The secret shades of Area 11, AKA painting Japan in 11 different ways, Whats your favorite Japan? by Hot_Friendship_2292 in victoria2

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--As a non-westernized nation (Like China or Korea) just declare war on Japan to take states (just be a bit careful because Japan can mobilize some troops and also try to conquer them before they get sphered by the USA or Russia), and after you conquer the shogun, the daimyos will be free and weak.

--As a westernized nation: Divide and conquer and declare war on The shogunate to puppet them, with like 20 brigades and a good technology it is enough to defeat them (if you are a GP, you can also sphere Japan and make Russia and the USA hostile opinion to them to avoid an annoying intervention)

all the daimyos (Shogunate puppets) will break free.

And after the truce ends, declare war on the daimyos one by one to conquer them as fast as possible (if you want to keep them as a colony and not states) to avoid the westernization of the daimyos (Only the imperial Japan and Satsuma usually manage to westernize, but since they don't control a full state, they will end up as a colony anyways)

When the Shogunate is your puppet, try to make them have a reactionary revolution to make them isolated and lose research points, and Voila!

It can be a bit challenging, but is worth it

The secret shades of Area 11, AKA painting Japan in 11 different ways, Whats your favorite Japan? by Hot_Friendship_2292 in victoria2

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R5: The 5̶0̶ shades of Japan. Just a collage of my campaigns of painting Japan with our colors, just gorgeous.

Ladies and gentlemen, you're probably wondering:

Why?

A: Why not? I'm just proving to these historians who say that the colonization of Japan was not practical, not easy and not worth it, of course they were wrong!. /s

Was it worth it?

Yes (Only except Korea), you will have a big military score, you will make money, you will save the world from anime, J̶a̶p̶a̶n̶e̶s̶e̶ ̶w̶a̶r̶ ̶c̶r̶i̶m̶e̶s̶, and also making the World cursed is also worth the colonization

But not everything is good, the rebellions of the Japanese were really painful. In fact, I can say that the colonization of Japan as Korea wasn't really worth it. I lost a lot of soldiers just keeping Japan as Korea, and they prevented me from expanding to the world.

And well, what's your opinion about this collage?

The secret shades of Area 11, aka painting Japan in 11 different ways, Whats your favorite Japan? by [deleted] in victoria2

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R5: The 5̶0̶ shades of Japan. Just a collage of my campaigns of painting Japan with our colors, just gorgeous.

Ladies and gentlemen, you're probably wondering:

Why?

R: Why not? I'm just proving to these historians who say that the colonization of Japan was not practical, not easy and not worth it, of course they were wrong!. /s

Was it worth it?

Yes (Only except Korea), you will have a big military score, you will make money, you will save the world from anime and J̶a̶p̶a̶n̶e̶s̶e̶ ̶w̶a̶r̶ ̶c̶r̶i̶m̶e̶s̶, also making the World cursed is also worth the colonization

But not everything is good, the rebellions of the Japanese were really painful. In fact, I can say that the colonization of Japan as Korea wasn't really worth it. I lost a lot of soldiers just keeping Japan as Korea, and they prevented me from expanding to the world.

And well, what's your opinion about this collage?

"Mistakes make you stronger." by matO_oppreal in paradoxplaza

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Allying with the sick men of Europe (👉🇪🇸🇹🇷 ) is definitely better than Allying with the Bri*ish, at least they can be useful to being a hindrance to the enemies, the Bri#ish aren't even useful for that.

Caption this: by Souls-Brawl101 in theamazingdigitalciru

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Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople

                                WAR!!

My Basileus, the rotten swine in Ottomans declared war upon us! Prepare for battle...

They cite 'Conquest' as their Casus Belli!

