This means, inter alia, that China cannot research traditional technologies now. We're going to do our best to keep education at max, military spending at at least 50%, and administration as high as we can afford, with all taxes maxed out through our westernizing years.Īs noted, China is an uncivilized nation. There's not a lot we can play with here on the budget screen as China. Otherwise, you end up with just one stray brigade on Taiwan and an army on the mainland mising a unit. By the time we're done, we will have turned literally every single good from AI automated into 'Buy 2000.' While a bit annoying, and not strictly speaking required, it does mean that you can queue up an army build and not spend 10 days starting each unit as the AI slowly buys required goods.Īnother note, based on the existence of Taiwan, is that I suggest always recruiting all the brigades out of Taibei and Tainan before trying to actually assemble your units, to both better defend Taiwan and to keep your main armies regular. We'll want to transition into regular infantry ASAP.Īccordingly, we're going to need lots of wool. So we'll be building a fair amount of irregulars unfortunately, as an uncivilized nation, we're locked into only irregulars and cavalry until we get some reforms (which will unlock infantry but not hussars are dragoons). Also note that our military rank is #1 in the world, surpassing even the UK. Note that we start with 52 brigades built and can built to 209. I'll be pulling these back into the main Chinese state as soon as possible.Ĭhina is also rather good at building its own armies. This is a bad idea, as the substates are good (extremely good) at building their own armies and don't need our help.

I've labeled them all here, Xinjiang (far west), Mongolia (north), Manchuria (northeast), Qinghai (center), Yunnan (southwest), and Guangxi (southeast).Īs a consequence, China starts off with troops stationed throughout its substates. They will always fight in your wars, for better or for worse, and never have to be called in. Those are our various substates, which are essentially satellites plus. Note the different colors under the CHINESE EMPIRE display.

Hi guys, welcome to a walkthrough of how to Westernize as China in Victoria II, Hearts of Darkness.ġ) I'm going to do this about as fast as is possible Ģ) I will never hit the infamy limit (or, with one exception, even risk hitting the infamy limit) andģ) I will skip over items Kersch thoroughly covered in his Brazil playthrough, which was most of them. My goal was actually to push Kersch from China (which I've done before) to play Persia (which I've failed at doing before), but the EU4 point is also pretty big.

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