Not to fail to mention that irl Greeks had nearly accomplished that in 1920 when.... all of western Europe and USSR alike (particularly Britain who used the Greeks merely to occypy the Turks so as them got the oil rich Middle East) conspired with the Turks to help them complete the genocide of the Greeks that they had already started 10 years earlier.
I need to stop playing on ironman with this game. Feels like no matter what I do some great power joins against me on a diplo play and wipes out all my gains. Idk why the game can't just tell you who is going to join like every other pdx game
@@SereglothIV true I'm just used to it since I always played eu4 and hoi4 ironman. You could still get screwed but you could recover it and it's less often
@@soquality9405 It's a lot better now, though there's a bit of RNG since countries can be swayed even with negative values (normally anything less than -40 means they're in sway range)
Waiting for the continuation. Every youtuber ends the when byzantium is formed. No, no, no! We DEMAND that you conquer all the eastern Roman provinces and make the Byzantine people the richest! (please)
Dude this is BY FAR the most entertaining Vic 3 channel out there. Your channel has helped me find a love for the game and i could binge these videos for days. Get this man to 10, no 100K!
Love what your doing man. All the big PDX games have their UA-camrs, but you have a ton of potential to hit a great market. I'm a big EU4 man looking to get back into vicky3 and I love your content.
I'd love to see you try out Rimworld! It's an open world make your own story type of game, with a very very very large modding community. Most UA-camrs that make videos on the game make "challenge" videos, like "survive 100 days in a desert", etc.
there's a really high chance I try it out at some point. I plan to start mixing in videos of other games into my channel and that's likely one I'll play at some point.
I really like your style, it's great energy, long format which I can chuck on and enjoy for a long time with no overediting or being some mind-boggling meta strategy. Certainly I think mixing in some other games (be they PDX or not) would fit your style just as well I think.
All I gotta say, I just recently did a Byzantium game. You had a MUCH better game than I did. My military was good and strong, my economy was really nice and got up to 20m GDP, and I even started colonizing Southern Africa. However, the Ottoman Empire made friends with literally everyone barring France then eventually becoming a subject to Britain. I was pulling my hair out trying to build the Byzantine Empire properly
The glory of Rome will always be remembered. It doesn’t matter if you’re Greek or Roman, Christian or Pagan. We all bleed the same. And we are all the successors of the old empire🦅
i challenge you to form byzantium as cyprus in vic 3. i did it once like a year ago, cyprus as a state reached 100 mill gdp and the nation as a whole was at 500 mill and i was number 2 in the world.
Great vid other than that Russia during my first war with the ottomans asked me to join their power bloc and i obviously refused and it broke our defensive pact
I love how attica was just consistently the only state doing ok (or anything) in this run at the beginning, you're basically cosplaying modern greece and athens.
Start by building up your construction, then move on to the basics. You're going to want to focus on food to keep your standard of living up and textiles and logging to export. Keep up your textiles and add in saw mills and tool factories. But you won't have much of a population, so rely on Austria or Russia to help you win wars and take majority Greek lands.
Hey, i have idea for new vid, I played as a France and discovered that it is possible to form HRE playing it. At the start you can't but after conquering the rhine and belgium with french ambitions (im not sure how its named in english) you get event where on of the options is gainig 3 new dominant cultures. One of those cultures is walonian wich gives you an option to form HRE
During your Arabian Adventure, did I read the map right? Are you sailing your transports all the way around the Cape? The Suez Canal opens November 1869. NOTE: Ah ha! I just saw the date in fine print up in the corner of the screen. 28 more years till the Canal! God, that makes your little South-Arabic jaunt even more ballsy. Or did you target those minors because they are both low military and not allied with anybody? (Which seems weird, because you'd think they'd be aligned with the House of Sa'ud.)
How were you able to move your troops across your subjects to that landlocked state at 7:42? I really have trouble finding fronts on landlocked states.
isn't going for macedoania early a mistake? Since you can get a claim for it later. Go for either cyprys or albania. Albania can be a bread basket for the rest of the run.
Isnt switching taxes this often a bad move because it creates more radicals? If you just keep high taxes you only decrease the SoL once but this way you make it go back up and as soon as you have higher taxes you lower it again creating more radicals.
