small countries fun to play

[drankpillz]

what are some small or not important countries that are cool to grow?

[ZoroTheBold]

Publicado originalmente por drankpillz:

what are some small or not important countries that are cool to grow?

I enjoyed playing as any of the nordic countries, as well as argentina!

[Teflon Don]

New Granada is, imo, very very fun. Some interesting achievements too! But, tbh ZoroTheBold ^ is correct... this game seriously lacks flavour, much like any paradox game in its early stages :(

[Jason]

I have also enjoyed playing several of the South American countries. There is a Bolivia/Peru situation at the beginning and then you can form the Federation of the Americas. You get less meddling from the Great Powers and several relatively evenly matched countries to rival or ally with.

Mexico, though not small, is fun. The U.S.A. Will probably come after you in the first ten years or so but if you get an ally and build your army up, they aren’t too hard to hold off. Side with the Confederate States to break them up. You have opium, oil, and rubber access all in your country or nearby as you expand into central and South America.

[ΧΡHΣΤΟΣ850]

Benelux and Balkans imo expecially with mods:)

[fakemon64]

Forming Ethiopia was an interesting challenge for me.

I really felt the pressure to dominate or at least leverage control over my neighbors before the Europeans finished researching quinine and started knocking at our door.

Even after forming Ethiopia, there is still room to expand and targets you can go after if you like playing militarily.

A true ‘rags to riches’ playthrough imo

[Azunai]

Didn't expect it, but Lanfang (small chinese exclave/colony on Borneo) was kinda fun to play. I played them because they have an achievement that sounded interesting, but they also start with surprisingly liberal laws and pose quite a different challenge than many other small backwards countries.

[VelesWorshipper]

Publicado originalmente por based and truly redpilled:

Every country in vic3 plays the same. No flavour. No deep mechanics. Low replayability.

Mate, get a life already

[VelesWorshipper]

I can recommend Transvaal.

[Adonis]

If you want a real challenge play as Haiti.

Try to control the Caribbean( Cuba Jamaica and Puerto Rico all have natural harbors buff) along with both canals (Panama and Sinai) both companies give +50,000 income , ship building and throughput buff, and increased trade. You will be OP controlling trade and ship building.

Beware France and the Brits are going to want those canals and will likely hate you for a while if you don't sell them but its worth it once you get everything running.

America will probably want Puerto Rico too so best to make them an ally as soon as possible.

[BanDHMO]

Cuba was a blast in my last playthrough. Very easy to manage, but powerful thanks to immigration.

You start off tiny, but you are in the new world and in Spain's market, so running Greener Pastures 24/7 brings a ton of people to the island. You also mostly don't have to worry about being self-sufficient since you have access to the Spanish market. This is something that makes it harder for smaller independent countries, where if you don't conquer you might not have a market big enough to justify even one factory of some important resources while simultaneously not being able to import enough of them. Spain's not the best market to be a part in, but it's way better than nothing.

The advantage of having a relatively weak overlord is it's easier to get more autonomy. Work on getting from Puppet to Dominion so you can have an independent foreign policy, then go conquering what you can. By that time, there'll be a web of alliances, and the diplomatic game to enable you to conquer is itself interesting.

[1upnate]

I tend try and "solo" it most times with small countries, rather than getting into the british market every time, for example. So my personal favorites include:

Belgium: easy-mode. educated, liberal, good natural resources.

Korea: good resources, plentiful workers. you can sell literally anything at a profit to china. however, china will also eat up anything you produce, so SoL can be hard to get up if you stay in their market

Sokoto: You're the big boy in central africa. you start with an obscene amount of military power compared to the other african countries. just try not to get slapped around by europe

Madagascar: pretty isolated. one of the worst starts in regards to tech and resources (you have coal, but no iron). Can be good practice for liberalizing your government quickly so you can get access to international resources (you start with isolationism).

Equador (or any minor power in south america). The AI is still pretty terrible at building its own economy, so you can sail past any other country on the continent if you put some effort into it (including brazil)

great Qing: Not really a small country per se, but I find myself spending so much time focusing within that it kind of feels like you're by yourself (until england gets bored). Institutions and services that typically aren't a big deal, suddenly are. 1 level of police force and you're out like 9 billion bureaucracy.

Lanfang: Starts with very good laws for the time, and after just a few urban buildings, the industrialists should be very powerful and allow you to pass more yummy laws. You will need to do some good old fashioned conquering if you want to grow through, as you have no population and the Han culture wont migrate in (at least not early in the game)

Brunei: Like lanfang, a small amount of buildings will shift your interest groups significantly and make it easy to pass some very good laws. You will run out of population almost immediately so that is the main challenge (and of course the europeans will probably come after you at some point)

[vanWeerden-27-]

Greece it is for me. Picking apart that dieing empire of the ottomans is always fun to me. The local flavor it has is better than like 95% of the other countries so i would suggest giving Greece a try!

[coolgame308]

Publicado originalmente por drankpillz:

what are some small or not important countries that are cool to grow?

Serbia was a fun challenge for me!