At 3:26 , I accidentally spread some false information which I didn't know until after I put the video out: Your interest group can still rebel even if it's your last IG in the government. For whatever reason, I've just only extremely rarely seen it happen. I was playing another playthrough as Persia (hint for upcoming video btw) and I had a government with 0 IGs in it, as my landowners left and became rebellious. YOU CANNOT AVOID REVOLUTIONS CONSISTENTLY BY ONLY HAVING ONE IG. Sorry for that, the rest of the video is accurate, and should be helpful to you.
You can totally just import grain from the Chinese and let that be your sole source of grain. Just use your puny 1 flotilla to invade and annex Macao from the Portugese. With a treaty port from Qing you can import literally anything from them even during the middle of a war. Thanks for the video about this strategy btw. Left a comment on We Play Games about this strategy hoping it gets picked up but haven't actually tested it out yet.
As Vietnamese, our ancient territory was all the southern part of Yangtze river. Early achievement of iron helped the Han dynasty expand southward and vassalize its neighbor. Our ancestors had to fall back to a more defensive position which is nowadays the northern part of Vietnam.
Ooh, i enjoyed my Vietnam playthrough very much, got ~2b gdp and number 1 great power at the end with my navy of over a thousand ships (which i did for shits and giggles and inevitably crashed the whole economy lol). Thanks for the vid as always!
@@Anonie324I've scoured wikipedia's list of blockades and I couldn't find much regarding a British blockade that succeeded due to the lack of food/grain imports 😭 I want to understand this reference so bad
Really appreciate your style man, interesting explorations of game mechanics and techniques combined with historical commentary is right up my alley. Keep it up!
This channel is creating by far the highest quality Victoria 3 content on RUclips. I am learning so much about the game and it's making me a better player. Keep up the videos!!
Indo China is so awesome both to play in or to own as a overseas empire. The wood and throughout bonus along with practically all forms of agriculture is just soo good.
just wanted to also add that I appreciate your videos don't treat the viewer as an idiot, it really stands out from the rest of the vicky 3 content right now
I like a lot of your videos so far with how in depth and analytical they are, I'm not sure if your a vanilla exclusive player but I love playing as Dai Nam with extra formables like in Vienna Rework (full disclosure im a dev for it), its a very fun way to play in multiplayer especially haha
I might take a look, but to be honest, I am a mostly vanilla player. Even for my native home of CK3, I never play mods, except the Elder Kings mod that one time. Something about mods just doesn't hit the same for me, even major ones.
10:32 My Vietnamese friend said it would be like "Đồ Tể Jack" but they don't have a J-sound and don't end words in hard consonants in Vietnamese. It means "butcher Jack."
That's awesome. Does your friend know what a Vietnamese equivalent of "Jack" might be? I don't know if they have some kind of equivalent name, but if they do that would be super cool.
I'm loving these gigachad videos, and I'd be interested to see you do one on taking any of the minor indonesian states and turning them into Indonesia proper, which has some powerful resources and large population potential
The exhibition progress bar is kinda buggy I think. But the exhibition will realize when you do some side stuff in exploration, like if you take photos and investigate flowers and rocks.
"The French were still upset about my occupation of Guiana. You'd think they'd let it go some day." I mean, the French still haven't let go of Guiana.... XD
Omg, I clicked on this video and as it started thought "Hm, so what's the difference between Dai Viet and Dai Nam? What do those terms mean?" and was on Wikipedia about to click the link to Việt when you began your etymology lesson. Perfect timing, here's hoping this isn't the only video of yours with that kind of segment!
Is there a possibility that you do an Indian Territory Gigachad Guide? (For example getting the achievement) Personally for me it's very hard especially in Ironman, even though I would say I'm quite good at Victoria 3.
i think he said in that krakow video that insignificant powers are super boring because it takes so long to build up a power base compared to something like a small power or higher but personally I also would like to see the guide as it seems one of the harder starts and i also want the achievement
I'm thinking about stuff like Indian Territory, but to be honest, it's mostly dependent on my ability to get my patience up for it. For now, I've been enjoying some of the minor powers, but I might get the will for Indian Territory, and one other run I shall keep under wraps for now that I have in mind.
