744

9 ай бұрын

The White Phoenix Republic liberating their polish brothers and sisters from occupation Stories worthy of sagas!

One recommendation, take treaty ports from people if you are doing any conquest heavy runs. If you have a treaty port it is impossible for them to embargo you.

@nick3xtremegaming212

11 ай бұрын

real exploit hours.

"Russia relies heavily on conscripts and never upgraders their units -ever"

@rdrrr

Жыл бұрын

The more things change, the more they stay the same

@hexalot4277

Жыл бұрын

​@@rdrrr girl put your records on

@nogrammer

4 ай бұрын

Still true today in Vicky 3

So Krakow is essentially the Byzantium of vic3

@rdrrr

Жыл бұрын

Poland is the true Third Rome

29:32 I love how The Chad General became president later on.

"It's a planned economy without it being a planned economy!" ~ Laith discovering free market economics.

@nickandres7829

6 ай бұрын

But where's the rampant corruption?

@VineFynn

2 ай бұрын

​@@nickandres7829 Im not sure that corruption levels are something planned economies have over the free market lol

@jodinha4225

Ай бұрын

Honestly its more like Dengism

I was giggling at the Japanese peasant levies in Russia. Just imagine getting taken off your farm by your shogun to stare down Polish maxims after slogging through Siberia

You should play with Anbeeld's mod for AI it makes this triple the fun when Austria imports stuff for you and you can actually go for Free trade as the AI shockingly knows there is demand for goods now...

@tylerbeaumont

Жыл бұрын

I’ve been meaning to check out Anbeeld’s mod for about as long as I’d heard of it, but I’m terrified that it’ll be so much better that I’ll never get around to grabbing some of the achievements I want. Anbeeld’s mod seems like it’s gonna kill the achievement stats for this game the same way player led conferences did for HoI, which kinda sucks if you’re into seeing how many folks have an achievement you want/have

@lucianli123

Жыл бұрын

@@tylerbeaumont paradox changed it so you can get achievements with mods!

@mainman879

Жыл бұрын

@@tylerbeaumont Victoria 3 does not require ironman for achievements, and mods do not block achievements either.

@imoutoconnoisseur

Жыл бұрын

​@@mainman879 I love this change. not just because it no longer forces you to play vanilla if you want the little dopamine boost of an achievement tick, but because you can _feel_ the paradox purists and vic3 haters mald over how "its a baby game for casuls who can use cheat mods unlike us real men whose crowning achievement in life is a jpeg in a map game"

@hellomynameisjoao

Жыл бұрын

@@imoutoconnoisseur imaginary people living rent free in your head

21:50 Strange that you had no oil since by 1874 the Galician oil fields were one of the world’s leading oil producers. Austria-Hungary was the only source of oil for the Central Powers during WW1 because of it.

@mehmetkayraozer9164

Жыл бұрын

What about Ottomans?

@FeHearts

Жыл бұрын

@@mehmetkayraozer9164 Oil was not discovered or tapped yet. The Ottomans were not advanced enough to develop an oil industry by themselves so they contracted it out to European companies just like they did in Iran, but WW1 halted all oil exploration before they found any oil fields.

@not_nixon1655

Жыл бұрын

He did have oil, I think he had just missed it

@Jeff_Reyx

9 ай бұрын

Żmije austriackie wypompowały i wykorzystały te tereny do zera... Jeszcze kiedyś za to zapłacą

I would be interested in an 'evil' playthrough. Take a fairly well balanced and stable nation with good growth aspects, and just go with evil or opposite laws to the current meta. For example, go full slavery, no women's rights, keep kids in the mines and so on. You can avoid laws such as isolationism however, despite being in a way opposite to current meta. It's more about playing in way that has yet to be shown.

