

Out of all of Paradox’s games, Victoria II probably fits a Cold War mod best – as CWE demonstrates. Anyone disappointed by the cancellation of East vs West, the semi-mythical Paradox foray into the Cold War, can find at least some solace in this remarkably detailed conversion of Victoria II to the modern day. ‘Enhancement’ is to put too fine a point on matters.

Make sure you read right to the bottom of the article, where we have some top troubleshooting tips for anyone struggling to get their mods working. Unfortunately, a large number of the smaller utility and graphics mods are simply lost to time. Please note that the larger collections and overhauls continue to receive updates semi-regularly.

It’s off to ye olde ModDB (along with a jaunt or two to the Paradox Forums) for all your Victoria II modding needs. Steam Workshop has spoiled us with its handy library and easy integration, but there’s no such luck here despite the game being available on Steam.Įven though Victoria 3 has been confirmed as the next grand strategy game, the fact remains that Victoria II never had the broad following that its younger siblings enjoy. Generating States dynamically sounds like a challenge …Īnd whatever an automatic converter produced, I really think you'd want to fix it up manually.Writing this roundup of Victoria 2 mods is like stepping back in time. If you use default States, with alternate history countries you'll get lots of cases of non-matching States sprawling across several countries. Then there's the problem of States, which are usually designed to match neatly with national borders. (And unless you've got some system for adding minorities, you'll end up with ethnically "pure" provinces and states everywhere, and no Jews at all, eliminating a major element of Vicky.) You've got to generate a full range of POPs from pretty much nothing but the province Manpower and Base Tax figures. Population is by far the most important feature of Vicky. The main problem is: EU doesn't even track population at all any longer (and when it did it wasn't terribly good at it, and it was just a single undifferentiated figure representing only urban population). Really hard to do an EU -> Vicky converter.
