Memes, historical references, and everything you need to know to play Victoria II in 20 minutes!
Audio/video clips and images from:
Victoria II (Obviously)
SpongeBob
Various public domain historical images and clips.
Modern Times
Victoria II Wiki
Clips from KZhead who are themselves from places I don't know
Disney's Robin Hood
Family Guy
He Man
"I put some Bee Gees music over North Korean marching"
1864 (It's a Danish TV series)
The Producers (Mel Brook's original. Don't watch the newer one, it's terrible)
Blend S
Big Man Tyrone
How could this happen to me
Rule Britannia
Spongebob I Surrender France Vs Germany Meme
Prussia glory march
History of Germany By Year
Pokemon Theme
AMERICA F**k YEAH!
Full Metal Jacket
The Last Samurai
Leaving on a Jet Plane
If you're interested in learning more about Victoria II: I now have videos covering the HPM & HFM mods, military, and economy. You can watch them all in a playlist: kzhead.info/sun/hqdxiaWZr5SQqK8/bejne.html or individually: HPM & HFM - kzhead.info/sun/erCDgKmSeKqVaHk/bejne.html Military - kzhead.info/sun/nNVwf6-CmGZui5s/bejne.html Economy - kzhead.info/sun/dM-fktx7bWp7iaM/bejne.html
Can you explain cuture and subsequent conversion?
@@alexanderlipowsky6055 Sure! The culture of a PoP is very important. Each country has accepted cultures, and PoPs who are part of an accepted culture are much more useful than those of non-accepted cultures. Most notably: PoPs of accepted cultures contribute to how many national focuses you have, and are far less likely to cause rebellions. PoPs in your country will assimilate to your primary culture over time. The speed of assimilation is based on a bunch of factors. Most notable are decisions and your ruling party's citizenship policy, with broader citizenship policies increasing the rate of assimilation. You can read more about it here: vic2.paradoxwikis.com/Assimilation I hope this helps!
@@CallMeEzekiel so, run your country well and hope for the best if you are not the us, us get more ppl of primary culture everywhere and wait, whulest getting more immigration? Running a Prussia to megagermany, but cant wrap my head around how i can assimilate the slavs and hungarians to germanic culture. Now it seems, i should get every luxury good i can, buy and sell to pops and get literacy to 70%+ to have any chance of achieving that
I feel like you left out two nations of far greater importance in the game than, say, France. However, for a human player, normally only one is relatively 'playable'. Allow me to illustrate: First, the 'unplayable' one, namely India. The real importance of India in this game is simple - keep the United Kingdom at that sweet spot of Great Power #1. Through her colonies in India (or the entire India to be precise), Britain secures the vast majority of the raw materials her industry requires. In early game, India is the only source of natural dyes, and later on, tea plantations in India helps the UK break the monopoly on the beverage previously held by China. In addition, India provides the UK with dozens of brigades and naval bases, which her other colonies just lack. If the human player wishes to become #1 through military means, weakening their position in India is the best strategy. It's a shame that India is next to impossible to form without incredible skill and luck, and foreign intervention of course, the UK in the game is really good at putting out rebellions in India. Then, onto the 'playable' one, and that would be China. The importance of China lies in her potential, which, when fully unleashed, can not only rival any other nation, but can also break game mechanics. In a population-oriented game, the nation with more than twice the population than the next biggest two nations combined automatically wins. The developers had to lock China behind heavy restrictions, fracture the nation up, separate the largest culture(han) into north and south han, which, as a Chinese myself and any other Chinese just find ridiculous, and gave the pops much lower literacy than Japan, with a government with less than 3% of the pop as accepted. These usually manage to keep an AI-controlled China behind bars for the entire game, but not nearly enough to stop a decent player. Once she gets through all the disasters and humiliations the world or herself brought on her, China shakes off her shackles and will become #1 Great Power even without wars(hinting at you, Germany), in 30 years at most. You might not have time to read through all that I have written above, or might disagree with me on some matters, but I just wanted to share with you the fact that someone out there loves this game as much as you do. I have learned so much about history in this game and through further reading that I can even embarass some high school history teachers. And I do feel like that players of this game, especially those who learned the basic mechanics and wish to try their hand at guiding their nation towards beating UK at the game named after their queen, they have to learn about China and India, and their signifcance in this process. However, these nations are almost never mentioned by the majority of players. I would absolutely feel honored if you could make a video on these nations. Anyway, I have rambled on for long enough. Thank you for reading.:)
Well hopefully when i get a computer or laptop that can maybe withstand this game, ill get this game as my first.
Victoria 2, the game in which the Devs don't even fully understand how the economy works.
