Dealing with: Victoria 1.03 and TGW 1.04b
I got Victoria for my birthday, and have been enjoying it. Now, I commonly play with the Grand Campaign (which I always did with EUI and EUII, and likewise the 1936 scenario for HOI) but out of curiousity I tried out the 1914 (aka World War I) scenario for Paradox's latest venture.
Sadly, I was somewhat disappointed.
Here are some things I've noticed, and how I best compare them to The Great War mod's take on...well, the Great War...
1. My biggest concern: Germany has WAY TOO MANY TROOPS. My first game was as Belgium (I felt like playing dangerous) and utilized the defenses at Liege, Brussels, etc. I soon found out how useless that was - mainly because I had to deal with 500,000 Germans soldiers versus by 20,000 Belgian soldiers! Later on I retreated to the coastal province with the rest of my forces. I even got a commander who was good at defense, and my total forces were some 50,000 Belgian soldiers. Yet again, the Germans could throw 300,000 men at me. I played again as France (which gave me a big problem, which I will get to later) and found yet again I was dealing with serious cases of too many Germans. I managed to move my troops to my border provinces and have enough in each one to scare the Germans off from attacking too soon. However, as I looked about the border provinces I noticed that - all the way from Belgium's west coast to the German/Swiss border with Switzerland - the Germans had 300,000 troops in each province. No, this is not an exaggeration, I checked each troop amount. I could only muster about 50,000 men in each border province. The Germans could have busted through my lines and moved on to Paris in a matter of minutes. As a matter of fact they did. And watching some hands-off games they seem to enjoy doing that.
2. Russia seems to be somewhat easier to survive with than in the TGW mod. Granted, this is seen from the AI's activity in Victoria's 1914 Scenario in hands-off game. Russia even seems to make some headway and keep German/Austro-Hungarian troops down. Compared to the push-over Russian AI in TGW. Watching the German AI roll over them again and again, as well as playing as Germany and rolling over Russia with out fear, its almost like putting Russia in the game is a joke.
3. France's economy gives me some troubles in Victoria's 1914 scenario. Now I'll admit I'm not too hot on the economy any way, however nothing I seemed to try worked too much. I had exports in the hundreds and taxed my tariffs/people into oblivion, yet I was constantly in negative numbers. Before the Germans had even reached Brussels my loan debt was through the roof! As a result I could barely raise any troops, let alone afford to supply my army or defense budget.
There are my basic observations. Any body notice any thing else?
I got Victoria for my birthday, and have been enjoying it. Now, I commonly play with the Grand Campaign (which I always did with EUI and EUII, and likewise the 1936 scenario for HOI) but out of curiousity I tried out the 1914 (aka World War I) scenario for Paradox's latest venture.
Sadly, I was somewhat disappointed.
Here are some things I've noticed, and how I best compare them to The Great War mod's take on...well, the Great War...
1. My biggest concern: Germany has WAY TOO MANY TROOPS. My first game was as Belgium (I felt like playing dangerous) and utilized the defenses at Liege, Brussels, etc. I soon found out how useless that was - mainly because I had to deal with 500,000 Germans soldiers versus by 20,000 Belgian soldiers! Later on I retreated to the coastal province with the rest of my forces. I even got a commander who was good at defense, and my total forces were some 50,000 Belgian soldiers. Yet again, the Germans could throw 300,000 men at me. I played again as France (which gave me a big problem, which I will get to later) and found yet again I was dealing with serious cases of too many Germans. I managed to move my troops to my border provinces and have enough in each one to scare the Germans off from attacking too soon. However, as I looked about the border provinces I noticed that - all the way from Belgium's west coast to the German/Swiss border with Switzerland - the Germans had 300,000 troops in each province. No, this is not an exaggeration, I checked each troop amount. I could only muster about 50,000 men in each border province. The Germans could have busted through my lines and moved on to Paris in a matter of minutes. As a matter of fact they did. And watching some hands-off games they seem to enjoy doing that.
2. Russia seems to be somewhat easier to survive with than in the TGW mod. Granted, this is seen from the AI's activity in Victoria's 1914 Scenario in hands-off game. Russia even seems to make some headway and keep German/Austro-Hungarian troops down. Compared to the push-over Russian AI in TGW. Watching the German AI roll over them again and again, as well as playing as Germany and rolling over Russia with out fear, its almost like putting Russia in the game is a joke.
3. France's economy gives me some troubles in Victoria's 1914 scenario. Now I'll admit I'm not too hot on the economy any way, however nothing I seemed to try worked too much. I had exports in the hundreds and taxed my tariffs/people into oblivion, yet I was constantly in negative numbers. Before the Germans had even reached Brussels my loan debt was through the roof! As a result I could barely raise any troops, let alone afford to supply my army or defense budget.
There are my basic observations. Any body notice any thing else?
