Provinces with silk/ tropical wood allow you to massively increase your industrial score because they enable you to build alot of luxury clothing/furnitureДў. They have ridiculous resources that are near game breaking, and also allow you to greatly expand you army sizeДЎ. Grab a couple of provinces from china when you get the chance. If you have gas and the enemy does not, you are going to crush them if the military size is in remotely the same ball park Get Military Directionism the second it unlocks. They increase your research points dramatically You should be getting philosophy techs the second they are available. Indeed, in the one game I played as Italy, Germany and I managed to deprive France of its northern and southern coasts, which was kinda funny. After they form Germany, the Italy/Germany alliance suffers a very minor case of being more powerful than any combination of non-human players on the continent. Prussia will occasionally struggle early game, but not when they have an ally that can hold down Austria and French divisions. There are a couple of gamey ways you can form Italy in under 10 years, and once you do you can hit the 'I win all future wars' button (By which I mean allying with Prussia). I would highly suggest playing Sardinia Piedmont after the USA. The rebellion there have a nasty tendency of spawning multiple rebel armies in the 200,000-500,000 range, and while a 60,000 troop stack can for the most part handle fighting rebels that are 4x times their size, afterwards they are not in any shape to do anything, which makes it a tad inconvenient when they are hit by another massive rebel stack and wiped out.

On a semi-unrelated note, be very glad you are not playing as China. You are always going to have a couple brigades go over, but so long as the core of your military stacks say loyal, the few traitors are fairly easy to replace. The best advice I can give you is what I have already said above, which is specifically mind your soldier pops that have a higher militancy and try to defuse their issues either through passing the specific reforms they want, or sphering nations that have the resources they want. So long as you are able to maintain control of your military stacks though, even one of the larger rebellions are fairly easy to mop up, as you as simply wipe out all the rebels and then continue going about your day (#DemocracyInVictoria). Ok, maybe the pop system isn't the best thing since sliced thande. I'm sure this screenshot will only further confirm its resounding triumph. Click to expand.Yeah small to medium sized rebellions are not out of the ordinary mid to late game, that is why the hunt rebels button is so dam useful. frustrated progressive said: 'Unlike the primitive mechanics of CK2 and EUIV, Victoria 2's pop system is completely realistic and provides unprecedented depth and grounding.

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