Author: Clint Curtis

Prestige can be gained by: Claiming colonies. Winning battles (bigger battles give more prestige) Winning wars: various war justifications yield limited amounts of prestige. Enacting reforms. How do you become a secondary power in Victoria 2? Secondary powers are countries from 9th to 16th place. To improve your status, you just need to increase your […]

There are a few helpful mechanics in order to build up your influence faster. National Relations. By using your diplomacy points, you can improve the country relations with the target up to 200 points. Sharing a Border. National Score. National Investors. Research. Ban Embassy. Decrease Opinion. How do you puppet a country in Victoria 2? […]

Besides cheats, the most common way a nation can become a Monarchy is to lose to Reactionary Rebels twice which will first cause a nation to turn into a Presidential Dictatorship and then it will become an Absolute Monarchy. How do I change my government type in Victoria 2? Change of government type can be […]

Colonial Power is invested in colonial races and in making protectorates colonies. If a nation has enough colonial power free, and a colony meets the accepted culture bureaucrat requirement to be made a state, they can incorporate the colony into their nation. How do you assimilate in Victoria 2? In short POPs will assimilate if […]

Throughout Austria’s wars, never forget that Prussian territory must either be sphered or incorporated into Austria in order to form Germany. How do you form Germany in Victoria 2? Greater Germany will always be formed if Germany is created by Austria, and German cores will be added to Austrian territories. Austria-Hungary is in the sphere […]

North German Federation. The requirements are that the forming Country has North German as primary culture, and own or sphere all the provinces with North German Federation cores. It also requires that the forming country has at least 45 prestige and is a Great Power. How to form Germany as Austria Victoria 2? Throughout Austria’s […]

Go on the Diplomacy Screen. Select your country. In the top right it’ll say what your primary and accepted cultures are. How do I remove accepted culture in Victoria 2? Is it possible to make a culture not accepted? All cultures that are not “primary” or “accepted” are considered unaccepted. If you’re asking if you […]

How to gain cores. The generic event that gives cores only fires if you have Nationalism and Imperialism researched and are a Great Power. It will occur only in states that are non-colonial and either have a majority of primary or accepted cultures, or border a core province of the state. How do you build […]