On the 14th of July in 1789, a crowd of nearly one thousand protesters stormed the Bastille in Paris, France, a major event in the French Revolution, commemorated annually as “Bastille Day”.
In the months running up to the uprising, the people of France were facing a dire economic crisis, food shortage, and increased militarization of Paris on orders of King Louis XVI. The Bastille was an armory and prison, perceived by many as a symbol of royal authority in the city.
On the morning of July 14th, a crowd of approximately one thousand people surrounded the Bastille, calling for the surrender of the prison, the removal of its cannon, and the release of the arms and gunpowder stored there.
After negotiations stalled, the crowd surged into the courtyard of the Bastille and were fired upon by troops in the garrison. In the carnage that followed, ninety-eight protesters and one defender of the Bastille were killed.
Governor Marquis de Launay, fearing his troops could not hold out, capitulated to the crowd and opened up the Bastille doors. He was captured and dragged towards the Hôtel de Ville in a storm of abuse. While the crowd debated his fate, the badly beaten Launay shouted “Enough! Let me die!”, kicked a pastry cook in the groin, and was then promptly stabbed to death.
As news of the successful seizure of the Bastille spread throughout the country, revolutionaries established parallel structures of power for government and militias for civic protection, burned deeds of property, and in some cases attacked wealthy landlords.
King Louis XVI first learned of the storming the next morning through the Duke of La Rochefoucauld. “Is it a revolt?” asked the King. The duke replied: “No sire, it’s not a revolt; it’s a revolution.”
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I wanted to play some Vicky 3, but I still have a cold, so I’m taking it slow. I started a game as Portugal and got reminded that games as smaller nations start kind of slow. I think the devs dropped the last hotfix for Vicky 3 before their summer vacation, so I have quite a bit of time to finish a game of Vicky. I’m also in a Stellaris game that is going ‘okay.’
It’s kind of funny—I felt like I had figured Vicky out a couple of updates ago, but since they added the mapi changes, my grasp on the economy has gotten worse.
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My biggest frustration with the game is how slow it is to actually start. I really think base construction should be doubled, so you can at least build 1 building at full speed right at the beginning.
I’m not a Victoria genius but generally what I do is start building a few logging camps, then a tooling workshop, then an iron mine, then switch tools to iron tools to start staffing that, then alternate between those and coal and iron to prepare for switching to iron construction
If you have a shitload of money you can switch early and idk if you have input goods shortages you can look at how much construction it gives you versus how much it’s costing you and see if you think it’s efficient. Iron and tools trade routes can help reduce input goods shortages but at first theres so little of it you probably can’t get more than an unprofitable 5 unit trade route for each route
Something I’d wanna do as portugal is conquer Tonkin or some of Siam’s states (unless you can get in on the opium wars and steal Yunnan or Sichuan) and start building a shitload of opium. That’ll help your economy for sure (but whenever you’re building opium you’re not building iron and construction capacity :/) because the Chinese basically will buy as much as you can make