To be fair, I haven't really watched much V3 content on YT up to this point, but is the complete neglect of construction industries in the early-game a common strategy? I think you only went above the base 10 construction after the second Ottoman war, and those may have been from captured construction sectors. I had been playing under the assumption that construction and industrialization was the absolute top priority early on. Do you just import all of your government and military goods? Not sure how you manage to sustain that on such a low debt cap with both mercantilism and low taxes.
Honestly I'm not the person to ask about meta strategies. That would be more generalist's sphere. I honestly don't know what the meta is for that, in my head I didn't bother because the first 10 construction is free, and I could use that money instead to keep my pops happy/birthrate higher. I think it differs between playing large and small nations, because in my experience your population is a bigger stopping block then buildings are for small nations. idk if that's the meta way to do it, but it seems to work for me. If you try playing a single state nation and not expanding militarily the whole game you'll kinda see what I mean by this. But uh yeah, tbh no idea. when I play these I know I'm not playing to end game because it's just for a video, so as long as I get the video purpose done, I don't super care if it's the most efficient way possible.
I play Greece kinda often and being honest, at the start, you are lacking so much and are so small that is easier to go all in in military stuff like using the first months to build a navy and go around bulliying ppl weaker than you and taking their stuff, instead of building it lol, so using the free 10 construction sectors is enough imo, after the second war with the ottomans you have more states and population that is worth to start building up, another tip is to go for south africa asap, if they have some gold already discovered you will make a big bank out of nowhere, also using the Peru trick is nice as vassals in this patch pay a good bank to you and it cost like 6 infamy for all peru, land that you can use yourself later on, other than that, use Russia to attack china 1 or 2 times to take their money,, or use your own navy that you should be making big to attack Formosa and get easy money, this only work in the first 10 years probably
@@Pokeeko Do you have to worry about getting into a debt hole on mil goods early? I'm assuming you have to import everything, and importing usually sucks with the tariffs from mercantilism. Thinking about it, I guess I could suck up to AUS or RUS enough to get a trade agreement (or maybe even just join their bloc) and bypass tariffs that way. I might try that next time.
@@Jedibob5 if you join their bloc is annoying to get out and also you dont share market because they dont have market unification so you wont get anything, getting trade agreements is super easy and can be done in the first days, the main point is that any industrialization that you do in the start is insignificant and non relevant compared to direct conquest, just build boats at the start, go bully ppl and once you win vs the ottomans twice you can start industrializing you homelands, as tips that i can tell you, get an alliance with russia, is kinda simple and more with the lobbies you get at the start, use Russia in the first 10 years to get money and beijing if you want from china, go for south africa, and small nations like brunei, and if possible focus on getting nationalism early without going too ahead of time, so focus on society techs
@@Jedibob5 oh sorry i also didnt answer your question, you dont have to worry about money if you go for south africa gold, also gold from china, once china gold runs out you should be in a good position, you could even get war reps twice from china depending how long it takes to get your alliance with russia
every nation is a sleeping giant because you sleep most of the time while you wait for things to finish after having pressed one or two buttons once in a while and every nation is too easy which is also why you can fins videos like this too basically every nation in the game XD
Truthfully, I find the Byzantium formable in Vic3 kinda tacky. I'd much more prefer a 'Hellas' or Megali formable not tied to Roman Larp. Still a freak video though.
Not to fail to mention that irl Greeks had nearly accomplished that in 1920 when.... all of western Europe and USSR alike (particularly Britain who used the Greeks merely to occypy the Turks so as them got the oil rich Middle East) conspired with the Turks to help them complete the genocide of the Greeks that they had already started 10 years earlier.
One of the best parts of V3 is when everything kind just falls into place like this video. Super satisfying.
And one of the worst is when everything kind of just falls... apart xD
I need to stop playing on ironman with this game. Feels like no matter what I do some great power joins against me on a diplo play and wipes out all my gains. Idk why the game can't just tell you who is going to join like every other pdx game
@@soquality9405 I never play ironman in Vic3, there's really no point since you can earn achievements in non-ironman.
@@SereglothIV true I'm just used to it since I always played eu4 and hoi4 ironman. You could still get screwed but you could recover it and it's less often
@@soquality9405 It's a lot better now, though there's a bit of RNG since countries can be swayed even with negative values (normally anything less than -40 means they're in sway range)
I haven't forgotten anyone have I?
Cyprus in the corner saying 'help' like
And Pontus, and Crete.
And Ionian islands
Waiting for the continuation.
Every youtuber ends the when byzantium is formed.