Bich the Ripper sound kinda ominous to me. I mean who'd want to come across a serial killer whose name is Bích Phúc Đạt? That guy has nothing to lose. ;)
Love these kinds of informative videos. Though i do think it would be really fun to see you show off mods for victoria 3 and highhlight some of the standouts. This kind of edited informative style could work well when most other people reviewing mods use the "lets play" format.
I'd love to see a video on Mexico if at all possible maybe focusing on the military buildup needed to take on America i cannot for the life of me figure out how exactly to get myself ready. also as a side note regarding trade I think you are on the right track I tend to use it as a version of price control in the early game and only for profit late game. the loop appears to be that you always want to max out domestic demand then export which is a little funky in my opinion but because of that being the loop trade only really becomes viable later on and is particularly powerful for nations with low pop count and high literacy. usually using that strategy I can usually just delete other countries economies later on in the game particularly with textiles by maxing out throughput bonuses whenever i can
Acholi in northern Uganda is interesting if you want to play a tiny country with a lot of growth potential. They uniquely have Luo and Lacastrine Bantu as their primary cultures, so most of East Africa between Egypt and Transvaal is their homeland. Malaria doesn't affect countries in their homelands, so you don't need quinine. As soon as you get colonialism you can cut off the GPs by colonizing Kenya. Kongo and any country with Fulbe culture are in a kinda similar spot with their homelands being uncolonized, but their lands are less extensive and harder to block off from the GPs.
Thanks for the explanation of the name Dai Nam. Quite an interesting reason. So for me, that's one down, one to go. I should probably just Google why it's called Joseon instead of Korea. Edit: For anyone else who wondered, Joseon is the last ruling dynasty of what's now Korea. If that makes no sense, think of how China is called Ming in EU4 and apply the same idea to Korea.
If I'm getting this right it actually makes way more sense to call Korea "Joseon" than "Korea" in EU4 as well, since it's the norm to call Korea by its dynastic name in countries traditionally revolving around Chinese cultural sphere, including by Korea itself. In my country for example, we call the last Korean state before Japanese domination "Triều Tiên" which is Joseon in Vietnamese (the Koreans actually officially called themselves this), the Koreanic cultural sphere "Nền văn hóa Triều Tiên" (Joseonic cultural sphere), the Korean Peninsula "Bán đảo Triều Tiên" (Joseon Peninsula), South Korea "Nam Triều Tiên" (sometimes), and North Korea... just "Triều Tiên" since that's literally how they call themselves. In fact, Korea is actually just another dynastic name (from "Goguryeo") that stuck around way longer than it should have due to popularization by Arabic and Persian merchants in the 13th century and became the preferred name due to lack of contact.
this is actually the first nation I played when I downloaded victoria 3 I'm not even from there I was just looking at the map I didn't even play the tutorial but I did well I liberalized urbanized industrialized and colonized the indies along the dutch.
the game does have competitive advantage for many nations most players seem to ignore it though. Russia and the US for example have a competitive advantage in wood and hardwood with their massive forests that can drown out the entire world market. same for Prussia/Germany when it comes to coal. Britain has first mover advantage on engines and rail. if you export that stuff most other nations will never get their engines industry off the ground. Competitive advantage is not the same thing as dominance. if you make 25% more wood for the same cost in people and buildings that is a HUGE competitive advantage in that province. several countries have such bonuses scattered around their nation. Sweeden has that advantage but for Iron. whereas Norway gets it in fish. China has a nation wide boost on silk. in addition they have a near monopoly on silk production at the start. but even when other powers build up their silk the Chinese unique tech will give them a competative advantage.