@@grenadaball7655 you are joking
@@grenadaball7655 the guy was correcting your grammar.
@@grenadaball7655 no the devs really don't understand exactly how the economy of the game really works
"I bet you stopped after you encountered menus like this." Had me in the first 10 seconds.
Too high quality for only 4k views
almost doubled in a month!
Now its better
40K now!
94k
@@matthewringel4909 145k now. I predict 250k in three months from now.
18:48 "If you wish to remain as the Union, winning the Civil War is quite easy..." He says while the Union army is getting annihilated in Washington xD
@@donsly375 ok
They have reserves.
Can we also talk about how the CSA is socialist?
@@hanselsihotang 1 pop represent 4 people in a family. (Male, Female, 2 kids)
@@donsly375 *insert that one pic of a woman sitting on a couch in front of 5 black men*
"Belgium is a good nation for beginners" Good when the British AI actually sends troops to help you in the inevitable Dutch and Prussian invasion of your country
Very historical, if I might add. 'Oh Germany invades you? Worry not, Belgian Friends, the British Empire is coming to the rescue!' 'Terribly sorry old chum, but I'm afraid we are a tad delayed. However, we hold one last village on your lands, so your country didn't really fall! Greatest contributor to the war, ally with the UK for the win.'
tell me about it..i tried belgium..the dutch just ran me over since im newer
The Lovecraftian horror that is China in this game requires its own video.
Ah yes, me and my 50th Opium war and 98th rebellion
There’s a reason that the Chinese refer to the games time period as “The Century of Humiliation”
Why am I watching this, I've been playing this game for like 7 years
Si
Are good at it?
This is the meme police where did you get that Scramble for Africa clip?
I had to commission the punchline (by Big Man Tyrone) myself. The Blend S meme format can be found all over the internet.
@@CallMeEzekiel Thank you, sir.
@@CallMeEzekiel so did you pay for the commission? how much does the man himself ask for?
@Eugene InLaw Yes, he charges. The price depends on what you ask for. You can find his website here: bigtyrone.com/services/order-custom-video/
@@CallMeEzekiel money well spent, that joke landed perfectly.
That Spongebob meme was on point, I laugh way too hard
The only thing that acually lowered my very high opinion about the tutorial. I hoped, that even year ago (2018) common myth that France raises white flag was already gone...
@Lord Inquisitor Shadowlord doesn't change the fact about multiple wars they were on.
@@CzarnySamael Well, germany mopps the floor with france since 1870... so pretty accurate
@@senkaimonow9170 how does it make it accurate?
@@CzarnySamael Cause germany dominates France in every possible way.
Victoria II - Awesome, wish I could still play it Victoria II without the DLC - CURSED
”Wish i could still play it” Why can’t you still play it?
@@jgripen969 Maybe he got tired of the game
@@jgripen969 maybe he got his hands chopped off
@@donsly375 *Belgian Kongo intensiefies*
Y E L L O W P R U S S I A
Hey this is an awesome tutorial
Thank you. That's very kind of you to say.
Abused Satan nice pfp
The first time I played this, I had 3 seperate Flemish nationalist uprisings before realisng that half the Flemish population was unemployed
Thanks for the guide!
Beating Victoria 2 with only one stack of army when ?
Finally someone who knows how to make a good tutorial. Subscribed
Dextourus same
Same
Best way to win game: Be Prussia Build up economy and army for around 20 years Ally uk Austria declers war of hegemony Franc casualy joins Beat shit out of france and austria Demand south germany and alsace lorrein Its 1864 Be germany
I guess I was better? I got germany before 1850
@@polishraspberries congrats :)
missing step where you sphere austria and form super germany / grobdeustchland
Don't forget to hummiliate and occupy austria for 6 months so they drop out of GP status, then you sphere then as a wargoal too and now you've got supergermany.
Best way to win game: Be Austria Fight hard for the sphere game in Germany Keep expanding your army until you get nationalism & imperialism Take Elsaß-Lothringen by the 1840's Beat Prussia and siege them out until they're no longer a GP Sphere them and the rest of north Germany Become HRE 2.0
Victoria 2 is a mod of the wildly popular videogame Power BI.
Remember your pop ratios everyone! 1% bureaucrats, 2%intellectuals (4% for education efficiency) 5% soldier pops, then as many craftsman as your factories fit!
Damn, it seems so complicated compared to HOI4.
@Dream0fSkye Though, like HOI4, the AI of this game is still retarded, right? Or is it somewhat competent?
@@perfectlybalancedasallthin9319 retarded
Perfectly Balanced as All Things Should be because it is
HOI4 is way too simple.
