I have two of the third tier military techs researched and I have called on Von Moltke to launch his reforms of the armed forces, which gives me another small edge when it comes to my coming battles against Austria and its allies.
I still believe that I might fail in my attempt to defeat the united forces of Great B... |
9 March 2012
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There are eight Great Powers in Victoria II and its expansion and eight minor ones that try to gain the same stature as the big ones, and it is largely the actions of these countries that mainly determine the fate of the world after the first few years. When playing a country in Europe, especially a big one like Fra... |
6 March 2012
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One of the most difficult moments for someone who is new to A House Divided or the entire concepts of Victoria II (the first game in the series does not qualify as training) is taking the first look at the User Interface and determining what is crucial and what is merely important.
To me personally, quite a lot of t... |
2 March 2012
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In the real-world Prussian blue is a pigment which was synthetized a little into the XVIII century and was important because it allowed painters to deploy a darker shade of blue than usual without using the very expensive process of getting access to Lapis Iazuli, a rather rare semi-precious stone.
For my campaign o... |
27 February 2012
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A House Divided is an expansion for Victoria II created in-house at Paradox Entertainment, with the stated aim of putting the American Civil War at the core of the player experience while also improving pretty much all the aspects of the core release.“The South shall rise again” is the rallying cry south ... |
17 February 2012
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The central premise for the existence of A House Divided, the expansion for Victoria II that has been recently launched by Paradox Interactive, acting as both publisher and developer, is that players (especially those on the North American continent) really want to play leader of the Confederate States of America and... |
6 February 2012
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Video game developer and publisher Paradox Interactive has announced that it is preparing the first expansion for its grand strategy title Victoria II, called A House Divided, which will be launched via digital download during the first quarter of next year.The expansion will allow players to choose a new starting po... |
5 October 2011
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I will admit up front that there are times when I do not understand Victoria II and this after reading the manual and religiously looking up threads on the official forums from about one year before the launch date to a few weeks after the launch of the 1.2 patch, which made the game much more fun to play.
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15 December 2010
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Paradox Interactive, the publisher of such grand strategy titles like Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron, has announced that it will be publishing two new strategy titles that will use the older Europa Engine to deliver more focused experiences to gamers.Europa Universalis, Europa Universalis II, Victoria, Hearts ... |
21 September 2010
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Andrei Dumitrescu: This week the game I will probably spend the most time on will be “waiting for video games I care about to get patched”, one of the least fun experiences of the modern gaming life that we all live.One of my passions is competitive road cycling (watching it of course not actually doing t... |
3 September 2010
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Two weeks, broken up by a visit to Gamescom, is the time I've taken to review Victoria II, the grand strategy title from Paradox Interactive that focuses on the social and political change Europe and the world experienced beginning with 1836 and went on for about a century before the early days of the World War ... |
29 August 2010
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Andrei Dumitrescu: After a few days spend in the whirlwind of Gamescom, the biggest video game expo taking place in Europe, I am back enjoying the creature comforts of my apartment and playing Victoria II, the Paradox Interactive made grand strategy games that allows me conquer the United States as France and dominat... |
27 August 2010
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Victoria II is a complex and engaging grand strategy title that presents alternate takes on the history of the XIX century while allowing the player to be both king, spiritual leader, commander of armies and lead economist for a huge array of nations.It has a ton of detail, a huge amount of replay value, complex mech... |
13 August 2010
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Andrei Dumitrescu: I think I am done with Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty. I have not need to go back and get more Achievements, even if some of them seem interesting when I read about them on the post match screen.I also have no inclination to get back into multiplayer and loose more games in an almost shameful manne... |
13 August 2010
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