Victoria II Strategy Guide

STRATEGY guide “It is an extraordinary era in which we live. It is altogether new. The world has seen nothing like it before. The age is remarkable for scientific research into the heavens, the earth, and what is beneath the earth. And perhaps more remarkable still for the app- lication of this scientific research into the pursuits of life. The progress of the age has almost outstripped human belief. The future is known only to omniscients.” Daniel webster 3 I TABLE OF CONTENT II INTRODUCTION 6 EDUCATION SPENDING & STRATEGY 30 ADMINISTRATION & CRIME FIGHTING 30 III USING THE INTERFACES 7 SOCIAL SPENDING 31 FOR UNCIVILISED INTERFACES 8 MILITARY SPENDING 31 MAPMODES 8 VIII GOVERNMENT, ELECTIONS, POLICIES & REFORM 32 IV KNOW YOUR COUNTRY & NEIGHBOURS 10 NATIONAL FOCUS STRATEGY 32 EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS 11 POLITICAL MANAGEMENT 33 POTENTIAL THREATS & ALLIES 11 RULING PARTY, UPPER & LOWER HOUSES 34 POTENTIAL TARGETS 11 GOVERNMENT POLICIES 35 FOG OF WAR: WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW 11 STATE ECONOMIES & LESSER BREEDS 35 PLAY STYLES 11 REFORM 36 POLITICAL REFORMS 37 V POP MANAGEMENT 12 SOCIAL REFORMS 38 POP TYPES 12 ELECTIONS & ELECTION STRATEGY 38 USING THE POPULATION INTERFACE 14 COALITIONS & HOW TO USE THEM 39 THE MEASURES OF A POP – CONSCIOUSNESS, PLURALITY, MILITANCY & LITERACY 15 ix GOODS, MARKETS & TRADE 40 INFLUENCING IMMIGRATION, EMIGRATION & PROMOTION 18 USING INTERNAL MARKETS 40 Slavery & The American Civil War 20 The Waning of the Ottoman Crescent 41 STOCKPILE MANAGEMENT …