Paradox Development Studio’s Victoria 3 is a complicated strategy game that has a lot of different mechanisms and keeps you busy for hours. This is a sequel to the 2010 game Victoria II, and covers world history for a hundred years from 1836. Players are able to choose from a hundred countries on what they want to control as well. In this guide, we will take you through all the effects of diplomatic play in Victoria 3.
Victoria 3: All Effects in Diplomatic Play
You will be able to build your own country in Victoria 3, and let it grow into a powerful nation. While this might seem like your regular city-building game, it is actually a lot more complex with various factors affecting the gameplay. There is a very real possibility that you might go to war, and in any case you should know all the effects of diplomatic play.
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There are many types of diplomatic play moves that you can choose from during the initial stages of war. The one you choose will affect the outcome, so make sure to choose well by understanding all the effects. Here is the list of all of the effects in diplomatic play in Victoria 3.
- Annex Subject: Conquer the opposing country to become part of yours.
- Ban Slavery: The country has to forcibly ban slavery.
- Conquer State: Conquer the target state to become part of your country.
- Cut Down To Size: Reduce the size of the target country by forcing it to release land, usually the ones it has acquired in the past ten years.
- Humiliate: Decrease the prestige of the target country and stops them from diplomatic play with you for some time.
- Independence: Liberation from the conqueror.
- Liberate Subject: Help a target country to become liberated from its conqueror.
- Make Dominion: Dominion countries will pay taxes to the conqueror, but does not need to participate in their wars.
- Make Puppet: Puppet countries need to pay a lot more taxes to the conqueror and have to participate in their wars..
- Make Vassal: Vassal countries pay taxes and join wars, but not as much as a puppet country does.
- Open Market: If the target country has trade restrictions, they will need to remove them.
- Regime Change: The target country will need to change its law to adhere to those set by its conqueror.
- Return State: If the conqueror has taken states before, the targeted country can take them back.
- Take Treaty Port: Target country will need to give a Treaty Port to the conqueror and open up trade.
- Transfer Subject: Subjects of the target countries are transferred over to the conqueror.