@matheusGMN

Жыл бұрын

it would be interesting, but this game playstyle goes against the norm of the era, in other words, in the long run it will hurt you waaaay more to not have a flexible industry, to have slaves that don't pay taxes, etc

@shadowlord1418

Жыл бұрын

it just nerfs you the game strongly encourages progressive laws

@TheStormfury

Жыл бұрын

​@@matheusGMN I know it's not the ideal playstyle for the game, hence why i suggested it more as a challenge. Laith has proven he is capable of any challenge playing normally.

@TheStormfury

Жыл бұрын

@@shadowlord1418 ​ @matheusGMN I know it's not the ideal playstyle for the game, hence why i suggested it more as a challenge. Laith has proven he is capable of any challenge playing normally.

@rdrrr

Жыл бұрын

I remember back in the Vic 2 days some guy posted an LP thread where he played as Two Sicilies and deliberately tried to create a backwards agrarian feudal state

The reasoning behind intelligentsia losing approval to gain success chance is because, if u read the event, youre basically adding in or removing stuff based on what the OPPOSITION wants. So youre not just passing this pure law, its got other crap thrown in to appease the landowners for example.

@rdrrr

Жыл бұрын

Huh, sounds a lot like how the American legislative process works, where you get like "The Saving Disabled Kittens (and Also Tax Cuts For The Rich) Bill"

You know i'd never be able to have fun playing Victoria 3 myself, but it is incredibly fun to watch you play it... which is exactly the opposite i expected when the game released tbh.

@Crackparty803

Жыл бұрын

Sad but true

I feel like they need to make a LOT more formable nations across the world. RN there are only a few places with worthwhile starts that don't have such a "vanilla" start.

33:00 interesting thing is that Pole Ignacy Łukasiewicz was first one who build petroleum exploration wells. In 1850s, in Western Galicia. So it very historically accurate

"we create our own demand" keynesian economics intensifies

Love this game. Sitting there for 2h 50years ingame time nothing really happens and yet i enjoy every single moment

Love seeing you take a Kraow at this challenge

If you form Scandinavia as Denmark you get to reform the Kalmar Union and it has it's own unique name. Also for underdogs I am currently enjoying my Brunei to Indonesia run, but I kinda lucked out by just, getting the British to help me force the Spanish into giving me war reparations. Also something like Bavaria into South Germany or Papal States/Tuscany into Italy could be good.

Really wanted to see this one! Especially with the free market economics strategy!

Important question - Wisla Krakow or Cracovia?

Here we go, good job ,Laith!

I learn a lot from watching your videos. Fun stuff dude

If Prussia is an Army with a nation, Krakow is a City with a nation

I would really love if you could do something with Schleswig-Holstein, though that might be even more painfull

i love how laith completely gave up on the headphones and now his life as well as his haircut are blossoming.

Great video... I really enjoyed it.

Perfect video, thanks Laith ❤

Yes! I was waiting for this

Krakow is like Byzantium of Vic3. I really enjoy parasiting on Austrian market and then as nowadays Tokyo equivalent re-form Commonwealth.

I was watching your video and realized what I was doing wrong when playing this game. Every time, I try to have equal amounts of everything, and I always finish second or third, never first. But seeing you go full industry with an open market and getting all the resources from other countries made me realize that you either go full industry or full resources and sell them to everyone

amazing video Laith!

it is really satisfying watching Viktoria 3 videos

Well done! Took a lot of patience and work but you did it! Now how about creating Iberia, but as Portugal! Let's see if you want to take that challenge.

The AI out here is playing Vic 3 meanwhile Laith is on some Stellaris shit in Poland.

Best video yet!

I like how in half of these videos he gets distracted making money and then remembers, "oh, yeah, I'm supposed to try to do something with the map."

Make Russia a technological power house.

Frontlines are the worst among the small German states. When defending a few of the minors against Prussia, I had to _constantly_ micromanage the fronts, it really was with every new province capture by either side, fronts split and joined like crazy - and it's so easy to lose by missing one, since Prussia usually only needs to capture a few provinces to force an annexation and you can't recover from that.