No, no, no! We DEMAND that you conquer all the eastern Roman provinces and make the Byzantine people the richest! (please)
i demand for him to get Byzantium and then go and create the MACEDONIAN EMPIRE *-*
i want him to form the roman empire
I am convinced that the Greeks still have the secret to Greek fire, and just never cared to share it with the class.
Dude this is BY FAR the most entertaining Vic 3 channel out there. Your channel has helped me find a love for the game and i could binge these videos for days. Get this man to 10, no 100K!
Shhhh don’t let him know or he will go all main stream and add annoying adverts
Indeed, this is my first video I've seen of his and he has a nice vibe
@@mralimurray kid named sponsorblock:
You should check out chumm too he's a nice bloke
Cyprus and Crete are rightful Greek clay!!!
Albania being necessary but not Crete is dumb.
@@antorseax9492 real
@@antorseax9492 I know right?
No, they arent, they are venetian clay 😎
@@antorseax9492 Yes, Crete is about as important as Athens
Oh Greece
The nation I wanted to play when I fix my PC 😂
lol
Love what your doing man. All the big PDX games have their UA-camrs, but you have a ton of potential to hit a great market. I'm a big EU4 man looking to get back into vicky3 and I love your content.
Seeing the improvements in the editing and video style make my brain happy, keep it up bb
Funny how this random youtuber with 16k subs understands how taxes affect the economy better than most of our politicians.
But does he understand that they’re eating the cats?😂😂 next four years is gonna be rough for you.
@@michaelsurratt1864 What on earth are you talking about?
It's not funny, it's intentional. :(
@michaelsurratt1864 who's eating the cats??? Wtf is going on in America right now?
@@Blossomy77some haitians in ohio, idk what that has to do with the conversation
but oh well
I'd love to see you try out Rimworld! It's an open world make your own story type of game, with a very very very large modding community. Most UA-camrs that make videos on the game make "challenge" videos, like "survive 100 days in a desert", etc.
there's a really high chance I try it out at some point. I plan to start mixing in videos of other games into my channel and that's likely one I'll play at some point.
Your the best@@TobyYellsAtThings
You sound so much like TheGrimKleaper. Great video
fr
I really like your style, it's great energy, long format which I can chuck on and enjoy for a long time with no overediting or being some mind-boggling meta strategy. Certainly I think mixing in some other games (be they PDX or not) would fit your style just as well I think.
This channel literally gold.
All I gotta say, I just recently did a Byzantium game. You had a MUCH better game than I did. My military was good and strong, my economy was really nice and got up to 20m GDP, and I even started colonizing Southern Africa.
However, the Ottoman Empire made friends with literally everyone barring France then eventually becoming a subject to Britain. I was pulling my hair out trying to build the Byzantine Empire properly
congrats to 10k subs
Thank you.
Very entertaining creator, keep up the great vids!
to think only 3 weeks ago this guy had around 9,500 subs crazy. it's now 16.9k I think he accomplished his goal with the "shadow government" 😄
There’s also a really great mod that expands upon Greece making it feel awesome to play.
Great run, I just subscribed! Any possibility of doing an episode 2 to finish out the timeline and restore the full borders?
The glory of Rome will always be remembered. It doesn’t matter if you’re Greek or Roman, Christian or Pagan.
We all bleed the same. And we are all the successors of the old empire🦅
Rome conquered Greece. How is that a positive thing for the Greeks?
Just found you, glad to have found a freedom version of spiffing brit.
i challenge you to form byzantium as cyprus in vic 3.
i did it once like a year ago, cyprus as a state reached 100 mill gdp and the nation as a whole was at 500 mill and i was number 2 in the world.
now that I think about it you could do it with ionian islands
13:34 THE RURAL FOLK ARN'T BEING RACIST?!?! 😯
Cursed timeline
Imma sub❤
Love this! Keep it up!
20:55 My man trying to rizz up Egypt
i see your views counter steadily grows. good for you!
Sick man of Europe in full force here lol
Please don't stop at just forming Byzantium
loved the video by just seeing the title
subscribe cta was actually too good, you defs earned it
Awesome video brother 👏🏻 please make a vid for Bulgaria
You have great videos but could you sometime do second epizode of this?? Please
Thanks for the video
Great vid other than that Russia during my first war with the ottomans asked me to join their power bloc and i obviously refused and it broke our defensive pact
Thanks your the best
now thats a better way to get me to sub
Xenoblade 2 soundtrack in the vid based
I hear xenoblade chronicles 2 music I subscribe simple as that.
