I glance at my military and I find that its full of irregulars. This will be the last look at it in this game because I'm only ever going to use it to cycle through clergy national focuses until I'm at ~3.5% nationally (because it increases literacy), and then to promote craftsmen/clerks/capitalists for industrialisation. Pictured the only reason I ever use the pop tabĪ look at the Population tab. I'm never going to play as the Liberals despite the Full citizenship because Pacifism is a terrible ideology in game and will get my troops murdered.
I'll probably move to Conservative later so I don't need to keep building railroads manually. But that's fine, a State Capitalist, Jingoist, Protectionist party suits me just fine at this point. I'm sure it's fine though.Ī quick jaunt over to the Politics page shows me that first, for an autocratic absolute monarchy I have a surprising number of political reforms, and second that my reactionary government is completely typical of reactionaries. I can't comment on Anatolia because I forgot to check it. And a lot of wheat - which means liquor factories! I honestly didn't know that Tobacco grew in the Balkans but I've got a lot of Timber, some Coal and a bit of Iron. Well a quick look tells me that they're an uncivilised nation, so their military will be trash which I shouldn't have a problem with.Ī quick look at my RGOs (what goods my provinces produce for the uninitiated) shows me a set which. Additionally, some pop types aren't unlocked until certain levels of literacy (40% for clerks and 20% for capitalists - I think). The reason I care about this, for the uninitiated is because Literacy basically decides my tech progression rate.
7% for a European nation is true trash tier. How do I have a worse literacy than Russia? There are Uncivs with higher literacy than me, and not just Japan. A few things jump out, firstly seven percent literacy?! Russia starts with 10% literacy. They were really easy to play as in EUIV. Shall we be Prussia and spend the game kicking around France? Play as the UK and go full White Man's burden on Asia? Do a Russia run and spend decades grinding our way to industrialisation before scaring the daylights out of everyone unfortunate enough to be our neighbour? It's a game about Imperialism and Industrialisation.