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Let's Play Victoria: Damn Yanquis
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A wise man doesn't fight the Yanquis until they're distracted by their sectional rivalries.
Finally, we support the creation of an autonomous Texan Socialist Republic.
I apologize to all our loyal peasant supporters, the party registration forms were confusing to a simple peasant like myself. The clergy and aristocracy led us to believe that minority rights meant siding with the yanqui imperialists and bourgoius europeans; we support full citizenship for Mexico's native minorities. If it isn't too late to change that... if it is too late... than the aristos have won again, alas.
I agree with the creation of the Texan Socialist Republic, we shall spread our mustaches equally among their oppressed masses.
let's make some money, and then use that money to buy nice things!
YEAH!
Edit: Oh, and I changed the citizenship stance for your pary dojango.
Dieciocho de diciembre, 1838
Some good news and some bad news in this installment, but first, the election results:
Partido Centralista wins in a landslide! What a great day for democracy!
Anyways, we're a Presidential Dictatorship, things like this happen. If/when we get a real democracy and our population hopefully becomes more ideologically diverse, I'll be sure to honor election results.
Alright, first the good news: we officially have a bigger army than the Yanquis. Check it out:
We now have two more generals to lead our armies:
And 16 reserve divisions to call upon in a war. Which brings me to the bad news:
Those divisions (or more precisely, the small arms and canned foods needed to create them) didn't come cheaply, and now we're in quite a bit of debt. Enough debt that almost half of our budget surplus is used to pay them off (and this is after it's been paid down a bit). Those damn Yanquis didn't help either:
In other bad news, the Yucatan seceded along with 400,000 (out of 7,000,000) of our citizens. I was prepared to use military force to keep them in the nation, but we aren't at war with them and the prestige hit to declare war (which is in the nineties) isn't worth it. Prestige in Victoria mainly affects how easy goods are to buy on the world market, which isn't incredibly important, but its important enough that we should be careful with it. Santa Ana should compel them to join with us again soon anyways.
As far as our northern secessionist movement goes, we agreed to let them borrow Austin after thoroughly humiliating them. Our peace treaty with them will expire in 1841, which brings me to our first dilemma. The USA has guaranteed Texas' independence, which means if we go to war with them again they will definitely declare war on us. As noted previously, I've been building up the military in preparation, and would like to expand our reserves by at least another eight divisions and recruit these guys (early game Cavalry with Cuirassiers are basically the panzers of Victoria):
Which will obviously put us in a lot more debt. Not nearly enough to bankrupt us, but enough that we will either have to get some else to pay them off out of the kindness of their hearts (wink wink) or put all of our meager surplus into paying it down for quite some time. We could probably win a war with the US with our current army, but it would be tough, expensive, and slow-going. We could postpone the war until *checks Wikipedia* 1846 or so, but we probably want a war early when we have an advantage rather than later when the US will have bigger tech advantage and probably a bigger army.
Other stuff that happened:
• The USA admitted Michigan... as a slave state.
• We stared down the French:
Insert French joke here.
• We struck some gold. Should help pay off the bills, and attract immigrants when we become a liberal democracy.
• We funded el Banco de Avio to help us industrialize, and are already seeing some results
• We ran out of coal and wheat and now have to import them. The former isn't much of a surprise, after all I've been a coal miner all my life and never heard of no Mexicanos with blue tattoos on the side of their heads.
That was a terrible and untrue segue
I don't think I've ever seen a non-industrialized country run out of wheat in Victoria though.
• Our southern neighbors, the USCA has started to slowly disintegrate.
I'm tempted to heed the words of the opposition PUPH and seize modern day Guatemala. The USCA has a military score of zero, so the only opposition we'd face would be from rebels, but we'd take a pretty big prestige hit. We'd get a lot of it back from winning the war, but probably not all. We'd also risk attack from the Yanquis, though I'd bet that they wouldn't intervene. So what do you guys think, should we attack the USCA or not? Should we build up our army further even if it means more debt? And should we go to war with the US of A ASAP or wait for them to declare war on us?
• If there's a consensus that we should change one of these laws, I'll change it:
• Forgot to mention that an opportunity to research freedom of trade has still not come up and we are currently researching mechanical production.
Tech update?
Since I can't find a better thread for this i was wondering if anyone would know why victoria revolutions would crash when loading the graphics at startup. I wanted to try playing it again but it just keeps crashing.
Well, the commie manifesto wasn't written until 1848, so peasant malcontents weren't labelled socialists or whatever, they were mainly just ridden down with dragoons.
Speaking of which, the PPC is neutral as to whether to go to war with UPCA or Texas, as long as the sons of the aristorcracy lead the charge on their fine horses, sabres raised high.
I would prefer a war against the US sooner rather than later (ie before they have a chance to build a significant miltary). Reclaming and holding texas should be a priority and a weak / humiliated US is far less likely to intervene.
Do we have any friends, incidentally? If we do end up fighting a defensive war having someone to back us up might be nice.
Regarding policy:
Universal Suffrage
Public Meetings
Free Press
Free Parties
Only Socialist
It is a crime that capitalist agitators are allowed to undermine the workers' struggle while they are left with no means of redress!
Fortunately, the United Kingdom did not take any of this land for themselves, so they would make a fine ally. The dastardly French on the other hand will never be acceptable to the PUPH. Additionally, our former oppressors still control the island of Cuba, which must at some point be liberated and at the very least turned into a Mexican satellite.
The war with the USCA will go toward the greater goal of the Unification of Humanity in the Socialist World Republic!
We must also have no oppression in our trade unions, Only Socialist trade unions should be allowed.
I also support the defensive pact with the UK, we shall spread our mustaches equally among the British peoples!
Of course, border with the UK is concerning. We either need to like... buy Belize or suck up to them, a lot.