Heard that too lol
I love how attica was just consistently the only state doing ok (or anything) in this run at the beginning, you're basically cosplaying modern greece and athens.
25:09 Words the government of Greece has never said.
Paradox should include you in the upcomming achievement
16:10 are in the iron age again
loving your vidoes but I do find the background music annoying to try listening to you talk over it
bro casually never went over what to build in the start
Start by building up your construction, then move on to the basics. You're going to want to focus on food to keep your standard of living up and textiles and logging to export. Keep up your textiles and add in saw mills and tool factories. But you won't have much of a population, so rely on Austria or Russia to help you win wars and take majority Greek lands.
. Focus on your problem and live the others, to do as they want.
when you get too rich, it's time to buy copious amounts of noodle soup!
Sleeping giant you can have a third of ottoman land by 1860s lmao
In my playthrough the Ottomans always get destroyed by Egypt and/or Russia. They can sometime get French help to counter Egypt but that is it.
Okay why didn’t we actually do that?
GREECE MENTIONED RAAAAAHHHHH
My run was pretty much the same exept i allied with Austria and made the Ottoman Empire my protectorate.
I wish there was more flavor and stuff to forming them. As it stands it basically is just a color change and... that's pretty much it lol
Hey, i have idea for new vid,
I played as a France and discovered that it is possible to form HRE playing it. At the start you can't but after conquering the rhine and belgium with french ambitions (im not sure how its named in english) you get event where on of the options is gainig 3 new dominant cultures. One of those cultures is walonian wich gives you an option to form HRE
i subscribed
You need to do an irish video and reunite all the celtic lands in a gaelic empire (British isles, gaul, galicia, brittany and much more of europe)
Solid!
I’m searching up Victoria 3 not even finding it
if anyone here likes modding id recommend the Greece, Byzantium, & the Balkans Flavor with this its very cool
Bread is good
I ate 5 bread today
@@TobyYellsAtThings rookie, I ate 6 bread today, get mogged+bozo+ration
@@Blablatomatos pffft, I eated 7 bread today.
@@sundowner9726 the day hasnt ended yet
@@Blablatomatos Is this a challenge?
During your Arabian Adventure, did I read the map right? Are you sailing your transports all the way around the Cape? The Suez Canal opens November 1869.
NOTE: Ah ha! I just saw the date in fine print up in the corner of the screen. 28 more years till the Canal! God, that makes your little South-Arabic jaunt even more ballsy. Or did you target those minors because they are both low military and not allied with anybody? (Which seems weird, because you'd think they'd be aligned with the House of Sa'ud.)
i never really liked civ and never tried vic. i'll give it a go i like the map style
oh no not the shadow government 😱
it's so funny that Greece doesn't have academia technology at the start of the campaign 1:35
How were you able to move your troops across your subjects to that landlocked state at 7:42? I really have trouble finding fronts on landlocked states.
there's a bug in game where you can move troops across any state if they are already in the state.
9/10 of my greece run, somehow brits guarantee ottoman independence ? Like the fishhhh?!
The average greek nationalist are heaving an absolute wonderful day when this banger dropped
This was 3 weeks ago and hes now at 16k subs
isn't going for macedoania early a mistake? Since you can get a claim for it later. Go for either cyprys or albania. Albania can be a bread basket for the rest of the run.
Yeah it is, I messed up in the video.
Can you do anything like Pontus or the Empire of Trebizond?
32:00 That was actually correct in German however pronouncing it Metternick sounds a lot better in English(imo)
Yo fyi stock exchange is the best technology in the game so you should always research it first.
this was good except for the lack of cyprus and crete
Every time I played greece russia start with an obligation on me and force me to join his boys band his power bloc.
“The rural folk aren’t being racist?” 😂
My favourite thing is when you make a million fake trades
I hope the shadow government leaves him alone 😭
But also how do I join them 👀
Day 1 asking for anarchist sokoto gameplay
Isnt switching taxes this often a bad move because it creates more radicals? If you just keep high taxes you only decrease the SoL once but this way you make it go back up and as soon as you have higher taxes you lower it again creating more radicals.
Technically yes but the amount of radicals it creates is super small so I don't really worry about it.
100 prestige for olympics? I really want to know what the dev who put that in was thinking. 20 max Imo
Yeah it is😂
If you only think that academia is 100% a Greek word.