That's because you need high class to be a Vicky 2 fanboy
The game really doesn't set you up to give you time to figure things out. Just having the small thing of starting out with a balanced budget would help so many new players find their feet. How are new players supposed to know the proper balance of military/education/administration spending to have when they first start out? If they don't change anything, then they are bankrupt within weeks, like no one was running the place before 1836.
I use cheats to learn paradox games except for stellaris which was quite easy
@Ghostifacation e.g eu4. I used gold to build buildings and see how they work. How to develop and where. Monarch points to see how the ideas play out. Also wars and peace deals. I tried eu4 first with cheats then I learned how to do everything I started normal on very easy with little cheat then no cheats and then easy and then normal and then Ironman.
I can't believe that when vic2 came out. They didn't include a way to justify wars in the base game.
Amazing introduction to the game, and great production quality for what appears to be one of your first videos(?). I'm actually going to give this game another proper try now after launching and quitting it twice before even unpausing.
I hope you enjoy! I was also in the same place as you for a while. After playing for a bit, everything will click in your mind and you'll start to have a crazy good time. You just got to get there.
0:22 Pops 1:07 Resource Gathering Operations and Goods 2:34 Technology 3:00 Politics 4:42 Income and Taxes 6:09 Decisions and Events 6:34 Conscientiousness and Militancy 7:21 Diplomacy 7:43 Great Powers and Spheres of Influence 8:50 Military 9:50 War 11:22 Crisis 12:11 SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA 13:25 Infamy 13:50 Most Important Countries Overview begins here 14:15 Brittain 14:50 Russia 15:23 France 15:58 Prussia 17:20 Belgium 17:52 America 19:07 Japan
thank you
Holy shit, bought this game on GOG out of curiosity and watched this video to try it out, give the game a good ol' swing. Choose Belgium which was my biggest mistake, immediately got jumped by Netherlands and Prussia who proceeded to ravage me until I accept peace terms which meant Belgium gets annexed. The end.
8:40 the literal Ukraine Russia war explained in 8 seconds
*thats what the military is for*
First ever time playing Vic II, I pick Belgium after reading through all the tutorials. I then get reduced to a city state by rebel forces by the year 1842.
"reaching 25 infamy is practically a death sentence" *laughs in german*
This was very very helpful getting me back into Vicky 2 and realising something for the first time. … but I’m sure I’ll forget them all because all I can see when I think of this vid is that absolutely incredible Tyrone scramble for Africa meme. That is premium.
I was playing as Prussia and Russia had just lost a war and wasn't a Great Power any more. Then a Crisis for Polish indipendence broke out. The Polish got sponsored by the British but no one couse to sponsor the Russians so the Crisis got autoresolved in favour of the poles. So to sum up there was a Indipendent Poland 10 Years after the game started.
I'm gonna need to grow a second brain cell to properly play this game. This tutorial is really helpful.
Prussiamon: The adventures of Bismarck, Wilhelm and Moltke to catch "em" all and defeat Team France
What's hilarious is that the "politics" tab was the only menu I instantly understood. Everything else that was supposed to be "straightforward" was just straight up bizarre.
hahhhhhahaha😆
"lol I'm used to eu4's stats how could any game confuse me?" *looks at victoria 2* *pikachu face*
This was me. “Oh, I play EU4 and HOI4 and Stellaris on Ironman, I can handle Vic 2.” I could NOT handle Vic 2.
@@garreTTU2023 No pasaran!
Victoria 2 has a more complex economic and political system than any of those others Paradox has made since
You got my subscription! This is simply amazing. The confidence of your voice makes it even better in my quite honest opinion. Thank you good sir!
This guide inspired me to start playing the game and I'm hooked! Initially put off due to how complicated it looked even though I really wanted to play it. Thanks for the video man!
One of the best guides I have ever seen on a strategy game. You don't overtalk the points your trying to make and you keep it simple yet entertaining. Well done. I give it 10/10 capitalists.
Nice video, I really need to get around to playing Prussia once and catch em all!
You had me crying in laughter at the "WAR" section clip. Artillery got that body flying!
Man even as someone who know Vanilla (DLC but no mods) Vic 2 inside and out I still love watching this. It's quick, it's funny, it's informative, and it's what people should strive for when making a beginner's guide to a complex game.
I played this game when I was younger and would always play as a free Ireland who becomes a great power. I just got covid so I'm trying to get back into it but how did I ever do that?!? I'm lost rn
haha
I‘ve watched far longer videos and never understood as much as in this one. Thank you!