At 7:00 i'm getting Boston Brown Bread vibes. Delicious with butter.

Love Your Commetment KEEP GOING!

To fix the embargo issue, try to get a treaty ports. it makes it impossible for countries like China from embargoing you, and having access to their markets is great

The best part of having oil is needed 10 times the amount of oil you actually need as everyone buys it from you and you can do little to stop it.

good job looks fun!

Laith: I can’t get opium from anywhere. Me: Where is that Rule Britannia music coming from?

Pretty obvious suggestion but forming Germany as one of the smaller states like Frankfurt or Lippe could be quite Fun/Interesting to watch!

great vid!

I think you should consider taking treaty ports in future games like this. Prussia and russian can't embargo you if you've got those treaty ports. Put the hurt on your enemies

During Austrian times Kraków Was primarily a military city and administrative centre, also some universities

4:41 Read the event. You're giving the opposition favors in exchange for their support.

Absolutely Krakin'

Form India. I think the Sikh Empire is the easiest start. I do not suggest starting as any of the princes under the east india company - an independence war means fighting the EIC, all the other princes, and Britain, all at once, you're not allowed any diplo play other than independence, and even if you get independent, you're still landlocked and surrounded by the EIC, so you'd have to wait out the truce and then win again against the same odds. Might be interesting to try as one of the other states in what is now Pakistan, like Mehra or something, though. My strat as the Sikhs was: conquer all the nearby Indian states, then conquer Afghanistan, then take out Persia, while building an economy. The starting military is enough to defeat your neighbours. If you move fast enough you can take the whole Persia region before any of the majors declare an interest, which means that they aren't allowed to interfere in you seizing Persia even if you have massive infamy. Then you rush the pan-nationalism technology which gives you access to the overpowered "Unify India" CB, which lets you seize any whole nation as a single war goal (the nation has to be under 100 infamy, which is why you can't take out the EIC until you have taken some large chunks out) and set about hacking at the EIC and grabbing all the principalities. Do a war against GB with a goal of "freeing" the EIC so you don't have to fight GB every time. Oh, and build a navy; they will naval invade you if you don't.

You can release a country in east galicia that will join you afterwards :) same is true for poland, you save a lot infamy that way and you get a cool unification event

POLAND! :)

It blows my mind you never use the market screen to balance your economy. You do it the hard way. Also on the state tab you keep the huge icons for all the buildings instead of the condensed list view. Also crazy way to play.

Krakow is so big, it’s spilling into Austria 10:04

4:45 The intellegentsia or other interest groups don't want to make concessions (read the event), that is why they lose the -3 approval

Can you please try to form Indonesia next? As far as I know no one in youtube has done that. I think that would be pretty challenging for you

Seus vídeos são muito bons... sugestões. 1) faz a conquista de começa com nação menos d 20% de escolaridade e atingir 95%. 2) no eu4 jogar com uma republica pirata. 3) libera os Maias do México e conquiste toda a costa oeste da América rsrs Sucesso o/

This was a campaign to remember

hey laith i have challenge for u, play as burma, retake land from anglos, then get the taungu borders(i dont think theres a decision to form taungu empire or anything) it would be cool challenge haha

Forming Scandinavia as Jan Mayen might be fun, who knows...

Great video

Great general Rola!

In Battle you have to click on “details” to actually see whether your winning

Please form Scandinavia as Norway. That'd be really cool and neat.

Romania is an interesting nation I haven’t seen anyone play or form in any video yet

I love how Laith got the food malus event right after saying he didn't need to diversify his economy. fucking lol.

10:07 surprised to the GB took the state of Beijing, they usually just takes a treaty port and never touch Qing ever again

Polska górom!