I suppose in a way, you're right, but to me when I think of competitive advantage, I think of something intrinsic to a particular mode of production that makes it advantageous. There are certain examples of it in the game with throughput modifiers, and unique modifiers in provinces, but it's hard to take advantage of that. For example, if I can produce wood cheaper than anyone else, it's difficult to leverage that into flooding markets without a huge focus on it. I tried something to that effect as America, and it did work pretty well, but only with an insane advantage. It feels difficult to really outcompete others on international markets in the game.
My real giga chad Vietnam run would be invading China for sulfur and workers early on by using the French or British army and then conquering France for fun
I'm surprised nobody even goes for the horn of Africa Especially the Somali states on the coast that have a lucrative nodes of the gulf of aden/India/south Africa and Indonesia all moving across this region.
For me, I avoid the horn of Africa because there are so many tiny nations which I don't want to do continuous diplomatic plays. You are right that it is a lucrative place with resources and all though.
@@Tarkusarkusar personally I look forward to the challenge I've always found areas with little recognition as very fun and exciting. Wouldn't mind seeing you make a decent video of this idea. If you want you could even role-play pirate nation (don't think ideas like that exist in vic3) and just ruin foreign economy by messing with the trade routes
In all my recent games, it seems Austria has been doing insanely. In a playthrough as Persia I just did, they hit 700 million GDP. I'm not sure what the AI is doing to make that happen, but I hope the other AIs can learn from it.
I'm curious, you clearly know a lot about the game (way more than me), but it seems like you really don't invest as much as you can in the construction sector. You could easily be at 500-700M GDP by 1880 if you did that, are you doing it on purpose?
In the case of this run, the issue wasn't construction sectors, but population. As well, I played relatively conservatively as Dai Nam since I was often afraid of some great power coming for me. It can be scary to live on the edge of a healthy budget when war could come and destroy you. That being said, I also sometimes get lazy in these runs, and don't always expand as much as I could. It's why I didn't quite hit a billion GDP this run, whereas in most runs I try to aim for at least a billion.
I discovered that strategy pretty recently and actually feature it in the next video, so don't worry, it's coming. I recorded this video before discovering it.
The exhibition progress bar is kinda buggy I think. But the exhibition will realize when you do some side stuff in exploration, like if you take photos and investigate flowers and rocks.
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At 3:26 , I accidentally spread some false information which I didn't know until after I put the video out: Your interest group can still rebel even if it's your last IG in the government. For whatever reason, I've just only extremely rarely seen it happen. I was playing another playthrough as Persia (hint for upcoming video btw) and I had a government with 0 IGs in it, as my landowners left and became rebellious. YOU CANNOT AVOID REVOLUTIONS CONSISTENTLY BY ONLY HAVING ONE IG. Sorry for that, the rest of the video is accurate, and should be helpful to you.
Persia export only game when
Damn😇
Government with 0 IGs goddamn
The AI gdp is the reason I play modded. I don't want to play a random country for fifty years then I'm the no1 gdp on the planet.
😂 yeah so true
I suck so uk can stay ahead of me till 1880 lol
Somehow I'm doing worse then my first france play through
It would be cool to see a play through with a goal of like 40 or 50 standard of living
You can totally just import grain from the Chinese and let that be your sole source of grain. Just use your puny 1 flotilla to invade and annex Macao from the Portugese. With a treaty port from Qing you can import literally anything from them even during the middle of a war.
Thanks for the video about this strategy btw. Left a comment on We Play Games about this strategy hoping it gets picked up but haven't actually tested it out yet.
As Vietnamese, our ancient territory was all the southern part of Yangtze river. Early achievement of iron helped the Han dynasty expand southward and vassalize its neighbor. Our ancestors had to fall back to a more defensive position which is nowadays the northern part of Vietnam.
Ooh, i enjoyed my Vietnam playthrough very much, got ~2b gdp and number 1 great power at the end with my navy of over a thousand ships (which i did for shits and giggles and inevitably crashed the whole economy lol). Thanks for the vid as always!