A bit late to the party but I'd just like to give my thanks. This video is a solid rundown of the game's mechanics to the point where I could actually learn and enjoy Victoria 2, something I've wanted to do for quite some time. I just united the German Empire for the first time in 1867, and it's only my 3rd game. Thank you so much for helping experience this joy.
This is a genuinely great video. I'm not a beginner in Victoria 2 and I already knew all the concepts but I was still thoroughly entertained for 20 minutes.
Great video. Really learned a lot and what i love most is how broken down and simply you explain it. Nothing DISGUSTS me more than looking a tutorial and seeing like 8 parts each 20-30 mins long
Honestly it's all day I'm watching tutorials, I think all decent vic 2 players deserve some sort of degree. This game requires a lot of experience to be played and enjoyed. Thank for you work!
was looking for how to set a MP game of Vic II and this came up. Very nice vid man
I didn't understand more than half of the things you said but thanks
This video gives you so much information in just 20mins and explains things really well.
Best choice of cut scenes I've seen in a tutorial ever.
Im a 5k hour hoi4 player wanting to learn to play divergences of darkness! Cool vid
This is the most informative and entertaining tutorial of a Paradox game I've ever seen. You struck a great balance between being too general and getting too much into the minutiae. Well done dude.
"Militancy, the bane of new players" I'm getting flashbacks of the Japanese reactionary rebellion when I tried to westernize things. I won by a hair's breadth, barely managing to defeat their 70k doomstack right north of Edo with artilleries fresh out of training. It was a Minas Tirith moment.
Thank you I look forward to playing this 13 YEAR OLD GAME?!?! Wow!
Still better than victoria 3
Old games are better then modern garbage
@@desertdesmond6736is vic2 easier to learn than vic3? I already learned vic3, will it be easier for me to try vic2?
@@blaxzy6184 he said vic2 is better than vic3 not that its easier
by far the best vic tutorials I've seen
dude that was an amazing video. clearly you know the game and poured a lot of work into this to make it entertaining. i would like to add that scouring over the message settings and adjusting them is one of the most important things i did to keep my sanity. goes for all paradox games in fact. i recommend belgium and france for new players.
This is such an incredible tutorial! Thank you from the bottom of my heart
I am new to Vicky 2 and this is my first time watching this video. I have had to stop it at 2:39 to congratulate the video's author on the amazing Chris Morris reference. My compliments, sir. TECHNOLOGY.
phenomenal memes in the transitions fam, had to say it
Oh my god. I cannot thank you enough dude. Ive had Victoria 2 sitting in my library for about a month now, and everytime i play it i usually throw a hissy-fit and quit the game. Thank you so much for this tutorial.
Very nice video, no doubt the best tutorial I've seen for Victoria, and by far the funniest. That metaphor of Pokémon and Prussia was specially good.
This tutorial is so well structured and informative, deserves millions of views
Thanks, that's very kind of you to say! If you want to help it get those millions of views, consider sharing it. It's a big help, and I appreciate any help people are willing to give.
First picking up this game to continue my EUIV campaign as Aztec Mexico. No clue if I'll make it through the campaign in one piece, but this is a helpful starter course. I've played EU, CK, and Stellaris, so I thought I could just pick up this game and feel it out, but as soon as I opened it up I knew I'd need to look up some help. I started going through the ingame tutorials but they're just... boring as shit.
Big thing that immediately jumped out to me on importing my save file was my massive budget deficit, since I turned Mexico into an intercontinental empire that dominated trade, and, although I'm not really sure how trade works in Victoria, I do know that my crazy profitable setup from EU didn't translate into fat stacks right off the bat.
I never even understood how dafuq ingame tutorials used to work! the only pdx game's tutorial I understood is ckr3's but let's be honest ckr3 is WAY too easy
I kinda love the fact that you actually have to LEARN how to play these kinds of games when i first opened hoi4 and later victoria 2 i had no idea wtf i was even looking at or supposed to do now i wish they were even more immersive and detailed lol
Unfortunately the only one I've grown competent in is HOI4 because my friends forced me to play it. CK is similar, though to a lesser degree. The rest I want to get better at but I don't have anyone to hold me to them so I tend to get overwhelmed too easily. Also Vic multiplayer makes me want death. Not much happens till late game, so it leads to a very solo experience while only going at a third of the speed due to internet issues.
was dying laughing in the beginning referencing the crazy menus and UI. Great tutorial lol, you had me dying while i was feeling i'm way too dumb to play this.
Wow... sixty thousand views; that's wild! If any one of you lovely folks would like to try out some of Victoria II's great mods, I just released a video covering the 2 most popular ones: the Historical Project Mod, and the Historical Flavour Mod. You can watch it here: kzhead.info/sun/erCDgKmSeKqVaHk/bejne.html
Coming from HoI4, I started as the UK and started justifying on a bunch of nations. Didn't know anything about peace deals, only got Friesland - then France, Prussia and Russia attacked me to contain my aggression. Then they left me to think about the bad things I'd done.
