Victoria 2 how to form germany free#

This will make sure they join the war, on Austria's side against you. Next, go through each of the ones in Austria's sphere, and Decrease Relations a few times. When all of them are either in your sphere or Austria's sphere, you're almost ready. Bavaria might become a great power- if that happens you'll need to do a Hegemony war against them as well which should be simple. France sometimes meddles with Baden, and at the start of the game Great Britain has Hanover sphered. In that case, you'll have to hope Austria gets it sphered, or wage influence-wars with whoever does sphere them.Д«efore declaring war on Austria, make sure all of the minor German states have been sphered by you or by Austria. If you go to war with Denmark, you'll be the one who can't influence Schleswig-Holstein for 5 years. Schleswig-Holstein is up for grabs after it is freed from Denmark, so I would suggest letting Austria do that war (they will if you don't) so you can sphere Schleswig-Holstein while Austria cannot influence them during their 5 year truce. This tactic also works well against Austria. Each time you beat them in a battle you get bonus to warscore. France has a ton of troops and good defenses on your border, so letting them invade you a bit helps considerably- they will weaken in your lands, and you can attack them as they spread out and suffer attrition. Austria makes a great ally during the war with France over Alsace-Lorraine. Be sure to check out his channel for more game stuff.ДЄt the start of the campaign Austria will be interested allying herself with someone, so you might as well be that someone.

Victoria 2 how to form germany free#

Once you form the German empire, the southern German states will now be a part of your country! You can now feel free to dominate your enemy Austria or take on other nations if you wish around you.Д¬redit for the video and method described below belongs to shenryyr2. After that, you can form the German empire! Then, a decision will appear that will make France secede the territories and the war will have ended. Usually, the easiest way to end the war is if you or one of your allies have occupied Paris. There is already a free clause=belie for that for you, but the hard part is winning the war. The last step you need to do is to declare war unto France to liberate the territories of Alsace-Lorraine. You don't have to do it, but if you want to, go for it. Ensure that you have good allies (especially the United Kingdom) so you have friends to fight against France, since they are the last thing standing in your way to the German Empire.ДЄ possible option you can attempt to do, if you want, is to pick on Austria to make your empire bigger in the future. Well done! You are now the North German Confederation! You now own all those small minor German states of the North, so you can build up more troops now than before! You'll need to do so, since the last step will require war. If needed, you could use war to take Saxony from the SoI of Austria, but I suggest using the diplomatic approach since it's less costly and easier than fighting a large war.ДЄfter you've done that, you can enact the 'Form the North German Confederation' decision which will form the North German confederation. Saxony is in the SoI of Austria, so it will be quite tough to un-sphere them. Now after you've taken Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark, sphered Hannover and also added Holstein to your SoI, the last step till forming the North German Federation is sphering Saxony. You'll still be able to form the North German Federation, but just without Schleswig-Holstein. An alternate rout is to simply sphere Denmark. While in the war, make sure you add 'acquire Schleswig-Holstein' if you can defeat the Danish forces as that will be a key factor for forming the North German Federation, a key nation before forming the German Empire. In HoD, you simply justify war to get Danish Schleswig-Holstein. You will already have a free Clauses bellli on Denmark for 'liberation'.( ONLY FOR AHD OR BELOW). After that, you'll have to fight Denmark over Holstein. After the UK gets the 'Victoria's coronation' event, Hannover will no longer be in the UKs Sphere, so you can sphere them easily from there. Hannover starts on the Sphere of the UK, but since the brits are focused more on other sphering issues, it can be fairly easy to knock off Hannover from the sphere of influence of the UK. Now, the 1st step you could do is to try to sphere Hannover. To the east is the Russia Empire, to the west of you there is Belgium, the Netherlands and France, and to the north of you is Denmark with Holstein, her puppet, and Sweden. To the south of you is Austria and her allies/spheres, Bavaria, Wittenberg and Baden. You'll start out with the usual aspects of Prussia.