12:22 I'm sure not many got that joke, but it was a good one 😂😅
Put me out of my misery; what is it referencing?
@@Anonie324I've scoured wikipedia's list of blockades and I couldn't find much regarding a British blockade that succeeded due to the lack of food/grain imports 😭 I want to understand this reference so bad
Really appreciate your style man, interesting explorations of game mechanics and techniques combined with historical commentary is right up my alley. Keep it up!
Evoking your interest for history is the best part of Paradox games
Your music choice goes insane bro
This channel is creating by far the highest quality Victoria 3 content on RUclips. I am learning so much about the game and it's making me a better player. Keep up the videos!!
Indo China is so awesome both to play in or to own as a overseas empire. The wood and throughout bonus along with practically all forms of agriculture is just soo good.
Completely agreed. Indochina is a huge boon to any western power, and to the nations living there.
just wanted to also add that I appreciate your videos don't treat the viewer as an idiot, it really stands out from the rest of the vicky 3 content right now
I like a lot of your videos so far with how in depth and analytical they are, I'm not sure if your a vanilla exclusive player but I love playing as Dai Nam with extra formables like in Vienna Rework (full disclosure im a dev for it), its a very fun way to play in multiplayer especially haha
I might take a look, but to be honest, I am a mostly vanilla player. Even for my native home of CK3, I never play mods, except the Elder Kings mod that one time. Something about mods just doesn't hit the same for me, even major ones.
10:32 My Vietnamese friend said it would be like "Đồ Tể Jack" but they don't have a J-sound and don't end words in hard consonants in Vietnamese. It means "butcher Jack."
That's awesome. Does your friend know what a Vietnamese equivalent of "Jack" might be? I don't know if they have some kind of equivalent name, but if they do that would be super cool.
I'm loving these gigachad videos, and I'd be interested to see you do one on taking any of the minor indonesian states and turning them into Indonesia proper, which has some powerful resources and large population potential
Yes this please its very interesting
The exhibition progress bar is kinda buggy I think. But the exhibition will realize when you do some side stuff in exploration, like if you take photos and investigate flowers and rocks.
"The French were still upset about my occupation of Guiana. You'd think they'd let it go some day."
I mean, the French still haven't let go of Guiana.... XD
honestly kinda love the explanation in the beginning. Interesting stuff
Omg, I clicked on this video and as it started thought "Hm, so what's the difference between Dai Viet and Dai Nam? What do those terms mean?" and was on Wikipedia about to click the link to Việt when you began your etymology lesson. Perfect timing, here's hoping this isn't the only video of yours with that kind of segment!
UR PRETTY COOL with that research stuff u let us kno about i love that shit. i have subbed and notified
Is there a possibility that you do an Indian Territory Gigachad Guide? (For example getting the achievement)
Personally for me it's very hard especially in Ironman, even though I would say I'm quite good at Victoria 3.
i think he said in that krakow video that insignificant powers are super boring because it takes so long to build up a power base compared to something like a small power or higher but personally I also would like to see the guide as it seems one of the harder starts and i also want the achievement
I totally thought did he not just do a sikh empire/India run just a while back?. Then i remembered
I'm thinking about stuff like Indian Territory, but to be honest, it's mostly dependent on my ability to get my patience up for it. For now, I've been enjoying some of the minor powers, but I might get the will for Indian Territory, and one other run I shall keep under wraps for now that I have in mind.
@@Tarkusarkusar Thank you, I love your videos and i'm excited towards it
Didn't know that trivia about Vietnam, thanks!
Bich the Ripper sound kinda ominous to me. I mean who'd want to come across a serial killer whose name is Bích Phúc Đạt? That guy has nothing to lose. ;)
This is based
Love these kinds of informative videos. Though i do think it would be really fun to see you show off mods for victoria 3 and highhlight some of the standouts. This kind of edited informative style could work well when most other people reviewing mods use the "lets play" format.