This is absolutely briliant tutorial. Thank you, it was very clear and on point.
Oh boy, I can't wait for your recommendation of Austria for new players :D Great job, concise and engaging!
This video is great! It was entertaining from the beginning to the end!
literally did logged out after trying to read all the tabs 😂
Absolutely the best Victoria II guide :o Great job!
My God good sir, that video was superb! The poké Prussia was outstanding thinking. Well done. I'm untested in passing and this guide seemed like a good summary. I play a lot of eu4 and it seems somewhat familiar but still complicated like all paradox games. So I'll just have to jump in and try it.
11:29 Ah, the good old UK supporting polish indenpendence. It annoys me in every single Russia campaign. Thats why id like to have an option to create satellite states in certain provinces and not just giving them all their cores...
What an amazing intro.
thanks for the starter guides they really helped me get a basic understanding of how the game works and now I make vids about Victoria so thanks
This is one of the best tutorials on Victoria 2 I have ever found. 👍🏻
I'm 7 minutes into this video and this is already MUCH better than Victoria 3
This is a goddamn fantastic video. I've just downloaded this game, played the tutorial (up to the point where the diplo one breaks anyway) and was thinking: What the hell, now what do I do? This helps a lot. Thanks so much.
Third and definitive time I try to learn how to play Victoria 2 ! Thanks for your great tutorial ^^
Thanks for the guide! I understand this game so, so much more after watching your video.
Almost 1000 hours of Victoria played, still watching xD
I this video is a great help I been wanting to play this game after I watch and learn that Youjo senki was inspired by a Victoria 2 campaign by the author.
I bought this game like a year ago and never decided to play more than a couple hours because I thought I had bought something that just was too smart for me. Now that I decided to get back to it, this video saved me from failing miserably!
I want to stop commenting "excellent video", but you don't collaborate! Another EXCELLENT video, Ezekiel! Please, keep doing these awesome Vic II content!
Amazing tutorial, Ezekiel. Thank you.
hey this is an amazing video, u made victoria II playable
An amazing video that is actually enthusiastic about the game! Thank you for this!
Thanks, that's very kind of you to say. If you want to help the channel grow, please share the videos. It helps way more than you'd think, and I appreciate any help people are willing to give.
Great guide! Very informative and straight to the meat and bones of what needed to be explained. Earned a sub pal! Hope you start making more vids. Have a good day :)
Ezekiel please can you make more Victoria II videos like campaigns? I really enjoyed your videos about it and they were helpful to me to learn about the basics of this wonderful and hard game.
Never played victoria 2 but your tutorial is so entertaining have watched it now 4 times You are awesome
Really good tutorial. Probably the best one I've seen for Vic II
Very high quality my guy! Thanks for the vid
Victoria 3 was just announced, figured I better finally try out Victoria 2 now. Seems alright!
how did it go? enjoying the game?
@@TeRRm0s Bad. I almost liked it, but too much stuff bothered me. The numbers for productions, pop needs and trade were super unclear and confusing. Why was there 120 tea being needed and imported, yet only 40 or so being used by pops in the end, for example. But ultimately what killed it was that I didn't feel like clicking every single state (I was playing US) to build railroads on them. Even the ctrl+click trick was too much work.
@@superdudeman666 tbh I usually just build some railroads and let my capitalists do the rest
Loved the countries description: France: as soon as any conflict start they surrender ... looks like my personality when playing games as a kid -at the smallest difficulty i would rage quit Prussia: hahaha gotta catch em all
The France one is quite innacurate though
Daniel Woods frenchman detected
@@vzlflight I'm American, but I read up on my history. Remember Napoleon, world war 1, free France, French resistance, etc.
Thank you for this video. It is a great guide, for new players and helped me understand the game, and on top of that the humor is great(As Pokemon fan and Bismarck fan, I have to say this video is great).
Hey mate awesome vid,. Subbed and can't wait to see what you pull out next.
Great teachings, I love the commercial with comedy portions hahhaa, well I download victoria 2 I feel Im the king of the world hahah. Thanks bro for this informative vids.
its 4 am its too late to be crying over tyrone screaming SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
Love your videos good comments and great videos - Keep up the great work.
you are a teacher and a noble person because of this. people deserved this video. you are amazing.
Thanks, that's very kind of you to say! If you want to help the channel grow, consider sharing the videos. It helps way more than you'd think, and I appreciate any help people are willing to give.