To be fair, I haven't really watched much V3 content on YT up to this point, but is the complete neglect of construction industries in the early-game a common strategy? I think you only went above the base 10 construction after the second Ottoman war, and those may have been from captured construction sectors.
I had been playing under the assumption that construction and industrialization was the absolute top priority early on. Do you just import all of your government and military goods? Not sure how you manage to sustain that on such a low debt cap with both mercantilism and low taxes.
Honestly I'm not the person to ask about meta strategies. That would be more generalist's sphere. I honestly don't know what the meta is for that, in my head I didn't bother because the first 10 construction is free, and I could use that money instead to keep my pops happy/birthrate higher. I think it differs between playing large and small nations, because in my experience your population is a bigger stopping block then buildings are for small nations. idk if that's the meta way to do it, but it seems to work for me. If you try playing a single state nation and not expanding militarily the whole game you'll kinda see what I mean by this.
But uh yeah, tbh no idea. when I play these I know I'm not playing to end game because it's just for a video, so as long as I get the video purpose done, I don't super care if it's the most efficient way possible.
I play Greece kinda often and being honest, at the start, you are lacking so much and are so small that is easier to go all in in military stuff like using the first months to build a navy and go around bulliying ppl weaker than you and taking their stuff, instead of building it lol, so using the free 10 construction sectors is enough imo, after the second war with the ottomans you have more states and population that is worth to start building up, another tip is to go for south africa asap, if they have some gold already discovered you will make a big bank out of nowhere, also using the Peru trick is nice as vassals in this patch pay a good bank to you and it cost like 6 infamy for all peru, land that you can use yourself later on, other than that, use Russia to attack china 1 or 2 times to take their money,, or use your own navy that you should be making big to attack Formosa and get easy money, this only work in the first 10 years probably
@@Pokeeko Do you have to worry about getting into a debt hole on mil goods early? I'm assuming you have to import everything, and importing usually sucks with the tariffs from mercantilism.
Thinking about it, I guess I could suck up to AUS or RUS enough to get a trade agreement (or maybe even just join their bloc) and bypass tariffs that way. I might try that next time.
@@Jedibob5 if you join their bloc is annoying to get out and also you dont share market because they dont have market unification so you wont get anything, getting trade agreements is super easy and can be done in the first days, the main point is that any industrialization that you do in the start is insignificant and non relevant compared to direct conquest, just build boats at the start, go bully ppl and once you win vs the ottomans twice you can start industrializing you homelands, as tips that i can tell you, get an alliance with russia, is kinda simple and more with the lobbies you get at the start, use Russia in the first 10 years to get money and beijing if you want from china, go for south africa, and small nations like brunei, and if possible focus on getting nationalism early without going too ahead of time, so focus on society techs
@@Jedibob5 oh sorry i also didnt answer your question, you dont have to worry about money if you go for south africa gold, also gold from china, once china gold runs out you should be in a good position, you could even get war reps twice from china depending how long it takes to get your alliance with russia
Disappointed that the Roman Empire isn't a formable.
"Sleeping giant"
*Needs the Ottoman Empire's most developed lands to become good*
Are you gonna play AOC3
Thankful the shadow government isn't coming for me 🙏😮💨
PUPPET THE OTTOMANS AND FORM!!!! i literally scrum...sowwy
Ur such a good girl
bruh ?
every nation is a sleeping giant because you sleep most of the time while you wait for things to finish after having pressed one or two buttons once in a while and every nation is too easy
which is also why you can fins videos like this too basically every nation in the game XD
What are the chances of their being a Greek-Russian Friendship Committee? Hasn't happened once for me.
In my experience is was maybe a 1 in every 4 runs thing.
@@TobyYellsAtThings Gotcha
10:13 - “Quite frankly evil”?
Meh. IRL, Thrace was 50% Greek, by population.
Kinda mad he didnt took all his claims
Greece not wanting debt????
2:03 OH FUCK
KEK
where did the facecam go??
I can make videos faster without
Truthfully, I find the Byzantium formable in Vic3 kinda tacky. I'd much more prefer a 'Hellas' or Megali formable not tied to Roman Larp. Still a freak video though.
its a roman empire, but ye
otto-expand
If they didn't stupidly raise greek nationalism and instead focused on eastern romann legacy, they might had replaced the ottomans.
If we will forget our Grate History, we will avoid the ottomans???
Stupid nationalism is by the turkish side. The well known, ISLAMOFASISM.