Great aside on the name of Vietnam. Very interesting.
Kevin Nguyen the ripper
Isn’t Kevin Nguyen the Vietnamese version of “Chad”
Consistently great videos 🙏 Keep it up.
There was this guy named pol pot, he left a few mountains of skulls behind
Amazing video
Dai Nam and Persia are my two favorite to play for some reason.
I'd love to see a video on Mexico if at all possible maybe focusing on the military buildup needed to take on America i cannot for the life of me figure out how exactly to get myself ready. also as a side note regarding trade I think you are on the right track I tend to use it as a version of price control in the early game and only for profit late game. the loop appears to be that you always want to max out domestic demand then export which is a little funky in my opinion but because of that being the loop trade only really becomes viable later on and is particularly powerful for nations with low pop count and high literacy. usually using that strategy I can usually just delete other countries economies later on in the game particularly with textiles by maxing out throughput bonuses whenever i can
In my play, I give the Mekong state agriculture decre instead of manufacture since it has a huge buff from the Mekong delta
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also, i live nearby a neighbourhood named janga and didn't even know the meaning of that name until now, the more you know
Interesting to see Kanak exist when it started as a decentralised tribe in New Caledonia
Acholi in northern Uganda is interesting if you want to play a tiny country with a lot of growth potential. They uniquely have Luo and Lacastrine Bantu as their primary cultures, so most of East Africa between Egypt and Transvaal is their homeland. Malaria doesn't affect countries in their homelands, so you don't need quinine. As soon as you get colonialism you can cut off the GPs by colonizing Kenya.
Kongo and any country with Fulbe culture are in a kinda similar spot with their homelands being uncolonized, but their lands are less extensive and harder to block off from the GPs.
Thanks for the explanation of the name Dai Nam. Quite an interesting reason. So for me, that's one down, one to go. I should probably just Google why it's called Joseon instead of Korea.
Edit: For anyone else who wondered, Joseon is the last ruling dynasty of what's now Korea. If that makes no sense, think of how China is called Ming in EU4 and apply the same idea to Korea.
If I'm getting this right it actually makes way more sense to call Korea "Joseon" than "Korea" in EU4 as well, since it's the norm to call Korea by its dynastic name in countries traditionally revolving around Chinese cultural sphere, including by Korea itself. In my country for example, we call the last Korean state before Japanese domination "Triều Tiên" which is Joseon in Vietnamese (the Koreans actually officially called themselves this), the Koreanic cultural sphere "Nền văn hóa Triều Tiên" (Joseonic cultural sphere), the Korean Peninsula "Bán đảo Triều Tiên" (Joseon Peninsula), South Korea "Nam Triều Tiên" (sometimes), and North Korea... just "Triều Tiên" since that's literally how they call themselves. In fact, Korea is actually just another dynastic name (from "Goguryeo") that stuck around way longer than it should have due to popularization by Arabic and Persian merchants in the 13th century and became the preferred name due to lack of contact.
Nam is not actually mean south.I think it mean An Nam,is the nam chinese call our territory
Yeah Belgium is the only one I've ever done major export play with
this is actually the first nation I played when I downloaded victoria 3 I'm not even from there I was just looking at the map I didn't even play the tutorial but I did well I liberalized urbanized industrialized and colonized the indies along the dutch.
US wont expect this Vietcong.
Lore of The Power of Indochina - Victoria 3 Gigachad Guide - Dai Nam Momentum 100
Ive seen the AI hit pretty high GDP numbers, but that was generally when I wasn't a super economy.
