Victoria

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This article is should be mostly about Victoria 2 because nobody cares about the first game underage b8 is too young to remember first game

"Victoria: An Empire under the Sun" is a Video game developed and published by Paradox Interactive. It (somehow) gained an expansion "Victoria: Revelationsolutions" despite being a commercial failure. Altrough the focus lies on Europe and somewhat the Americas, it is still possible to play as an Uncivilized nation like Zulu or Vietnam (just be prepared to wait the first half of the game for westernisation and pray that no Western nation eats you in the meantime) .

Europe: The Game Electric BoogalooVictoria 2 is a strategy focusing on a period from 1836 to 1936 where you can play as any country in the world.

Fun fact: People actually think, this is a strategy game. It is not. It is a numbers simulator with a overlay of moving units around to confuse people.

Both games are designed to have Great Britain always as the worlds Big Dog, so don't even try to surpass it. There has to be a major fuck-up happening, if GB is not the Number 1 on the scoreboards. They are also considered as one of the most railroaded games by Paradox, since GB will be always Nr. 1, the Union will always beat up the South (the American Civil War is hard-coded to happen, don't try to avoid it) and Prussia will rape the shit out of Austria and be the GROßDEUTSCHLAND!

On the other hand, those are the only Paradox games where it is not possible to make a world conquest, because the way the AI reacts to agressive expansion and how war goals operate. Instead, to win, you have to invest in things that give the most "prestige" and get caught into military build-up race for the sake of flexing muscles, rather than fighting wars. Combat tends to get ugly, with WW1-stle meat-grinder being a normal result and you should avoid it at any cost, unless the other side is armed with spears and swords.

The main body of the game is the economical-political part. You have the industrial revolution kicking in and this changes the whole world economy, as well as start making the peasants think for themselves once they have some free time and ask for elections.

Only to recommend, if you have a huge numbers-boner, 'cause that is what the game is in its core about.

Protips

• Don't even bother playing without the A House Divided and Hear of Darkness expansions.
• If you've only ever played EU4, get ready to feel stupid.
• If you've never played a grand strategy, get ready to feel stupid.
• If you've never thoroughly read the wiki, get ready to feel stupid.
• Either don't try to understand how the global economy works or go mad trying.
• Status Quo is God.

Mods

• Pop Demand Mod: Perhaps the most popular mod, This mod adds dozens of new events, countries and decisions to the game. Many mods use it as a base.
• New Nations Mod: A lite version of Pop Demand Mod
• Death By Imerpialism: A PDM sub-mod, It takes everything in PDM up to eleven.
• New World Order: A mod that takes Victoria to the Modern age (and also the Cold War).
• Alternate History Balkan Mod: Pretty self explanatory.
• Concert of Europe: Changes the game start to 1821.
• Divergences of Darkness Pretty much the definitive Alternate History mod for Victoria.
• /GSG/ Vickymod: Based off of New Nations mod (NNM), It is like the Nega-PDM with 100x more genocide.
• Paradoxplaza Mod: A mod by the Paradoxplaza subreddit. It is based off of Vickymod.
• Historical Project Mod.