For example: Have you promoted the most competent generals, or were you forced to promote an incompetent wastrel for political expedience? Have you invested in the best (but very costly) rifles for your soldiers, or are you forced to fight at a technological disadvantage? During the Diplomatic Play preceding the war, did you mobilize all your armies in time and eat the costs in men and materiel, or did you hold off hoping on a peaceful resolution, or at least for the conflict to end up as a limited war? Did you choose to build and subsidize an arms industry large enough to cover your wartime needs, or is your army reliant on import of weapons that may be vulnerable to enemy shipping disruptions? These are the sort of questions that can decide who has the true advantage when going into an armed conflict in Victoria 3.Д«efore I end this dev diary, I want to talk briefly about our most radical departure from other Paradox GSGs - the absence of units you move on the map, and why we chose to go in this direction. Much of the strategic decision making in Victoria 3 that will let you win wars are all about how well prepared you are. The fourth pillar, Preparation is Key, ties heavily into the second and third pillars. As weвЂ™ve already talked about this multiple times in the past, and last weekвЂ™s dev diary told you all about Diplomatic Plays, we donвЂ™t feel the need to go into this again, but itвЂ™s still important to keep in mind to understand our approach to warfare. The first pillar is one that is shared with the vision of the game as a whole: War is a Continuation of Diplomacy - anything you can gain through war should also be possible to gain through diplomacy. Just as Victoria 3 itself has a set of design pillars that all game mechanics follow (as outlined in the very first diary), Warfare in Victoria 3 has its own design pillars, which we will now explain in turn. So then, how does war and combat work? The answer is that weвЂ™ve taken a pretty different approach to warfare and combat in Victoria 3 compared to other Paradox Grand Strategy Games, and in this dev diary IвЂ™ll be going over the overall vision that governs our design for warfare, with the actual nitty-gritty on the mechanics coming over the next few weeks. I'm a huge fan of Monty Python and Mike Patton's various music projects- especially Mr.Bungle.Д®nough greatness about me, I'll say thank you once more and skulk off to revise for early 19th century post-Napoleonic British history- a subject I don't really like.вЂ‹Hello and welcome to another Victoria 3 development diary! TodayвЂ™s dev diary has been a hotly anticipated one, as weвЂ™re finally ready to start talking about war and combat and how they will work in Victoria 3. Beyond history and writing I am very interested in politics (being a member of Satan's party ) and comic books, as well as owning large music and film collections respectively. I'm a jack of many trades, putting my fingers into novel writing, filmmaking and writing, comedy and music- and not very successful in any of them so far. I actually 'designed' a Victoria style strategy game when I was 12 because I thought it was a great time period untouched by games- so when I actually discovered Victoria I jumped at it! I love to write and history, the prime reason for my love of Paradox games and this here forum. Thank you!ДЇor a little background, I'm a 16 (17 tomorrow ) year old living over the river from Liverpool and admittedly my beard is not much to speak of, although Rambo is firmly in my DVD collection. As such I'm deeply honoured for being made Fan of the Week. I've been on these forums since July 2004 but I actually lurked for several weeks previous to my signing up, I've always loved reading AARs and as some of you know (attempting) to write them and as such I know what it means to get a good comment and the encouragement that comes from a dedicated readAAR following your piece the whole way. Thank you everybody and prussiablue especially of course for giving me this prestigious title, I don't really no what to say on the matter except Cheers! I randomly decide to come on the GD to elude revision and I get this.

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