Competition Competition - Use your lewt map painting skillz to claim a copy of Victoria II and A House Divided

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Tags: A House Divided; Heart of Darkness; Paradox Interactive; Victoria II

Does the idea of running a Great Power in an era of monocles and top hats appeal to you? Of course it does. Well, Tacticular Cancer has five (yes, five!) copies of both Victoria II and its first expansion A House Divided to give away. Developed by Paradox Development Studio, Victoria II will soon release its second mayor expansion named Heart of Darkness. Here’s some more information on just what Victoria II is all about.

Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding it through industrialisation, political reforms, military conquest, and colonization.
Experience an in-depth political simulation where every action you take will have various consequences all over the world. The population will react to your decisions based on their political awareness, social class, as well as their willingness to accept or revolt against their government.​

So, what are Paradox games all about? Exactly, they are all about painting the map into your own pretty colours. And, what do you need to do to get yourself a nice copy of Victoria II and its A House Divided expansions? Right again, you’ll need to astound us with your best map painting skills. Do something funky with photoshop, go all Jackson Pollock on a map, draw your dream empire on a napkin, conquer Poland and send us a postcard. Above all, astound us with your originality, creativity and skill. Failing that, make something nice.

We will give the five best* contributions a copy of both Victoria II and A House Divided which you can reclaim through porn deletion service Steam.

The competition will be starting today and ending on Tuesday 16th of April - so start now if you want a copy! All entries must have something vaguely to do with map painting. TCancer Staff are excluded from entering.

To submit your entries you can:

1. Upload to your favourite image hosting website and post it in a reply in the comments for this news item.
2. Telepathically submit your image to our Judges' minds.
3. Send trash an email at roy.tcancer at gmail .com (added some spaces to make things a tiny bit more interesting for those harvesting bots)​

*Best is utterly subjective. Judges’ decision is final.

 

[thesheeep]

Nice. Now I just wish I had any drawing skilss... and did not already own Vic II

 

[Trash]

Wouldn't worry too much about drawing skills. Import a map into paint and turn your chosen part into your favourite color and voila.

 

[Lagole Gon]

Free Vicki, here I come.

 

[Hellraiser]

MY BODY IS READY. I have an idea.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

It's time to paint.

 

[Country_Gravy]

Amerikwa will fuck both euros and afrikans so that the map can be historically accurate. This is going to be AWESOME!

 

[Kalin]

Nailed it.

 

[Dayyālu]

Well. I lack will, painting skills and good ideas.
So Codex.... let's play a game.

We're going to get back to the basics.

We're going to play the ORIGINAL 'Paint the map pretty colours'.
We're going to play Risk.
As Best Korea.

Our world. Puny and weak. It's time for us to STRIKE!

Lucky us. The rules of Risk give to our great Nation a huge advantage, thanks to our insane numbers. Our Production is nihil, however. Time to strike, Codex. Reunion with our oppressed Brothers? China? Weak Russia? Revenge on the japanese? You choose!

(I will do several turns at once- i do not want to choke the thread with a 'serious LP' of Risk.)

 

[Tzaero]

I've got an idea, and its gonna be crazy.

 

[Hellraiser]

BEHOLD, THE THIRD ROMAN REPUBLIC ALONG WITH VARIOUS BARBARIANS AND INFERIOR PEOPLES OF THE WORLD

Click to make bigger as this is over 2MB for a reason.

EDIT 2024 edition, for posterity, since minus com died a billion years ago:

[/end of EDIT autism.]

Before anyone bitches about the date (roughly present day give or take a year) it is intentional as this is based on one of the parallel universes from the multiverse CYOA I did. In particular this one is where the Roman state survived somehow but overall the world is roughly on the tech level of the 1890s. China discovered the americas about two hundred years ago. When the romans learned of this a few years later they send an expedition lead by Augustus Oppius Auspex who found a western route to what became known as Augustia. Like all true paradoxian map-painting this alternative version of history is 100% ASB territory.

The totally grammatically broken latin is probably google's fault

No roman or chinaman sailed further south than the map, scholars believe it keeps getting hotter and hotter as you go south until men boil alive. No one wants to risk it

 

[Corporate_Jew_Master]

I thought they meant paint the map in game.

I specialise in making pretty borders.

 

[Trash]

Now that's what we're talking about. Nice!

 

[Fowyr]

Reserved for future notice (if I don't spill ink all over half-made map).

 

[Kalin]

What with all the quality work being submitted, I figured I had to make a serious try as well (not that my initial map isn't already excellent, far from it, yet I fear it might be too high-brow for the laymen to properly comprehend). Since I suck horribly at photomagjifics, I decided to brave the good old buggy map maker in Alpha Centauri and try to model North-East Asia as best I could, after which furious print screening + cutting and pasting went into creating this little baby.

Anyhow, without further ado:


The Celestial Empire of Greater East Asia!

(click on image to make it obscenely humongous)

Curious how everything to the west of the liberated and now properly Imperial Chinese provinces is scorched wasteland.

Also, if you look carefully, you can see the Imperial Family's brilliant Duranium Yacht near Osaka Bay.

 

[Hellraiser]

You need to be careful or the commies will learn of your troop placement. Then again what can the commies do against the clearly racially superior imperial gentlemen of the army and navy? Throw vodka bottles at them with their racially degenerate socialist hands?

 

[BlackAdderBG]

Well I submitted my image.Here is for the Codex to lаugh at it

 

[kazgar]

No Cleve?

 

[Whisky]

Cleve's bunker has the only internet connection in Australia apparently.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

For the Empire! : x

 

[Fowyr]

You thought what there is no country for codexers? You are wrong!

I botched some letters and, frankly, don't even know what the fuck is going on in the right part of the map. Make your own story, men.
I just like to fool with contour pen and wanted to test my new drafting/mapping penholder.

 

[Dayyālu]

Sadly, I had not even the time to do a proper job on my lame idea. So I'll skip to the end, just because.

The 'meilleur des mondes possibles', as they say. Map painted. Bar Madagascar for unknown reasons....

 

[Corporate_Jew_Master]

Bar Madagascar for unknown reasons....

 

[Delterius]

I got Vicky2 and AHD through alternative means already, but I'm going to take part anyway.

Also, "Republic of Codexia?" Would't it be a Empire or Monarchy? Republics are for consoletard peasants.

Its the People's Republic.

 

[Trash]

Last day if you want to try and nab a free copy.