Idk why but “doesn’t matter if those hands are attached to men or women… very progressive of me, I know” really fuckin got me

Oh man, laith uploaded, time to watch 50 minutes of silently clicking on buttons interrupted periodically by blind unadulterated panic!

how do u get so much gold resources being in deficit at august 1864 and full gold reserve on november 1864?

Let's ignore the fact that the emperor of one of the GBs was a vanguardist

Suggested it a while ago, and while there isn't much in the way of nation formation, playing a Boer minor could be fun, especially with the idea of taking over all of africa.

@mr.paperbag771

Жыл бұрын

Not Boers, but some West African cultures can form Mali and then continue to conquer all of Africa!

@Piratejoe44

Жыл бұрын

@@mr.paperbag771 But that's A. Already been done. B. done in west africa, not south, and C. how does this avenge the 2nd boer war?

@mr.paperbag771

Жыл бұрын

@@Piratejoe44 A. Didn't know. B. I imagined "conquering all of Africa" means conquering all of it regardless of where you originate. C. Good point, it doesn't.

THANKS 🙏👍

This should be an achievement

@MKotnis

Ай бұрын

It is

nice video! maybe you could try forming Arabia as Egypt?

do an expansionist Switzerland. did that myself and my friends took psychic damage when I told them the sun never sets on the Swiss empire

I would like to see you retake the americas as the natives.

Wouldn't it have made more sense to side with Prussia or Russia and then try and get your overlord to enter war to help them, so you could try and expand, by taking back partition land. Then side with your overlord against the victor to build your nation.

A challenge? Form Yugoslavia as Montenegro.

Have they fixed not being able to declare on your master yet?

The true successor state to Carthage

Island Empire. Rule the waves as Hawai'i! Polynesia for the Polynesians? :D

hey, have you ever played the nation of SALE in EU4? Pirate republic released from morocco by event.. looks kinda interesting, the history of it.. look at the wikipedia of republic of Salé ive got a feeling maybe no youtuber has ever played this nation before???

@tigrecito48

Жыл бұрын

The character Robinson Crusoe, in Daniel Defoe's novel of the same name, spends time in captivity of the local pirates and at last sails off to liberty from the mouth of the Salé river.[17] The anarchist writer Peter Lamborn Wilson devotes to the Republic of Salé a major part of his 1995 book Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs & European Renegadoes.[18] In Wilson's view, such pirate enclaves as Salé were early forms of autonomous proto-anarchist societies in that they operated beyond the reach of governments and embraced unrestricted political freedom.

You should do turkestan, you can start as bukhara who is drpending on the claim heritge rules you use the last ruling dynasty from Ghenus Khan

"Even EU4 fixed that!" The most scathing thing I've heard yet about the game.

Blessed.

I was born and raised and still living in Kraków. It was the first country I ever played in Vic3. I didn't reform Poland or the Commonwealth, my only territorial expansion was East Galicia. During my game, Austria exploded and Kraków became independent, so I just went to Prussia and became their protectorate. In the meantime, the AI established the Kingdom of Poland as a separate nation formed after Austria lost most of its territory. For the remainder of the game, I had two versions of Polish statehood: Republic of Kraków (rich, industrialized, with >80% Polish majority and highest literacy in the world - but a protectorate of Prussia) and Kingdom of Poland (only slightly larger, Ukrainian majority, low GDP and very much agrarian - but independent). I ended up 12th in the world ranking, which for such a small country, wasn't half as bad.

Jan mayen (release it as norway) to Scandinavia Modena, Lucca or Parma to Italy Baden to Germany Luxembourg to Benelux

how many years will it take for ViC 3 to become playable? , I mean actually enjoyable. I bet like 4 dlcs 2-3 years what do you think?

@disappointedmess209

Жыл бұрын

the game is pretty playable just lackluster on content. You could still enjoy it with its great economic gameplay. Sucks everything else is shit.

@nogrammer

4 ай бұрын

Years later it's in a much better state with 1.6

froming poland pretty hardcore mode this game

I love you for that Laith