Me:gets 250mil gdp as france in 1871
Tarkusarkusar: gets 1bil gdp in 1919
Me:I'm gonna reach that in 2050
the game does have competitive advantage for many nations most players seem to ignore it though. Russia and the US for example have a competitive advantage in wood and hardwood with their massive forests that can drown out the entire world market. same for Prussia/Germany when it comes to coal. Britain has first mover advantage on engines and rail. if you export that stuff most other nations will never get their engines industry off the ground. Competitive advantage is not the same thing as dominance. if you make 25% more wood for the same cost in people and buildings that is a HUGE competitive advantage in that province. several countries have such bonuses scattered around their nation. Sweeden has that advantage but for Iron. whereas Norway gets it in fish. China has a nation wide boost on silk. in addition they have a near monopoly on silk production at the start. but even when other powers build up their silk the Chinese unique tech will give them a competative advantage.
I suppose in a way, you're right, but to me when I think of competitive advantage, I think of something intrinsic to a particular mode of production that makes it advantageous. There are certain examples of it in the game with throughput modifiers, and unique modifiers in provinces, but it's hard to take advantage of that. For example, if I can produce wood cheaper than anyone else, it's difficult to leverage that into flooding markets without a huge focus on it. I tried something to that effect as America, and it did work pretty well, but only with an insane advantage. It feels difficult to really outcompete others on international markets in the game.
I guess you could this video is Dai Namic
Common Vietnam W
I hope Vietnam get a new focus tree and a new building, military.
My real giga chad Vietnam run would be invading China for sulfur and workers early on by using the French or British army and then conquering France for fun
I'm surprised nobody even goes for the horn of Africa
Especially the Somali states on the coast that have a lucrative nodes of the gulf of aden/India/south Africa and Indonesia all moving across this region.
For me, I avoid the horn of Africa because there are so many tiny nations which I don't want to do continuous diplomatic plays. You are right that it is a lucrative place with resources and all though.
@@Tarkusarkusar personally I look forward to the challenge
I've always found areas with little recognition as very fun and exciting.
Wouldn't mind seeing you make a decent video of this idea.
If you want you could even role-play pirate nation (don't think ideas like that exist in vic3) and just ruin foreign economy by messing with the trade routes
In my game by 1880 the Austrian economy is at £350m and Austria is the no.1 GP. I'm new, is this normal?
In all my recent games, it seems Austria has been doing insanely. In a playthrough as Persia I just did, they hit 700 million GDP. I'm not sure what the AI is doing to make that happen, but I hope the other AIs can learn from it.
The AI is bugged with 1.1.2 to max ports. Austria has low coastline so it doesn't get affected by the bug as much
Yue is releasable, but I think they are the most fun to play in the region
Please do the Johore state im begging you. Its a very weak country i really wanna see how you make it better
Can you do a Sokoto guide
I'm curious, you clearly know a lot about the game (way more than me), but it seems like you really don't invest as much as you can in the construction sector. You could easily be at 500-700M GDP by 1880 if you did that, are you doing it on purpose?
In the case of this run, the issue wasn't construction sectors, but population. As well, I played relatively conservatively as Dai Nam since I was often afraid of some great power coming for me. It can be scary to live on the edge of a healthy budget when war could come and destroy you. That being said, I also sometimes get lazy in these runs, and don't always expand as much as I could. It's why I didn't quite hit a billion GDP this run, whereas in most runs I try to aim for at least a billion.
Gigachad Byzantium guide?
you should try playing as Yue, but not by releasing them as China.
Release Macau as Portugal and play as a literal treaty port.
Why don’t you do corn law to get a different economy policy with the landowners
I discovered that strategy pretty recently and actually feature it in the next video, so don't worry, it's coming. I recorded this video before discovering it.
Can you do a gram columbia guide
Giga Chad - Brazil
Do a brazilian guide, i always struggle with it.
Need SEA / Indochina formable
Only thing that would prevent it is no sulphur
Unite Indochina as siam
Time to install anbeelds mod lol. Give yourself a functioning game to play
NaM
The exhibition progress bar is kinda buggy I think. But the exhibition will realize when you do some side stuff in exploration, like if you take photos and investigate flowers and rocks.