So im playing vic3 with one of my girlfriends and she kicks serious ass. I don't want to be a drag and have fun with her, so im looking for ways to better play. Im russia she's china. Just general tips would be nice. I want to do the usual and reform quickly and expand my economy.
It's still very early in its DLC cycle. There's Voice of the People which is good for the political metagame, adding agitators who help push legislative agendas, and a Brazilian content pack that I haven't bought yet because South America is so painfully slow to industrialise. You'd be fine to just get the base game and maybe buy Voice of the People on sale.
I think I will grab it when it's on sale. I've tried a few x4 and grand strategy games and have had some fun. Learning curve of Crusader Kings can fuck itself. But a few have grabbed me for at least enough hours that it was worth the cost of entry imo.
You sold me on it being a game that favors socialism. I didn't know there was seething lib drama about that lol.
Compared to Crusader Kings, it's more intuitive and improves on the map-level elements like trade/diplomacy/development. War is a bit more simple and it's hard to be an expansionist. Grand strategy is my big genre and Victoria is the jewel of it to me. You'll probably get hundreds of hours from the base game alone.
Also selling me on simplified war. It's probably what's keeping me from trying to give Stellaris a legitimate try as well. I'd much rather work on other systems instead of needing to focus on making sure I had enough units in case of an attack.
A few years ago I was playing Civ 5 and knocked out a computer opponant just for a land grab and still feel like a dick for it lol. The dude had like onencity and I was at like 3 since I was doing a total horizontal game trying to cover the entire continant.
Agitators are not DLC exclusive, but you get more of them, some real ones from france I think. Also the first to research Socialism gets a 95% chance to get Karl Marx in their Labour Union.