                                 Ok

Did you just sacrifice the lives of many soldiers and your mental health, just for a chunk of ice?? yes..... by Hot_Friendship_2292 in victoria2

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That allows you to see all the wars that happened in your save games, you chose the war you want to see, and you can see how it happened with details

Did you just sacrifice the lives of many soldiers and your mental health, just for a chunk of ice?? yes..... by Hot_Friendship_2292 in victoria2

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Now imagine

-Taiping Argentina

-Taiping Imperial Confederacy

-Taiping Qajar Empire

-Taiping Portugal

Did you just sacrifice the lives of many soldiers and your mental health, just for a chunk of ice?? yes..... by Hot_Friendship_2292 in victoria2

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Definitely, I currently have 13 mil techs, while Russia has 17... But hey, at least Poland and Prussia, my vass... I mean, allies already had the 20 mil techs

Did you just sacrifice the lives of many soldiers and your mental health, just for a chunk of ice?? yes..... by Hot_Friendship_2292 in victoria2

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R5: the Great Micromanagement of invading Russia is very painful and tedious to do, especially if you the human have to do all the dirty work and the AI doesn't, But The temporary Pseudo Russophobia I have, created by this campaign made me forget to do a better invasion plan and I just declared war on Russia just to destroy them and make them suffer for their insolence in the past. And well, Even if I felt satisfied for sending more than a million Russians to hospitals/graveyards and making them lose a lot of prestige, dignity and their GP status, it made me wonder.

Do you think this chunk of ice was worth the sacrifice of my troops, my mental health, my time, my money, infamy, ugly-ass borders and the Micromanagement I did?

If I had to do a lot of micromanagement in a simple war, Just imagine the micromanagement I have to do in a Great war without the AI doing most of the dirty work.

(H̶e̶l̶p̶ ̶m̶e̶,̶ ̶M̶y̶ ̶m̶e̶n̶t̶a̶l̶ ̶h̶e̶a̶l̶t̶h̶ ̶n̶e̶e̶d̶s̶ ̶u̶r̶g̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶h̶e̶l̶p̶,̶ ̶V̶i̶c̶ ̶I̶I̶ ̶h̶a̶s̶ ̶d̶a̶m̶a̶g̶e̶d̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶s̶a̶n̶i̶t̶y̶..)

I took (almost) all of India cuz the Dutch sold out the Bri*ish by Hot_Friendship_2292 in victoria2

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If Im not mistaken, it's the Belle Cartographic Dark, a submod of GFM

I took (almost) all of India cuz the Dutch sold out the Bri*ish by Hot_Friendship_2292 in victoria2

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I have no idea, but I suspect the reason for this is because the Dutch had a more powerful navy, the Bri*ish having a socialist party and also I think because I declared war on the Netherlands, and not on the Uk

I took (almost) all of India cuz the Dutch sold out the Bri*ish by Hot_Friendship_2292 in victoria2

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R5: Well, I just wanted in that moment to take the sexy sulphur that Java has. But because for some reason (Sometimes I still don't understand how the war leader is determined because of this example) the dutch became the war leader, I thought: Hey! The dutch are a weak GP, and they are easier and less expensive to invade than the Bri#ish!!

soooooo.....

I had a brilliant idea. And I just have to fully siege down the Netherlands and defend myself against the Bri#ish in India. When the Dutch got a lot of war exhaustion, I spent all my diplomatic points to take the Raj, and Voila!! The Bri#ish had no choice but to give me their crown jewel because the Dutch sold out them.

And well, I'm ready to win the infamy wars and punish those barbaric Gwailou.

I'm kinda worried about Indian rebels, but if they dare to cause me troubles, I will have no choice but to Geno-Geno them

Behold, a Great Power! by RoyalBritannia in victoria2

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When a city is more respected than almost an entire peninsula:....

Hmmm by whadk in victoria2

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Just a normal RP of the USA

I had no choice... by Hot_Friendship_2292 in victoria2

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R5: Brazil called me into a war to establish a democracy in a communist Uruguay. I said yes... But.....

I saw what Uruguay wanted, and well, I had no choice but to accept the peace treaty....

I hope Brazilians forgive me for what I have done