>Play Vic II
>Play as Austria
>Refuse to savescum
>Want to expand through Balkans and don't want to create Germany
>After 20 years realize Prussia is weaker than me
>Maybe I will just create South German Federation since Baden is attacking northern OPMs and Prussia anyways
>Forgot this won't include Austria
>Now I have a big puppet and two bordergore provinces
>Released an OPM but still have one (1) bordergore
>Fuck it, now I have to create Germany or I will be stuck with bordergore untill the end of the game
>Push through necessary wars
>Have to fight at least four wars (one of which was a Great War) to demote Prussia to secondary power
>mfw Britain steals my Suez canal since Spain conquered Sinai because Egypt was allied with Yemen which was conquered by aforementioned Spain and had "Liberate" casus belli which meant I couldn't intervene and in spite of having 6% nitroglicerine RNG just wouldnt let me have it
>Waste 10 bad goy points on taking it back
>France keeps attacking for Alsace every 5 years like clockwork
>Can't just sphere Prussia since we have a truce and couldn't just add casus belli since I had too much infamy.
>Try "add to sphere" to save time and having to deal with other Great Powers
>Fuck too much bad goy points
>Russia, Netherlands, USA and France with its allies attack me in a span of couple of months
>Meanwhile Boxers fail to interest anyone
>too much bad goy points so German and Italian allies refuse to help me
>in a war so no way to drop infamy
>fuck will have to reload
>wait for the magic number to drop so I can have the same war over the same reason
>Finally create German Empire
>Get like 10 decisions, half of which are dedicated to Prussia (which is weird, since in this timeline Prussia is the one to fail the test of time)
>pic related
>Schleswig is NOT annexed for some reason
>no will to continue the campaign
Do (You) sometimes feel like the mechanics of Paradox games limit the player in a way that feels artificial?
>Play as Austria
>Refuse to savescum
>Want to expand through Balkans and don't want to create Germany
>After 20 years realize Prussia is weaker than me
>Maybe I will just create South German Federation since Baden is attacking northern OPMs and Prussia anyways
>Forgot this won't include Austria
>Now I have a big puppet and two bordergore provinces
>Released an OPM but still have one (1) bordergore
>Fuck it, now I have to create Germany or I will be stuck with bordergore untill the end of the game
>Push through necessary wars
>Have to fight at least four wars (one of which was a Great War) to demote Prussia to secondary power
>mfw Britain steals my Suez canal since Spain conquered Sinai because Egypt was allied with Yemen which was conquered by aforementioned Spain and had "Liberate" casus belli which meant I couldn't intervene and in spite of having 6% nitroglicerine RNG just wouldnt let me have it
>Waste 10 bad goy points on taking it back
>France keeps attacking for Alsace every 5 years like clockwork
>Can't just sphere Prussia since we have a truce and couldn't just add casus belli since I had too much infamy.
>Try "add to sphere" to save time and having to deal with other Great Powers
>Fuck too much bad goy points
>Russia, Netherlands, USA and France with its allies attack me in a span of couple of months
>Meanwhile Boxers fail to interest anyone
>too much bad goy points so German and Italian allies refuse to help me
>in a war so no way to drop infamy
>fuck will have to reload
>wait for the magic number to drop so I can have the same war over the same reason
>Finally create German Empire
>Get like 10 decisions, half of which are dedicated to Prussia (which is weird, since in this timeline Prussia is the one to fail the test of time)
>pic related
>Schleswig is NOT annexed for some reason
>no will to continue the campaign
Do (You) sometimes feel like the mechanics of Paradox games limit the player in a way that feels artificial?
